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> Does anyone know any other documentaries about this topic? It's a fascinating event to study.

"The Day After Trinity" (1981) is a really, really good documentary on the Manhattan Project. I like that it goes in depth about the characters involved, too -- Oppenheimer was a fascinating person.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080594/
What is a lucite hemisphere? How was it used? Was it actually a mold?
You won't know until you submit the solution.
> I changed my mind and accepted the fact that all religions are at best ridiculous or at worst repulsive.

You are confusing the ideas with their interpretations by human minds.
The windows registry is a tad more complex. It's funny a while back Arch main selling point was single point of .. config too. Now it's systemd fine grained graph of .service. But nix being built by language designers, I guess abstraction and reuse will stay baked in.
I'd guess Google should buy Twitch then but I'm just a coder not a business person.
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I was great with Arch on USB, until I started trying to boot to a full UI from the image, and I'd start getting I/O errors from the ramdisk halfway through a 'pacman -Sy plasma-meta' (last three iso releases). That was a dealbreaker for me.

I switched to KaOS (because they used pacman), but their install image fails to install before creating users and installing grub, so I'm back to a Gentoo LiveUSB, which doesn't fail.

Every time I leave gentoo, I'm eventually forced back. maybe Nix will be better.
I'm mostly a back-end guy... does it really matter if you you use != vs !== when you know that both operands have the same type in javascript? In this case, you've got string literals, so (flying spaghetti monster, I hope there won't be any type conversions going on)
@bobajeff have a look http://fetching.io/
download+cydia+iOS+8.3+to+iOS+8.0+with+TaiG+-
More segments of the U.S. population is worse off now vs better than 50 years ago. Considering the massive economic and technological gains over that time period something is clearly broken.

EX1: The rediculus increase in the prison populaion from drugs and other BS crimes.

EX2: Todays minimum wage is equivelent to a 97 cent minimum wage in 1965 though the actual minimum wage in 1965 was 1.25$.

PS: Yes, some things cost less but education and housing more than make up the difference. And no education is not significantly better now.
It's almost sure that they tried, but the deal didn't go through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch.tv#Acquisition_by_Amazo...
Agree with regard to Emacs, but OpenBSD has some of the best technical documentation I've ever come across. For example, their networking FAQ[0] or (especially) the PF guide[1].

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
Similar effort in debian : https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

(one of the project lead, https://people.debian.org/~lunar/blog/, is a haskeller, so no surprises)

Read his blog, very interesting to see how tiny things matter.
> Other big news in this release is the shift ... to match Firefox release numbers, so it's jumping now from 31.7.0 up to 38.0.1.

Apparently you've been out of touch for the last several years. Thunderbird has used Firefox-like ESR branch numbering for shipping releases since version 17.
It does, but it's not in it's own repo, it's in nixpkgs at

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos

If you had bothered looking in the wiki everything is listed there.
Top streamers are going to have two PCs / dedicated capture-hardware and beefier i7 equivalents. Most [PC] games are GPU bound and don't require much more than an i5.
Yes, applicative code is a relatively new development in Haskell: applicative functors were discovered only in 2008.
It's like butchers and supermarkets... The butchers, they can't compete. It seems doomed to be centralized. They're not creating another service as much as they're organizing their supermarket.
Yes, exactly. Partly by running unprofitable farms out of business (well,out of agriculture); partly by encouraging farmers to grow crops that don't need as much water; partly by encouraging farms to watch their water use.

But the people making the decision would be people who know how much water their crops need, what the alternatives are, how profitable their crops will be in six months, etc. I simply don't have much faith in across the board cuts.

That is, I agree that water needs to be conserved. But I think there's a better approach; namely, letting the market work.
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My jaw hasn't dropped so low in a long time. As stated in the OP I fail to understand the reasoning behing most of the licenses. Great job bringing this issue up.
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I was only arguing on bandwidth, so I think we agree there.

As for latency, Twitch -- the current de-facto -- already has multiple seconds of latency added on top of the encoder and decoder delays. Being aggressively realtime and uber interactive with your stream is not really a reality yet. You can right-click a Twitch stream to see these kind of stats; for example, a Game's Done Quick Stream: http://i.imgur.com/dcPoRui.png
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It's the Department of Homeland Security's responsibility, but that doesn't mean that anyone necessarily failed at their job. Just that it's a very difficult job.

The NSA will certainly contribute tools and expertise when needed to any US government agency/department.

The DHS tool "Einstein" is an intrusion detection system that detected the breach.

CIA records are assumed to not be held by the OPM, for the reason that they are the ones that are most sensitive if stolen.
I don't know. Seems like the sort of thing that would be useful for a good few years and get popular, but then new questions and resources would start getting closed and locked for being off-topic or irrelevant...Wink, wink.
archive.org has a selection of Byte computer magazine issues from the 1980s. I don't think the design is particularly distinguished. It's functional and good enough, but it's not as polished as a generic Bootstrap site.

You have to remember that before the Mac arrived, if you wanted graphic design you had to pay someone. Or if you were ambitious, you'd maybe buy some stick-on letter decals and try to make them line up to make a headline or a logo. (It hardly ever looked good.)

Most people had no idea what fonts were, and if they were aware of graphic design at all it was because of vinyl album covers.

On computers, the previous generation of 8-bit micros couldn't handle fonts. So you had a choice between the system font, which usually looked ugly but might have some weird icons you could draw shapes with, and the kind of overwrought hand-drawn (pixeled?) lettering you'd find in many 8-bit games.

A lot of people underestimate how influential the Mac was. It turned graphic design into something everyone could work with - which is why you now have fast food joints with sandblasted Helvetica on their windows, and regular passing font fads, like Ray Larabie's Neuropol, which was everywhere ten years ago.

1990s/2000s web design was not a little crass, with Flash loading pages everywhere, lots of cyan and orange, fonts that said "Look at me! I'm a font!", and strange linear graphics with 45 degree kinks in them. Business sites were often messy and used a lot of Verdana and Tahoma - like Amazon's product pages, which haven't changed much in ten years.

The recent Bootstrap/etc fad has converged on a style that isn't distracting and works well when you want a clean but pleasing look. It's kind of homogenised, and not very creative, especially when it's paired with a hipster logo. But it does the job, and original creative graphic design is not easy.

Having lived through the 1990s and the early 2000s, I prefer the contemporary Bootstrap/Medium look by a long way.
Thank you. This being HN, I immediately was thinking the FP-ish programming language, which would seem to indicate that it predates the JVM...
>There was also a very surprising artifact brought by one of the veterans: a lucite hemisphere with pieces of Trinitite embedded in it. The Trinitite is not so rare, but the lucite was cast in the same mold that made the plutonium pits for the Trinity and Fat Man bombs, and included the small hold [sic] for the neutron initiator.

The lucite object appears to be more of a momento
[edit: in the exact shape]
of the kernel of the fission process than a usable thing.

Trinitite is sand fused into glass from the heat of the first fission device at Trinity Site, New Mexico.
> I don't have a good definition, just an "I know it when I see it" sort of thing.

Does this meet your definition?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K81UGHwhWaw
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I'm sorry, it was Die Hard. http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Glock_7
I have the pleasure of working with PowerPC in my day job. Also a relatively clean architecture. I really do wish that Apple had been more successful with it, that Microsoft would have continued supporting it in NT, that Motorola / IBM had kept up with Intel in raw performance, and that it had a larger user base than it does today.
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the fact that this was downvoted to light grey terrifies me.
It's exceedingly common but it's best to be circumspect here.
this article makes a lot of broad assumptions ("If licensing an electrician is for public safety then...") and relatively shallow conclusions ("upholsterers need a license, wtf?") based on them.

Full of weasels without a doubt.
They have a big sub button, and give streamers tools to modify the experience for subs. You can give them sub only emotes that they can use everywhere, or you could put your chat in sub only mode, or you could make recorded videos that are sub only.

Even that is not coming close to realizing the potential of such crowdfunding, but it beats a random tip button that sometimes doesn't even show up.
Maybe that means IQ tests are broken? Describe an opera or a play, and ask "Why did Iago plot against Desdemona?" See what that AI can come up with. An answer could be anything from early plot points, to Iago's poor upbringing producing a sociopath, to the political and class climate in the playwright's era stamping the bad guy as an elderly retainer.
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Their documentation is great. I won't disagree in the slightest. I also praised them in other places for working as hard on docs as software itself. Docs are lacking in most places. The only point of these comments is that people are way overhyping the difficulty of basic GPG use given I installed it easily using Google and used it by cut n pasting a cheat sheet. Others have too. That's all I'm trying to do here while using things like the overall OpenBSD experience (or Emacs) as points of comparison to support that.

I'd have to use my brain with either OpenBSD stuff or Emacs. Of course, I cheated there too: Absolute OpenBSD. I know I could've used their great docs for everything but the reviews of the book were too good. I had to attempt using it to shortcut the learning process. Lol.
From wikipedia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/San_Fran...

I like it personally. But I much prefer Google's new version of Roboto:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3e191ddf621d46efd1fbfa919...
Not really relevant to this. That deals with images, where you can perturb a huge number of pixels slightly to exploit weird edge cases. Even linear classifiers break on it, e.g. https://karpathy.github.io/2015/03/30/breaking-convnets/
See https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/quick_facts.shtml for the ECC patent license agreement.

It appears to be free, but your use needs to pass some fairly specific restrictions. Not sure if the PLA is available at any cost if your use does not pass.
An oldest economist article [1] that appeared on HN [2] opened my eyes to this issue.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/18678963?story_id=18678963&fsr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548399
Most of these licenses arise because the people practicing them wind up hurting, or even killing people. Examples include tour guides running over pedestrians while driving and entertaining [0]. Or software engineers writing code that has probably killed people [1], or "beauticians" being forced to work in near-slavery conditions [2], or professional drivers killing people [3].

0. http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/About-to-be-silenced-S-F...

1. http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_s...

2. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/nyregion/cuomo-to-offer...

3. http://pando.com/2014/01/02/uber-driver-hits-kills-6-year-ol...
I don't see anything in there that contradicts what I said.
memset_s, or a mythical free_s, is not enough.

The compiler can, and will, make copies of data behind the scenes. And not erase said copies.

What we really need is a keyword / modifier that says that when X passes out of scope no state related to X may be leaked. Ideally, that can be applied to a function / block as well as a variable.

(Or rather, not necessarily no state. Read "as little state as possible", preferably with modifiers that panic unless the compiler can ensure specific things.)
A lot of the examples seem to involve professions involving grooming people - barbers, manicurists, etc. While the required training amount might be out of line, it seems like some state supervision for these professions is needed because unhygienic or unsafe practices could serious consequences - ie, spreading disease.

So this seems less totally insane than it might.
Did you not read my first comment?

Perhaps I was using a different definition than you were expecting but 'serious injury' to me means serious enough that it impacts your ability to perform your job, at least temporarily.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh_12042014.htm

Injuries and illnesses by type of case
Over half of the more than 3.0 million private industry injury and illness cases reported in 2013 were of
a more serious nature that involved days away from work, job transfer, or restriction (DART cases).
These cases occurred at a rate of 1.7 cases per 100 full-time workers, a statistically significant decrease
from 2012. (See table 7.) The rates for the two components of DART cases--cases involving days away
from work and cases requiring job transfer or restriction--was unchanged at 1.0 and 0.7 case per 100
workers, respectively, in 2013. Other recordable cases--those not involving days away from work, job
transfer, or restriction--accounted for the remaining 1.4 million injury and illness cases in 2013 and was
unchanged at a rate of 1.6 cases per 100 full-time workers.

The TRC injury and illness incidence rate remained highest in 2013 among mid-size private industry
establishments (those employing between 50 and 249 workers) and lowest among small establishments
(those employing fewer than 11 workers). (See table 3 and chart 2.)
What's fascinating, to me, is the difference between the environment college provides and the environment post-college life provides. The contrast in the societal structure most people experience at these two points of life is fascinating. From a world of community (college) to a world of isolation (working world). I think the return of well-off young people to the cities is driven by a search for a society that feels like it has the community of college. (That was a motivation for me at the least.)
Well, a parsing display system still sounds like a reasonably simple piece of software.

Still, while I met J author Roger Hui years ago in college, I've never run a line of J so I probably would be the one to create such a system.
It's not just those curves. Virtually all elliptic-curve cryptography is patent-free, as you would expect for a family of cryptosystems studied since 1986 based on centuries-old math. There are a few current patents, but they cover techniques almost nobody uses.
Here was an $88M project to replace a system of similar vintage: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/30yearold-r...
> Most of these licenses arise because the people practicing them wind up hurting, or even killing people.

Correction: Most of these licenses arise because those in the industry want to create a barrier to entry and use examples of morons doing their job poorly as evidence of need.
When people really need something that's reliable, there's really no limit to how much effort can be put into producing a system with unfailing integrity and availability.

Take, for example, the lockstep facility on certain IBM processors:

https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/29...

You can take two or more of them, run identical software on them, and compare their output on a cycle-by-cycle basis.

Now, the 750GX series may be a bit out of date in the modern era ... but good luck achieving that level of paranoid system integrity with just about any truly modern system.

One thing that I think they don't teach so well in most colleges is that a system's compute performance is not always the most important measurement of the system's capability.
You can exit from MTGO pretty easily? There are automated bots that will buy your cards for tickets, and those same companies will give you cash for those tickets (95 cents per ticket right now, not a terrible rate).
The font is still in beta, it'll be officially released alongside OS X 10.11 and iOS 9
Nor is it a solved problem. You cannot point to any modern economy as an example of successfully avoiding this issue, since they all rely heavily on subsidy injections to maintain the economy(and for other reasons). A more modern example would be British coal. While people have moved on decades later, local economies were devastated. It can take generations to recover, while many fall through the cracks.
Signify is the first OpenBSD code that I've ever read from start to finish - (minus the external libraries like the Ed25519 package). Watching the initial checkins, followed by the amazing improvement in the command line options within a a few weeks of checking by external contributors - the final product is much, much better than the first checkin. What I really appreciate, is that they managed to strike a balance between keeping the tool 100% lean, and adding tiny bits of syntactic sugar (such as the Untrusted Comment field, and, the ability to simultaneously verify the SHA256 hash and signature of a list of files.)

Teaching people how to use the tool, from the point of generating keys, to generating signature manifests for a packages, to signing, and verifying takes < 3 minutes for someone who already knows what a hash is.

And, the complete absence of CA architecture, or web-of-trust - and an focus on sharing their (really short) public keys in a visible and widely distributed manner just makes the system so much simpler to understand.

For example - this literally is all you have to do on OS X to have a complete end-end signing/manifest/verification system:

Generate your keypair:

signify -G -p pub -s sec

Your public key is tiny, and can be shared anywhere/everywhere:

RWRGNg6NU+JAt9ju3ItQfOMmDhXmEkHp28mej8ickx4lOJjE2Tg2DxEO

Created your manifest (On OpenBSD you just go "sha256 file* ")

shasum -a 256 file* | awk '{print "SHA256 ("$2") = "$1}'> manif

Sign your manifest, and embed the signature in the resulting sig file:

signify -S -e -s sec -m manif -x manif.sig

And now, anybody who has your public key, can verify that manifest:

signify -C -p pub -x manif.sig

That's it, that's the entire system from beginning to end.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/22/155596305/episo...

> A few years ago, Jestina Clayton started a hair braiding business in her home in Centerville, Utah. The business let her stay home with her kids, and in good months, she made enough to pay for groceries. She even put an ad on a local website. Then one day she got an email from a stranger who had seen the ad.

> "It is illegal in the state of Utah to do any form of extensions without a valid cosmetology license," the e-mail read. "Please delete your ad, or you will be reported."

> To get a license, Jestina would have to spend more than a year in cosmetology school. Tuition would cost $16,000 dollars or more.
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I'm reading the article and it's talking about solving analogies, antonyms and similar problems ... as found on a standard IQ test.

I understand this isn't intelligence and the title doesn't imply it but I'm not sure what your reference to decoding is about.
And it is very clear that app.net did not succeed in attracting a large audience.
> Even in a far-future holodeck scenario, strategy games don't change a whole lot.

I dunno, the classic Civilization style could benefit quite a bit from it. Imagine having a virtual giant globe that you can arbitrarily turn and zoom as the main interface.

Even the limited number of platformers with a third-person view on the Oculus Rift hardware are quite successful, since the false depth perception helps with fine control.
Why did you cut off the quote? The full quote is: "If the rationale for licensing an electrician is to protect public safety, it is difficult to see what rationale supports licensing travel guides."

Moreover, the assumptions they're making are charitable. I think most people agree with licensing engineers, electricians, doctors and the like where doing their job wrong has serious consequences. But for the same reason, it's less clear what public benefit there is behind requiring florists, interior designers or ballroom dancers to be licensed in order to practice their craft.
well to be fair subscriptions != donations
By going cross-platform on C#, Microsoft is coming to eat Java's lunch. Throwing their weight behind .NET Core ASP.NET on Linux is a clear shot across the bow at server-side Java, which, let's face it, is a shit-show compared to developing in C# these days.
Here's an alternative hypothesis: the interview process is selecting for different traits than what you are expecting.

https://www.google.com/about/careers/lifeatgoogle/hiringproc... is a pretty good explanation.
Agile is an engineering process. It is supposed to solve problems. Those problems remain. Ergo, Agile isn't working. We can be apologists all we want for Agile but it remains true, it often fails to improve things at all.
This is licensing based on paying fees and completing classes, not - as in health codes for restaurants - based on the cleanliness or safety of the work place.
I haven't worked or interviewed at many places where management was competent enough to prevent that from happening.

Example: I was working somewhere as an employee. They had a contractor, who was probably billing 3x as much hourly, who wasn't as talented. He was the team lead, so he took every opportunity to trash my reputation. If his bosses realized I was more productive than him, he might lose his gravy train. There was nothing I could do. By the time I realized what was happening, all the management thought I was useless.