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Just an interesting tidbit I noticed: I received several of these mails from Evernote, as I have multiple accounts (including some I set up for others).

Up until about 28 hours ago (4AM March 3 in Japan), all the embedded links were the bogus, phishing-esque URLs that the OP complains about.

As of 22 hours ago (10AM March 3 in Japan), the emails look the same, but all the links point to http://evernote.com.

So at least somebody at Evernote did notice (or read this post or respond to similar complaints), and correct the situation in the middle of their 50,000,000-user email campaign.
Another silly question,
we don't use magnetic fields for deflecting radiation because we can build only weak magnets?

(just idea, electricity comes from solar panels/"nuke plants" and is probably only non ending resource in space.)

A burst from capacitors for powerful electromagnet, could be future?

edit: found answer from comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315143
Thanks for your post. What would you advice for my C2C startup, a Dutch BV or an American LLC?
That's got a lot to do with it. A lawyer might specialise in some area of law, but the clients who come in will have troubles in or questions about an unlimited number of problem domains. So lawyers get to a surprising amount of the rest of the world outside of their profession.

Some other professions off the top of my head that can't "stick to their knitting": mathematicians, programmers, philosophers, psychologists and economists.
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> Bringing democracy to Iraq was never a stated goal of any US administration.

From Bush's speech: "A campaign on harsh terrain in a vast country could be longer and more difficult than some have predicted. And helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable, and free country will require our sustained commitment. Yet, whatever is required of us, we will carry out all the duties we have accepted." (emphasis mine, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/200...)

But either way, let's take it as true, the Bush White House was not exactly consistent with regarding to the reasoning for invading Iraq at any point.

However, bringing democracy to the countries affected by the Arab Spring wasn't always the stated goal either, no? At least for Libya, Syria, and Egypt the issue was the corruption of the then-current government. Although in all of those cases the end result appears to be on track for some kind of democratic state, it's not looking very promising in Egypt IMHO. And who knows where the ruins of Syria will end up?

> If Iraq had a true democracy they'd nationalize the oil fields

Well Big Oil was doing just fine before the U.S. invaded Iraq, and in general seem to do better when Islamists aren't blowing up their pipelines. So while I "rah rah bad corporations" too I'm not quite to the point where I'm willing to pin all geopolitical maneuvers on what's best for Exxon-Mobil.

You're exactly right that Iraq is potentially in a better position to force re-negotiation of oil contracts than Saddam's Iraq was; they could simply buy off the puppet. So maaaybe we should be careful about all the accusations "Blood for Oil" for Iraq in 2003, as the war made no sense at all from the perspective of Western oil companies.

Even now I have no clue as to why Bush actually invaded Iraq but I don't think it was oil. Even if it was somehow much easier for American companies to get access to Iraq's oil after a protracted occupation, it wouldn't be worth the capital (let alone human) cost overall even for all the oil in Iraq. Even if Bush didn't know that, all his oil friends that he was buddy-buddy with could easily tell him.
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The rule matched the output of the profiler, so in that sense was correct. It wasn't clear from the article whether the profiler output was correct, a result of intentionally malformed packets, or otherwise.

Regardless, the Juniper should either have rejected the rule, or accommodated it.
Great find! I am actually running a very simple website collecting videos like this (and also shots of fabrication processes without narration) and added this gem to the queue for publishing. The URL is http://www.manufacturingporn.com :)
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This is exactly what my school did. The first CS class was in Scheme, based on SICP. The next one was about data structures and based on Java. The last one was about computer architecture and used C followed by MIPS followed by designing a simple CPU with logic gates.

Overall, it's a pretty good system. The middle Java class was completely worthless and a big waste of time though; in hindsight, I should have skipped it. Also, while we learned a bunch of cool things in the SICP class, every single other class except for programming languages/compilers completely ignored it. Most retaught some of the same concepts, but poorly.

Also, apart from SICP, there aren't any undergraduate classes doing functional programming! What's up with that?

At least at my university, there's plenty of C and C++--even in places where it blatantly doesn't fit, like the other version of the compilers class. And far, far too much Python. And too little functional programming. Ah well, c'est la vie.

I would love a compilers course taught in ML (maybe OCaml?), and it's a possibility, but not before I graduate :(.
And I even created a t-shirt from it!

http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/ (look at the 3rd from the bottom)
The "stone soup" fractal program is Fractint. Xfractint was my port of it to Unix/X, which was a bit tricky since parts of Fractint were in extremely tight 386 assembler that did crazy stuff like simulating floats with integers for performance.
One difference between the two: guage.js is pixelated on a retina display, Donuts.css is crisp.
There is always some excuse, always!

BTW bug trackers generosity of having detailed WONTFIX statuses is yet to be seen... (but I doubt it would help much, though)
.. It's things like this that make me proud to be human.
Or you could implement the project in the superior language in a reasonable amount of time.
That's a bit of a red herring. In terms of specific utility for cargo delivery / return they are actually fairly comparable, in cost at least. Dragon will probably pull ahead as they load it with more cargo in later flights using the upgraded Falcon 9 v1.1.

In terms of space station modules, any new modules are more likely to be delivered in standalone launches from an expendable vehicle (such as the Falcon Heavy). Although, the SpaceX CRS-8 mission is expected to deliver the Bigelow Expandable Activity module, but it's a fairly tiny module.
I have better things to do with those two hours of exercising plus preparing/cleaning up after exercising. A walking desk combines work and exercise.
That's really cool. Another option with a stuck Upstart job is to rename the job file.

$ sudo mv /etc/init/myjob.conf /etc/init/myjob2.conf

$ sudo start myjob2
The problem is, as I said, easy access to handguns. While Chicago has stringent gun laws, one need only step over into Indiana where gun shows or private "collectors" can sell unlimited numbers of guns to just about anybody. Effectively, there is no gun control in this country right now. Every step of this transaction is legal, until the guns are brought onto the street.
Cars and guns are both tools. Cars are tools for transportation. Guns are tools to help save your own life or the lives of others. Every day, both kinds of tools are used as intended to do good, and also used to do harm.
Actually this outage report is a good example of compounding systematic errors. A among the things that went wrong: incorrect and impossible packet sizes were detected, the rule generator generated rules matching the impossible packet sizes, the human operator who looked at the rules and entered them in to the router didn't notice any problems, and finally the routers responded to the incorrect rules by starting to crash.

Had any of these steps not gone wrong there likely would not have been an outage. It was a combination of failures that caused it.
yes, but walking slowly is nearly indistinguishable from sitting in terms of calorie burn rate.
But it's not necessary to use these operations with functions at all; they were mostly invented and refined in the array programming space like APL. Just in a functional language you have all those nice lambdas to help out and can keep your language simple.
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I very much doubt that he "dropped out" of "high school" and was able to get an apprenticeship, this is probably a bad translation.

He probably left a Gymnasium after tenth grade without getting an Abitur or didn't go to a Gymnasium after finishing Haupt- or Realschule. Unlike dropping out of high school in the US, this would still leave him with a diploma which would make getting an apprenticeship as a Fachinformatiker plausible, which is practically impossible to get without some kind of diploma.

btw. you can't just drop out of school as a minor in Germany as not attending school regularly would be illegal.
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A lot of money ? - access to the iOS SDK and App Store is a $100 which is a trivial amount given that an average iOS contractors can bill $100/hour.
A concept that gun culture consistently fails to grasp is that a) technology is an enabler and b) humans, even the homicidal, are lazy. It's true guns don't kill people; but it's also true guns as an independent factor increase the probability of people killing people. The size of this effect is very much in need of empirical analysis. However the nra has behaved in bad faith on this issue.

Also Canada has less than half the per capita rate of firearm ownership compared to US.
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It's pretty clear that it was a failure of CloudFlare's profiler in generating an obviously impossible rule, the engineer who attempted to apply that rule, and Juniper for allowing it. There's no one place to lay blame, nor is it relevant.

I would imagine that while we have seen a public reason for outage statement that there is a lot more work going on inside CloudFlare as far as the post-mortem is concerned. There are a lot of angles to cover here to really understand how the _system_ failed.
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There is a nice short story on this subject: "Superiority" by Arthur C. Clarke. You can find a summary and a full text link here: http://www.kareemamin.com/post/5060094569/3-lessons-for-star...
>I simply do not understand this anti-college anti-credentialling sentiment

Speaking as an anti-college, anti-credentialist person, well, a lot of it, for me? is that I didn't go to college.

I mean, everyone likes to pretend to be altruistic, but in the end? we all see the world from our own perspective.

And really? most people seem to think that you go to school, you get a cs degree and you will be pretty good. And that's simply not true. I've hired people with CS degrees only to have to fire them, because it turns out, they didn't actually learn anything.

I mean, I've also worked with people who really did learn incredible things in school. Things, as you said, that I certainly have been unable to teach myself.

I also think a lot of this anti-college stuff is people who went in to debt for life, having been told they'd get useful job training and, you know "find yourself" (you know, the class thing. No matter how much money I earn? I'll never be middle class; in the eyes of most people, i'll never be a 'professional' a 'real person' unless I go get a degree. I'm the guy who fixes the pipes. Which, eh, I am mostly okay with at this point.) - but anyhow, yeah, these kids graduate and find that the market value of their degree is, well, pretty close to zero. (and yes, a lot of these kids got degrees in philosophy or fine arts... And yes, we laugh at them for expecting to turn those degrees into money. But they were 17, goddammit, when they made that decision. What kind of asshole expects a 17 year old to make good decisions, especially when they receive bad advice from every trusted figure they talk with? Then we go and say "unlike every other bad loan you will take in your life, the person giving you the loan takes no responsibility. You have to pay this one off. No bankruptcy.")

This idea that "you can do anything you set your mind to" also permeates education, and it's incredibly destructive; it's how we end up with those people with CS degrees who can't outcode me.
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Not really. Gun ownership has externalities, just like car ownership. The government keeps "close tabs" on 100% of automobile related transactions, including licensing and insurance requirements. It's not Orwellian to force a consumer to fully realize the total cost to society of her consumption.
That's a good point. And in that respect, my comment and the blog post are fluff since they're not backed up by any research. And I think I overstated my point in the quote you selected.

But I think you can research it by looking at popular languages/libraries/technologies and who invented them for fun and their impact on the market. Yes, it's false to say that everything that's a hobby now is serious business in 10 years. The article limits it to very smart people. I'd limit it further to very smart and lucky people, like Linus for instance.
> Uptime is a fundamental part of their business, of course it's a team

Many businesses call roles a "team," even when it's just one person. I believe this is the case here, since the linked CloudFlare blog post states:

> Someone from our operations team is monitoring our network 24/7.
Ad-hoc debug output does scale to large projects. I have not used an interactive debugger in about ten years.

My style is to only log when I'm debugging a failure I don't understand. Then I remove the log output.

I also make sure that my unit tests cover the problem case I was debugging, because problems that require this kind of detailed debugging tend to be the trickiest to keep maintained without regressions. And I try to make my code based on careful state management (or, if possible, statelessness), preferably with a state machine.
I don't disagree with you, but I was calling in to question the suggestion that the creation of the rule was the specific human error. By definition, every error you listed is a human error, as even if ultimately carried out but computers (routers), they were designed by humans.
I think those are the baby entrepreneure assumptions, but something that is incredibly fundamental is to have the right distribution channel above all.
Thanks Steve, I really appreciate that!
I think a lot of Asian parents in particular have good intentions in this regard but don't understand the realities of a career in medicine. The hours in medicine are brutal, the pay is much less than most people believe, and virtually everyone goes massively into debt to finance their medical educations. Going into engineering or computer programing is a much surer route to financial success.

Still, these parents' hearts are in the right place. "Follow your bliss" is a great plan when you don't have to pay for it. A more responsible plan, if you don't want a profession like medicine or law, is "Develop a useful trade for income and pursue your passions on the side." If your trade involves things like computers, sales, or marketing, it can often contribute to success in your passion projects as well.
Yes ours is quite a different beast, we're not entirely sure what will be best but a freemium model is plausible/likely for us.
Possible business models for a service:
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2. Freemium a la ADN
3. Free without ads (Tent, IRC)

What looks nicest to the consumer?
I'll give your posturing some thought when I see the arguments for banning alcohol. Around 1,500 murders a year are alcohol-fueled. Add in drunk driving, and it's even stronger. Nobody needs alcohol. Live by those principles and maybe people will give your cars/utility argument a second thought.
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Configuring the B-side computer to take control of the rover may take ... several days, maybe a week

I wish they had provided more information about what needs to be done. I would think the backup computer would be sort of a "warm standby" that could be switched over pretty quickly, from this it sounds like they need to upload data or software first.
This EFF article on the state of DMCA and cell phone unlocking does not mention any case law validating the idea that unlocking is actually a violation: https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone

It does cite case law that points in the direction that the DMCA is only triggered when the lock protects a creative work, which cell phone access may not be. Considering how carefully the EFF tracks these things, if there was case law supporting the carriers' (and possibly executive branch's) position, they would mention it.
I have a walking desk in my home office.
I personally don't care about weight.
I do care about moving more. I notice that I can concentrate much longer. (I think it's because my blood has a better circulation.)

I don't know if it's a good thing for everyone, I know it helps me. I have installed it 24 december and today 3 March, I have already walked 750 Km. All of that while working.

http://www.hanoulle.be/2013/02/im-working-from-a-walking-des...
Wow. I had no idea the ATV was so expensive.

As a side note, your comments in space-related threads are always awesome. Do you work in the industry?
I'm glad I checked back in here to read that. A month or two ago Dangerous Minds posted a late 70s Wire concert from Rockpalast (German TV show which is now perhaps the greatest archive of punk-new wave bands at their peaks) and it was stunning. It's been taken down, but there are still clips up.
> Of course, writing a JSON parser should take less than a day, so the cost is essentially negligible.

Writing a JSON parser that parses my examples correctly is a couple hours at most, yes. Writing a JSON parser that I am confident is correct and robust and efficient takes somewhat longer.
And to see them move - in a Chrome console:

$('.donut-arrow').attr('style','-webkit-transform: rotate(85deg)')
Leaving the Yoda at the end of the impress.js demo is pretty lame, especially considering you didn't write it.
> There was also the alternative that US general MacArthur actually recommended, which was to continue firebombing them into submission.

You can't actually be serious?

The firebombing of Tokyo caused more deaths, not less, than either of the atomic bombs. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo :

"The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II;[2] greater than Dresden,[13] Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events."

> As an aside, do you really think that in a country that was in complete shambles, that any word of a bomb that had killed everyone around it, or that word of the real damage would have gotten to the emperor in the time it took them to surrender?

The Emperor knew the same day. However much of a "shambles" the Home Islands may have been in, the Japanese at least had telegraph cables, and when they stopped responding from Hiroshima, and when the outskirts of Hiroshima wired news of a horrific bomb detonation they actually sent planes over to investigate and confirm.

> The most likely reason that they surrendered was that they knew they were hooped once the Soviets finally joined the war against them on August 8th.

The U.S.S.R. declaration of war certainly caught them by surprise; but the Japanese were certainly not stupid. They knew the war was not winnable by 1943 when they lost the strategic initiative in the Pacific to the U.S.

The U.S. had the men, the Navy, and the equipment already in-theatre for the invasion. The U.S.S.R. had the men but not the naval or air forces needed to cover an amphibious invasion before the U.S. could start, so their entering the war only had a strategic impact for Manchukuo (and later, North Korea).
It costs roughly the same amount ($50 for an individual, $100 for a company) to purchase a developer license that can submit apps to the Windows 8 Store. Furthermore, the Windows Store also has restrictive terms on what is acceptable, and does not issue refunds for developer accounts when your apps don't make the cut.

You cannot install Windows 8 metro / modern UI apps from anywhere but the Windows Store without unlocking the device with a developer account.
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"With no signs of the virus for 10 months..."

Does this mean that the virus could still be incubating in cells and some sort of stressor could cause the virus to come out, similar to those that have had Chicken Pox getting Shingles later in life? If so, is it really a cure? To me, a vaccine that has passed all trial stages and works almost 100% and w/few side effects is a cure. I don't want to belittle this miracle, but complacency caused by misleading news is much, much worse than playing it down and getting it right before announcing there is a cure. Hope is a wonderful thing though.
I can't speak for any of the other features, but gauge also has fancier color "phasing" based on the values -- donuts.css just does red / yellow / green.
Why do you want to rely on others for protection? You don't have to search very hard to find stories of peoples houses being broken into, they get assaulted, women raped, etc. I believe that I have the right to protect myself and my family. I don't need an AR-15 to do that, but I think I should be able to own a shotgun.

Furthermore, not everyone lives in an area where the police actually give a shit. There are plenty of bad areas in major cities where you are basically on your own (Flint, Detroit, New Orleans, etc.).
But oddly enough, I don't hear of the same thing happening in Indiana, at least not to the extent I hear about violence in Chicago.

Must not be the guns. Must be something else.
The author doesn't say how upstart became deadlocked in the first place. Was this an upstart bug?
but with Tor you are only anonymous at the exit node, right? Sure, your ISP (or anyone else listening in) doesn't know WHERE you are connecting to, when you use Tor, but if the connection isn't encrypted (for example using SSL or ssh) then they sure can listen in to WHAT you are sending and receiving. In other words if the traffic between your computer and the Tor entrance node is not encrypted (and it wouldn't be unless you are using SSL or ssh), your ISP (or any third party listening in on that traffic) can read everything you are doing. Or am I mistaken?
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