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Great work. From looking at the PDF [1], it seems that this was done with something like IDA Pro rather than from sources. I imagine work like this would be a good candidate for the Microsoft Shared Source Initiative [2].

[1] http://j00ru.vexillium.org/dump/recon2015.pdf

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
Is this the new trend for people who have no real resume to just write some long winded jerk-myself-off-till-i-break-my-arm cover letter?

And then post on a news site as if it's "news worthy"?
Being sad about it is not so useful. You can actually help! Either becoming rich and helping basic science (of course) or voting well and influencing government decisions.

Simons is clearly very talented at what he does, his firm (how it is run, etc) seems quite amazing. And he's "doing" more science this way. It makes an awful lot of sense.
Because some certifications require limiting the range of possible changes. An obvious example would be a user swappable encryption chip. Allowing that would defeat the purpose if certifying the system for encryption in environments requiring certification for encryption. So the encryption gets baked in to the hardware. The hardware whitelist is just an extension of that feature set. Sure, not everyone needs that feature set. For most of them, though, the feature set is neutral at worst. People for whom the feature set creates a problem are a corner case. Those for whom it is a serious problem have purchased the wrong product or may need to tether an external device.
Message board nerd pro-tip: You can always --- like, in every single case --- make your comment better by changing "I stopped reading" to "I almost stopped reading". It conveys exactly the same sentiment without broadcasting the notion that you haven't actually read the thing you're criticizing.
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Minor correction: he has 3 living children; he had 5, but 2 died. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nw&pname=mm_0108_stor...
We went off on a tangent there, I suspect we've already bored everyone else in this thread to death ;)

I want to close with the observation that whether you're aware of it or not, you're talking about supernatural claims that have been postulated without any scientific evidence.

To make this distinction between the words metaphysical and supernatural feels a bit similar to fundamentalist Christians who assert that they're not religious - a phenomenon which I suspect happens for the same reasons: because they believe their faith represents the "truth" about the universe, it doesn't count as a religion. But to everyone else, it still does.
100k in taxes? You made 300k as an intern?
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It's going to be really weird if China's ruling 'socialist' party ends up being forced to become an actual neo-socialism with things like a guaranteed stipend because there are not enough actual jobs to do...

This whole automation revolution has really just begun to highlight the old problem that many people don't own any of the things that generate the fabulous, effort-free wealth. But now instead of people missing out on the dream of 3-day-work-weeks they were promised fifty years ago and having to work just as hard as before, they have no work at all. The body/mind they expected to be able to rent out has literally no value as an asset.
Ah, but isn't Homer the father of Greek Philosophy. Many may say it is Socrates, but Socrates calls on Homer more often than I can remember anyone else.
I agree with you on this. This is the reason I left Spotify. I pay to conveniently access quality music anytime, anywhere.

The social aspect doesn't make much sense with the plethora of streaming music service options available it seems anyway. We have services like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit for social and we have Google Music, Beats, Rdio, Spotify, and others for Music. My experience is that all my friends are each using their own music service, so unless everyone was using the same one it doesn't seem to make sense for the use case of sharing playlists or new music with friends.
The Show HN rules exclude signup forms. Show HN requires something people can try out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Are you sure about that? You still need an employer sponsored work permit, and you can't change jobs without getting a new permit. Then it takes five years before you are eligible for Long Term Residency. You can go from an H1B to a green card in less time if you are not from India or China.

Not everyone comes from the EU.
I do not believe there is a shortcut, but the Greatest Books of the Western World (Philosophy section) should do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582340
Test condition - Binaural beats

Controls -

Meditating in silence

Relaxing music

Random beats
These days generally labor certification in STEM jobs takes about a year. PERM sped things up dramatically and now that immigration lawyers are comfortable with how it works it generally takes less time than the old system.

Adjustment of status is where a lot of people get stuck. Really this should take about a year, but if you come from a country with a lot of migration (Mexico, India, and China) you could be in for a lot wait, especially in EB3.

At best you are looking at 2 years, at worst I've heard upwards of 10 years. A good immigration lawyer should be able to give you a good estimate based on their experience and current USCIS workloads.
Thank you for your service!

All the best at Mattermark.
Diabetes is typically a symptom of an underlying issue that also causes heart disease, Metabolic Syndrome (particularly in south asians.) Diabetes is diagnosed more reliably than the other criteria because it requires direct intervention, so it's useful as an indicator variable.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/MetabolicSyndr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_syndrome
They definitely work for me, I've been using them for years, making them myself. I blame them for profound beneficial effects on myself.

From my experience they also worked on others, it takes few listening and effort to allow entrainment as it is subtle effect, but is definitely there.

After years of meditating, I made several focus and 'work' tracks that I use.

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Also, I was always making rather plain tracks, with brown noise (lower freq) and shifted channels. This is a little different from actual difference in frequency, but to best of my knowledge works the same, also it is way more pleasant to listen to, which is important when you are trying to meditate.
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Extensive discussion 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742
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This thread is pretty good

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to...
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I've had mixed reaction to this take home exercise. I've done that some 4 times and 3 of them resulted in getting called in for an onsite (Amazon). If problem is interesting and there's something to learn. I tend to go for it. But couple of them were lame. Neither it was a good use of my time, nor it was an indicative of my skills.

In near future, I'll be requesting exercises that can be treated and used as a micro library. They are free to use it and I get to post it on github.
I somehow want to see the ideas of acme http://research.swtch.com/acme combined with some more modern idioms (standard shortcuts and modern style).
It's a curious behaviour that some people have, to prefix speaking their mind with "I'm sorry but..."
While this is great news, I challenge Columbia to do one better.

My own alma mater, Bard College, created a program called the Bard Prison Initiative. This program teaches college courses for college credit to incarcerated prisoners in the state of New York, ultimately awarding either Associates or Bachelors degrees from Bard College. Education for prisoners is important from both a moral and economic perspective, dramatically reducing recidivism as well as saving money (a $1 investment in prison education reduces incarceration costs by $3-$4 in the first three years of an inmate's release[1]).

This is a great first step but it is not enough to simply not support the prison industry. There are proven steps that can be taken here to reduce recidivism and help society. Despite this, the Bard Prison Initiative is chronically underfunded despite support by governor Cuomo due to politicians not wanting to appear soft on crime. Columbia is a much wealthier university than Bard College, so I challenge them to join Bard in their initiative.

[1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-and-education-departme...
If you think structural unemployment due to automation will be a problem in the US, just wait until 500 million Chinese factory workers are put out of work. A generation ago they may have been content to remain in poverty and ignorance but now, like the sans-culottes of 18th century Paris, they know what else is out there. There's a reason many wealthy Chinese desperately want to expatriate and it's not because they see peace and tranquility in their homeland's future.
Why run any programming software on the chrome book? You can always just ssh into a box and do your dev there? I have been using that for years (and the web code editor I wrote). I have used the first Pixel as on the go dev machine for years...
Again the license means a person is minimally qualified. It doesn't mean they are good at whatever they are licensed to do. As a licensed architect in real life, I am minimally qualified under the law to design a State Penitentiary. I lack the experience and expertise [and inclination] to do it well in accord with contemporary standards...i.e I'm not qualified to do that type of project beyond a general legal minimum for practicing architecture.

So when there's a new penitentiary in the works, there's an RFQ for design services.
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Thucydides is especially interesting for me since he was a historian--but far from being a dispassionate observer, actually played a small role in the history he was trying to describe (as you hint at when discussing their rigor).
Sure, here you go http://imgur.com/zdLSEek
You are mistaken.

Applying for the green card lottery does nothing to hurt any current or future visa applications you make. Visas with a nonimmigrant intent will ask questions like:

"Do you have a current I-485 application in process?"

"Have you previously applied for an I-485?"

"Have you been rejected for an I-485?"

For those that don't know, an I-485 is an AoS (adjustment of status) application.

You can truthfully answer "no" to all of these questions because an I-485 is something very specific and entering the DV lottery is not that.

So you have to be really careful about what is said (eg nonimmigrant intent for a visa) and what are the actual rules. If the form simply asks about I-485 applications, you can truthfully answer "no" even if you want to stay here forever.

By the time you get to filing an I-485 you're basically done with a PR application. You're just waiting for it to come through. It may take 6 months or 12 months but it won't randomly take years (like a Labor Certification can).

Now as far as work visas go, the H1B allows an immigrant intent so none of this is an issue.

For visas that don't (eg Canadian TN, Australian E3), even there the rules are murky. USCIS says that, for example, filing an I-485 shows immigrant intent but they've also issued a ruling saying that filing an I-485 can't solely be used to deny a renewal or the issuing of those visas. So what does that mean in practice? Well, nobody really knows.

That too is a problem.

But I digress...

My main point is you are 100% incorrect when you say applying for the DV lottery impacts your ability to apply for a nonimmigrant visa in any way. It does not.
It'd be very disturbing if something like binaural beats disrupted brain activity at the spatial resolution of EEGs. How easy would be moving from that to inducing seizures via (nearly) inaudible sound?
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I'm in the same boat, kinda. When I was signing up for my Internet service when I moved into my place last August, Comcast refused to sell anything faster than 6Mb/s outside of a cable bundle. A couple of months later, they began offering a decent Internet outside of a bundle. I called about switching to that, but couldn't without my rate going way up because I was on an introductory rate. However, instead the rep did double my speed while keeping my bill the same, so I'm not too salty about it.

I at least took the cable box home, and plugged it in. I had to unplug it in October when I was moving some furniture around, and it was February before I got around to plugging it back in! (One of the players in my D&D group wanted to see if we could put the Puppy Bowl on; turns out I didn't get the channel)
I didn't realize that culture was quantifiable?
URL changed from http://sploid.gizmodo.com/making-a-stone-axe-without-any-too..., which points to this.

HN prefers original sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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> There was definitely a period where the average quality of a comment seemed higher. But those times also coincided with the rise of novelty accounts, power user personalities, often with foul sounding names and awful subreddits. Drama over subreddit bannings is nothing new, either.

Personally I'm pretty happy there's less of the narwhalbacon joke stuff that used to be rampant in the comments years ago. I think the noise:signal ratio is about the same as I can ever remember it being, but at least I can now stand the noise.

To this day I still don't tell people I visit reddit because I don't want to be associated with or labeled as a "redditor" despite the fact that I find the site to be a valuable source of content. There's a strong faction of the core user base that I just can't relate to.
Theres a setting somewhere not to compress large images when you upload them. Is it still compressing?
At the moment the UK is somewhat hostile to immigration from outside the EU. The UK government has pledged to reduce the number of immigrants coming into the UK but can't do anything about people coming from within the EU so is targeting immigration from outside the EU.

It is also difficult to get visas for non-EU spouses. Unless you can demonstrate sufficient funds to support them. You either need a good chunk of cash in the bank or a job paying at least 25k GBP per year (more if bringing children). This has made it difficult for a lot ExPats to return home with their families and has caused a lot of anger in that community.

There is also talk of further restrictions on non-EU immigrants such as requiring non-EU immigrants who aren't earning sufficient amounts to leave after 6 years. At the moment its just talk but given the current government it could easily become law.
Not that it matters in this instance, but AV companies forcing you to turn off other security mechanisms(ie. SELinux) should really raise more red flags.
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Oh, sorry for that, we'll keep that in mind. thanks!
It's also important to remember that almost all of those other factors boil down to slavery. Economic differences? Yeah - slavery. State's rights? Yeah - the right to choose slavery. And so on.
My wife and I befriended a couple from North Korea who, in the face of horrendous hardship that we can barely begin to imagine, managed to escape by way of China to end up in Toronto.

In short order they had setup a thriving massage studio based on traditional Chinese methods, had a child, and were able to afford a nice apartment and car. Apart from the the private Christian group that helped them enter Canada, they were entirely self-reliant.

They showed greater entrepreneurism and work ethnic than the majority of Canadians, by far. Despite their many challenges (including the presumed murder of their families in DPRK), they remained delightful, generous, and happy people that were a pleasure to be around.

I'm getting a little emotional as I write this because I was shocked -- disgusted really -- when I learned that the Canadian government was kicking them out of the country. They were forced to apply for citizenship in South Korea, and told only to return if they were rejected from S. Korea.

Unfortunately, I don't know how the story ended because, somewhat alarmingly, we've lost contact with them although my wife was speaking to the woman almost daily via WeChat before they left. I hope they are able to establish a more permanent home for themselves in S. Korea or wherever they ended up.

So, yes, I would say the government has changed its policies recently, and not for the better. Why these people would be forced to leave is beyond me.
"Brainwave" by Bonzai Labs. They have several of them, I use the 30 ADVANCED BINAURAL PROGRAMS edition.

Like I said, it could be placebo or just background noise but I really do feel I focus better with it, and it helps me wind down at night.

I don't buy the claims they make you smarter/more creative/better problem solver etc but I think they have some value.
You might be thinking of people whose companies have started the greencard process.

If your company hasn't applied for a greencard for you, there really is nothing tying you to them.

If they do apply for your greencard, you are tied to them for about one (or two) years.
Samsung disabling Windows Update?
Oh, you just have to wait a little...
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There are some areas in academia (esp. among Lit. Crit. and cultural studies types) where the term DWEM (dead white european male) is used to criticize the traditional canon as a kind of cultural chauvinism. I studied Classics where that sentiment was not popular, and it wasn't something historians cared much about. I did have some really disturbing conversations with hard-core feminists and black studies students where they radically misunderstood what they thought they were criticizing, so it's a thing in some domains. There are some people who really think that the ideas of the birthplace of constitutional democratic governance are at the root of authoritarianism and imperialism. The tendency to diminish the accomplishment of the Greeks was much more a thing in popularizing literature (things like Black Athena) than serious academic work. So it depends a lot on the department (and the prof.), and on the type of work they were doing. Oldest Dead White European Males was also the title of a book by Bernard Knox explaining the relevance, originality, and significance of the Greeks.
Stack is freaking awesome (brings compile times down dramatically, prevents cabal hell) but I'm sad that it doesn't seem to work with emacs haskell-mode and yesod-bin yet (because those tools depend on a .cabal dir). Stack support for those tools can't come soon enough!
https://play.google.com/store/music/category/WORLD - it's a decent start, and it'll almost certainly continue to get larger.
I signed up anyway. Since giving them my email, I haven't gotten the stream to work for more than a minute before it deciding it's unavailable...and I hear him too before it decides to end it, so I'm confused. I was warned by a pane that it's in beta, I supposed. After a few tries, it seems to work now.

Ie. warning, choppy user experience.

EDIT: It was actually pretty interesting. He took a random piece of code someone shared and ran it, not after eye checking it first, of course. It ran something meant for cellular automata(?) which actually printed out the sender's name in the grid. Besides the fun, it was interesting watching Wolfram himself code live--very cordial and friendly. I'd definitely want to check out the next one.
If he came illegally from Mexico, there would be plenty of people fighting for him to stay.

Drawing on this story and [others](http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/02/usa-trying-to-deport-chr...), it seems immigrants are only protected if they are willing to break U.S. law. It is a very dangerous incentive to deport those not breaking the law and welcome those who do. People might get the wrong idea.
Are you claiming there is no evidence for the concept of causality? and that any discussion of existence or identity is the province of faith, not reason? If some people replace metaphysics with religous idiocy, that does not invalidate the field as such -- the same applies to all fields of rational inquiry, from physics to psychology.

I subscribe to the evidence of the senses, logic, and science. If you think any discourse about such topics belongs to the supernatural and religious, that's your problem, not mine.
I liked the part about internal recruiter's incentive structure. It's basically the old standby that nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM. This implies to me that there's a huge amount of value for companies that can change their hiring metrics and find undervalued engineers.

One thing that I disagree with is the idea that filtering processes can't make candidates better. A properly created process should leave both sides of the equation happy, an engineer can learn new skills and a hiring manager can have a shot at making an offer to an engineer if s/he has the requisite skills. If the candidate doesn't have the skills then give them the tools to learn the skills and see if they come back showing mastery. Work ethic and being ready/willing/able to learn new things is the number one signal that an employee is going to work out well, at least on the teams that I have run.
Or: "Right meow it's seven". But then you get into the whole deal with how literal vs conceptual you want to translate.
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It's not mentioned in the article but Columbia also has a very progressive hiring policy to help people get jobs after prison. For example, they hired convicted murderer and terrorist Cathy Boudin as an adjunct professor[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin
If the futile and counter productive prohibition of drugs comes to an end then all those prisons won't be needed.
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One thing I've been thinking about is that it would be cool if you had a group of animals that only mated with each other. They all have a lot of offspring, and there is a strong selection pressure. Gradually the population size is reduced. In the end all recessive diseases should disappear, and you should be left with a population of clones. Would they be fit, or are the heterozygote advantages for some genes too strong?