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In the context of the article, the "it" in "whenever it is used to access the internet." refers to the computer that you're using, not your gateway or some proxy machine.

Also, it's not true that an IP address is only assigned to one computer at a time; the IP address 10.0.0.1 is assigned to a whole lot of computers right now. You and I know that, and understand why it's true, but the article implies (pretty directly) that an IP address is a unique identifier for a computer. Which is a widely-believed falsehood that drives me crazy.
Though I think I get the idea from the first two paragraphs, perhaps you could provide a summary for those of us without a WSJ subscription?
Why do you assume that she is lying?
You know this makes me think: If you could find out if two files are exactly alike, could you then make a cloud storage services that doesn't require uploads of files it already has on the entire cloud?

IE, John uploads True Blood Episode 4, Season 12.

Paul tries to upload the same file. They match exactly (Except maybe for names). The Uploader negates the upload and makes it look like the file is now in Paul's list, when really only one copy exists.
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I created Boxcar (http://boxcar.io), which has sent out 58 million push notifications. I've talked to every push notification provider out there, and the guys from UA are the best at what they do.

Without a moment of hesitation, I would strongly recommend choosing them over rolling your own. They're great guys, know what they're doing, and are having fun doing it.
I tend to think the opposite: the companies like Britannica keeping data closed do a lot to prevent potential industries from rising by keeping information from the people who would build those industries. Wikipedia goes a long way towards giving at least some of the information that is needed to start a modern business to everyone. It's hard to quantify each of them, but I'd be willing to bet that the wealth created by Wikipedia is considerably greater than the wealth that a hypothetical Britannica-still-rules-online-encyclopedias would create. I mean, Britannica just doesn't employ that many people, and never has.
Now give us one that shows how adjusted household income has changed over those years. I bet it's not turned around quite so nicely.
I agree 100%. I think it usually comes down to confidence: if you're not confident in your ability, it's all too tempting to try to learn "just a little bit more" and never take the plunge enough to practice. On the other end of the spectrum are the audacious "rock star developer" wannabes.

Skillful programming requires a weird mix of both attitudes.
Sounded like you only get the picture if the buyer has a square account as well. Didn't seem to be required.
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It's interesting to me that they chose to emphasize the 2nd derivative of jobs (we're looking at the slope of the job loss/month).

It's not good, it's not getting better, it's just getting worse slower, with hope of getting better soon.
This is a rather common logical fallacy. It should have a name, but the "zeroes and ones fallacy" doesn't sound too good. A stream of bytes has a meaning which has to do with not only the bytes themselves but their context, and I can think of several ways in which copying a file from A to B could be among the worst crimes known to man. This fallacy ignores the context of the bytes.
Man, he really hates CVS.
Copy the article title, paste into Google, click the link. Any visits referred by search go to the full article without the excerpt and pay nag.
Not sure how long ago you worked in retail (hopefully a long time ago) but that practice is now illegal under US Federal law. This isn't to refute your point since credit cards carry little risk, a lot less than carrying around cash anyway.
And if you do it over a gas stove, it tastes like gas * bleh *.

Toasters kick a lot of ass, and certainly qualify as awesome. Though I still think mankind's greatest invention is air conditioning (seriously).
If they're willing to go trillions into debt for this 'recovery', why not just give everyone a guaranteed basic income of 1000 dollars a month, that comes to about 3.5 trillion. In teturn, scrap welfare and minimum wage and bailouts to banks, and you might have a thriving economy where everyone chooses how to spend their time.
This is the landing page for a political campaign. It has a graph on it. That makes it a landing page for a political campaign... with a graph on it.

Here's another page with a graph in it, from the same data source:

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_too...

Pesky things, those graphs.
In related news, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Deficits_vs._D...
A while ago 20/20 or Dateline did a special on a wearable ankle reader. Waiters would pretend to drop the card and on the way back from picking it up would covertly scan it on their ankle. This technique plus ATM skimmers mean this type of thing happens already. If you monitor your credit card and report the number stolen or compromised soon enough you shift most of the liability away from yourself.
The 2nd comment sums up my feelings pretty well:

"If the argument is: better these books not be available to anyone than to have only Google have them, as it will make Google search too good — from my own consumer point of view, that doesn’t carry a lot of weight. Please do not seek to protect me from good search results.

If the argument is: Due to Google's activities, since we are on the precipice of having these books become available through one party, it would be preferable for them to be available to multiple parties, then I’d agree. But that is hardly a point to demonize Google for. We wouldn’t be having this discussion without their efforts."
If Pitchfork is willing to relinquish the domain, they should do so immediately. What are you waiting for?

"We’ll be happy to surrender the URL and find a home elsewhere if the original register of the account wishes."

The OP has already made a huge fuss about it. What else must he do to express his wishes?
10.0.0.1 isn't actually an unqualified "IP address", though; it's specifically a virtual IP address, which should really be dichotomous to "real" IP addresses, not considered a subset of them.

Besides, they never said globally unique. Your IP uniquely identifies you to whatever network you're participating on, the same way your username uniquely identifies you to whatever website you're logging into.

Alternate ending: In the context of the article, they were talking about tracing people via their IPs, as recorded in the logs of Internet-routable ("public facing") servers. The only kinds of IPs such a log would record are other real IPs; there's no real way it could see a virtual IP. Thus, whatever is in the log is "good enough" for pointing the finger at someone, whether that someone is a person, a company, or an ISP. The goal of such a trace is to pass the buck, not to catch the person yourself.
You bring up a really good point. There is definitely a perception gap square needs to overcome before a device like that is trusted by consumers on a wide scale. When someone buys something from a mall kiosk, the mini credit card machine is probably perceived as more secure and trustworthy than a square device on a iPhone.

Theres no doubt that the concept and execution of square is ahead of the curve, but there certainly exists an array of intangibles that may prevent it from gaining critical mass.
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I've done this several times. More than blindly looking at the number of search results returned like this article suggests, I actually look for some authoritative websites in the results (like NYT, WashingtonPost, or credible blogs). If it's good enough for NYT, it's good enough for me!
The reason (for Feynman) the Science can never truly supplant religion is that it cannot entertain metaphysical questions...

FYI Feynman was an atheist in his later years. Also his hostility to philosophy and metaphysical questions has become legendary.

I don't know what his status on either trait was in the early 50s.
Very interesting; try downloading a file from your Dropbox public folder via HTTP, and see if that's any faster. If it is, your ISP is probably throttling/QoSing Dropbox, the ports it uses, or the kind of traffic it generates specifically, and you should get in touch with them about it. If it's slow as well, your ISP might be having a peering problem to Dropbox's colo.
It's actually the first derivative. It's the change in employment (jobs) per month. So it's a pretty reasonable statistic.

What's wonky about it (from a mathematical perspective) is that it's labeled 'job loss,' yet a negative number implies that jobs were lost in the month. One would expect that a net loss of jobs in a month on a graph labeled 'loss' would result in a positive number.
Perhaps not britannica, but the fact that wikipedia gets a huge amount of search traffic 'steals' a lot of potential earnings from would-be content creators.
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Works for me. Phase it out gradually at higher incomes and require that a portion go to a health savings account and you have "The Plan" by Charles Murray: https://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/qa200603270732....
Try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Investors+Recruit+T... - and clicking on the first link... not sure if that still works
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I don't get what Square understands that merchant account providers do not.

They're willing to take a different approach to risk management. AFAIK merchant account providers only deal with really-low-risk customers - established businesses - and they don't have to invest in fraud detection/mangement because they just pass all the chargebacks along to the merchants. Square will be accepting significant risk; when they get a chargeback they can try to take back the money from the recipient via ACH, but in many cases it'll already be gone and Square will have to eat it. We can expect Square to evolve the same hypersensitivity to fraud as PayPal, freezing accounts (aka stealing people's money) at the slightest provocation.
Also, hopefully govt uses a better random number generator when encrypting their classified data ;-)
You can't very well look at just the number of jobs and say good or bad. A healthy economy is in constant, gradual expansion.
So, the bug is that you're overflowing integer datatypes? It's a bug that doesn't exist if your data never exceeds 1/2 of your integer value. And with 64-bit, it's effectively impossible for this to happen (except in exceedingly excessive circumstances, and then you better not be using such limited primitives, or suffer the consequences).

I mean, heck. On equal footing, you san say that it's a "bug" that you can't access array indices past what your integer can refer to, but you could conceivably push data in further than that if your array implementation allows it. The article's bug happens at 1/2 that limit, but it's the same thing, just slightly harder to find. Slightly, mind you, as something like this should be checked any time you approach the limits of your formats.

Here's something to ask: which are broken? Example code, code made for a use significantly below 2^31 values, or code in use in cases which may exceed this value? I'd be willing to bet it's the first and second. If you're not making a truly generic algorithm, don't make a generic algorithm. YAGNI.
Well, the Obama administration is arguing that it's good even though we're still losing jobs because we're losing them at a slower rate, i.e. the second derivative is positive. And if we're going to play that game, it looks like the third derivative had already become positive by the end of Bush's term...
I've suggested this in the past, usually with the proviso that nobody would be willing to actually do this.

The underlying philosophy is that it is the job of the government to guarantee sufficient resources to survive. By giving it to everyone you make everyone benefit which makes everyone want to keep it. (The same principle that makes Social Security impossible to get rid of.) But once government has taken that step, then there is no need for separate welfare programs, there is no reason for a job to provide a living wage (hence the removal of minimum wage), and there are not artificial barriers where a single mom on welfare has incentives to not work.

Another crazy idea I have is to fix the student loan programs so that parents are expected to have living costs that a reasonable for some time in this century (currently they are appropriate for the 1960s) but then only make students at universities whose average tuition is in the bottom 75% eligible to receive any kind of government financial aid. This would provide a downwards pressure on tuition to stop tuition from rising substantially faster than inflation, as it has done for the last few decades.

sigh If only I ran the country...
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You do an excellent job capturing the essence of the entrepreneurs you interview. The program just feels honest and natural. I also, wouldn't hesitate to sign up for a sub.
That's actually not the same data. The original graph is number of jobs gained/lost. Your link is the unemployment rate. In order for you to directly compare the two, you'd need to actually look at the derivative of the unemployment graph.

That's not to mention that the unemployment numbers aren't directly derived from the number of jobs gained/lost. You can start generating jobs and still have unemployment stagnant for a variety of reasons (population and workforce growth, for example)

So, while this is the landing page for a political campaign, it is an honest visualization of the data. Pesky things, those data.
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It's pretty easy, actually.

Make two arrays, and have the end of one act like a linked list to the start of the second. When a [x] value is larger than the size of the first, just subtract the first's size from x, and find that value in the second. It's even still O(1) time.

Viola, you've now got nearly double the storage of what you can reference, and it'll work in a generic case, but you'll never be able to refer to anything larger than your index-number can reach.

To make matters worse, do you know if your library isn't doing this for you? It'd allow you to extend your array without having to copy the whole thing, which saves a LOT of time on frequently-lengthening arrays. The extremely small cost of checking an int's size before actually accessing the sub-array necessary is often negligible compared to duplicating potentially billions of values.
Traditional credit card processors are able to settle accounts daily. It remains to be seen if Square will offer a similar service. Many established merchants (especially restaurants) desire what is called "real-time billing" or getting cash in the bank once the card is swiped rather than waiting for payment to be deposited or settled.

The other problem is that Square accepts anyone. The reason its difficult to get a merchant account through other payment processors is because chargebacks ARE EXPENSIVE.
(payment processors will not accept a merchant that is above a 2% chargeback rate). This means that Square will be susceptible to a larger amount of chargebacks (which means that most of their angel funding will likely be in an escrow account to protect against chargebacks).

Great idea but we'll see how these issues are handled.
It says it's a graph of "job loss." Negative job loss (= positive job gain) should be a good thing...
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The aren't emphasizing a (first) derivative of the number of jobs.

This is the actual raw data. All of the other statistics (unemployment rate, etc) are derived from these numbers.
I simply tried to elaborate on your above statement. But since you want to spend more time on productive tasks and given that time isn't elastic, you want to save time on unproductive tasks anyway.
This is pretty interesting. I am also a protestant Christian though my belief is sort of er... iono. Different?

Faith is "Being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see." (Hebrews 11:1) Now, how can you be sure of what you hope for if there is not due evidence to have that kind of certainty? Also, you can't be certain of what you do not see without other evidence (e.g we can't see air but we know it exists from a plethora of reasons).

I'm not sure that Christianity is about "simply believing" -- I mean yes that describes the effect of Christ's grace (all you need is belief/acceptance to receive it)... but that's not why I choose to believe in a God.

The rational / irrational (who cares) reason for my belief in God has to do with the things that are historical texts and events, key elements include the existence of Jesus / his effect on the world, as well as the written word recorded close to after his death. Is the old testament just a silly mythology, or a long way to prove a single point (that humans could never achieve the nature of this thing we call God)? Maybe, I don't claim to know. But I feel that the new testament and its claims as well as the testaments of some people who died refusing to renounce what they saw as truth are very compelling in terms of conveying something important that happened. Do I believe that some really crazy, amazing things happened back then? I think I have due reason to believe it. I mean, I just find it so hard to believe that all those people who wrote the letters and books that make up the bible are crazy. They were crazy enough to die gruesomely and still refuse to renounce their belief, and the thing that separates them from suicide bombers is their apparent sanity in the writing as well as their message of love. Personally speaking I think the evidence is enough for me to put my faith in it, to be sure of what I'm hoping for (that there is a loving God out there). Hey, worst case scenario I was wrong and I loved more people and used my life to help others, right?

In addition, it's not like the dude Jesus was preaching "thank god for dead soldiers" or "kill the infidels" or "scare them straight" or anything moronic like that. He preached humility, love, forgiveness and a bunch of things (personally, I feel) the world actually needs. I don't know how anyone can be mad at me for choosing to believe in something like that.

Now, I can similarly understand that what I see as evidence may not be evidence enough for another person, and so they may not believe the same thing as me, and that's fine. But for me to tell them that they are dumb for not seeing it, or for them to tell me that I am dumb because I choose to believe something, iono if that's a good thing. We all get the same data and we draw our own conclusions.

Am I evangelical? Yeah, I have to say yes. If you want to know more about what I believe, I am happy to spend time talking or do a bible study. Do I shove religion down other peoples' throats or get all political about crap? Not really my cup of tea. I think chill is the best demeanor for life ;D and love is all you need.
I thought it was a critique of people focusing on trying to create AI by modeling human intelligence. But I think it's a dumb article because I am reasonably sure that Avian aerodynamics undoubtedly inspired early aeronautics.

If his criticism is just of the Turing Test instead, then I think he's a simpering ninny.
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They way to fix tuition fees is simply to stop providing government guaranteed loans, most students nowadays don't get a financial return on their investment (and many pass the bill to the taxpayer by defaulting).
Does this mock _Computer Power and Human Reason_?
Guaranteed income has been tried and worked in some places in the world and was seriously considered by Nixon.
Hmm... might have to build that for my own use.
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Given that job growth is a lagging indicator, I'd guess that household income probably follows this trend pretty well.

The first thing that happens is that hours are cut. Next, jobs are cut. Then in recovery, hours are increased before jobs are created. So, I'd guess that household income would follow this plot pretty well.

Well, that would probably only hold true for people with jobs. Given the millions of jobs that have been lost, once those households are accounted for, you'd probably see a rate change, but not an absolute change. Then again, this data is a rate anyway, so it still might be comparable.

Here are the total non-farm earnings from 2000-2010 (prelim data for 1/2010 and 12/2009). This plot shows the same trend for 2008-2010: a sharp decrease, followed by a leveling off. I'd suspect that if this data was plotted in the same manner as the Obama graph that it would look very similar.

One thing that this graph shows is just how much the last decade didn't matter.

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_too...
Whats most striking to me is that she hasnt researched Happiness in the eastern world. The whole buddhist religion is based on trying to find happiness.
The best book that I read on the subject was "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama.
I am interested in seeing how paypal will move into the mobile space. I think they have a great opportunity as more and more people use multi-media mobile handsets.
What is this new graph supposed to illustrate? I understand that by calling it "pesky" you're speaking in a sort of code, which is meant to signify factual victory on a disputed point.

But you're right: the charts show exactly the same thing. A rocketing unemployment rate beginning in early 2008, the rate of increase of which slowed by early 2009, and which has now leveled off. Both charts accurately show that there were huge job losses in one period, followed by a slowing and (for now) arrest of those losses.

The one you linked to is concededly uglier (pesky things, those ugly graphs) but otherwise it's unclear to me what it's supposed to show.
A definite possibility, though the other is that superglue reacts with plastics, sometimes quite destructively. Fumes alone can eat up plastic films, for instance. It's quite possible the fumes simply screwed up the surface of the plastic enough to look white.
Speaking of Bush and third derivatives... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
You're making too many assumptions. Who says they are sitting on the money? Who says they didn't spend it on rent and salaries when they didn't have any other money coming in? Maybe they spent it on publishing their book or adwords or off shoring. Who knows?