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If I'm ever in the position of owning a building containing a lift/elevator, I'm going to ensure that the bottom floor is labelled '0' rather than 'G'.

Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to create my daughter a zeroth birthday cake until a few days after the event.
Helpless in which ways? It depends what the unfriendly one's goal is and how strong-willed the decentralized people are. Anyway, it's fairly easy to organize (in time though?), the hard part is disorganizing again once the threat is taken care of. Undoing seems to usually be hard in most cases, especially when a transfer of power is involved.

I don't think many anarchists are against hierarchies at all, just in the cases of huge groups and where membership is required. If I don't want to have the US gov. rule over me, it's kind of hard for me to emigrate etc. and it's doubtful that somewhere else is all that better. If I don't like my job because of the manager or CEO, I can quit and get another job or start my own company.
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> Electronic Frontiers Association board member Colin Jacobs also expressed concern at the scheme, saying the Government and internet providers needed to be more upfront about websites being blocked and offer an appeals process for website owners who felt URLs had been blocked unfairly.

As if they have any intention of even notifying sites they choose to block.
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This, combined with ridiculous housing prices, overcrowded public transport, generally high prices for imported items, poor availability and high price of digital content, huge tax on wine .. I'm also seriously considering the move to another country, perhaps the US. As much as I love the culture, more and more I do not see Melbourne as a viable long term solution.
I think this is ~99% certain based on how it played out.
They can do this because they've decided they can.
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Is that was your own AI implementation?
Frankly, I hope you are right!
In a quite similar example of a bad convention, I find it extremely frustrating that many programming languages do not have a modulus operator (%) which behaves as modulo in mathematics. To be explicit, there are multiple choices of the sign of:

x % y

When either x or y is negative, or both (the full details are described at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation). In common mathematical notation x mod y, the result always shares the sign of the divisor y. For example,

–14 mod 10 = 6

6 mod –10 = –4

The same is the case in python:

>>> -14 % 10
6
>>> 6 % -10
-4

Unfortunately, in JavaScript (and various other languages), a different convention is chosen. The result instead shares the sign of the dividend:

> -14 % 10
-4
> 6 % -10
6

This is really annoying because we quite frequently want to use the modulus operator to do things like normalize an angle to the range [0, 360°). To perform this normalization on an angle a in JavaScript, if a < 0, requires a computation like:

a_prime = a % 360 + 360

I end up usually defining a function like:

var mod = function (x, y) {
var js_mod;
return (js_mod = x % y) && (x > 0 ^ y > 0) ? js_mod + y : js_mod;
}
Correct.

What, did you think that just because they are using the legal system that they are somehow immune to being dicks?
I like it. It's a casual happy place, which makes a better product.
The generics in Scala should be able to catch the cases you mentioned. Definitely worth checking out.
It's funny because most Brits still cannot wait to emigrate down under.
Combined with the best search engine in the world, this is nothing short of magical. We are living in the future.
You can just produce a composite image that's sharp
all over… – but what fun is that?

With DSLRs that have huge lenses with large aperture sizes, the depth of field varies a lot and those lenses also have a sweetspot in focal-length / aperture for which images produced are the sharpest. Lowering the aperture size increases the depth of field, but then you've got another problem as the shutter speed also has to be adjusted and you end up using a tripod.

Getting a picture that has everything in focus and is tack sharp can be seriously challenging.

To tell you the truth, while these photos with adjustable focus seem cool, focus is not my pain - what I want is to be able to take great photos (the kind that 35mm cameras can do) for reasonable prices, preferably with something that fits in my pocket.

And to expand on the point above - focus is not painful when the camera has enough focus points. I played with a Nikon D3s that has a whooping 51 auto-focus points; let me tell that it's freaking awesome, as it can track your subject as it moves. The problem is that consumer-level DX DSLRs only have like 11 focus points, which is still cool, but point&shoots suck badly in this area, most of them focusing only in the center of the image.

Another problem with this project that I can see - people don't like playing with their images on the computer. When you take 500 photos in a single day, and another 600 photos the next day (like when going on a trip), it's really painful to carefully adjust each image, not to mention that the RAW formats are huge and seriously cuts in the number of photos you can take ... yeah, making adjustments is great, but I prefer making more photos, that's why I shoot in JPG and don't regret it.
Interestingly enough, I notice it on http://www.wunderground.com/ homepage using Chrome.

Not exactly sure how they're using it?
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Not necessarily. If the company is looking to recoup its investment soon, sure. But if the company is looking to get mass-market appeal then they'll price it more aggressively. The latter may be a good idea given the declining interest in dedicated cameras - make it cheap enough, while it's still novel, and people will actually buy the thing.
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​Big list of independent Australian media:
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/dw95o/big_list_of...

I don't follow political opinion pieces though, so I can't say which are good.
Nope. I use a fork of 1k Chess; https://github.com/azer/toledo-chess
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> overcrowded public transport

I've always thought Australia to have pretty darned good public transport, relatively speaking. That is to say that the US has (generally) fucking terrible public transport, outside of NYC and some small commuter services.
Rather, you should be asking why high-profile, extremely public break-ins are on the rise. The number reported by the companies affected has been extremely low - the same level as normal? - with the vast majority reported and publicized by hackers.
Now all we need is google instant with voice capabilities. I would like for it to predict what I am going to say.
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The US court system is not nearly as utterly corrupt as you seem to think. Even individual people often fight law enforcement agencies in court there, and win. Certainly a Fortune 100 company would stand a better chance. (Maciej might be at a bit of a disadvantage, being a foreigner, and one who's written publicly about a run-in with law enforcement in China, at that.)

There's a pretty large range between Pinboard (10 000 customers, maybe? Two employees? Annual revenue in the range of $100k? I'm guessing here) and Rite Aid (109000 "associates", maybe 20 million customers, $26 billion revenue). More than five orders of magnitude, actually.
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It's in the article:

> "The ACMA will compile and manage a list of URLs of child abuse content that will include the appropriate subsection of the ACMA blacklist as well as child abuse URLs that are provided by reputable international organisations (to be blocked)," the spokesman said.

Obviously, we all know URL filtering is useless and that the serious offenders are using P2P or encrypted connections (SSH tunnels through foreign VPS's, for example). In fact, it's even mentioned in the article[1].

[1] "Child abuse material is more likely to be exchanged on peer-to-peer networks and private networks anyway and is a matter for law enforcement." http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/telstra-op...
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Sydney apparently has good public transport (I found it fine on holidays), and Melbourne's trams aren't bad, but Adelaide is terrible and none of the cities compare to European cities in terms of reliability, coverage or frequency in my experience.
Sorry for late reply, I had posted this entry before I went sleep. It uses a fork of 1k Chess AI; https://github.com/azer/toledo-chess

If you wonder about the backend of Multiplayer Chess also, there is a comment I wrote about it; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386898
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"Please note Voice Search is available for US English only."

Damn, and there I was going to search for Crocodile Dundee quotes.
I managed to dig up this blog post (http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...) that seems to explain how to use it for your own purposes.
> The peak always comes just before the decline.

By definition. If this is the peak, then they're going to decline. If this isn't the peak, then they're going to continue improving. It's a useless statement, is my point.
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Yes, but now I have to wait 4 months for all the extensions I'm using to update (ie, change the "maxVersion" string) to v5.
Any reason for doing so..
This worked out well in the UK, censoring dangerous content such as text from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
You are confusing the currency with the exchange. It is definitely a weakness for bitcoin that a shady exchange has captured 90% of the market, but this problem isn't inherent to bitcoin. It seems likely that in the wake of news like this, new exchanges will be created to try to capitalize on MtGox's misfortune, and the exchange landscape will broaden.

As long there is someone, somewhere willing to put up products or state currency in exchange for bitcoins, bitcoins will have their value. The best case scenario for bitcoin could be for MtGox to go down in flames because if it bitcoin held its value, it would prove that its fundamentals are sound, and its price is based on legitimate demand for an anonymous medium of exchange, not pure speculation.

If a MtGox collapse did cause a bitcoin collapse, it would show that bitcoin is not the real deal, just the result of a speculative frenzy. This may be hard to stomach, but it's better than continuing to ignorantly pile money into a bubble so fragile it can be popped by the guessing of a single password.

In my opinion this guy, if he really wants the best for bitcoin, should sue MtGox hard if he honestly thinks what they did is wrong/illegal/breaks contractual agreements. Let bitcoin sink or swim on its own merits.
You might be (more) interested in the P2P communication APIs currently being added to Chrome. Details are scanty to say the least, but allegedly they will provide P2P UDP sockets.

See for example http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-revie...
and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51198
Good point about referring to first-gen model though I'd be looking forward to it being able to take 1 good picture fast then 3 so so pictures. Either way, I can't wait to see how well it and future versions work in real world environment.
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A minarchist government would likely be a democracy.

It's merely that its functions would be constrained by its constitution---i.e. no socialized benefits apart from security from external threats, and internal violence.
Agreed. A closely related infelicity is that integer division in most languages (and indeed, on most CPUs that have an integer divide instruction) truncates toward zero. So 1 / 2 and -1 / 2 both evaluate to zero.

The `floor' operation -- that truncates toward negative infinity -- is a more useful primitive, and goes hand in hand with the modulo operation defined as you describe.
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The blackout period should be what we call "embargo" and it is a requirement of the publisher; as for the rest: I thought hard sciences had solved the OA problem long time ago with the adoption of arxiv. Why don't you use arxiv?
I never run into problems up in Brisbane . .
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To be honest housing prices have always been pretty crazy, especially in Sydney. Public transport is pretty bad, but only because of the prices. I will give credit where its due and admit that it has been MUCH better for the last year or so. Imported items are only expensive if you buy them from local retailers. Digital content is more expensive, but then again most isn't here anyway, so hello bittorrent. The wine taxes are indeed crazy but with the current AUD prices and the glut of Aussie wine you can get highly drinkable wines for $2-4 a bottle, as the producers are hurting.

I live in Sydney, have a reasonable, but not high salary and live a pretty comfortable life. I don't own my home, but will do in 7 years or so. I drink reasonable wines and have whatever toys (phones etc...) I want. I have a dependent partner but no children as yet.

When all you have to complain about is that the houses and wine are expensive, you cant get a seat on the train/bus, imported goods cost more then local and digital content isn't as cheap as other markets your life really isn't that bad.
Hate to fall into "Me too" category, but you know what happens with these things: some dev somewhere says "well that doesn't happen for me" and nothing gets done about it. Just want to help point out ... YES it is annoying and YES it does happen.
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Thank you for the very detailed comment. Yes, NIH is what I had in mind. I was under the impression it wasn't going to be just NIH though, as it happens in fact in the UK.

As for the opposition from politicians: isn't this a typical case of lobbies trying to hide behind some representative of choice to fight their battle?
Just went 0 from 4, anyone getting good results? Not ruling out a bad mic or pronunciation on my end, although I imagine because searches are short and abstract they could be pretty hard to parse.
Sydney's public transport isn't great. Usually dirty, and frequently late. However it is a lot better then it was 1 year ago. I take the train every day and rarely get a seat or clean carriage.

If it was cheaper I wouldn't mind, but $50 a week to stand in a non air-conditioned/non-heated dirty train isn't what I consider a good deal.
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First, not just other developing countries like Russia, Brazil and China but even US has more inequality than India. [1]

Second, Indian outsourcing industry is over-hyped. It contributes just 5% to the Indian GDP. But India is silently making big progresses in other industries. How many people here know that India is now the world's biggest manufacturer of small cars, overtaking Japan? [2]

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_World_CIA...

[2] - http://www.thestar.com/business/article/742457--india-overta...
Focusing with point and shoots should not be a problem. They all have a huge depth of field due to their small sensors, so you have to try really hard to put something out of focus. Smudged pictures on point and shoots are usually not a result of lack of focus, but something else (e.g. shaky camera).

Even with DSLRs you usually only need one focus point. You can focus at the center and re-frame. It is very simple to do, and is much simpler than choosing a focus point (and much safer than trusting the camera to automatically choose a focus point for you). Multiple focus points can be very useful in certain rare circumstances: when shooting something really fast off of center without being able to pre-focus or when your camera is bolted down on a stand. Even then I cannot possibly imagine one anyone would need 51 points. This is obvious feature creep.

But yeah, I am really not sure who the intended market for this camera is. Focusing is just not a pain point, in my opinion. This camera could be used by artists and professional photographers to play around with the depth of field to get a great artistic shot, without making their subjects wait. But with the micro-lens design, will it have enough image quality for professionals? I guess we will see.
Interestingly enough, I dropped my iPhone 4 two feet onto a HARD surface. The backplate shattered.

Virgin Mobile stonewalled me the whole time, told me to take to to Apple. There being an Apple store in the same mall as the Virgin kiosk, I did.

The Genius at the Apple store listened carefully to my complaint, took my phone off to consult with some folks in the back room, and came back with a brand-new one. Told me that it shouldn't have happened and here's a replacement, but be more careful because they're not gonna replace it like that again.

Now, I found out later that replacing the backplate is hella-cheap ($15 delivered from cnn.cn for example), but the fact that Apple would just straight-up listen to me, believe me, and replace the phone in-store like that?

I'm not a Mac fanboy (I'm the only Windows user in a Mac office), but I'm an Apple fanboy, and this is why.
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Is there something special about sushi in this business? Better CTR?
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I brought my 11 month old iPhone 4 into the Apple Store two weeks ago. My home button was intermittently sticking, and it was really frustrating me.

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He went in back with it for five minutes and then came back to tell me they'd replace it free of charge.

Now, that's customer service.
I sent a bunch of Cocoa classes at it, for no other reason than that's what's on my mind right now.

NSView -> "nfcu". OK, fair enough.

NSViewController -> "nfcu controller". OK, I guess.

CAAnimation -> "salvation".

This is probably a place where that controversial "profiling" could probably help, since I'm an atheist Cocoa developer.
How am I treating this like a crime? I'm saying that all of the players in bitcoin aren't altruistic.

In case you missed the context here, my original argument was that my naivety caused me to assume that people playing with bitcoin were mostly just cryto geeks.
Combine this with eye tracking (to the level that my focal depth can be detected) and an automatic lens over my monitor and you'd have a pretty immersive picture.
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As an Australian living in one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world with socialised health care, education etc, all I can say is that I love my very high standard of living and freedom from any real financial concerns related to health, education, housing etc. You can keep your minarchism.
If you route /all/ traffic on your computer through SSH, are there any downsides? Like, latency or some sites restricting you from accessing (Sounds silly, I know, as the idea is to have open access to all websites but I thought it may be a possibility), online multiplayer, etc?

Or would it be more reasonable to route only select data like HTTP, FTP and email? I s'pose any instant-messaging too..
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All you need to do is add the x-webkit-speech attribute to the desired input element:

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Chrome numbers are from Dec 2010 as compared to June 2011 in case of Firefox. I don't think it's valid comparison.
Pretend you're an MP. You, or at least your advisors, know how Christian conservatives "think". They believe in things that make them Christian conservatives, like censoring the web. They'll vote for you if you say that you believe those things.

You also know how hackers think. They believe things which evidence suggests are true. Regardless of what you say, if the government has failed to censor the web for 15 years, hackers won't believe it's going to happen. They'll vote for you based on other things.

You need to maximise votes. The winning strategy is obvious: loudly announce your intention to censor the web, but fail to do it. For bonus points, get some experts to tell the Christians it couldn't be done, so you can't be blamed for failing.

I just love Australian politics.
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