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England has a common curriculum so you can measure maths in months. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Curriculum_(England,...
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Don't unsafe pointers in C# also opt you out of GC?
I like the proposal, but rather than using special (unfriendly) subjects, I'd use custom email headers.
eg: X-Autorespond: name, age, location

Why? So that clients that do not support this protocol will display a normal email to the end-user, instead of something not-so-friendly.

This also means that the body can be free-formed text explaining to the user what this message represents, and how to support this protocol.
FYI, as soon as you start getting serious about profiling, you should use PerfView[0]. It's what we use in Roslyn for almost all investigations.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2856...
I wonder how long physical media and things like redbox will live on for.. it seems tempting to say it will die out soon, but at least in the US, we do not have ubiquitous high-quality bandwidth.
Once we replace "Islamic contribution" with "Arab contribution", we will move forward.
Cross posting from [1] now that this has a dedicated thread:

I like the proposal, but rather than using special (unfriendly) subjects, I'd use custom email headers. eg: X-Autorespond: name, age, location

Why? So that clients that do not support this protocol will display a normal email to the end-user, instead of something not-so-friendly.

This also means that the body can be free-formed text explaining to the user what this message represents, and how to support this protocol.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282632
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> E.g. pianos don't even have perfect octaves.

This isn't true (at least in theory). Octaves on piano are (or should be) exact, otherwise the 12-tone equal tempering doesn't work out. A4 is 440 Hz, A5 is 880 Hz, and A3 is 220 Hz (using the Acoustical Society of America designations, where middle C = C4). If the octaves weren't pure, the piano would be more in tune in the middle than it would be at either end, which usually isn't the case.

> There were experiments with more tones per octave back in the middle ages, but the idea never caught on because the musical benefits aren't obvious.

The history of scales and how they came to be in the Western classical system is long and complicated (too long for here, certainly), but I wanted to point out my favorite of these weird old instruments the archicembalo.[1] It was designed by one of the most out there theorists, Nicola Vicentino, in Ferrara, a hotbed of weird music at the time (see Carlo Gesualdo's "Moro lasso" [2], a really chromatic madrigal).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archicembalo
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_q3EJNUKis

(I'm ABD on a Music Theory PhD, so if anybody has more specific questions I'm happy to help!)
I know it sounds harsh but fact is that today's web design ignores past science. Book design is a very well understood design problem which has its roots in ergonomics and not in graphic design. I don't mean to discredit the "99%"s graphic design skills, in fact I find many graphic design works on the web astonishing and have huge respect for graphic designers (because I really suck at it, but love it a lot). Their book design education appears to be underdeveloped though and for websites ergonomics are more important than graphic design. Thats just the way it is.

Book design is an amazing field by the way. For latin characters it was pioneered by hand written bibles in the medival ages. I only know a few things about it, barely enough to see that its a dying art. :(

Edit: Oh and you cannot "personaly dislike" a book design work. Its the only art I know which has definitive right or wrongs, black or whites, yes or nos. There is only one correct way to typeset any given text.
Ibn Tufail the writer of "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan", the first Arabic novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan

"Hayy ibn Yaqdhan had a significant influence on Arabic literature, Persian literature, and European literature, and went on to become an influential best-seller throughout Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The work also had a "profound influence" on both Islamic philosophy and modern Western philosophy. It became "one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution" and European Enlightenment, and the thoughts expressed in the novel can be found "in different variations and to different degrees in the books of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Immanuel Kant."George Sarton considered the novel "one of the most original books of the Middle Ages."
As for implementations, a server-side app where users grant permission for you to inspect emails/auto-reply might work. Most users grant permissions without even reading, so that won't be an issue.

If it's open-source, us geeks that don't actually click "authorize" without reading can set up our own server anyway.
This is not that surprising. In terms of the well-known regional cultural identities in the US, Alaska is a mix of Cascadian culture (i.e. the Portland/Seattle/Vancouver arc) and Sagebrush culture (i.e. the intermountain West).

The environmental awareness comes from the Cascadian culture. The Sagebrush culture comes with the political view that how a person chooses to live their life is none of the government's business, which has socially liberal political effects. The multiculturalism comes from both.

Sagebrush regions are politically confusing to people from other parts of the US. The background culture tend to be socially conservative, and ironically also among the least religious regions of the US, but in Sagebrush culture there is a strong distaste for dictating how your neighbor lives their life. It is politically libertarian, which has socially liberal effects, even though the people tend a bit more conservative in their personal lives. This leads to the famous legal minimalism of the Sagebrush parts of the US, where laws common in other States do not even exist for many things and the laws that do exist tend to be atypically permissive. Very "live and let live".
Yeah I keep meaning to dig into PerfView a bit more, I've only scratched the surface of it.

BTW I really like the Perf stuff in Roslyn, I wrote 2 posts about it, in case your interested? Although as you worked on it, it won't be anything you don't already know ;-)

http://mattwarren.org/2014/06/05/roslyn-code-base-performanc...
http://mattwarren.org/2014/06/10/roslyn-code-base-performanc...
Holy moly - the "maths age 3 to 5" app is expensive. £15.99 for "all topics". That's $25.
Clicking on the article also immediately clarifies the meaning.
Org-mode for in-class notes, since I'm a student.

Gitit personal wiki for technical information (my blog post: <http://nathantypanski.com/blog/2014-07-09-personal-wiki.html...).

Google Calendar has my schedule, including where I am at any time during the day. It syncs with my phone, laptop, and tablet. While I would prefer something plaintext (like Org-Mode offers) the Android compatibility is not as good.

Google Tasks (integrated with calendar) and Google Keep for on-the-go notes and tasks.

Paper notes in two-column Cornell style in bound notebooks <http://www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool/comments/27l7tx/whats_you....
Indeed, if XMPP gained enough popularity, it would solve this problem, since it already implements several of these things (personal information, location, etc), AND is extensible.
I think you're absolutely correct about the writers having potentially equitable quality, but I would challenge the following statement:

> The publication is less relevant as an institution and a brand

Journalism, and journalists, need to be trusted to deliver researched and verifiable content. This seems to be enforced because of reputation – i.e, the reputation of a publication.

When an organization does what BuzzFeed does to earn eyeballs, dollars and readership, it makes you question what they would do in more serious, "important" topics, such as describing world events to future voters.

I have trouble trusting BuzzFeed as an organization, as with Vice, due to this "trashiness". I think we all should.
Can you enumerate any of those ways?
Very painful. Servers in multiple datacenters (inside hetzner) didn't help :/

I've been about 5 years with them now and never before something as serious as this have happened. There was single datacenter outage some time ago, but other than that it was unthinkable to me.

edit: http://www.hetzner-status.de/en.html Backbone connection fault
Yeah pretty much, you can use fixed [1], to access managed memory in an unsafe way. The GC then treats this as pinned and won't relocate it.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/f58wzh21(v=vs.71).as...
Who knows if it ever would have gotten done without the pressure of a deadline? I know they help me.
I was reading Why Nations Fail, recently, and came across a similar sentiment:

> While the Egyptians were building the great pyramids of Giza around 2500 BC, the English constructed their most famous ancient monument, the stone circle at Stonehenge. Not bad by English standards, but not even large enough to have housed one of the ceremonial boats buried at the foot of King Khufu’s pyramid. England continued to lag behind and to borrow from the Middle East and the rest of Europe up to and including the Roman period.

So, the Great Pyramid of Giza: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza, versus Stonehenge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge.

Now it's completely different. The Middle East (largely), is far behind western civilization. What's happened since then? It's hard to comprehend how quickly nations and cultures can fall, as well how quickly they can rise.

The y-intercept generally doesn't matter. The slope does.

This reminds me of pg's Black Swan Farming: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html. Black swans (e.g. Gutenburg's printing press) are the driving force for advancement in society. Since black swans beget more black swans (since one black swan in a certain society -> society supporting more of them), the effect is cumulative, and societies can rise and fall quickly. What does that mean today? Will Africa have their own black swans? Will South America?
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I'm in favor of saying "ethnically African." It says nothing about nationality.

In the context of a statistical analysis, like the OkCupid analysis, it's completely correct to segment people by ethnicity and by nationality separately, and it makes a lot more sense in that context to say "Americans of African ethnicity." "African Americans" is an equivocal phrase in an analytical context because people use it to refer to ethnicity, when it actually refers to both nationality and ethnicity.
You couldn't help it, could you? :)
Three thoughts:

* Asset forfeiture abuses by police have been going on for at least a generation. Here's an excerpt from House Judiciary testimony by an African American gardener who dared to carry $9K in cash in 1991 to buy plants at a nursery. He had it all (surprise!) confiscated by cops. The fact that it's been 23 years and the abuses are worse, not better, is telling. https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/statement-rep-he...
And here's a note I sent to Politech on the topic back in 1998:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-00023.html

* Contrary to some claims in this thread, there are reasons to transport significant sums of $10K+ in cash. Contractors, tree removal companies, landscape installers, grading/excavation firms, etc. can charge that much for work and, I'm told by my SF peninsula neighbors who have had work done, often offer cash discounts. (Which means, of course, both the homeowner and the contractor would be transporting large cash amounts sequentially.)

* I suspect that governments would, to a first approximation, prefer that their own citizens engage only in traceable, trackable, non-anonymous electronic transactions with closely regulated financial firms. This is already happening: cash now represents only 14% of dollar payments by value. Though my favorite example in this area is this proposal that bubbled up inside the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; I wrote about it for Wired in 1999:

http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/10/32121
"The magnetic strip could visibly record when a bill was last withdrawn from the banking system. A carry tax could be deducted from each bill upon deposit according to how long the bill was in circulation... Systems would have to be put in place at banks and automatic teller machines to read bills, assess the carry tax, and stamp the bills 'current...'"
>I think the hurdles are less than you think, but Common Lisp is probably not for you. But I think that's fine. There is already a lot of stuff for 'most people'. Why does everything need to be built for 'most people'? Why isn't it okay that there are things which are not for most people?

Because unless you are a hobbyist or a devil-may-care like professional, you want a big community, lots of resources, great libraries and tooling.

You might not need "most of the people" (majority or plurality) for that, but you sure need "lots of people".

A big community is an essential for basing whole businesses on a language and having access to everything you need in abundance (instead of several projects in various states of source rot, as happens for most unpopular languages) -- and it also doesn't hurt, infact helps very much, for the language lover that would stick to it even if he was the sole user of the language.
I'm suspicious of anyone who seems to have trouble understanding the FBI's claims. It's clear to me that what the FBI is claiming is that some part of the CAPTCHA was linked to the server directly, rather than its TOR address.
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Thanks for taking a look.

To go through your points:

* If the "wrong" GPG binary is loaded, the game is likely already up: If an attacker has that degree of control over your machine, they're already on the other side of this airtight hatchway. They can attach to your running programs, read memory contents, and so forth, so compromising the GPG binary isn't necessary.

* Keys are handled by GPG, which normally should mlock key material.

* Part of my plan to switch to handling pages (rather than allowing data to be managed via a std::string) was to be able to use mlock() properly. I'll be adding that soon.

* Since the GPG binary is running as you, it could do Bad Things to the underlying filesystem (or filesystem exported by FUSE), but you do raise a point about closing file descriptors for general cleanliness.
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We've had discussion (since flagged off the front page) of abuse of civil forfeiture.

We've similarly had, in a number of threads, people either shilling for the state security apparatus or talking about the evil jackbooted thugs who are going to kill us and eat our babies. In neither case do we do better than some half-assed anecdotal evidence.

So, I figured it might be worthwhile to actually link to some aggregated reports. Note that the time period spanned by this collection goes back to the 90s in some cases.
>CRESTED BUTTE, Colo.

And this is what they're upset about?

Hey, it could be worse, a town in TX changed their name to Dish for free cable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish,_Texas
> Why? How much revenue do the teams and leagues get from TV per-viewer now?

An ungodly amount. TV deals are everything to (at least American) pro sports. Smart athletes structure their deals to end the same time as the TV deals knowing that it will increase their potential salaries when the new deals are signed.

> and just get subscription fees directly from viewers and ad revenue directly from advertisers?

Because running a TV (or non-TV) network that has the reach and success of the big 4 networks is very fucking hard. You don't cut out the middle-man until you can replace what they give you.
1. get warranty to track someone id'ed as recipient of usps drug shipment.

2. exploit client tor missconfig

3. repeat 1-2 until you have a net so wide of tor users that only node out is the service
You may also like this:

http://youtu.be/CIZNh1G2vNI

This guy built a fully functional scale model of a Ferrari 310 including the V12 engine all from photos. He built every part. He tuned the car so that it makes the sound of the "Ferrari Music."

It's also incredible.
It's borderline. While this is a hack, ftrace and kprobes are built-in to the kernel, and are immediately available on all our production Ubuntu and CentOS instances. And /proc/net/tcp is usually still valid for long-running sessions with retransmits. I'll install and use SystemTap when there's no other practical way.

I wrote some other TCP scripts using ftrace, and the caching of /proc/net/tcp approach didn't cut it (due to short-lived sessions, which were too often missing by the time /proc/net/tcp could be read), and I'll need to rewrite them in SystemTap (or something else). Those make much better examples of why SystemTap. I'll publish them when I get a chance.
Probably... though I have an easier time imagining someone picking a lock or, in the case of fuzzing, using a bump key.
In the past simply typing in random URLs has been deemed illegally circumventing a site's security. Like most things it's fine when the government does it but you'll get jailtime if you do it to one of their friends.
>Which landscape? There is not one landscape. Is Apple's XCode FOSS? Windows dev tools? Open Source?

A lot of it is. XCode's compiler, LLVM is FOSS. Microsoft just open sourced large parts of .NET libs and compiler. And there's also Mono, a FOSS implementation of .NET.

Plus, even the closed parts, like XCode and Visual Studio, are either free, have totally functional "community editions", or at worse are dirt cheap -- not $4500 to get to professional development.

>As I said, Common Lisp is not for most people.

You say that as if it's good.

It might be a fact, but it sure ain't good.

Is there a single good thing that can be argued to come from a language not being popular?

I meanbeside BS like "keeps the amateurs away?", which judging by the abundance of amateur Lisp code one sees, is not an actual advantage of Lisp...
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I wonder if it's possible to use this on someone else's open network? EG, I walk into Starbucks, plug this into the wall, and deauth everyone else's devices?
it can probably set a precedent that will free all scapegoat script kiddies currently in outsourced prisons.
> i recognize there are latency and timing issues but they seem related to playback.

No need to get into DSP issues; it's just that playback and input go hand-in-hand.

Think about playing a click track so that someone can enter notes (by clicking on the screen, for a simple example).

If you have varying (audible) latency in your click track, the user can't hear where the beat is (ugh); secondly, even if you capture exactly when they click the screen, your next task is to map that onto when the beat fell. And if you don't know close enough to even quantize reliably, you're stuck.

Next, the latency between "user clicks a note" and "audio plays selected note" needs to be pretty small -- think of the user above playing along with the beat... and so they click the screen, timed exactly when when the sense the next beat will fall. If the actual audio can't be triggered for another 200ms, it just sounds terrible.

The latency I notice in the OP app is particularly bad because it seems to vary a lot -- I can click a key in a very steady rhythm, and it captures a very unsteady beat.

Quantization can't really fix this problem; the delays seem to be uneven enough (and serious enough) that even if it barely managed to figure out "8th notes", mixing in some triplets or grace notes wouldn't go well.

phon2 -- cool, I'll give it a try when I have a bit of free time.

WRT WebMidi -- that's awesome, I hadn't seen the spec appear; I can't rely on it until there's better browser support (it looks like Firefox has only just started initial work on this, for example), but it's certainly also prove another motivator for fixing up audio timing issues all over.
One of the lesser known less features is filtering only matching lines using &pattern. This is also very cool in combination with F, ie. tail -f mode. Unfortunately it tends to be extremely slow in large files, even though grep seemingly has no problem with them. I suspect it's related to search performance.

Overall I think less is one of those tools where it's really valuable to spend 10 minutes a day in the man page for a week, which should be enough to learn essentially all of its functionality.

Markers are also very useful, particularly paired with the functionality to pipe data to another file or shell command. E.g. to extract the instance of a server error plus some lines for context from an otherwise unwieldy log file. :) I use markers rarely enough that I invariable need to reread the man-/help-page, but being aware of the functionality is half the battle. :)

Another tip: within less, press -S to toggle line wrap. (Works for most other command line options, too.)
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Walmart isn't a dumb-pipe, for one. A dumb pipe would be electric and water companies, are those as profitable as cable companies?
Or widen the readership. You can either convert causal readers to serious readers, widen the audience to include more serious minded readers, or mix both. I think there’s a winning combination in there.

In any case they wouldn’t be the first media outlet to engage readers on the easily digested stuff but sprinkle in more challenging pieces. That’s pretty standard affair for most magazines and newspapers. Their innovation is in making sure their content gets shared, and that doesn’t just apply to listicles.
I have "Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie".

Yeah not much of his work was translated, its sad. Maybe you can find similar/related/inspired authors who wrote or write in english. Its important to note that Tschichold made a U-turn at some point, while he was a big proponent of modernism at first, he later dismissed his opinions and became a proponent of classic typography. So I would go for writings from that later era.
You could do that easily with mdk3 - Actually from what I've seen this is just mdk3-in-a-box
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Oh? With what would you start your inquiry into the existing research? Would that be a guess, would you suppose? Or is it hard data all the way down?

Even inquiries into research can contain bias. But your pithy attitude is noted.
Yeah, using words like "douchebags" for other people in the thread reflects great on you and your closed club.

Especially since "brudgers" states his case with arguments and politely and has not sweared at anyone.
From the article:

Even in the hypothetical case where – for some unrealistic reason – the Silk Road hidden site was including an image on an external server by referencing its IP address or hostname, the agents would still observe this traffic as having come from Tor. There is no magic way that the traffic from a real IP embedded within the HTML of a hidden service would find its way directly to a client without passing over the Tor network and through Tor nodes. Were this the case, it would be a huge vulnerability in Tor, as it would allow the administrator of a hidden site to uncover visitors by including an element that is served directly to the client over clearnet (thankfully it isn’t and this doesn’t work – try it).