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I sometimes do my best thinking on the john :)

You should also charge if you take a bath for the same reason. Alan Greenspan took a bath every day, and claimed he did his best creative thinking there.
Well, this is the real way to shut down Wikileaks. Don't leak. Wikileaks is poorly named - they are neither a wiki nor do they leak. Wikileaks is to governments as The Sun is to the British Royal Family. If you are doing something unsavoury, you'd better make sure they don't find out.
I would not be surprised by a decent response to this, plenty of Anon got out of their parent's basements to the Co$ protests. This doesn't require leaving the computer, a far easier proposition for most I would expect.
Am I the only one who hates it when people talk about "copyrighted material" as if only mainstream commercial TV and movies are copyrighted? Every video uploaded to YouTube is copyrighted (OK, except for amazingly old video and video produced by the US government). Of course people are going to upload longer copyrighted material. What they mean to say is "copyright violating material."
Indeed. Seeding the data everywhere and in plain sight has been a successful tactic in the past, especially for Anon during the Scientology raids. This is similar - government employees are not allowed to view the material, so its proliferation could actually be problematic for some people and cause more of a bureaucratic nightmare than already exists. In terms of any actual usefulness to their analysis, that remains to be seen.
Seriously? I think this page reflects more on the person who wrote it than on C. A top 10 list with 19 items? Genius! Forgetting to include a </pre> tag on item #6? Classic sign of a sloppy programmer.
It does have its flaws. If I remember correctly, Huxley rather regretted his portrayal of the enlightened savage raised on Shakespeare, but overall it's a great premise.
This was standard practice at a defense contractor I interned at. I'm honestly surprised this wasn't already the military's policy.
The value is increased even further if you redeem the miles for first class tickets (which can easily be worth several thousand dollars, and which I suspect most people would never be willing to pay out of pocket for).
I resist the comparisons between accent Rome and our current culture, but sometimes the insights are intuitive.

… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses

Once a society becomes advanced many comforts become available, it seems to happen that we forgot just how it is we got there. There is an economic theory that goes something like, every generation or two needs a great war so that those who survive come back home with a sense of purpose. And those individuals work to advance society. The next generation perhaps becomes more immersed in the culture and uninterested in advancing knowledge or economic gains. Stagnation sets in again.
I remember in 2007 I was at the Zynga party in Portreo Hill. thrown with some other startups. I think at the time it was only 17 people, and they were looking for engineers.

My friends and I were like, nah, another silly gaming company. Now their cap is almost equal to EA.

The beauty of the valley that every 5 years the landscape changes and roles reverse.

Be nice to other people, your fellow engineers, your employees if you are a manager, as they might be your boss in few years.

Something that I am learning myself, live and learn.
Can anyone with a medical background chime in on whether or not this is even possible?
> I'm with the press. I was given the computer without having to apply.

If you're with the press, shouldn't you - more than other people even - research things?
Boing boing cherry picking the only thing they approve of out of the chaos? There's no evidence that any of the ddos'ers are on board with this at all.

The most amusing thing is the comments section getting bent out of shape at the use of 'gentlemen' in the image as not being inclusive to females. Talk about a culture clash.
Something similar to #17 burned me at my first job. Did you know that if a variable is declared as a "char", the compiler gets to decide whether it's signed or unsigned? (Consistently, of course - every "char" will be signed, or every "char" will be unsigned). I didn't at the time, but I sure do now!

My employer had code that ran on about 5 billion different platforms, and my job was to port it to a new one. Everything went fine, except for the weird random crashes that would happen periodically. The idea that a "char" could be an "unsigned char" by default was so far off my radar screen that I didn't figure out what was going on until a few days later when I reluctantly dived into the assembly. (It didn't help that it was a mobile platform with basically 0 support for gdb).

Turned out to be a 3 second fix - pass "-fsigned-char" to gcc. Nowadays in new code I always explicitly declare whether my chars are signed or unsigned.
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From what I remember from reading an ACM article on it a couple months back, you can also run the operations after they have been encrypted as well, preventing it a bit. I don't remember if there's a way to require encrypted operations, though.

In doing this, you could still brute-force operations and watch for statistically-significant results... but you'd have to guess at what valid operations are. Which amounts to the same problem as cracking the encryption in the first place, though it seems to me it would be an attack vector which weakens the encryption as a whole. To a significant degree? Don't know / doubt it.

Just don't ask me to explain the math of it. I don't know it, though I plan on studying enough to grasp it. Should take a few years.

edit: meh to the above.

Now that I've thought about it a bit longer, I do remember a decent chunk of the article dealing with information leakage, and how algorithms would need to be designed to touch as much information as possible (ideally, everything) to prevent leakage. So, it seems a map/reduce setup which combines all datapoints (removing unimportant ones further down the chain, thus hiding their influence) would be valuable.
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Illegal sit-ins are often used as a form of protest. Would you claim that the protesters are protesting the fact that sit-ins are illegal (with a straight face)?
Why am I getting downvoted?
I've used SubEthaEdit for pair programming in the past, and it was very successful and awesome. I was hosting it as such I was not aware of any latency, but my partner never really complained about it.

It also provided both of us with the ability to see the others changes.
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> I need regular confirmation that some people really are slower.

Ask me daily. I'll confirm once a week.
Give it up already!

This is a community site where people come to share ideas. If someone takes the time to reply to my post, I think the respectful thing to do is offer them insight into my though process. If you don't value that or like it downvote me and move on. You are not withing your right to tell me not to voice my perspective. So long as I feel that I can contribute and can offer conversation, I am within my right to post. It may not have occurred to you, that I value this communities ideas and that my posting is to not only give insight but to gain it. As I said before, I am going to see it through, and part of seeing it through is to make sure that I converse with everyone that takes the time to contribute to the conversation I started, after all they took time to respond to me, why would I not show them they same courtesy, if you don't like that, then move on.
I was just going to link to this, but ya beat me to it!

It's an interesting article pair, but seems to have stopped rather abruptly for quite a while now...
compare with smoking pot daily for X years.

also, can you train yourself to be smarter by forcing yourself into such a state, much like weight training or high altitude training?
http://goo.gl/ocJBw

Good luck!
That was much more impressive than I thought it would be given the title. The presentation gives a very nice demonstration of how the gears do calculations.
School curricula aren't completely constant in a state. It sounds like the book is no longer required reading in that specific high school in Seattle, not all high schools in Seattle.
boing boing cherry picking the only thing they find interesting out of the chaos?
It's status as a philosophical masterpiece...that's the easiest way to troll a philosophy major.

As a philosophy minor I'll admit I had a minor aneurysm.
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There are many definitions of stupid, but I would not classify speed as one of them. As a dyslexic I'm very slow at reading, but I can use technology to augment that slowness.
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This seems overly strategic for an internet group. They started gaining traction DDOSing small sites, taking them down, gaining publicity/support, and moving to a bigger target. Now they're using momentum provided by their huge publicity to do something useful. It's like a marketing strategists viral wet dream.
I love the golden dollars and I'd be ok with getting rid of paper dollars entirely because coins last a LOT longer.

I'm not sure what certain uh, industries, that deal in single bills a lot would do, though.
OK, well now he's definitely getting in.
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I respectfully disagree. I would at least refer to a number of evolutionary biologists or geneticists to quantify the risks of generating such a significant mass of these things.

I speak of "viral mass" as a proxy to number of viral bodies, which is probably proportional to its power to mutate and do something unexpected, not inside the batteries but rather in the production thereof. What are we going to do -- create a farm of infected tomato plants? Are we going to evolve the virus until it produces more bodies faster?

I'm not so concerned about viruses that affect humans. I'm concerned about an epidemic of plant viruses, and everything we haven't thought about.

I wish teflon stayed on surfaces, certain chemicals didn't deplete our ozone layer, that we didn't have to ask questions about man-made global warming. But to assume that the things we produce would only have the desired effects with total disregard for physics and biology is, well, absolutely stupid.

On the other hand, I see this as an awesome opportunity to proceed with nanotechnology. After all, a virus is the ultimate self replicating robot.
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Let me put it this way:

If I have something that is:
a) currently cheap
b) likely to go down in value
c) exchangeable for things of real, lasting value

and I was prepared to let you borrow it from me, would you?

Interest rates are low.
Inflation is high (don't believe the govt statistics, look at your cost of living increases)
Things of real value are currently low

Your two risk factors are:
1) loss of ability to service debt
2) loss of value for the thing you exchange the debt for

As long as the thing you buy covers the interest rate and/or you have reasonably assured income (nothing is certain) then the loss in value shouldn't matter, unless we're talking speculation in something. But if you can buy into a real company earning over it's cost of capital, or real estate that is providing income over it's expenses, then you should, by all rights, be home and hosed.

Sure, it involves risk. But so does the zero case of sitting still and hoping things will get better.
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If your canvas isn't interactive, why are you rendering it in the browser anyhow? Why have two code paths, when you could just have one?
If you want mercurial or svn support then google code is an option where Github would not be.

Google Code also is more project centric. Which for some people/projects is a better fit.

Google Code's Issue tracker is better than many of the others out there in my opinion.

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I once ran into a bug of this form (boiled down into a small example):

struct thing {
int x;
} aThing;
int x;
aThing,x = 3;

Do you see it?

EDIT: fix typo
they should fix their im first before aiming for video chat
I don't have any knowledge of the inside workings of FB, but I think some of the issues you are referring to could be caused by

1) ajax errors, packets get dropped, it is going to happen

2) single server instances that somehow didn't get updated. Again, if you think of the number of servers they are running, and the update process across multiple datacenters, I'm sure it is entirely possible that one or two servers take longer to update, or something gets missed and isn't recognized until a later update.

I don't think we can call the fb code 'buggy'. Their ability to scale and manage the volume of data along with how quickly they are constantly making major updates to their entire system is mind boggling. To me anyway, but I'm sure you are a much better programmer than I am.
Blood and vitamin B are two things your brain needs to function (blood for nutrients, and vitamin B for both nutrients and neurotransmitter production - acetylcholine, dopamine, gaba, serotonin, histamine), so I suppose such an effect is possible, although a lot of it could also be credited to the fear of dying.
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Diminished capacity is certainly possible. It has happened to me. I've had a few occasions where illness, drugs or both impaired me severely enough to scare me. (Scarier still was two occasions where I retained my faculties but had personality changes into someone unrecognizable as me, and I was aware of it but couldn't start being me any more than I can stop being me usually.)

My mother had a stroke and for weeks afterward was under the impression that I was a nurse who she disliked.

Our minds are very complex systems of chemical reactions. They work most of the time. There is weird, marvelous, scary stuff up there, and we barely understand any of it.
Marijuana doesn't make you dumb permanently... Alcohol has far worse effects on the brain than marijuana, especially over the long term. Listen to Dr. Drew, he says it all the time.
The kid who wrote this is really going to enjoy Verilog.

I liked

int a = 2 && 4 && 8; // what is the value of "a" ? would you belive a=1 ?

I'm not sure the author has the necessary qualifications to condemn C's "poor design."
Ask HN: Is fine art really better beyond requiring a higher attention span?
I was just wondering HNs thoughts on this. There are things we all consider "fine art" - classical music, opera, paintings, etc. The common theme seems to be that they don't offer instant gratification and are designed cleverly. My question is whether anyone can use reason to say it is objectively better than other forms of art, like a Britney Spears song, etc. Alternatively, if there is no way to to prove something like art is "better", I would be interested in knowing evidence that studying a "fine" art is better for your development as a successful human being than other art.

I've found an advantage in my exposure to the arts through being able to relate to educated people better, and also learning very educational things like the theory behind music, but I imagine I could have learned that from the professionals behind pop music as well.
I think he's meaning it more in the sense of "brightness" or quickness as in "mental agility". The idea is that some people are able to think and process things to a good conclusion more quickly than others on a consistent basis. It may not be so much that stupid people are slow, but rather intelligent people are fast.
Seems like the tables don't need to be so deep, which would help use less space. Maybe not, though,

I do something similar when I'm pairing, but we just sit on opposite sides of a conference room table. The offset is key so you're not constantly leaning over to see the other person.
I think he's means it as in compare it to someone who's stoned day in day out for X years, and then decides to quit and then their mental function returns to normal. Compare those two differences. Actually I don't think what he says contradicts anything you're saying.
nvm, got it ;)
Sometimes you have no serious options to spread your risk. Multiple payment systems on a single Web page looks tacky and is an accounting nightmare even if it's doable. On eBay, you could get people to mail you checks but PayPal is by far the most efficient way to sell through them.

When it comes to infrastructure, the small guys can't always have backups. Do you have two power companies simultaneously supply your office? Two broadband connections? Yet I believe that someone maliciously cutting off my water or broadband to make a political point is as much in the wrong as someone cutting off my payment provider.
I was really just talking about trusted parties reusing a private key (say, for an encrypted disk image shared amongst team members) not arbitrary strangers on the 'net.

That doesn't require that a server know the key; it only requires that those parties exchange a shared key in advance. It's no different than, i.e., a PSK WPA network password, or a shared encryption key on a workgroup document.

You could still use a service like Dropbox as a reliable offsite backup, while doing all your crypto locally. Think of it as the "availability" service to complement your local policies that insure integrity and confidentiality.
I'm glad the author could take away the story of what it feels like to be slow vs quick. I'd probably be overly caught up on the "almost dying" aspect of the story to hover over much else, to be honest. It's great to see this level of introspection from people.
I think people don't realize you're actually claiming to be Wayne Chang. They perceive your statement as a bad attempt at humor (there's a similar reddit meme).
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Not the first time, they did the same thing with Scientology. Though back then it seemed to be an outgrowth rather than the core group that did it.
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Speed likely follows a normal curve, and "slow" just means the left side of the speed curve. Doesn't really make sense to say that there's no slow, there's only fast.
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Collective consciousness is certainly more powerful than that of an individual in most cases, so it doesn't surprise me that they're coming up with a strategy to actually further their goals.

It is also worth noting that this is perhaps the first Anon initiative that the average joe will agree with (and maybe - just maybe - be inclined to help with).
Do you mind sharing what companies are those?

I've interviewed in several foreign big companies in Japan. After enduring multiple interviews spanning 2 to 4 months (compared to 2~4 weeks in Japanese companies), not once did I get any specific feedback. In one particular case, during the process, I asked HR for the contact details of 2 of the technical interviewers and they refused; I had to send my questions via HR.
:)

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Calculus itself is rather geometrical. A definite integral is the area under a curve on a 2d graph of the real numbers, and the real numbers certainly are continuous. Obviously one can argue (and many do) about the relation between mathematics and the real world.
"is a show stopper for _me_".
Maybe you can do it, since technically anyone can be Anon.
>I had an arterial problem for a couple of years [..] this made me forgetful, slow, and easily overwhelmed

Zoom out a bit. Everyone middle aged and above in our society is expected to have some degree of arterial plaque. Nowadays it is considered normal. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise.

Doesn't this mean that many supposedly healthy people are already more slow and forgetful than need be?
I can't believe this hasn't received more comments. I find this absolutely astonishing and promising. The future is mighty bright.
I have added this to my list of links to people that have actually done the YCombinator interview:

http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php

So now that page has 3. Feel free to contact me if you have more links to such information.
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I agree "hacking" and "engineering" aren't the same thing, but they're good complementary skills to have as a developer.

Hackathons are great for prototyping ideas/products/proof of concepts. Engineering is essential for building large/stable/scalable systems. Clearly Facebook is good at both.

I like to think of myself as both a hacker and an engineer. Neither word describes what I do completely.
> during the Scientology raids

How did that end by the way?
I think we're on the same page more or less but there are a few points I'd like to clarify:

1. I'm aware that Drupal is a CMS.

2. I don't find myself writing a lot of custom code on my Drupal projects and that's the entire point (for me anyway) of using it as a dev framework.

3. You have a few thousand developers of various skill levels submitting modules and the quality is absolutely going to vary from module to module, this is unavoidable. Learning to vet your modules carefully and taking a less is more approach with module installation is part of the learning curve.

4. Drupal's internals are a steaming pile compared to what, exactly? Ever taken a look at Wordpress's core code? All code sucks.
The mechanism seemed overly complex to me; e.g. to multiply by 5/19ths, why not just use two cogs, one with 5 teeth the other with 19 (or some multiple thereof)?
I think intelligence or skill comes from a combination of mental energy, focusing, internal values, and internal reward factors and motivations. The OP basically became slower because his brain had less energy to work with. Especially internal reward factors. If something is so internally rewarding, it can amplify all the other factors of intelligence 50 fold (energy, ease of focus, adjustment of values, etc). What other unusual attributes of intelligence did von neumann for example have? Some people describe him as being able to catch up to the current scientific state of the art to a PhD level in many fields in a year or two if he suddenly rose from the dead like a vampire today because he was that intelligent.