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I'm at Defcon and was able to catch this talk. Someone asked this exact question after the talk—how can you deal with spam if you you can't scan encrypted messages for trigger words on the server. I'll try to explain what I remember: Ladar mentioned that DIME heavily encourages the use of DNSSEC, so you can verify the sender is definitely coming from the domain they're representing which should reduce spam. He also said everything we're currently doing on the server-side like keyword scanning can be done on the client side. Pretty sure he also acknowledged that it's a nontrivial problem and that the team is still investigating.
The Economist did a similar story 3 years ago

http://www.economist.com/node/21525847
Say you have two trucks doing a cross country run(on the I-10 to keep things easy) and a return run. One with an automated system that can drive while the driver sleeps and one without.

Truck A: Can drive 24 hours a day and can cover the distance there and back in about 3 days

Truck B: Can drive 11 hours a day and can cover the distance in ~7 days.

The first Driver can do the trip twice in the same amount of time. Halving the number of drivers required for that route or freeing up drivers on that route for other jobs.
Bill Gates got rich by understanding that people want to write their own software. I'm not sure Jobs ever understood that.

Granted, I won't try to write a paean to Bill Gates and his business practices over the years, but I think his enthusiasm for user programming is one indulgence that I'd grant him.
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The article doesn't actually say anything useful, so it would be hard to write one.
Perhaps instead of a bitcoin payment, a better solution would be to solve PoW such as what is implemented in Bitmessage.

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Proof_of_work
Well, that's the point! Correlation is seen in the data, then causation calls to be tested for. Your test for it, and continue to see correlation. Yet, the causation stays as an "assumption" that is a matter of debate. This brings back the question, how do you establish causation then?

Your argument is basically saying that if there is understandable physics behind the correlation, then causation could be safely inferred. However, that does not ultimately answer the question still, since how would physics would have established that explanation to begin with.
loutish/lazy Debian/"testing" system here:

~> apt-cache search toga
toga2 - computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

(hm... wake me when it hits testing)
It really isn't the point that you can learn those things. People can also learn phone numbers and SSNs but we still use names. Wouldn't everything be much easier if we just referred to each other by our unique number? Addresses are also superfluous, just lat+lon with a unit # should be sufficient. Imperial measurements and their now American counterparts are based on human experience rather than something convenient with which to do calculations. Though the carpenters make a good case for 12in since it is so easily divided into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6ths which are used often in construction. Even 1/5ths and 1/8ths go to only 1 decimal place. Metric is convenient for calculation and computing and not much more. Otherwise it is just a tradeoff you are making for a measurement system that wasn't designed around everyday life.
Tempest deals with extracting signals at a distance, from things that are already directly broadcasting them in some form or another.

There's no such thing in this case. There is no USB port or VGA cable that is directly carrying the internal state of one of dozens of different processes/applications being run on the target PC.

This work is quite completely different. Using special knowledge of how specific software has been written and compiled, and also with the ability to throw carefully crafted inputs at the software in question, they're able to use some fun statistical methods to guess what the internal state must be.

The paper and this type of work generally is very interesting because software developers are used to thinking of CPUs as "black boxes" which do their thing invisibly and effortlessly.

This kind of work is just as awesome as all the papers on CPU side-channel attacks (cache, branch prediction, etc) which really seemed to take off around 2005.
Ten has three factors: 1, 2, 5.

Twelve has five factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

When dealing with fractions, twelve is more efficient. I agree imperial units still aren't worth the trouble of being different than the rest of the world.
I thought it was hilarious and ridiculous at the same time. They eventually went to the trash.
Agreed, this is also a problem in economics (though even in economics there are some limited experiments that can be done). I think a key issue people overlook in this debate is the presence of a theory that makes sense. If you just plot data until you spot something that looks like a trend, or fit models until your F-test comes back significant or your R^2 is big enough, then yeah, you can't even make a good case for causation. But if you start with a reasonable theory that fits with existing knowledge, then you can at least make a case.
Wants to sound smart, so tries to discredit the author with irrelevant criticism and pedantry.
Not necessarily. You could just use a service that is secure and handles the payment aspect for you. In such a scenario the top email providers would send email between themselves using the same pool of bitcoin. It's essentially a zero-sum transaction for them at scale. Outside entities that want their message heard would have to pay for it (mailing lists and the like) as a disincentive to send unwanted email.
Right way. Driving on the right makes so much more sense than driving on the left.

If you're driving a manual transmission car on the right side of the road, you'd steer with your left hand and change gears with your right. This works out nicely for right-handed people, i.e. 90% of the population.
That particular guideline is already present:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
Are you referring to the structure of the content on the site as a framework? We think that this approach to education has significant applications beyond chess, but at the moment we're solely focused on making Chesscademy work for its intended purpose.
I'm not sure of your point. Seems that the only reason he was invoked, was because he is well respected and generally regarded as a smart person. And, he was wrong. That he later changed positions to be "right" is irrelevant.

Similarly, that some in the industry thought paperbacks were a good idea is similarly irrelevant.

So, are there any points in this letter that are not legitimate? Overly sold? I'm genuinely curious. As things stand right now, my take is that I'm for cheaper books. Though, the last ebook I bought was $36. And I don't regret a penny of it. (Granted, the average price of the previous 20 books I bought is probably under a buck. I over saturated myself with the humble bundle for books.)

Perhaps the most interesting thing to analyze is if their numbers on the price elasticity is accurate. Really that is the key of the debate, it seems. I understand that things are a more complicated for Hachette, as they believe this devalues reading as a whole. In particular, their hard back sales. Any numbers showing how 9.99 ebooks affect hard cover sales out there?
We definitely don't want our users to be getting the solutions via brute-force. We're considering allowing the user to give up after a certain number of failed solutions. Incorporating more specific feedback to the user's incorrect moves would also help with this problem.
What more did you think there was to this debate?
The article is an excerpt from a book called "Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (And How to Teach It to Everyone)", but it feels like an introduction; it doesn't say anything useful or even give much of a hint as to what the author believes. Certainly it doesn't live up to the title. It doesn't tell us what the "secrets of amazing teachers" are, nor establish that there are only TWO sides of "the education debate" and as for the subtitle, it vaguely appears to be knocking down a straw man.

Certainly some teachers say "we need more autonomy!" and some teacher critics say "we need more accountability!" but neither one is saying "...and if we had THAT, everything would be perfect and teachers would know what exactly they need to do to improve!" So it's not clear that the people who want autonomy and accountability are actually getting anything wrong.

The writer appears to think that good teaching can be taught, but doesn't (in this article) say how.
If black captures the hanging pawn, that is known as the Open Variation of the Ruy Lopez. I didn't want to get too deep into theory with this video as it was only supposed to outline opening ideas. White regains the pawn back due to his pressure on the e-file.

You can read more about the variation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Lopez#Open_Defence:_4.Ba4_N...
Even with A-GPS, a GPS fix takes longer to obtain, and data transfer with GPRS takes ages... add the space constraint of a collar, and it becomes really complex.
We're building an onboarding process for tactics so the objective is clearer, but the point of the section is to put you in a position that you might encounter over the board and have you find the optimal moves.
I think it's a false-dilemma to assume it needs to be total automation or nothing at all.

What about "trains" of trucks, where the first truck is piloted and the rest follow? That'd be significantly easier to engineer, and there'd be a person on-site for miscellaneous needs like gassing them up.
We are using chessboard.js (http://chessboardjs.com/) for our board right now and I'm not sure if they support two-click yet. We may have to add it ourselves. Thanks for the note!
We keep falling back on Hume as if no one has thought critically about the subject since science became more mature. For the curious, Mackie's "The Cement of the Universe" from 1974 provides a more recent analysis of causation.
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cement_of_the_Univer...

For a sample, suppose a barn burns down right after someone chucks a lighted match in the barn. You can't say that the match was "necessary," the barn could have been struck by lightning or arson and still burned. And the match wasn't "sufficient," because the match probably also needed to fall upon something flammable, like dry hay; there had to be oxygen; etc.

Mackie comes up with a fancy acronym, INUS, but I'll leave unpacking all that aside. One of the more provocative suggestions is that a "cause" is highly contingent on context (that might only be relevant to human observers).

If people harmlessly throw matches into a concrete-floored barn every day, if it's widely accepted as hot match disposal, but one day some joker uses it to store a bunch of oily rags... well, the unusual factor tends to get the blame.
I must remind myself to not try and be subtle here on HN. The true cause(s) of any effect can never be determined through observation (this is Hume’s problem of induction).

When dealing with causation there is no way around the step of having to propose a causative model that you believe to be true - the point I was trying to make is there is nothing better than making money to convince people that their own model is the correct one. Making money does not mean the model is correct, just that the person making money will believe it to be correct.
Sounds awesome but the naming is unfortunate. Dark Mail, to the average person, will have a negative impression. It sounds scary and intimidating and something those darn illegal hackers use.
I've been doing that as well. Sometimes a downvoted comment is truly deserving of its status, but often incorrect statements get downvotes even though they spawn interesting discussions. I try to offset that, because even if they're wrong, they're still an important part of the conversation.
Causation is not a fundamental notion for me.

We happen to live in a world where sometimes things can be ascribed specific causes, but that is due to the nature of the physical universe, not an abstract truth.

Causality in our best theories of physics (general relativity, quantum field theory) is extremely complex and subtle. But that isn't needed anyway, what we use in ordinary reasoning is "naive" physics, an approximation of physical reality. I don't think this "naive physics", which we could also call common sense, can be derived from a statistical model, although maybe it can.

Going back to the randomized trial, presumably the choice to give a drug to a patient vs a placebo was determined by a random number generator. This in turn is a physical process, and there is no reason why the physical process that generates this number could not also influence a person's health outcome. It is only our naive physics model that tells us that there is no such process, and the only way the random number generator affects the health outcome, is through the choice of drug.

So to summarize, doing causal inference relies on a model of reality, and this model is sufficiently complex that the model itself cannot (for now) be derived through purely statistical means, but rather is arrived at through ordinary human thought.
A SiRFstar with satellite prediction (SiRFInstantFixII) might be able to manage it.
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Yep, I was imediately reminded on onion routing (which is what tor uses) when reading the article.
Exactly. I think we are going to need a pretty wide margin.
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That sentence you quote is immediately underneath the heading "Problems using virtualenv under Ubuntu" — it applies only to Ubuntu, where they do use GTK. But on Mac, they use Cocoa, as stated in several places in the docs.
Nice write-up and a cool solution. Tries are also an awesome way to implement a boggle solver, did that for a course back in school.
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This is way too far down the fold:

> For example, new safety requirements mean that individual truckers drive fewer miles than a decade ago: An average long-haul truck can now cover 8,000 miles a month, down from almost 11,000 in 2007, according to the trade association.

So the maximum miles driven per month is 73% of what it was in 2007, whereas the inflation-adjusted salary is 97% (based on eyeballing the graph) of what it was.

Now, if despite the higher maximum drivers were going, say 9000 miles a month before 2007, the difference would be less stark. Nevertheless, viewing from that perspective makes the situation seem much different.

Of course, that doesn't account for the 03-07 downward trend.

And while I do agree in theory that they should "just" raise wages if they need more drivers, we should be careful jumping to conclusions as outsiders. After all, it is possible, for instance, that paying new (and probably many existing) drivers more could eat up the revenues gained from the customers they're currently turning away. And moreover, said prospective customers could adapt so that by the time the trucking companies have enough drivers, the orders are no longer there.
Working on it, but since I don't have one yet and was not returning voicemail reliably I hid the number.
Your comment about the tribesman reminds me of this essay by Isaac Asimov:
http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

He makes the great point that the tribesman isn't too far off from the truth: The earth is flat if its curvature is zero, but the 'truth' is that the curvature is almost zero(and the difference isn't measurable by a tribesman).
wtf is this rubbish.
Technically, Apple only axed Hypercard in 2004:

http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/a_eulogy_for_h...

Being axed by Apple wasn't its problem.

Hypercard was already obsolete by the early 1990s for a range of technical and mismanagement reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7275781
Is the real story that the overhead for trucking is too large and we should switch to more cost effective transport like rail?
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Time-lapse video shows Pyongyang from a different perspective
Tell me more about these reasonable interpretations that don't include "we will silently break your shit". Because my understanding of the sentence ending in "at any time for any reason" can be paraphrased as "we will silently break your shit if and when we feel like it".

And, well, we're starting to get repetitive, but I disagree with the premise of the second paragraph. Building a service like this that relied entirely on Twitter (and the local internet provider and the local power company and whatever else) with no way to find out if it stopped working was pretty stupid. Yes, it's the sort of mistake a lot of people make, but that doesn't mean it's not-stupid. Pointing out that it was stupid conveys that the ultimate problem was not in choice of service but in the thought process in how the problem was considered and how the solution was conceived.

Maybe there are more tactful ways of pointing out "you didn't think this through very well". But hell if I know what they are (the thing I just said is not IMO any nicer than "that was dumb") and hell if I'm going to put a bunch of effort into figuring it out for a throwaway internet comment.
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I just stumbled upon this after stumbling upon Shin Dong-hyuk to Dennis Rodman, where he recaps his unimaginable life born into slavery in Camp 14 before escaping at 2005. He's the first person to escape a prison camp of this kind. His letter urges Mr. Rodman use his friendship to end this immense cruelty and oppression.[1]

I'm merely a casual North Korea observer, but this video is startling because of it animates and explores the scale of Pyongyang in a way I've never seen. Teenagers hang out in a skate park, people get dressed up and go somewhere on a subway, a group of four traditionally dressed women walk down a giant sidewalk. The architecture is at a bizarre scale, but otherwise looks like a sterile combination of Las Vegas and Bucharest.

There is a strange dissonance in seeing a country with such dark and terrible corners brought to life in this way. Any attempt to distance or qualify North Korea as "other" sort of falls apart. They're ordinary people, living powerless under a state that exerts enormous violent force to maintain its idea of order.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-dennis-rodman-can...
That statement is meaningless unless you know how much fluoride is in the water
True explosives (dynamite and all) was his thing... But on the moral side of things it's the same.

For GW Bush I am reproducing what I ve read, but might very well be FUD, thanks for pointing that out. :-)
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You sound like a lazy developer. Plus what requirements would you have that non developer wouldn't?
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Both of the mentioned articles (I'd say "cited" but only one was named; I had to find the other based on author names) are specifically scoped to only developmental problems. eg: If 3 year olds are exposed to too much lead, what happens. And then the article goes on for 15 minutes, fear mongering about evil corporations putting poisonous chemicals in everything.

But that's not what the studies said. The studies were explicitly only about developmental effects. Bah science reporting is terrible
"everything we're currently doing on the server-side like keyword scanning can be done on the client side"

See the problem there?
Does SMS use GPRS? The article says it sent its position by SMS.
>The catch in your approach is that it doesn't really offer an incentive for people to learn Haskell other than "it's really good, believe me". The best incentive I know of is to demonstrate that people are solving the problems that the potential Haskeller wants to solve, and that there are tools, resources, and even sample code available.

I have been saturated and have had to scale how I teach for the last 9-12 months, so marketing hasn't been a first-order concern.

There are "ooh" and "ahh" demos I could put up, but other people are doing that work better than I could. I'm just the funnel catching people already sold.

Teaching is hard and isn't done well. I like working on this problem and would like to focus on it for the time being.

Division of labor yo.
Because the layout that's presented is not native. Actual mac apps don't have tabs and toolbars pushed together like that, and the margins are different.

wxWidgets can use the platform native controls, but the apps rarely look native because the layouts and behaviors are non-native. Mac/GNOME/Windows all have different ideal metrics for spacings, control placement and labeling (OK/Cancel vs Cancel/"Do Thing") -- being native means getting all of those details correct.
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More than you would think, but focusing on this is something that people who aspire to build companies do to avoid actually building companies. You're almost always better off writing software or talking to users.
I think automation will happen sooner than we expect. 5-8 years seems likely to me. There is a hurdle with interstate trucking, where some states will lag behind in allowing it and providing the required bureaucratic support. But it is already technologically possible, if not yet a fully developed product. It just takes one company to get it allowed in one state and start doing it, the others will follow. Self driving personal vehicles are 1-3 years away from being on the market, it seems natural that trucking will follow.

I think trained people might still handle the parking though for a while :P
I think they mean scanning on the receiver's client, not the sender's. There's no security problem there - a spammer with a rogue client will just send spam that's blocked by each client, and if you don't want to get spam, upgrade your client.

I am still doubtful that this will work - spam filtering a la GMail requires a good deal of aggregated data, being able to piece together related e-mails from many people's inboxes. It's effectively the reverse problem as NSA surveillance: instead of piecing together patterns in messages to highlight them, you piece together the patterns to block them. And so anything that blocks the NSA will make the spam filters we've come to depend upon non-functional. But that's because of lack of data, not because of client insecurity.
I wonder how it would work out to just have a rule in whatever country that if you own a ship you had to register it there. Not change flags of convenience for everyone, just make it illegal within the context of a specific nation to use them.
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I've found these video lectures by professor Seif Haridi to be really useful.
http://www.ict.kth.se/courses/ID2203/video_lectures.html

Edit : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL700757A5D4B3F368
Thank you. My daughter and I did so the exercises together and she now loves chess =].
Which revenue?