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The purpose of an insurance is to share the risk of individuals with a great number of people.
To pinpoint the risk to a single person is against this purpose.
They can get away with this because you have to have a insurance by law. Therefore this practice should be forbidden by law.
> Is it that the interviewed HEMA "girl" enjoys the fact that size is less important in her sport than in some other sports?

With a very serious face she said exactly this: "It's a serious martial art". Then the narrator says she's already a champion (with just 3 years of training? while studying/working as an engineer? lol) that fights opponents twice her size. And then she goes on with her fantasy: "It's hard for me to fight small people because I'm SO used to fighting with people taller than me or larger than me" (yeah right, that totally makes sense, lol). And then (some context huh?) she says that size shouldn't matter. I have seen this sort of delusion in many activities, including but not limited to religion and "martial arts". And let me tell you, it's all fun and games until someone crashes against reality.

> Is it that her sport is not as "real" as your favorite HBO program?

I specifically said both are fantasy. But it's hilarious that you out of all the people try to mock me for this. By the way, I'm pretty sure the actor who plays the Mountain got more training than you. I would bet my life-savings to him in a fight where he used only armour (no sword) versus you or your "champion" with armour and a real sword. It will probably end like this:

http://youtu.be/pRY4Mpmfk1o?t=3m19s

That's not the Mountain by the way. Check him out: http://media.joe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gameofthrones... . But don't worry. What does it matter that his arm is the size of your torso? You are very fast and skilled. It's not like he wouldn't cut you in half with a single swing, right? Because size doesn't matter.

> Oh, now I see, you're an iaido fan.

No, you don't see ;), because I'm not a Iaido fan. In fact I've never even tried it.

> After all the other stuff you've said, that's just cute.

Is it. I think you are cute.

If it was seen just as a sport or a game, kind of like cosplay, I wouldn't mind. But the girl in the video truly believes she's a warrior and that can't end well.
I agree that technical recruiters mostly suck, but the best ones have a technical background.

I'll add, though, that recruiting is a slog. It's monotonous and involves a lot of rejection. It's often performance-based, and it can therefore be stressful as well. Basically, it has many of the downsides of sales.
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That data is from a day in January, in California. That usually means lots of sun and low air conditioning load. In midsummer, the solar peak and the air conditioning peak occur at the same time, which is convenient. Peak load is on summer hot days. So that works out.

From an economic perspective, one solution is to buy home-generated solar power at the current wholesale rate, which changes throughout the day depending on supply and demand. This is usually lower than what consumers pay, although it may be higher during peak periods.

Since we have a natural gas glut right now, this isn't an immediate problem. Gas turbines go up and down in power in tens of seconds. It's an operational inconvenience, not a big problem. Things will get better if the battery guys ever deliver something cost effective at utility scale.
What kind of content do your publishers show?
Reminds me of this 'Hello World':
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15182496/why-does-this-co...

I bet these two ideas would go well together.
I'd strongly suggest creating an offline copy of the infected SD card before proceeding. Even though you don't have clean backups, you can at least have a backup of the encrypted data. If Nathan doesn't help, that allows you to try other routes. It's also possible that the encryption could be broken in the future.

This is the basic principle of "non-destruction" for sensitive data, and it still applies, even though your data is encrypted now.
I wonder even more if the banks have learned the lesson of not making loans to people who can't afford them? And whether the banking regulators will have the balls to stop the fraudster when they start demanding fraudulent appraisals from appraisers (as the banks and mortgage brokers did in the bubble years) and making liars loans.

Also note that while housing start have recovered since the low post-crash, they are still at historically low levels in the US. See http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0kkME86BGHc/VL-qoysEIbI/AAAAAAAAiB...
Yes, google is great. One secret order and they bend over releasing all of your data.
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The seed for the random number generator is not executed though.
That's exactly what it means. It's called baker's percentage[1]. I find it useful for getting repeatable results when scaling a recipe.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage
> My problem solving process is typically the same thing I imagine most programmers do.

I'm afraid I may be a victim of Poe's law here, but this attitude is... distressing. It completely discounts the value of problem solving, which, once upon a time, was the entire point of the profession.
Lets bring them back.
WSJ.com provides no visual indication of whether or not the article is behind one.

Sometimes it's the full view of the article on the original load, but paywall on refresh; other times it's full view on both loads, but it's off the reader's cookie, so everybody else gets a paywall; other times it's full view for everybody.
That was kind of my reaction about half way into this story. I can't say his career as a life coach hynpotherapist who charges $40K a week makes him easy to sympathize with either.
Disappointingly, there's no mention of money in here, ie EFF fundraising targets. They pull in about $9m a year and spend about $6m [1], and their primary external expense is litigation. For perspective, this is <<5% of what the NRA brings in and puts out every year. I think it might be worth extending this game plan to include straight-up lobbying activity rather than hoping that the techn companies will divert some of their lobbying budgets to promoting privacy (which in many cases would be directly at odds with their business models as far as consumer data is concerned).

1. http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/043/0430914...

I don't like lobbying much, but the fact is that our US political system is less a democracy than an auction. I don't see much prospect of 'a global movement that encourages user-side encryption.' I was all over PGP in the early 90s but honestly I don't remember the last time I bothered to encrypt something, and if you asked me for my public key I'd need to generate a new one. It's not like I don't know how, I just can't be bothered.
It does not. It just moves what "the problem" is.

An example of that is the article itself which leverages the gained information from SO to solve the real problem.

Also arcane knowledge is not the same thing as problem solving.
0.5% salt by my calculation is still 2.6 teaspoons (10g) of salt - In 2L of water that does not seem insignificant. When written in terms of percentages it does.
Excel works for numerical modeling.

Try modeling a multi-actor process. It's representable, but not a model. Better to represent in a swimlane diagram.
I might be way off, but I tend to view this from an economic perspective in that these young (and not so young) shut-ins, in a pragmatic sense, don't need to work to survive. Their parents are able to provide for them all the basic needs for life - mostly shelter and food. It is a relatively small marginal expense to the parents who usually already have fair incomes. Until the parents pass away, which may take some time with Japan's famously long lifespans, most of these shut-ins will probably be alright.

Another aspect I find interesting is that the article is written mostly from an extrovert's perspective on culture. For an introvert, it seems like paradise to be a shut-in. I get fed, cared for, and I can focus on my internal life and interests, with no need to deal with others and all the problems they bring. As an introvert focused on myself and my own well-being, there seems nothing wrong with being a shut-in. Of course there are macro-economic arguments against it, but from a micro-economic point of view where I only care about my own needs, I would be satisfied with a shut-in life.
>excessive attention to detail (perfectionism) are causing him to take much longer.

He has self professed OCD and says this is often why he takes so long. I do offer a lot help in his work but being somewhat new myself I am not always able to tell him how the systems here work.

I'm not trying to change behavior by telling manager, but more trying to have the manager pay attention to the hours he's working and maybe set an upper limit and make him go home after? I don't think his manager wants him hospitalized or burning out any more than I do.

I have suggested searching for other jobs but I think a combination of depression and helplessness prevents him from doing this. He has really low self esteem.
> There is no way to reverse this.

It's easy to reverse some of this. If they're recording license plates and they or someone else will do it regardless, then stop having license plates. The justification for having them doesn't really apply to self-driving cars anyway.

Your argument seems to be that you can't effectively prohibit something that technology makes practical. That clearly isn't the case -- the constitution has been preventing police from searching your home without a warrant since 1789, even though they absolutely do have the operational capability to do that.

More to the point, even if they're not prohibited from spying, as long as we're not prohibited from defending against that spying we haven't lost. Encryption works. Tor works. In many cases the lack of prohibition on spying would be irrelevant if not for the existing prohibitions and impediments to strong anonymity, as with regulations on digital money transfers.

What's interesting is that your conclusion is still mostly right. Government secrecy is the cancer of democracy. But governments being transparent to their people in no way requires people to be transparent to their governments.
No - it would ideally cause that (still a minority) portion of Turks who would be most served by a protection of free speech to demand the restoration of Facebook services from their government.

Perhaps the 20 million Turks who are more sympathetic to Western values should be engaged in active debate with the 54 million who apparently aren't.
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Imo I don't think a distinction should be made, as it is sure to be biased. What is called "anti-semitic" should just be where in belongs, as free speech.
Smart people may have been, and may be religious, but I don't agree that _many_ smart people are religious, at least not dogmatically religious. In my experience _many_ smart people are not religious. As is the OPs experience. You can always find outliers.

And I wouldn't call Einstein religious, at least not the late Einstein. Nor would I call having "humility with respect to the question of human existence" being religious.

Basic inquiry is a trait of smart people. Dogmatic religion requires, maybe even demands for its own existence, that most enquiry (i.e. the "why" questions) be put aside on faith alone. Smart people just tend to not accept the "faith" argument. Smart people tend toward experimentation and logic, over blind faith.
It's possible, but once you're not obfuscating the code - and already depending on OS details when you assume that global data can be executable, whether const or not - I think you may as well just use the inline assembler feature of your compiler. Well, if there is one... MSVC bizarrely doesn't support on x86-64 what was a perfectly good feature on x86.
const char main[] =
"UH\x89\xe5\xb8\1\0\0\0\xbb\1\0\0\0g\x8d"
"5\x10\0\0\0\xba\r\0\0\0\xf\5\xb8\x3c\0\0\0"
"1\xdb\xf\5Hello World!\n]\xc3";
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Fun post. Only nit-pick is that a majority (70%) of MLB hitters use maple bats now, not ash. I know maple is a harder wood but I'm curious to know if it can handle more than the 15,000 lbs of force ash can.

Also, the home run tracker is a really cool site if you like stuff along these lines:
http://www.hittrackeronline.com/
> Is this a taboo topic for native born Japanese?

No, it's just that there aren't that many native born Japanese who are fluent in English or visit Western websites.
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Swiss pikemen and (briefly) spanish swordsmen aside, foot soldiers were either horse or archer fodder.

The implicit contract for military support between the King and the areas he ruled changed in the Dark Ages: instead of providing many men, you provided few mounted men (a requirement that led directly to the feudal system).

So many other people here are correct in pointing out that these sword skills weren't the most relevant thing to the conducting of all-out war.

Nonetheless, europe was pretty martial, and there were a lot of martial contexts besides massed combat.
1. The War in Iraq killed over a million people. We have death robots that kill people from the sky.

2. Snowden, Manning, Barrett Brown, Jeremy Hammond

3. Don't know about this one. I think it's worth mentioning Racism, Islamophobia and Islam or race related violence here.

4. #opDeathEaters

5. I don't know about this one either, but school seems mostly like a tool to incur debt. So not necessarily a plus.

6. You watched the Healthcare debate, right?

7. Surveilled reading is more dangerous than censoring books, full stop. But if you're looking for censorship, there's plenty to go around. Try finding a copy of the Sony leaks these days. Look at what is happening to social media.
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I was thinking more along the lines of making the main function (array) call some other function which does this in such a way that it looks like you implemented a random number generator but it actually prints "Hello World". And you could hide the fact that 'main' was a piece of code by making it the initial seed for for the random number generator and using macros in a separate header file to rename it to something like 'SEED'.
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I don't know of any security conferences that preview slides. original research is presented regularly which means your hard work might leak by conference organizers who can't keep their mouths shut.

Alsp, many speakers are working on their slides and talk minutes before going on. These talks get finished notoriously late
> "Then you end up with the strangest of all joiner group identities, the ones made up of "individuals" who strive obsessively to be "individuals" just exactly like all the rest of their clique-mates.

I think you just described the goth scene perfectly :) Though at least some of the goths are hyper aware of it & treat their "I'm like so different" goth uniform as a joke.

On a related note, going to a goth nightclub regularly is one of the best things I ever did. Being around people who are all similarly socially anxious & tending towards introvert/recluse (and with a shared interest in metal / synthpop) helped us all to become dramatically more social creatures.
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I'd rather have tracking of cars than most things. As a frequent pedestrian, cars scare me. Few common things can cause as much damage to humans and property. Would these efforts be more palatable if the goal was Vision Zero rather than the various low-output anti-terrorism efforts?
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Being called 'anti-Semitic' because you dared to criticize the actions of Israel shuts down debate and effectively removes certain areas of conversation from free speech.

It is possible to criticize fundamentalist Judaism, and the actions of Israel, without being anti-Semitic.

At the exact same time, it is possible to criticize the many illiberal components of fundamentalist Islam without being anti-Islamic.

It is only because we accept that some areas are 'off limits' for conversation that these conflations are allowed to be made.
> They slept too much, but even in the hours that they were awake, their brains weren’t clear. They used terms like “sleep drunk” and “brain fog,” and talked about how hard it could be to stay focused and alert.

Is that feeling really rare? I have that feeling every morning. Thankfully caffeine clears it up for me. But if I skip my coffee it lasts for hours.
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West-Aligned Turks are engaged in an active debate and protests [0]. But like you said, they're a minority (a large minority) so they cannot succeed in electing a political party that can restore their Western, Secular values

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_protests_in_Tur...
Not quite - what matters (normally) is the address of the symbol, not the bytes located there, since in the case of a real function those bytes would be the instructions. So this will either execute the bytes at &main as instructions (4 zero bytes, and whatever follows), or, more likely, crash due to memory protections, as described in the article.
I don't get why he says "VPN connection to TOR => GOTOJAIL".

How is it OK that your ISP sees you connecting to Tor, but dangerous if your VPN provider does? Or is this about some other issue?
And is pretty much a statement of fact.

"Sticking out like a white guy in a Mayan village" would probably have been non notable so I don't follow how it's offensive by switching the subjects.
I first learned about automobile tracking from red light cameras here in Montana.

A company called RedFlex installed cameras here. They subsidized the installation cost in exchange for a cut of tickets.

RedFlex admitted to bribing city officials to get them to install cameras.
I've known more than a few IBMers over the years associated with IBM Almaden and other places. Many of those on contract/part time/etc, kept their heads down. Many full timers, the same thing.

Cringley may or may not be right on the magnitude of the numbers, but the one thing he is right about is IBM is purely governed by pleasing Wall Street above all else.

The IBM that existed when I was growing up and seeded more than a couple of the early founding staff of the UC Santa Cruz Computer Engineering staff (Patrick Mantey and Glen Langdon -- my advisor to name two), is WAY different than the IBM of today.

IBM is a shadow of itself, there are still interesting groups, but even the research arms are being hit hard by genuflecting to wall street.
Mostly we use github. Using pull requests is a great way to being able to review code commits.
One of the nice things about having a 9-5ish job is that I have to go into the office on a regular basis (not necessarily every day). Even just being in an environment (yes, open workspace) with some kind of energy/noise is good for someone who is so inwardly focused they tend to not need headphones in such an environment.

As someone who has done mini shut-ins of almost double-digit days at a time (with corresponding spike in News.YC activity), I believe that once you get off a regular schedule it can be hard to recover. Having some facsimile or proxy of human communication, be it Facebook or people 'liking' your News.YC submissions (or even worse comments), is like empty fast food calories for social attention - but still nourishing at some basic level.

Like they say for people who may be divorced, keeping busy with some project or activity is a smoke screen for feeling lonely. Ultimately, the smoke may clear and you'll feel intense spurts of sadness. Yet - your friends and acquaintances won't know because they think you're always doing interesting things with different circles of people. People tend to see what they want to see.
Fastmail feels very solid to me.
>> Minimalist apps are for people who want to play 'pretend' at writing.

> this comment is single-handedly the most pompous one of all.

It is interesting to note that HN's commenting guideline is to "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." yet, the folks here are downvoting puranjay's neutral 'pretend' comment (not targeted at anyone in particular) while upholding yours (you don't tell someone to their face that they made a pompous remark). What hypocrisy.
Your marginal cost is about what I'm paying for electricity.
Actually, none. If they can provide solar panels for free for the rest of the world let them. That's a subsidy of other governments with as ultimate beneficiary local citizens.
I think it's a case of the leaders restricting the web to its citizens. They have it, but you need to be special to get it.
It might be an easier way to produce obfuscated code by reading the preprocessed output. But I see your point---it's reinventing the wheel in a different way. That's the fun of it of course.
This conflation of "anti-Islam" and "criticizing Islam" is what's holding us up.

You will find this conflation in just about any widely distributed group of people you can imagine. It extends from Islamists, to Jews, to feminists, and that's just off the top of my head. There are certainly more.

People who parrot the "criticizing X means harassing members of group X" angle shouldn't be given the time of day, and yet, they are. It's a surprisingly effective tactic for shutting down debate, since apparently being called "anti-X" has become a worse thing than actually taking concrete action against X.
I would recommend to you also the funniest book ever published, "How to be a Superhero", which discusses many of the downsides of super senses, such as super hearing.
This is specifically in response to the question:

> Can we please stop acting like the USA is somehow a "good guy" anymore?

I am arguing the specific assertion that surveillance makes America morally equivalent to or less than the countries we oppose. That does not seem to be true. Apologies if that's not what parent meant.

Of course this doesn't make America "good" or even okay, but it is entirely possible to have severe problems while still being a "good guy" relative to the likes of Iran.
That is an important piece of information, but viewers be advised: that page has a non-work-safe background and is NOT exactly a copy of the GitHub demo page (and has other obfuscated JavaScript running on it).
Shouldn't it be boring kind of by definition? I mean the whole concept of "boring" comes from describing something that is mundane, accessible and ubiquitous.

If it is statistically most common, then it is the most prevalent and thus not novel whatsoever and therefore boring.

This tells us one of two things:

1. We should be excited that we understand the universe so well that we have determined the most common thing and we represent that so often

2. More likely this is anthropomorphizing the universe around the narrow receptors of visible light
You might want to suggest to him that he'd probably be more productive if he got a reasonable amount of sleep. Once you're that tired, it's hard to concentrate and you end up making more mistakes, which you then need to spend time debugging or completely re-doing. Fatigue also makes learning new things more difficult.

Also, is he really that much farther "behind" than his co-workers, or is he just "behind" based on some arbitrary and unrealistic deadline set by management?

And I agree with the other commenter who said that you shouldn't talk to this guy's manager. There are just too many ways that could end badly.
Your "Educational" hacking program contains Backdoor.Win32.Agent.XAB@282878328

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