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Can we have Brian Reynolds back now, please?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_(game_designer)
hmmm..this is quite old, a lot of things have changed in Go since. Most of that code won't compile but should with a few tweaks and "goinstall" is now "go get".
Interesting article. There is another area not mentioned, DevOps where developer skills and approaches are being adopted in operations. People like John Allspaw of Etsy (previously Flickr) have been improving on how operations is handled by treating configuration as code and automating everything they can.

It is interesting to think through what this could mean to other areas (to me at least). Ie what would it mean to be a Sales Hacker, a Customer Support Hacker or even be a Middle Management Hacker. Possibly some of this will turn out to be meaningless but the success of the DevOps movement suggests to me there could be something to at least some of these ideas. Possibly the 'learn to code' movement will result in more cross overs in other domains, who knows.
I've looked at this and a few other ActiveRecord vulnerabilities that look arcane at first sight, but the simplest solution that covers all of them is to first check whether params[:something] is nil and refuse to do any DB stuff if it is, and second to explicitly convert all of your params[:something] input to the types of data you were expecting, using to_i, to_s or to_f. Additionally, if using where clauses, strip the input of all apostrophes or double quotes. I don't think there would be anything left to exploit if everybody were to adopt this semi-paranoid approach to protecting your code from bad input.
Well, the "auditors" are called denialists and attacked from many sides -- even though they are the only ones who publish full source code, push for raw data release, and actually try to replicate results. We are making $100T decisions on the basis of $1M papers and closed datasets.

Regarding retraction, I think this is pretty unambiguous

http://climateaudit.org/2012/06/08/gergis-et-al-put-on-hold/

Dear Stephen,

I am contacting you on behalf of all the authors of the
Gergis et al (2012) study ‘Evidence of unusual late 20th
century warming from an Australasian temperature
reconstruction spanning the last millennium’

An issue has been identified in the processing of the data
used in the study, which may affect the results. While the
paper states that “both proxy climate and instrumental data
were linearly detrended over the 1921–1990 period”, we
discovered on Tuesday 5 June that the records used in the
final analysis were not detrended for proxy selection,
making this statement incorrect. Although this is an
unfortunate data processing issue, it is likely to have
implications for the results reported in the study. The
journal has been contacted and the publication of the study
has been put on hold.

This is a normal part of science. The testing of scientific
studies through independent analysis of data and methods
strengthens the conclusions. In this study, an issue has
been identified and the results are being re-checked.

We would be grateful if you would post the notice below on
your ClimateAudit web site.

We would like to thank you and the participants at the
ClimateAudit blog for your scrutiny of our study, which
also identified this data processing issue.

Thanks, David Karoly

Print publication of scientific study put on hold

An issue has been identified in the processing of the data
used in the study, “Evidence of unusual late 20th century
warming from an Australasian temperature reconstruction
spanning the last millennium” by Joelle Gergis, Raphael
Neukom, Stephen Phipps, Ailie Gallant and David Karoly,
accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate.
We are currently reviewing the data and results.

Now, props to Karoly for being gracious in this takedown. Part of the problem is that a scientific paper is like a monolithic binary where a bugfix means going out and recalling every copy of the software out in the field.

So paper authors usually are very resistant to bugfixes, as they are career ending.In this case Karoly severely damaged Gergis' career and may have hurt his own. From a purely self-interested perspective he should have just stonewalled the "denialists" like Michael Mann has. But he was honest as a scientist.

Much better to move towards an open source culture where a "paper" is just the documentation for a major version number associated with a data/code repository.
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"Focus is scary. It means not hedging your bets. It means going all-in. If you’re not scared, you’re not focused."
No because the stag hunt family of problems are about trust in other people, the situation in the OP is not. It's about risk aversion. Whether or not that is a 'fault of human intellect' is a matter of definition and up for debate, it's not as clear-cut as you make it out to be.
> Most of these guys fail.

That's my point.

That's key. But note that I did not exclude the possibility of a Peter Thiel - which is what you imply.

I was merely indicating that hero worship of people is rarely a good idea (for reasons previously stated) - that is all I have to say on this topic.
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Here is a link that provides rich details on the kind of tinkering that eventually lead to Linux. It started off with a game of Prince of Persia...

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Oh Dear! Does this mean I can no longer have quality time listening to music, reading, watch birds etc.. during my long distance journeys.
I also came here to suggest a Markov chain generator using your data. I know nothing about music but it seems your analysis also needs to include information about timing (A is followed by B within X ms, C within Y ms, etc.) and some sort of clustering information that would allow choruses to be produced (e.g. identify clusters + cluster timing then information about the chords within the clusters).

Even better would be if you guys released your data and allowed other people to come up with creative ways of analyzing and using it ;) I actually have an idea that I think could work quite well and I'd love to build it but lack the data.
Amen to that. I'm one of the those "growth hacker" and I don't see the point of naming ourselves to that term. Web Marketing Manager sounds fine by me.
Are these things rfid under another name? If so, what rfid tech do they use? I have an rfid tag implanted in my hand that I'd love to find a use for in this context :)
It looks like the error recovery code wasn't well tested. Error recovery code in distributed systems is some of the hardest code to test effectively mind.

The thundering herd of recovery is especially difficult to cope with: your error recovery code can work just fine for normal outages but then fail completely when faced with just a few more components going dark.
You actually do have a choice. If you buy an OEM copy from, say, Newegg, there is no support included. That's part of the reason it is so much cheaper than the retail version.
Aww come on :(
I suppose my point was that either the paper itself is bogus, or else this article is doing the paper a disservice by making it seem so.
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People expect the before taxes fee, because most seem to do this. Yesterday I booked a hotel on Orbitz via Hipmunk (I like the map view btw). There was roughly $10 price difference, i.e. Hipmunk was showing $X but after clicking on the link, on the Orbitz site it was showing $X-$10. It's a nice surprise, but I wonder how many didn't bother to check...
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This post is a follow-up to the question/discussion-point Darrel Miller has started here. The question is that in the REST world, what is coupling and how we can achieve de-coupling. Although this post can be read independently, it is best to start with reading his post first. We discuss three models: server-concern, client-concern and mixed-concern. Each of these are valid patterns but they each come with its own anti-pattern to be aware of.
"I'm not sure anyone would ever claim that patents are morally justified."

Objectivists do that:

Rand argued that limited intellectual property monopolies being granted to certain inventors and artists on a first-to-file basis as moral because she viewed all property as fundamentally intellectual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29#Poli...
Oh dear! I just reread your contention. We have the same ideas.

You and I think alike.

I was arguing that success is mostly random (skill is necessary but not sufficient) :D. I think you'll enjoy this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4078597

I think we misunderstand each other. I am firmly in the random + skill camp (not pure skill).
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Fascinating on so many levels. I would really like to know if and how well her cognitive exercises apply to those without learning/cognitive disabilities. Also, is there more information on the exercises themselves?
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I've been meaning to ask, exactly how big a team would it take to design such a virus?
Testing distributed systems is much, much harder than doing so on a monolithic codebase. The number of failure modes goes up very rapidly with the number of nodes in the system & your code has to (in principle) cope with every possible one.
Which terrorists are you worried about?

If al Qaeda blows up a pressurised train tunnel, then yes they can kill lots of people, heap a big cash cost on the tunnel operator... but they don't get any impressive pictures to put on TV.

If the IRA/ETA/etc blows up a pressurised train tunnel, they impose a big cash cost on their target, plus cause lots of disruption... but in terms of effort/risk/reward it's probably better for them to blow up conventional rail/road infrastructure in London/Madrid/wherever.
That did not come across at all in your post. But thank you for clarifying. I agree completely.
Here's where all the right-wing programmers on HN, with no relevant training or expertise in climate science, geology, physics, etc., all chime in with their own right-wing consensus view that, "Thems evil liberal hippie scientists have an agenda to raise our taxes and fund their labs! I say it's just mystic mumbo jumbo and bah humbug!" Meanwhile, serious mature accomplished people with relevant expertise and years of experience in the field, who study real data, and done lots of model tuning & analysis, and overall have a much deeper knowledge of the physical and biological systems involved are worried, very worried, and calling for action, and their numbers are growing.

Given that humans can mistakes. And given that it's hard to know for sure who exactly is right. And given the magnitude of the stakes involved, the magnitude of the downside risk in the "bad" scenario variants, which kind of people do you think it would be wiser to believe and follow their advice? On climate, I'm going to bet on the climate scientists, and I hope enough of the rest of you join me, for all our sakes.
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as far as i can see it is a little harder to exploit because you can't access the results of the sql injection. but you can change how long it takes for the query to execute based on the value in a column so you can extract arbitrary values from the database using this technique.
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To a certain extent, he did. From the article:

"Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks."

So he provided the calories that he needed with the junk, but kept the processing machinery of his body running with supplements and real food.

I wonder how he'd feel at the end of the experiment if he lost all that weight eating nothing but twinkies.
Whether or not Apple's corporate culture is "controlling" (though I don't really understand why you're conflating 'confrontational' with 'controlling' in the first place) does not directly impact whether policies towards consumers are restrictive. Since the two seem related, I can see why you'd slip into that, but your claim is really a non sequitur.

Also, that article is about a patent lawsuit being brought against a third-party software development firm. The plaintiffs probably requested that Apple take down the allegedly infringing app, and they did. Any curator, no matter how strict or liberal their policies, has the freedom to remove potentially patent-infringing content from their marketplace.

(Which, for the record, isn't to say I agree that the patent is legitimate. I really hope the small developer wins.)
Being first means nothing. Having an idea is nothing. Its about the vision and execution. No social network are created equal just as no idea end up the same. Perhaps they didn't like that you only had an idea. Perhaps they didn't like the fact you didn't have a cofounder. Perhaps they didn't like you. Or perhaps none of that is true and its something else. Whatever the case, its not worth wasting time, energy, and brain cells on. Instead, compete if you believe you got something real. The night is you and its too early to call it quits unless you honestly already lost your fighting spirit and see no value in pursuing.
I disagree with your note, but have resisted the urge to down vote it. McIntyre does not concede that the paper could "stand perfectly fine", rather allows that its conclusions may be correct result despite serious methodological and statistical flaws in the approach:

[T]he specific impact of an erroneous method on a practical data set is hard to predict. In our case, it does not mean that a given reconstruction is necessarily an “artifact” of red noise, since a biased procedure will produce a Stick from an actual Stick signal. (If the “signal” is a Stick, the biased procedure will typically enhance the Stick.) The problem is that a biased method can produce a Stick from red noise as well and therefore not much significance can be placed to a Stick obtained from a flawed method.

http://climateaudit.org/2012/06/10/more-on-screening-in-gerg...

I agree that McIntyre's tone is ungracious, and fear it may be counterproductive, but I don't think that the Karoly's email was that gracious either. In particular, he did not thank anyone for pointing out a flaw, rather for "also identifying" it, moments after it had been coincidentally found by the original authors. Nowhere does he allow that the auditors provided any new information.

Rather than politely accepting this face saving maneuver (a commenter compared it to the polite fiction of not noticing that someone farted at a cocktail party) McIntyre impolitely, but in my opinion, accurately, calls out the lie and accuses him of failing to give proper credit. Here's the original in case anyone is interested in pursuing it themselves:

http://climateaudit.org/2012/06/08/gergis-et-al-put-on-hold
There is some degree of ambiguity in the common usage of the word vs. the term that evolutionary biologists use.

I don't agree with your definition -- altruism based on reciprocity is an oxymoron. altruism based on kinship, i.e. a mother feeding a child, is not altruism. It could be called "nice" or "heartwarming", but it's not altruism.

But putting the definition of words aside, what do you think is the most common motivator for open source? Do you think that most contributions to the Linux kernel are due to aligned interests, or due to altruism? (Whatever altruism means, I would say it is mutually exclusive from "aligned interests")

I think Linus probably has some insight into this question, having led the project for so long.

I think pure altruism is rare but possible. In fact I vaguely remember a story about a guy contributing drivers to the Linux kernel for old hardware that he didn't even own and never planned on using.

On the other hand, maybe he just had a different idea of fun than other people (in all seriousness).
A vacuum only weighs 1.28 grams less per litre than air. Since there are 1000 litres in a cubic meter, a 3x3x3 meter cube (approximation of a cross section of a unit of the tube) would contain 27000 litres whose air would weigh 76 lbs.

In other words you're talking about sinking 3 meters of tube that would weigh 76 fewer pounds than if there were air. This is probably a small effect compared to the weight of the strong metal casing that would need to surround such a vacuum.

So since we can sink normal air-filled subways quite normally (e.g. the BART in San Francisco) this must be a well-established technology.
It would be better if you add some visuals. IMHO, the document is very text heavy.
PR fluff piece. Sure it's great to have money and a nice life style in a beautiful city. MSFT offers this to its employees.

But come on, MSFT is on a long-term downward trajectory. There's nothing that's going to change that until they completely replace their management. As long as their management continue living off incredible past revenues they'll have no incentive to change.
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Here's just one example of the controlling nature of Apple from the article:

> Andy Miller, who joined Apple as a vice president after Apple bought his mobile advertising company in 2009, asked Jobs if he could join the board of an independent company in a different business than Apple. “What?” Jobs responded. “You’re barely cutting it here,” Jobs said, which Miller understood to be relatively high praise, “and you want to go spend your time helping someone else’s company? I don’t even let Forstall out of the office,” Jobs added, referring to Scott Forstall, Apple’s mobile software chief, a high-ranking and considerably more influential executive than Miller. Needless to say, Miller declined the board membership offer.
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I found a nice introduction to lock-free data-structures here: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~ruppert/papers/lfll.pdf

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Thanks Phil. That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm including in the book, although - as this thread proves - there is no cut-and-dried answer to rates/billing, so my approach is to set out a sensible baseline for stuff, to help people get up and running. As time goes on and feedback comes in, version 1.x of the book will probably take that further and provide more detail where people are asking for it. Because I'm publishing via leanpub.com, updates will be pushed to owners of 1.0 for free.
I think where the light is being sent is open space so what ever temperature the local background radiation is at; a common local minimum being the cosmic background radiation.
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That's interesting - I just used launchrock's templates. Could you ping me a screengrab so I can see how it looks?
Nothing wrong with confrontational and arguing your corner but you need to keep it professional and when a decision is made respect the collective.
I'd avoid using italics, if I were you. It makes the text disappear rather than stand out, and it's one of your main points.
I'd probably bold an important sentence in each paragraph for that kind of flyer, and put it at the front.
Good job putting it out there for perusal. "They" say the best thing to do is to go for it.
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Flagged for the idiotic title.

Can a moderator change it to something better, such as the title on the article page?
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So basically we are screwed.
Well great to hear you've made a similar transition, and very cool to think that some of the bias coming from traditional lower-level bio training could be looked at as a liability.

I wonder if I can somehow find a way to pivot into bio without going through a university. Would love to somehow get there through industry, perhaps through some of the genome sequencing outfits which have some crossover with the semiconductor industry.

Hadn't heard the Delbruck joke but hah good to hear, if I understand you correctly, that in a sense it'd be easier to swim in bio if I was sinking in physics.
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>> If you’re not scared, you’re not focused

I think it's a faulty claim. Doesn't work like this in many fields: science, martial arts, medicine (particularly neurosurgery), etc.
You're right, but it would have been anecdote either way.

BTW, that's not my experience at all. My experience is every site quotes a completely different price.
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So they are testing if you are too lazy to think much about obvious puzzle questions without any purpose beyond being puzzle questions or not.

Yes, you could call that a way of intelligence testing... :-)
Just dropped you an email with the screenshots to the email address you wrote in another sub-thread here.
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