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You created a "previous proposition" where there wasn't one, by not reading my words in context as a reply the parent post (that described a specific scenario wherein the writer's friends were telling him to stop taking the Adderall that was successfully treating his ADHD symptoms) and instead inventing a completely different context for my words.

In the U.S. at least, Adderall is best prescribed by a psychiatrist, and while there are many general practitioners who will write you a script for Adderall without referring you to a psychiatrist, they're not following what's considered to be best practice. The same doctor would be considered remiss if they didn't refer their patient with heart disease symptoms to a cardiologist. Adderall is a stimulant that can be addictive if used incorrectly, and ADHD is not understood well enough to know that it is best treated by Adderall alone.

While neuroscientists, pharmacists, etc. may be able to tell you details about ADHD or Adderall, they aren't generally licensed to write prescriptions for Adderall in the U.S., and shouldn't be telling you start, stop, or change your Adderall dosage without consulting with your prescribing doctor first.
I'm from Israel.
I can't link it (YouTube is blocked at work), but there was a BBC program from the 80's called "Danger: UXB" which is quite excellent, and nearly every episode is online.
I haven't been vague whatsoever.
I very rarely write cover letters, but I do remember getting an interview once and being told specifically that they weren't impressed by my resume but loved my cover letter.

Even after that I still rarely take the time to do it.
The test you posted there excuses service providers from liability if either the encryption, or the key, are not provided by the service provider.

Providing secure communications with either ephemeral or customer-provided keys is in no way illegal.
As to rolling them back, there is precedent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

Otherwise the wag who penned Government Builds Free Cloud-Based Backup for an Ungrateful Nation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012941) sort of addresses your other points.
You mean Google Glass?
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The linked article is indeed long but I'm not sure how much merit there is in the poster's arguments.

He contends that 90% of the conversation between the pilots was conducted in English and then, a bit later, quotes a multi-line dialogue between the captain and first officer that was completely in Korean and which he had to translate.

In making the case that the rigidly hierarchical nature of Korean society wasn't a factor in a crash, he describes multiple, conflicting axes-of-respect (age, experience, training) that would've existed and weighed on the crew members' thoughts and actions.

At another point, he seems to be saying that an airline isn't accident-prone if some (not all) of its crashed/destroyed planes were downed because the crew flew them off course and into hostile territory. How many other passenger planes were downed by the Soviets during the same period? Apparently none: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inci...

I'm no fan of Gladwell and the "Igon Value" fiasco should have clued people into the fact that they should be wary of science popularizers, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Especially if it's just repeating aspects of what other clocks have been saying.
That's why we use money to exchange goods and services ;)
Minor note: what's up with all the low-resolution photographs? Pretty much all news websites seem to be designed for 640x480 resolution. I want to click the image and open it up in 1920x1080 or something.
Damn, Google may have people locked in more than Microsoft of the 90s
How much entropy does the "data about a volume in space" have?

And is this lossless or lossy compression?

Here's a stack exchange question with a good answer (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4716116/what-is-the-best-...)

> If file sizes could be specified accurate to the bit, for any file size N, there would be precisely 2^(N+1)-1 possible files of N bits or smaller. In order for a file of size X to be mapped to some smaller size Y, some file of size Y or smaller must be mapped to a file of size X or larger. The only way lossless compression can work is if some possible files can be identified as being more probable than others; in that scenario, the likely files will be shrunk and the unlikely ones will grow.

As a simple example, suppose that one wishes to store losslessly a file in which the bits are random and independent, but instead of 50% of the bits being set, only 33% are. One could compress such a file by taking each pair of bits and writing "0" if both bits were clear, "10" if the first bit was set and the second one not, "110" if the second was set and the first not, or "111" if both bits were set. The effect would be that each pair of bits would become one bit 44% of the time, two bits 22% of the time, and three bits 33% of the time. While some strings of data would grow, others would shrink; the ones that shrank would--if the probability distribution was as expected--outnumber those that grow (4/9 files would shrink by a bit, 2/9 would stay the same, and 3/9 would grow).
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> NIO has significant impact on HTTP Servers not on stand alone single instance clients.

This is true for the asynchronous network IO parts of NIO, but definitely not all of it. It also enables memory mapping and DMA, two things that can have significant impact on stand alone software.
Patrick Smith (a former pilot and now author) also criticized Gladwell here:http://www.salon.com/2008/12/05/askthepilot301/
> Also: what's the point of bringing the NSA into this? Some Canadian lady saw his Facebook post and called the police

Because its easy to draw a line between:
1. Some lady see's stupid thing you posted, you go to jail.
2. NSA Analyst finds some stupid thing you posted (at any point in the past?), you go to jail.
It does pay very well though, and you will never be short of job opportunities...
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Enterprise relies on companies such as RedHat and Oracle to some extent in lieu of conducting code analysis and to certain types of security testing.

It would be rather surprising if they were not at least approached by Federal agencies such as NSA and FBI.

To put it another way, because Microsoft has a closed source model, the intelligence agencies took the approach described in the article. From that, it may be a mistake to conclude that the strategy pursued with Microsoft was the only strategy pursued. It just happens to be one that would pass across the desk of an analyst, rather than someone on the operations side.

Viewed as an intelligence operation, it would be grossly unprofessional of such agencies not to have placed moles within the open source community, or for those moles to be seen as highly skilled contributors on open source projects. The three letter agencies have decades of experience infiltrating both commercial organizations and those motivated by something other than money.

I suspect it is easier to turn an open source hacker than a diplomat - not just ideologically but because the open source community lacks a state funded organized counter-intelligence apperatus.
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> What kind of company will hire a programmer, an architect or a lawyer that bakes a cake with their logo in it?

A company that bakes cakes.

> I hope none, for the world's sake...

So you think bakers should be hired without actually seeing if they can bake?

Or are you saying that a programmer, architect, or a lawyer shouldn't be allowed to bake cakes?

Or that they shouldn't be allowed to switch careers and bake cakes?

Or are you saying that if someone well qualified for a job bakes a cake, they shouldn't be hire?

Or maybe, just maybe, you missed the point. Considering you stopped reading, I'd venture a yes. Especially considering some of the things people have done to get jobs. Creating videos and websites specifically targeting companies.
Build up a 9 month fund of your fixed expenses (mortgage, food, car payment, etc). It can be quite liberating to have a "Fuck you I don't want to work here any more" fund. I did it by laddering some CDs. Go ahead and get the 5 year term so you get the higher interest rate. If you have to cash it in early, the typical worst case is that you'll have to give up 1 or 2 month's interest.

Ally bank is currently paying 1.5% on their 5-year CD, with a 60-day interest penalty for early cash-out.
Whistle Blower Edward Snowden has convened a meeting with representatives of several human rights organsiationer. The meeting is expected to take place today at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.

- I can confirm that the meeting will take place at 16:00 local time at the airport. We will not increase security at the airport ahead of the meeting, says Roman Genis head of the press office at Sheremetyevo Airport.

Already around 13:00 Swedish time flocked to reporters at the airport to talk to the representatives invited by Snowden. For the first time since Snowden's revelations reached the press caught him now in view of Human Rights Watch's photographer. To the west the picture is Sarah Harrison from WikiLeaks.
Great interest

A number of journalists have gathered at the airport while waiting for the whistle-blower's performance. The meeting, taking place right now behind closed doors.

- Snowden's revelations have shown the problem. He has not identified any people but only highlights the major problems, said Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International Russian to AP from the airport.

Snowden will have sent invitations to representatives of Amnesty International in Russia, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch and the UN in Russia. Although Russian parliamentarians and lawyers have accepted Snowden's invitation and is now at the airport in Moscow.
"Campaign Against Me"

In inbjudningsbreven to Edward Snowden according to the Guardian have written that the United States is leading a campaign against him, trying to block his right to seek and obtain asylum in other countries. Snowden thank the letter also those who have offered to help him.

The former CIA employee Edward Snowden fled the United States when he revealed the extent of its supervision. He has lived on the transit portion of the airport in Moscow since June 23. Snowden has applied for asylum in more than 20 countries. Several South American countries have offered him protection, but it has proved problematic to leave the airport. Edward Snowden has been stripped of his U.S. passport and without it he can not buy a new ticket. Last week also forced the Bolivian president Evo Morales stopover in Austria when there was suspicion that Snowden was aboard his aircraft.
I'm not sure if that's more depressing or that so many seem to feel that boy-cotting services is an effective way to address the illegal actions of governments and corporations.

I would hope that people would consider instead demanding we hold governments and organizations accountable for crimes directly and demand our rights be respected. Picking up your ball and going home is not the correct response to these things, nor will it help or fix anything.
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Finally.

Though I too suspect the NSA must be using some form of dense, long-lifetime data-in-solid storage technology that we haven't been told of. I can believe them storing 'all comms' in real time using hard disks, but I find it hard to believe they'd be anticipating refreshing the entire archive onto new media every 10 years of so. Which they'd have to do with hard disks or DVD equivalents. And I flatly refuse to believe they'd be prepared to just let it go.

There was an announcement back in 1999 from Keele University in UK, of having succeeded with using NMR to store and retrieve data in solids. The lead researcher was Prof. Ted Williams, who led development of the nuclear magnetic resonance scanner.

Then suddenly... nothing more was heard of that.

There's just something about this idea that sounds extremely likely. That not only is the NSA spying on everyone, but also maybe keeping to themselves a revolutionary storage technology that would change everything. So far I haven't heard anything at all about _how_ the NSA is storing all that data, have you?

We should be building eternal, public archives of all the cultural and scientific knowledge of humankind. Instead we're building vast secret archives of everyone's tweets, lunch appointments and credit card transactions.
I don't know, gave up when the article claimed you can't learn from the plane that wandered off into Russian territory and got shot. It's exactly the same situation that needs to be addressed. Senior Korean pilots don't have to legitimately pass training and aren't told by the people they work with when they make mistakes. Wandering off course is the same as forgetting your auto-throttle disables at a certain altitude in this regard. It's something easily caught by a second pair of eyes who, in a more functional culture, could tell the pilot. I don't think the article is even trying to see the argument.

I had a Korean CEO like this once at Noom. The guy constantly fucked up. Forgot to pay employees, paid the wrong amount, forgot to pay gym memberships for months which was supposed to be a benefit, promised to update addresses for immigration paperwork and never got around to it, etc.. Even the CTO admitted numbers were not the CEOs strong point and he was just there to make friendly deals with other business people. If you called the guy out on anything, or setup a meeting to try to address things together, he took you away from his desk where things could be fixed to a meeting room to lecture you for an hour on how you had to respect him.
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No, since you could fill a cubic meter with the storage media. And then you need to record the data on the storage media as well as the structure of the storage media.
Do you not?

Of course it's not reliable, but for a quick heuristic I've found it to be quite well correlated with the quality of the code.
> It's basically just random chance that some planes every year will crash because of pilot error.

When you design a system where errors can cause a large number of deaths (airplanes, trains, nuclear reactors,...), your objective is to have very few accidents (nobody can guarantee zero). Having someone to blame when an accident happens -- the pilot did not follow procedure -- is not enough.

Your system design must be human error tolerant, because you know these will happen. To take an extreme example, if a drunk pilot error causes an accident it's not only his fault, but there probably also is a systemic error which caused this criminal behavior (which is a possibility you expect) to cause an accident: maybe the cockpit culture was such that the co-pilot was frightened to stand up to the drunk pilot.
The point is that lots of people buying their licences/certificates because they have severe difficulties in proving abilities they claim to have.

Lots of "certified professional" Java/SAP/etc programmers cannot write any code outside an IDE or without context help, leave alone implement simple algorithms like quicksort or basic functions for binary search trees.
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Yet another reason to stick to open source.
Answer "Yes" to send information to the NSA or "No" if you have something to hide.
Yes. We made a choice.

What I think you're ignoring is a prolonged, persistent, and increasing series of attacks against US persons and territories. 9/11 was just one of a series of attacks against us. Every previous attack was nearly ignored and forgotten here at home. I'm talking about the first World Trade Center bombing, the Cole Attack, and others.

And, honestly, it's easy for you to criticize. I lost three friends in the aftermath when our country went to war. This isn't an armchair argument for me.

I don't think it's fair to excuse the act of UBL and AQ only to denounce our response. I have little patience for pacifists.
> Find someone who works for the company (on their website, or linked-in, whatever). Tell them who you are, and ask if there's any jobs available. They'll probably send you to a hiring manager

Have you actually tried that? Did it work?

I tried getting an introduction 2 foreign tech companies in Japan. One from an ex-coworker and another from a friend of a friend. In both cases the position was not in their team, and they told me there was nothing they could do for me, I'd have to apply by sending my resume via the company's website. Which I did, and then got no response.

And these were people I know and am in good terms with, e.g. I have met person1 several times since he left the company, and have been to person2's place. I wouldn't even bother contacting a random person.

To be fair, I have managed to get introductions at 2 other companies, but in both cases they weren't highly-sought tech companies.
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Are your google account settings localized to the UK? This issue used to regularly drive me crazy.

Fortunately they now have a worldwide setting. At one point you could select only 5 (or was it 7?) languages for which Google would show you results. They fortunately fixed that.

I mean, who would want to search _all_ the internet?
Google personalizes results quite extensively these days, largely based on your location. Google believes based on that, and probably your previous searching and browsing habits, that those .co.uk sites are more relevant to your interests. After all, this is the company that has patented and is developing the idea of "Parameterless Searches", where they assume what you want to know before you even ask... (more info http://www.seobythesea.com/2013/07/google-parameterless-sear...)
> private communications companies with which citizens do business under contractual "terms of service." These contracts do not authorize data-sharing with the government.

How come Aaron Swartz gets prosecuted for violating a TOS and the government doesn't?
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There also dont seem to be any safe/encrypted way to have a group chat with deniability, and not even a safe way to have audio and/or video communications that dont drop or lag randomly, are slow or require a programmer to setup. (Looking at you Jitsi).

Its a big problem, to get all this right, but whoever does it is doing humanity a great one. I propose to fund it by donations, not ads or subscriptions.
Actually, as a Canadian and a golfer, there is a factor in why Canada has fewer good golfers - you can't play year round in Canada.
I use Arq (http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/) to backup my data to Amazon Glacier (and S3).
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Interesting point - it may be that rowing is comparable to biking in power, but the ease of building a cycling drivetrain generally wins out for projects like this, because the parts are readily available in any bike store (the cockpit of the copter here is an off-the-shelf bike frame and crankset attached to the spools).
Granted, but that's an incidental problem, not one arising from JS being a bad language. Also, I highly doubt there is much advertising code that changes the value of "undefined" - certainly not any I've encountered.

This really boils down to "my code won't act the same way if I give unfettered access to my environment to unvetted code" which is true in almost any situation. If you're having problems because "undefined" is being redefined, you have bigger and more fundamental problems. There are a lot of bad things about JS, but this is not one of them - its overly nitpicky and completely unfair. This same capability (of being able to redefine almost anything) is lauded as part of Ruby, but when it could theoretically cause any easy-to-avoid problem in JS, it's just more proof that JS is a shitty language.

Sorry if I'm coming across as combative - I don't mean to. I just think this whole snide criticism of JS for every little thing is silly and unhelpful, and has more to do with a superiority complex than actual technical issues.
Some other works resulting from their research announced on http://www.femtoprint.eu/ also sound quite interesting, e.g. "a first transparent actuator fabricated using the femtoprint process", sized in millimeters.
I tend to read these sorts of articles as "don't do stupid things". Who in their right mind would name an argument undefined? (or use a library by someone who would do so) The operative sentence in the article to me is "can be avoid if you understand how it works". On an unrelated note I'm not sure if that's a typo or a pun.
Absolutely brilliant/hilarious video.
It's called design for common resolutions

The average resolution at which a site is viewed peaked around 2007-8 and then is moving downwards.
This is really exciting. I hope it does come to market. There's a need for stable, huge, slow, storage which isn't really covered by drives at the moment.

A company called InPhase has had various forms of holographic storage "ready any time now!" for years. They eventually released a product. It's specialist, and expensive. That company eventually folded. (I remember when they were using concept art using a credit-card sized thing for media. That was ten years ago, and 1 TB was exciting.)

(http://gizmodo.com/5466793/inphase-closes-holographic-storag...)
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Unlimited lifetime data storage is how I though of my 1GB HDD in 1996
Another example I've seen: the average wealth of a room with Bill Gates and a hundred homeless people is a couple hundred million dollars per capita.
I don't believe there is correlation between a lessened burden on wealth producers and it being spread around.

The burden on wealth producers is very low, one of the lowest points in the modern era.

You would expect in this era of hyper-rich and low-taxation that the wealth would be spreading around.

But it's not. Record profits for corporations (read: wealth producers) is turning into record stock highs, record numbers of billionaires and record lows for the middle class.

I refuse your argument because the world around me clearly shows that our "wealth producers" have figured out how to depress labor costs and increase investor returns. Great for them, but that concept is 100% contrary to your "wealth producers spread wealth".

No, wealth producers rightfully squeeze labor costs and rightfully return the biggest amount of money to themselves, their boards, and their investors. That's not spreading wealth downwards, it's spreading laterally only.
Cheers for the translation, saves me from having to use my rough knowledge of Swedish. Couple of grammatical errors, but it makes sense.
Easy workaround would be to put it on a power strip or similar, and just switch it hard off whenever you're not using it. No amount of cleverness is going to make it able to spy on you without electricity (assuming any battery would be rapidly spotted by teardowns). As a bonus, you'll save a little electricity too.

Not that we should have to do this....
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It made sense to me. You praised Mir's modularity. bkor doesn't find Mir to be modular, but doesn't reckon modularity to be as important as many people think.
I thought this is what black holes did.
Hmm ... go back 13.5 billion years in time and that is exactly what was the universe back than.