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For those skeptical of checklists as a symptom of bureaucracy, I wanted to suggest a distinction between top-down (or controlling) bureaucracy and bottom-up (or supportive) bureaucracy.

For the first 10 years or so of my working life, my only experience of paperwork was top-down controlling bullshit. Pointless timesheets. Useless reports. Data collected and never looked at again. It was managers imposing mandates in ways that rarely helped the business, and often hurt it.

But in getting into the Lean movement, I came to realize there's another approach. If you are a team that wants to do well, there's only so far you can go on implicit work practices. Eventually variation becomes the biggest barrier to improvement. The solution is to collaboratively create a standard way of getting a job done. With variation minimized, you can then start to rigorously test improvements, increasing quality and reducing waste.

This is easiest to see when you're working solo. A while back I was struggling to go running in the mornings. I was always forgetting something: keys, money, headphones. Now near the door is a simple list I can run down to make sure I have everything. Less stress, less wasted time in the mornings, more runs. I love it.

But groups can do the same thing. Can and should, really. Top-down imposition of quality practices rarely works. The people doing the work are the best ones to create and tune the way a job gets done. Might as well do it before some manager gets a bright idea and inflicts the wrong approach on you.
Sounds similar to the Web Components which allows you to define insertion points in the templates.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-components-intro-20130606/#inse...

http://webcomponents.org/
Yeah, classic Gnome or some other one with a bit more functionality.
What exactly do you consider odd? As others have replied, hydrazine has a long history for RCS systems in spacecraft, and kerosene + oxidizer mixtures have long been used for propulsion engines. The only technology here that isn't entirely orthodox is the lithium battery, but that's just an evolutionary upgrade from NiCads. Apparently the range safety guys finally decided that it was ok for an unmanned craft to fly with lithium.
Very helpful. I've unsuccessfully search for a way to do one-time binding before in a data intensive application and never came across the {{::ctrl.foobar}} syntax.

One thing I'm hesitant about is their advice to use directives instead of ng-controller="MyCtrl". Since controllers really are app specific glue code I rarely find myself wanting to reuse them - what advantages are directives supposed to give here?
Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) [pdf]
> but given the centralization of authority to a user's email account

This is already the case right now. An attacker who has access to your primary email account can gain access to any of your accounts using Forgot Password.

> the "lost password" flow already assumes email as a single point of failure,

Exactly. I think that was the inspiration for the idea. If we have a single point of failure anyway, why not just use it directly to login?
Now that the dominant languages seem to be dynamic languages like Python, Ruby & JavaScript, I wonder if Lisp's edge in development speed is as pronounced; OTOH, I wonder if it has an increased edge in stability and/or security.
Yeah, when my mom was dealing with a brain tumor, she was treated at both her local hospital and a more distant university hospital (University of Michigan). The difference in quality between the two was jaw-dropping to me.

If anybody has a link for stats comparing local hospitals in the US versus Europe, I would love to read them.
> Lampert took the myth that humans perform best when acting selfishly as gospel, pitting Sears company managers against each other in a kind of Lord of the Flies death match.

Sounds a bit like how Microsoft was structured [1].

[1] http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011...
Captain Crunch Interviewed in 1995
> So, the reasons for not using "SBCL" have nothing to do with "good enough". It's simply about "not mine".

Kaz, the C programming language isn't yours either. My point is that Common Lisp is supposed to be a general purpose programming language with power far greater than a primitive language like C, but you chose to implement TXR in C simply because C makes it much easier for you to accomplish your goal than Common Lisp. I'm just trying to point out the obvious, which nobody from c.l.l. seems willing to admit.
The biggest reason for me to pass on implementing an approach like this is what I THINK is the actual most common use case for a typical user when logging into a site at which they are a regular:

They're doing so for the nth time, and on the (or a) device they usually use, and thus their browser (or other password manager) has already got their password remembered and thus it is pre-filled in.

Having to click back and forth between email every time you log in seems way clunky relative to that, which for me is something above 90% of the instances I log in to some web application.

Couple that smoothness with picking a non-reused, strong password for a web application (which password managers make actually practical) and the friction in the user login experience seems to have little if any upside.
This reminds me of the infamous HN response to Dropbox's launch 5 years ago:

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
hey, this looks great, but it's not actually working on either on either of my nexus 5s, is that a known issue? There's no crash or anything, the flashlight just doesn't actually turn on.
I'm of the opinion that neither legislation or a new constitutional amendment would help, at this point. When the majority on the SC endorses this sort of taking, they are the problem.
Paranoid Android is pretty sweet as well.
I've seen some really cool stuff being done with Overtone: http://overtone.github.io/
You can throw grounds in the trash like a kcup
I agree with your first paragraph.

> On top of that, doesn't anyone else think this is a bad idea to try to test everyone for low incidence diseases? [..] You're guaranteeing that most of your positives are false positives.

Hm, it depends on the incidence, and the effect size of the disease you're screening for. Standard healthcare does tests for really low incidence diseases all the time -- for example, amniocentesis is commonly performed to test for a disease (Down's Syndrome) affecting <0.1% of babies, even though the test itself causes increased risk of miscarriage. Is looking for low-probability genetic disease and having to deal with false positives really much different/worse?
What to do with projects those have both web and mobile apps?
When I talk about accountability in politics, I want accountability for the near-universal corruption. I want the 500+ member royal family we have established in the United States to follow the same rules as everyone else, and to go to prison when they don't.

As far as accountability in public programs, now that you have made me think about it a bit more, I suppose the greater issue is the fact that the federal government is absolutely terrible at coming up with metrics. Whenever they measure in order to take accountability, they seem to focus on the wrong things.

I think metrics can be helpful in some cases, but in our education system, it would have to be an extremely complicated system, else we would just end up preparing children to take unhelpful standardized tests like we do now.
Now that we all have push email in our smartphones, it's not nearly as cumbersome. I already need to pull out my phone every time I want to access a Google app, having 2FA enabled.
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For a crazy guy I like what McAfee is doing :-). The "FM Radio" app which Motorola installs on the Moto-G wants to upgrade on my phone, but it wants "Device ID & call information, Camera/Microphone access, and 'other'". Really? Why does an FM radio need my camera and microphone? And who I call? And my device's id? And what the hell is "other"?
Hmm .. I read through this article and Captain Crunch says Australia is a Hackers Haven ? Why is it so ? ... I remember seeing something very similar in the documentary about Julian Assange too , about underground hacker scenes in Australia that he was a part of .
That's a rough estimate of how much computing power is in the human brain. It's extremely efficient energy-wise, but massively parallel and weirdly put together so not entirely comparable to an electronic computer. Still, the computing resources available to process the images from the human eye are enormous.
Because, at least for me, it takes a lot longer to visit my email, wait for the email to arrive, open it, click the link, than to just fill in a password (or preferably have my browser/password manager do that).
In the email, you can click "Sign in & remember me". I guess that sets a cookie in your browser, so next time you come back, you'll still be logged in (until the cookie expires).
"the executive branch has no legitimate purpose in keeping secrets"

I don't think the parent claimed that.
That this is an opinion piece is made obvious by Betteridge's Law:

> "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I'd be crazy for a library (any language) to distill a sound file into discrete MIDI notes (or any notation), with configurable threshold levels. Clustering those into different tracks by some unsupervised learning would be a dream.
Url changed from http://io9.com/this-widely-cited-physicist-is-a-total-asshol..., which points to this.
All your mobile devices probably already have access to your primary email account.
Are false positives the real problem, or the fact that the current medical system is not equipped to deal with them?
But clicking the link on your phone would only log you in on your phone, no?

So your phone can't aid you here. If you're using any type of setup that doesn't use instant-push emails on your desktop, logging in will be very cumbersome.
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I wonder if part of the reason is because the direct source was provided, it'd be not only much easier for Google itself to find and censor the image, but to prevent mobs of Internet users trying to "doxx" or otherwise prank businesses/residents of that location.

Obviously, Google probably doesn't need much help in performing a reverse image search across its own street imagery. However, the additional bad PR that comes from anonymous users targeting a locale would most definitely be a strong incentive for them to censor a particular Street View image.
I grew up in the sixties, when their motto was "Sears, where America shops." I don't know if they can say that with a straight face today, but back then it was largely true. The end of every summer we made the trek to the other side of the county for school clothes for me and my sister.

I have no idea when's the last time I was in Sears, but I can't imagine ever wanting to.

Businesses come and go.
As I understand the code, an "Atom" is like a tagged pointer. It gets passed around by value, sometimes it contains the value itself (numbers), and sometimes it contains a pointer to something malloc'd. So an AtomType_Pair is an atom in the sense that it gets passed around by value like an atom, but it is a pointer to a malloc'd pair.

What strikes me is that Atom's are being copied by value all over the place, even when a good chunk of them don't matter. I don't know whether the optimizer can help with that or not, but it seems like there could be a lot of unnecessary copying during procedure calls and returns.
Flask-Security supports this experimentally. I love it. It's much less of a hassle than you might imagine, having to click a link in an email.
> It's too cumbersome to have to access your email every time you want to log into something

That is not the case. It will remember you every time you come back. You just never set a password when registering.
https://fidoalliance.org/ is a much better idea and worth investing in instead.

Passwords must die. We need to get to the point where there is a modular mechanism for authentication so that individual devs never are tempted to create a users table and add a note field for password storage.
Every time I've heard of this system, I've thought that it would make it clumsier to access an account.

I go to a site and my intention is to stay on that site throughout whatever I'm doing there. If you force me off your site for something like logging in (where it's the point of 'I trust your site, give me access') then I've lost focus and you've put your experience in someone else's hands.

If I was doing this, I'd have to open a new tab, go to GMail, wait for it to load, find the tab within GMail that has the email and then click the link. Every so often, I'd probably have to put my Google password in too. That's a lot of effort, considering that your site probably isn't that significant to me.
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This is already the case right now. An attacker who has access to your primary email account can gain access to any of your accounts using Forgot Password.

This is not the case when using two factor authentication.
Anyone Can Lead
the 'right-thinking programmer'. How bizarre.
This is awesome, thanks.

edit:

Just found this example song apparently coded live in Overtone: https://soundcloud.com/meta-ex/spiked-with-recursive-dreams

Quite amazing.
No, I'm talking about bicycle helmets, including the lightest ones. I feel deaf and blind in any helmet - or even in a hat.
I recall that "Betteridge's Law," which I see from the Wikipedia citations is a new and not particularly widespread idea, was promoted here in the Hacker News community by the site founder and former chief site curator, pg (Paul Graham). While I will agree with the proposition that many articles titled with a yes/no question invite the easy answer no, I don't think that is an invariant property of all such articles. I think it's too cheap and easy on the part of the learned readers here to simply invoke "Betteridge's Law" without reading an article deeply and grappling with more of the article's argument than the article's headline. (That's especially true because sometimes headlines are chosen by editors of a publication, while the text of the article is chosen by the article's author.) I've already indicated that I am not sure I should accept the argument of this article (which brings up issues that are already familiar to me from other reading), but I also am very sure that we shouldn't dismiss every article submitted here with a yes/no question in its title before we read the fine article.
Less -> Fewer
This might be the case if this site were the original source of each image, but it is not.
It's clever but I wouldn't use it. First the user experience of going from one channel (web) to another (email) isn't very natural but the second and biggest reason is that it turns an email account into a central authority to access my other accounts from.

Some say email is already like that but it isn't with services using two factor authentication.

I don't think there is an easy and intuitive way to get rid of passwords without involving some sort of physical component that stays on yourself.
So impressive, although it's source code patches can likely disable needed functionality, and in the process allow a 0day to turn into a denial of service attack.
Thanks, these are really cool. These were the kinds of things I had in mind. I'm tempted to experiment with one myself, but my music skills and knowledge are non-existent. And I'm pretty sure those are much more essential than programming skills when using these languages.
This came up on HN a couple of weeks back - http://www.algomation.com/

A few sorting algorithms - http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

Visualization of Path-Finding Algorithms - http://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/

Lastly, Mike Bostock (creator of D3) has a really cool bunch of algorithms over at his blog - http://bost.ocks.org/mike/
I've had the same experience, only with prose (an old forum post of mine).
DoS is preferable to RCE though, in my opinion...
Beautiful in its simplicity. It Just Works. Tested on S4.

Sharing with friends ;).
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One-time binding is a 1.3.0 beta feature (check your version before using)!
It should be clear how you pay, though.
Lisp Machine Manual, Hypertext Edition
The whole thing is the gaming industry is corrupt. People can pay for good reviews or have sexual relations with the reviewer in exchange for a good review.

It doesn't matter if one is male or female that does those sorts of things. But when one gets caught he or she can fake threats with Twitter accounts to cover it up.

For some reason most of the people doing this are feminists, I don't know why, nor do I know why the mainstream media and news media won't cover it. Why is it a non-story if a feminist does bad things for a good review and when caught does a Twitter hoax, and then rewarded for it?

Sure those sites might be crappy towards women, but they uncovered some facts about the hoaxes. Something the news media refuses to do, which is why those websites report on it. I wish the news media would investigate it and find out if it is a hoax or not.

But taking a picture of a Tweet 12 minutes after it happened is very suspicious, esp when that Tweet is deleted in less than half an hour and the account gets deleted as well. So nobody else can see it or what IP it got posted from.
Or like asking Twitter or Instagram to delete accounts used by ISIS, a terrorist group that coordinates things via social networks.
Compared to 6to5 [1], all others look subpar.

[1] https://github.com/sebmck/6to5
I'll add another vote for prawn. It's a great library that has allowed us a lot of flexibility with our generation of pdfs. The author Gregory Brown, as well as the current maintainers, are very active and have done an amazing job at getting it to 1.0. I highly recommend it!
>NSA currently requires companies (like Microsoft, Apple) to provide encryption keys corresponding to devices

Link, please?
I've never worked on a larger javascript project, so I'm not sure why you'd care if your front-end js renders on the server (i'm assuming this means no visual browser). Is this for purposes of automated testing?
I totally agree with this.

I've been living the "digital nomad" lifestyle for the last year, but TBH I was really lucky to land a full-time remote role with a Bay Area startup.

I was freelancing for the first few months though - I found it was really stressful trying to travel & find projects at the same time. When you arrive at a new location, it's difficult to sit in a hostel foyer coding when all you want to do is explore.

It's definitely possible to do, but just be aware of how much self-discipline you have. You can make this easier by staying in one place for longer periods, so that you don't have to feel like you're missing out if you stay in working all day. As a positive, I've actually been able to save a lot of money, even whilst travelling, just by living in cities with lower cost of living. I'm planning my next move to Hoi An, Vietnam right now. This link might be useful: https://nomadlist.io/

Also, I wouldn't recommend Elance et all for freelancing. Assuming you have some experience, I think you'd be a lot better off trying to find long-term, remote gigs. Here are some places for remote jobs:

https://weworkremotely.com/
http://www.authenticjobs.com/
http://workinstartups.com/job-board (filter by 'Anywhere')
hard to see how this really faster (and less bug prone) than generating one with Ragel.

Hm, I actually think the opposite (except for the point about bugs). A hand-crafted parser can easily be faster than a generic parser because:

* You aren't limited to implementing a regular grammar

* You can guarantee no overhead is introduced by the parsing tool

* You have complete freedom to optimize at the lowest levels

Now, I've never used Ragel, so I'm speaking from my experience with other parser generators (and from the perspective of a programming language implementation). I'd be interested to know if Ragel is different with regard to any of these points.
http://www.algomation.com/ has a lot of algorithms explained visually.

I also maintain a playlist with interactive explanations, which might be of your interest:
https://gibbon.co/Steven/interactive-math-for-lasting-insigh...
From the video on this page[0], it took 12 steps to link a fingerprint with fido. That doesn't seem like a realistic solution.

[0] https://fidoalliance.org/adoption/videos
If you've ever run Linux, it's not really naive at all. Almost any program you might want, free and easily installable.
SCOTUS never endorsed this sort of taking, they said that it is not unconstitutional and (in this case) the defendants to not have the constitutional right to challenge it.

A constitutional amendment could trivially solve this (once you get it passed, which is highly nontrivial), while new legislation can solve it by either making such forfeitures (or asset freezes) illegal, or giving the defendants a legal (not constitutional) right to challenge it.
If the app doesn't have my consent to have the data, then any attempted use of this data is illegitimate. If I don't want a flashlight app to view my private data, then they don't have my consent no matter what bits the phone and OS sends the app.

That's the key point of system ownership - if the developer of the program wants it to do A, but the owner of the system wants their phone to do B, then doing A is a bug that needs to be worked around. Even if it was explicitly designed and implemented that way, from the viewpoint of the user this is an anti-feature; and the current system architecture that favors the will of the app developer over the will of the user is certainly feasible, but it explicitly means giving up control over the system. And that, IMHO, needs to be fixed.

It's similar to opt-out permissions for email marketing - if some company managed to get "permission" without meaningful consent, it doesn't give any permission and their actions are still immoral and, in some places, illegal. Or click-wrap agreements "signing away" basic consumer rights that (in some places) can't be signed away - again, formal "permission" doesn't imply real permission.
thank you very much - really appreciate the kind words!
Thanks for the test suggestion, we'll run some HEVC and share results here today or tomorrow. We do have plans for a C version in the future but we'll have to get that far this is why we hope to be accepted to the wonderful Ycombinator Accelerator this winter.

Thanks for all your time jsaxton86! We'd love to have more people visit this thread and get the chance to have some independent results shared here, if you have any friends with OS X or a Virtual Machine, we could use their support!
The email also contains a short, one-time-use password that you can use instead. Look at the email on your phone, enter the password on your laptop.

I've wanted to move Persona in this direction for a while. I'm really excited to see if Webmaker is successful with this auth model.
VisuAlgo is also very nice. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/visualization/index.htm...

A friend posted this funny video series of sorting algorithms interpreted through eastern european folk dance today I just have to share!
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos