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Wow, that took me back.

"When I was twelve, I found a crystal amulet that allowed me to telepathically communicate across vast distances. A telltale glint of quartz had caught my eye as I strode the coastal cliffs of Elanthia. I scaled the rock face and discovered a glowing amulet half-buried in white sand."

Yep, I remember the Coastal Cliffs, farming sea nymphs to stock up on gold rings. The amulets were nice, but the gold rings let you mark a location and teleport back to it by turning the ring. Very convenient for long-distance travel.

If the author was tired of all the calculations and such, it is a shame they didn't try out the "sequel" to Gemstone III, Dragonrealms. Still set in the world of Elanthia, DR's purpose was to provide a game world of description and imagination, and instead of the raw calculations and random rolls it displayed text narratives of what was happening. For example, a critical hit might result in severing a limb or decapitating your foe. There were many other major leaps beyond GSIII and DR was an absolutely amazing game with a passionate community (still is as far as I know). Simutronics also had a few other attempts at gaming experiences with a Hercules and Xena knockoff, a detective game, etc. Never really got into those however.

One of the bigger issues I had with how Simutronics approached things though was their absolutely ridiculous pricing. It made sense back in the day when they were the MUD of choice to play and cutting edge. But the only thing that has changed since then is the prices have gone up. Currently it is $14.95/mo for EACH SEPARATE GAME. And extra character slots are an extra $2.50/mo/slot [1].

I normally am quite polite when I speak with customer service reps. However when I called them last year to consider reactivating my account (after tiring of all the latest MMOs) and asked the price, I slipped when he told me and blurted out "YOU HAVE TO BE SHITTING ME. This an ancient text-based MUD and you are charging HOW MUCH?! And it would cost even more to get access to all my extra characters again?!"

Not the rep's fault of course, but come on...that is an absurd price to charge for a text-based game with gaming where it is today. Yes they had highly-involved GMs, and the community was exceptionally high-quality, but that price is just unrealistic (for me at least).

I'd love to get back in, and would even consider paying $5-10/mo for access to all games with a much higher character slot limit, but there's no way I'm paying this price. Which is a shame, because I spent a large chunk of my youth exploring these lands (and can credit it with teaching me to touch-type at over 100WPM at my peak).

[1] http://www.play.net/dr/account/account_faq.asp#A1
Who says I'm defending him? I'm just not convinced his collaborationist past was the deciding factor.
I've seen lots of style guides, but most of them act like writing documentation and editing it are the same process. And so they will give advice on what not to do like "eliminate unnecessary words", but none on how to actually begin explaining the structure of a new codebase or an old one.
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Never before have I felt cash under a mattress was safer than in the financial system.
In medicine, we use simple but formal notes for our thinking. In the military, we use radio messages. In law: plain text you could generate with a type writer. I submit, code is the same for computing.

Excepting architecture and engineering, you could argue that most professions don't need markup.

> Why do Word, our editors, or HN's comment system not fully incorporate multimedia

Because you can usually do more with less. And ascii is about as less as you can get.
From that article:

>In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary.

Harassment goes beyond just "insults", and coordinated targeted harassment campaigns against an individual are absolutely capable of inflicting severe mental trauma.

If you disagree, consider the difference between me calling you a "poopy head" (insult), and me organizing a group of people to call the cell phones of you and several members of your family, multiple times per day for the next several months and leaving aggressive or threatening messages.
Tiniest violin playing for the loss of another pointless discussion about NSAKEY.

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html
Ursula Le Guin agreed with you: http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html
There are a lot of different things going on here but the article is very vague and may not be reporting anything new. Or perhaps it is.

First off there are two generations of keyless entry systems. The older rolling code system, KeeLoq, was developed by a South African company and bought by Microchip in the '90's- a near full break was widely published in 2004/2005 and tools released a few years later[1]. The newer system is called
HiTag2/3/Pro. Vulnerabilities also exist in HiTag2.

Additionally there is a vehicle immobility device known as Megamos (which Land Rover is known to use) - a break was published last year but an injunction by the UK High Court prevented release of much of the technical details at the time.[2] If criminals are breaking Megamos than this is news. To paraphrase HN user brians: "given sure confidence that there is a vulnerability, skilled security [criminals] can find it very quickly. "
[3]

Most talks and articles that come out focus on Keeloq. It's trivial to capture a packet from the remote when not near the vehicle and replay that packet when near the vehicle to gain access. [4]

Once one has access to the vehicle there is a separate attack on the OBD-II port to start the vehicle. This was a a widely published attack on BMW's involving this.[5]

Also, the equipment required to clone a modern electronic car key is widely available. I personally saw a number for sale in the security malls around Shenzhen. Banning ownership of key-recoders probably won't work as most of this can be done with an SDR. The price for an SDR is about the same as a 3D printer (thousands last year, hundreds this year.) SDR's are already cheaper than most dedicated programmers.[6]

Even though most of the protocols are vulnerable or broken it should be noted they are not ineffective. For instance there was an 88% decrease in theft between the pre-98 and post 98 Honda Civic models which began implementing (broken) anti-theft keys.[7]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_crMuwBp8I

[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity13/dismantli...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456206

[4] http://www.wired.com/2014/08/wireless-car-hack/

[5] http://www.bmwland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=135599&s...

[6] https://www.avtotools.com/index.php?productID=409

[7] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-honda-accord-...
One example might be using hollow-point bullets in a military zone. Another might be forcing officers to perform manual labor alongside enlistedmen.
The irony is that one of Jules Verne's best known works is a physically-impossible Journey to the Centre of the Earth, whilst one of Wells' best known works conceives tactical nuclear weapons, radioactive waste on battlefields and MUAD before the structure of the atom was properly understood, and once the neutron was discovered a couple of decades later was acknowledged as an influence on Szilard's thinking when he actually identified the potential for a functioning atom bomb...

His utopias are horribly woolly, but for prediction Wells has few equals
If I understand correctly this is AST editor that has the feel of text editor. That's a thing I wanted to create for a long time. Although I wouldn't have dreamed for it to work with mixed languages.
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Modelling it of Sequel Pro? Now you have my attention... Sequel is easily one of the nicest DBA tools I've used, however it's limitation of being MySQL-only means I get frustrated when having to rely on other, lesser tools for Postgres.
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I find it a little suspect that you had exactly 3400 people watch your training video and exactly 6600 not watch the video. Those seem like very convenient statistics. Am I missing something?
Thanks for the feedback--that's interesting. I'd assumed these were all LED based. If it is electrical contact related, could you not use a gel like another commenter mentioned using with a chest strap?

It seems like a gimmick, but I've had good results with one of the iPhone apps where you place your finger over the camera and it's illuminated by the flash. You have to keep the finger in a constant position, but it works reliably if you do. So I have hope for new technology.

Completely different area, but there's this technology:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/

which seems surprisingly robust. If you can get heart rate from standard video, I wouldn't be surprised to find it's possible to get a reliable signal with a LED and light sensor placed directly against the skin–especially if it's done in addition to an electrical signal.

Either way, we'll find out soon enough. The Apple watch claims to give heart rate too, and they're going to get absolutely slammed in the media if they don't live up to it. Will be interesting to see!
La Fontaine said it best. "Selon que vous serez puissant ou misérable, Les jugements de cour vous rendront blancs ou noirs". I agree with that sentiment. What I find dubious is the linking of crimes committed during the Occupation with crimes committed during the decolonization wars (especially since this kind of war usually involves large-scale torture).
Most fleshware should have this preinstalled.
SSL supports a null cipher, so why not use that? The handshake alone may be enough to prevent packet inspection.
I don't recall the model, but they were 3 terabyte Seagates that were bought 3 years ago. I think my predecessor employed the same controller cards as version 1 of the pods. You could tell that the smart queries pre-empted normal io as the smart query would be executed, and disk activity for certain swift object servers would just stall. The object-servers would not return requests for at least some of the drives until the smart query was finished.

Curiously enough, I've also ran smartctl against Samsung 840Pros using Highpoint RocketRaid controller cards during the same project. Sometimes this crashes the controller card.

(This was for a gluster cluster, when gluster had broken quorum support. A copy of a piece of data, when out of sync with the other copies in a replica set, would be left unchecked. This was produced after one smartctl command took out the controller card, and then the machine along with it.)
>Of course on reflection you're always glad you did; you found something else quickly.

Not really, no. On at least one occasion, I've been desperate and taken terrible jobs to cover my rent. I learned a lot more from the experience than I would have staying in my dead-end job that was over for me.

>A flexible and skilled worker? You mean a dev in a tech hub

Not really, no.

>"will another couple weeks where you are kill you?"

Not really, no.

But if you can't quit for the sake of this couple of weeks, why will you be able to quit for the following couple of weeks, and the couple of weeks after that?

It has to be a personal decision but I observe that people are happier when they ignore risk-averse advice that only permits already-powerful employers to behave very badly, and try the contrary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bloodstone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
It could stop being able to insert content into the page if the structure changed. If they're smart they'll have tests that periodically check it still works and alert them if it doesn't. If they're smarter they'll have it work out where on the page the target has moved to and update the extension automatically with a fix if it can find one.
And the others? Do I get an ORCHESTRA?
The difficulties in the US can be traced to three facts about the United States: elections (including eligibility standards and voting processes) being constitutionally the responsibility of the states, citizens having free movement between the states, and jus soli citizenship. (I would personally say the latter two are good things about the US, but not the first.) Add to that the difficulty in getting the states to go along with the federal government without being compelled, and you have an intractable problem.
SIP takes this to the next level. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4475 Is a spec for "torture tests", where the SIP authors revel in the hideously complex parsing rules they've come up with (which is basically HTTP parsing).

They even suggest that code should infer the meaning of messages. So I suppose you need some sort of AI to really handle things well.

Binary protocols would be a better choice. Or, a well-defined text format. JSON, XML, anything, really, would eliminate this class of bugs.
Some of the figures seem hard to believe, but on the other hand this was 2001. The first 1GHz chip hit shelves in 2000 (?). So 18 cycles then was (very roughly) 100 cycles now. That puts us more in the ballpark. (At 3.3GHz, it's around 200 cycles)

Then add in, if my memory serves DDR was lower latency than DDR3.
Photographer here. We know what these functions are doing to the image (if not literally then intuitively) and want the total control that the sliders-next-to-input-fields paradigm provides. You might be surprised how much math actually goes into photography. Yes I do want to bump the contrast by .1 and drop the exposure by 1/3 of a stop. I've got my eye on the histogram and I know what I think looks good.

I guarantee that any photo editing software that deviates from this UI will get shat on by the professional photography community. I'd love to see your suggestions nonetheless.

The type of interface that I think you're suggesting is Instagram, one that takes control away from the user because the user doesn't actually know what they're doing. This editor actually has something like that with the filters you can select on the left. The problem is, actual photographers are frustrated by these interfaces (or treat them as a toy) because they would rather have all the functionality exposed to them so they can make their own adjustments. You could argue that "constraints breed creativity," but when I'm working through 1500 wedding photos I want my sliders exactly where I expect them to be, doing exactly what they've been doing with high precision for the past 20 years.
Because doing something like that is not only a space and data duplication problem, but also a security problem where you have to be sure that when a specific program has a critical bug (let's take openssl for instance) all the "self-contained programs" that you have on your machine get updated at the specific version that can save your ass... and that's become a vendor-specific issue, not something that you as a user or admin can solve directly and easily.
This sort of segmentation exists in many, many free trials. Sometimes the causational arrow can be difficult to tease out. For example, one's best customers often engage higher with the app on every conceivable dimension, so if you happen to test a particular feature, you'll see adoption of that feature correlates with conversions and might be inclined to e.g. try to juice adoption via promoting in onboarding. That works only some of the time.

In general, though, strong endorsement of figuring out what people care about quantitatively and qualitatively, instrumenting that, and then testing early in the funnel improvements to it. The gold standard is, of course, not doing retrospective analysis but rather split testing the intervention. I sympathize that this is difficult for a lot of SaaS apps as you need high trial volumes to make it work.

I can't share client results but my blog probably has two or three write ups of 10%+ lifts for BCC doing this.
> I've said it several times before here, and I'll say it again. US needs a "Constitutional Court" that filters out unconstitutional bills after they are signed by the president, and before they become law.

The reason the US does not have such a thing is that the principal of the US judicial system is to operate on real controversies with real, concrete interested parties rather than dealing with abstract, theoretical conflicts.

> I also think special Courts are usually bad news as they tend to become biased towards their purpose. So for example a "patent Court" will become biased towards patents, a spying Court will become biased towards spying and so on. But in this case, a Constitutional Court becoming biased towards the Constitution would actually be a good thing.

I think you mistake the way that specialty courts become biased -- like other regulatory bodies, they become biased by developing a strong relationships with the most-frequently involved parties appearing before them. For a Constitutional Court, where the potential pre-implementation challengers of a law are varied, but the defenders are the same, the expected bias is probably not in the direction you'd like.
Sure, but one doesn't have to reinvent the slider every time to do more than just "list them". Grouping elements, maybe even color coding groups, graphical indicators along with numerical values, all those things go a long way, and don't preclude standardization of the input elements themselves. Maybe they'd need to be more customizable.

> At least a wall of homogenous sliders doesn't require me to learn how the widgets work.

That wall is available in many if not all VST hosts, you can still work with the raw parameter list; and I have to say, I for one do not prefer it, at least not for any plugin that has more than 5-10 things to tweak. Except when I know them by name and can filter the list with a few keystrokes, so for that and other reasons I think a normalized is also useful. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
This is an interesting point. I'm curious what you see as the better alternative. From the article, it seems that hiring a VP Engineering was absolutely the right call, both for the company and for himself. Also from the article, the right thing for the company and himself seems to be for him to be involved at something more than an individual contributor level. What would you suggest as the alternative for someone in that position? If a VP/Director Engineering type role isn't the best fit for a technical founder or early engineer, should they regress to an individual contributor's role or should they move on to a new gig, or what?
That's a great idea! I've heard of researchers doing this kind of analysis to detect "hidden gems," i.e., papers that influenced papers that ended up becoming the big cited paper. The tough part, of course, is that most journals are keen on keeping all of their data behind company walls. Perhaps PLoS would be an exception, though...
> Whether an attempt will be made, or whether an attempt will succeed?

Neither. More about if it will compromise the artistry if plot is decided by a committee, which is effectively what will happen if the public gets to 'vote' for what they want to be made. Plot-by-comittee works for a lot of television and film so maybe it'll work for books too, but my gut reaction is that you'll get a much better product if the creator can act alone and not have to worry about getting defunded if they kill off a favourite character or some such thing...
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That one shows up in Asimov's "Caves of Steel" too IIRC.
I wonder. How popular is Pyramid? I ask because I found Pyramid to be quite intimidating the first time (I'm not an exprienced Python developer). It took me four attempts to finally 'get' it - the first three times giving up in frustration and leaving it alone for 2-3 months before trying again.

Now that I get it though, it seems like an interesting framework but not a productive one. I've only dabbled in Pyramid with my free time and have never built a serious project with it, but I can't imagine building anything large scale with it.

(I'm a .NET developer BTW, MVC is what I work with in my day job)
Are you producing anything other than Latex/PDF from this workflow?
> For instance they claim an ADD mem, reg instruction would be translated into three 3 uops. This is definitely not the case, x86 chips can do a load+arith_op or a store+arith_op in the same uop.

Sort of. An `add mem, reg` operation will result in 3 uops, but 2 of them will be fused (treated as a single one) throughout the pipeline until they're dispatched to execution units. This was introduced in the Pentium M, and perfected in Core 2---both of which released much later than the linked paper.
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It made sense in The Caves of Steel, written several years before by Asimov, at the much smaller scale of an indoor city. On an interstate scale it honestly seems goofy and inefficient.
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I guess there are different types. Telling journalists water-cooler rumors and generics is one thing, leaking them classified docs is another. The latter probably is pursued much more vigorously than the first, even though technically the first may be policy violation too.
Or a one time pad. Plug the key into a physical port inside of the car and it generates a million codes that are saved in the key itself and the vehicle. The vehicle can have a memory of several paired keys, which all require a separate procedure. Make the procedure take 30 minutes and require physical access to the inside of the vehicle.

I suppose the issue is that someone could still get you to press the button out of range and copy that value over the air, and then use it on your car. But perhaps there is a scheme to avoid that too. Maybe use a real time clock and use a new key every second.

Really, there should be open source hardware that can do this. Can't these vehicles be unlocked with access to the CAN bus? You could disable the insecure proprietary RF receivers and install an open source system on the CAN bus. They're usually locked down on ignition though...