skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering why they didn't use USB or something similar. How will they interface with, e.g. laptops or phones that don't have a microphone jack? If they're committed to using audio to drive the device, what about a usb audio device, similar to a usb headset with microphone?

On the other side of the concept of using audio as their output system, what would a cube sound like if played through speakers instead of through their printer? And how would a Mozart symphony look when printed?
I agree with the fact that rejections should not be counted solely as an end result because many a times the reason may just not be a technical one. You've got to be a fit and have a strong synergy with the team.
>but I fully expect it to be supplanted in Google's search rankings by an inferior copycat within a few years: one that just happens to generate more revenue for Google by carrying more advertising.

Google does not take revenue into account in its ranking, or the decisions on how it changes its ranking. It is neither a signal, nor does it influence which signals are used.
You're heavily underestimating group pressure. Have you never been in a 'chug, chug, chug, chug!' type of situation?

Peer pressure makes people do LOTS of things they wouldn't otherwise do.

In a certain sense, they're responsible for their actions. But it's silly to ignore the role that group persuasion has. If Crossfit creates pressure for harmful actions, then they share responsibility.
Won't good coaches be the exception with cross fit? It only takes a weekend class....how can any have the experience to coach high skill movements like CnJ (with bad programming on top of that... high rep clean and jerks.....) When it only takes a couple weekends to become a xfit coach.

The whole thing is one injury prone circlejerk.
The popularity in tech could certainly explain the large number of people embarrassing themselves here with their boneheaded defense of what is just another for profit company.
That sounds about right. Mine had gotten much worse by the time we took action, mostly because we confused it for my other illness during the early stages.

And thank you for crediting saline. I became a saline "addict" myself. We were told to get home health to give IV at any sign of red urine.

This was almost exactly 10 years ago. I've been well since.
(1) The NYT article says NSA generated Dual_EC, but does not present evidence that it's backdoored.

(2) Schneier isn't a subject matter expert on elliptic curve random number generators.

I am aware that Schneier believes Dual_EC to be backdoored. I'm aware that Dual_EC comes from NSA. I would not use Dual_EC and would flag it if I saw it in an app I assessed. But I would still, right now, with the information I have, bet against it being an NSA backdoor. Not because I trust the NSA, but because it's a very dumb backdoor.

It helps here to understand the gist of the purported backdoor. Basically, a (sketch of a) way to think of the issue is, NSA's ECC CSPRNG is built around curve parameters in such a way that generating numbers with it involves a public key operation, and only the public key is in the standard. The obvious question is, "what's the private key?". Obviously, you're not happy that NSA (which until recently wasn't even the confirmed author of the construction) won't say.

On the other hand, that problem is SO OBVIOUS, and in SUCH A WEIRD, UNLIKELY-TO-BE-VALUABLE STANDARD, that it's kind of ridiculous. "A trojan platypus", as Daniel Franke put it.

I've already addressed the "billions of deployed device" point.
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Not sure if these are still the terms, but here's the original 5% / 2% document:

http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/sharktank/SharkTank3OpenCal...
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Name a piece of software you rely on that you think is likely to use Dual_EC.
I think my thoughts on the CFAA have evolved. I agree it's not easy to trip. I agree sentences are the problem. But as far as I can tell, the US Sentencing Commission is full of crazy people. The Sentencing Guidelines are bizarre. And the whole process has caused judges to abdicate their good sense and anchor their sentences to this messed up document.

If we can't trust sentencing as a process, and I'm beginning to believe we can't, maybe sensible laws can nonetheless be ultimately unreasonable in context.
So...once users were able to exert a choice, they opted for products which benefitted themselves more? This argument seems to admit that Blackberry products were inferior at the time. It's like saying that what killed IE6 was allowing people to install Firefox.
What killed the Blackberry?

Blackberry made a tremendously successful high featured phone. Then Steve Jobs and Apple released a full-fledged minicomputer that fit in the palm, with a usable interface, that happened to also function as a phone.

The iPhone killed off more than the Blackberry. It killed all off all phones in favor of small computers that happen to function as phones.
he only change will be which areas

That's not even wrong.

What's changing is the total energy within the biosphere. That's going to have profound effects throughout the ecosystem. Modeling just what those will be is very difficult.

One trend that's already emerged has been an increasing variability and range to the jet stream, especially in how it increasingly "wanders" north to south. This means that regions might see very rapid and wide temperature swings from summer to winter or back over the course of a few hours to a day. For crops and ecosystems which rely on more predictable and stable conditions, this could prove deadly.

Glacial melting and rising seawaters don't just mean floods, but salt-water intrusion, disturbances of ocean current systems (themselves responsible for transporting vast quantities of heat around the globe, etc.

Some breakdowns in systems seem to have been very rapid. During and toward the end of the last glaciation period, vast ice dams and lakes would form, some over what's now Utah (historic Lake Bonneville, of which the Great Salt Lake is among the last remnants), as well as in eastern Canada. The formation and bursting of ice dams in the pacific northwest lead to the formation of what are now known as the Washington Badlands by way of the Missoula Floods -- as many as 25 major inundation events which created waterfalls, gravel banks, sandbars, and other features, over what's now dry land. Flow speeds exceeded 80 MPH and consisted of cubic _miles_ of water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods

In what's now Eastern Canada, bursting of an ice dam shut is thought to have shut down the Gulf Stream at least once, in a period of one year or less:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090914-north...

Both circumstances involved warming, though from lower temperatures than today's baseline. The point is that secondary and tertiary climate change effects can be difficult to predict, but also exhibit very great nonlinearity. That is: we don't know what might happen, and it could happen very quickly, even in hours, or days. Certainly massive changes in less than a year's time are possible.
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Already basically covered by some other responses, but it depends greatly upon company culture which varies between industry and region. I can't speak to your region at all as I've never worked in the midwest, but in a lot of places I have worked (which includes the east and west coasts), employees at pure software shops often have a negative view of anyone wearing a "suit", including to an interview. It isn't going to tank your chances with an otherwise good interview, but it can leave a negative first impression which is something that can snowball out of control on an interview if you aren't careful.

If you're totally unsure for a given interview, a good rule of thumb is to ask about the expected dress up front and then dress a little bit better than what the answer is.
It's getting more common in Europe to be fine with speaking English in a variety of circumstances, not mainly because of Americans, but because it's often the only feasible way to communicate among Europeans. When Danes visit Berlin, they typically speak English, and when Germans visit Copenhagen, they typically speak English there too.
The title is referring to 'Corporate Employees' as opposed to employees of Blackberry.

The Thesis goes: employees bought iPhones and brought them to work, enough (or senior enough) employees were able to force IT departments to support them. Afterwards no-one wanted to use their crappy old phones.

If only this could happen for Browsers, too!

I think it's time to start a campaign for 'Bring Your Own Browser To Work Day".
Here is the latest SCLK kernel for the mission:
http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/DEEPIMPACT/kernels/sclk/DI...
and if you are not among the JPL/NAIF/SPICE cognoscenti and don't have the numbers sense to grok it from that file, here is one of the SPICE required reading files:
http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/C/req/sclk.ht...
to get you started.
SPICE is one of the most robust, well-commented and -documented toolkits I have ever seen.
There is more information about the spacecraft clock in the PDS archives e.g.
http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/pds/data/di-c-spice-6-v1.0...
Very clever ideas in this design. I hope it can scale up the way he suggests!
Oh, let me be clear: the law has to change. I just don't think the definition of "unauthorized access" needs to be so dramatically narrowed as Robert Graham does.
You also have to consider the weight each country carries in a global economy.

Everyone is tied to everyone else, and so there are bigger players and smaller players. If you are a country with an economy that does not do business with other countries (eg you do not import nor do you export), then you probably have more macroeconomic independence.

So if China or Japan try to move independently, they can't, because in order to buy or sell goods to other countries, they have to buy and sell those other countries' currencies. And the business of buying or selling currencies is tied to macroeconomic policy.
Looking at the latest Tor Browser Bundle (2.4.17-beta-2):

> it's trivial to break Tor IP address anonymity, as described on the Tor website, through the use of Flash, Java, and add-ons that bypass the typical port proxy

The bundle doesn't ship with any plugins enabled, the only plugin included in the package is Flash, and if you try to enable it it displays a warning explaining the risks and asking for confirmation before continuing.

The only extensions it ships with are HTTPS-Everywhere, NoScript, the built-in Firefox PDF viewer and Torbutton.

> HTML tags that call out to FTP bypassing the standard web ports

FTP connections on the Tor Browser go through the proxy, same as HTTP connections. You can test this easily enough by looking at Vidalia as you open an FTP connection. Also the site makes it clear that FTP outside the Tor Browser must be manually configured to go through the proxy (https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#FTP)

> Tor traffic relies on an exit node, operated by an unknown person, that can sniff your unencrypted traffic

Tor provides anonymity, if you decide to pass unencrypted traffic through it, it's your responsibility. The site makes this clear enough (https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en#wa...)

I'm not sure what to make of the rest of your argument, that companies such as Google have incentives not to abuse your privacy, while it's been show time and again that their only choices are to comply with secret government surveillance orders or shut down. Somehow, I think their incentives fall on the side of making money so I doubt they'll choose the latter. I mean, think of the poor stockholders left high and dry.
If you want to try this at home I highly recommend the Level-D 767 add on for MS Flight Simulator. Has all the panels correctly functional and you can follow the real checklists from airliners.
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I think CS as a field has theoretical problems at its foundations that chemical engineering doesn't have. This makes a PhD in CS worth less to business than it otherwise would be.

Obviously I don't expect this to be a wildly popular sentiment...
I wash my hand rather than merely wiping it because I'm going to use my hand to touch other things afterwards, like food.

Until and unless people are picking up food with their butts before eating it, the comparison is nonsensical.
but still going slow.

btw reading some of those files and seeing the presentations remind me of the animated tv show Archer...
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> I think it's time to start a campaign for 'Bring Your Own Browser To Work Day".

It is entirely possible that that is what tablets are. I suspect that some of the crufty old "we see every packet" IT groups the notion that you can have your own tablet at work getting 4G network access outside the company control structures is exceptionally challenging.
Yes any overtraining can be dangerous, there was an article about how one guy running startup got rhabdo while doing p90x:
http://collegespun.com/features/how-the-stress-of-running-a-...
New systems (not the 737 FMS) use ARINC-664[1] - UDP/TCP/IP/ethernet with all the good parts disallowed. :-) The original Dual FMS predates ARINC-664.

The original Dual FMS was a Motorola 68040 (the predecessor FMS was the TI TMS9900 architecture implemented in bit-slice processors(!), later an ASIC, because the TI 9900 was a bust. The original code was Fortran, with the Dual FMS it was ported to Ada.

The development environments back in the late 1980s, early 1990s was custom hardware and in circuit emulators (ICEs). The ICE plugged into the processor socket and emulated the processor but with breakpoints and trace. The 68040 was about the end of the line where this worked (the head of the 68040 ICE was pretty large. There were no "eval" boards to develop code on... we wrote code and waited for the hardware guys to get the first article built. When the hardware guys got done with the initial checkout on the first article, we got the system and started making the code work.

Once we got the hardware, software development was a lot like now: start with basic functionality, cross your fingers, burn and learn. With the ICE, "burning" was faster because you substituted ICE RAM for the target flash and the trace of the ICE was a lot more useful than today's JTAG-based debuggers - you could see everything for the last 1K-4K instructions, including the actual states of the pins of the processor.

The development lab had real equipment (e.g. the Control Display Units (CDUs)) and a lot of simulated I/O. The simulated I/O was driven by a flight simulator running on a Dec MicroVAX. The flight simulator simulated the flight characteristics of the 737, responding to the commands given by the FMS. Since I was mostly low-level, I didn't do much with the flight simulators, but I could enter flight plans (typically "company routes" which are pre-canned airports, runways, and waypoints) and go through all the motions of flying. The simulator could speed up time to save time waiting for things to happen. IIRC, 4x real time was about as fast as you could go because the systems would go wonky.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_Full-Duplex_Switched_E...
While I love wildlife, I almost feel like it's not our responsibility

Two points:

1. The conditions on Earth which support other megafauna also, largely, are beneficial to humans. Change those conditions and it's likely that the extinctions aren't so much bad for humans as indicators of changing conditions which are bad for humans.

2. Conservation biologists have recognized that the Earth and its biosphere isn't a static system, and that conservation efforts shouldn't be aimed at "holding back the tides" so to speak. But noting when changes are happening at scales which are likely to have strongly negative impacts for humans, civilization, and the almighty economy, and deciding to take preemptive action, could be a very good thing.

There's a huge difference between wiping out all life (or much of it) within the next 200 years, and the next 800 million.

Assuming you've got an 85 year lifespan, that's the difference between living for your full life, or just 25 minutes.

My own definition of "sustainability" is "so long as the extrinsic conditions are conducive to human survival". Even with genetic drift, that's likely a few millions to tens of millions of years.
I think China's R&D in "Carrier Killer Missiles" is probably more likely to do it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_killer_missile
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Not to mention a HUGE API diff, with several new (and good) Frameworks.

UIKit Dynamics is pretty cool, and so is Sprite Kit. Two of my favourites.

They are not getting enough credit for that.
Yeah, right. Just like the Soviet Union was the happiest country when their people sat in line for toilet paper.

I'm sure Krugman would fit right in Venezuela.
I'm pretty sure that what killed IE6 was IE7. I'm also pretty sure that is keeping IE8 & 9 from finally shuffling off too is people being prevented from installing a browser of their choosing in their workplace.
I support this theory. It makes sense to me.
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It's amazing how light the penalties are for white collar crimes. The penalties assessed were:

1. Fines
2. Several non-custodial sentences
3. One six month sentence
4. Two deferred prosecution agreements

And this is for crimes that affected millions of peoples' food supply, as well as over $1B in transactions.
> Hogwash. Each person is responsible for their own actions.

I have observed that hazing exists, including among adults. People die in hazing events, or are subjected to physical harm, coerced sexual activity, and emotionally abusive behaviors.

As you say, "Each person is responsible for their own actions." Using only that logic as a guide, then everyone who dies in a hazing event - in those cases where it's voluntary to join the organization which practices hazing - is solely responsible for their own death.

I do not take so narrow a view of that. We also have a responsibility for others as well. It isn't only the hazee who is responsible but also those who were involved or knew about the hazing but did nothing to stop it.

Similarly, while I agree that people are responsible for their own well-being in training, I use my same reasoning to say that they are also partially responsible for the well-being of others.

If you see someone else using equipment in a dangerous and fool-hardy way, with a high-likelihood that they will be seriously hurt, will you do nothing?

If you notice that week after week people doing a specific exercise end up with twisted backs, will you do nothing?

Or will you encourage people to work at it and try harder? Does culpability ever exist?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-usa-economy-cap...
>> another dark secret: form is not the #1 priority.

Depends on your gym, at my gym if you have bad form during a workout, you will be stopped, corrected and if necessary scaled down until you can get it right. Of course my gym doesn't routinely post videos to youtube.
I think one of the reasons http://www.webplatform.org/ was setup was for this?
It's a fine initiative, but its angry-teen, hatred attitude isn't very appealing. I think it lost a lot of potential contributors right in the first paragraph.
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I agree but the mozilla dev site is so slow to load i often open a new window and find the same info from another site, I hope they tune its load time as it's a great resource. The dash app on osx is now my first choice currently.... i know the free version is annoying. I'd love some kind of cli.
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Well, I mean, you could if they integrated sensors into the engine cowling to detect the presence of a foreign object greater than size X within X meters of the engine.

Baby steps. Another 5-10 years, and flight will be entirely a tech issue. Example: Airbus A380 fly by wire.
Olympic lifting, running, rowing, swimming, and more are all sports in which the main for of training is doing the sport.
What you stated doesn't really provide a good reason for not providing sources.

Imagine turning in a paper to a professor without sources and telling them that they should verify the information themselves.
Here's my 2 cents, I worked as an intern (coop) and have subsequently worked in other tech companies in Waterloo that have ex-RIM employees.
I think the problem was mainly managers, a lot of the managers didn't program, some held cs degrees but they hadn't programmed in a while to the point where they really couldn't really access the code, so basically never really looked at code (the code itself was ok because other programmers did). However, what did happen was a lot of managers started accessing their team based on how much they looked like they were doing, in short how busy they looked. Some of the smartest developers are terrible and office politics, emails and at meetings . Without emails or engaging in meetings it gave an impression that the developers didn't care, I've seen some incredible developers get fired because they didn't fit the "company culture." This was acceptable because "company culture" was in at the time, but it was just a way to support manager bias. For example, I knew this guy who would usually come to work late and only answer emails at lunch and keep a fairly chill attitude, but would usually stay late 6-7 until he did his 8+ hours, however in the eyes of the manager who was there from 9-5, the picture looked completely different, he was fired a few months later. Now I was there for a short time and only part of one team, so I can't speak for the whole organization, but I've worked for other tech firms in the area whose managers were ex-RIM and they basically did the exact same thing. In short,
1) having mangers that are heading an engineering team should be programming
2) employees should be peer-reviewed and not at the mercy of the managers (a lot of sucking up happens when the manager has that much power)

This probably isn't the main thing that killed RIM, there were probably hundreds of reasons, but over time this put in a culture of complacency, and there probably isn't much upper management could have done, because it was all done for the sake of improving "company culture"
I thought the whole magic behind olympic lifts was 1RM.

What is this stupidity?
the take away in this history is that if they sold honey at regular prices at the honey holdings "over the table" while still giving the deal to the buyer and eating the fiscal difference for the fake vs received price, they would still be operating.
That's all a telephone line modem ever was, a specialized soundcard...
this part reminded me of breaking bad.
They're under an affiliate rather than franchise model. I don't know enough about the differences to describe the differences other than to say that it seems to make Headquarters think they're unable to enforce standards once someone opens a gym.

I haven't done it myself, but to open an affiliate you need to:

(1) Write an essay.

(2) Pass their Level 1 certification class

(3) Have a website with a link to the Crossfit Journal

(4) Pay them $3000 (annually)

From: http://www.crossfit.com/how-to-affiliate
"Sometime around 10 a.m., von Buddenbrock heard a commotion in the reception area and went to have a look. A half-dozen armed federal agents, all wearing bulletproof vests, had stormed in. “They made a good show, coming in with full force,” he recalls. “It was pretty scary.” "

Sure, the article doesn't report the use of flashbang grenades, or shooting anyone's pets, but it also doesn't sound like agents in suits conducting themselves like rational people.