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Late reply, but just saw your response. I use ubuntu servers whenever I need to set up a server. I meant that if I move to a different distro on my desktop, I want to use a distro that also has a server version.
What's the licensing situation for the 2.4GHz spectrum in the UK? In the US, they're part 15 devices that must accept interference from licensed users of that spectrum. Radio amateurs are licensed users of that spectrum.

While I doubt it's legal to get your ham license and pump 1500 watts into your least favorite Wifi network, I'd certainly enjoy reading about the resulting court cases. Federal jurisdiction, local jurisdiction... always entertaining.
Haskel is the word from the god :)
PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann on the surveillance society
I'm flagging because as http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says, most stories about politics should be off topic.
Obamacare? Really? Why not the War on Christmas, taking away your second amendment rights, protect pedophiles or the secret cause of autism in our children? Don't we have enough real problems without dragging in partisan straw men? Who needs tin foil hats when we have the Tea Party?
>The problem with these types of posts is that they never come with the context or the gravitas needed to substantiate the underlying claims that are implied by the presentation.

I don't actually see any of that in this post, though I can't speak to the original headline here on HN.

I think your expectations tinted how you interpreted the framing. The test is presented as a historical document, and I didn't see any attempt at commentary on the current educational system.
In your haste to project your meaning onto my words you misunderstood the point I was making. To go with your example, I'd say the Romans were almost certainly fitter than we are. You incorrectly assumed that I was making a moral critique.

Likewise I think the sutdents of 1912 were mentally fitter for having to write out the answers rather than use multiple-choice tests. As a European I'm constantly perplexed by how much Americans use multiple-choice questions for academic evaluation. Anything that allows you to get an exam score of 25% by chance alone is a pretty weak pedagogical tool.

Perhaps I should have phrased my point in the form of a multiple-choice question to make it easier for you to appreciate.
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GameClosure (http://www.gameclosure.com/) looks really good.
This is cool. Unfortunate in some ways that it has an AR6003 wifi, since ath6kl (the OS driver for the AR6003) doesn't have monitor or promiscuous mode support yet which means no sniffing or injection.

Because if it did, it would be an interesting choice for pen testing. You could recase it, and it's small enough that properly installed and configured, it would be difficult to find. Processor is fast enough to get some cool tricks going.

Of course, it's possible some clever kernel hacker will get those working on the AR6003 at some point, which would open up this, as well as a bunch of devices, to some cool uses.
Everything is patentable.
I think you're wrong about the gross overall education of teenagers.

>Progressively fewer adults have limited their education to completion of the 8th grade which was typical in the early part of the century. In 1940, more than half of the U.S. population had completed no more than an eighth grade education.

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp
Do you find that marketing/advertising is about creating experiences?

I find it is about bullshitting people as much as you can, change my view please.
I'd probably start with the cyber-strikes, before the EMP :)
So does the wavefunction collapse when Schrodinger's cat observes it? Or when the detector observes the radioactivity?
It is still important. If you have to go and look up even the most basic information about the world then many trains of thought are simply not going to occur to you because you don't have sufficient information in your head to think with. I'm not aware of any evidence that says we only have a limited number of facts that our brains can absorb and it's vital to omit older stuff so we can absorb the newer.
Defeating traffic analysis has too many downsides for most users, I think the perfect is the enemy of the good here. Having at least working confidentiality and integrity to the content of communications in messaging would be a step up. The NSA will still be able to see who you're talking to, but the crypto-libertarian utopia is not about to arrive any time soon, especially with FreeNet like systems, but getting most people on a better system that reduces the amount of snooping, is better than building an idealized system which the great unwashed masses won't use.
stopped using LMDE a while ago and went back to Debian because there seemed no real developement going on in LMDE anymore and stuff breaking more often. how is it now?

my best friend is always a debian testing netinstall and I can do what I want.
At heart it's a problem of fairness, not just consent. I bet you'd agree to sell me the rights to your post for $1000. But if I went on to make twenty million dollars off your post and your total payment was $1000, that would be unfair and exploitative. Sure, you agreed, but the context changed a huge amount. In short, if you contribute in a significant way to something, you should reap some of the benefits. Even a fraction of a percent could have let her family live comfortably.
In a lot of contexts, lives saved (in the US) are valued at $1-10mm. This is based on life insurance premiums for higher risk jobs, availability of marginal life savings for costs in other contexts, etc. Not sure how it applies outside the US.
That also works well under wine, in my experience anyway.
Does this support sound effects? I think they're a critical part of any successful game but so often overlooked.
Before you go mistaking Holder for an enlightened person, remember that he's the head of the DOJ, so he's the one responsible for the DEA using information based on warrantless searches from the NSA to put even more people in prison.

And he's the boss of U.S. attorney Carmen Ortiz, who wanted to put Aaron Swartz in prison for many years. Perhaps the prisons wouldn't be so overcrowded if the DOJ didn't spend so much effort trying to fill them with people who are not at all dangers to society. Also, a very large percentage of people in federal prison are non-violent drug offenders.
dmesg reads and displays the contents of /proc/kmsg. /proc/kmsg is an interface to a buffer where the output from calls to printk is stored. printk is the linux kernel's equivalent of libc's printf function.
Interesting, thanks - though that's insurance, not necessarily the same as what people value
We used to get a few on our exams (in Ireland) but we always assumed they were softballs placed at the beginning of the paper to help anxious students get past their exam jitters (you still had to write out 'Q1: a, Q2: c' etc., rather than marking a sheet, so putting down those got you past the scary blank page in the answer book. They never counter for more than about 5% of the total.
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People who are going to use bad variable names and 800 line functions are probably not even worth thinking about, but if you had a bunch of mediocre programmers working in each language (perl, java, haskell), do you think their code would be more maintainable as you moved up the level of static typing? I would think so, but I don't have any actual experience with this or a really strong opinion on the subject.
The best part of this game is that it doesn't take the easy way out WRT being a morality tale. The mechanic of having your character also trying to fix his own shitty life while meeting the requirements of the job is what takes it to the next level.
Unfortunately, nobody is competing on such features. There is simply no (even paid) alternative available.
It's not just insurance -- it's that we could save a life for $2.49 million in traffic engineering, and tend to do so, but don't for, say, $20mm. It's irrational to spend $20mm to save 1 person from super-rare-expensive-thing but not to spend $2.49mm to save an equivalent person from less-expensive-thing.

The complication is that not all lives are valued the same, and certainly not valued the same by everyone. We spend tens of billions per year to protect the President, which isn't just about his life but about the cost to the economy (and nation in general) if anything happens to him. We probably could save a kid in the ghetto for $50k in job training and mentorship, rather than having him kill someone and/or get killed himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life is an introduction. It's a pretty fascinating concept.
I think right now in the US a life is valued at around a million dollars. Context matters a lot, of course. But don't even try to do a survey because a lot of people will give such sky-high numbers that if they thought things through they'd be afraid to leave their house ever again.
I think it's a typo - note the proximity of a and w on your keyboard. I didn't look up kalsomining, but it was obvious from the context that it was some sort of wall covering.
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Are you absolutely sure that's why? To borrow a phrase from another commenter, just because you're not wrong, doesn't mean you're right.

There's a difference.
Wow our culture today! My stars.

It's my interpretation that the protagonist in question provides oral sex to the lady and stimulated her clitoris in ways her jock boyfriend never thought or knew how to. It's my understanding she definitely enjoyed that. It is also my understanding that she was not too pleased to find out who was behind the mask at first.

It's further my understanding that Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) [1] intimates that they then became something of an "item" (in today's terms that means they dated!).

Finally, it's my understanding that it's a fun movie and not a manual for life.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093857
Good point. It doesn't. You could pair it with whichever sound library works best for you. I might use it with something like buzz.js (http://buzz.jaysalvat.com/), but there are quite a few others that would work well.
Obamacare, like it or not, requires a large increase in the nation's ability to collect taxes and enforce same.

Who's doing the knee-jerking, again?
As someone with a modicum of biological knowledge, I am not aware of any single cell that is critical to human survival in the way you describe.

As for your analogy, it is true that microorganisms can perform wonderful feats, but it is a bit misleading to equate that to general intelligence. It is like saying a compiler is smarter than a programmer, because its design incorporates tricks the human may not know. (The bacteria being "designed" by the trial-and-error process of natural selection, rather than an intelligent entity, of course.)
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I've found that a bit curious

Older people vote and are a simply a constituency that politicians don't mess with. The same logic of "think of the children" can be "think of our seniors" with the added weight that they vote and and are a powerful political lobby.
Interesting timing. I was playing with Etcd just this morning. I'm glad there's some more options in this space. I haven't been happy with any setup so far.

Doozer (https://github.com/ha/doozerd) got
me excited. It's small, fast, and written in Go. Unfortunately, its development seems quiet and fragmented. Its
lack of TTL-style values made it a pain to do a distributed lock service without having a sweeper for cleaning up dead locks.

Zookeeper (http://zookeeper.apache.org) is much more fully featured and
mature, but felt way too heavy compared to my nimble Go stack. Installing
and maintaining a JVM just for Zookeeper made me uncomfortable.

Etcd is interesting. It has TTLs, it's small and fast, easy to pick up/learn, and it's in active
development (and it's tied with CoreOS and Docker, so it's bound to get some
reflected love).
I'm pretty sure they used naval maps even in those days.
So what about when we don't know how to value the life in question, you just know that it's a person who will stay alive if you chose, or die if you take $x - I don't know what my own decision would be, yet alone an average decision.

It's one of those odd situations that I think gets a different answer depending on what responsibility you feel. If the entirety of my wealth is $2.5m I don't think I would spend it to save the life of somebody I don't know. But would I go out and murder someone for that money? I don't think so.. and hope not. Both of the same are, I think, true for $100k.
I disagree. 'Why should we study physiology?' and 'Give the cause of the war of 1812' (to name but two) are open-ended questions which encourage argumentation. Rote emorization, which is required by many other of the questions, has plenty of value - as does exercise for muscle tone. Your problem-solving and cooperation skills are going to be severely hobbled if you don't know anything without looking it up and have no ability to retain information.
And you are why no one takes white men complaining about feminists seriously...

Care to back up any of your outrageous assertions? Do you actually know anything about feminism? Because all of your points have been addressed in feminist literature ad infinitum.
It would be the ultimate in naiveté to believe that NSA data, already used by IRS and DEA, will not end up being used by Obamacare, in addition to any other government agency where they deem it useful.

Don't be a fool.

In fact the IRS is what administrates Obamacare and it's already in the news that IRS was using NSA data.
What a dirtbag scum. What can you learn from a leader that loose it because someone was taking his photos. This CEO made a fool of himself and I can bet some people wont work with someone like that in the future.

This was not only embarrasing but unprofessional too. What was the reason he got fired? Real reason?
But how important is it to form an argument on the spot based only on the facts you have memorized? Sure, it's valuable for things like competitive debate, extemporaneous speaking, pub trivia, and perhaps some unfortunate job interviews, but if I had to pick, I'd rather everyone be better at doing a bit of research and taking their time forming an argument.
Are you referring to the US in the 1950s, as tellers of this particular just-so story usually do? If so, that prosperity came about because we had just finished shooting, bombing, nuking, and in general pounding the living daylights out of the rest of the industrialized world.

WWII wasn't about who was right, it was about who was left. To the victor went the spoils. Meanwhile, there was a war to pay for, hence the high tax rates.
EMP over the Pacific primarily targets military communications, preventing an organized conventional response. Cyberstrikes are used to pressure the civilian population into demanding peace.

Theoretically you could just blanket the North American continent with a few EMPs, but you'd likely provoke a nuclear response or an all-out war, hardly the desired resolution for China in such a scenario.
There's some solutions linked on the page just before the questions start.

http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912...

They look pretty thorough, but I think question 10 in geography should include the Strait of Malacca as well.
"One World Schoolhouse" by Sal Khan: A summary
Are standardized tests an American thing, or are they all just graded by hand in other regions?
Salary guide to hiring web designers and developers in Asia-Pacific
This wouldn't happen under a Labour led government... 2006 oh shi..
It's from a time when academics (physics at least) was less interested in appearance and more interested in results. It's why there were so many breakthroughs. Today that has shifted with physics being more of a fashion contest to get funding.
The private industry nature of ISPs and Web sites did nothing to protect us. So, yes, I expect our health care data is under surveillance. But we could pay cash, or have single payer, and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference regarding privacy.
The tenuous connections made in the 'drugs fund terrorism' PSAs a decade ago make so much sense now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQnbNspHsk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLFihL6JNk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnTwn6hwSX8
I agree we have to make compromises because HTML has huge shortcomings. My point, and the point of a lot of people advocating semantic markup, is that if you have to resort to hacks, prefer lots of uly generic containers like divs and spans to misusing things that have better defined semantics that are actually of use to people, like tables. I can't think of anything you can do with tables that you can't do with an ugly mess of divs and a little compromise in cross-browser consistency.
While I'm too tired to read this thru thoroughly, I had to skim it and upvote it. This was actually my first thought when go was introduced. I don't see it taking over the web world, or the gaming world or anything of that sort, but I do see it being the next tool for multithreaded applications related to system work.

Go may never "hit it big" with the mainstream but it very well could find it's place in administration. That's what I hope to use it for as I get more proficient.
"Yes, we scan!"
Like McDonalds, it succeeds because it's the easiest, cheapest option which is good enough (not good, but good enough).
Absolutely :)
https://github.com/ruby-hacking-guide/ruby-hacking-guide.git...
I'm taking the approach of trusting first, so if your first PR isn't insane, then no reason not to add you to the team.
As an English teacher, I was fascinated by the grammar questions: much to love and much to hate.

On the one hand, diagramming a sentence is a powerful skill, which I wish was taught today.

On the other, this one made me chuckle:

> How many parts of speech are there?

If you put any two modern linguists in a room, you'd get about 5 different answers to that question.

The model of English grammar that students were expected to parrot at the time had only a passing resemblance to grammar as it is actually used. The sad part is that, even today, there are still pedants who go around correcting others' grammar on the basis of those outdated grammatical ideas.
Well actually not even the degree .. just actually going to the school, even if you drop out prior to graduation.
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The question is not whether computers can have qualia, the question is whether qualia are real. The argument goes that if your Arduino is doing the kind of "computing around" necessary to have subjective impressions, then it is experiencing qualia, and it is in some sense conscious (although not, of course, if philosophical zombies are possible).
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> The ticker updates the game loop at 60 frames per second. From the project readme: “If the main game object or a game entity has an update() function, it will get called on each tick. If the main game object or a game entity has adraw() function, it will get called on each tick.”

I'm not much of a game dev, but doesn't this imply a faulty game loop? Maybe this quote is just hand waving the minute details. This is my reference: http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/ The final implementation of the game loop in that article doesn't always update and render at the same rate.
It does feel relatively fast from basic usage, but as long as Apple doesn't let me change my default browser I'll have to pass. Clicking links anywhere else just opens Safari, which is a bummer.

As for the fact that they send my web activity to their own servers for pre-processing, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'd feel a little more comfortable if their servers were outside of the US (are they? I don't know).
The NSA is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system
While this is a great thing, make sure you support these valuable team members by ensuring the rest of your team also care just as much.

I've had the pleasure to be a part of a team where I was given pretty much free license to do as I saw fit simply because I cared as much about the product as the founders.

But hiring just one or two champions and filling in the gaps with mere enthusiasm or brute force is going to put an enormous strain on your champions.
This is of interest to me. We are constantly deluged by negative news about civil liberties and prohibition, I am interested to see something bucking that trend. This is the biggest change in the justice regime proposed in several decades, and the fact that it comes from the AG rather than some advisory panel is extremely significant.
You know, we had very high levels of incarceration before Holder ever came into office. US incarceration rates took off like a rocket in 1980 and have been heading up ever since, and you don't change 30+ years of momentum on a dime.

Also, a very large percentage of people in federal prison are non-violent drug offenders.

Exactly the sort of situation he is proposing to change, as mentioned in the news story.
Uh, it's not like Jonas Salk wound up penniless, either; I'd say he got to have a bigger impact on science than most people who do go the patenting route; hell, there's a research institute that was founded in his name.
Yes but you'd have to uniquely identify by store visit patterns, and assuming you use a trackable method like credit card, loyalty card (universal one), AND have your wifi turned on.

You listed a lot of dimensions, whereas to make the correlation between mac address and customer info, you only have 1 dimension (visits/location) to do the correlation with.
I think it's also a question of: How much money did Jonas Salk gain by not patenting the polio vaccine?

Not to criticize the article, but the implicit assumption is that he would have gotten all of the royalties. But would he have gotten as much scientific credibility in the long run? Would Sabin's vaccine been used exclusively and Salk's vaccine descended into obscurity? How would these consequences have translated into financial gain?
I'm still amazed that until maybe 2002, the Chinese nuclear arsenal was most likely smaller than the (unconfirmed) Israeli arsenal, at around 50 weapons -- a genuine deterrent, but certainly not enough to wage a first strike, and probably not survivable vs. a counterforce first strike from US or Russia (probably enough vs. India/UK/France, though). Apparently they've stepped up to surpass the Europeans, though.
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You're right about that. For simple games this might not cause issues. For complex games things might get messy. This could be a good thing to work on for a pull request.
> or have single payer

How could we "have single payer" without the threat of violence?

A doctor would normally be free to treat whoever he wants, and patients would be free to choose any doctor they want, and any insurance company they want. The only way to change that reality is through threats of violence.

For example, today a doctor cannot compete with his local hospital's monopoly without obtaining a "certificate of need" from the State, certifying that the local region "needs" an operating room. (Such certificates aren't actually granted of course, since they are used to protect monopolies.) If he opens one anyway, he faces fines, imprisonment, loss of license to practice, etc. (Threats and violence.)

So in fact there is already not any free market in medicine today--just a bunch of fascism and crony capitalism... Single payer just seems like even more centralization, more threats, more violence, when the problem today is already a complete lack of any free market.