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That’s – from my own anecdotal evidence – actually a big PR problem for Dropbox. Many people I’ve told about Dropbox absolutely didn’t want to install a program which accesses their filesystem. (When I told my friend that only stuff in his Dropbox folder would be synced he said “Yeah, sure, ’only’ my Dropbox folder …”)

That, to me, doesn’t seem to be a very defensible position – every program could just access your filesystem and upload random stuff. But a service which reminds people of that fact is bound to run into problems.

(The story with my friend has a happy ending, by the way. When he learned a bit more about the company and its history he started to trust them and didn’t just sign up for the free account but bought 50 GB of storage for a year.)
Does he really need a degree given the success claimed in the article ?
So you feel that randomly applying corrections that you make up to data from specific intervals (between date X and Y) is totally kosher in terms of modern scientific practice? If the data doesn't fit, you don't make it fit.
Are fst and snd the standard haskell functions? It doesn't seem worth saving a few characters for how awkward it makes it to read the code, but then again, if we can get used to car, cdr and so on, I guess its not bad. Though in the case of the tutorial, it should definitely state what fst and snd are.
How come I'm able to read the full text without any university proxy?
One reason is that the price dropped quite a bit. I got a 8GB for "free" last year, subject to a 2 year contract.

Your estimate of 20~40% is probably off by a factor of about 10, though. Think about it. Softbank is one of the 3 major mobile carriers in Japan. In fact, the other two are still bigger. Even all of the dozens of Softbank models combined probably don't add up to 25% of market share.

Also, each carrier has had their own app stores way before iPhone existed. Of course, iPhone has the novelty factor, a great interface, etc, but existing stores have plenty of apps and also a subscription model.
I'm in high school, but surely you sign some sort of document giving the college the right to do that?
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If it just inspires them to rein in the zoom rate on Google Maps I'll be happy.
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uuhh, really. oh. this explains a lot
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I am really interested to know how this brings disrepute to the school. Is it a so school known for churning out world class theoretical computer scientists, that those building dating websites degrade its reputation?
"garbage in, garbage out" explains why recycling is impossible! :-)
I've actually been building this over the last few days. Hoping to get a tester out later in the week to gauge interest.
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I am sorry my dear friend; what you are thinking is wrong. I have already solved this problem a week ago. I am not that stupid that I will post a question on a forum on the day I join it and ask for immediate solution. If you want me to prove my potential, please send this solution to my email id and also send another problem. I will solve your problem.

BTW, the job is offered to the people who need a job (in India). You don't worry, you must have a good job.
No offense, but level playing field is ridiculous.

Think about what you're saying, you're saying Google is going to sit there and review all of the source code, and all patches and new releases to that source code. Really? Do you actually believe this...

As per China having the source, do you really think it matters? If someone wants to break in, they're going to get in... (regardless if its Windows/Linux/Mac) why... because that's their job and they are going to spend every minute of every day until they figure it out, and that's what makes them better than you. Majority of the time the issue is not software itself, but the policies in place. Hell, why even break in technically, when I can probably call one of these 10,000 employees up and they'll give me their password. Duh.

If you believe security is 1-dimensional, then you are bound to fail. History has shown this time and time again, just read a book / biography in regards to this topic.
And I thought it was all about the theta waves that tap our superlearning abilities. Baroque had that form.
I wasn't arguing that he was wrong to drop Lisp. I'm merely pointing out that - contrary to OP's assertion, it's entirely possible to find reasons to not play with Lisp even if you're extremely familiar with the language.
I don't deny the climate. It exists, I can see that out the window.

I don't deny that the climate has gotten warmer on trend for the last 150 years.

I don't deny that humans have increased the c02 concentration through the activities of forestry clearing and fossil fuel burning.

I am skeptical of the proven link between c02 and large temperature rises.

I am extremely skeptical of the climate models developed.

I am extremely skeptical of the climate alarmism promoted through science and quasi-science publications, and on through the regular media. People have made these predictions for 30 years, and not one has come close to being true.

I am extremely skeptical that the current costs associated with ineffective present-day solutions (cap & trade, carbon tax, wind power etc) are going to be less than long-term adaption if climate change proves to be a problem.

Yet, for most of the climate change cheer squad, I am filthy denier who probably believes that cigarettes don't cause cancer and who probably doesn't believe in evolution.

The blanket 'with us or against us' attitude developed by many is the worst thing : denying criticism or outright rejection of alternative views is the worst kind of denial.

Solid scientific concepts don't need to be packaged, managed and sold to the public.
There's a major flaw in your logic - Google has already begun a major attack on Apple, but they're still allowing OS X on their campus.
I don't understand what part of their results you are disagreeing with.
Agreed. They do a good job hiding their free option, but once you find it it works quite well across macs and PCs.
In the interest of being sporting amidst all the downvotes - happy to make this wager up to $1k to anyone who P.M.'s me - we can draw up reasonable terms.

Please note I have the greatest respect for entrepreneurs and what they do, I'm just making the point that what they do is not economically motivated in general. I'm also not making a comment on whether ycombinator itself does well - their investments are much smaller than forgone wages.
It's a bit unfair to say obese people are "just not trying". They might be trying very hard, they're just not trying hard enough.

Getting from being obese to an average weight is much harder than maintaining an average weight. Once you get yourself into an obese condition you've got a difficult road back out.

Though I agree with your basic argument - if you eat less than you burn you will lose weight. The tricky part is that your body can vary what it burns to some degree (your metabolism can speed up and slow down), so it's not entirely obvious how much you are burning.
I don't agree with this list. Spot.us, for instance, has completely non-standard controller code that goes against widely accepted conventions. I also haven't looked at lovd by less in a while, but last I checked they relied on widespread monkey patching of core Ruby and Rails classes just to avoid writing a couple characters.

Also very notably absent is gemcutter (http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter) which is actually clean, modern and adheres to conventions.
You could fix it by changing the environment - limited food rations, enforced exercise, etc. But the cost to society would probably outweigh the benefits.
One weekpoint of MongoDB that's worth noting is that it's dependent on little endian architecture. I was going to useI was going to use MongoDB in a project not long ago until I discovered this. The project would have been required to run on SPARC.
More importantly but less vociferously, by Google switching to an open source OS, it means anyone, anywhere, can fix vulnerabilities. Not just Google.

Considering the difficulty of patching security holes in proprietary software versus patching holes in open software, Google indeed would hugely benefit by drastically reducing the difference between the cost of defense and the cost of cracking.

It's not so much levelling the playing field, as removing Harrison Bergeron's buckshot-filled equality harness.
>>>Compared with college kids of the late 1970s, the study says, today's are less likely to agree with statements including "I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective" and "I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me."

None of the reasons in the articles included the fact that students have debts of five to six figures by the time they complete their degree(s) in their twenties, versus zero in the 1970's, meaning that the biggest reason could be that students feel there are fewer people worse off than they are. Also, with more students in college than ever, there is likely a greater percent of students from working class or subsidized-living backgrounds, again feeling less empathy for the few people who are less fortunate, as many of these are already in college like they are.
Difference is, as the parent post said, they don't have to give you a degree. There are all sorts of strings attached to that. You pay for the possibility of a degree; they are not obliged to hand them out.

As an aside, I'm not sure this would be governed by contract law. In .au, this sort of thing has been the subject of administrative law cases...
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+1 for Sendgrid.

There's an extremely interesting post by Jeff Atwood about sending email programmatically. It's a good read - explains why a lot of mail ends up in spam.
( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-sen... )

SendGrid takes care of everything in Jeff's post and it handles both bulk and transactional email, so it's a great pick.
i'm sure they would still run windows under virtualization with vmware fusion, etc. they would still would have to do very heavy testing of IE on their apps, so that would be the easiest way to do it. i don't think google can escape the suffering of writing for IE just yet
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If they're using Linux, they can find and patch the vulnerability immediately. They could even have a team hunting through the source code looking for vulnerabilities to patch.

On Windows, they would have to report the vulnerability to Microsoft, and hope that it's patched soon. It probably would be, but that's still an extra step - and they wouldn't be able to locate it with reference to the code. Also, as another person mentioned, china has access to the Windows source code; Google doesn't. This evens the playing field.
I, for one, am pretty bored by the market share defense. There are millions of macs out there, owned by people who could drop a little coin on their hardware, and that make them less of a target? There's not one virus writer out there who doesn't want the cred and the potential gain of a new audience of victims, many of whom are probably pretty complacent about security because they've never had to worry about it?

There aren't many mansions where I live, yet they seem to need the most security.
Don't forget "Atlas Shrugged". I hear that one mentioned at least twice a day by patrons of my local Starbuck's, so I know it must be deep. (-:
Once I have generated an ACCESS_KEY and ACCESS_SECRET, when will they expire? Is there any way to programmatically grant/approve OAuth access so that expired access key and access secret can be generated as needed?
Jaaga does have folks from design/art community frequenting it, but that doesn't make it any less of a community place for devs. As of now, there are 3 (tech) startups working (full time) out of there. You should come over and have a looksie
I consider the Turing Complete Dwarf Fortress fort "Razorlength" to be even more impressive, since the gamer had to convince recalcitrant dwarves to build it for him: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8269
£300 to get articles written about his site? Sounds like the best marketing ROI he could have hoped for.
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Ha! I have the exact same, also imported from Japan. It's a lovely keyboard. :)
My current best theory is that Perl is powerful, flexible, malleable, and practical enough that a dabbler can accomplish great things without having to think about clarity or design or encapsulation or maintainability. The language lets you get things done even if you make a mess.

(I believe Ward Cunningham has said that Smalltalk's tools are so good that you don't notice that you've made a mess until it's a huge mess.)
yup.. hashcube is one of the startup working out of jaaga.
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The sequel to LittleBigPlanet was announced recently (http://www.littlebigplanet.com/2/), and reportedly takes this to the next level with the addition of what appear to be breadboards and integrated circuits. I seem to recall someone at Media Molecule referring to this level specifically and saying its logic can now be condensed into a single in-game object!

Of course, there is something intrinsically more impressive about watching a seven-core RISC chip run a detailed physics simulation to model a network of electromechanical relays to perform integer math.
What are some of your favorite examples of this?
Rumor has it, the China hack was an inside job. Moving to a different OS probably wouldn't stop that kind of break in.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/was_google_an_inside_jo...
That is what I thinking too. Not sure why I got the downvote, but oh well.
"For examples, location, phone numbers, and event dates and times are key pieces of info which need to be presented and factored into the search, but are likely listed in very arbitrary ways which need intelligent "contextualization" by the search engine."

Wasn't this the goal of Facebook's Open Graph? Websites which represent objects could have this data readily available, without the fuss of contextualizing arbitrary data.
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I'm not looking for schema but rather access to a database of books like say you had a website like amazon without the shopping part but still had all the information on all the books, I was wondering if that information was easily obtainable.

I didn't even think about google books though I will have to look and see what their api allows.
A good source for reviews of acupuncture studies:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=5112

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=4304

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=4065

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2996

Bottom line: claims about efficacy of acupuncture, especially claims about efficacy of acupuncture for human use based on small-n animal studies, need to be carefully reviewed according to the usual guidelines for evaluating research studies.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
What about PDF
Aye. How would you expect someone who gets his music from VH1 to discover Mozart? Smart people have more exposure to different cultures, which explains their diverse musical tastes.
Thank you, that looks similar to what I was looking for.
or try contributing to an opensource project that interests you
But the site had to be taken down. £300 to get articles written about a site that once existed.
Well, that's the problem with having friends. Whenever you let someone get near to you, they could be carrying a hidden microphone and a video camera. And, even if you explicitly tell them that you don't want to be friends with them any more, they'll still remember everything you've told them.

The same issue crops up with email, letters ... hell, every way we've communicated for hundreds or thousands of years: there is no way to revoke access to information once granted, even if access to new information is withheld.

You might as well complain that someone could take screenshots of everything you say that shows up in their news feed.
Oh, didn't catch that part.

It still might be worth it from the perspective of getting jobs after college. "Oh! You're the FitFinder guy? I've heard of that. I heard that was super-popular before you got shut down."
wow, and he's not just a random dude, either ... he has a long and illustrious history with silicon valley start-ups:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cheriton

EDIT: notable line from wikipedia article: "Cheriton is also credited for connecting Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page with venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins, thus becoming one of the early investors that helped get Google off the ground."
LBP is the most creative game I've seen yet on the PS3 (or any platform so far). They give you a seemingly endless set of tools with which to create new levels, and I've found that the user-created levels are where we spend most of our time.

Funny thing is that this was the game that taught me that my four year-old daughter had more creativity in her little pinky than her startup-minded Dad did in his entire body. The boards she created astounded me.

I know it's OT, but I personally can't wait for LBP2.
The Diaspora guys have missed the problem completely: the issues are not technical ones - the major problems here have been solved.

The issue is UX: Nobody - and certainly not Facebook - has come up with an effective interface that allows us to manage our interactions online with the fidelity that we want. And I doubt that these four kids are going to come up with a spell-binding piece of design that does this. They seem to be Ruby programmers, and certainly not designers - graphical, UX or otherwise if one is to judge by their website.

Far deeper analysis of the problem is needed that the reactionary "Facebook are arseholes, they're acting like a big corporation". The details of how we create multiple online publics[1] for ourselves, how we relate to them, and understand them is key to building any sort of infrastructure to manage those publics. The Diaspora guys seem to be treating this as purely a technical problem, when it most certainly is not.

[1] It's the other side of the coin to having multiple online identities, but to me, makes a bit more sense as a conceptual model for what we're dealing with.
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Yes. Everywhere.
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Good find, best postmortem I've seen so far. Nice to see the MSM is still capable of doing real reporting.
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Now you can have porn on your iPads. Is Jobs going to introduce web filtering now?
Twitter says they "do not currently expire access tokens." http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ

Who knows what they will do in the future.

I don't know of any easy way to programatically grant OAuth access.
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If that doesn't work I'm just going to learn some French words and randomly sprinkle them throughout my conversations. Merci. Baguette. Champagne. [1]

[1] See? I sound erudite already.
Great, I always wanted to try these languages
But

let villain = (28,"chirs") in fst villain

is a big turnoff.
While you might liken the rarity and the glamour of owning a Mac to that of owning a mansion, a thief has much more to gain by targeting a large house that's more likely to be filled with expensive electronics and jewels. On the other hand, I doubt that Macs are significantly more likely to contain data that a hacker would be looking for.
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Do loyalty programs really work? I know they work for the airlines, but that's because the airlines have really cool stuff to give away that you would normally be unable to afford. And they don't lose any money giving that stuff away; if nobody buys that first class seat, it's going out empty. Might as well let one of their best customers have it for free, in that case.

But for coffee shops or grocery stores, what are they going to give me for being loyal? A free cup of coffee? Yay. That would have cost me fifty cents to make for myself at home...
Which is why I didn't say the b and i, etc, should be removed, but having a wider range of supported tags in the base distribution (despite that people can extend it themselves) would be good.
I haven't visited your website yet. I would recommend that you work on your pitch. Your first line was not compelling, doesn't explain to me why I want to use Spibby, or why the world needs it!

After reading the second paragraph, itjust seems like you tie Blippy/Foursquare together via api's and aggregate the data. Is there anything I'm missing?

Sorry if this comes off as negative, it's really meant as constructive criticism. I went to your site and I'd love to see more thought put into explaining why, as a user, I want to 'earn points' or 'recommend' on Spibby when I can do it on a ton of other sites (for exampleI'd probably use yelp right now). Some sort of analysis of what happens when the service gets huge (why is it valuable to me? Why does my contribution make a difference? What is it working towards?) could be very helpful in making people interested :)
Well, first you have to come to a conclusion on what you and he can/will do from now. If it is not working then you folks need to solve the problem.
Then it seems like you need help in sales/BD so if I were you I would find somebody to help quickly.
What type of a business are you in? What is your target market? Maybe I can help, sukantag@gmail.com.

Thx
SG
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I was sitting here with 4 physical cores and 8 logical ones, 6Gb of RAM with the priority of compressing 7Gb of data as small as possible, as soon as possible.

7-zip fastest got it down to ~1.4Gb in about 10 minutes.
7-zip extra got it down to ~745Mb in about 30 minutes.

Yet the only options it had were up to 2 cores and up to 250Mb RAM. If I could have traded more cores and RAM for more speed and compression. Hrm.
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