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Something to think about: My intro to philosophy prof felt the value of his class was the performance art aspect of sitting thru his admittedly pretty well performed Socratic method in class. The administration wouldn't let him skip finals, so he told us to write whatever we felt like writing to him, place whatever grade we felt we earned on the top, and that would be our grade. From memory the other CS students and I ganged up on him and convinced him to talk about brain-in-a-vat in class for a couple days so I wrote on that topic.

This could apply outside philosophy. I sat thru some chemistry classes that bordered on performance art working thru endless examples of problems in class. I think I pretty much learned quantitative chemical analysis by osmosis just watching the prof work problems. I still remember endless buffer solutions puzzles over 20 years later. Also ochem lab was self explanatory, its a practical lab class nothing more, from memory there was no lecture component beyond "this is the fire extinguisher, here is the safety shower, here is the eye wash station" etc. This could probably be extended to CS/IT classes, somehow.
There's a lot of assumptions in your statement.

1. That death penalty is an effective deterrent.

2. That social hacking would be tried as corruption, or even at a level of corruption for the death penalty.

3. That China doesn't have a corruption problem already regardless of the potential penalty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_China (not saying this is the truth, just that you're making an assumption that not everyone agrees with)
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I'm still supporting a few niche utility apps on the iOS and Mac app stores from a few years ago, back before I started focusing pretty exclusively on client projects. Things I wrote because I needed them and later cleaned up and released so others could use them too. They're all due for some updates (life and full time work frequently take precedence), but they're pretty consistent in terms of revenue.

Mi-Fi Monitor has an iOS[1] and a Mac[2] version that was developed first but released a few months later (it's a shared codebase to the maximum extent possible, different native UI, same app).

They've never really been promoted by me directly, but the Mac version was independently noticed by a writer at TUAW (now Engadget) soon after release and was featured[3] on the site. The TUAW story caused the Mac version alone to generate $600 in just 1-2 days, but then both versions fell back down to a combined total of roughly $50-100/month where they've stayed ever since.

Several execs at Novatel (Mi-Fi manufacturer) sent support requests or general emails about them, and I talked to one on the phone briefly about various things, but they never had any other involvement. Still, that was pretty cool knowing they were interested and using the apps :)

There is a native Android version of Mi-Fi Monitor but I never released it so I can't even guess what the revenue would have been like.

The only other app I released myself is Codepoints[4], which only has a Mac version. It generated about $350 right after release, then fell back down to around $50-75/month. Again no direct promotion on that one. I get nice emails from users about it frequently though, which is also cool :)

[1] https://infincia.com/apps/mi-fi-monitor-ios

[2] https://infincia.com/apps/mi-fi-monitor-mac

[3] http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/13/daily-mac-app-mi-fi-monit...

[4] https://infincia.com/apps/codepoints
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The medium-high contrast setting they compared with would be equivalent of #444444, much brighter than the #191919 used by the website. I find it impossible to read a book in direct sunlight, and am pretty sure it's not just me.
Good question - I've been using Beanstalk to handle hundreds of thousands of worker transactions per second for years.

I suppose development on it has slowed to a crawl so it's no longer "actively" supported.
It uses a mysqlism to trick its way fast a poorly written xss filter.
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In my experience, the teachers I learned the most from were also the best teachers, i.e. the most engaging. Difficulty was really a separate concern, in a lot of ways. There were very easy courses that I learned a huge amount from, and difficult courses that weren't worth the time I spent on them.

To be honest, I only bothered to rate professors because I couldn't see my final grades until I did so. Consequently, only the very excellent and the very terrible really got any kind of response.
Just proposed as interim solution that is easy to implement and escapes the PII collection model.

Blind signed auth tokens are way better but much more resource intensive to implement
One difference to me is that a private entity is (hopefully) restricted to only capturing data through their own channels. i.e. Google can track everything I search, all of my emails within gmail, etc. But they cannot track a hotmail account, they can't read my text messages, etc. If I'm not OK with the tracking, I have other alternatives, or can choose not to use any of them. But there's nothing stopping the government from intercepting anything I do.

Of course in reality right now, every single channel I go through is a Google channel. I'm writing this comment within Google Chrome, while an Android phone sits arms length from me. Heck, I even route all my non-gmail accounts into gmail. So while it feels different, I guess it really isn't.

And this might show my American perspective, but I trust Google with my data more than the US government (not saying I trust Google, just that I trust the government less). Google is an organization founded on technology, and have shown that they care about pushing forward in innovation in digital security. The US Gov didn't originate because of the internet and haven't really demonstrated a mastery of it.
Google has filed a patent on robots that mimic dead celebrities:
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Because it's the hierarchy that defines you. An Alpha, alone, is indistinguishable from an Epsilon. See Veblen Good; if nobody looks at your rolex it's just a heavy timex.
> which seems to be implying that since engineering perfection is unobtainable

It is unobtainable. Full stop. The end.

No amount of money thrown at a problem can absolutely, positively, 100% guarantee safety. Even if you had a car that cost $1b it still wouldn't be perfect. It might have a perfect safety record but that's because there would only be 500 drivers on the road worldwide and at that kind of a very, very sparse distribution cars might only pass one another a few times per day. It might take years or decades for enough car-to-car interactions to take place to find the remaining weak spots in the billion dollar car to ensure that it didn't accidentally kill someone.

But in the mean time you'd make millions if not billions of people poorer for not having the ability to drive cars which exist in the realm of affordability. Nearly everything is always about time and material (and monetary) constraints. If it wasn't we'd all own skyscrapers and have private yachts and vacation all the time and etc, etc, etc.

> Ford and Toyota are companies that generates billions of dollars in profit.

And? Ford has $53b of "property, plant and equipment" and on that $53b it made a profit of $5b in 2012, $7b in 2013 and $3b in 2014. That averages out to $5b or a little under 10% annualized yield. Since automobile design and manufacturing is a little more complicated than real estate, so it shouldn't be surprising that the yield is higher.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=F+Balance+Sheet&annual

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=F+Income+Statement&annual
If you're escaping Catalan, you might want to know that many people in Valencia speak Valencian, a variant of Catalan. It's not as common as in Barcelona, though.
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Every Engineer's Solemn Duty

http://www.warplife.com/ethics/duty.html
I think we mostly agree.

I'd need much more information to decide whether I think US law enforcement is more bloodthirsty. The fact is our cops are much more heavily armed. They have to be because our criminals are too.
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We've now gotten all augur contracts on the live Ethereum testnet. All function calls have been tested (albeit naively, with more testing ongoing) and confirmed working. Our code is now open source, lots of documentation & a UI will be coming soon.

https://github.com/AugurProject/Augur-core
Our fart app for the Apple Watch got rejected.
I found sleep and exercise are key. I'm not saying you have to go to they gym every day, but find something that works for you. For example, I like to take Saturday off and hike when I can.

As for actually getting work done, I find a change in environment is crucial. Even just going to a coffee shop with the intention of only working there is enough to put me in the right head space.

Most likely everything is fine. You have funding, you have runway, you have a team. In the long run 90% of your immediate worries won't have an effect. So just find those crucial 10% and go all out on them. :)
Thank you for the great work, Mihai!

It will be a beautiful time when people don't have to suffer like this. Medical technology can't advance quickly enough.

http://ebresearch.org/
For myself yes. And while I was building sites I was a cook at various restaurants for 6 years.
Yes, but I waited until retirement. Sent my former boss - the cruelist piece of scum I've ever had the pleasure to work with, the experience scarred me at the time - a friendly note saying I'm done working at 31, thanks and no thanks to the lessons taught under his incompetence. It felt great, but I do wish I could have been a bigger person and never sent it. He's already failed in his career since then, and my message was petty & unnecessary.

My philosophy is that a good person never burns bridges, it's irrational. But sometimes it happens.
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Thank you! I also find this task difficult. Knowing I'm not the only one is reassuring.
There is an entertaining video of Milton Friedman discussing the same issues with an audience member:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jltnBOrCB7I
You're not supposed to use Vagrant for the actual provisioning of a box - use the proper tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.

And Packer is for generating the base boxes. Packer abstracts away the virtual machine software like Virtualbox, VMWare, Parallels, etc.
I've also seen some messy code in ASP-classic. But most is just stupidly simple. And I like stupidly simple code. You can read and understand vbScript code faster then you can enjoy a text fiction. You can pick up a random guy/girl on the street and have him/her write vbScript within minutes.
It's a stupid little language, but still very high level. And can get things done.
This seems to be analogous to the Iron Triangle rule: Fast, Cheap or Good, pick two.

You could optimize for perfect engineering, maybe (real-life throws in lots of random, exceptional events, though), but its going to cost you up the wazoo and take forever to finish.
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they should add `console.mihai()` ala easter egg, and proud recognition
Yes,

It seems illogical to expect students to make an acts focused on selfless learning right at the point that you are making the teacher's position tenuous and thus forcing said teacher to be thinking about immediate self-interest.
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wish we could move around the viewpoint not just zoom/in/out :)
Okay, looking at this I can see it as a decent replacement for Beanstalk, which has been my go-to simple queue server for years now, but has been on inactive development for some time.

I built a failover system for it involving NFS mounts and heartbeat, but having it all be automatic would be quite nice. Looking forward to a prod-ready version.
Sorry about that. Click-bait PR stunt was too strong. (I'd edit my post if I could). I really do think it's an honest opinion, but it's a vague opinion of somebody who's hopeful of the success of their company.

Without the link, I'd still think the opinion of the article is vaguely hopeful and a little reckless with the whole "I'm not saving for my kids education" because online education will magically replace our expensive offline education system.
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Cool stats and description. One issue, in "Merlin 1D Inflight Operating Time" the paragraph text is cut off and I'm unable to scroll to see the rest of it.
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It is in Firefox.
I think this is like a lot of things; the theory is sound, but the hard part is figuring out when it applies. It can be misapplied at both the low and high ends, and there's a vast murky middle.
The purpose of higher ed is to outsource the selective pressure from corporate HR depts to university admissions depts. So the corporation can hire the "right people from the right social groups" by using the degree as proxy.

Seeing as the admissions dept has already done all the work of filtering applicants to select the right ones, sure, why not.

May as well issue the degree at admission time, skip the dog and pony show of 4 years of attendance. It'll have little to no effect on outcomes in non-vocational fields.

The vocational fields don't belong at uni/college anyway, they belong at vo-tech schools just like welding or diesel repair.
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Oh, this isn't about Facebook Messenger... :(
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I was trying to explain this concept to our sales rep today. He seems to think that releasing a product means that it is 100% finished and there will never be any problems with it ever. Reality is that we are always one bizarre untested configuration away from having an issue on a new install.

The terms "Beta" and "Gold" have this magical aspect for some classes of people, which I just can't get my head around, seeing the trunk code change every day.
No. I want to retract my accusation. I just think it's a bad opinion post clouded by the poster's desire for a world where online education will replace offline institutions without clarifying how or providing current examples.
This is a thing, on Firefox Nightly or Developer Edition.
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I get to see the Website for a brief second, then, "You need Javascript enabled to view this website. Try again... " even though it displays at first.

Nonsense.
I'd think it depends on a lot of factors e.g. how easy it is to copy the idea, is the start-up just selling their time, the nature of the customers, the motivations of the founder etc.

However sounds like a good rule of thumb, and a good question to ask. "Is this the kind of business model that would get stuck at a salary level income".
We? I'm pretty sure I've finished four books since February.
One of my java projects I use logback with a mongodb appender. This allows me to structure the logs for easy querying plus I have access to all stacktraces from all servers in one spot.

If you go this route, use a capped collection. I generally don't care about my old logs anyway.
I'm the author of the blog post. I've updated it to add that Mihai died recently.
Why does this link have a 2-stage redirection? The content is at: http://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-6-a-s...

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if someone complains that this should be tagged [2014]. The date it has is "2014 February 12".
"calculating the net force on a spaceship between the earth and the moon"

Well, that's your problem. There's a ton of physics that premeds should learn, but gravity is not one of them. Calculating electric potentials, forces etc. as applied to biological membranes would be infinitely better. Teach them the doppler effect, so they'll understand that ultrasound flow meter from the get go. Don't even get me started on NMR, PET, proton radiation therapy, ...
Phil is still as vocal now as he was then: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/e-regulation/phil-zimmermann...
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That's why ALARP is such a widely used methodology.

Unless you're in the bands "unacceptable risk" or "broadly acceptable risk", economical considerations are valid.
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The dramatic collapse of iPad sales is interesting. A tumble of 23% is huge, to go with five straight quarters of year-over-year declines.
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Why not teach abstract mathematical models instead, or a may be something around quantitative models in biology? I'm all for my students learning abstraction and math but I think applications in biology would be more interesting and ultimately more useful for them than a mass on an inclined plane with friction.
Actually what he said was:

GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope—the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time. But once the code is GPL'd, we cannot get it back.
AFAIK depression is associated with impaired memory [0][1], and sufferers tend to remember more negative experiences [2].

Also, memories are in effect changed by recall [3][4].

This combined with the cognitive distortions [5] linked to depression would seem to suggest even worse performance with regard to memory (i.e. looking for and finding fault that may not have been present, etc.)

BTW, "natural" is not really a useful distinction regarding this issue [6].

[0]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18266496

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571468

[2]: https://www.google.no/books?hl=en&lr=&id=TemvZpgA6uoC&oi=fnd...

[3]: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/02/how-y...

[4]: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/35/12144.short

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#Main_types

[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
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Similar story here. I find I'm able to accomplish tasks which would otherwise be beyond my skill and intelligence. For example, even though C was the first language I learned, I can't imagine writing a parser in C after discovering the simplicity & readability of monadic parsing in Haskell. [1] Just compare that page with the parser/lexer for the Jq tool on the HN homepage (written in C).

A few months ago, I needed to retrieve JSON data from a list containing dozens of URLs. Fortunately, the "async" package handles this beautifully: [2]

pages <- mapConcurrently getURL ["url1", "url2", "url3",...]

Once you learn the basic concepts of Haskell and get over the hump, you’re able do things with ease that would otherwise take many years to master in C++ [3]. Even the most advanced features of the language follow the same underlying principles & syntax.

My advice to those wanting to learn Haskell is simply not to give up. Keep coming back to it. Practice. Read other’s code. Over time, things will begin to click. And once they do, you’ll wonder why you struggled so much in the first place.

[1] https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/starting-with-haskell/libr...

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.0.2/docs/Control...

[3] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/index.ht...
True, but don't forget SO2R and multi radio contesters, and there do exist $10K tower systems but there also exists radios like the $10K IC-7800 or the merely $8K IC-7700 series. So it is possible to maintain the 1:1 ratio.

Its not entirely audiophile. Impressive engineering, cutting edge stuff, for that price. IP3 of +40 dBm? 110 dB dynamic range IF strip with multiple AGC loops? how the...
So research and information management are not major costs?
We're going to be stuck with TLS 1.0 for a long time due to Android. Only Kitkat and above support TLS 1.1 and 1.2. Right now Kitkat/Lollipop around hanging around 50% market share for and it's only moving a few percent per month :(
Compare: rl_json -- Extends Tcl with a json value type and a command to manipulate json values directly. The commands accept a path specification that names some subset of the supplied json entity. The paths used by [json] allow indexing into JSON arrays by the integer key.

https://github.com/RubyLane/rl_json
Of course the current system is awful and it will backfire dramatically. But it's not an excuse for being lazy and stupid.
You need a big audience. If you have one you can even get away with something like this: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers/ :-o
Wow you're not kidding. Out of print, no PDFs anywhere. I've placed an inter-library loan request, as my soul could use some cleansing.
There is a deeper lesson and that is that correctness is what you should be worried about. If you think that the paper was not graded correctly, then let it be graded again. You don't get to cherry pick instances of the truth that benefit you.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.ports/54692

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun (at the bottom of this section)
That first chart has me worried... This would be the year of a startup bubble burst, if it follows same pattern as last time.
the problem isn't that it's dependant for X11 on packages.. moreso that the port system requires X11 to function..

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.ports/54692

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun (at the bottom of this section)
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In other words, the science part is bogus. It should be called Computing Studies. That way they could keep the acronym CS which everyone seems to like.

Computer science is about as useful a term as polymorphism (borrowed from biology). It serves to put lipstick on a pig.
I see, it really depends on your goal. The Dockerfile in the repo looks like it's built primarily for Haskell development.

When I'm working with production environments, I build the Haskell executable locally and add that (statically linked) program to the Dockerfile. That should tremendously speed things up. The caveat is that your local and production architecture are the same. I find deploying the static executable much quicker and more simple. You aren't doing it wrong, just thought I would my own preferences.

Some environments like Elastic Beanstalk have timeouts that will kill the build if it doesn't build quickly enough (a problem on smaller VMs). Another issue is potential RAM needed by GHC.

Keep in mind that Haskell executables statically link Haskell libraries and dynamically link system libs (by default). You can find your system library dependencies by running:

$ ldd dist/build/serials/serials
[...]
Most likely tablets are dead: no room between large phones and ultrabooks.
A friend of a friend has this disease. It was shocking the first time we met. She has to be covered from head to toe to help avoid injury from bumping into things. Her voice is hoarse and raw. Her fingers have worn off, down to mere nubs.

But she gets around without too much assistance. She feeds herself, using what's left of her fingers. And she doesn't complain.

When I feel sorry for myself because not everything in my life has gone the way I hoped it might, I think of her and realize I really have it pretty easy.