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Unfortunately, I suspect the law could very well require a licensed human driver in the vehicle for just that reason. I would hope that this would change over time, though, as the technology improved and became more proven, because there is great potential in this for people who are unable to drive for whatever medical reason.

Maybe there could be some lesser qualification, between being a licensed driver and just an untrained passenger. After all, if you could simply pull over to the side of the road safely, that's about all that would be required in most instances.
I don't like your negativity Jack, consider yourself unfollowed </1c>
RailsCasts is a great resource: http://railscasts.com/
Whilst you make a valid point, the N9 doesn't run Symbian, it runs MeeGo/Harmattan/Maemo (or whatever they're calling it now), which is based on Debian. Nokia's Ovi store for Maemo has just a handful of apps. There's also about 2000 lovely open source programs in the repositories but not many people count them as they're non-commercial.
This is basically a cave-in to the EU/Japanese system, and IMNSHO it will increase not decrease the number of frivolous patents.

What it really does is remove the option of protecting something as a secret. You have to either publish or patent (which is basically a state-sanctioned form of publishing with monopoly benefits). It completely changes the calculus of small inventors, who will now be forced to file multiple provisional patents ($100+ a shot plus time spent) and then within a year decide to shell out $5K++ to have any chance at all of not being beaten over the head by corporate patent trolls.

Not good.
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Will tons of iframes querying your site make google think you are important to your users?
Yes, you could do that. The department chair is probably your best bet. You could also network if you know any teachers. Are you in SF?

It's nice if you can build a relationship between your institution and a school so you can have a sort of standing gig every few years.

(Also note that some schools will totally love this and others might be unresponsive, so don't give up if the first one doesn't happen)
While this looks really awesome in webkit browsers, why not add the -moz-box-shadow and other -moz CSS3 properties also? (non-mozilla browsers should ignore them)

Great work, they look very nice.
So for a one-man software shop, given the choice between:

a) Spend money and time on legal action against the FBI for holding onto his servers for a couple of days while in the process of an investigation, in order to hopefully try and make a larger point.

and

b) Spending his time and no money by actually improving his bottom line by enhancing the features of his software,

you expect any rational person to choose (a) ?
It'd be funny if science worked the way Maisel does.

"What? You repeated my groundbreaking study!? I'll sue for crushing damages! Clearly you've damaged my reputation!"

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heh:

Plaintiff Lawyers: "Right, we're suing you for personal damages of $150,000 per article printed!"
Defence Lawyers: "May I remind you that our client is a scientist?"
Plaintiff Lawyers: "Right, we're suing you for personal damages of $150 total and perhaps some cheap coffee"
I find it a real shame Apple have no interest in making their iMessages and FaceTime networks interoperate with XMPP and instead going their own way. We're going to end up with people on different mobile OSes hesitating to communicate with each other because they'll fall back on expensive SMSes (a network effect much like today with discounted in-network calling).
I'm going to make a wild guess that they didn't roll it out to everyone yet.
I am working through this tutorial right now and it is phenomenally useful. Explains exactly the right amount for me: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
Sony laid off network admins 2 weeks before 1st major breach
Google likely to face antitrust subpoenas from FTC
Other than the comments accompanying the recent defacing of SS's blog, has the underground spoken out yet on lulzsec?
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.8 Ahead of Lion Debut
Hey UCSD, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_u...

I know you're not responsible for other people's actions, but releasing this story may do more harm than good.
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While I do agree that the freemium model will be very popular in the upcoming years, games with very competitive multiplayer, where balance and equal competition are a necessity will still have the traditional model we see today.

Unless of course they make those games free with a monthly subscription to play online.
I'm curious as to why the windows Google Talk product has stalled - I always thought Google planned to improve it to make it a worthy competitor to Skype, but it seems to have stalled.

And now this news indicates that it appears to be AbandonWare.
Which is a real pity.
Terrible interface. I entered "password" and it told me "It looks like your passwords may be safe. No instances of compromise are recorded in this database. However, it's good practice to change your critical passwords regularly and ensure they are not re-used across multiple sites."

Why did I not enter an e-mail address like the light text in the input box says? Well, I let myself mislead by the header image.
You got it exactly right. You can see how my numbers added up between Google and Facebook (http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2011/04/01/sell-your-google-sto...). Facebook allows you to attract people who don't know they could use your product (in my case, an entrepreneur conference - when is the last time you googled for a founder conference?). So yes, conversion rates are lower.

I call it discovery vs. intent. Google allows you to capture people's intent. Facebook allows you to let your target demographic discover new products.
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Wouldn't you say TF2 was that kind of game?
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You need to understand the initial use case for XML. It was invented for document-oriented markup languages like HTML, MathML, Docbook etc. You can definitely write XHTML by hand, and a JSON-based syntax for the same kind of documents (which mixed content and so on) would be a lot harder to read and write.
The problem with DigitalOne was a complete lack of communication around this event. It was a long time (and a lot of badgering) before any of us learned anything about what had happened. I can sympathize with being busy during a crisis, but total silence for 24+ hours, with no working website, email, status page, or twitter account, is not acceptable.
You do understand that if anything happened to the company he'd be legally prohibited from releasing anti-DRM patches, right? It'd destroy the shareholders' value.

Unless it's in writing as a condition of your purchase, and the code is in escrow somewhere, it ain't happening.
>I fail to see how this is news at all.

I'd just like to point out both that I forget things some times and other people are new to stuff all the time.

So, while it might not be NEWS - it is always good to keep stuff conscious.

As an example, I was actively training to lock sport some years ago - but havent done anything in a long time (though I still lie to myself and believe I am into it) - but honestly have never thought of using a secret hidden webcam sized CMOS to zoom in on a lock waiting for the key to arrive.

Fuck, that is actually brilliant.

Now - instead of anything - I need to worry about a secret camera pointed at a keypad (rather than lock).

I ONLY use the keypad to enter my apt building.

At my, now previous, office - I have used the keypad to code entry to the door for 10 years.

I was caught by some anon who lived in the building and she interrogated me as to who I worked for, why I used the code, why not a key etc...

She stated "someone could see you entering that code!" - I replied "I'd see them close to me!" - obviously though I am wrong now.

I thought she was a crazy bitch - but thinking of this, now not so much.

In fact - a small device with a cam and a 3G card with periodic pic uploads is perfect and can be built for cheap if not on the market.

Even my new office has keycode access, where when I went for the interview (over by pixar) I found myself trying to spy on workers of the building entering their codes as they returned from lunch...

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You know what would be an interesting defeat of such attacks: in addition to keycode - you have a timing around the entry. i.e. first keypress, wait 2 seconds, second wait 1, third wait 4....
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I was more severely affected than marco and I'm certainly going to pursue this matter to find out what happened. I imagine the Curbed team might share my curiosity.
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Those deaths in custody seem to be mostly suicides. The case of Oury Jalloh is truly horrific but it is only one case.

I cannot see any trend or evidence for systematic executions in the data you presented. There may well be a few cases, I don’t know, but to suggest that this is common seems absolutely laughable and ridiculous, given the data you presented.
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"It takes trained locksmiths few seconds to open doors without breaking it."

I think that the certified (EU norms) locks are tested so that they provide something like at least 5 minutes resistance against the best known non-destructive attacks.
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you must be kidding. Check biology basics about predation.

The NP smells like Hollywood - big fury half-human looking monsters preying upon us and raping our fine women. Until a few of us left. And we gathered our strength and pushed back and revenged.
There's a FOIA request out for the warrant. I'll be curious to see it.

http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/united-states-of-america/wa...
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Or fake key presses.
This is spread all over Europe as well since it comes from Roman Law.
That's because you're supposed to enter an email-address, not a password.
Yes, just "script kiddies" with automated tools.
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Except Apple is a hardware-company who wants you to buy a Mac and will use every occasion they can find to try to push you towards that goal.

They once almost had me, but when I found that the MBP with "similar" specs to my Dell (half-size SSD, Core2 instead of Core i5, no full-HD display unless I got the BIG clunky models, no built-in 3G what so ever, etc etc) cost almost 100% more, I decided "fuck no".

I've had an iPhone, but I'm still not infected with the Mac-disease. Thank god. It seems to get expensive quickly.

And with that kind of markup (almost 100% for inferior stuff !?!?) it makes very much sense that they want you to buy their hardware.

Edit: I know you guys love your Macs. I don't care. My point is that Apple has insane margins on their sales which noone else has. In that regard, them trying to push sales as much as possible shouldn't be a considered a "troll-comment", like the voting so far seems to indicate. Jeez.
Thanks. I think you just saved me some hassle. Pretty sure it was compromised in the perlmonks hack.
Not sure about Abloy, but there definitively exist some keys that would require multiple pics from different sides. One example here: http://www.kluczserwis.com.pl/gerda/stars/drzwi_pliki/starsk...

As opposed to the standard pin tumbler lock where there's a single row of pins, the pins in this lock surround the key from all sides, therefore the protrusions on the key are also all around it.
"Facebook ads is used widely by affiliate marketers, you could spend some time on blogs like MrGreen ( http://stackthatmoney.com ), or affiliate marketing news aggregator ( http://affbuzz.com )"

Ack...stackthatmoney just screams affiliate coaching scam. Affbuzz still has the A4D meetup in SD advertised on their site which was back in march and only has links to a few of the decent blogs. Seen way to much of that sort of stuff in my years as a full-time affiliate.
I will have to say http://www.codeschool.com/ , try the Zombie Rails tutorial, the best learning tool out there by far
I just meant that human progress seems to be driven by warfare more than by anything else.
There's likely no policy of killing, but there is a policy of covering up inconvenient leaks, arresting photographers, etc, that gets used when there is a killing, or any other crime from drunk-driving to bribery.

The police code of never admitting an officer committed a crime is itself a crime, and one of the worst.
I still don't understand. Why?
At an ethical/moral level, they should care, but at a business level, they should also care. Every time a staff member walks out the door, how much does it cost a company in terms of replacing them?

Not to mention the kind of bad will employee horror stories can generate in the talent pool you're trying to hire from.

The end doesn't always justify the means.
Yeah I'd probably buy it. And they'd get bought by Symantec or McAfee if the list gets big enough.
Developers already have Macs (it's the only way to develop for OS X and iOS), all this does is inconvenience them. Worst case scenario: They have to start up Safari. Annoying but doable.

If you are not a OS X or iOS developer, don't have a Mac# and still want to watch the videos (they are really not targeted at you, though) you have to install iTunes. However horrible iTunes might be, I can't imagine a scenario where someone prefers buying a Mac to installing iTunes.

This is stupidity on Apple’s part, not evilness.

(To help ease your confusion with regard to Mac buyers let me just tell you that not everyone determines value like you do. Think of that whenever you are confused why someone does not or does buy something.)

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# You also need some way to run Windows.
Well, for example, how about sorting out a lot of pdf documents I have in a folder called papers/ ? I do use Mendeley now but there are some leftovers from before that I really don't want to sit and sort through (not to mention the fact that I probably may have multiple copies of some of them.)
Exactly. It is about political choice, not about structural inevitabilities.

Actual numbers: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=unemployment+rate+swede...

It looks like Sweden merely caught up with the US in terms of unemployment in the last 20 years.

Look at the quite drastic ups and downs in unemployment in Sweden in the 1990s. I know that's not exactly what you wrote, but does that look like something that is driven by "structural changes"?
The attitude might make sense for marco but we should all be thankful for the irrational stubborn assholes that say screw it and fight and effect change and make things better for the rest of us. The martyr game is usually a long thankless ordeal. You need to be an idealist dreamer, have your heart 110% in it and be prepared for the long slog after the initial passion cools off. Even someone like geohot who had the passion, the financial resources, tons of support and nothing to lose, eventually got cold feet once he saw the daunting task ahead.
Even thought it is free now, it's been sold the traditional way for a long time so I don't think it quite counts as a freemium game. Valve's already reaped most of the sales profits it's going to get from TF2.
Good advice overall, SEO is something to not be forgotten either.

I think you hit a very important aspect of this: each marketing channel (paid search, Facebook, Mobile, SEO, banners, etc.) is a tool in a toolbox. Go for what works and earns you revenue.

Paid ads yield dividends very quickly and are easily quantifiable. You can figure out what is working, weed out the bad stuff and then capitalize on opportunities. That said, SEO is also really important. While I am less inclined to go with the sparticle approach that many do, I would certainly say that writing up good information about your product in a way that relates to customers is extremely important.

The other part about your SEO content is that it is relevant to your paid ad campaigns. If you have a product that would work well for software developers and will save them money, then by all means write a good article about how awesome it is for them. Make the page a good starting lander for paid ads as well then get it to rank on SEO and drive other paid traffic to it.

In the end, each tool in your toolbox is there to make you money. Find what generates the highest ROI in the period of time you need to make it in. Focus on that and then circle back to each one down the list in turn.

Don't ever leave money on the table - your competitors won't make that mistake.
Classification (e.g. spam detection) and document categorization, as well as clustering similar documents.

You can do all these tasks in the original document space, instead of in the latent space, but the advantage of the latent space is that it can capture patterns across the entire corpus. This is called unsupervised learning.

In particular, if I have only 100 training examples (e.g. 10 examples of spam and 90 examples of ham), I will learn a better classifier if I first use LSM and then train my classifier, than if I train my classifier over the original documents. In the former case, unsupervised learning detects patterns over the entire corpus, which I use to discriminate between spam and ham. In the latter case, I can only use features from the 100 labeled documents, so it is more difficult to generalize.

More examples:

* What language is this document?

* Is this document about sports?

* Is this news article similar to 50 news articles that I previously marked as "highly interesting" ?
You mentioned "shareholders". Think about who owns Valve -- I understand Gabe owns 100% of the company.
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At first I thought that fake keypress would not work if you were expected to open the door; meaning youd actually have to perform the correct press to get the door open...
But you could conceivably either fake a press before - or do a bunch of presses afterward to fake the sequence...
I guess this really needs to be tested - specifically against the ability of the camera/viewer to be able to tell when the 1/4" depression of a key really occurs.
I think the take away here, though, is for anyone using a keypad to act like they pressed 10 keys rather than the requisite 4# sequence. Ideally with the 4 numbers non sequntial in your finger movements.
If you share your password across different sites: Yes - you should change it to a non-shared password. There are plenty of password managers that can store randomly generated passwords for you. And if you don't like that there's also PwdHash, although this is less secure as someone might be able to compromise your master password.
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Interesting article! I had a similar idea in one of my earlier captcha cracking approaches. For me, it had several problems:

1) it was very hard to get the captcha generation exactly right, so that it is close enough to the algorithm of the original site

2) comparing two generated images containing text meaningfully (in a noise tolarant way) is hard

Eventually I went with more regular computer vision techniques.

It's nice to see that the approach is feasible with the right techniques :)
How much more official does it get than the president of the company?
This years set is entirely downloadable to iTunes as well. On the left sidebar, there is a "View all in iTunes" link shaped as a button that will redirect you to login if need be, and then open the iTunes U Apple Developer page where you can download them all to be local to your iTunes library.
So, just like Tortoisegit?

I'm still not getting the Unique Selling Point. Or is this just a case of the intersection of Github fanboys and Mac fanboys? Once both of those factors are removed, I'm not seeing the magic.
While I agree that there won't be 1000s of people prosecuted, you might not be aware of how strong the extradition agreements between the USA and most of Europe are.

If the hackers are in Europe and are caught, they'll end up in the US justice system, for example see Gary McKinnon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
Hacker pleads guilty to AT&T iPad breach
>They don't get to own 50% of another company because their company was delayed by a few months.

I think they should get Mark's shares. It's not that their company was delayed a few months, it's that the founder of another company came in and sabotaged their company long enough to gain critical mass. In fact, I'm surprised what Mark's did isn't illegal.
It is still possible to protect an invention as a trade secret. Of course, if someone later independently invents and files, they get the patent. The earlier user is immune from infringement of the patent under the "prior user defense", though.
it is not a loss leader. no company in the face of the planet uses loss leaders. it's a myth. it makes more money than probably any game on steam for them.
I've raised an issue over at github
https://github.com/echonest/echoprint-codegen/issues/10
F/0.7!!??!! Wow.
PSY-OP MOTHERFUCKER, CAN YOU HACK IT?!

This is NOT script kiddies going at it, this is bio-stux....

See the following:

Watch these in this order:
http://vimeo.com/25118844 - brief overview great animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS01Hmjv1pQ - ted talk on stux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwMW6agpTI&feature=youtu.... detailed analysis of stuxnet
the last one is long and Bruce appears to be an arrogant prick, but it is clear - cyber war has been here for a while.

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As I have mentioned, cyber war is here - and the legislation is lacking in its awareness - but becuase we have incompetant douches in charge of tech legislation, we will have physical war used as a metaphor to cyber warfare and thus have draconian influences from physical imprisonment being applied to digital situations.

Utterly broken.
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Thanks, but I was actually thinking of the package of sample code specifically for the demos in the videos, rather than the general sample code collection. For last year's videos you could actually download an image containing the code for all of the demos.