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Necessity is a needed evil he seems to say.

Did they thought of stopping to provide archive on the web, but just send the whole collection of paper that requires 0$ / months to just keep them alive and just require lenses and light to read?

Well it will require an index. But old style librarian have method for this. You can make incremental archive, keep up to date indexes on a separate plan ... This would in turn help countries with bad internet/energy access.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform

And maybe libraries are a great invention. Maybe universities should be opened to every one in the world to access ALL scientific papers. Maybe it is not executive at PLOS that are the most useful agent for spreading the knowledge but librarians.

As a great librarian once said: Oook! Ook, OOk, Oook!

You miscreant you lie.

Everyday, I used to filter my water on tap (except for minerals) and I drunk it.

Then I got totally stoned with the highly diluted cocain, heroin, cannabis, alcohol, ketamine, LSD there is in it. The lesser the dilution, the stronger the effect.

Then I decided to get back with more normal way to get my life back from addiction. Drugs are bad.

Every day now since then, my routine includes diluting a mix of drugs in my water to avoid the effects of it. I am feeling much better.

I also noticed a problem with air. So I now constantly smoke weed, crack, heroin.

It is costly, but me at least, I am not insane.

How can you miss the pink elephant talking to the green martians that are infecting the lizard man in the government that are all around us?

Take back your sanity.

Well, science has not your "abstraction paradox".

Science uses a notion called domain of validity for their abstraction. Domain of validity gives conditions for which there is actually no ambiguity.

There are domains where science knows it knows nothing. It is called transitions.

In science you take more time learning these "domain of validity" than the actual laws. In fact, you have to learn to calculate them by yourself.

When Einstein's relativity apply? When you go to fast.

When is a photon behaving like a corpuscule ? When you try to count them. When does photon behave like a wave? When you try to measure the interferences.

When does deterministic laws fails? When you have to much independent entities, then you use statistical physics. According to the possibility for entities to share the same energy level you then choose your distribution to integrate all the states...

Science is not about knowing formula, it is about knowing when you can apply them.

The elephant in the room is we are building a new religion based on technology.

FBI & Apple are both stupid.

Computers always ends up to be used in a real physical world. This is called the analogic hole.

This has since decades enable to weaken crypto with side channels (temperature of CPU, times of computation, EM radiation, noise of the keys...).

And how useful is it to spend billions of dollars to break new technologies when at the end human will still interact with computers with analog means?

Microphones, cameras are still working. And it covers 30% of the surface of what a secret service requires to be able to know. And cold war has left government with more than enough cheap efficient technologies. Being smart and foxy covers 15%. 5% is PURE LUCK.

Science is about aligning the cost of detection with its efficiency. Crypto is efficiently made so that breaking algorithms is more and more costly. Detection by measure/math is always failing at one point. (false positive/negative)

And what about the remaining 50% ? It is HUMINT. When people love the place where they live and trust their government they are more likely to snitch the criminals. To help keep the social peace.

Yes, social concord is what protect a nation. People feeling united and trusting their own governments.

I think that electronic intelligence is counterproductive.

I also believe we would live in a better world if laws and moral where in sync with who we really are. If we did not required secrecy to be who we are because governments made illegal stuff that are not crime, except in the eyes of a minority.

Education could help too; people when fearful are behaving like dangerous trapped animals. Education purpose is not about making citizens obedient or fearful, it is about making them able to become political leaders themselves.

Every citizens should be trained in the optic they will be a member of the parliament. The next Benjamin Franklin, Roosevelt, JFK, Lincoln ...

USA has beaten the former colonial power with education. Scientific education. It could be time USA become a great nation again.

Why? it is laissez faire, and regulation of the market.

What you are proposing is socialism.

US intelligence by the means of agencies and external consultancies is using directly 1 millions IT workers with Top secret clearance. 1 out 100 of the working population.

They could not find one to set hillary's mail correctly? Or they did not wished to? Or did Hillary refused to have an email set up by the government to protect her MI6/DGSE leaks?

And when you read the story of snowden's, he was able to trigger all alarms and get away with it.

And now NSA discover that too much data is a problem because informational entropy is growing so much it is hard to find the relevant data, even though informational entropy is a basic concept? (not to speak of false positive (innocent tagged terrorists) and false negative (missing the boston terrorist)).

ELECTINT is living its last years at my opinion. And I am okay with it. It has created a growing gap of perception between governments and the people they govern.

Sometimes failure are okay for me.

To err is human, to persevere is evil, and no machine can notice when it errs. Relying to much on ELECTINT is the first part of incompetence here.

Sorry, I just can recognize the taste of the plant, not the molecule.

Thanks for the precision.

I do agree with you. I still think people should accept that you cannot delegate knowledge to elite and learn. I also accept what you say about the knowledge that saves life.

We would be better protected if people were part of the chain of control and accepted that science can be done in their kitchen and that we need to cooperate because it is hard to have a job a family and be perfect in everything.

Nobody's perfect and we should accept it.

I worked in ad industry. We had are own 3k lib with code inspired by jquery to deal with that problem of "fixing the browsers incompatibility", because vanilla JS does ,not exists when DOM/browser functionalities are added to the equation.

I learned to use CSS without framework, and it helps a lot both writing efficient CSS selector and fast loading HTML that is reactive ... and maintainable easy to fix/deploy CSS. Once you learned it.

Yes I suggest that it can be done. But I cannot do it anymore because no modern coders want to learn all that. Thus my CTO, and colleagues always complained that it should not be done this way.

Well ... I used to complain to much dependency is fragile, vulnerable and they say, let us follow the hurd.

I say, your code is expensive to write, maintain, support.

They said no. Else we find no one, and no one wants to learn this ol' shit.

Look where we are today?

The mass can be wrong I guess. Being right makes you jobless but at least when the bubble will explode I will be valuable again. And I will make people pay a lot for my skills of having no skills in babel, angular 2, react ...

Less is more. Especially for a backend coder.

I normally buy non pasteurized natural apple juice at the fresh market from a place that I chose just because the guy was nice to my wife.

One day he was closed, so I went for the other one that sold another non pasteurized _healthy_ juice.

I brought it home and was kind of puzzled : I put my yeast, and set my home made setup for making my cider and it was not kicking as much as usual. So I tripled the dose of yeast. Finally kicked.

After 9 days I tried it. It was alcoholized AND sugarished. One of my highest batch. And I was really puzzled. Yeast makes alcohol out of sugar. And I had put my regular chaptalization. Nothing that should have been that sugarish AND alcoholized.

It was weirldy tasting like sorbier (rowan and mountain-ash). I knew this taste, because my great mother used to make us drink this horror as a water syrup when I was kid. Once you know you never forget. Beuark.

And I got sick for the first time the day after. So I inquired.

When I told my story to other vendors they told me it was a classic in "healthy food", sorbitol helps conserves without being actively searched. Hence my triple yeast kick.

The funny part is that I realized you need no labs to detect fraud, you need to have eaten the "right" food as a kid. You need to be critical, experimenting, thinking. And confrontational.

You know, I began making my alcohol for the same reasons my great father did when he was a (Belgian) migrant in France. Because he was poor and wanted something cheap of a quality he liked.

I learned making my malossol, my ketchup, my tomato sauce, my mistelle.... to. Because, coding is not enough skills.

And nowadays, I am better at appreciating food and detecting food fraud.

I really appreciate what being poor has taught me, I don't really appreciate that most customers are so ignorant they make food more expensive and less edible for "healthy reasons". Something is kind of wrong globally. But I kind of don't care, me, I can survive.

Well there are still situations where coders put mix different codeset / encoding. Willingly or not. And SIP still exists.

Education is based on mandarinat.

Teachers often never left universities. Teachers never faced the problem of working. Teachers often steal the work of their students. Teachers don't care about readable code. Teachers don't care about security.

How can they make student good at something they ignore.

Our education system sux as a whole. Private, public, they all sux big. Education requires critical thinking. Passing exams require obedience.

And, there was never an evidence in the first place that CS is related in anyway to better quality or productivity in coding. Not a single study can prove it. Yet students takes loans and bankrupt themselves for life making theses studies.

Universities needs to be reformed.

PS they are non CS specialty that requires to get the job done with computers that are doing a better job at teaching CS than the specialists...

Lol, biggest bug is developer ignoring that latin1 & unicode encoded in UTF8 can coexists in the same stream of data :

- HTTP 1.1 headers are ISO-8859-1 (CERN legacy) while content can be UTF8 - SIP being based on HTTP RFC have the same flaw.

The CTO of my last VoIP company is still wondering why some callerIDs are breaking his nice python program assuming everything is UTF8 and still does not understand this...

Yes, encoding can change, I also saw it while using regionalisation with C# .net in logs.

I love the we select on merit part.

Isn't success the only measure of merit for a company?

If they have not succeeded yet they have none. It they are ready to share their income with someone else, they lose benefits hence it is admitting they partially failed.

If they cannot find investment, it means the bank already refuses them an interesting credit, or banks are not doing their jobs? Oh yes they are, they invest in companies investing, that invest as a proxy. With every level of indirection there is loss.

QE are puting a lot of money on the market, companies are sprouting like mushrooms, and then like NSA chocking on too much data, investors are losing efficiency in searching a needle in a haystack. Hence more money is lost in the process.

Not enough competition result in a bad state of the market. Too much result in an unsustainable market, especially when it is biased. Investor's money can make a company hold a market while losing money for enough time to kill the competition while having no merit other than the ability to have investments. Even the market of VC is showing signs of inefficiency.

Well, welcome to our world where "Free" market is failing even the top of the economical pyramid.

When our believes result in constant failures, we should stop believing in old fantasies. Free market and "laissez faire" do not self regulate itself in a virtuous way anymore. I suggest we try to understand how we failed and how to come back to the conditions in which it was working.

Ah someone did not read Plato?

It is the Gyges ring parable.

A man find a ring that makes him invisible (total privacy). And then he does steal, introduce himself in houses and watch women undress and rape them ... and then he becomes a bloody tyran.

The moral of the story is invisibility/privacy makes people bad because moral behaviour is a result of the look of the other on your actions.

Needless to say Plato was an asshole. So is conclusions was to create the Republic where the wise would be hidden from the masses, control the masses, censor them ...

Greek myths however said you could evade from the look of the other but not the one of your own conscience and that the chtonian gods (Eryhnies & al) would come and get you.

I think that people are mostly having a conscience, but that the lack of transparency favors the one having none (psychopaths) and that psychopaths are attracted to power like pedophile are attracted to teaching kids.

Thus, I am puzzled that knowing this we let the more powerful have the most privacy. Hence my fight for the transparency of the most powerful persons, the exact opposite of today's law. As a result, I think privacy is actually a bad thing.

Humm ... I looked for the fun if no one spotted in any comment that there was a creepy feature the author likes.

Periodic automated arbitrary code execution from a remote source.

Here is a list of the stupid ideas that old coders warned from

   - abritrary remote code execution [X]   this, curl|bash
   - too much dependencies           [X]   npm
   - lack of specifications, staging [X]   Agile
   - non deterministic HW            [X]   Intel
   - non deterministic software      [X]   llvm/gcc/AI
   - Single point of failure         [X]   github/CA
   - attack by majority on P2P       [X]   blockchain, bitcoin
   - bigger sloc is more bugs        [X]   heavy frameworks
   - using immature technologies     [X]   haskell
   - bloatwares                      [X]   angular
   - private corp standardizing      [X]   QUIC & al, browser wars
   - beware of information entropy   [X]   big data
   - moving parts                    [X]   the Cloud
   - higher surface of vulnerability [X]   IoT
   - monopolies                      [X]   google
   - using private cie for infra     [X]   github is the new sourceforge
   - putting half backed std in prod [X]   IPv6
   - lack of consistency             [X]   most nosql tech
   - legal risk due to IP law        [X]   coding by copy/pasting

If I was an old coder still coding I would say we are very close to a singularity : the total lack of trust that could result in all this is simply customers reverting to fax, teletypes, snail mail... or going to court to ask for financial compensations.

If you need an expert to help you on this, I can help.

The number of coders complaining about an author exercising the basic of intellectual property rights is too high.

1) all coders should understand authors right be the code free or closed;

2) there is no excuse for someone whose value is based on creativity to ignore how IP works (the good and the bad part) because our comfortable incomes come from the protection these rights gives to our work

3) if your code is broken for 11 sloc, maybe you depend too much on others work and you have no value yourselves.

Benevolent persons sharing their code on their free time owes you nothing.

Repay authors whose code you use.

Buy closed source software, and at least respect the free software authors. It costs you nothing already.

If they require a shot in the arm backed by massive investment, I don't think privately owned interest favouring statistically birth over competence is the right way.

It is basically both ploutocratie and major life changing decision who are escaping the control of the people. Hence not driven neither by the interests of Nations nor of the environment.

We are supposed to live in democracy where the people are free to decide to not trigger a massive extinction of species or fuel wars based on biasing the access to oil or cheap enslaved workforce.

I think we have the right to decide our own destiny. But, it is because I am an idealist still believing in the rights of the people, freedom and fair competition.

Startup business backed by VC is kind of unsound.

The traditional way maybe longer : minimal investment and constant self sustainability, but it seems also better at helping founder adapt to changes in costing and technologies.

When you have 50 customers it is easier to recognize you made a mistake in architecture and change it. While aggressive market spreading with freemium lock you in faster and makes you less agile.

Also you get very soon aware of your real costs.

But, the problem is VC+startup tends to aggressively compete with sound business in a way that has nothing to do with pure merit but often just the capacity to access capital (which according to most studies relate to birth).

I am an hardcore historical liberal, I don't really think that birth is a merit that is leading to a competitive market. Else, most of the leading economical nations would have remained monarchies. I also accept people have the right to live in dignity from their work and do not have to be all entrepreneurs.

I kind of think people misunderstand what liberalism is.

It is the right for people to choose a dignified existence through work with a clear contract of one hour worked has to be paid, and the right if people wishes to be entrepreneurs that have the possibility to access to a truly competitive market based on their merit without distortion.

And like any liberal I think it contributes to prosperity wealth and happiness of the Nations in an efficient way.

one of the benefit of NATing that it is mentally easier to recongize inbound and outbound traffic in firewall rules.

It has been used as a way to centralize traffic by some rogue ISP, and then because Large Scale Nating involve to hold in memory a lot of state considered bad practices because it was costing money to ISPs. (plus FW redondancy/HA in NAT require to synchronize states with CARP or CISCO techs).

But NATing behind the POP of the customer behind a public IP with the classical 3 ways filtering (corporate net, DMZ, internet) still enables templates to be easily shared and understood.

It is not NAT that sux. It is incompetent sysadmins the problem.

Masquerading private address with you GW public address and limit connection to outhoing one when ingress filtering is correctly done on your firewall/ISP side is quite efficient.

Using private address is just a convenient way to set up easy invariant templates for FW rules. No more, no less.

If you add the fact that ISP used to not route RFC 1918, it used to work quite efficiently.

Afro american have also fewer years, as well native americans, as well as males, as well as ... depressive, bipolars...

Is the difference in life expectancy due to autism, or is it a potential effect of discrimination?

If it was due to discrimination, maybe life expectancy discrepancies could be a practical measure of discrimination?

And what about the distribution? If the 90th percentile was higher than for other "categories" what would you conclude?

I used to be a sysadmin and have my tools to know what I wanted ;) https://github.com/jul/yahi

I care about stats as a junkie and I see this as vanity or OCD.

Best solution at my opinion is to not care and just practice.

How much time before companies wake up and think that hiring people that can do the same job with only C1000 is a better investment?

lol, just reminded me I had set up a google analytics on my blog a long time ago before thinking about it and that I have been complaining about the idiots putting google analystics for more than one year.

Oh gosh. How much google analytics did I put during the 6 months where I thought it was the alternative to parsing logs for stats on my server when I believed in the clown and migrated to it?

PS: I try to quit looking at stats as much as I try to quit smoking ; it is the only sensible alternative. I should not care about them.

Both these ideas are terrible ideas.

Give me a solid anchor and a lever that is long enough and I can move the earth.

The problem of all modern crypto technos is 1) CPU burnt for crypto is a nice lever for DOS (and not all our mails require crypto, seriously 60% is spam) 2) they do not solve the 2 general problem

Yes 2 auth/Channels factors seems nice. The problem they stay on the same plane. It is 2 inbound channels.

You know when USA engineers last thought it was smart, kiddies learnt to use a 1$ cpt crunch whistle to phone for free all around the world.

Actually I don't mind, I am broke and totally will love free whatever the stuff that this kind of engineering will offer me.

DARPA Robots are full 2.1D autonomous. Cars have far less degrees of liberty and their "environment" is heavily subsidized.

Why are drones (3D evolution) and electric train (1.xD evolution) easy to build?

Well in the case of drones makers don't care about limiting the movements so rules of feedbacks are easy. In case of train, it is even easier.

It is all about the size of the decision tree and the number of input(sensors)/output(effectors) that are coupled you need to control. There probably is a metric to give you the domain of "accessible" low hanging fruits of automation that can be set according to the domain.

General purpose automates are at best expensive, at worst a scam (see the mechanical Türk).

One way to make bots efficient is to specialize them. Hence the Jacquart mecanic computer that created the industrial revolution of 1830 and set the workers on fights and created the conditions for WWI.

I guess no one saw the problem of efficiency still exists even with infinite R&D budget.

The problem of robots is by requiring quite a lot of investment for their deployment they set an unfair competition between people being backed up by capital and innovative self made man without capital.

That was the reason to be of the Luddites.

Funny. The ancester of UN (LN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations#General_weak...) failed with the same symptoms.

Created after WWI to prevent another WW it was disbanded after failing to prevent WWII

So, is anyone here implying we go for WWIII ?

Let me guess.... Milgram experiment is about the submission to authority.... The biggest problems right now is about the impoverishment of the workers and the "rich getting richer", but at the opposite of the time between WWI and WWII no one is proposing to prevent what generated WWII. (Mussolini and Hitler were elected notably to break the unions to help the companies stop losing values on paying these greedy workers diminishing the dividends)

So .... you really want people to go in the streets and ask that one hour worked should be payed, that tax are equally applied and demand that government do what the people ask?

You want the revolution in China, Europa, USA, Canada, Africa .... everywhere except Buthan maybe?

Seriously. This world is fine. With a 300$ phone in your pocket and the right app you can solve everything.

Mathematics? The people trying to find solutions of an equation by solving them?

Mathematicians is a weird education I hardly understand. The last PhD I met from Mc Gill university ignored the existence of non euclidean geometry. His excuse? He was on formal proof.

I am sorry, I have a hard time with people that never were challenged to make equations spit their solutions in order to make something actually work in the real world with limited time and money.

It is the same difference I see between athletes and ergotherapists, or Einstein and Poincaré.

btw Pi = 4 (in taxicab geometry aka L1) http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/96835/are-there-any-...

Euclidean geometry is not the only one and some physical problems are solved using spaces in which pi is NOT 3.1459

;)

And this ? https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%91%84%E5%8A%A8%E7%90%86%E8... (pt https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoria_de_perturba%C3%A7%C3%B5...) (fr https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9orie_des_perturbations)