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I'm on my third copy. Might mention I'm using Ubuntu with the newest Java update as well. Nothing against them game, it's awesome, but the bugs bug me.
Seems like it would take a bit of both. If everyone is at least comfortable enough, no one will violently revolt and risk losing it (Counter-examples?). Conversely, if everyone is impoverished who do you rise up against?
Once you start assuming malevolence for an action that can just as easily be explained by incompetence, you very quickly start to step into tin-foil-hat territory.
This might not be shared by others, but here it goes.

If your CLI program is a file-format conversion utility, please include a way to dump meta-data, header formats, etc. Don't just silently convert from A to B, allow me to get at the info you have gathered from the input.

For example, a binary disassembler SHOULD dump the executable header format. An spreadsheet converter utility SHOULD display how many sheets there are, if there are macros, how many rows, etc.

One of my pet peeves is pdftotext, a very nifty utility that I use to convert PDF reports to ASCII for subsequent awking. pdftotext has an option to specify start and end pages to extract, but it doesn't have an -i or --info option that tells me how many pages a PDF file has. So, my scripts have a very high upper-limit, like 1000, and it converts the file page by page, until the output text page has a size of zero.

Which reminds me, I should probably fork the fucker this weekend, now that I have some free time.
>One bystander wisely asks "How do you resist when they're on top of your back?

Convulsions from multiple tazering and hits into the head and spine. It is a catch-22 for the victim - police tazers you, you convulse, ie. resist, thus giving them plausible cause to tazer you more and/or in this particular case to hit your head, neck into the curb, etc... when they hit your head (or kidneys - they professionally trained and very experienced in how to hit you) the brain and spine nervous tissue shock make you convulse, ie. resist, ... loop continues.
Don't such forensic activities do a sector-for-sector copy of the original hard drive and work from there? So the access they need to the drive is limited to the time it takes to do an image copy.

So if by "duped drive" you mean an image copy, it is not useless.
There was a speculative bubble in the world real estate market. This led to a lot of real cash circulating (e.g. people refinancing to pay for kitchen remodels so that they can flip their home). That popped, and all the excess economic activity disappeared with it.

The article posits a broad trend. Short term boom and bust fluctuations will always happen.
Yeah most of my scripts use OptParse and I'm procrastinating the rewrite for newer versions of python. I think I may just use getopt, which isn't going anywhere, and roll my own extensions if I need them.
My answer would be that there is a time delay inherent to being human between wanting to do something and being skilled enough to do it.

If humans were required to learn, say, programming in a week, they would completely fail. Learning an industrial job in more than a decade to transition away from farming is much easier.

It could be that the skills needed to be employable are too difficult for people to learn in the time available. I think this learning time is fluid. It could be a function of cultural expectation of self reliance, for example.

What is funny is that plenty of roboticists point to an inflection point in the future when service jobs become displaced, which will dwarf these problems. The change will be bigger and the time to adjust will be smaller.
Far too deterministic.
>If you only read Gruber's posts, you miss context that may have been building in comments he makes in his linked list entries. In fact, Gruber has mostly avoided saying anything about Lodsys because he has been linking to others that he feels have said what he believes more eloquently, adding a small paragraph of commentary.

I think it's pretty normal to base criticisms of a blog post on the blog post itself rather than a complete reading of all of a blog's posts.
I think it checks the referral page you came from when clicking it and shows the {"is_fb_employee":"maybe soon? https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee...} when coming from HN.

If I open a new window and copy/pasta the URL, it'll say false :)
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How do I configure emacs to automatically insert prototype functions from .h when opening the corresponding .cc file?. Could someone please show me how to write this marco? I have already asked on stackoverflow but no answer so far.
Thanks, I should read that classic myself!
Fixing the economy will require more than entrepreneurs. I think it will ultimately require major socio-economic reform, possibly a conversion to Technocracy. Technology isn't just eliminating jobs, it's eliminating trade altogether.

I can replace my watch with a smartphone app. That means the watchmaker, supply chain, retail store, and clocksmith are all out of business. And 3D printers could be the next mega-disruptive technology. What happens to manufacturing of all kinds when we have Star Trek style repicators in our basements?

I'm just not convinced that entrepreneurship alone can combat the major macroeconomic changes that are coming.
It's refreshing to read about a judge giving a strong argumentation on a fairly technical subject.

If it comes to the point where Oracle will have to show which patents are being infringed, I wonder how they will hold up under the light of scrutiny.
I think the difference between today, and the past is the rate of change, and the barrier of entry for a displaced worker to move. The industrial revolution happened over decades, but the digital revolution happened in just a few years. People are being displaced first by 3rd world countries, and second by machines which is faster than they may be prepared to deal with. Additionally they may not be capable of making the jump. Its easy to take a farmer and place him in a factory. However it is slightly more difficult to take a factory worker, and put him in a web development shop.
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Cornell = 400k, MIT = 700k, NYU = 800k, BU = 900k, Princeton = 1100k, UC Berkley = 1200k, Tulane = 1300k, Georgetown = 1400k, UVA = 1500k, and then I got bored.

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This sounds like a trick question to get people to debate "What, really, is a functional programming language?"

And it is Shark Week. :)

The problem with your question(s) is that I don't know what your question really is. Are you asking for the pros and cons of Haskell and Lisp? Are you asking which is "better"? Absent any other info, we're left wondering "Better for what?"

Are you just asking if people usually have a hard time selecting any specific language for a project because there is a choice of languages that are both appropriate but different in interesting (and possibly significant) ways?

Anyways, absent any other details, I'm just gonna say Haskell. :)
I don't understand. If they're proxying requests, what would this variable ever be used for? This is at an endpoint for a client or their javascript to consume (or just as a recruiting-marketing tool). That would be redundant if they're proxying requests and insanely silly if it's the only way (instead of proxying) that they flex new features on... as they'd be visible in the javascript and it would be trivial to spoof the response to be "yes".

I have no doubt that their internal employees or a subset of them are using a different build of Facebook, and maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this is related.
... and which way do you take that; that, because we're not horses, we're ok? Or, that horse-skilled people can indeed be left out forever?

(It's possible; see this on the US' Supplemental Security Income (SSI):

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/the_terrible_awful_tr...)
Advising philosophy of a professor. 
What have your interactions been for professors as advisers?
Yikes. Thanks.
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This is huge! How stable is it currently?
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Very interesting. Are you suggesting horses play the part of Tyler Cowen's Zero Marginal Product workers in the Industrial Revolution?

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/07/zer...

Also, if you remember where you saw that point specifically, I'd love to read it.
>But why now, when it hasn't in the past?

One might well ask, why not now ?

Given a(t)t, where a(t) = rate of new jobs created per year

-b(t)t, where -b(t) = jobs lost due to technology per year

Problem is, the function a(t) is stable and predictable over time, because human populations are generally sigmoids ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_growth )

Whereas the function b(t) feeds on itself ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregression ) If you deploy technology, and said technology is successful, you then deploy more of that technology, which is then more successful, and so on...At each step, b(t+1)>b(t).

Take a decent time window...say going back 50 years, for which we have reliable data for a(t) and b(t). Run the simulation. You will posit that '-b(t)t' beats 'a(t)t' at some point in time 't'. Why should t be 2011 ? Well, why not ? The curves have to meet up someplace. Might as well be 2011 :) However you slice it, they will intersect and from then on you will get net negative jobs at some point of time. Whether that's 2011 or whenever is immaterial.
I'm not trying to be snarky, but I did not know the Manhattan Project used (non-human) computers in any significant way. None of the documentaries/specials I've seen have mentioned any use.

Would you care to enlighten me?
That mostly works (doesn't on my iPod), but I'd like to see the other videos and, maybe, subscribe to their content stream.

Anyway, thanks. I already had downloaded it to my desktop, but it's very useful for those who didn't.
Right, well put ... and to the bystander's credit, he was asking the question rhetorically. But you're right: basically your own death throes become "resistance".

And to answer my own question: I'd like to think I'd step forward as a witness, even though it might mean a few years of harassment.
yup you are right. I guess I slipped when I was typing in the calculator to check the figures. That's what I get for rushing to write a comment before eating. oh well thanks.
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One answer, and I don't know if this is the right answer, is that unlike in previous revolutions, a new class of jobs has not been created to (fully) replace the jobs that are being displaced. In the industrial revolution, farmers could move to the city and get a job in the factory. In the (first) information revolution, factory workers could become telephone operators. But as Tyler Cowen notes in "The Great Stagnation," jobs in the software industry are relatively few compared to the number of jobs that are being eliminated in other fields. It's unclear what new class of jobs would fully compensate for the loss of, say, many unskilled labor jobs to automation.

A second answer might be that we're only now fully realizing the effects of globalization -- outsourcing, moving factories to China, call centers to India, etc... due to the advances in telecommunications and whatnot. Perhaps there was an underlying structural shift as early as the 90's, but we were coasting on the housing boom. I recognize that that's a rather hand-wavey argument. IANAE.
It's similar to saying that having expendable bullets and grenades is OK until you use the last one while still on patrol. Solution: preparing for it by taking more. Knowing that they're designed to fail/be repaired easily changes the approach. The argument I'm trying to make is that it would be cheaper/lighter/more_versatile to get many expandable droids than to get one robust and universal.

Also, highly-adapted droid != highly-adaptable droid. There is no need for an amphibious droid in Afghanistan, just like one doesn't use the same apparel in all climate zones. As long as interface/principles are the same (like a PC), various versions of it can be used in (almost) any environment without extensive re-training.
They cannot get at the plaintext without a certificate warning (or installing a certificate in the user's browser beforehand).

Which will get clicked through anyway, so, uh, the security is kinda moot. =)
Nobody uses that library anyways.
They store which ISP you were using and your general geolocation. If you're living in the middle of nowhere and your ISP is "Bob's Internet and Shoe Emporium", then I could see it being a bit of a problem.

Geolocation isn't an exact science though, as anyone who has ever seen an ad saying that beautiful people in <reasonably close, yet still hilariously wrong city> want to meet you can attest, and the more disparate the ISP, the more wrong it becomes, since in most cases you only really have "this IP block belongs to this ISP" to go on.

You can get a court order to use this information to force Google to give you information that can be used to identify you with your ISP, but your ISP already has a lot more information on you anyway.

If you're really paranoid that Big Brother Google is keeping an eye on your internet habits, then you should fire up Tor and put the IP address for howtooverthrowtheusgovernment.com in your hosts file.
I have a sneaking feeling that you're worrying about a micro-micro-micro-micro optimization here. I'd suggest spending your energy worrying about developing a top notch product, figuring out what your story is, and writing some compelling prose to tell that story, etc.

That said... go for Thursday. Thursdays are cool.
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If you don't have a facebook account, it assumes you're smart enough to go to engineering.
I can't think of a single case where wealth disparity alone has been sufficient to cause civil unrest, massive or otherwise.
I think you mean the Bletchley rail station - MK Central is some miles away.
One of the ideas in the theory of government is that it exists to have a monopoly on violence and so forth. It's murder if you do it once, it's not if the state does it a few hundred thousand times.

To an extent, police abusing power and inducing fear in the populace is "working as intended" if it keeps the state in power. But our ideals tend to be such that we think the state should function with greater respect for human rights and individual freedoms.

Also, these wahoos are just a bunch of loose cannons. It's embarrassing the state, not serving it.
Interesting. One of the hits to your blog was me looking to see what your credentials might be so sorry to inflate them by a factor of two.
This article really made me question the way we are doing things in our startup. Our product is relatively complex and I have written a lot of looong technical explanations for it.

In any event, this article made me wonder whether I am saying too much. I wonder whether all the long explanations I am writing are somehow turning people off, and if we would be better off having a short explanation and asking people to contact us.

In any event, just in case you are wondering, here is our cite:

extremetcp.com

Note this site is only a mockup we made. We have not officially launched yet and are still having a proper web designer and graphic artist design a proper website for us.
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As someone with technical knowledge and no purchasing power, I dislike talking to salespeople and technical people. I just want the name of a product that I can recommend to my boss. I want that datasheet.

I recently tried to recommend a great product to my boss. I had used it in a past job, and I knew what company made it, but I had no idea what the actual product was called. I didn't want to waste my boss's time, so I tried to do the research on my own and figure out what specific product I was looking for.

Their website wasn't very helpful, it was filled with generic product names and an amalgamation of SEO-friendly keywords and the word "solution". I emailed them to find out which product I was looking for, and next thing I knew I was on a sales call. Then I was on a sales conference call. Then they popped in for a sales meeting, even though I never told them my company's address.

I came away with a vague idea that their products were both nameless and probably very good. I explained it all to my boss; he took a pass.

I could've saved everyone a lot of time if I just had that comprehensive datasheet.
I am not sure I agree with the author, but it seems to me that previous progress have chiefly made things faster (travel), cheaper (e.g mass production), lighter (computers), more accurate (measurement instruments) and more durable (steel versus iron versus stone).

Right now the IT industry is mostly making things cheaper and to some degree faster (you no longer have to wait until the next days paper to get to know what happened yesterday) however most of what is produced are final goods and there is only so much of the which can be consumed; whereas the amount of steel you might use if it were free is likely to be many thousands of times higher than today (since manufactures would use it everywhere they could) you aren't going to read even 50 newspapers a day if they were free -- you don't have that much time.

The same is the case with games and television -- you don't have the time to play more than a few hours a day at most so it doesn't matter whether Farmville is much cheaper than going to the chinema.

So the only way it seems different to me this time around is that today most of what is produced falls under my self created economy of final goods whereas previously much of the innovation and improvement has happened earlier in the value chain.

One notable exception to this seems to be open source server software (and computers in general, although they now seem to be much faster than the average person needs) which makes it much cheaper and easier to start a tech company (indeed patio11 famously spend $60 on bingocardcreator.com) but at the same time these companies also typically makes a lot less money than the companies they disrupt.
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Ah, the conference is called "Black Hat". They mean "a hacker who was attending Black Hat".
I wish this told me how does Google uses R to make online advertising more effective.
Best line in the story "At Grumpy’s, employees said there are no laptops allowed, period." Why am I not surprised?
You'd think people were born 10 years ago sometimes.
I'm old enough to remember the last two recessions (just), and both times these same ideas were propagated in articles and books and pub talk.

Don't confuse a contraction of investment with "the end of human labour", and then find a correlation with changes in technology. It's fallacious reasoning.
"What a shame you're not that good a teacher."

Wow, that student was kind of a dick.
I think it comes down to logistics.

Up till now, you couldn't really outsource the job cheaply enough. Now, it's cheaper to build something on the other side of the world and ship it here.
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DRM is one thing, an encrypted wireless protocol is another. Think using WPA with user- or factory-settable keys to talk between the base/elements (I'm not sure how insulin pumps work).
The point of an OSS printer isn't just for cheap supplies. I'd love to hook a printer up to an email server so that I could send it PDFs and it would just print. If I had an OSS all-in-one printer, I'd probably hack the scanner to email me PDFs of documents that I scan from the ADF.
I really hope they don't use this to autopilot cars. That seems completely reckless. If a terrorist happened to get an LED flashlight that disrupted the transmission of whatever light signals were going to the autopiloted cars, there would be chaos. It would be so easy interrupt these signals.

Thinking more about it, any signal "controlling" an autopiloted car would be insecure and be an easy exploit that any malicious-minded people could take advantage of. But that's a discussion that's besides the point.
Australia has record low unemployment, and consistent growth since the GFC. (Largely due to the resources boom driven by china)

N.B Australia's whole economy is worth about the same as the U.S's debt.
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Am I missing something? All I get is "Unknown or expired link." when I open the link.

On a side note, sounds dirty.
Between 1.4 and 6.1B. That shows Oracle only valued sun for it patents it could use against people like Google (they paid 8B for sun)
Your question ("why not now?") dodges pg's main point: we've been through this many times before, and the catalysts behind this recession (especially poor financial liquidity) do not suggest a material, structural shift in the type of work available in our economy. The housing market is poor and businesses are hesitant to invest, but robots have not replaced the pimply kid at McDonald's just yet.
They used IBM machines with punch cards to do (what were then) large numbers of automated computations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM#1939-1945:_World...

Feynman often used to rib Danny Hillis about Computer Science being a fluff field, since he'd already done all that stuff using primitive machines back in the 40's.
I would imagine pretty good or Oracle wouldn't have brought suit.
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Light bounces off of objects, and so this may not be true.
FTA: "Square’s card reader dongle doesn’t use encryption or authentication." Really? That's surprising.
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I have been seeing a good proportion (~ 3%) of my monthly visitors coming from Google/organic and all have been typing in the name of my app...i.e. compversions, or compversions.com.

So I am wondering if this is an anomaly or normal?
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IAAE, so I'll address this: jobs are not being "displaced" or permanently "eliminated" right now. There's a simple, plausible explanation for all of this:

1. Businesses are hesitant to invest in capital.

2. The housing market is terrible right now--especially housing starts.

3. Jobs related to #2 and #3 generally go to lower-skilled workers. They're the ones who are struggling right now (with something like 16% unemployment for men without a HS diploma).

This isn't the end of the American economy, people. Demand is low for goods produced by low-skilled, American-based labor. Things will improve with time.
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