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Grossly misleading headline.

The real title of the question is:
"I need mathematical proof that the distance from zero to 1 is the equal to the distance from 1 to 2"
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Not only that, but there's money involved. How many billions are sent in foreign aid? Some of that money disappears due to corruption and who doesn't want some corruption happening ;p
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I liked Waiting for Superman a little better, but The Lottery is also good and touches on very similar themes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515935/
And I would argue that the reason that C# and Java have both gone for making strings immutable is that it is less confusing.

I value code that's less confusing over code that allocates extra objects (largely because the last time I wrote some simple benchmarking code I could allocate multiple millions of an object in a second).
Seeing how a handful of ideas in CoffeeScript have been rumored to be included in the next JS release, it seems like individual experimental language design might be the way to push for change.
I was surprised to see that our FIOS box power button does absolutely nothing. After you turn it off, it's still recording two channels, so when you turn it back on, you can rewind and watch the last hour of the current channel and the last channel you were on.
It also constantly shows a "Press the menu button to turn on FIOS", so that consumers don't get confused when they power on the TV but not the STB.

Basically, the power button is completely pointless. I might as well leave the system fully on all of the time.

If you unplug the box, it takes about 90 seconds to bring the system back.

It doesn't seem impossible to program a state where the box is sleeping, but ready to wake to record scheduled shows, etc. Of course, that would still take phantom power, but at least it wouldn't be running full-blast all the time.
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Good point. I hadn't thought of compiling old versions of javascript to new versions - that keeps everyone writing in the same language and seems like a better solution to me.
He did mention the GWT Java to Javascript compiler. I have been using GWT (actually SmartGWT) a lot lately because one of my customers uses it. Except for long build times, the GWT Java to Javascript compiler has a lot going for it. Once a project is built and running in test + debugger mode, the client side development experience is pretty good.
Bitcoin isn't a scam because it's "imaginary" (i.e. fiat) but because of how the currency is distributed: a proof-of-work system that is skewed heavily in favor of early adopters.

There are a lot of good ideas in Bitcoin, but the truth is that its raison d'etre is to enrich early adopters-- the definition of a pyramid scheme. (It's not a Ponzi scheme; that has a technical definition and Bitcoin doesn't qualify.)
AskReddit has numerous discussion about this topic [1]. Also check out Documentaries subreddit [2].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/search?q=documentary&r...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/
If someone managed to compromise LastPass' servers, they would be able to modify the content that was sent to your browser, and thereby do anything they wanted with your master password after you typed it in.

That's the weakness of services that are supposedly "Host-proof". If the host is sending you the webapp/javascript/webpage in which your data is decrypted, each and every time you visit their website, you have to trust that they wont (or someone else wont) modify it in a malicious way in order to gain access to your data.

The only way to be safe from this kind of attack is to use the same trusted copy of the code, and not use any new versions until you trust that it is also safe, or to somehow verify that the webpage sent to your browser is exactly what you expect it to be.

Cortesi has a very good write up on this issue: http://corte.si/posts/security/hostproof.html
The Colonel Comes to Japan -- only about 30 minutes long IIRC, about KFC's foray into Japan in the late 1970s. Absolutely fascinating, both for the Japan angle and for the CEO's take on running a business. (He attributes most of their success to finding the right people and trusting them to do their job correctly rather than imposing his will from the top.)
I totally thought this post was going to be about methods just recording what the user wanted to do in a list and then have an apply method at the end. I'm not sure why I thought that...
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Yes, both A and B is still consider as someone's else b*tch

Ideally, the best option is to find your own niche without relying "too much" on other's platform.
Startup.com

It's a reminder of how crazy things were during the .com boom. Also, on how not to start a company.
Ahh. I misunderstood. Thanks.
Overnight is a fascinating documentary on the self destruction of someone who experiences overnight success in Hollywood.
Keep in mind King of Kong's accuracy is quite widely disputed, including by the people who were the subjects of the film. The filmmaker pumped up the drama between everyone quite a bit. Still a fun documentary.
Food and Health:

Fat Head (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333994/ Especially if you've seen "Super Size Me", but even if you haven't, an amusing yet educational take on the obesity "epidemic".

Food, Inc. (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/ - Exposing the absurdity of our industrial food economy.

Music and Entertainment:

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/ Talk about never giving up on your dreams.

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387412/ The other side of fame.
"Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room" seconded! It is by far my most favourite documentary.

In addition, I like the following documentaries:

- "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638362/

- "Planet Earth" IMHO one of BBC's best productions with some of the most amazing nature shots ever (e.g., a [presumably stratospheric] shot that looks like fog or fire but is really a swarm of flies) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795176/

- BBC has also two of the best documentary series regarding the second world war: "The World at War" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/) and "The Nazis: A Warning from History" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207907/)

- Errol Morris' "The Thin Blue Line" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/) and "The Fog of War" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/)
James Burke's Connections, with each episode showing how one idea sparks a chain of inventions and innovations resulting in something seemingly unrelated several centuries later.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/james-burke-connections/
Looks good. There seems to be a lot of experimentation with tiling wm-s, even win8 seems to be going in that direction if I saw those videos right. Change is good.
My frustration was because IE*, and thus some form of Windows was required. I use modern browsers, just never IE, and windows only when I must.

So I agree with your point about upgrading being a good thing, but the underlying absurdity is that something inherently platform independent (a webform) was perverted into something entirely specific to not only a particular OS, but a particular browser.

My ire with IE being updated was that I was never going to use IE ever again (by choice), whether it was 6 or 8; and so whether it was upgraded or not would not affect my browsing experience on sites other than this particular instance. So for me, it was just one additional hoop that I had to grudgingly jump through.
I've been enjoying the Discovery channel's "Through the Wormhole" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1513168/). They cover a lot of the latest theories of the universe, time, physics etc, in an accessible way.
Interestingly, that may be an advantage of the system. It encourages early adoption and encourages early adopters to nurture the system.

Maybe it's unfair, I don't know. But, I don't see any perverse incentives.
Roger and Me -- Michael Moore's first documentary. It's a bit more subtle, level headed and even than his later stuff. A really good look at what happened to Michigan after the big three started moving factories out.

God Grew Tired of Us -- About Sudanese refugees who come to live in America. They'd literally never seen any modern conveniences ever. For example they had to be taught how to use a toilet. Very fascinating. http://www.godgrewtiredofus.com/about.html
Imaging optics are limited in how small a spot they can make from the sun, unless you occlude part of the sun. I suspect the 1cm radius comes from that, not from light spreading through the sand. (If it's the latter, you could add a small amount of crushed charcoal to solve the problem.)

I think there are lots of uses for coarse-scale 3-D printing of fused quartz. (Did he mix in any lime to lower the melting point, or is that more or less pure quartz sand?) Furniture, coarse parts of machinery, sculpture, buildings, and the like.
1. JavaScript's speed is actually not far from Mono's now. And constantly getting closer.

2. I don't think anyone but Microsoft would support .NET bytecode in the browser, simply because Microsoft controls .NET and has patents on it. It would take a lot more to reassure other browser vendors than Microsoft's existing CPs.

3. Running dynamic languages on Mono is slow. Look at the speed of all the dynamic languages on Mono (or the JVM for that matter), and compare them to native implementations of dynamic languages, in particular JavaScript and Lua. The native implementations beat dynamic languages on Mono by a large margin, simply because .NET is a bytecode made for static languages. Of course you can say that you prefer to have static languages in the browser over dynamic ones, that's a legitimate opinion of course, but not everyone would agree.

4. Standardizing on bytecode can inhibit innovation. JavaScript doesn't have a bytecode standard, which let JS engines implement very different ways of running it (V8 doesn't have a bytecode interpreter at all, for example). Of course standardizing on syntax also inhibits innovation, just in other ways, it isn't clear which is better.

5. Static languages compiled to JavaScript (that is, that use JavaScript as their 'assembly') are getting quite fast. Some benchmarks I ran found them to be around 5X slower (on the development versions of SpiderMonkey and V8) than gcc -O3, compared to Mono which is 2.5X slower, http://syntensity.blogspot.com/2011/06/emscripten-13.html

6. There is already Silverlight/Moonlight which does .NET in browsers, and it hasn't been very successful. (Of course it is a chicken and egg thing, if it were bundled in browsers it might be more popular. But the failure of Silverlight is a disincentive to add Mono to browsers nonetheless.)

For all these reasons, I don't think Mono has much of a chance to be included in browsers. Most of the same arguments apply to other static-language bytecodes like NaCl.
I wouldn't call it a forecast. Thin clients have failed several times before.
Startup.com a great first-hand account of the rise and fall of your typical 1999 .com startup right before and during the dotcom bust
One of my favorites is The Fog of War (2003) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fog_of_war

Besides being an incredible individual, I found Robert McNamara's lessons to be surprisingly relevant to the startup world.
I think I heard the name Sven Slootweg recently. I have a feeling one of my friends knows him in person O_o
Beautiful Young Minds: Youngsters hoping to represent Britain in the International Maths Olympiad 2006.

Tetris: From Russia with Love - This is the fascinating story behind the game set against the backdrop of Cold War tensions between East and West.

Revolution OS

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires

N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös

The Ascent of Man: Written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.

Cosmos: Carl Sagan
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80 character limit makes it difficult to fit all that in.
The other side of the coin is that "you can't build a cage to hold a snake", so trust is really all you have.

The real sadness in all this is that this sort of behavior greatly devalues stock options for employees of every company.
As a sometime-user of LinkedIn, it's clear that this article is a sales pitch to counter their inability to hire user- and customer-oriented development staff. I have to wonder if they're having trouble finding truly capable people who want to work there, or if it's just that the ones who do take positions have their spirits broken soon after joining. "Welcome to our codebase...good luck!"

Their site is a clunky nightmare with features grafted on here and tucked away there, and seems to use no convention wisdom with regard to usability. It's fine to incorporate Amazonian continuous deployment and engineers-own-their-features policy into your own company, but when the business product evolves into a kitchen-sink mishmash of grafted on features, the product needs adult supervision.

Seriously, using LinkedIn was one of the experiences that led me to start making something better (in a different channel, natch) all by myself. Aside from capitalization and business responsibilities, it's not a pipe-dream for creative technicals to DIY a focussed social network.

tl;dr: LinkedIn has too many cooks, yadda yadda. Come work here!
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My password isn't on that list, but it's on a different list. I found it by googling my email address. :/
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Ships still aren't mass-produced. Coins, though, that's a very good point. And I didn't know about pottery!
Google should use this as an opportunity to destroy skypes business. They should plaster ads in every medium out there saying what skype has done, and then reminding people that google voice is a better alternative. They could probably take half the market in the next 90 days because everyone that I know who uses skype doesn't like it. The latency is always horrible and the video output seems to freeze at least once a call.
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Practically you need some desicion making control structure (cond, if) and an emulation of read/write tape (arrays)
I disagree. Contracts are there to make sure that minds meet in as clear a fashion as possible, hopefully preventing things from going wrong. Contracts are often totally inadequate when things do actually go wrong.
Options can be tricky enough for employees to handle even in standard startup scenarios (see recent thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623182).

You have to earn them out over time before they might have any value at all. You have to pay real money to get illiquid stock in a company that might easily fail. If the paper value of the stock is high, owing to recent funding rounds, you will have to pay ordinary income tax on the spread between your exercise price and the then fair market value. If you have ISOs, you may avoid ordinary income tax but may easily get hit with AMT. After you pay for the stock, and any associated taxes, you hold common shares that stand in the back of the line on any liquidity event, meaning that you might get nothing even in a liquidity event should the proceeds not exceed the value of the liquidation preferences held by preferred stockholders or should the acquisition be structured in a way that primarily rewards those who get bonus/retention packages with the acquirer and leaves others with essentially nothing.

As if this all were not risk enough, Skype now comes along with a vehicle by which you lose the value even of that illiquid stock you thought you had bought - and paid for, and paid tax on, and whose value you ran the risk of losing in case the company went nowhere - at the very time when the wild success case strikes. This is the essence of a rigged game. The company fails or plods along uneventfully: it has no obligation to buy back anything from you; you took the risk and lost. The company succeeds: it has the option to rob you of your equity value by getting it all back at a strike-price cost that is a tiny fraction of its now vastly appreciated market value. This is what they call "heads I win, tails you lose."

This is not equity ownership. It is merely the illusion of ownership - an ownership that comes with all the risks of buying stock (the cost, the tax risk, the economic risk) and none of its benefits. As this piece points out, legally, you might be able to frame things this way and maybe this is the custom and practice in private equity deals (it can even make sense in an individually-negotiated deal with a senior executive who knowingly accepted the risks involved). But it is not legal to offer it up in materially misleading terms, which seems to have happened here. And, whether technically legal or not, no one wants to play a fool's game - once exposed as the stink bomb that it is, this particular PE ploy should hereafter die the death that it richly deserves.
Great documentary. Especially the first season.
"Collecting videos around the net and put it in one page is useless idea."
I wouldn't say it's a useless idea but I am surprised that the site is getting such a lot of attention considering there is nothing there at all yet.
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Yeah, javascript's prototypal inheritance is flexible enough to simulate classical inheritance. I wouldn't call that a wart.

http://www.prototypejs.org/learn/class-inheritance

http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojo/declare.html

Plus, I tend to prefer prototypal inheritance to classical inheritance. I do agree that the constructor pattern using the new keyword and the prototype object is a bit odd, but that's not the only way to have objects inherit from other objects in javascript.
The horse is out of the barn. All of these users need to change their passwords everywhere – yesterday.
The word is used to put size in perspective relative to goals: if their goal is to replace AT&T and Verizon, by that measure Skype is still a startup. I've even heard people refer to Google as a startup within the past couple of years.

Sometimes companies apply this label to themselves, seemingly to attempt to excuse issues like lack of profitability or shoddy organization ("we're new and still learning, started in my living room" etc.). The claim is that if the business is still taking VC funding, it is a startup, regardless of profitability or establishment in the market. My belief is that when a company has been around for more than 3 years, has a multitude of customers, well over 10-20 employees and collects corporate-sized (millions in) revenues, it's a regular business and the startup label should not be used. The line used for 'small businesses' in the US is something like 100 employees, which seems huge compared to the businesses I've worked in with 1-5. If the company isn't even a small business by those standards, it's a stretch to say it's a startup. But it can still feel like one compared to IBM.
incorrect..sir..

When the regulatory bodies allow a no-doc loan for a house to be entered into by the consumer they are in-fact complicit in fraud.. Uniform Commercial Code already implies that such a loan as a contract is extremely leaning towards fraud.

The biggest entities involved Bank lobbyists encouraging others to look the other way rather than enforce laws and rules laready on the books
When you are born, you have no dollars. The early adopter have them all. Does that make the dollar economy a pyramid scheme?
Seems like an obvious selection bias, IMO - much like chess or RTSs or first person shooters. The kind of geeky person who plays Magic and has the brains to do very well even against fellow geeks - is it such a surprise that a good fraction of them might do well when they turn their efforts to poker or finance?
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The FBI is not good at finding [good] computer hackers. They have to outsource or bring somebody in who actually knows what the hell they're doing. And those people are not necessarily very good at it.
If you are still interested in learning more about writing compiler optimizations after reading the Appel book, there are two really fantastic Ph.D. theses:

Olin Shivers, Control Flow Analysis in Scheme

David Tarditi, Design and Implementation of Code Optimizations for a Type-Directed Compiler for Standard ML

The first can be a bit mathematically hairy, particularly if you have either a weak or engineering-focused math background. Fortunately, you can skip it and still get a lot out of both the static analyses and particularly the optimizations listed at the back. There are several he lists that still offer promise and that folks are even now trying to figure out how to implement efficiently (i.e. super-beta).

The second is a wonderful implementation-focused thesis that covers in even more detail than the Appel book how to perform those optimizations on a typed IR. A typed IR is much tougher than an untyped IR because in order to maintain a valid IR can be quite tricky (i.e. if you change a function to take an additional argument, you need to update its type... and everywhere that type occurs, including possible in tuples passed to functions that pass them to other functions, etc.). Further, he includes proofs of correctness that will prepare you for the kinds of things that appear in more modern coverage of compiler optimizations.

Beyond that, getting to specific journal papers, you really can't go wrong just browsing TOPLAS and JFP and looking at particular topics you're interested in. There are some that are, of course, particularly good, but generally the editorial staff on both is just fantastic and you can't go wrong. If you have specific interests, feel free to drop me mail directly for a pointer to a good entry paper in the area.
Everyone has a price, dude.
It's not a scam. You have to distribute the coins somehow. Proof-of-work is a method to ensure no cheating. You can be sure the early miners did in fact perform computational effort to get their coins.
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Third world governments aren't exactly known for being cooperative with western governments. I'd rather have a rooted box in China or Pakistan than in North America or Europe.
So this is not the complete set of passwords, only the ones that have been cracked so far, using a dictionary? Scanning through the list, very few look like a random set of characters that a password generator would come up with. Does that mean that passwords which were randomly generated are, and are likely to remain, safe?
"I need a proof that the distances between '0 and 1' and '1 and 2' are equal"
Consider grad school. I didn't regret it :)
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You know, I might have to dig out my MessagePad 2000 to check, but I'm not all that certain I get better recognition on my iPhone than I did on that. I frequently have to go back and correct words on the iPhone, too (usually because my 3G iPhone is laggy or I'm using words like "laggy" that aren't in the dictionary.)