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Is math classified as philosophy due to some historical accident? Is that really relevant to the discussion at hand?

And wasn't Wittgenstein essentially out to destroy traditional philosophy?
Why does volume protect you? Most of this spying is automated. It doesn't make much difference to them if there are 1,000; 10,000 or 100,000 people on this list. There are already too many people of interest for GCHQ / etc to monitor individually effectively. And that group is only about a thousand people.
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Rome wasn't built in a day. Any product that's been around for 10+ years accumulates a lot of "junk." The thing is, it wasn't always junk. Eight years ago it was the best thing, it just hasn't been updated since then (aside from patches and bug fixes, as mentioned in the article).
I just cant imagine what sort of upbringing could lead to a mass of people who think that murder and war are the first and best options. This is a religious war but their religion isnt islam, its violence.
Not sure, but it does say:

> when we migrated 17 active WIRED blogs into a single WordPress install
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> In keeping with its image as a gas tank of ethics running on empty (...)

This is the best one-sentence summary of Uber I've ever seen.
"If someone posts more than two lines of practically any curly-brace language as one line, it's illegible." "...you can pull it into an editor ... but it's a huge waste of time..."

Well, I know it may sound a little bit awkward, but sometimes I just want it to see it work before looking into it, and copy-pasting curly-braced kind of code is perfect for that. So the curly-braced style solves a lot of such inside content distortions and actually frees me from a huge waste of time.
> "Man of Steel" on the other hand, begins with action, continues with action, and ends with action, taking only brief breaks to string along a flimsy plot and barely flesh out stereotypical characters. Halfway through the city-wrecking final action sequence one finds oneself wishing the film would just get to the point!

It's like the cinematic equivalent of "the loudness wars" in music production. In music, the idea is that people like volume and it makes songs stand out on the radio, jukebox, or a test screening so the only way to compete with loudness is more loudness. The fear is that compared to competing tunes your offering will seem too quiet and boring and some ADHD-addled listener might (gasp!) change the channel.

In movies you also see this sacrifice of pacing and careful buildup of tension for wall-to-wall action and destruction. On the surface, more volume, more energy, more destruction, and more action seem like a sure way to ensure something memorable since you've maximized the "peaks" and avoided those dull, boring "valleys".

In reality, the whole thing is mentally exhausting and you end up with no stand-out moments. When you start off at 11 and stay at 11, you miss the buildup. I'd argue that in music and in film, it's the "contrast" between high and low that elicit the most memorable experiences.
Good question - the wp-login.pp is accessible, however that doesn't say too much: https://www.wired.com/wp-login.php

They left this up: https://www.wired.com/readme.html - But again, now too telling.

Site does not handle being secure: https://www.wired.com/

I would imagine most of the "hardening" is on the server level, and not the basic level WP security that most webmasters usually encounter.
Hah, my first though on reading this was that the software stack implementation must slow the machine down horribly. Then I remembered that this was back in the day before cache memory and other optimisations existed, making the technique close to comparable to using the hardware-implemented stack.
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Presumably that's what the court will have to decide, if it gets that far.
The OS you want doesn't exist. If you think it does, I welcome you to please just go and use it or invent one yourself instead of wasting your time trying to convince little old me.

TempleOS is probably a good fit for someone like you. Enjoy that!
You're absolutely correct. News source uses ISIS uses news source...: the former spreads propaganda, the latter finds new stuff to fill the holes between commercials.

We also know that many people have joined ISIS because of such stories of bravado. theverge should know better.
Chart it up!
There's only one correct answer: it depends.

Edit: Possible meanings:

- This device sucks in terms of security. An attacker can compromise it and do stuff with it.

- This device sucks in terms of security. I can compromise it and do cool stuff with it.

- This device gives users the possibility to gain root permissions and do cool stuff with it.
A judge will determine that. Generally you do have to cough up information for criminal activity, but a judge determines what and if.
> In the case of AWS, prices are cheap. But once you've built your software to use all of the proprietary AWS services, it's not economically feasible to switch to another cloud provider. You're locked in.

I would actually say that this is not a huge issue with AWS. Amazon tends to either use open protocols, or the industry adopts Amazon's open protocols (see S3). It's also their philosophy as a company that they want to win by helping their customers win. The folks at Amazon drink the kool-aid: from the top down, they legitimately believe that this attitude is their core competitive advantage. Bezos has been known to fire people for making moves that were profitable, but customer-hostile. He sees it as undermining the long-term brand value of Amazon in the pursuit of short-term profit.

Amazon's whole strategy here is really interesting: in markets where they can achieve economies of scale, they are totally willing to help lower their competitors' cost bases. That's because their competitors are now contributing to the scale that allows Amazon to succeed, and also helping Amazon to lower their own cost base. The ultimate idea is that if you always give the customer what they want -- even if that means helping your competitors -- you will be at the forefront of any industry you want.
> One of the things this program hammers in early is fundamental programming principles like OOP

OOP is not a fundamental programming principle. Its a recently popular programming paradigm. The idea that OOP is a fundamental programming principle is a harmful concept to internalize (though lots of programmers trained in the last ~20-25 years have internalized it.)
When reporters asked former world chess champion and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov who was behind the assassination of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, he dismissed the question as irrelevant.

Whoever did the dirty work, he implied, would have done so only with President Vladimir Putin's blessing.

"Who gave the order to kill Nemtsov? Who knows,” Kasparov said. ”But this was done not far from the Kremlin and it would have been done by Putin's cronies. Who ordered it? I don't care. Putin must be held responsible for the murder of Boris."

Kasparov’s remark gets to the heart of the larger significance of Nemtsov’s killing. We don't yet know who ordered and carried out the hit or why. But the specifics don't matter as much as the signal it sends -- and what it portends.

"The message is this," Kasparov said. "We have no allergy to blood and anyone can be killed."

Putin's 'Hybrid' State Terror

http://www.rferl.org/content/nemtsov-analysis/26874842.html
>Your system, requires what should be metadata -- package build instructions -- to be intermingled with code -- the package manager program.

Package build instructions are code. C Packages builds in Guix are a pure function of their dependencies and the version of Guix being used, so it makes perfect sense to ship the package recipes with Guix itself.

>Intermeshing the software from the data is just going to lead to problems.

So far it's lead to a lot of solutions. As Lispers often say, code is data, and data is code. I think you have a disagreement with this notion, so it's obvious why you would not like Guix or Nix.
Could be missing something but I don't see resonance as the right model. In my mind the high tides are as a result of a large body of water being pushed into a confined space by a the geometry and currents of the area. That seems like it'd happen regardless of whether some energy had been tapped from a previous tide.

I agree that tidal power isn't "renewable" though, but for different reasons, as it (making a semi-educated guess) decreases our gravitational pull on the Moon, letting it drift away slightly faster than it might naturally, but the effect would be microscopic.

(My disclaimer is that I wrote a Newtonian model of the Solar System and its effects on tides as part of a Physics degree. Doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about, just that I thought a bit about it 15 years ago)
The entity responsible is being punished. They're paying for identity protection for a year and taking yet another public image hit. The hacker? Whoever it was did society a favor by exposing yet another careless company giving away your data because they don't value security.
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I agree. This all seems fairly basic, and from clicking through the site for 15 secs I was able to find a lot of bugs. For example, when reading the linked blog post, the social media bar scrolls and then re-anchors to its spot on the page on chrome 40.0. Reading through the other comments it sounds like there are many bugs throughout.

The Grails app that is now Cake PHP is just a tool to aggregate content from other sources and then post it to wired.com site? And it was previously built and maintained by a single developer? Sounds like a basic tool.
How, after all of the city’s investments, can it be faced with a virtually identical situation a quarter century

It's clear that the problem would be much, much worse had it not been for all that investment.
I was under the impression LTV applies to human labor, so applied to bitcoin it would imply that they should have close to no value, whereas fiat currencies derive value from the efforts of the tax payers.
Timestamp this and come back in three years because we are basically sitting on the tipping point of some clean energy sources (not the one in this article!) becoming cost competitive. Solar and wind are at grid parity in an increasing number of places (Deutsche Bank says 47 of 50 states by 2016) and innovations in financing will be able to pick up the slack if/when subsidies expire.
Ever wondered where do Stack Overflow answers come from? Here are the sources.
We have been working on this easy portfolio management system since may 2014, and I will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
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Speaking of IR... Not about privacy, but DIY medical stuff.

My wife suffers from restless legs syndrome. Pretty much, whenever she goes to bed, her legs feel as if they have ants crawling on and inside them. I know that I can use massage (she taught me, she's an MT) to reduce the restless feelings, but it's just a stop-gap. What causes it?

Turns out, its some -NO precursor that appears to cause this. Why does this precursor build up? I have no clue. But getting rid of it does alleviate the pain.

How I found to get rid of it, a medical paper said that NIR light is found to penetrate in the skin and is enough energy in the photons to break up the precursor. The medical paper was using a grid of low power IR lasers, with a total of 3W dispersed over a 12inx6in rectangle.

I made a 30 IR led (matched the frequency of IR from the paper) that outputted 3W of light. I use it on her when her legs acts up, and it settles them down. Usage over a week gives her days of rest from RLS.
I have no inside information, but there's a lot of things you could do by simply avoiding the built-in commenting system, and exposing the admin tools only to an internal network. You can pretty aggressively prune down the Wordpress install footprint/attack surface on your public-facing servers if you are willing to do some minor patching. Not to mention, a reverse-proxy layer in front of Wordpress can let you filter out the most obvious attacks and block lots of potential ones without touching the code itself.
Bit sad to see another company with prestigious history to get swallowed like this. Another similar story not too long ago was when Infineon acquired IRF http://www.irf.com/press-room/press-releases/nr140820i

Are there new players enough to fight the ever-growing conglomerates?
> I guess it's total coincidence that the most liberal cities in the US also have the highest incidence of homeless population.

[citation needed]
Thank you, I was just searching for the provenance of that quote.
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Some facts are easy, like "capital of albania" or "population of shenzhen" or "age of clint eastwood".

But is consensus the right answer for more interesting facts? Does the consensus give the right answer for "minimum wage effect on economy" or "do firearms make us safer" or "crime rate of immigrants"?

Will Google localize their facts? For a question like "us supporting nazis in ukraine", will Russian residents get one answer while US residents get a different answer?

The old Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia had different facts for different countries. In the US edition, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, while the British version said it was Sir Joseph Swan.

As Bill Gates famously wrote[1], "The facts depend on where you are coming from".

Google Maps used to show different national borders depending on where the user was located[2], maybe it still does. Chinese users saw Arunachal Pradesh as part of China, while Indian users saw it as part of India.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120629032909/http://www.btimes...

[2] http://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-maps-d...
But server level hardening to prevent a defacement?
As someone who has just spent the last two weeks attempting to secure and standardize a WordPress install, my sincerest condolences to Wired's system administrators.

WordPress has achieved the complexity promised by Zawinski's Law, and is a true nightmare to attempt to secure. Not only do you have software which writes its own full URLs (including the scheme), you have software which checks and optionally triggers a built-in cron with every request, one PHP file which rules them all, an average of four cookies for every visit (which messes with some caching attempts), a mish-mash of JS and CSS files, static assets spread throughout the wordpress base, every plugin, and every theme, executable PHP in the DB...

It can even install its own plugins, if you give it the credentials to FTP to the server which hosts it.

I'm glad this project is nearing its completion. The promises made by Wordpress to content creators is backed by the nightmares of system administrators.

Zawinski's Law: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

EDIT:

Dear WordPress Sysadmins:

You still have some work to do in securing your site. For example, I can tell just from your headers that you're running on Apache 2.4.6, on PHP 5.6.6, and using Varnish 4 as your caching mechanism from your somewhat verbose headers.

Good luck!
Do you mean "red light camera" or "license plate scanner" (scanning everybodies license plate)? I don't see why a red light camera is something to protest about.
Yes, definitely. But it is cheaper to have sufficient admins to manage 100 VM instances, than sufficient admins to manage 100 VM instances plus the underlying 20 physical servers and 3 switches and 2 routers and 2 firewalls and storage arrays and...

I always found beyond a certain scale that AWS was not cheaper, but lately I am questioning even that. Next client who is considering going public cloud, I will need to redo my spreadsheets.
So let me get this straight - They're publishing a secret key on a Gist, and then getting whiny when it somehow gets leaked.

Github very clearly states that "secret" gists are NOT private: https://help.github.com/articles/about-gists/
Asking for every IP address that accessed a public gist seems like a bit of an overreach to me. Github should also have the responsibility to protect its lawful users' data.

It seems reasonable though to request some user data for a specific IP address that Uber suspects as being the invader (depending on how strong the evidence is).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9057846
"Some browsers may not support the required fonts, click here if the above ASCII art is corrupted."

And apparently mine doesn't. Why not? What went wrong? All browsers should support fixed-width fonts. Just use a more standard fixed width font please?

Other than that, it's beautiful! But please don't depend on brittle technologies for displaying one of the oldest computing art forms :)
AWS admins are cheaper and you need fewer of them. With AWS, you don't have to stand up and maintain an entire layer of infrastructure management tools; all you really have is config management.

You definitely have to hire a lot less staff with AWS, ESPECIALLY when you're in that "in-between" phase where you're starting to build out a tech ops organization. You don't have those step functions where you have a huge need for some vendor-specific technology knowledge, but not enough work to justify a full time employee. AWS provides an abstraction layer that you need to have anyway: the difference is that you don't have to BUILD that layer, it was there from day one.
I don't see that. Surely if you have two swings hanging from a swaying tree and one of them is swinging wildly because it's the right length to resonate with the moving branch above, you can't say hey this x kg tyre is rising and falling y cm every s seconds, lets harness that. It only has the same renewable energy as the other swing, plus a one time build up of energy that its taken to get it up that extra height.
Not just browsers. Some other common packages that also use JIT include:

Java
Python (PyPy)
Qemu
Valgrind
PCSX
Yabause
Mupen64plus
Throw enough caching at a speed problem, and the speed problem effectively goes away. This is why the terms "Varnish" and "fcgi_cache" are so well associated with WordPress installs.
My problem with "dog" and "animal" is not that I hate metaphors, but because the example tends to teach students that "X is a Y" is justification for "class X inherits from class Y". It's also usually found in books that focus more on the hammer than on the nails, if you know what I mean.

Recursive fib is usually taught to show how a naive translation of a recursive formula into code can cause poor performance. I can't think of a better example.
It is Wahhabism, a more old school and brutal form of Islam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
GlobalSign is looking for Mid level to Sr Backend Software Developers as well as Product Managers located in Boston, MA - Portsmouth, NH - or Maidstone, UK

GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com) - one of the Internet’s original Certificate Authorities. Over the years we have issued millions of trusted Digital Certificates to people, servers and mobile devices for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabled solutions and applications. Our identity and access management portfolio includes access control, single sign-on (SSO), federation and delegation services to help organizations and service providers create new business models for customer and partner interactions.

We operate in small teams - tightly integrated with product management. In these development roles, you'll be working to build out new products and services to expand our PKI services portfolio. We're looking for individuals with solid fundamentals - exposure to lower level coding like C/C++ is important - but also looking for those who have skills to build scalable systems in higher level languages. Interest / experience in internet security is a huge plus as well. For more info, please see the postings here (note, the posting only mentions Portsmouth, but we're looking for roles in Boston and Maidstone as well):

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/globalsign/senior-backend-soft...

We don't have a formal posting for the Product Manager role yet, but we're looking for a junior to mid-level Product Manager who will help evolve out IoT portfolio, contributing to customer and product development, go to market strategy, and other supporting duties. The right candidate for this role will have experience and strengths in the enterprise software & security market, technical sales and business development experience, and a strong technical background.

Any questions you can email me at lancen.lachance@globalsign.com
The Visual Studio team overcame a similar problem with a complete rewrite. I think the problem is more about breaking the compatibility, many add-ins rely to a very old COM interface. But I think people wouldn't mind a breaking change if it comes with really new and powerful capabilities. In fact it would provide an incentive to upgrade. And it can run side by side with old-style spreadsheets that preserve compatibility.

The problem is not so much large datasets, for which there are better tools than Excel. It has more to do with doing more advanced thing conceptually.

For instance, what about adding a table to a sheet (Apple Calcs style), specifying a name and some inputs cells, and one output cell or range, and then being able to use that table as a function anywhere else in the workbook. I can already solve these types of problems with a UDF, but think about users who do not know how to code. Also, having the logic of a function in excel formula format makes it easily auditable by a non-programmer.

And also what about manipulating data in memory instead of having everything in big sheets and having to link every cell with each other, or having nested tables in a cell (or a reference to a table in memory or in another sheet).

And this is Excel only. Word and PowerPoint should really have a mark-up language side by side with the visual representation. That would make it so much easier to manage metadata (object names, linking a piece of text to an external source, working with templates, etc).
I guess that depends on if you define a police officer by the power they wield or by the training they receive.
If you remember the old (VHS) Macrovision, it used a pulsing contrast to mess up automatic gain control circuits. A good way to defeat this is by putting a POT on the AGC so you can tune it manually.

A way to apply this to the glasses: put a IR strobe on. Pulse it at .5s, with a .05s IR led on time.

You should be able to get away with this using an array of IRleds, battery, and a 555 timer.
Having only recently begun to poke around at the Wordpress Multi-Site database layout thanks to having to take over responsibility for an 8000+ blog morass of an install, I can say that the hacky way in which Wordpress achieved multi-site capability would actually make this transition relatively simple. Other than ensuring user IDs in the database were in sync, the core blog tables themselves just need to be imported with slightly tweaked names, since each sub-blog in multi-site WP has its own independent set of tables.
Better title "Google is researching ways to rank websites based on facts along with links"

Not as sexy, but a bit more accurate.
> Change those variables however you want and the problem goes away.

Homelessness in Ulan Bator. Today it's -24 C (-11F?) in Ulan Bator, according to Google.

http://www.mikelaristregi.com/photo-reports/4096o-ulaanbaata...

That doesn't seem profitable nor easy.
A lot of the code in the PL Zoo is very readable and translates straight to Haskell. I mean look at this stuff:

http://andrej.com/plzoo/html/miniml.html

you can almost translate that with an emacs macro. Except for the parsing stuff, which is some OCaml specific parser generator.