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I have mixed opinions about OCW but overall I think it is an invaluable resource. I am presently working through MIT 20.219 Writing and Hosting the Educational Show (2016, Choe, E.) and 18.006 Calculus Revisited (2010, Gross, H.). The calc classes are from 1970 so I wondered why they were there. After watching 3 lectures straight until 0600 and laughing through it, I saw why. I've also done Harvard CS50x, and many others from various sources. Some classes are more to sell the school to potential students than to share knowledge but MIT stays away from that. Self-learning is tricky for some but I think learning how to learn is as critical as the course content. My learning has accelerated greatly since studying teaching adult learners and graduate students. You are your own teacher in a way and must take responsibility for your own learning outcomes. Politics drive education, many factors influence the level of commitment from MIT to the OCW program and learners, but I don't believe that should change the value of the content and if public funding will keep it online, I support it. I owe them so much for what I've learned from the MIT culture, its amazing faculty, and the students who help shape the learning environment. I get called to consult and develop for some of the biggest companies in the world now and I can be confident in the quality of my work and what I teach others :) I call that value.

Some numbers forward via DSN to "red phones" and what not. Please don't prank them or waste their time. I had a spouse social engineer the number to an overseas camp. It bloody rang the literal red phone used for CASEVAC operations on my helipad. Then she wanted to get pissed when I told her to hang up and call a civilian phone... "Well, don't you have call waiting?"... We are divorced now, of course.

My analysis, and before you get excited [ US citizens cannot take advantage of this. ] Registering puts you in a pipeline for service sales, i.e., you will need a service provider (pick from 3) who can introduce you to banks who are not guaranteed to work with you. Doing this requires a local address, which they provide as a 'virtual office service' complete with telephone answering and mail. Notably, three links deep into the 'how to' process, everything you need gets complicated, but is naturally available as a service, and the focus of discussion shifts to taxes. Taxes and avoidance of unfair taxation errors are conspicuously discussed in detail, as the service providers focus on their most common need, protection of assets. They emphasize the fact that their smart cards are used for encryption as well as authentication while doing business, implying you can speak behind a 2048 bit privacy curtain about your "asset protection" needs and hear about more services. Your "government issued ID" does not bear a photo, explicitly is not an ID for travel or individual identity. The card, once collected securely in Estonia or within an Estonian embassy, can be used to secure all further discussion of these sensitive matters. Secure delivery means freedom from fear that 'prying eyes' like your oppressive local government will be able to read anything about your search for "asset protection services" and cause you trouble. Of course another prominently advertised service which seems obligatory is legal advice for international tax structures. Sad that the idea seems so pure on the landing pages, yet quickly evaporates leaving yet another offshore tax shelter scheme. I know what my taxes pay for, I've always paid them without one complaint except I'd like the money spent more efficiently. Thank you, but no, Estonia.

I'd call it just another vendor lock-in. Frankly I'm sick of the AWS clone army constantly preaching that spinning up an ECx instance is a better answer than learning "hard stuff" or looking at me like I have a dick growing out of my forehead for not using AWS. Generally it seems to make people lazy and dependent. I don't use it, and will not recommend it because I care about my customers' businesses. Every other 'benevolent' service I can think of which scaled up like that has become a malignant tumor I wish I had never had dealings with. I guess I just won't trust Napoleonic companies again, no matter how nice they may seem. Market share discrimination? lol maybe, but still less fascist than how we rate e-commerce risks, no?

The firmware from the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 which has unexplainable access to storage devices and such while the phone is powered down. I wanna know what was really going on there...

I worked in medicine for over a decade, I can confirm the use of maggots from sterile breeding programs and the effectiveness of wild maggots because I've documented it myself. If I had such a necrotic wound I would trust maggots implicitly and be thankful for them.

This is also the standard greeting for JS newcomers. Perhaps being 'web developers' has an impact on their perception of simplicity.

Making a better todo system is on my todo list as well.

Also, this article from The Guardian is good.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/16/3d-printed-o...

For Algebra, if you need certain subjects in depth or need to take a test to assess your skills, try Khan Academy [1]. Also, Khan covers trigonometry and geometry. For Calculus, MIT did a series called Calculus Revisited which covers calc 1,2,3.[2] Calculus Revisited was designed for professionals who needed a refresher or first crash course. It's from 1968-72 but I thought they were great.

[1] https://khanacademy.org [2] https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/#Mathematics

cursing is now provably productive

For those interested, see Schillinger v. United States [1], 1894

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/155/163

Yeah, like doors or Windows in your home. Take it however you like.

nice and soft -.o

Dear Kite, I really love this idea, but hell no I'm not using it yet. Here's why... I'll cut to the point here, so please forgive the bluntness as I mean no insult or accusation, just honest criticism, and I'm gonna try to cover a lot in as small a space as possible.

There's not even a mention on kite.com about how data is handled that I can find anywhere. What is the method of transport? What stands between skids and my code? The server my data goes to, is it shared VPS hardware waiting to get pwned by your neighbor, xtremecrackz.zyx or is it on private servers guarded by a three headed puppy named Κέρβερος, 13 ninja, and biometric security? Does the page even mention this is a cloud service somewhere? I see support for VS Code, but not MSVS proper, emacs but not specifically GNU/Linux yet; Mac support but not Linux in spite of at least $4M USD in seed and 3 years of development (source: crunchbase [1])? The Windows download page gives instructions for bypassing SmartScreen warnings meaning your code signing certificate has no reputation with Microsoft yet if I understand correctly. Frankly, I didn't think "Adam Smith" was even a real person until I checked it out. LOL, sorry bro but it sounds kinda generic to someone skeptical I guess. Maybe you assume trust since you travel in the circles you do, but we nutjobs like stuff in writing, and trust assumptions without verification are bad practice anyhow -.-

(on trust) Your investor who may or may not provide the same or similar "Kite" software discussed in GCHQ leaks as a "correlates-anything" solution, Palantir Technologies, has been standing in the suspiciously shadowy center of a maelstrom in some circles. I like them supporting our warfighting - but not working against the people of the United States, or anyone's civilians for that matter, however that's an argument for the agencies they contracted with. I've watched my brothers bleed out defending the rights their software has helped undermine, I'm not sure how to feel about them at all right now. Do I want to give my code to their creepy software? No, not really, since I'd have to consider that if they got a contract they might, without even knowing the end use, build software to guide Terminators to hunt down and kill civilians who write bad code or wear plaid socks. Seriously though: eyebrow raised.

(advice) I would add more clear information about how this all works. A link to security answers should come up before the footer IMO, given the nature of this product. Going out of my way to look for it, I guess it seems like security was an afterthought. I can appreciate your blog post about security [2] and the main security page which links to that article (merge these?), but they fail to answer almost all of my questions. They imply that the service isn't really ready for the spotlight, but do not explicitly say anywhere to safeguard sensitive stuff or not to trust everything just yet, but it seems softly implied to me.

(bigFoilHat) This might sound far out to some, feel free to ignore or laugh, but if I were an evil puppet master, I'd have my cybersecurity and intelligence contractor who provides access to mission critical software or monetary capital for a startup attempt to leverage this relationship to gain information about code in the wild and specific targets' code using this service, perhaps to have software look for opportunities to steal parts of keys, suggest code changes to enable exploitation, forward copies of code from persons of interest to investigators. I might ask them to approach them as patriots in the interest of the GWOT and all things decent, to tacitly and deniably or perhaps even expressly cooperate with legally and morally grey-area surveillance operations. Perhaps if there is no cooperation or just to keep it quiet, I might suggest they infiltrate Kite.com and gain the ability to intercept data clandestinely by using their trust and rapport with company leadership. "Plz send all code to spies and disable security stuffz kthxbai" I can weaken my own PRNGs and send copies of my code for spooks to analyze by myself without assistance thanks. Again, I'm attempting to honestly characterize how it makes me feel, just sayin'. I simply have no way to even fool myself into thinking I can know what goes on with my data after it leaves my PC. How do I even build rules for my firewalls? What are the parent processes which need communication, on which ports, using what protocols? Which servers will it upload to? Can we blacklist certain destinations by region or other attributes? I think you need a more robust explanation on the site before us crazy people are satisfied.

(bigFoilHat Q) HN: what say you, am I just being paranoid here in thinking that users' analyzed code may end up being displayed on an alphabet soup agency wiki somewhere along with download links for tools to suprisebuttsecks us being passed out to every malware hoarding contractor who accidentally skated past the SF-86? Maybe I'm just having a bad bout of Stallman Syndrome. One might argue "99.99% of users' code will be useless fluff and bizcruft, who cares if they copy my der.py code?" but finding that 0.01% relevant signal in the noise is exactly what Palantir does for customers, isn't it? So how can I flippantly dismiss the notion?

(Q) Do you sell, gift, trade, share, or otherwise disclose or make available knowingly any information about users' personal data or source code, even if anonymized or generalized in reports and detached from identifying information, to other parties? Can/will/do these parties include your investors? Does Palantir Technologies store, use, or have access to at any time, our source code or any information about it or ourselves?

That said, it sounds cool as phrack and I would love to see this in many languages and editors, but only if it can be trusted somehow. I'll be watching and investigating, thanks for sharing this on HN,

-Ax

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kite-com/ [2] https://kite.com/blog/thoughts-on-security

Please correct anything I am mistaken about, I admit I could be completely off the mark here.

Thanks for pointing this out gonzo, when I checked out injection molded plastics and assembly in the Austin, TX area, I saw no reason to head overseas. I went into this thinking China would likely be my only affordable option but I was pleasantly surprised at how things balanced out in the end.

When you see one spider...

just the guillotine afterward ;) careful what you wish for lol

Perhaps he meant Gauss rifle or coilgun. I remember building one when I was younger, I wish I had thought of experimenting with ferrofluid.

Intentionally disabled the license validation to run 558,000 copies on licenses for 39. Feds.

I hope they are forced to pay for every single license, back to the date of install. There should be an additional penalty for criminal hypocrisy.

One 660 and one 260 :)

Specs and more, but with added storage, cooling, power, and a second gpu now:

http://hwbot.org/submission/2365111_guiltypixel_cpu_frequenc...

Please don't discount the value of building your system the hard way, aka "the Arch way". The more duct tape there is, the more headache you'll have later IMO. I recommend you sit down with the wonderful Arch Wiki and build your system from scratch over anything else if it can be helped. And of course, contribute :)

With a second GPU you can get near bare metal performance by using PCI passthrough [1] on UEFI systems. The VM gets exclusive ownership of one adapter essentially. I am currently running Arch for a host, Photoshop via Wine and in Win VM. In the VM it runs far better, just like a native Windows dual boot. I use various Windows and Mac VMs and I routinely game on one monitor while my spouse plays games on the other, runs great. We've joked that Windows 10 runs better in Linux and is easier to manage.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

edit: Less overhead required for quick usage but no super cow powers, thats why I bother loading via Wine also sometimes. I know someone was wondering...

Also, my Wacom works flawlessly across all OS and seamlessly transitions in a QT5 virtmanager session from Plasma to Windows. ymmv, consult docs for configuration options. I've seen people saying you cant do this, bs.

Summary: We ran out of ideas to enrich our enterprise product and growth isn't what we'd like, so come develop features for us and fix our bugs while advertising to your friends. Another bloated, community-leeching, outdated, and unnecessary evolutionary dead end hoping to be put on life support by newbies attracted to sparkly frameworks, preferably social media addicts who post about every new thing they see. No?

Karma be damned, that's how it reads to me.

When I was a photographer, I was a B&H customer. But now? Never.

- B&H sued for systematic discrimination 2016 [1] - Unsafe workplace, injuries, employing illegals, discrimination. 2015 [2] - Tractor trailer fire at their yard 2014 [3] - Sued and settled for discrimination 2007 [4]

I'll stop there, just search it and see if you're curious.

[1] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/02/29/us/bh-photo-lawsuit/index...

[2] http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/10/bh-workers-c...

[3] http://bklyner.com/fire-in-progress-at-the-brooklyn-navy-yar...

[4] http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/archive/10-16-07.h...

I can appreciate the provided alternative, thank you for sharing.

Awesome!

Laughed until I read 'canned lard' then I knew you were serious. I too dropped luxury. highfive

thruster_test(3000); // todo: add powered descent code

I wholeheartedly agree with setting goals for personal time, scheduling downtime and time with family, and pot. I caution however, as a non-24/running clock disorder/non diurnal individual who worked at night a lot in military and medicine, make sure you're strict with yourself about time and perhaps sey up a digital or analog reminder, a mental trigger to remind you of the currently active task. Plasma Workspaces are one way I stay on track and schedule driven RGB ambient lights which indicate my work mode so if I space out on engineering more disease resistant rice or using phages to kill Zika, I get an unmistakable reminder of what I -should- be doing, and also when to take breaks. Yarn on your finger, persistent Android notifications or whatever would also work.