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I tried it again, and this time jabberwacky convinced splotchy that he is an alien.

jabberwacky ==> No. Robots don't believe in anything.

splotchy ==> I am NOT a robot

jabberwacky ==> Yes you are.

splotchy ==> so what if I am

jabberwacky ==> Well you are.

splotchy ==> maybe I am

jabberwacky ==> I suppose this is a great program to develop small talk.

splotchy ==> I wish I could talk to a monkey

jabberwacky ==> This might be hard for you to hear, but I am the Human, not you

splotchy ==> I don't think you are the human me

jabberwacky ==> Right!, I'm are a Ailen!

splotchy ==> you sure are!
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It reminds of a 3rd year undergrad I met. She complained about the difficulty of getting a research assistant position because there's lots of competition and she had to fill in lots of forms and applications. Since getting into grad studies require some kind of RA experience, she was getting anxious for not having one at the end of her third year. The disheartening part though was she never actually applied to any of these positions. She just assumed they were too hard to get.

It's like praying to God to win the lotto but never buying a ticket. How do you expect to win if you don't have a ticket?
IANAeconomist, but a currency is back by trade. You and I accept a dollar or a gold coin because other people accept them at (usually) parity for value-- call it a network effect.

But, a dollar or a gold coin has limited value if you can't trade it. The same for a bitcoin; except, it can only be traded via coordination with many other actors in the economy. (The longest block chain is the "truth.") While a dollar or a gold coin can be traded physically, a bitcoin is never traded until the economy as a whole agrees-- the record of the transaction appears in the chain.

Therefore, the act of trading bitcoins, and by extension bitcoin itself, is backed by the presumption that Internet access will be pervasive and unfiltered.
"Uh, you're saying that, as a male, you haven't seen any sexism, so that means a woman who has experienced sexism is incorrect?"

He didn't say that, nowhere in the thread or the article is a woman who claims she has experienced sexism, so he isn't replying to such a claim.
Anecdotally, Berkeley did not require a high school diploma for me. I applied, was accepted, and graduated without having attended a day of high school. It didn't even seem that they cared much; admissions called once to confirm that I wasn't going to submit a diploma and never mentioned it again. Although I haven't met them, I've heard of a few others from Berkeley that had also skipped high school.
What about Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.?
Oh, now I get it: you are just a troll. Lucky for you that this subject is guaranteed to get people worked up. Perfect.
Then they return whatever's left of their investor's money or pivot to a more promising direction?
I find it interesting that they need his hard drive or any equipment as proof that he did something illegal. At this point is it just Sony making stuff up about what he did before they have all the facts?

Protip: If your equipment is at risk being seized by the cops, feed it to tumblbeasts for proper disposal.
Definitely cool to live lots of places, but does Derek really learn all of those different languages? If he lives in one place for a few years at a time he has to pick up a decent amount, I'd guess. I'd be interested in hearing about the language barriers and how one overcomes them -- my understanding is that it's difficult to be totally fluent in more than a few different languages.
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That was Racter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter).

"It" even wrote a book called "The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed". Was a fun read at its time. (http://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html)
It's sarcastic in intent. Trying to condemn an idiom that is obviously logical nonsense misses the point. When I say "I could care less", it could be interpreted instead, "as if there were anything else I care less about."
Well, if you're choosing a suboptimal solution (a new page) over an optimal solution (the ajax call) there's definitely something wrong ...
FWIW, I strongly believe that a worst UX will bring less conversions, but I don't have any data to bring.
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Any idea why they call this app Color?

I thought the app had nothing to do with photos initially.

The only reason I read about it was that they were "given more money than Google". I wonder if that can be used as a marketing strategy. Take enough money to get yourself in the headlines and simply return it after you get it. I'm sure its illegal and it's surely unethical, but it might work.
With Java, you have to worry about your environment before you can worry about programming.

You have to download the jdk and set an environment variable. Then open a text editor. That's about all the 'worrying about the environment' that you have to do before you can start programming in Java.
All of them. Meta-p followed by a couple of letters from the program name launches any installed program via dmenu.

(I'm using wmii on Ubuntu).
Blackberry spying software
The BlackBerry is one of the most desired smartphones in the market right now and it has become quite easy to spy on any Blackberry phone using the relevant blackberry spying software. The blackberry spying software has a lot of amazing features. This is a software program that gives you instant access to everything on a specific phone.
Dead simple data mining kit
Very clean interface, but so far I couldn't see any added value over the built-in sharing feature in Dropbox.
the proper pronunciation of @ is 'at the rate of'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
If it involves, say, a high-ranking general giving loads of top-secret military information to the enemy, it's likely that not giving away such information is part of his job description, and that he is in breach of contract. Now, the law might not like punishing breach of contract with long-term imprisonment (or whatever the penalty for treason is), but you could probably work something out--e.g. if he breaks contract, then he retroactively loses all access privileges, and all those times he accessed top-secret data are now considered trespass.

(This seems in fact quite appropriate to me, because then the punishment is proportional to the extent to which the general misused the privileges given to him. If he was new to the job and they didn't show him much of anything, then they have little to complain about him breaking their trust; if he's spent ten years getting his fingers in all their data with their conditional permission, and now they realize they shouldn't have allowed him, then they have a lot to complain about.)

The case of shouting "fire" in a crowded theater can be handled similarly: Customers agree not to do that sort of thing as a condition of being allowed into the theater, and if they break that, then they are guilty of trespass. You might complain that the customers didn't agree to any such thing, and that implicit contracts are bad. Fine, then the theater can put up a sign that says "You are not allowed to falsely shout 'fire'". As a matter of fact, I have seen many fire alarms in large buildings with a sign that says something like "$NNN fine for spurious triggering of this alarm".

The point is, there is no need to count any of these situations as cases where freedom of speech breaks down. These things can be illegal without allowing any chinks into your free-speech armor; they can be punished, not because they're an illegal form of speech, but because of something else.
Some folks I know found that the best time for an email to reach someone's inbox to give it the maximum chance of being read was 8am Tuesday. Then it'd be at the right place in their inbox to get read! Wanting to catch execs for a sales pitch in the morning when they are fresh, rather than at 5:30pm when they're likely to just bin your mail.

Second, perhaps you don't want them to see it now, or reply to it now, but after some other event.
There have been some research projects which can use snapshots of the lighting and sound around you to tell which building you are located in with 90% accuracy. I.E. they can tell you are in the Starbucks and not the hardware store next door. See "SurroundSense: Mobile Phone Localization via Ambience Fingerprinting" in the proceedings of Mobicom 2009.
actually, MIT's Media Lab does not require PhD candidates to have an undergrad education.

Yes - the world renowned Media Lab.
Let's say I'm having great time with my girlfriend, other friends and their girlfriends, etc. in a restaurant. Why would I wan to share our photos with the creepy guys next table?
I'm an American living in Australia who spent time in France. I grew up in New England and lived the majority of my adult life on the west coast of the US.

"home" is a concept that is easy for me to define: where my family is. When I was younger that meant parents. In my early 20s, that was friends and some closer family (brother). Now it is my wife and kids. With the Internet, skype, email, facebook and everything else, I can really stay connected to people around the world very easily so where I live is less and less important.

Goal of our family is actually to have a split life: Winters in Phoenix and Winters in Auckland, NZ. "Home" in that situation will likely be wherever we are sending the kids to school as that will probably be the majority time country, but we have yet to work out all those details :)
I certainly don't disagree that it is very dangerous and might cause countries to attack each other in extreme cases. It does give a third party a relatively cheap strategic option to pit countries against each other.
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When I was describing my project in my YC application, I didn't realize it could work for two of the ideas that they wanted to fund. Too bad I didn't click the button in the application.

I guess I read that list in December or January and never looked at it again.
Is _Good Calories, Bad Calories_ not worth reading? I've started it and I'd be glad to stop reading if he's that wrong.
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This looks great. I wonder if its usable for real-time (low latency) queries? Looks a bit batch oriented to me.

Also, is this open source? Can I download and play?
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Fair enough, I'll clarify: When I say repeatable business model, I mean something like selling physical products online(amazon, zappos), selling physical hardware (IBM, HP), , selling enterprise software (oracle, SAP), or selling SAAS subscriptions (SalesForce, ec2).

Is giving away a 'community edition' of software and selling an enterprise licensed one repeatable to other types of software, or is it a unique case where Linux became The other server operating system, and they were both lucky and skilled enough to become the number one provider of linux.
Attribution is a massive problem when it comes to attacks. An IP address source does not mean that the attacks were Iranian in origin. It is distinctly possible that the Iranian systems were compromised, or that people were using Iranian hosts to cover their tracks (try getting a US-led forensic investigation team to get logs from an Iranian system).

It is also possible that after Stuxnet, the Iranian government and military have had to consider their options and that this would be an option (bearing in mind that CINIC-signed certificates have been accepted in Firefox for a while and that CINIC have been involved in surveillance ops on people in China).

As for what's actually happening, the people that know are probably unwilling to discuss it on Hacker News or the EFF website.
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Well ... I'm getting "Sorry an internal error occurred" ... Sooooo yeah :-/
Since GNU and all the other open source licenses won't let you achieve your commerical goals, you have to bank on legal technicalities.

Not entirely sure, but I'd say Magento uses one of the following ways. They claim open-source, but I was never able to figure out how.

Summary

1. Dual license. Add value through closed-source features, services, etc... on the commercial licensed.

2. Have your commercial product piggyback on the open-source creation.

3.Software as a Service.

4.Offer support, consulting, some type of service to assist the (free)open source product.

For a larger introduction go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applicat...

Does anyone know how mSQL was structured before it got sold?
Indeed. If you can't hack mathematics go study philosophy? Methinks the OP wouldn't have got his precious 'A' from Bertrand Russell.
Does cinchcast offer a transcription? It's rare that I have the time to listen to audio.

tl;dr would receive my upvote
The question that comes to mind... Would it be possible to get North Korea to be really pissed off at Israel?

Otoh, Israel hardly needs more trouble.
He'd get by with English in almost all of them. Not sure of, or no firsthand experience in, Panama, Curitiba and Kyoto, but you'd get by easily with English in the rest of those places. Just need to pick up some basic things and make an effort in a few other places and that'd be appreciated without absolutely needing to become fluent.
Shizzle is quite heavily performance optimized. I'd be interested to see how the selector performance of both compare.
Instead of playing b*bingo during online meetings, we (cynical engineers) should contruct meeting-replacement-bots. Bots that join meetings, show some randomized webcam-shots to the other attendees, note down all the agreed-upon dates in our calendar, and so on. That leaves time for real-work. :)
I did this exact same thing as well and am in a similar situation.
For the amount of money they got, they really could have made a fancy video better explaining what its use case is.

Adam Lisagor needs to eat too, you know.
Tell me about it. I've always worked with Linux, so was used to bash and its conveniences. Then I got a job where they use ancient Solaris systems with csh. Luckily, tcsh is generally installed which at least supports command line completion (after having to start it manually), otherwise I'd go mad.
chatbots are full of these simple little tricks to make people say "oh wow, lol, it even has typos". To distract people from the fact that the sentence grammar is often bad, let alone the conversation flow.
It's hard to say, since almost all the people I've talked to I have given my current salary range and relative experience first, and I hear there is a big shortage for iPhone development skills in SF and Seattle. The wages I'm being offered is around the average Facebook software engineer wage on glassdoor. So I'm curious as to what the real iPhone software developer price is, and if I'm just falling prey to bad salary negotiation tactics.
Because the freedom to do what the majority approves of is not why we need freedom.

The lives allegedly saved by suspending liberties should be weighed against all the lived taken by the dictators, who are made more likely as we eat away at the foundations necessary to establish our rights.
Instead of facebook, I'll bet they will repeat the same strategy like when Google acquired Youtube
I wish it had a Kindle .mobi download link: I don't want to instapaper each individual article.
Not sure what you're trying to achieve specifically but I can assume you want to collect a customer's billing information to keep on file until they do something in your app which you'd charge them for.

You will need to set up a merchant account/gateway to do this but it's quite easy to pre-authorize[1] a card for a small amount - $1.01 or some such and then never capture the payment. That way, you verify the account is valid and active and passes CVV and AVS yet you don't actually collect any money.

I assume you'll be charging people eventually otherwise I'm guessing your processor won't be too happy about you only pre-authing transactions.

[1] A note about debit cards used pin-less: When you pre-auth a credit card, a hold is placed on the money until you either capture it or the hold falls away (usually after a few days). BUT when you pre-auth a debit card the money is actually taken out of the checking (or whatever) account tied to the card. It will only be returned if the hold expires.
I think that you are misrepresenting what I've said. Businesses using GPL software are irrelevant to what I was talking about. My comments have been about selling software for a living, and only about that. (Just to clarify, I am also not talking about providing support for software or making customizations to software. Those are separate kinds of businesses from software products.)

On that topic: Whether or not the GPL was designed to be hostile to commercial software, it is hostile to commercial software in the real world. I don't know of a single piece of GPL software that makes decent revenue on its own.
True. But I don't think the crux of the matter is in the ownership of the piece of ground they happen to stand on.

There is a strong argument against exercising the freedom of speech the way they do. The right to speak freely should not trump the right to stop listening. This is not the case here. Whoever attends the funeral has their right to stop listening seriously limited.
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This just remembered me about the MIT system created by Terry Winograd in 1970 called SHRDLU.

I have always considered that you need an environment to create an artifical intelligence. The basics for a real progress are to be able to learn and if you cannot 'feel' the environment that becomes really hard. There are some basic concepts needed for a 'natural talk' you cannot learn if you cannot perceive things (lets say for example dimensions, temperature, contour).

To overcome those problems SHRDLU created kind of a virtual environment and results from my point of view are really awesome (keep in mind this was done in 1970).

Site with information is currently at Stanford server's: http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/
His attorney says:

Hotz's attorney, Stewart Kellar, told Threat Level and IGN that Hotz has not fled to South America and that the missing components have been provided to Sony.

Its just Sony trying to declare him guilty in public.

He's on vacation:
http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/03/fearmongering.html
TLDR:

There are no second chances on app stores. If you launch, get featured (top billing & visibility in app store), and have terrible initial reviews (1,2,3 stars), odds are you won't get featured again, which will make it extremely difficult to gain traction organically as your app improves, since you're now competing with "five hundred thousand other apps" for eyeballs down in the pile.

First reaction to your app is hugely important now, not like a website 'where you can come back and come back again'.

He compares to Path and some other apps, Path had same problem - bad first experience. No one else in Half Moon Bay using these local photo apps yet, so useless there on launch (and presumably anywhere else there aren't many initial local users). Foodspotting on the other hand had pics from the middle of Montana.

Problem when you take so much money ($41 million for Color.com), too much pressure to go large on first night, leading to disaster in this case. Should have done what Foursquare did - limit launch to SF and NYC, make sure it works, get alot of content and traction there, then scale it out.

Hundreds of entrepreneurs emailing Scoble with competing apps, most of which are better.
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Sony has every right to terminate the guy's PSN account if he turns out to have violated the user agreement.
'ip' does a hell of a lot more than just list devices. It's really worth learning how to use it.

you also don't need root rights to use it for display - although ifconfig can be run as a regular user, it's not on the path by default so it usually won't show up.
honest question, what does mic have to do with obtaining location information ?
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best to ignore that protip or face horrible consequences.

anyway, my understanding is that the lawsuit is still stuck at jurisdictional discovery, not full-on, let's find out if you did something naughty discovery. Which means they're looking for evidence of links to California (such as having a PSN account, which is a contract that, I think, claims Cali as jurisdiction) so they can sue him there, not in new jersey.
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This song isn't actively bad. I wouldn't mind it in the background. But as far as I can tell, it doesn't really utilize "jazzy" chords either. It's just kind of gentle and peaceful and doesn't ask for too much attention. I wouldn't use this as a good example of Jazz music.

What I'm referring to as what sounds awful are songs that try to use "creative" chords that are really just dissonant or don't belong together and "advanced" notes that are really just out of key. As far as I can tell this song isn't doing that.
Why the downvote?

It is redundant and I just dropped a note of English usage. If one has to emphasis, it would be "Even my wife...".

Just like saying Round circle or Straight line!

Or is the point of commenting only when you add hacking info?
I don't see the point of your argument. You say Java developers should intentionally cripple themselves, because they're losing "important steps". What does that even mean? I don't see why I'd lose rename, automatic inherited method shells, auto imports, generate constructors/getters/setters etc... When you buy a car, do you insist that it has manual windows and no power steering?
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How long? When the next big thing comes along they will move to that. Remember everything use to promote their myspace page? Myspace is still around, it's just not popular with, I guess, most people these brands are targeting.
Same point PG made in one of his essays about text editors vs IDE's. With the former you learn and master the language, with the latter you learn the editor and features like code completion substitute for mastering the language.
I would be telling you the same thing if you'd laid a claim on some "frontier" "unused" "common-good" land, not used it for years and then tried to sell it. See how an analogy can be used to support any point of view?

I completely agree that handing the domain to a domainer would make things worse, not better, though. I was under the impression that you just wanted to sell to the highest bidder, though.
Also, Color is some mobile phone program to do with taking photos and location and social and yadda yadda yadda.
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The Kindle is also a lot lighter and fits in my coat pocket.
This is a lengthy and carefully argued chapter from a book, not a blog post, nor a quick, casual read. It's about math, but I think much of what it says may apply almost as well to programming and CS.