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I found a rather strange index to rate the success-rate of future projects.

(MentionedInConversation x InfectiousnessToOther)EnduranceOfIdea ( 1/TechAffinity)

Meaning, if your aunt talks to your mum about it, and the general idea comes up once or twice a week and migrates on, even without mentioning the company - and your mum&aunt is not enthusiastic for just the technology, then its going to make it.

Case: AirBnB - mentioned once or twice - misspronounced, then mentioned only as concept for three months - the idea stuck to rent out rooms to total strangers without big formalitys. Such buisness_idea_memes are easy to scale, propagate themselves in a way and the technology has basically some catalytic function to a allready existing small scale buisness concept that a person is allready familiar with but did not dare the risk previously.

"I could make a small hostel.."

One could imagine this for allmost anything..
Make a app for people who wish they where at partys and able the enjoy them and are even willing to pay for that, and connect them with party-animals lacking the money, willing to drag somebody shy along. Idea could run without your app, but your app propells it onwards. Voila!
A little correction here; intermediate python on leanpub is absolutely free.
I'd love to see one created, just to light a fire under khan academy so they fix it properly. If going offline is so uncommon in their eyes, why not store the hint on the server?
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Yes I suppose motorists having an appreciation for cyclists is very important.

I'll be in the Amsterdam area. Probably end up actually living in Hoofddorp.
Individually, cheating is an user experience and design problem. Did you ever play an engaging, interesting game, used a cheat code for more resources/lives and game instantly stops being interesting even if you don't use cheat codes any more? This happened to me multiple times. Experiences of others is similar.

"go out of their way to avoid actually learning anything, that shouldn't cause the site owner any grief whatsoever."

Obviously, Khan Academy staff has a different take on this problem and that's great. Online education should strive to cater to cheaters, too.
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There's quite a few interesting videos on traffic design in the Netherlands, junction design is a big topic, as well as separating lanes.

Videos like these might be fun to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA

If it piques your interest, there's more comprehensive videos too like this one which is still only 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQMgbDJPok
The problem is that localStorage never gets cleared on its own. So you could have a situation where a hint persists from the last user using the computer (or last session in general), effectively sabotaging the current user's answer(s). An edge case, but possible. SessionStorage would be more suited here.
what happens if there really is nothing
we're better at than a computer

It's not that you have to compete with computers while being naked and without tools in outer space.

The line between Humans and Computers will continue to blur. Right now, you carry a computer with you in your pocket. Tomorrow you will have it in your head. And it will aid your thinking without you having to type stuff into a keyboard and looking at a screen.

If there is nothing left "we" are better at then computers, the last remaining "old" parts inside of us will be discarded and we will just be a computer like everybody else :)
If true, is this good?

Isn't the purpose of work to end (or to diminish, at least) all work? (and leave us with more time to take care of ourselves, our minds, our bodies, our souls, our kids, our parents, our friends, our neighbours, our politics, our environment etc)
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ICANN doesn't really control TLDs either. All ICANN does is grant monopolies. Once the monopoly is granted they do very little. You could argue they're a regulator, but they have close to zero enforcement power.
The cyclists make sense, but where I live you can picture the bus with one guy on it.
I am not sure it always does.

Do you view the NSA's snooping technology as a benefit to society? More high tech, well paid jobs have been created there.

Likewise I feel that a great deal of the tech involved in finance is of questionable benefit to society as aw whole. Does High frequency trading actually benefit anyone other than the banks?
my limited experience, but corroborated by discussion with other people, is that in the Netherlands (and Belgium) cyclists actually own the road, i.e. they always seem to get right of way and give little crap about pedestrians/cars/motorbikes.
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Youtube should have a trending part in their profiles like the most popular search words, videos. This will open doors to more business opportunities like marketings and stuff. People might use those data to look for popular words search to make relevant videos that will most likely turn into a hit. Also will understand how a video turn into hit for brands companies marketing can use to make commercials ( like who is searching for their media,(age ,sex) so they will know their target markets and know who they are not reaching and whom they should, if they want to increase their brand's name popularity and relevance.
This solution seems to overlook the fact that once you've served something, you lose control of it. If the hint's been served, there's probably another way to find it - even just watching the bytes come over the wire.

I may be missing the point - but why not serve up the hint on a separate request? That way if you're offline, you don't get the hint, and if you're online, they can log that you requested it on the server side.
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The way I understand it, the company behind the manualsplus.com service (Ridge Equipment Company, Inc.) isn't going out of business. The issue is they needed to move to a new location and it didn't make economic sense for them to continue with the manuals part of their business when considering the cost of outfitting the new facility for their storage and moving the material.
> but cyclists there are absolutely crazy

This is only because of the outsider perspective : everybody learns to ride a bicycle as a kid ( as early as 4-5 years ).

Also children about 11-12 years old bike to their schools unattended, sometimes 15km each day. Parents would not allow this if it was 'absolutely crazy'.
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But... The correct one IS kcal. Or kilojoule, if you want to be even more universal.
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Classic color schemes and much more
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I searched the site but I can't find any information.

Does anyone know the difference?
This is a really interesting framing. If it's the correct way to think about things, it would really put a damper on the importance of warm-temperatures/extreme-pressure superconductors.
No. He was just a fucking demagogue.
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Past performance does not guarantee future results.

It's just an indicator.
How would I go about obtaining a copy of the TTIP agreement in its full form once it is available for public review?

I'm from the UK so would be doing so from the EU side.

I'm thinking I need to read the entire thing.
I think this is good. Most species need to dedicate their effort to hunting/gathering/nest building, and having need to do work I think makes you appreciate and value the non-work time more.

Technology has given me such an awesome way to make a living that makes me feel so lucky. Life for me now is far more enjoyable and easier than my time at school or college, purely because I get to work on the things I enjoy.
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I think you ARE missing the point. Watching the bytes come over the wire isn't something that they are trying to protect. Just easy cheating in the classroom. They probably received some complains from teachers.

They wanted to keep it working offline, and hints should still be available for students in areas with spotty internet.

It's not Khan Academy responsibility to ensure students don't cheat after all. I mean for all they know the students could have other browsers/computers open.
As my use case for 7-8 years demanded reverse tunnelling daily during development, and last 2 me switching to ngrok, let me just point out that it's not "the same".

Giving you full benefit of doubt that you just haven't fully explored ngrok, instead of just listing the features here myself, I'll just urge you to check it out in more detail.

It's awesome little tool, and the author has always been enthusiastically responsive through #ngrok on freenode.
> I think it is crazy that something as simple as keeping time can have such a complicated solution at that sort of scale.

Check this talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/ntimed_ntpd_r... . It's more difficult than it appear.
You're mixing two different problems. Just because you write your CSS in JavaScript doesn't mean you have to deliver them as inline styles. [1] [2] [3]

CSS in JS is about leveraging the (relatively sane) variable/procedure declaration and control flow semantics that are already available to you in JavaScript. How you deliver them to get the best possible performance is a wholly different problem.

[1]: https://github.com/kodyl/stilr
[2]: https://github.com/robertknight/ts-style
[3]: https://github.com/chenglou/RCSS
Considering the expectations implied by Amazon's stock price, are you sure it's a common misconception? Surely if the misconception was common, the valuation metrics would be much lower?
I am more interested in another question: has technology created more leisure than it has destroyed?
I use primarily bike and public transit ... but given that, if you were to measure flow, that is to say, how many people traverse a given unit distance per unit time, how would the numbers change?

I think cars may be given a more favorable score in a metric of transport as opposed to what amounts to a metric of occupancy.

But then there's parking ... and that's why I'm usually on the bike; with casual non-crazy, follow-all-the-laws riding, in the inner city, I'll beat my motorist friends by 5-10 minute margins. I often start to worry that they got in an accident or got lost because it takes them so long. It's really remarkable.
I see that that the book has a section on usage of For-Else construct. Personally I found this construct to be confusing, and avoid its usage as one can achieve the same by setting a flag (say). Is this construct much used ?
Do not mistake Amsterdam city center with the rest of the Netherlands.

In the overcrowded center of Amsterdam, the locals know and understand "the dance" (the last thing a cyclist wants to do is come to a full stop every 20 meters, because it is much more "expensive" for a cyclists than it is for a pedestrian or driver, so instead of playing by the rules of right of way we do the dance of give and take), with the exception of tourists (who don't know the dance and give off confusing and confused body language) and cars (usually from out of town) stupid enough to drive in the city center in the first place.
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It isn't just that hearthstone is more RNG influenced per se, it's that it is an incredibly shallow game tactically. Part of that is the discreet turns (which also makes the online game considerably more playable than mtg ever managed with endless "breakpoints" in play to confirm no response), but also the actual complexity and interactivity is flat out lower.
The experience of programming is ripe for transformation, and work like APX, Johnathan Edwards' Subtext (https://vimeo.com/106073134) (which uses the spreadsheet UI metaphor to specify programs and expose their run time data transformations) and, though I'm not as enthused about it, Chris Ganger & co.'s Eve (http://incidentalcomplexity.com/) are making great progress towards that goal. I've been following this kind of work for over a decade though, and it looks like it'll be a couple of years yet before you can open up an editor the way you'd fire up emacs.

It feels like programming never really escaped its command line origins, where all UI is orientated around ordered text transformations. Coding in that environment is empowering once mastered, but very frustrating to master; for me the promise of these kind of programming environments is that the same level of mastery is possible with only a fraction of the frustration.
man, i really hate cars. i use my bikes everday and i just wonder about the inefficiency and wastefulness of cars.

i understand that certain groups of people really depend on cars workwise, but for the average joe a personal car is just silly.

whole rivers of cars trolling down the streets with only one person in it and i wonder - car sharing - no, why, it's my personal right and as long as I can afford it, fu*k it ...

a hyperbole of the idea of freedom, questionable whether a force for prosperity.
Yeah, that's my point.
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I'm no financial expert, but I believe HFT benefits many people by making the difference between buy-price and sell-price smaller and increasing the liquidity of the market.
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The post title is a bit misleading, then. The way I see it, it's more like a bug they fixed (since people could legitimately lose their connection and have their hint count wrong) rather than a real no-cheat policy.
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I use ngrok a fair bit, often for handling OAuth and other webhooks. One really nice feature is the ability to record, inspect, and play back incoming HTTP requests. It's not space magic or anything but it's a really handy, convenient tool.
I guess it that depends from person to person but I'd be definitely interested to see the general population happiness (not sure how they measure that) with tech.

I personally can't stand tech anymore, it's what I'm forced to do to make a living. I'd rather stare at a tree than a mobile screen.
What happens if you reconnect and submit the answer before the hint request goes? Seems like a classic race condition.
It was a light hearted comment from the outside perspective, not a genuine accusation of mental health problems ;) Cycling in the Netherlands is actually lovely. Flat land, well maintained cycle paths, and beautiful countryside. Plus the thighs! My word!
Wow, so who foots the bill for this one?
You could get around the starving thing by the government taxing or owning the robots assuming they don't go all Terminator 2 on us.
Trains might well win in that case, especially metro trains in cities. You can move at least 500 people every 3-4 minutes, less if you try especially hard.

Cars in London average 19mph (30km/h) on "major roads" and 9mph (14km/h) in Central London.
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Thanks for this! It's really good to have intermediate stuff all in one place, rather than tutorials on a specific topic
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The banks seem to be the only ones benefiting from this as far as I can tell. My life doesn't feel any better for HFT.
I'm thinking of a possible regulated solution to this... What would be the inconvenients of banning car circulation inside cities?
EDIT: Well, it would be much harder to carry "big" amounts of personal property. Maybe only allow a taxi-like van service? Or taxis.
This was an interesting read, the focus on time reminded me of the Extempore project (see [1] and [2]).

I wonder when this article was posted? Along with the Eve announcement it seems there's a lot to look forward to for the future of live programming.

[1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/

[2] http://benswift.me/extempore-docs/
Uh, yeah, because there was room to grow or move in to. In 1900 people were still settling in America, and production has grown immensely worldwide at a steady rate since then, while population was relatively low.

Now, population has grown three fold in the last hundred years: http://www.historyfuturenow.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...

There are more old people alive than ever before as a percentage of the overall population (I guess there's jobs in caring for them, unless robots do that, as well), and technology is at a point where it can replace humans completely, instead of working side by side.

I always say, the Industrial Revolution = humans aided by machines (say a ratio of 1-100), the Automation Revolution = machines aided by humans (take the same ratio in reverse).

You see the problem? Population is exploding, job automation is doing the same. In a society that needs to work in order to live, that is unsustainable.

I'm all for automation, but we need something for those who will simply have nothing to do in order to make money...

The people who own and maintain the machines will be fine, those who mediate relations between humans-humans-machines, as well. What about the rest?
How many people will now try to file fraudulent tax returns and claim their identity was stolen in the hack?
And this is only the economical measure of benefits for the society. For instance rarely anyone speaks of the environmental damage as a direct result of human advancement which might ultimately be fatal for society.
I don't see much guidance either. It appears from the brief guidance text ("Purchase a license for yourself" vs "Purchase a license for others." that "Individual" is for personal use, and "Enterprise" for use within a legal entity employing multiple individuals - but I am grasping for straws here.
Individual is if you're purchasing for yourself. (You can use it at work if you'd like).

Enterprise is if you're purchasing multiple licenses (ie. licenses for employees).
I wish the author commented on whether or not he can view text comfortably at 1:1 scaling. 27" seems pretty small for that resolution, probably borderline.

As soon as you start playing with scaling you begin to lose the real estate of the monitor. Sure, things will look smooth but I wouldn't want to drop $700 on a 4k monitor only to have to scale it. At 200% scaling you end up with identical real estate as a 1080p monitor.

In case anyone is wondering, Googling shows that this monitor is also SST which is a good thing. It means on the inside there's only 1 actual panel instead of 2 panels stitched together. A lot of 4k monitors still run MST (the worse alternative to SST).
If we're concerned about metadata and timing analysis, we could use something like a Mixmaster, along with TLS-only connections between email servers and between the server and its clients. This would essentially be Tor for SMTP, with the recipient's email server as the "exit node".

"Why aren't we doing this now?" Probably for the same reasons that we're going back to the 1990's world of Instant Messaging walled gardens; techies and cypherpunks are winning some battles but not most of them, and non-technical users don't understand what they give up when they choose a centralized Web and ISPs that make them incapable of acting as a peer on The Internet. [0]

To the rest of your comment:

To the best of my knowledge, I've never had Enigmail or Thunderbird mangle my PGP signatures. I participate in a few technical mailing lists; the folks there absolutely would tell me if my signatures were getting fucked up. For mail that doesn't go to these lists, I can double-check the message copied to my sent mail folder. :)

Installation of Enigmail on Windows, Linux and -I presume- Mac is trivial. Based on reports, the sharp edges that you speak of appear to be there; send only plaintext email and attach -rather than inline- your signature and you will -in my experience- avoid all of them.

The world of mobile software is largely a cesspool. Maybe I'm ignorant, but it seems like the only folks doing good privacy protection mobile software are Open Whisper Systems, the Tor Foundation (by way of Orbot), and Whatsapp. (The Whatsapp folks are in this list because of the work that Open Whisper Systems did to integrate TextSecure's near-zero-effort crypto into Whatsapp's software.)

[0] Yes, I totally understand that almost no one in the US has a real choice in ISP. Even here in Silicon Valley, I find myself prevented at every turn from giving my money to local, independent ISPs. There's a little comfort in the fact that Comcast allocates and routes up to a /60, and performs very, very little inbound filtering.
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Thanks, my Google-fu was weak and kept getting me pages on unit conversion. :)
9mph? Might as well lace up a decent pair of shoes and get the heart rate up; you'd get a pace better than that down in a couple of months without worry.
If this was the only effect of technology, it would obviously not be good. However, technology has also greatly improved the quality of life.

I'd also argue that an end to work is something that we, as a society, are simply not ready for. Firstly, because our current economic system isn't capable of handling such a change, but also societally, people aren't ready for it. If I recall, there have been studies that have linked earlier retirement to a reduced life expectancy.
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As a working university teacher, I have to disagree with this somewhat. Cheating happens of a massive scale, I'd say at least 1/3 of all coursework I have graded involved some degree of cheating, and I've seen cases where clearly everybody in the course had copied from one person (who had an ingenious but false solution). Whenever I discuss this with former students, they think 1/3 is too low. When I give out coursework, it shows on sites like rent-acoder.com. One meets people who make a living out of writing dissertations for rich students.

The universities accept this tacitly for two reasons.

1. They need the income from the students. If they'd fire every student caught cheating, they'd go bankrupt pretty quickly.

2. It's an extreme amount of administrative work for the professors to deal with. In my experience, I need to invest a day's worth of work per cheating student, all things considered. I really have better things to do in life.

To put it pithily: the students pretend not to cheat, and the universities pretend not to notice.

This is nothing new, students have been cheating since time immemorial, the world keeps on spinning ... there are lot's of stories about cheating in what may be the oldest exam system in the world, the Chinese Imperial examination. (As an aside, if you want an alround fascinating story that involves the Imperial examination, check out the history of the "Taiping Rebellion".)
I am unsure why anyone would use this, since web space is cheap (there are less 20$ a year domain and hosting plans) and its pretty trivial to get a Flatfile blog running on PHP.

I personally prefer Yellow from datenstrom to run my blog. And it doesn't need a third party site to pull my blog either.
To my understanding they do not store the hints. They maintain a request log to enable retransmission of requests made during a offline period.

So the hint-thing should not be a thing. On the other hand: The request log requires a user identification method as part of the requests to avoid crediting a "hint-taken" request to the next user in your scenario.
You can also automate the process with GPS tracking: https://ifttt.com/recipes/133495-log-how-much-time-you-spend...