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I have found this to be true during my experience living in the Bay Area as an adult for the last 23 years. In particular, although living in the Bay Area has allowed me to meet extremely wonderful people who enrich my life, I have also met many worthless people who seem to drag down everyone who gets mixed up with them. "Dangerous" is probably not the best word for getting mixed up with them: "costly" is probably better. It has been my experience that most of the "costly" relationships I have had are with neighbors and only one of the beneficial relationships I have had has been with a neighbor -- and that relationship was vastly less beneficial than many of the relationships I have has with non-neighbors.

The reason it turned out this way is not hard to explain: unless you are a landlord or are buying a house and participate in a "cohousing" venture, there is almost no way in American to choose your neigbhors, and it is difficult and expensive to put distance between yourself and a neighbor (because moving is difficult and expensive).

Note that a large part of human communication is "signalling" by which I mean making oneself appear as virtuous as possible and making oneself appear to have the character traits that people want in a friend or a coworker.

And note that the way I would signal virtue or good character traits in this conversational thread is to say that I always get along with everyone and that I love all my neighbors.

But I did not do that. Instead, I intentionally chose to risk leaving the (false, IMHO) impression that I might be hard to get along with in order to counteract what I see as the overly rosy picture painted by our society about the value of warm relationships with one's neighbors (relative to warm relationships with non-neighbors) -- and in order to give some of the younger people reading this the benefit of my life experience. (I am 49.)

It is of course often extremely beneficial to live with someone who loves you, I should add -- and that is worth going for because it is much less expensive to choose your housemates or apartment mates than to choose your neighbors.
Does anyone know what happened to him?

To me it seems like a digital suicide :(
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It's exceptionally easy to engineer around these issues if you don't just outsource all of your thinking to a provider.

Can we stop blaming internet companies for outsourcing certain responsibilities? A decent hosting provider should ensure there isn't a single point of failure in their service. You don't ask a random company to set up their own accountancy department either: there are specialized companies to which you can outsource that. They bear the responsibility for faulty reports, as Rackspace bears the responsibility for not having a decent failover setup.

As a specialist of some sort, you have better things to do than to think about what is needed for a proper failover setup. Especially because you will still miss certain subtle details, because you are not an expert in handling a datacentre failure. You should hire experts to set that up for you and a hosting provider has those experts.

Honest to God, what's with this attitude of 'if something on the internet fails, it's your own fault, because we are all smart enough to take care of all those contingencies'?

1: we aren't; failover handling is prone to subtle bugs. What tptacek keeps saying about security also holds for contingency handling.

2: it's not smart to spend your time bothering with intricate, but ultimately mundane, issues that can be outsourced.
How childish of him. Attorneys will quibble over anything, he needs to either remove the offending text from the license, and use the FREE Google Code, or host it himself and quit complaining about Google's legal policies. He is going to either lose lots of software where his code is used, or make it a lot harder on the community.
I'm currently in a computational biology lab and people are allowed whatever suits them to tackle a problem. I'd say that there is an equal mix of octave, R, lisp, fortran, C++ and python.

I'm the heaviest user of python and this is because it allows me to get things done quickly (I need to concentrate on the science and not the joy of programming during office hours). Python is a great scripting language and that's how I use it. I find that I have to think too much when using Lisp on simple programming tasks and I'm being challenged enough by the maths or logic of the problem I'm working on.

That said, all genetic programming is done is Lisp because no other language comes close. The numerical performance of Lisp is also very good -- I'd say about 1/2 that of C++ when using SBCL. This speed is fast enough and impressive for a dynamically typed language.
It's not his call. He forked a derivative of Douglas Crawford's JSmin project, and that was a requirement in Crawford's license.
Yes it is. There is no other interpretation other than one that diminishes the contribution of business as a productive endeavour with respect to other areas. If there is explain it.
Yeah, I forgot - scheme does not have a repl... Come on!
Multi paradigm? scheme is mp but encourages fp style. Such that side-effects are reduced to a bare minimum. And most lisps are mp. Even better - the object systems are many and modular with lisp. How many object systems are there with python?
The problem with scheme is not with DSLs either, it is where most LISP shines like a rockstar! Building domain specific abstraction is trivial with scheme as long as you do a bottom-up approach. Scheme DO have FFI - not only that, scheme can compile to C. Can python do that? NO! And its not because of the prefix notation either. Sure it takes a little while to get used to applicative order of evaluation, but thats only because some idiot taught you the imperative way first. I used python before I got aware of scheme, and believe you me, I got a lot more educated on how to create applications when I watched SICP and read the little schemer books. Also, lets not forget how much time you spend doing memory management when doing C/C++. It's painful, and a waste of good time and money. Python has matured faster than scheme because it has focused on building libraries rather than being standard. Also, there is only one python implementation - where there is many schemes (most of them half-assed) and lisps. This makes it difficult to choose and land on a lisp that can do all and be all, and as such does not provide any traction for the language. There is one modern lisp that could change all this, and that is clojure. If clojure can provide all necessary libs that the working programmer need to have at hand we can see functional programming hit the mainstream of enterprise developement, research and whatever domain there is a need for computation.
I'm not sure that Good and Evil have legal definitions. Also people doing evil often seem to believe they're doing good, so could claim full compliance.
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This guy got me into Ruby. For that I will be forever grateful.
Insurance and healthcare information systems too.
Like choosing which bullet to get shot by.
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Are low TTLs effective in practice? Sounds like a good idea, but what % of users are using DNSs that just ignore it and cache things well beyond what they should?
Who says it wont? If the hellfire missiles is used to kill terrorists plotting to nuke the world I would say they were used for good!

The license statement is just ridiculous and doesn't mean anything at all, yet it gives legal departments everywhere a big problem to deal with.
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I too would like to know. His work was just plain awesome!
there is only one python implementation ... apart from IronPython, Stackless Python, PyPy, Jython, Unladen Swallow, and maybe a few more I've missed.
How can you say FP was a non-starter? Just because some aging environments were designed by Fortran hackers? FP is better suited for parallelization. And where would you put R?
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sure, but neither of them are shipped with the operating systems that I use (linux and osx).
The French call it déformation professionelle, which works wonders when it comes to perceiving the weirdest stuff as perfectly normal.
Because there isn't enough pornography on DVD already...

You know the author of this story was hot and bothered during the entire writing process. A Christian, no doubt, too. Probably skipped Bible study when they covered the section that says "Those who delight in violence [God] abhors".
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In what way does ignoring the fact that the URL 404'ed make HN a better place?
The lame excuse leads to the obvious conclusion that he could not give a demo of YouTube streaming video, which is very curious

Except he did, towards the end of the video. Apparently, he was in an office without wifi, and needed to turn on his verizon myfi to get it working.
He might not be the prettiest guy, definitely not the best PR man, but neither was Woz.
Anyone describe in more detail what problem this is trying to solve? (Both versions).
From the amount of openness Chandra has shown, it seems there is more than a small chance. No contracts in place? No code contributed? That's not stuff you can lie about.
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I can offer a great alternative:

Style: Lessons In Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams
http://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-10th/dp/02...

This book is a simple, step by step guide to making you a better writer. By chapter 2 you're already writing much clearer prose. It's one of those books you want to read every couple of years.

I'd also recommend the essay "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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There are more risks than nuclear war. For example, asteroid impacts, pandemics, ecological disasters, etc.

Even in the case of nuclear war, it's much easier to detect and destroy an incoming nuke from another planet than it is to hit one that makes its transit in 5 minutes. Especially if information about the nuke is transmitted at the same time as the nuke.

Also, once we make that first "leap across the black" to colonizing another planet, theoretically the next, further leap, will be easier/less daunting.
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Yes. I forgot about that. My family is a little odd, so I don't experience that.
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It might be impossible for code to not be usable for evil. If you are programming an online shop, you kill physical shops (evil). If you program a game, you are stealing people's time (evil). If you program a social network, you tempt people to expose too much of themselves on the net (evil). There are always two sides to things.
I've been running on trunk, with nightly updates, since 2.5, and only once had any issues.
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And this is why captcha's aren't that effective. They don't slow organized malicious hackers who can simply hire a third world worker to solve them for $1/hour, make a botnet make its victims do it like here, and so on. Meanwhile, many people are actually having trouble solving them.
Really happy to see this collection of links and articles, it's useful.
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This is delightful.

An excerpt:

"I'll pour a quiet glass of champagne then or on 2010 January's first day and lift it to this coming year's surprises, to all the coming unawares, to the inevitable reshuffling of the deck, to the complexity of it all, to what I cannot now know, to what I cannot now guess, to what I have no clue, to what I cannot now control, to what I cannot now guarantee, to the out-of-the-blue bolt of lightning, to the unpredicted, to the unexpected, to the unfamiliar, to the without warning, to the out of nowhere, to the unforeseen, to never stepping into either the same river or class, to all the twists and turns in life's road that will keep me from falling asleep at the wheel, to the unplanned interruptions that like an earthquake will shake me from the doldrums of routine, to the as yet unknown challenges that will keep me from atrophying, and to the unanticipated adventures that will keep me questing for truer answers."

What do you do for the new year?
wow. apple just arrived in the 21st century.

an article because some store now has per-field error highlight? mindblowing stuff, uh?
This is awesome. Good job.

Interesting timing... I'm just working on the new site for Hackety Hack right now...
As an alternative to poor grammar and sounding like a twat, one might simply say, "I am taller than he is." Sure, it's an extra word, but it's both correct and sounds natural.

I struggle with that occasionally. Using "him" in that sentence would make me die a little inside, but I also don't want to sound like a prick.
"Attempts to play the video turns over control of the PC to the attacker"

How?
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Same here. I overuse parenthetical statements like crazy. Once, long ago, I was told that you should only use parenthetical clauses when the sentence will still make sense and give enough information if you were to just delete the clause entirely. So, with that in mind, I'll often just try to delete the parenthetical and move on. If I really care enough about what's between 'em, I'll try to rephrase, maybe by putting it in a new sentence.
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A nice hack: if you give them comma delimited, but name the file ".xls", Excel will silently import it. and they'll never know the difference.
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Why the downvotes ? The parent comment may be offensive, but it isn't false.
neither is scheme AFAIK, at least on OS X.

But to be fair, none of those implementations are usable for most scientific work, as numpy is only available on CPython, at least today.
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tl;dr: former designer acts like prick, does not follow court proceedings, judge and jury liquidate his fortune. I really don't see how libel and emotional distress can be worth 45-100 million dollars per employee, no matter how big of a prick he was. This was vindictive.
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Not disputing what you're saying, but... one thing I'd like to see -- which I thought was available before, but maybe not -- is the ability to set my current profile photo as viewable by 'Everyone' (so anyone can find me in a search listing and have a reasonable chance knowing it's actually me based on my profile pic, and not just someone with the same name), but set the contents of my Profile Pictures album to 'Friends Only'.

For now I've set it to 'Friends of Friends' as a hopefully-reasonable compromise, figuring that most of the people I meet are via introductions from friends, and the fact that my (full) name is surprisingly pretty unique.
Yeah, that annoyed me. Pretty much any example in that vein provokes a "think of the children"-inspired eye-roll from me. What's the deal with that? Are there no motivating privacy-related example situations other than the threat of child predators?
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Heh. So let's make sure I understand this. Solving the CAPTCHA will give the victim the illusion of regaining control of their computer, yet it's the last step in creating a Facebook account? I'm actually a little impressed by this one.

I'm not entirely sure I understand this part though: "The bad guys have made it difficult for Facebook to cut them off, since active members are actually creating the new accounts, says Correll." What difference would the creating account's age have when making a new one? Sure, it has the benefit of originating from a relatively legitimate IP, but the age of the now compromised account seems arbitrary in this context.
The ACM just seem really underhand in general. They kept spamming me, through several email accounts, offering me membership. Even after I joined, they still continue to spam me.

I don't think I'm going to renew my membership when it comes up.
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On the topic of A/B testing, I was clicking around your site and I noticed that when I clicked on certain top level navigation buttons (such as purchase) it changed my choices based on the context. If I recall correctly (I'm not a professional designer by any means), many design books are against that. What caused you to decide to do that? Did you discover it focused the user's attention better?

Thank you for sharing this information with us! Data is always fascinating and your story is inspirational :-)
The timing on this article is somewhat notable -- for me, anyway. A few days ago I received an email regarding a user survey for Facebook. I was curious (and motivated: I do use Facebook a lot, and wouldn't mind helping to improve it), so I clicked through.

The survey included some free-form text boxes with open-ended questions, and and one of my answers suggested that FB needs to do more to promote its brand as something people should trust, and take actions that make that trust deserved. I noted that I still do not really trust FB, and that lack of trust curtails my use in ways that probably cause me to get less utility out of the service than I could otherwise.
(disclaimer, I am a Numpy/scipy dev)

I think the language is just part of it. I would go as far as saying that from a purely "technical" POV, lisp and ML (e.g. OCAML) are superior languages to python in almost every way. Nevertheless, I think those are, at least today, not as good choices as python for scientific research, for at least two reasons.

First, I strongly believe scientific work in general needs to be more open, both publication-wise and implementation-wise. I see programming languages as a communication tool as much as an implementation tool for science, and I think python fills this very well, because it is very readable to the casual programmer. LISP is too foreign for this audience. P. Norvig mentioned about LISP relative failure for non CS scientists this at his talk for scipy09 (http://www.archive.org/details/scipy09_day1_03-Peter_Norvig) - and I think you can count him as a LISP fan. To quote his talk, at some point, "you have to stop fighting reality".

Secondly, there is something about the LISPs, haskell and OCAML communities which do not pave well compared to python. Those are very CS-savies, really oriented toward programming - which is fine. Different goals, different tools and all that.

Also, do not forget that in science, projects generally last much longer than in most other areas. That's one of the reason why Fortran is still so pervasive, after all. It is also maintained by different people (grad students, etc...), involving several generations in some cases. Having a relatively mainstream language is a requirements - python is already too weird in many cases...

Concerning parallelization: even if you assertion were true, that's a concern only for a tiny proportion of what people do. Speed really does not matter most of the time (but it is true that when it does, it often does it in a significant way - high energy physics, climate modellization, etc...). I would be cautious about FP being better for parallelization for scientific work, though: a lot of tasks can be solved using MPI, etc... and correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe FP brings a lot of advantages there.

Recently, a perspective from W. Stein, who started the SAGE project, was mentioned on LtU, and the article provides more insights, coming from a quite different background: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3712
It appears to me that the list only takes into account how easily you can get around and get things done by walking, and not needing to drive. I wonder what the numbers would look like if they also took the relative safety of the neighborhoods into account.
I got the same result and Microsoft Security Essentials (heh) also warned me. I fired up the Ubuntu VM that I use for questionable sites and oddly did not see the same behavior though.

Edit: Not redirecting anymore when I go there in the Windows host OS. Interesting.
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Staying in his office and shutting the fuck up.
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Chandra is clearly an untrustworthy scumbag. He can't speak perfect English and isn't even white. This alone makes Michael Arrington the legitimate creator of the JooPad. Chandra's story is full of holes. I mean, who cares about who actually built the software and the hardware and the tangible aspects of the product? The TechCrunch people went to Singapore for a whole month! What were they doing there if not contributing their extensive expertise in tablet-device ideation? Surely you don't expect us to believe you came up with the idea to include Youtube all by yourself. You can hide behind your IP and legal rights and Bruce Lee for now, but just wait till someone digs up your old blog where I'm sure we'll find the missing legal documents where you hand over your creation to TechCrunch. Like most of the other posters, I don't care that you've answered the key questions surrounding this case and all Arrington can do is raise a bunch of tangential issues to undermine your credibility. Here in Silicon Valley, we value ideas over execution, loud-mouthed promoters over serious technologists, being part of the start-up establishment over being a genuine entrepreneur, and, of course, appearances over substance.
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Of course I agree. Should the positives outweigh the negatives and you want the position because of that then I guess it could be called professional to accept those negatives stoically and not whine about it. It would definitely be unprofessional to take such a position and then moan about it all day.

I just wasn't fond of the wording. Seemed to say that under the guise of professionalism we're all justified in going against our morals. It's that contradictory mentality you see in business where you run a tobacco company by day and go home to hug your kids at night. To pay the bills? Those would have to be some pretty serious bills... Probably not the way you meant the statement, and just the way I read it ;)