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Wow, just mentioning himself in an essay about his search to learn historical figures are is pretty normal for this type of essay. He is trying to relate to the figures he is writing about. I've read people talking about Nelson going on about the feel of a deck and the differences from modern sailing. This is no more than that.

> in which the terms 'Mathematica', 'Wolfram|Alpha', and 'Wolfram Language' are links to those respective proprietary projects of Wolfram's

That is actually pretty normal for anyone running a blog on their corporate site. It doesn't compromise a neutral account just wiki-ing up the article.

>> Today, of course, it’s instantaneous to do the computation in the Wolfram Language:

> What? The instantaneousness of it is not related to the historical article at all -- it's just a way to shoehorn in Mathematica. And then just below that:

No, it just shows how much the world of computation has improved and how amazing the accomplishments of both Ada and Babbage. I would have said FORTRAN, but that's more my thing as some probably would have said R.

> You seem to have glossed over the article and chosen two extremely innocuous examples (the bit about his former school and the bit about logarithm tables). Those two asides are not representative of the sweepingly self-aggrandizing and self-promotional items that are all over the article.

No, I gave a count and actually assembled a list. Some other poster used those and I thought they were worth mentioning as pretty normal. Hey, if I had went to the same school as Babbage, I sure would of pointed it out. Heck, I would have shown pictures. When we talked about the 360 on HN, I pointed out I still had a banana book. The examples you gave are just as innocent and used to point out common interests.

> These parts by Wolfram do a disservice to Lovelace and Babbage in as much as they greatly weaken the accuracy and relevance of the overall piece, and add noise that the reader must be careful to navigate around if she wants to enjoy the historical bits.

No, it just gives the experience of one man seeing historical figures and relating them in terms he uses daily. Your reading is uncharitable.
Yup, I live RIGHT outside of City borders of Durham, NC, where Google Fiber is coming, Frontier is putting up Fiber, and AT&T is putting up fiber. My max available speed? 24mbps DSL for $50 a month. Even though TWC says they are in my area, when they drive to my house they say they can't do anything for me, and I doubt Google, Frontier, or AT&T are going to be able to do anything for me.
To put a slight spin on the aphorism: there will always be someone to part a fool from his money.

There's tons of laws to protect people from false advertising, fraud, and such. But if, armed with the facts and all of these protections, someone still spends their money unwisely, that's no longer the government's problem. To use another aphorism: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
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I've found that mnemonics really only help at the very beginning of learning. But once you even get to 100 things you need remember, a completely unrelated extra thing you have to remember on top of what you actually need to learn becomes too much.

For kanji, just remember the radical readings, and memorize vocabulary with the different readings of the kanji you're trying to learn. Knowing that 貢献 sort of kind of sounds like cocaine does nothing to help me remember that it means contribution. But knowing 献血 and 献金 help me memorize that けん is a reading of 献
Many (most) of Australians don't even have the option of 10 mbit.

When the new NBN is rolled out, most will have the option for 25 Mbps. This plan is due to be completed by 2020.
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This can't be ignored. If you want to build anything of significance then you are re-writing your entire app every couple years, or less depending on their cycle.

Literally nothing between 7 to 8 works. You are starting over. This is not acceptable in the markets Acquia is going after (enterprise).
I always liked the SCP take on Kowloon: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-184
The only "safe" Wirth language I know about is Oberon-2, which has bounds-checking of arrays, sentinels and runtime-checking of pointers — though no compile-time checking. Is this what you're referring to?

I like Wirth, but his type systems were always super simple, and as far as I know, he never innovated at compile time safety in the way that, say, Rust or Haskell do. Again, Go seems a better analogue; anything that needs to deal with unsafe pointers needs to use the "unsafe" package.
I've worked in Melbourne in small tech companies for almost 15 years and have setup a few offices in my time. The biggest issue in finding and setting up a new office for a small tech company is the internet connection.

One office the ADSL worked fine for the first week and then dropped out for a week. It did this every time it rained heavily, the Telstra techs informed us that the copper for the whole street was rotten. We had to run local servers to ensure everyone could continue working if the internet dropped out. Telstra never actually properly fixed it in our two years there.

Another office took 3 months to get connected due to the age of the building, we had to pay two office rents for over 4 months. Then once the company grew to fit the office it outgrew the internet connection, but took another couple of months to get dual band in. All the SaaS services everyone relied on to do their jobs were barely usable, even after a `no streaming media` honor policy was put in place.

This is amplified if you rely on your internet connection for VoIP to communicate with teams around Australia and the world. Important meeting with a client? Keep a 4G modem handy guys.

All these things create risk and frustration for everyone, slowing down your and distracting from getting stuff done.
That looks interesting, do you happen to know if it has any advantages (or differences) between itself and shadowsocks?
I must have walked past that pub at least a hundred times, and immediately when I read this story it just felt very right for this particular establishment to figure in it. Not just because, well, it's a London pub and most of them would fit in to a story like this; but also because this particular pub is placed on the corner of Baron St and Pentonville Rd. Pentonville is also the name of a nearby prison – HMP Pentonville[1].

Poetic, in a way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Pentonville
I believe you mistook my comment for support of the current drug control system in the United States, when I really said nothing of the sort. The purpose of a drug policy is (ostensibly) and has always been to reduce consumption rates -- look at any of the public support / speeches since the policies were begun (going back to Temperance / Prohibition). That that purpose is ill served by the current effective policy has nothing to do with the reason the public supports the idea.

> A higher rate of consumption of pure and unadulterated drugs with active health and rehabilitation initiatives is preferable to lower consumption but with autistically intervening in people's self-ownership through use of the police and penal apparatus

I'd absolutely agree with this, although I'd argue that a higher-rate of consumption is not in and of itself beneficial. If you're telling me that a teenager deciding to try heroine is "individual rights", then that's crap. Addiction differences between various compounds are well known ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence#Risk_fact... ).

Are you saying there's no potential at which a drug should be illegal? A 100% addictive drug? A 50% addictive drug? 25%? 5%?

Imo, there's a point where socially we can absolutely say, "No, that thing is too dangerous to let you have without precautions." I'd be in favor of allowing people to sample those substances if they went through a course to earn the right to do so. You want to try heroin? Fine, but let's as a society make sure this isn't an impulse action and is something you're sure you want to do (and are aware and willing to accept the consequences of).

If you're taking individual rights umbrage at my support of a drug control policy, then look at it this way: if addictive drugs were legal and fully unregulated, who do you think the majority of the profits would go to? Hint: Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Merck...

Do you really trust them to freely market a compound that has 10%+ addiction capture rate?
what about the gambling apps that, from top to bottom are exactly a slot machine with the only difference being that you can't get money out, only facebook trophies?
I'm curious though, how much of this offshore cash was earned in the US?

For example although Google's advertising algorithms and engineering may be largely based in the US, its advertising revenues come from all over the world. Generally it's required to have a presence in the places where it operates, with revenue accounted for there and taxed by the local governments.

Are these people arguing that that revenue needs to end up in the US and be taxed there too instead of taxing it once then investing it elsewhere (like treasuries)?

Anyhow, the companies in question aim to increase their profit as much as possible within the law and are required to do so [0] by said law. If people don't like it, change the law.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
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Re-reading one of these[0] and seeing,

> The unpleasant part is a guy from Starbucks calling me with nothing like “thanks” but mentioning “fraud” and “malicious actions” instead. Sweet!

This is all too common these days. Remember when reporting a vulnerability was a great way to get a job? Yeah, those are so 2000s. Maybe there needs to be a campaign about responsible disclosures to encourage businesses to be accepting, not rejecting of these things.

[0] http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/05/21/starbucks.html
During the height of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, for every dollar you paid in tax, 50 cents went to buying bullets [edit: incorrect?]. Let's just say you and I disagree on whether or not people should be paying more or less tax. I respect your dissenting opinion and don't believe that mine is objectively superior, but your use of "dirty" and "bastard" implies that the respect and humility is not mutual.
The "well you trust your AV with your computer anyway, you should trust it with this" argument is a terrible one. It's not about trust. It's about decreasing footprint.

ESET had a pretty big security vulnerability over the summer. As seen in this post, Avast isn't properly validating certificates. AV providers aren't bug free by any stretch of the imagination. Granted, browsers and OSes have their own vulnerabilities. At the end of the day, though, the fewer people that touch your encrypted communications, the better. Every time there's some hack or workaround or other vulnerability, the number of devices affected increases substantially.

_This isn't okay._ Especially for a security vendor. Security should be done the right way, every time, period. Taking advantage of hacks or workarounds or other unsupported ways of intercepting data (e.g., MITMing HTTPS traffic with a self-signed cert) exposes users to risk. Not to mention, browser or OS vendors might close those loopholes in the future and break the security software.

This is like saying, "I'll protect your car from carjackers. Just replace all your door locks with these ones." How much do you trust the security provider to not use the same key twice? How much do you trust that they're properly checking which key is the correct key? How much do you trust them that their proprietary black-box locks work as advertised? Do you trust them more than your car manufacturer? Do you trust that they aren't going to be vulnerable to a malicious key fob?

That said, if encrypted traffic is a blind spot for AV vendors, they should be working with browser vendors to make sure proper, secure APIs exist to get around those limitations. Hacky workarounds are not the answer.
"... the full US tax rate (which is the highest in the world)"

not really.

" the Congressional Research Service put the U.S. effective rate at 27.1 percent, slightly lower than the OECD average of 27.7 percent."

( source : http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/sep/09/... ).

Actual corporate taxes paid are below the average developed country
IF you have telstra/optus cable running long your power poles you might as well sign up for it now and settle for disappointment as that now counts as you access to the NBN.
My office is "in the city" in Adelaide, a city of 1.25m. Our only reasonably priced option is 12Mbit ADSL2 (which is about 0.8mbps up).

We can get 100mbit fibre for $1000/mo, plus cost of installing the fibre.

We can get 12/12 DSL for $300/mo.

As an app developer, I am often unable to upload anything to iTunes Connect without saturating the link and it timing out. The only feasible option is paying a premium for 4G/LTE speeds on Telstra.
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The point in the blog post is that if you are currently building a national broadband network, why would you build anything except state of the art?
Comcast is horrible and has a monopoly in Sacramento, California. Fastest speeds are typically 25 - 75mbps. 25mbps costs $59.99.

Well, technically you can get AT&T "high speed" internet for $50+ per month, at a whopping 18mbps max.

This is the capital of Califoria, so, yeah.
Some points made already, but this might be of interest. I'm on ADSL2 in Adelaide (South Australia), and my business partner is on the NBN in Hobart (Tasmania). One project we work on together is using the Outsystems platform, and this means a compile cycle involves (at the least) a compile and upload to a remote server; if there are clashing changes made, it's also necessary to download the 'other' version and an automatic comparison of the code changes is made locally. With his NBN speed he can effectively lock me out of making changes, as by the time I've downloaded his changes, he's already made more changes and uploaded them, and I can never 'catch up'.

Also, it's not just the speed, it's reliability. I'm in the Adelaide hills, with old copper, and I'd say I have momentary drop-outs on a regular basis, and drop-outs of a few hours or more once a month. Very annoying when you want an 'always on' connection. I've found my tethered mobile phone is faster to use for uploading than my ADSL2 connection.

Finally - I've also worked remotely based in Estonia, and the reliability, affordability and speed of the connection there eats my local Adelaide connection for breakfast; you don't even really think about, the quality of the connection starts tending towards that of a LAN connection.
There is a parallel for US persons living abroad. The US is one of the few countries in the world which expects to collect income tax from its nonresident citizens. As in the corporate world, this makes Americans less competitive in the global marketplace, because people from almost any other country take home a greater fraction of their income.

To some people in the US this is a desirable outcome, because anyone doing business overseas is a dirty tax dodger and ought to come back home.
50% of taxes paid by Americans went to military spending?

Link?
Part of the issue is that getting transit out of Australia is EXTREMELY expensive. Telstra still has a stranglehold on the country, and the amount of cables out of the country hasn't kept up with demand.
There's an implicit assumption in these articles that the US Government should maximize its revenue by revising tax law to capture these funds. That's not obviously true.

If Apple provides more value to US citizens with those funds than the US Government would, then these tax management tactics are beneficial to US citizens.
"visibility: hidden" very nice.
Voting for features is bad for all involved
The most frustrating part of Adobe's new paradigm is they now have zero incentive to continue innovating and adding new features as customers must keep paying to use it, regardless of new versions.
> But you are.

No, I am not. You're seeing binary where there is none. My point is not to abolish the notion of personal responsibility, but to acknowledge that there is more to human behavior and decision making than cold, rational free will.

> When you get to micromanaging such trivialities, there's no limit what a planner's mentality will settle on next.

This is a slippery slope argument.

> It is absolutely not fraud.

And I never claimed it was a fraud, why would you interpret it that way? Or do you feel I communicated my point regarding fraud poorly?

> The property owner may deliberately arrange the environment so as to maximize an expected consumer end.

This is where we disagree at. I do not believe that the property owner may do whatever they wish within their property. I believe there should be laws limiting what and how the property owner may arrange their property -- to defend the customers from themselves, just as there are laws limiting for example gambling, or selling of alcohol and other drugs.

> Taking your logic of needing to regulate any "misleading action" to its conclusion will only entail the abolition of the market economy.

Sure, if you take it to the extreme, and in that case then perhaps and if so, I am personally fine with that. I have no personal stake -- or ideology -- in free market economy. It is a mere implementation detail, not an end in itself.

> (Moreover, expecting that consumers are morons who cannot regulate their own behavior will generally lead to policymakers drafting proposals that assume as such and end up fulfilling the prophecy on their own, since the resulting bureaucracy will be internalized by consumers in their expectations.)

It is about acknowledging that among consumers there are individuals who are vulnerable to various lures (in lack of a better term, but consider alcohol as an example), and that I do personally view exploiting such vulnerabilities as unethical and hence I propose regulation. And I am speaking as someone with social problems due to not having enough control over my own actions regarding certain matters. Thus, I greatly fail to externalize this matter to "them" who "can't control themselves".
"Baidu does not show up in this year’s rankings. The company made more submissions than were permitted and ultimately apologized and fired the team leader who directed juniors to make the unacceptable submissions."
I don't know how accurate tv-mostly + one google search is but isn't that an almost 20x increase? It's hard to frame it as exploitation when the going rate is so little, this seems like an amount that can actually accumulate into first and last month's rent + a safety net for beyond prison.
I see object with beautiful tactile affordances being turned into tactile-free and afforance-free touch interfaces. What's the point of that?
> “What would convince you to leave for a job somewhere else?"

> Imagine my surprise when I got more constructive feedback from this this one question than I had in my entire first year of managing the engineering team

It feels like a cop-out not sharing the answers he received, since his article is premised on those answers and how constructive they allegedly were. Would have made things less abstract too.
I also think your parent overplayed that one, but you are conflating the basic tax schedule with the actual taxes paid. There is a big difference, which is the point of the article.
Is there a private one shot hold out in this particular competition?
"the universe appears lifeless not because complex life is unusual but, rather, because it is always somehow thwarted before it becomes advanced enough to colonize space."

The universe appears lifeless because it is a Dark Forest. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest
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The weird thing about these kinds of posts is that it only contributes to places like Australia, in this case, lagging behind other places like the USA. All this is is another one of those whiny posts that sets a mindset that you have to leave Australia and head to the Valley if you want to make it when what the post really should have been about is " We (Australia) really have some work to do. Here is what we need to do and how we push the government to support our industry".

It really kind of annoys me that "foreigners" fall to this victim type mentality and then rather than pushing their own local governments to change, they advocate leaving and only exacerbating the problem by draining the local talent and interest group, while piling on to the concentration of people in the tech centers like the Valley.

I would love to know what the total damage the USA does to source societies and countries by luring and essentially poaching talent and expertise away. I know that India is really kind of struggling with that issue. On one hand they see it as a source of remittances, but on the on the other hand even in a huge population like India they are really starting to feel the sting of the "brain drain" in the tech sector.
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To be fair, he's probably right. Australia has no new hydro planned (we can thank The Wilderness Society for that), and no plans, that I'm aware of, to shutdown any coal fired power stations.

So, pending catastrophic climate change, I'm going to guess Tony will turn out to be right.

And besides, politicians aren't selected for their 'vision', they're selected for some other set of characteristics, whoever knows what. P.J. O'Rourke has plenty to say on this subject.
Is that a version of a Zero Knowledge Proof problem?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
Yep, Turnball had the FTTN thing thrust upon him by the Abbot led govt. He got to the drivers seat too late to change it.

Hilariously, I was in Bolivia last year. They were ahead of Australia in rolling out proper 4G.

Govts here are terrified of spending money on infrastructure because perceived 'irresponsible spending' is so politically damaging.

(BTW I'm reading 'Keating' at the moment. What a difference in outlook between then and now)
Celebrating effort alone goes directly against the Netflix and other ROE philosophies.

I've seen both play out many times in real life and personally I prefer sticking to celebrating results. Why celebrate hard work just for the sake of work? shudder
>If you prefer a more traditional open source collaborative project, feel free to fork one of mine that combines and accepts other people's contributions.

http://runtimelegend.com/abitopen.txt
This is interesting.

I feel I am verging towards that end of the sectrum (I assume its a spectrum). I never though if it as a disability, just stuff I am good at / bad at.

If that is the case why does it have such a negative stigma attached and is treated as a problem (like I say I am verging that way, but I don't see myself as ADHD, so maybe my perspective on it is off). Many people proudly proclaim they are "not good at maths" but they are good at other things, why is this seen as such a negative that we put people on medication for it?
I've got a 100mbit Fibre connection. I live in an inner city suburb.

It is continually dropping out (I get an average about 1 hour a week of downtime), my upload speed tops out at 35mbit (using iiNet's own tools) and for a lot of things like YouTube, videos can be sketchy, even on the more popular ones.

Australian's really aren't missing out on much if this was supposed to be the standard.