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The real point is: don't do two-level ACL on websites.

At my previous company we had these "auto-login" links in emails and they are extremely powerful.

But maybe once every six months people would call or write in and say "I forwarded a job posting from one of your email alerts to a friend and they had full access to my account!" and we'd have to revisit the issue again, but the conclusion was always the same - we were getting absolutely ridiculous user engagement from emails because of this feature and this was too valuable to give up.

Before I left the solution I had started to push was to introduce a new intermediate user level - "logged in but not trusted" - to the standard logged out/logged in two-level ACL. The basic implementation would have looked like this:

1) A logged in but not trusted cookie is set on both manual login or auto-login from marketing materials. It allows us to assume that this is user X and they are taking action Y on website Z. It also allows the user to receive the user logged in view where that UX has been tweeked to minimise effort for logged in users.

2) A logged in and trusted cookie is only set on an explicit manual login, and is required to perform _any_ write operation as well as to read certain sensitive information.

Where the practical implementation gets difficult is you really need to refine when to require the trusted cookie - at what point in your UX - to keep the engagement high. It will almost definitely go down, you just want to minimise that.

For an example, say you're a service like LinkedIn. You send emails to your users whenever they get a private message and you want to make it easy as possible for that user to reply because recruiters getting candidate engagement happens to be one of your key metrics. User clicks on the message in their email and instantly gets a login page, they might have been 50/50 about engaging with this recruiter so now that you presented an obstacle they just close the tab and get back to what they were doing. Alternatively, you show them the message from the recruiter and allow them to type up a reply and only ask for a password confirmation when they hit send, and it's possible your engagement will go up.

It requires more thought and is surprisingly tricky to implement once you get past the really easy "read-only" versus "write" type security checks, but it seems to be the way things are going.
I enjoyed maths in high school because when I finally overcame that initial comprehension in solving it, it felt like I was solving problems based on present formulas.
It's been available in the UK store since day one and that's probably true for most other countries. The US was exceptional in the sense that you couldn't directly buy an unlocked iPhone from Apple.

UK Store:
http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
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How does a political statement cost trillions? The information contained in the sentence "let's use the money where it matters most" is zero. How do you figure out where it matters most?

The fact is: if people can exploit some loophole (like blowing dirt into the air instead of installing expensive filters), they will do so. They don't really have an incentive to do otherwise. It doesn't have to be laws that gives them an incentive - there could be "transparency", customers could prefer to buy "clean" stuff, hence producers would have an incentive to produce clean.

Without such an incentive, nothing will happen.
don't have specific projects on a list that fits you, but I am sure there are projects out there which needs you help, both projects where you can volunteer or where you can get a job. For a start you could check out our list of health and IT projects in our system, for organisations which work in this area.

http://www.akvo.org/rsr/projects/healthcare/?page=1

Four years ago I was telling people in a session about water and development aid that they should use modern IT and web tools to do their work more effectively. As a result I ended up talking to Jeroen van der Sommen, now our chairman, and we decided to start Akvo.org to provide those tools. There is a huge need for IT tools in humanitarian aid and development work. You could be working on that if you are interested.
Imagine your app has 16GiB of precomputed tables in memory...
I always remember his example of a society that collapsed after 4000 years, whereas our modern society is maybe around 200 years old. We have no idea whatsoever how sustainable our current lifestyle is.
We had some bad experiences with "Deutschland über Alles" a couple of years ago, so "proud to be a German" and things like that are frowned upon, as they evoke the wrong images.

I leave the discussion about the merits of patriotism out of this, as it really doesn't matter that much here. This is more about advertising than content, and repeating the now unsung verses of the national anthem is generally considered a bit more than just a faux pas and causes legions of British reporters to perk up their ears...
Decision trees are useful for the points enumerated in the blog article.

One disadvantage of decision trees is that they can be slow on large data sets (> 1M examples). They are a batch algorithm, which means that you have look at all examples to build a tree, although they can be trained in an mini-online setting (only look at 10K examples per tree) which is faster.

More importantly, decision tree induction involves combinatorial optimization over splitting features. This is much slower than a continuous optimization over non-linearities. So decision tree induction is slower than, say, stochastic gradient descent over a neural network.

(As hamner points out, there is no "best" data mining algorithm, just like there is no "best" programming language.)
It depends on your provider.

If you got one in Australia under contract from Telstra they will unlock it for you for free. Handy for frequent travellers.
"So, you don't believe in innovation on demand."

The demand for cleaner energy is here now. Lomborg wants to dismiss that. His argument is biting it's own head off.
Why not just have a binary tree of method calls with the leaf nodes containing your actual code ? - that way you could easily have as many methods as you wanted, and if it's auto-generated anyway it wouldn't be much extra work.
Password managers, social aggregators, etc. What other solutions to privacy are there?
Presumably, this still won't work on T-Mobile USA's 3G bands. Sigh.
The only situation you're targeting, then, is when a user intentionally logged out (in non-privacy mode) in the past (because otherwise they wouldn't have the half-cookie). Is it really desirable to log in them automatically in such cases? But then if they're clicking on the link in the first place, one might conclude that they desire is to log-in, so it's just added convenience.

However is it legal under the new EU cookie-act? I mean, after all, this is tracking outside of our website.
I've never synced my iPad at least. When I still used an iPhone, going from Bluetooth sync I had used between my Mac and various Nokia phones for many years to wires and iTunes felt like a really big step backwards.
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Why should developments in any area ever move at the same speed all the time? Think how long people travelled on horses and carts, and then how (relatively) quickly cars appeared.
I'm no good at US law.. So what happended here is that NYT got infringement notice from Lodsys and then took it directly to the court to have it establish that NYT does not infringe?

And they want it heard in Chicago, IL, since that is very the sole employee of Lodsys has residence?

Is the texas court system known for ruling in patent trolls, like Lodsys, favor?
Exactly. If you use an auto login cookie then the browser will not have the password, so for the sake of saving a user a small amount of time you'll inconvenience them in the long run, and discourage them from using the site.
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Isn't that the problem though? To get good at maths at that level, you just apply a bunch of memorised formulas or methods. It's not about discovery and finding your own approaches to solving a problem, it's about applying formulas and tricks.
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Right, because obviously a small business owner is going to be happy to tell some random journalist who phones them up, "Yeah, we did that third GroupOn deal because otherwise we weren't going to be able to pay the rent".

They'll make up some waffle that regurgitates GroupOn talking points in order to justify their actions to an outsider without giving away the fact that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy & if word gets out all their staff will walk.
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Perhaps we need two types of airliners one for the old and whiney, kind of like a retirement home in the sky... and the other for people with a sense of wanderlust...
Why is it that people support secret ballot, but not secret donation? Both are forms of political support, and making them public can in theory prevent people from expressing their true views. So why is the secrecy of one protected, but not the other?
I'm not a big fan of patriotism either but saying your proud of your country is basiclly what almost everybody in every country sais.
Possibly you could put things on hold for a while and return to it when you feel more capable of giving it some time. Is there a great rush to get to market or could you ignore it for a month, enjoy the occasionally nice weather were having and come back refreshed?

I'd have thought (although could be wrong as I've no experience of it) that selling a project in the state you describe will be tricky/impossible. I'd also assume one of the big issues with a video sharing service is the bandwidth required and hence potential costs of running such a service. Unless you've got a believable revenue model to cover the expected costs anyone buying your project is still going to be looking at further outlay before they might see revenue.

Sorry, a pretty depressing summary, possibly you know something I don't about your situation which mitigates some or all of the above. Seriously though, if there's not a real urgent rush. Take a break, recoup, and come back with a fresh perspective in 2 to 4 weeks. It may be time to chalk it up to experience or maybe things will still be able to come together for you when you're better placed to face the challenges.
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This seems like a false dichotomy. Wouldn't the smartest thing be to conserve and work on new technology at the same time?
Pardon me if I'm wrong but, they limited the game (number of monsters on screen) to be able to run 60fps on console. So they do make compromise for PC gaming just because they have to work about the console version also.

I guess the good news in that is that they will work for doom4 to run in30fps on console.
The moment the work in question has as many as one image (or video, for that matter), you obviously neeed to leave plain text. My humble and non-representative point is that text is generally best left plain. The written language is powerful enough to avoid all these devices, which soon enough can become distractions.
I think there are a couple of points that the article skips over:

1) The planet's human population is much greater than it was even 50 years ago (http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met_y=sp_pop_...) and continues to rise

2) We still don't fully understand the impact of widespread habit and species loss

1) is important because each person requires a minimum amount of energy, in whatever form, to sustain them, so we need to improve our technology year-on-year just to stay at the same level of 'resource drain'.

2) is important because the idea that the natural world will recuperate once we've developed more sympathetic ways of existing with it may actually be flawed. There is some evidence to suggest that the biosphere is a self-regulating system of which we are now breaking or removing many parts. Any such system, however resilient, can only stand so much of that before it collapses.

Of course technological development is crucial to our long term survival, but in my opinion this doesn't make short term fixes irrelevant.
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And animators, and modelers, and shaders, and special effects technicians, and the engineers that write the software they use, and the sysadmins that support their networks etc. The names on the movie poster are the tip of the iceberg.
When I read the title my initial thought was that "unlocked" was the official term for "jailbroken". It sounded too good to be true and, sure enough, it was.

The fact that the phone is not locked to any one network doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. I believe most telcos in Australia will unlock your phone for you for a fee.
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Curated does not just mean "people look after it." It also means that people make editorial choices about what belongs and what doesn't.
What a stupid idea. Maybe offer it for $2. Everyone appreciates you've got to eat!!
In France, operators are required to unlock your phone on demand and for free, 6 month after you bought it.
i'm not sure if you're alluding to something in particular or trying to make a joke.

but saying that its frowned upon to be proud of your own country (regardless of country), is to me, not a nice thing to say.
singling germany out forever because of past events is dis-ingenious.

i would say that anyone whose nose gets bent out of shape because a german says they are proud of their country probably needs to take a second look at germany, and then themselves.
and if a reporter is doing this, then it is most likely just stirring the pot
This discussion is seriously flawed. What free market proponents miss is that ALL markets are free markets. Even in communist Russia there was a free market. It was just that the cost for doing something not allowed by the government was incredibly high (like death penalty). The free market then would go on to produce the things, according to prices and demand. The black market is simply a part of the general "free market".

So there is not really any information contained in "let the free market regulate things". The environment (including politics) determines the actual prize of things. The free market then does the rest, but we still have to set up the environment in the proper way.

For example the price of wheat is not just what people are willing to pay for it - it is also the cost of producing it. You can not go artificially low with the price. Just to provide an example that is not so obviously affected by politics.
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Considering the number of NPD deputies who have lost their mandate because of fraud, embezzlement, theft, ... I would say that security is not exactly their primary concern.
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This allows you to serve more clients simultaneously, but not to serve any given client faster i.e. you get higher throughput but not lower latency.
Turns out transparent aluminium does actually exist: http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/151361,transparent-aluminiu...

Though I doubt they'll be making planes out of something explosive.
In the long run their actions are likely to be beneficial for both corporations and their customers. More attention will be paid to security now (at least for a while), instead of purely seeing it as a nuisance to spend the minimum time/money on. And programmers/sysadmins may be made more aware of how embarrassing it is to get owned by a local file inclusion hole. Or what that even is, as many "Web Developers" do not.

As customer (of Bethesda, both Sony divisions and Codemasters) I'm also being even more careful now. I only put information into sign-up forms on a need to know basis. If they don't need to ship me something, they don't need my address (although sometimes this interferes with credit card validation). If they don't need my real name (so other users can identify me, usually), they get a fake one. And there's rarely a good reason to hand out a phone number or birth date anymore.

In addition to this, for many years now I've been using one email address per service, which has served me well in both identifying sites that leak/sell my personal information (very popular after a company goes under) and easily filtering the resulting targeted phishing/spam.
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None of these has to be true.
Of cause I'm a bit colored on the subject since I once worked on visualSTATE (http://www.iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/371/1/) which is a graphical tool for state machines.
In fact I see state machines in pretty much all software projects but developers are so attached to their way of thinking that they have troubles adopting to new programming concepts.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652194

And as I write it's still on the "Newest" page, and it's made the front page.
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In Ireland, our situation is very much reflected in this, only that students must study some level of maths up to the Leaving certificate (A-Level).

The problem is that there is no real initiative to do higher level maths unless your course requires it. This means that there is a tiny proportion of students who take the higher paper. While most others sit an ordinary level paper, the difference in difficulty between the two is massive, and leads to a lot of people with a below useful level of maths, and universities must really be struggling.

Some initiatives have been started to make Maths a worthwhile option, by changing its worth to the overall mark, but the reality is that it is a subject that is largely rejected by the student body due to the fact that there is a "I hate Maths" mentality and the fact that the workload to do well is significantly more than other areas.
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Quite. My reaction to reading the Ars Tech article was 'I need a second opinion' followed by checking Zero Punctuation to see if a video was up yet.

If you are looking for a ZP review a genuine one isn't up as of this exact minute - there is a review of DNF on the site but it's a 'tribute' of sorts from September 2010. I look forward to Yahtzee's take on the real thing.
From 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640972

Much discussion there.
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A lot of issues like this will be overcome with iCloud's ubiquitous kay-value stores, but sorry those are native apps. This points out yet another way how the web is a broken platform.
I'm not sure this should be posted here where most won't understand the context.

In the UK (bar Scotland), if you plan to go to University, you do A Levels in 3-4 subjects between the ages of 16 and 18. This means you need to make key choices that go towards which subject you study at University at the age of 16. Many students either haven't decided on their degree subject or make uninformed choices.

To reflect that reality, Universities are loosening their subject admission requirements and putting the prerequisite material in the University course instead.

Personally, I believe that A Levels should be reformed to reduce early specialisation.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652387
Another reason why people might not sync their photos might be that there is no iPhone with more than 32GB of storage.
"Past performance is the best indicator of future performance." Technology has saved our sorry ass in the past, so it is likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.
"The working class have no country". Nationalism is just a way to consolidate state power, and breeds strife amongst nations. It inevitably leads to a us-and-them scenario. The sooner it is stamped out, the better.
It's not just patriotism and being proud of your country. It's the specific phrases. "Deutschland über Alles" (as in the original text of the hacker) is pretty tied to a specific era and best left alone as a phrase. Actually, "I'm proud to be German" as a phrase is tied to right-wing propaganda, too.

The Wikipedia article on patriotism has a nice statistic, although it's a bit old[1]. A few countries were asked how proud they were of their country, from a scale of 1 to 4. Most of them are in the 3 range (with the US leading with 3.92), Germany had a 1.37.

Again, this isn't really about what you want to express, it's how you do it. And a phrase like "Deutschland über Alles" is basically somewhat between "The South will rise again" and "White Power".

Personally, I find team jersey mentality like that a bit narcissistic, but if it floats your boat... But if you're about to improve the image of something, you shouldn't use the terminology of those you're opposing. That just makes it look like a battle between two equally wrong splinter groups of the same cause.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism
If you suffer from sinus inflammation, either from an temporary infection or a chronic condition, they do not open.

If you have problems in your ear, such as a perforated eardrum or an inflammation; you may still be able to equalise pressure, but it can be painful to do so.

Other genetic or congenital conditions exist that can prevent or hinder pressure equalisation.
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The irritations of travel can affect even the young, I've found, though when young I encountered a lot of them on Greyhound buses. And in middle age I find the airliners a lot more pleasant than the airports.
Why is it much more expensive (by around $200) in other countries?
You know - there is another very good reason why you don't want to be a dick to people. Because interestingly enough - people who are into power games and ego just won't respect you, and after they've had their fun making you feel small, they'll likely avoid and ignore you.

If you're consistent enough in not being a dick, eventually those that remain around you will also not be dicks and your life overall will be much more pleasant.

The dicks deserve one another - and more often than not, that's exactly what they will receive.