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I think that's harsh. Education is expensive, necessary and completely inaccessible to those people.

We say "the fish has iron in it, you need iron" because we have a basic level of education. They say "the fish is lucky, I'll put that in the pot if the community says to" because community and tradition are good proxies for safety if you do not have that education.

Also, if we miss a pay check or a grocery store trip, we're fine. If they zig when they should zag it can mean death or deprivation. We should not lightly mock choices made when the stakes are so high and the known and understood information so low.

I don't have the answer here but I know that "well, Darwin will get them" isn't it.
But that's just evoking the misunderstanding that in evolution the primary competitors are species, rather than individuals.
Hmm--is that why Jim Lovell asks Houston to double check his arithmetic for the course alignment in Apollo 13?

Kidding aside, he has at least tried to promote interest in space exploration, so that's a plus.
...it's actually a good compliment while (slowly) trying to complete the challenges on http://cryptopals.com/
It's possible - but you can't get anywhere without taking risks, right?

I think the really exciting part about this will be the ability to upgrade components of your phone quicker. Or put in components you care about (or don't care about).

Don't want a camera in your phone? you don't have to have one! Fill that up with battery instead. For the first time ever you'll actually be able to tailor your mobile to your needs - and then when they change you shell out just a fraction of the cost of a new phone in order to swap out modules.
> just as it took time for the Irish or Italians to assimilate ... For a variety of reasons, assimilation across racial lines is much more difficult

In early America, the Irish and Italians immigrants were not considered white, like the British and Germans were. They assimilated across racial lines and joined the "white race". And, indeed, many more races will in time. Incidentally, Mexicans were considered white for about 70 years until 1920.

"Among those not considered white were the Slavs, Greeks, Italians and other Mediterranean peoples." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th...
I was speaking specifically of this line:

> That genetic variation is generated by random mutation — a process that is unaffected by what organisms in the population want or what they are "trying" to do.

I have nothing against the second half of that sentence.

Perhaps a better explanation was available elsewhere in the article and I missed it. The link originally went to the middle of the page instead of the beginning, so I wasn't taking it in order.
As in not happy with the FreeBSD implementation of ZFS relative to the Illumos (OpenSolaris?) code?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=automatic+statistician#!/story/for...
Can Wave Equations Explode? Computer Algorithms May Provide the Answer
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They may be treating the various linux distributions as separate entities. Then the number of Linux based operating systems should far outpace just about anything else ....
This is, unfortunately, not something where I can easily give you a short, sweet and concise answer. There's a massive body of literature (and much debate) on the answers to those questions. I guess the most concise answer I can give here, without having to write a huge essay, would be to say "a combination of all of the above" (that is, "voluntary tipping", "usage fees", and "other").
We're talking about a different "them" though. I believe you're talking about the government, their capabilities and permissions are quite clear. Here, we're talking about a third party though who you conciously opt in to.
It doesn't need it, it stores the User Agent beside the unique fingerprint to tell people with the same fingerprint what browsers they (probably) have.
If it really doesn't work without UA, then it's just the website not expecting someone to have disabled it.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=poisoned+nul+2014#!/story/forever/...
I don't think you're a shrinking minority at all, especially since the article itself mentions that people are concerned.

The problem with this approach is that you also give up control. Want an extra feature or bugfix? Petition FB and see if anything happens. Want to interface with some other system? Get used to browser hacks (cf all those things for Gmail).

I also find it laughable that the article discussed whether or not there will be ads - as if that's the most salient point. Of course the companies will be paying for it and it's obvious to me that FB will want to mine that data regardless of whether they happen to show you ads. They'll also be strongly encouraging users to link accounts too so that the profiles they have of you are even more complete. Depending on how this is adopted, some of my friends who've avoided FB may be forced to join anyway via their employers. Should they switch jobs?

Having said all the above, I'm sure this product will be successful. Most groupware in companies sucks (just think of the convoluted way of arranging a meeting), so a UI like FBs is a great step forward - esp since most of your employees likely need no training.

FWIW I'm working on decentralised alternatives. I don't want to live in a world where my future kids' only options are to either give a tiny handful of companies unfettered access to everything or to go and (literally) live in a cave. http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
0.1% of people in the world? That seems a little high. 0.1% of people who describe themselves as *-dev? That seems really low. Also, how do you define "need"? Dtrace isn't just for tracing functions down to the kernel level, and I can imagine all sorts of things that a web dev would find useful in dtrace. Just google "ruby dtrace".
Seems like it is.

We use nwjs with lot of files + sqlite3[1] + bluetooth + http + child synchronization for tasks in other languages[2].

It works well, scale well, is cross-platform with changing very few of the application code (the build process is quite complex, thought).

Also, building an html with bootstrap, eventually with the chrome developer tools, takes agility to a whole new level when we speak about desktop applications.

[1] With http://bookshelfjs.org/ but http://sequelizejs.com/ is better in most cases

[2] With https://github.com/primus/primus we spawn watchdogs which run processes (via http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html). It's very effective.
The Coase Theorem is false: contracts depend on tort law (2008)
Should Psychological Neuroscience Research Be Funded?
Which makes an appearance in the always recommended novel Cryptonomicon.

http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/00605...
'GWAS Plus': Cognitive Ability Substantially Heritable and Massively Polygenic
Police in Australia carry guns and yet suspects being shot dead is rare enough that when it happens it tends to be headline news (often nationally). Perhaps part of this is that civilians in Australia are far less likely to be carrying weapons themselves, so police do not have to be as cautious as in the US.

Ultimately, I don't believe the problem lies with the firearms but with the culture. As an Australian visiting or moving to the US, you will inevitably be reminded that if a US police officer pulls you over you should not get out of your car. I've had people tell me that if you do get out of the car, the officer will draw their weapon and take aim. Perhaps that is exaggerated, but to me that is an absolutely ludicrous reaction. It paints a picture of US police as having an extremely paranoid, "us vs. them" mindset. What I read in the news and have witnessed since I moved here seems to confirm that.
Hopefully the last post I'll ever write on Dual EC DRBG
For anyone else having trouble reading the quote:

> While similar to other open source unix-like operating systems, it’s unique in that the development of both its kernel and user space utilities are managed by the same core team, ensuring consistent development standards across the project.
Morningness-eveningness and education: Lark advantage over the owl at high school [pdf]
Machine Learning, Combustion Engines and Real-Time Control
Ah, sorry. Earlier on it gave the version I was responding to. Still I think in science it is better to not assume universal qualifiers unless they are explicit.
Yes, I absolutely think the police should not discriminate against crime-heavy neighborhoods by policing them less than they deserve/need. To police them less is the discriminatory thing to do, as they need it more than safer neighborhoods.

Of course, the entire discussion we're having is invalid if we work with the premise that more policing = more convictions, by virtue of the crime being everywhere (across boundaries in whatever criteria you wish, e.g. race) regardless, and convictions being a simple byproduct of policing and not of said underlying factor like race, obesity, education, socioeconomic status, or hair-color.
> voluntary tipping

"Looks like 341 Maple Street is burning down."

"Eh, let it burn, they're terrible tippers."

> usage fees

"We'd be happy to put out your house fire, sir. Just swipe your MasterCard here."
Not with a properly designed link budget.
As far as I know, PayPal never had the part of this that I'm most excited about -- straightforward UI and APIs for training the models over time. (Both so that they can be globally better and also better-adapted to each specific business.)
narrow-sighted logic.

Diversity is what makes life. If you attach future earning potential qualifier to the free education, then you'll have a disproportionate amount of people attempting fit their square potential into a round hole.

Over a long period of time, you loose out the natural diversity that would otherwise exist in the general public - of people each dedicated to skill set they are best match for.

Not everything human produces ought to have an economic component.

Painters, Poets, Musicians... ?
Most important: I can run Jive in my own IT environment. At least I can defend myself from espionage.
How long is your commute?
I work for a start-up as a developer and travel 32 miles to work each day - with traffic this takes me 50-60 minutes a day.
Everyone I work with thinks this is weird.
What about the rest of you?
The military designed the missiles and the bunkers that housed them with the utmost urgency, working at a moment when the concern over national security was so severe that it bordered on panic.
I deactivate the geolocation api and I think that you should allow the user to tell you it's latitude and longitude if a user refuse to use geolocation.

It is a really nice initiative ! I will spread the word around.
> One hundred pounds of gunpowder had detonated from inside its storage space above the writing room.

As a non-nautical fellow, I have to ask: why did a cruise ship have a hundred pounds of gunpowder stored?
Kevin Rose Leaves Google Ventures
I think the real use case here will be phone repairs:

Camera lens or screen cracked? Just swap in a new one.

Button dead or jammed? Just switch in a new one.
Good article. Saviano writes from the heart and avoids platitudes.
He covers most everything when someone does something never done before or does it better:
1. Intimidation, in this case with threats to life.
2. Anger and a sense of irritation from the lay public for shining such a bright light on the problem.
3. Attempts at discrediting the person and hence by extension the person's work.

And the reward for this is:
The immense loneliness of the person who treads the new path.

Hmm, reminds of what PG says (paraphrasing) "the modern age (in the western world) started when the good kids started to keep their candy." This seems to have missed parts of Italy.
I am an instructor at a community college, and I have to say that I had earfuls of embarrassing pessimism from my colleagues yesterday. You'd have thought that Obama himself was taking the tuition directly out of our salaries to fund it.
I think some of the comments re: browser agent are missing the point. I think the poster was not focused on whether it can identify the system or browser type, but instead as a technique to provide a potentially unique (or somewhat unique) fingerprint that a user can't eliminate easily. So, a site could use this code (along with other techniques) to identify your browser and even if you delete a set cookie, detect that it's the same browser.

They may discover, btw, that it's not as unique as they think it is, but combined with other techniques, can be a tracking attribute that is difficult to disable.

It doesn't seem resilient to change in the underlying system from my cursory view (if I change my graphics card, resolution, or color depth, does this id change?) but like https://panopticlick.eff.org/, it's useful and a good cautionary tale to see the variety of ways your browser can be uniquely distinguished, with and without the use of cookies.

BTW, the icons on the left side of the browserleaks page are actually a menu and offer other "leaks" of info from the browser: some well known, others more subtle.
Do you have a timetable on when tickets and announcements will be set up? There are outstanding issues with hundreds/thousands of votes with zero updates, and promises made 12 months ago with no progress. I've heard DO reps in the past say they were going to update things but lack of follow-up is always what happened.

I think I speak for a lot of DO users who have to rely on AWS/Linode for larger clients that we'd move more infrastructure over to larger plans if we could just get better ops timelines. Your support for servers has been nothing short of great in my experience, but no timelines and no communication on stuff as important as retaining IPs and uploading custom ISOs (both available on cheap $5 VPS providers that are nobodies on LowEndBox) is really frustrating.
A lot of school administrators have PhDs, but get one to tell you how they learned about some really cool experimental results at some conference (probably publicized by someone trying to sell them something, incidentally, but that's another problem) and are trying to reproduce them at their school(s).

You'll be in for a treat.

A "treat".

Fun bonus anecdote:

One of my wife's principals was convinced the prayer jar she provided for the staff was effective because over half of the prayers the prior year had been answered. When she told me that story it damn near broke my brain.
> How would you fund services like police/fire departments or infrastructure improvements (roads, electricity), basically anything where its existence benefits many

Wouldn't food also fall into this category? Its existence benefits many. Would you want to nationalize food production?
* All else being equal. As in, explaining to people here why e.g. a $70,000 / yr salary in the US would be much more attractive to them than it would be to me, with >$100,000 in high interest student loans. And all often is nearly equal in the US - as long as you speak English and can get the visa without the company's help.
> instead of taking it out of the federal govt. budget

Why is education for the citizens of a country considered something that a countries government should have no part in in the US?

If education really is something important for the country, would it not make more sense for the country to prioritize and fund it as opposed to leaving it to the whims of whomever feels like funding it that day?
Articulate: https://www.articulate.com/company/careers.php
Does the libertarian anti-tax concept go to the extend of HOA fees?
I'm getting a 404 Not Found

Here's the google cache version for anyone else:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SfJuFH...
Elon Musk says Model 3 will cost $35,000, aiming for 2017 launch
You mean college level? My stellar astronomy involved quite a bit of computation for orbits, determining the mass of stars, etc.
Google for work. Half-backed?
OSX is largely based on DarwinOS + some lipstick and customization... so it's close-ish to being Open Source... but I see the point.
Sometimes "hypothesis" persists well past the guessing phase (e.g. "The Hygiene Hypothesis" is pretty well supported, even if it's not a complete explanation of autoimmunity and allergies)
Therefore I wrote https://github.com/tschundeee/maverix
as an OSX Theme :)
The Interview offers lessons on the value of bad publicity
Seven powerful design thinking principles
Good point, I glossed over that detail, but they are comparing to only open source OS's, so my examples are bad. Still, looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_opera... I think Linux is the odd man out here. Anyway, I suppose most of them aren't popular enough to be considered by Digital Ocean or their customers, so you're right there.
Hmm. I never really thought about it until now. I used to be a hacker (not so nice one), but those days are long gone.

One idea with this is using a microphone array with HARK(http://www.hark.jp/). I would be able to listen to any arbitrary keyboard press, and map them to a 3d scene. Assuming a bit of jitter, I could probably reproduce what you typed on your keyboard.

A smartphone with touchscreen would be impractical with this setup. I'm unsure regarding buttoned smartphones (slide out keyboard).

I've been working with 3d scene generation and voice decoding. I'm making a board room auto-transcripter. It would map where people are, and attach who says what, when. It also has uses also in the courtroom where a mic array could also overhear whispers the jurors say in open court, to potentially catch issues that would cause a mistrial.

Of course, this could also be taken to the 'listen to everything in the area and decode semi-private actions'.
This is a bad excuse. So a printer leaks information to the internet and that's why I should leak all information to Facebook? Try to convince an CIO with that.
That's very cool.
I'm very excited about the possiblity of custom-making a phone with just the items and features I want.

I'm not looking forward to dropping my phone and having to pick up and re-insert 10 parts instead of just the device and battery like now.`
> I'm not trying to sound like a "men's rights activist" or anything

And if you would sound like one, would that be bad in any way? Really, what's the problem with that word? Caring for Men's rights is bad?

Look up Karen Straughan on Youtube. She's an MRA and very intelligent woman. She raises many good points in the current, toxic debate.
At least some of it was probably for the Lyle Gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_gun) which was used to send a line (rope) from one ship to another to transfer people or cargo.
The docked capsules are rated for about six months, due to chemicals aboard that can degrade or escape. So if a replace vehicle doesnt arrive in time, then the astronauts may be forced to return. I recall a complete evacuation of the ISS almost happened after the Columbia accident because there werent enough Soyuz in the pipeline on Earth. The 20-some modules of the ISS are finicky enough that you dont want to leave the ISS empty for too long or it may catastrophically fail.

A lesser concern is that seats have mould inserts specific to the shape of each cosmonaut. I am not sure how they handle swaps. Maybe store the moulds on the ISS.
I'm thinking ball pit.
Well, he wasn't bragging about being bad at math. Also, people use reading every day so it's no surprise that most people are reasonably proficient at it even decades after college.
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> First off, there is absolutely no science showing sugar is bad for you, or that it behaves differently from other carbs when combined with equal amounts of fiber (which is why vegetable carbohydrates tend to be "ok").

I just stopped reading there. No point going on, that's just jaw droppingly ignorant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar#Health_effects

The fact you're arguing that green veggies and sugar are equally bad for people is just, wow, just wow. That's a new low.
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How to Fit User Experience Design into the Development Cycle
Cirqoid – printed circuit board prototyping machine
I download my files into a directory called 'shit'. Maybe I need a filesystem that conflates 'shit' with 'Documents'.
If you own the network, you can at least monitor access violations.
Automation, Minimum Wage, & Unemployment: Jon Stewart & Marco Rubio Discuss
An Unconventional Review of AngularJS
Limiting the number of years is rather inflexible and can lock people out for mistakes or significant changes in the market place (such as graduating into a global recession).

I personally have found that due to rules in my state, that I am prevented from going back and pursuing a computer science degree, because there are such limits in place.

This also doesn't consider that people from worse are backgrounds tend to take longer to get through school. This can range from personal or family sickness (caring for parents is common). We always hear from the proud examples of people who overcame their circumstances, but it creates a survivor bias.

From an economic perspective, we are missing out when people get locked out for life who could contribute more to the economy. That's less wealth being created.

I just point that out because while it's easy for us to come up with seemingly simply solutions, but without any built-in flexibility we're back to the same place.
I'm working on a very large, single page app in Angular. I use HTML links everywhere, and I thought that was standard. The router makes it so much easier to use regular hyperlinks for navigation.
If don't own the pipe, then you don't own the data.
I'd really like to see one of these get written one day from a couple of deeper perspectives... The difference between Linux and FreeBSD is bigger than just "they are variants on a theme", even if this is true at the sysadmin level, and even from the application programming point of view.

At a deeper level - things like "non-posix" syscalls vary a lot, and the subsystems they interact with are wildly different. Some of it is again variations on a theme - a special syscall vs an ioctl, or what not, but the way those subsystems interact starts becoming very interesting at a systems architecture level. For instance, I might want to write a specialized networking tool mostly in userland in linux, via nf_queue, whereas in FreeBSD I might want to split the operations between the kernel (via netgraph) and userland (via the pf equivalent to nf_queue).

It would be nice to see a nice write-up, or survey of writeups of the differences at that level.
When bored, you can run `make world` (it recompiles the kernel and every binary on the system).
Pardon my naivety, but why do you need more than 16 addresses per droplet?
Yes, and this is one of the reasons I don't want the government involved in education at all. But, since they choose to be so involved, I find myself feeling that government spending on education should take the value of that education into account. But you're exactly right, in that it's hard to actually do that.

In the end, there are no perfect answers to any of this, it's just a question of "which variables do you optimize for?"
I'd change that 'read' to 'scan' but I can't anymore. I really don't care about that particular phrasing. Not being a native speaker I don't think I'm even qualified to argue the semantics of the word 'read' and whether it can be applied to an algorithm or not.

I was trying to point out that some level of snooping by the cloud providers themselves is going on right now. Note that I tried to defend Google's behavior by saying that it is no secret and people are opting into it willfully.
Absolutely , we shipped our first enterprise swift app at Elementum ( Manufacture
https://appsto.re/us/Jfn34.i ) at the end of last year. There was a learning curve but the metrics regarding lines of code , and time to market made it well worth it.