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What's interesting to me, in addition to the obvious major point, is how this process is taught: in private seminars.

I have seen this in other areas involving questionable practices, especially involving law enforcement. Training agencies put together professional seminars- just as any of us might take a programming seminar- and teach lessons that "improve" the officers' skills, but at the same time, in the privacy of the seminar, strain the boundaries of what's legal.

That's the part that I find fascinating. In contrast to larger-scale fascist movements, in which anti-national behavior is spread from the top-down (I'm thinking of slave-era American and modern Arabic racism here or the classic example of Nazism), this type of nation- and rights-destroying behavior emanates from numerous, distributed "educational facilities."

It's fascinating to me because there's no single identifiable point to put the finger of blame on, because the erosion happens so gradually, the damages to the common good take place in such tiny increments and because it's not motivated by a common, uniting goal (although law enforcement is the simulacrum), but by numerous distributed organizations motivated by making cash via the trainings and who motivate the participants the same way. It's as if multi-level marketing were getting applied to professional gang-banger training.

And through the logic of "training seminar," why exactly not produce week-long seminars in gang-banging? It's not illegal to teach people how to break the law, there is a need in the form of customers who want to know how to do it and there is money to be made in educating others in the arts of carjacking, robbery and drug sales using slides, role-playing and case studies. It is up to the customer whether or not to make use of the information...

One final point is that there is an implied escalation of consent in the "professional" veneer of the "training seminar." This happens due to our assumptions that 1. spending money on a seminar results in at least some useful information 2. information learned in a private seminar is not expected to be unethical or useless. This leads to training seminars on law enforcement (and several other topics) operating as an "offshore zone" where unacceptable behavior gets legitimized: The police chief could never train their officers to perform manipulative, borderline illegal practices, but he can easily sign off on a training where these practices occur and become part of their department[s repertoire. The kinds of conversations and education that could never take place in a public-supported institution such as a police station can easily happen outside the publicly-supported sphere, in the conference room of a hotel, led by a small, scarcely memorable, unaccountable training organization.
Seems like the next evolution step in VR. But developers are already struggling to constantly hit 70FPS for the Oculus, where they have to render two scenes. Rendering 35×35 different images per eye (albeit not the whole scene) will increase computation power significantly - so I guess it will take some time until this becomes possible with consumer hardware. In their paper they mention rendering the video with FPS ranging between 15-70, using a NVIDIA Quadro K5000 graphics card (which is a beast, selling for about 1'900$).
That's great! If I could add one more to the list:

Request a review by just tagging a PR with @bronson-io (or a similar text command).
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Right. When you infer signatures, a change in one place can cause an error somewhere else, and so the error message is very misleading.
It seems their site can't handle the load... or is under attack, but either way it seems to be down.
In some ways one can draw parallels with this and the increasingly complex multilayered abstractions of software - it decreases effort so people can throw together a bunch of libraries and quickly create some app that does something useful, but at the same time decreases motivation to understand the details of what they're building or how things actually work, making it much harder for them to troubleshoot when things go wrong.
Was this relevant to the comment you replied to?
Or http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html -- the os used in a similar course at mit (based on Unix v6, as in ye olde Lions book, but updated to use modern C and modern hardware).
> Does anyone feel any enjoyment when he/she encounters such a statement?

It's impossible to read in a leisurely manner for me as well. But I do have good news: Far fewer writers do this than in the past.

Here's a sentence from the first page of "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens:

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

A wordy tedious style was common in the past -- at least from what I've read. I think that most people write way more clearly and simply these days than they did 100-200 years ago. This applies to news reports, novels, advertisements, and even academic papers.
Whenever, I see statements like that my sceptism of the basic hypothesis goes up.
There are forks which are undergoing active development like 9front, although I don't think anything from Bell Labs is still coming with respect to plan 9.
I've joked about doing this for a long time: the Internet, just without all those annoying people that disagree with you. So on HN, you would only see comments from people that had similar opinions, stories would be ranked based on those people's votes, and comments from people you (or your clique) have downvoted in the past would be hidden entirely. And this would apply to the entire Internet: comments, news articles, search results... everything.

I was only joking though, because a world where people are not exposed to differing opinions is a pretty horrible place. But this is what we're heading towards; a proliferation of cable news channels serving increasingly small niches, personalized search results, content filtered through twitter and facebook friends.

All that said, I'll probably still try it out!
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Dropbox wasn’t hacked
It also helps spreading the news and thus fixing the problem.
Indian Professor's advice to students on what to use his 3D printer for
Thanks for pointing that out. That particular job posting has been fixed.
> Larry Page has talked of a day when a Google search chip is implanted in people’s brains

The premise of the Dune trilogy (called a "trilogy" because of the large time lapse between the 3rd and 4th books written) is the total abolition of computers, AI, etc. Perhaps one day it might happen!
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It's already triggering on updated PRs but I'd guess a comment trigger could be useful as well.
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I'm curious if this "vulnerability" also exists in XP

I was curious as well. Elsewhere the article says it's not vulnerable:

...a zero-day vulnerability impacting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows (XP is not impacted)

Are there any significant Windows vulnerabilities for XP since the EOL? I was waiting for the first one that isn't patched, will be interesting to see how the bad guys use it.
Thanks for the info. Where do you get them at £4 a pop?

Not worried about the bootloader problems as these would be prototype only and the voltage is ok as I'm replacing a PLC implementation with some homebrew kit so it's just switching relays and reading opto-isolated inputs, neither which are voltage sensitive.
You are assuming the rule "Never change the source code unless you have to" is a deontological imperative.

It's not really is it? It's just something you believe and are justifying with obscure ethical arguments. Thanks for the reading :-D
You started with "In my experience, fire drills make people too calm in the event of a fire."

I thought that meant that your building had fire drills, and those previous drills made them too calm.

A real fire drill is more than setting off alarms to see if they work. There are also local fire wardens, which are staff whose job it is to see that people hear the alerts and evacuate, and who make sure that people don't try to re-enter the building.

I've done consulting work for chemical manufacturing companies. A couple required that I go through (pretty basic) training just to work on site. Another had a fire alarm go off at about 6pm, when I and others were still there. Almost evacuated that building (there was some doofus who was on a phone call and refused to leave.)

I was only there for consulting work, and don't know what happened to that person. But if management believes that fire drills, and responding correctly to actual fire alarms, are necessary, then they will reprimand those who don't participate.

But what you experienced was different than I thought. There were no fire drills, people were mostly using their experiences from school/college, and management didn't care.

That's not the same as fire drills making people complacent. It could be that the lack of fire drills making people complacent.

In any case, I'm not suggesting your building needs regular fire drills. Buildings are much safer now they they used to be, and most places don't have fire drills because the cost of running them is worse than the benefits of not. (Chemical companies which store lots of flammable materials on-site, and schools or hospital care facilities with a lot of people who need assistance to evaluate, are exceptions.)
I'm a little annoyed that they called it worm. Malware with the description meant that the software could spread entirely under its own power from machine to machine. This is nothing more than your typical email attachment exploit which is entirely incapable of spreading without human intervention for each attacked host.
ISPs actively blocking the use of encryption
Right, this is my point.

Having lovely hookup diagrams, interactive code editors and Doxygen output for the API is nice, but... What's needed is a mid-level introduction to the library once you've gotten past the basic tutorials and solid examples for the commonly used API calls (most of which are simple, but still).
I sure don't.

I really don't enjoy seeing a single sentence with this many unnecessary commas or two em dashs. This is a 'grammar smell' just as obviously as when we see blatant code smells.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hot-New-Pro-Micro-5V-16MHz-ATMega-...

You'll be waiting a while for shipping, so I'd recommend ordering a few ;)
Unfortunatly, it is not really new. It was already the case in the Windows 98/XP-era when the antivirus business started to grow quickly.
Maybe it's time constraints, as everyone works more hours they don't have time for steady low-intensity exercise so they must pack it into shorter more intense sessions.
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Until the scare-tactics wear off and fancy names for vulnerabilities no longer trigger my "this is big" response.
It says "to convince a user to open it" in the description. If a preview was enough to execute, I'd think that is very important point and they'd definitely mention it - I remember distinctly "previews are sufficient" mentioned in the WMF exploit when it first came out.
Dropbox is centralized at the organizational, jurisdictional and other levels whilst technically it may employ distributed resources. It's not incorrect to point at this centralization as risk, both in terms of availability and scalability.

This is really an industry-wide problem begging for a neat solution. Software eats middle management! (Devops => Devmangops? Mmm... mangoes...) Perhaps the world needs an open source tool in the organizational management/risk space that models business-level risk based upon commercial as well as technical infrastructure.

Perhaps the best model for developing such a capacity is a generic exchange protocol with plugins for risk management? My start brainstorming @ http://www.ifex-project.org/our-proposals/ifex
Mathematical notation is text. Speech isn't.
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Although it's certainly true text is powerful, text is also a reduction of reality.

There is a whole universe of things phenomena text it's sub-optimal for. Experiences being one of them.
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Really interesting, thanks for the explanation!
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Recently there have been many articles and different takes on the AF447 crash. To anyone who is truly interested I would highly recommend to read the official Final Report [1] as it gives a much more nuanced and complete picture than the journalistic dramatizations and heavy handed simplification.

[1] http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/rapport.final....
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I love reading stories about the old phreaks. It was an era that wrapped up before I got connected, and it's got some amazing lore.
As an Emacs user, switching to Conkeror was great for me. It helped me consolidate muscle memory for the two applications I most use.

We have a nice little community on G+ as well: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10673743756791183223...
In larger cities like Shenzhen, there are companies that specialize in ensuring your components are properly sourced (i.e., not counterfeit[0]), assembly, programming, testing, boxing, and shipping logistics are all taken care of. You pay a premium for the services but it's not necessarily "you" who has to do it.

[0] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
Only a small comment: where are you going to put your views? Are you going to use separate folders for views and template views (similar to WPF data templates)?
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Perfect - thanks :)

Ordered loads of stuff from HK so know about the wait. Have usually forgotten about it by the time it arrives!
It is not that modern writing is more clear or in any way better than the styles of the past, it is more often the case that the audience for a modern author is a barely educated simpleton who has a hard time keeping track of a sentence with more than one subordinate clause. The problem is not with Dickens...
> Among complex algorithms Mergesort is stable

> Among non-stable algorithms [...] quicksort [...]

QuickSort can be implemented so that it is stable: http://www.mqseries.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=273722&highli... (I am author, AMA)

Why is gnu-core-utils-sort implemented as mergesort (also in place, but slower) ?

Edit: And sorry: In-Place matters: Quicksort is fastest AND uses least memory.

Who the heck can say sth about the imput (that it may be like "pre-sorted" ?!)
I think another (real) windows zero day will be announced soon. I received an email from Rackspace giving advanced notice that they will be patching all Windows servers to fix a 0day. I'm not sure why they'd take such measures for an exploit involving opening powerpoint files...

Content of the email, for those interested: http://pastebin.com/AZBcQ2DF
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A while ago I wrote something similar (though only for Scala) for a school project. It would basically fake a REPL session, which had the con of being pretty tightly coupled to the language, but it would give you nice automatic output
that would match what the user would get.

Example: http://www.kodknackning.se/gettingstarted/types

Source: https://github.com/teozkr/scala-repl-sampler
> Nakamoto's attorney, Ethan Kirschner, confirmed in an email that his law office is "responsible for the website and the fund." (Quote from Business Insider article)

In other words, it seems the lawyer himself put up this web site and will be pocketing all the funds...pretty sleazy if true.
SSL 3.0 Vulnerability dropping tomorrow
mirror: http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/incident-detection...
> It looks exhausting.

It's meant to be exhausting. What does the author think working out is about?

> It also looks fruitless. Why not join a roofing
> crew for a few hours instead?

The author is fairly disconnected from reality, and has also failed to do the very basic research to answer her own title.

People do high weight, low rep workouts because they take little time and provide high value. (Also for a segment of people the body releases endorphines in response to strenous activity.)

The author also manages to completely fail to build a logical connection between two things they wrote themselves:

> more than a little dangerous. (What if a sledgehammer slips
> paying .... watchful eye of a demanding authority figure

The authority figure's job is to make sure the former doesn't happen.

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If the author wasn't so earnestly clueless i'd think this is a troll article meant to engender annoyance in anyone with a little clue.

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That said, Crossfit could stand to lose some of its cult trappings.
Ask HN: CMS that offers web interface for writing but can export to static HTML?
I have a somewhat odd set of requirements, and I'm wondering if there's anything that meets these off the shelf, either as a single unit or with a base + plugins

Requirements:

* "Pretty" web interface for non-technical users to editing & preview content. This would presumably be stored in a database.

* Multiple user privileged levels - writers who can only create/edit drafts and admins who can create/edit/publish

* "Internal" site that shows all published content; this can be dynamic or static.

* "External" site that displays only a subset of the published pages on the "internal" site. (With index pages updated to exclude anything that's not in the subset.) This "external" site must be static HTML.

Nice-to-have's:

* Revision history for content

* SASS or LESS support

* Ability to include DITA-formatted content in the site and display it with the same template as the database-backed content (I know this one's a long shot)

I was initially thinking Jekyl or DocPad, but then I learned the full list or requirements included letting non-technical people submit content, so now I don't think those are quite as good choices after all.

My second thought was RoR + some plugin to do the export but based on what I've seen on stack overflow, I'm thinking that's not such a great idea either.

My third choice is WordPress + a bunch of plugins and/or hacks in the template. I don't really want to go down that route, but I can do it if it will be the quickest way to get the result I need.

I'm willing and able to do some development work if necessary, but I just wanted to know if there was anything out there that all ready hit all / most of my points. The dynamic/internal site will be hosted on bluemix, so Java, Ruby, and node.js all have first-party support, and PHP and others can be added fairly easily via build packs.
Remember the poorly animated Dune2 intro cracking on the 286? "The planet Arrakis, known as Dune..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-2iIq8AyQc
They are, of course, weakly correlated. If the US government dropped one million dollars cash into everyone's yard via helicopter, we would probably have some inflation.

But contrary to sibling poster, economists have known for many decades that it is only a weak correlation and plenty of other forces are at work. The weak inflation resulting from QE was predicted by mainstream economics and does not come as any surprise. This is nothing specific to the US economy - Japan and the EU are similar real-world examples if you don't care for the economics and the modeling.

Japan is a fine example actually - 15 years later, Japan is, as expected, still not seeing some kind of phantom, invisible-hand "correction" causing massive inflation.
Related discussion from 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444785
I believe this is the first time I've seen an article complaining about Americans doing too MUCH exercise.
Sure, it's a huge risk, not to mention a colossal waste of money for little long term wealth.
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Pretty sure this is about this CVE.
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But I expect most servers don't have any software on them related to opening emails or Office files. I would've thought that Rackspace reserves mandatory server hotfixes for only the most serious vulnerabilities (E.G. shellshock).
The author is a dink. He doesn't even answer the "why" question. I'll tell ya why: because it works. Your stupid aerobics class does barely anything for your health. Strength and conditioning work out on the other hand, does what your body is meant to do. Yes it's tiring, but that's the point.

Said that, there are some people that take it to extremes, but that is just like in any other industry/sport.
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I'm also disappointed by this article. High intensity workouts are actually the golden way toward strength building.

Of course like any sport you need a certain degree of supervision to prevent injuries.

Where's the author getting at?
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Not sure what the fuss is about. Sometimes text is optimal, other times images, video or something else is more suitable. I don't really understand the point of this article.
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The beauty of good writing is the ability of the author to state things simply without requiring the reader to meander through all the half-filled closets of the author's mind.
can anyone vouch for a UK-based equivalent of these?
You'd normally have em dashes in pairs though if you're using them instead of brackets to set off a sub-sentence (as is the case here.)
> can you represent Mona Lisa or Beethoven's 5th in text

It was first created in text :)
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People can read text and understand it. Computers need parsers. Parsers are hard to write, and the time needed to parse one text will be just proportionate to the length of the text. Parsing can't be parallelized.

I'm sure the browser industry could benefit from a open, compiled html format, it would be so fast. I still wonder why there is no such format.

It's not about filesize though, gzip does a really great job at compressing text, but it's just about making a page load faster. It's no surprise to see web browser use so much memory: html is very flexible (there's nothing better), but it's fat.

That is a problem somewhat similar to the RISC vs x86. Risc has a simpler set of instructions, is a faster processor, but executables are much much bigger, requiring more cache. x86 has a more complex set of instructions, so it's slower, but the executables are much smaller. It's a balance to find.

I wonder if you could extend battery life by using compiled html. I would love to test that kind of tech on "normal" cellphones and see if how it performs.
Like lot of things 5% do do much and 95% do too little. The problem is the middle - sorry I couldn’t help myself with that pun :)
pentadactyl [0] is also noteworthy.

[0] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
While it is possible that the author “Heather" is male, it would be the first male “Heather” I have ever heard of.
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