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Package management will make OS upgrades easier.
Dependencies as opposed to static linking will allow the CPU to run and cache used code better instead of reading and discarding the same code from different parts of memory.
Compression will make the handling less IO bound and a bit more CPU intensive, but disks are slow and CPU's are faaaast!
If you think it will be slow and complicated, I think you will be in for a pleasant surprise later on.
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I disagree with this. Closer to Democrats than what? Republicans view their party as an amalgamation of a number of distinct ideologies. To say that any given one is "closer to Democrats" means nothing except in respect to your own vantage point within the coalition. When your average Republican hears "libertarian" he's much more likely to think "Ron Paul," with all the connotations that includes, than "Democrat."

(Source: Until recently I served on the State Central Committee of a major swing state's GOP.)
I agree with a lot of these points. I think it's tricky to focus on one thing at a time though, as that's not how things happen in the real world, and people are interested in different things - so keep active communities going around issue seems the best way forward to me.

Regarding the points system - I agree on that. Gamification might be a good way to keep people engaged.

And regarding actions, I'm working on that already. The pre-adressed envelope might be achievable in different ways too (type a letter, and we'll print and email it).

My first step is going to be to set up a http://discourse.org site for us to discuss. I do like the reddit model too, though it perhaps promotes sensationalism over actual content. That being said, it does seem to work quite well.
So, to be clear, the teen Salah Barhoun was the guy in the blue tracksuit who some 4chan'ers thought was the bomber. Also called out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562975

Here's the NYPost cover where he was featured: http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/28618/large/o-N...

And this is why vigilante justice sucks. I'm just glad that some nutcase in real life didn't go off on him and he went to the police himself to clear his name before anything bad happened to him.
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This is something that the "old" HNers would've eaten up, not because they needed it but because their non-technical employees need it. Mary, the office admin, needs to have a basic understanding of this stuff. I wish there was a better preview version - seems like it would fit that market but I can't really tell enough w/ their crappy Slideshare version.
FWIIW, I have to scratch my head and wonder why you would want to start an AV company. The market seems to me to be saturated and has become a commodity... there are lots of free non-enterprise versions and the enterprise market is going to be extremely hard for a new, unproven company to break into.

WRT signatures and databases, I would start by digging into ClamAV http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/ to see how they generate their signatures. I expect there is a lot of information that would help answer your questions on the mailing lists as well. http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ml/
The mathematical way to state this is that a choice of units is equivalent to a choice of an inner product in linear algebra( or, more generally, the choice of a metric tensor in differential geometry). Basically, the choice of an inner product defines what it means for something to be orthogonal in a space.

Principal component analysis is predicated on a choice of inner product, since component directions are always chosen to be orthogonal. It's not clear what orthogonality could mean in a 2D plane where one direction is measured in inches and the other in tons, so naive PCA isn't appropriate in such a case.

Others have mentioned in this thread that "whitening" the data before PCA fixes this problem, by removing cross-correlations. Presumably, in that case, the notion of orthogonality is taken from the statistical properties of the data. (Maybe it normalizes physical units like inches to the standard deviation of the data's distribution in inches?)
Yes, but I think for many places where PCA is used, we are precisely interested in which eigenvectors have the largest eigenvalues. The scaling beforehand makes a unit change less likely to effect which eigenvectors are the most important.
It's not clear what your second "they" referred to.

The left-right divide is best described as a tendency to support established power versus a tendency to support those who seek to overturn established power. Hence "conservative" (meaning "preserve the existing social order, or return to the social order of the recent past"). Republicans on the whole are, without a doubt, right-wing, since the best way to predict what cause they will support is to look at the causes of the already wealthy and privileged.

The left roots for the underdogs, the right roots for the top dog. This explains why, today, the left more sides with Palestine and the right with Israel. Why rightwing-types are more likely to defend the rich (low taxes helps most those who pay the most) and leftwing-types to defend the poor. Why in Soviet Russia, the "right" were those who supported the ruling party, and the "left" were those who supported the opposition.

Yes, the more-left(/less right) party currently controls the White House and 1/2 of Congress. This doesn't mean that they have become the established order that the left should now oppose, since the established order is much bigger than mere politics.
It doesn't help that 'contacting your Congressperson' is code for 'being intercepted by some intern that will put your concern on a post-it note, which your representative will never see.'
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Here's the TED talk from the researcher herself: http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes...
This definitely reads like one at least. I can't help but be amazed at the way he uses to publish / distribute it all at the same time using this print spool.
This is a classic example of why this type of information should just be forwarded to the authorities. Last thing we need is a mob mentality going after someone who may turn up to be innocent; it's happened before, and it can happen again.
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Gitlab already has this?

http://demo.gitlab.com/public
I was actually kind of hoping that that was the moral of the story. :)
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thanks for the feedback. Are you saying the preview isn't long enough or that the viewing format is poor on slideshare?
A friend of mine has the wonderful surname of "Null," which caused some fun at the telephone company billing department back in the 80's.
Why do you continue to say that "operational network information", when (A) that clearly isn't the case and (B) the whole bill doesn't even mention the word "operational" once? (nor does it mention "network information" for that matter)

Why not simply say what the bill says:

"The term ‘cyber threat information’ means information directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity."

This way people can decide for themselves what could be the possible interpretations of that which a lawyer could successfully defend to be "in good faith" -- which is all that the bill requires. I would be surprised if anybody would come to the conclusion that the only defensible interpretation of that is "operational network information".
They can't do that, Blogger is too widespread already.
Have you done that? I'm curious about how it goes. I feel like it would take a while to get things going.
Agreed, I would prefer that my account information be accessible at a secure web site rather than being sent out in cleartext email.
Do you actually have a solution to the problem that pc86 laid out? Otherwise, we're talking religious differences.
I was actually wondering yesterday if this would happen. You'd have to be living under a rock for those pictures not to get back to you. And when they did why wouldn't you immediately come forward and say "it wasn't me."

[Sorry for being unclear. I knew he came forward. I was saying that that happening was predictable.]
The voluntarily part is also shaky. Eventually not 'volunteering' to do it will be too costly. The systems, rewards, costs will be rigged so that volunteering is the only way to play, but not required.

Also, the so called protections that it must be a cyber-security threat also hold little check and balance, how about an attack just happening when an agency needs information, or waiting for an attack by baiting it, any protection against creating honeypots to bait certain services? Probably not. Everyday servers and systems are attacked, so it is pretty much open season for getting information. There are no checks and balances and 'volunteering' means nothing. Try getting a gov't contract or deflecting problems without volunteering.

I am glad all these freedom giving up people have nothing to hide such as their business ideas, sites they visit, downloads, emails etc will all be tracked now. I am sure they have something to hide from then. All of this will now be stored not only on their computers and their services, but at the ISP and the NSA now as well. Lots more chances, especially at the ISP level, of identity theft and threats.

Crypto products might be a big market after this.
If the client is insisting on hosting the solution (instead of you offering to host it in a controlled environment), then I assume the client has technical people in charge of hosting - and I would make it a point to meet them before I even start development. Otherwise, you'll get bitten needlessly. If they're inflexible (e.g. low PHP version, or no mysql, etc - then you need to incorporate those constraints into your requirements. (Or fire the client)
You can even drop the p (and spaces if you are using arguments) So to open a vertical split containing a file browser in the current dir:

:vs.

I use this all the time.
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You want to back that up, or are you just that ignorant of politics?
> The panel specifically recommends that communications be blocked when there is access from IP addresses publicly listed as those allocated to the third in a chain of computers that are used by Tor.

This means blocking Tor exit nodes (third in a chain), right? So this means using Tor won't be blocked, but the exit nodes within the relevant ISPs would be?
Given the well-known closeness of industry and government in many countries and especially Japan, is that an important distinction?
Apart from the "good faith" thing, which I've mentioned repeatedly on this thread and others, all you've done here is expanded the "vulnerability" clause.
You also have to be living under a rock not to read the second paragraph of the article

"Salah Barhoun, 17, said he went to the police yesterday to clear his name after he found himself tagged in pictures online"
> This time you've told everyone such-and-such isn't in the README when it is

I clearly demonstrated all the deficiencies of the current distribution, especially in regards to running the same programs (with the same arguments) as those on the website.

your explanation of the commandline variables was missing from the readme

reference to the actual location of the ini file (my.linux.ini). I expect a section like this:

The bencher is configured with an INI file.
There are two example ini files included with the
distribution: my.linux.ini and my.win32.ini,
located in the "makefiles" directory.

this can't be found anywhere in the distribution:

The ini files from the game website can be found
in the nanobench/makefiles directory:

<listing of the files>

Then I will agree that the documentation is complete, and that the process to run your own benchmarks is almost "easy".

If you separate the configuration files, organize the directories more appropriately and write a more condensed README that skips the condescending act towards the user, then I will agree that running your own benchmarks is easy.

> Did you ask for help?

I wouldn't have had to ask for help if the documentation was complete and adequate.

I will however check out the tarball tomorrow.

Oh and what about the suggestion to separate the environment configuration from the programs configuration? No comment, I guess...
I dont think Satoshi owns a single bitcoin. Never did he write anywhere that Bitcoins should be hoarded as a shady get rich scheme and all his writings clearly are for Bitcoin to be used for pseudo anon payments.

He also gave thousands of them away to Hal and other people on the cryptography mailing list.
>The move comes on the heels of a series of online threats via remotely hijacked computers using the Tor system, which allows users to mask their online identities and locations by routing connections through several servers.

There's been an investigation/questioning going on regarding one particular incident for many months now, where a guy had used Tor (among other things) to hijack others' computers and send crime threats from these machines. The Japanese police, being pretty inexperienced at this sort of thing, arrested the wrong person back in late 2012 (which btw ruined that poor guy's life, because the Japanese press has this retarded tendency to report suspects' real names, addresses, occupation, even when the status is preliminary), and it's been a series of embarrassments for them ever since.

They even have the prime suspect in custody, yet they can't find concrete evidence to lock him up. (in fact, they're doing some pretty shady stuff by keeping him in custody for an inordinately long time through various loop-holey means). The whole debacle has shown both the technology ineptitude of Japan's police department as well as its heavyhandedness.

Old article, but you'll get the gist of the situation.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/07/japan-cat-col...

Then there is an article in February saying he was "caught", but two months later, he is still stuck in custody as police try in vain to find conclusive evidence that can lock him up.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/12/japanese-cat-...
It's not clear to me why you left this comment. jere said he wondered if a particular thing would happen, and then it did. You assert that second part as if in contradiction?
Point taken, you are right. However, on the other hand, the ease with which speed becomes the culprit often precludes better solutions. Two examples:

A particular crosswalk in my city was a dark spot, accident wise. A common accident spot, resulting in deaths. Speed traps were, for years, commonly placed in the street, treating, I assume, the perceived cause of the accidents. Speed bumps followed. Years go by, accident rates don't go down. Then, finally specific street lighting is setup on the crosswalk: problem solved. The cause was not excess speed, but night visibility of the crosswalk.

One of the worst mountain roads in Portugal, IP4, was for years considered plagued by speeding. Lots of police cruisers, both marked and stealth, patrolled the road, enforcing limits. Static speed traps the ensued. Accident rates stubbornly wouldn't go down. Then, finally, a brilliant mind decided to place plastic lane barriers preventing overtaking in prohibited zones. Problem solved! Speed was not the cause, dangerous overtake maneuvers were.

Speed is an easy target. As such, it's a dangerous default as accident cause.
Let's rephrase, using two scenarios -

One:

"If a user likes me enough to forward my newsletter to 60 of their friends and one of them -who also happens to be subscribed to the same newsletter- clicks unsubscribe because they don't take 10 seconds to read the subject -and then scroll through the email and still fail to recognize that this is a newsletter they had also subscribed to-, I'm out an extremely loyal reader/customer -who can't even recognize my newsletter- if I don't send that notification email."

and Two:

add to the end, "when both problems could have been solved at once by requiring the user to confirm the email address they wanted unsubscribed when they clicked on the link, thus providing both verification, and ensuring that a friend does not mistakenly do the same."
You're probably right, but FWIW, there actually exists some somewhat scholarly work on this topic. Stephen Haeckel[1] - formerly at IBM Research - wrote a lot about something he called the "Adaptive Enterprise"[2] and suggested something along the lines of more autonomous operating units, bound together using a "commitment management protocol".[3]

And while I haven't explored this in any real depth (yet), my guess is that some of the research into Multi-Agent Systems[4] and Agent-Based Modeling[5] may prove relevant to this aspect of organizational design as well.

Another interesting discussion around commitment management: http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/conversations-...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_H._Haeckel

[2]: http://books.google.com/books?id=pkrFugJBAn4C&printsec=f...

[3]: http://www.senseandrespond.com/downloads/Comitmn2.pdf

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_system

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model
I did not realize this might be a gray area.

I will do some research on how I can find some representation. Any tips, or experience with who I might get in contact with? Am I looking for some sort of technology or competition specialist?
Came here to post that link. One of the best TED talks ever!
What's up with those weird kangaroo courts? Why aren't serious cases (sexual assault, rape) handled by real law enforcement and heard in real courts?

I can understand that universities may want to deal with academic plagiarism, misconduct, or dishonesty internally but this is bizarre. Yet, apparently, it's mandated by the government? How is this legal?

Not to mention that government is essentially outsourcing one of its core functions (competencies). Mercenaries, feudal legal system... the mediaevalist lobby deserves more attention.
>"It makes it impossible for a competitor to dispute the final results."

Yes. That's the purpose.

The teleology of gamified competition is toward declaring a winner. The rules are structured with that in mind. Those rules are different from the marketplace where protesting and litigation are allowed and consequently, declared winners are simply a matter of opinion, not fact.

Accepting mistakes as part of the game is sportsmanship. And it was a game. Best to move on to the next one: http://www.kaggle.com/competitions
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No, 'jere asked why the guy didn't just come forward and say "it wasn't me" (Orwellian!) and then the respondent said "that's what he did".
So, I tried Dwolla
Libertarians and Republicans have very little in common. This is blatantly false.
I will agree with you if you have to type your email in first.

The ideal situation, I think, is to have the user type in their email. If it's an existing subscriber, unsubscribe. If it's not, add them to a secondary list just to keep track of who definitely does not want the emails.
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I like how easy it is to follow, comment and close the tasks on Asana:
- They send an email with the full comment/update made on the task
- Reply to the email to send a comment and it will update Asana
- There is a direct link in the email to “View and edit” the task or to unfollow it.
- You can reply with “complete” to mark the task completed
- You can assign the task to a teammate by adding him to the email “to” field.
All this without leaving Gmail.
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Mob justice was wrong? Hoocoodaknown??

This is such a freaking waste of time. He had to go clear his name, and the cops had to listen to him.
I'm going to be that guy, but this right here it's a first world problem almost to the letter. I mean, we've got an adult (the college guy) hurrying to call his mother when he gets in trouble so that the latter would help him solve his problems, and then we've got the mother herself, ready to forgo her long-held believes (feminism and all that) as soon as her son's "future" is on the line.
That’s just allowing anonymous access to the clone url: you can’t actually browse the source code, read/file issues, etc.

See the full discussion here: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/12
That's not how I read his comment -- I think you're reading accusation into the phrase "why wouldn't you" that isn't really there.

I realise that without context it could be ambiguous, but since even the headline indicates that the guy has already come forward, I doubt jere was unaware of that.
Unfortunately being doxxed by Reddit (funny how Reddit is known for that these days) isn't a requirement for having some nutcases go off on you:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/bx_idiots_beat_up_a...

Ironically NY Post was one of the "news" sources driving up the hysteria and publishing these photos.
Kind of, China does this by blocking all relays they get hold of. No relay-DB is ever complete, so they cant get them all, but enough to make it troublesome to use.
...which, by the way, is the only one you are allowed to use...
Wow that is one beautiful laptop. I know think pads have a good reputation for being compatible with Linux, is that still the case here?
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How about http://get-simple.info/? It works similar to WordPress but it's just a simple CMS.
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I am trying to build my idea/web start-up, but I am not technical and do not know anyone who is. Any suggestions where I can network or what I can do to find a technical co-founder? Anyone here interested?
Take, for instance, Skype. It has end-to-end encryption, and call are damn hard to intercept due to p2p routing.

Instead of rejoicing, the man forced MS to build a backdoor into it.

The man is glad if your valuable communication can't be stolen by some Chinese spies. But you are a good citizen and have nothing to hide from your own government, right?
Everything you just mentioned is more or less public by its very nature. Encryption wouldn't make any sense even were it feasible.
>'... declared winners are simply a matter of opinion, not fact'

I certainly agree with that part of your statement.

I have a hard time thinking about moving on to a new competition, this one has left such a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe time will change my mind, but certainly not happening any time soon.
I wish that someone would inform the field of psychology about this. Principal Component Analysis is often a way of simply reifying your prejudices.
Sending me an email to tell me that I have a message with a link to actually read the message is unforgivably bad design.

I don't want to:

Why not? It's "unforgivably bad design" only if enough people don't click, browse and sign up for services. Who cares if they annoy me or you? It's a numbers game, thy don't need to please everyone. As the bad pitch goes"...if we only get 0.1% of users to..."