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I'm continually astonished by the number of HN posts on what the best tool to do something is. The reality is that there are often different tools for different needs and there need NOT be just one tool to rule them all.

I find that I keep short-term notes--need to know in in the next hour--in a notepad on my desktop. Tasks that need to be accomplished in the next day+ go into Google Tasks. Things that need elaboration, depth, detail go into Workflowy [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSmbnaPZVHE
I just did a bit of googling and these don't seem to be major issues:

http://ask.metafilter.com/57840/What-kind-of-network-cable-t...

Ground loops shouldn't be a problem as the APs have transformers that don't use ground at all so there's no ground connection to mess things up.

If lightning is a big issue you might need surge protectors on the lines. Is a Cat6 cable inside a plastic conduit that susceptible to getting hit by lightning though?
Thanks for the link to seeyourfolks.com That's quite a poignant site, and a another reminder about what's really important. Great article, and a great discussion thread.
10 digits isn't long enough for that to work.
Well, that was indeed mentioned in the article. It outsold the iphone in the market where it was offered... it is up to you to decide what would happen at other carriers.
When I get to pricing 8 of those 12 are prima facia more than we can afford (see fixed budget above)

We ended up doing Novell at about $60k. But I remember when we got to the pricing stage with another vendor and got a price on the order of $750k.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that pricing is fixed.

It's not. If the vendors have some idea of your budget they can tailor the offering to you a lot better.
> You can ask for (and receive) a hell of a lot more out of a new employer before your start date than you can after it.

Yes. The most power an employee will almost ever have in the relationship is after they've offered you the job but before you've accepted it/started working.
That paper does not apply to integer factorization, and number field sieve computations in general. DJB himself, in another paper [1, §5], argues that is more cost effective to factor one number at a time.

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/318
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This is open source, with a little bit of hacking you can get to study the source code of one of the most-used drawing/painting applications.
Pandora's genome doesn't seem to have enough sub-genes to distinguish between songs and groups that are noticeably different to the ear, particularly in obscure sub-genres where the music is similar, but the vocal styles are wildly different.
If the alternative to tyranny turns out to be illiberal democracy (where many of the same things that people hate about tyrannical systems take place- unrestricted government spying, torture, government corruption, breakdown of rule of law, militarism), then what's the point?

I think it's far more important to figure out how to prevent liberal democracies from turning into illiberal democracies, and how to reverse such changes, than to try and topple tyrannical systems as things stand right now. The inertia afforded to democracies by the idea that they enjoy a moral legitimacy that no other form of government possesses makes fixing a broken democracy a lot harder than turning a broken dictatorship into a democracy. We also have far more successful examples of the latter than the former.
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I am one of the developers of the Commotion project. OpenWRT can be a confusing system. Let me help you find what you are looking for. The Commotion-router repo above is contains our setup scripts that make it easier for new users like you to build our software from source. If you look at the feeds.conf file you will find the exact sources we are pulling in to the openWRT build system for compilation. The most important line, for your concerns about backdoors would be the third line of that file. That line pulls in the master branch of the repo commotion-feed. This repository is full of makefiles. These makefiles specify how to build the source code into the compiled binary your pointed to before. If you follow the follow the install instructions that were poster earlier and then explore the curses (command line GUI) menu for make menuconfig you can explore the exactly what packages are going to be built for the specific architecture. (If you are curious about tampering we sadly have not had the time or funding to do deterministic builds, so I suggest you build it from source yourself so that you can examine the code.) Now, each item in the menuconfig references a "feed." You can look at the feeds.conf file in the current directory, and the various makefiles in the feeds folder to explore where exactly things are being pulled from. Our source code will use the git repo's specified in the makefiles in commotion-feed on the master branch. You can find all of those in our github, because we are an open-source project. If you have any concerns about specific lines of code that have been implemented I beg of you to submit a bug to the repo you find a problem with. We want every possible opportunity better our code. While we have done internal testing, I hope that with eyes like yours looking over the code we will find more bugs that we can address in the future. If you have any questions I will try to follow this thread the best I can, and am elationfoundation on github. You can also find most of the developers and our field experts on freenode at #commotion. I have built, and debugged, far too many openWRT images. So, If you do need assistance jump on #commotion during Americas East Coast working hours and I will be glad to help you.

I hope this helped. OpenWRT's build system is a beautiful, but complex being.
> It sounds like there's an incredible amount of work that goes into calculating those plans

It is a simple calculation. 15% of Discretionary Income. DI is calculated as AGI minus 150% of the federal poverty line. For instance, if someone is single and makes $35k per year, their monthly payment is capped at: (35-11.5×1.5)×.15/12 -> $222 per month.

What is complicated is when people say they can't make the income based repayments because of a hardship. That is when all the counting meals and extra bedrooms happens.
I think it's more symptomatic of developers realizing that UI is hard (guilty), and while we may think it's easy to make something, it's hard to make it something people want to use. I can't tell you how many times I've nearly bought a Bootstrap theme rather than making one myself. Call it lazy, call it throwing money at your problems/weaknesses, but I agree, there's a rising market for themes.
I know, I drool over the http://www.canon.com/bctv/canobeam/
It can be good. I've had it a couple of places, and never had to do any more "negotiating" than at my job before that had regular metered vacation. Now that I'm somewhere that's not in the really early stages, where I'm not solely responsible for as much stuff, it's pretty easy to just say "hey, I'm going to be out a few days next week" or "hey, this is the time I'm taking off over the holidays."

What's rare, but an extremely nice bonus on top, is when you get to "accrue" a small amount (maybe a week a year) as well that you never dip into but's there to be paid out to you when you leave. But that's not something I'd expect to be able to negotiate for at my next job, so if they didn't have it I'd try to just get a bit more salary to compensate...
Right, but for the purposes of legal actions, CSS and HTML templates are probably more like media then like code.
Hands down my favorite yc post to date.
>BYLINE: Each September the state of Massachusetts asks one thing from "Scarcity" author and Harvard economist, Sendhil Mullainathan, to renew his car inspection sticker and each year this recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award does the same thing. He's really busy, so on each day leading up to the expiration of the sticker, he tells himself he'll attend to it the next day.

This guy has a serious logic flaw in his way of thinking. It scares me that there are people out there teaching economics in supposedly prominent schools.

It was not scarcity that affected his thinking. It was his irresponsibility. By scarcity of time, the author is including things like watching television, writing a book on the side, ETC. This is a simple case of procrastination.

These are optional things in the same way that someone with a meager income can live in relative comfort in America (never go hungry, wet or cold), Then they decide to buy a fancy new car (though nothing was wrong with their older model Honda). Now they have created a scarcity because they suddenly cannot afford to pay their rent.

It was not the scarcity that affected their thinking and behavior, it was self indulgence and irresponsibility that caused the scarcity if the first place.
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I get it... you can use it as a tell to find the ugly ones!

Or, maybe just the self conscious ones.
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What about rapidly moving an illuminated object? Tiny LED connected to tiny battery?
... because each coin is equally as likely to be selected from the jar

That's not the reason. It's because the fake coin also has two sides and therefore also 2^11 different outcomes. It just happens they all look the same.

Otherwise I agree with your argument.
And you're trying really hard to make things more complicated than they are. A skill is not a complicated thing. Allow me to put the words in your mouth that you are struggling to say: "not a true Scotsman".
Most of the bulk in desktop LCD monitors is the power supply. Either find one that has an external supply or just rip that part out and use your own.
I honestly don't understand why the NSA bothers with this. All they have to do is claim that someone is a threat and they are then able to seize said person, secret them away, and make them an unperson in some government facility that we've yet to learn about.
If a writing system doesn't count (it's a fair point, and I understand what you're saying), then how does one counter the evidence in the article that one speaker of one language does a task better than speakers of a different language?

If my language is, for example, French or (older) Welsh, and my counting system is vigesimal (base 20), why is it wrong to claim that a person who speaks French would have an easier time with the basic idea of base 20 math, or just counting in terms of 20's, than a native English speaker, assuming no extra training on the part of either? Why is it wrong to assume that a language with a case system would yield native speakers who were better at explicitly identifying the subject and object of a sentence than speakers of languages that don't have a case system?

I just have a hard time grasping how people conditioned to think a certain way via their (or, a) language couldn't have a better understanding of some concepts than others.

>I cannot comment on the political motivations to deny linguistic relativism. I am just a linguist.

Sorry if you felt that I was pigeonholing you, thanks for your input.
Eh, they are probably just using content that they know about themselves so it has a reasonable and realistic feel. Lorel ipsum or John Smiths get boring fast.
I've written about this before and others too. You'll notice the older you get the more you'll start valuing your time (your time alone, with family, with friends) than you'd value money.

Someone offers you a job with $30k more but you have to drive an extra hour each way plus you get only 3 weeks vacation, at some point that will start to look like a bad deal, but when if you were younger it might look like a great deal.

Look for companies that offer you decent vacation time (and make you take it). Sometimes those that give you "unlimited" will pressure you into not taking it by piling on work, or guilting you into working, so beware.

You only have one life to live, at the end maybe you'll be excited about designing an awesome SaaS system or Android app, but chances are you'll probably be happier about time spent with your close family.
Technically that was breaking out of QEMU. It was not KVM specific.

If you break into QEMU, you should be a non-privileged user. If you are using libvirt, you are in a cgroup based jail (basically a container) with SELinux being enforced too. So after breaking into QEMU, you would still need to break out of the container before you could attack anything.

But Nelson's exploit was pretty cool. I initially thought remote code execution wasn't possible and he turned around pretty quickly with the exploit. It's quite impressive.
> sharing a copy of his family in the kitchen
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I'm not certain what jluxenberg is proposing with the hashes. But one possibility is that the exposed API will accept hashes that only the app can generate (through a salt). Although obviously you can crack the app, I suspect this is significantly harder.
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I'd actually watch that.
Thanks for this! I'll bring it up when next time I see them.
Provided that you measure food correctly (using a working food scale) and that you use information in some kind of coherent way (to test if you're over or under-estimating) then you can be sure that calorie trackers would not "lie" to you in a non-negligible factor (±8%) which would gut burnt over by your daily activity, anyway.
And real science, in reality, supports that for most of the time (i.e: you're neither super-obese nor an olympic athlete) a calorie is a calorie. See: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/is-a-calorie-a-cal...
>>> Also, just owning the tools is illegal in some states.

Yes, there is a provision in state laws against possession of "thieves tools."
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One typically uses salting to randomly generate a hash function. (so even if you know it was, say, SHA512, you have to guess the salt to reverse engineer)
I often read that spark avoids the costly synchronization required in mapreduce, since it uses DAG's. Can someone explain how is that achieved. If the application so demands that you can launch jobs together, that can be done even with hadoop/mapreduce. If one job requires the output of another, then the job has to wait for synchronization whether its mapreduce or DAG.
I'm kinda curious about the "20A" part - the PCB traces required to not melt the board while passing that much current would be pretty beefy...
Is this based on some parts of GIMP?

I haven't heard much good news coming out of the GIMP world.
My old boss used to say that the earth still turns when you're not there. The earth does not need you to be working to turn.

Later on I worked for a great company called Creo. We had "banked time". If you had to work long hours to get stuff done you could bank that time and take it off later. And people did that. 3-4 weeks vacation on top of that. With that we created about $1B of value over ten years. Some people abused the system but they were a minority and since we had 360 review they normally wouldn't get away with it.

Here in Canada we have parental leave. When you have children, husband and wife can take up to 35 weeks (combined). You don't get full pay but many employers will top up to full pay. You can't be fired or laid off for taking this time off. When my youngest daughter was born I took 2.5 months off... When I work on something I am 100% committed. I work hard, long hours. However I will take vacation and disconnect completely. Guess what, when I'm back it's as if I just left yesterday. As they say, when you die you'll never regret not having worked more.
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I just ended 2 years with media search engine start up whose stack was based on Django, Python, and Apache Solr. I spent most of my time creating the backend API to communicate with Youtube, Hulu, Itunes, and other sites. I first created it in python (Tornado), but the latency was apparently too high so I rewrote it in Go.

I also wore a devops hat and wrote bash scripts to provision vagrant VMs and setup our continuous deployment/integration with Jenkins CI. All this being integrated with hipchat of course. All of our code was tested, and can bet I took advantage of REST (HATEOAS namely made problems simpler).

I also learned to have a bit more pragmatism and profile my code, instead of polishing every piece as if it were a diamond ;)

Recently I'm loving Haskell the most, but I've always had a soft spot for schemes and lisps. Clojure is something I'm eventually going to be hacking on.

Ideally I'd like something to do with functional programming, but I still enjoy doing web development and using python.

In the past I have written in:
HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, Perl, C (small amounts), C++ (even less), Visual Basic, C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Cython, Go, Racket, Chicken Scheme, Nimrod, Lisp, Racket, Haskell, and Elm.

Github: https://github.com/codygman/ (sadly most stuff is private and can't be open sourced yet)

Email: codygman.consulting@gmail.com

Blog: http://codygman.github.io
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I vastly prefer Bayes Theorem as ratios vs. percentages (plug, wrote about it here: http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-bayes-theo...)

I like a "factor label" style approach where you can see the prior probability (Fair: Biased), the information about the flips, and the posterior probability (the revised chances after the new information is taken into account):

Prior * Information = Posterior

so

(Fair : Biased) * (10 Fair heads : Fair ) : (10 Biased heads : Biased) = 10 Fair Heads : 10 Biased Heads

Plugging in, we'd have:

(999 / 1) * (1 / 1024 ) / (1 / 1) = 999 / 1024

The odds are ever-slightly in favor of a biased coin. So we can mentally guess ever-slightly above 3/4 for the chance of another heads. We could write (999/2 + 1024) / (999 + 1024) on the whiteboard to be exact.
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The Learning With Errors problem is promising:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_with_errors

When last I checked there was still a lot of debate about choosing secure parameters for LWE-based cryptosystems, so it would be pretty risky to start using that right now.
really? there are no hashing algorithms where 10 digits is enough?
I saw a great point in some article the other week about why Ph.d students end up doing all these incredible things in their free time - it's all an elaborate way of procrastinating from finishing their theses.
Maybe this isn't a bad idea after all.

I guess I can't tell what is a good idea or not. I mean my team & I just created a web app that plays, pauses & stops audio in sync across multiple devices (flash mob anyone), but hmm we might be working on the wrong idea.

http://SpeakerBlast.com - Blast audio in sync across multiple devices. NO?
If they were smart enough to backdoored the code, I'd hope they were smart enough to be as stealth as possible and not deface the site too.
Also, it's indicative of poor management skills, what means that your job may stop existing at any time.
Jesus Christ! After reading that wiki on Leopoldo I am personally signed up to be the traveller to go back and murder that SOB with impunity!
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I wonder the maximum weight that could be theoretically lifted, the amount of power to do it, and if/when it could e.g: negatively-impact ears or skin.
Cursory google searches and from my memory I can see all these ideas have been done in one form or another.

So much talk about ideation and execution and force multipliers blah blah.

Real key of the matter is knowing your opportunity costs and choosing the right thing. That actually takes time and experience to learn, albeit you can take the shortcut and finding the right mentors to guide you.
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It's really just a part of the compensation package. The government is choosing to pay people by cancelling their student loan rather than with cash.

So it's not a bad policy because it incentivizes working for the public service. But it is a bad policy because it effectively pays people with higher student debt more, for no good reason.
Maybe "procrastilearner"?
I love your energy and appetite for life. I might suggest looking into the Myth of Multitasking: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+myth+of+multitasking
I had to read this in high school. It was boring and kinda dumb.

It would have been much better story if the main character was a genius with a bunch of alternate identities and he had to solve crises while keeping people from finding out who he was...

Just a story about some random guy's random daydreams is really pointless.
What you say about how language does not constrain our thoughts is borne out by American English. This was the product of Noah Webster and his educational materials including the dictionary - 'Mirriam Webster'.

The rationale was to move the language away from 'aristocratic' English and to make things secular. Obviously the spellings survived - 'color' - but god somehow thrived in America (we are secular in the UK).

Webster was well aware that language could constrain thought or at least shape it, this was the rationale behind his work. However, do Americans think differently in subtle ways compared to Brits due to the changes to the language made aeons ago by Webster?
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I wasn't offended. I was just alarmed by what I felt is a very dangerous mindset.
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You are correct, but now hn will not let me edit it.
It's also worth pointing out that when China builds such a project, property rights along the way are not really much of a problem. The engineers can therefore design much straighter systems that are simpler to construct and of lower cost. The constraints are different.
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I built http://www.memobuild.com, an online editor for technical books and documents. I'm working on a good launch and customer acquisition plan, and could use some help.

The product is already usable and very polished, it's actually a pivot from an e-learning editor I did for several years. With the right marketing execution it could grow to profitability fast. Contact is in my profile.
10 numeric digits is only 10 billion, so, no, even if the algorithm took many hundreds of milliseconds.
Am I the only one who sees a giant and useless header on the site?

http://i.imgur.com/XQHyc2O.png
> The CFAA is a very bad law, but it's hard to resolve "authorized" versus "unauthorized" deterministically without coming up with absurd situations.

The CFAA is a very bad law because it's hard to resolve "authorized" versus "unauthorized" deterministically without coming up with absurd situations. Imposing only misdemeanor penalties would certainly resolve the issue in practice by depriving the failure of its teeth, but it still wouldn't make it a good piece of legislation.
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Really interesting stuff... Long time lurker, first time poster.. saw this and thought it was too cool not to post. Would love to hear thoughts from people on here who are smarter than me on this stuff...
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