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I agree with both of you but feel compelled to weigh in:

1. Although you recognize political problems, you're not about to become a politician to fix them: The best way to solve a lot of these problems might be from the inside. But, politics has got to be the worst field to go into. An offhand comment can end your career. Best case scenario, a lot of people will hate you for making decisions. A right decision for some will be an absolute wrong decision for others, and vice versa. And let's say you try to go your career supporting the underdog... the underdog often doesn't have any money and you need money to campaign... and you might say, "you shouldn't need a lot of money to campaign", but let me ask you this: if it's not money you need to campaign, then what should it be?

2. Has there ever been a time when those in power don't get extra privileges for supporting causes that benefit their [monetary] benefactors? I think it's important to at least acknowledge that never before in history has there existed a time when political favors of some sort are not divvied out in exchange for monetary favors. It just seems to me that for every law that people create to stop this, the money finds a way around it. But, if you're going to design a better system, what would that even look like? I'd say, you're better off designing around this concept than working against it.

3. Most people don't care, they never have, and they never will: Seriously, not to be too extreme, but I really think there's truth in this and it's baked into the human race and the practice of democracy. For an extreme example (and to include the nazis) I remember thinking about Germany in the 30s: Why didn't people get out when they had a chance? Pick up and leave when they saw doom sweeping the nation. And the answer, I think, is because that was where home was and it happened gradually enough. For people to leave everything, to admit to themselves that "They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore!" it takes a certain personality that most people simply don't possess. It takes, I think, the same personality that says things are bad when things are actually good. Put it this way: if we lived in a total utopia, you'd still be pointing out problems (as would I). Most people wouldn't, nor would they really know they're living in a utopia. They'd just be getting on with their day and hoping nothing truly catastrophic happens to them or theirs.

So, for these reasons, I think things will continue about as they have, with the caveat that the internet has made things a bit more transparent and I think more people in general are becoming aware enough of the issues around to write about it and affect change in some small way. Still, that won't change things all that much.
Wait, all he had to do was report the guy's name, address, and photo to the police, and they got the computer back for him? It sounds like the London Metro Police are a lot better than the ones in, say, San Francisco.
Would be great if Starbucks took up on the theme and made a card designed for sharing but allowed the creator to define a single purchase limit. I don't think a system like this could ever be completely locked down to abuse but at least it could take away the gift card thing.
Really? My experience with Apple stores has been so consistently terrible (long wait times WITH an appointment, techs that can't do anything but send it away for a long wait) that one reason I'm going back to a Thinkpad is the overnight mailers Lenovo drops off when you need something fixed.
I think that is overstating the negative. You basically are going to get significant coverage improvements for TMO and ATT customers, and the cost will be potential price increases due to decreased competition. As an ATT customer, I really want the Tmo bandwidth. I'll take the risk.
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You have got to be fucking kidding me. Grow up.
You honestly think BART is part of your contract with AT&T/Verizon?

You honestly think when AT&T/Verizon inhibits your cellular service, your constitutional rights are being violated? You are aware that a private party cannot, by definition, violate your constitutional rights, as they are only protection from government, not private parties?

When you have a mortgage on your home, you own your home. It is simply used as a security, which means if you cease payment it will then no longer be your property. In any case, as your home is not a transmission vector for your speech, unlike air/radio/newspaper, ownership is irrelevant to free speech. However, if you do not own the home, damn straight you don't have the right to assembly there, any more than your neighbor has the right to assembly in your living room.

You are trying to sneak "communication" in with "speech". Communication is not a right. Recall that the First Amendment has been alternatively dubbed "Freedom of Expression".

I really wish folks would cease with this bandying about how everything should be a right. It is especially ridiculous when it is declared that a service provided by a business is a right, and it makes me wonder if many people are actually familiar with the Bill of Rights. It's hard to imagine you could be, and not understand how fundamentally different those wonderful 10 are from things like cell service and internet.
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Awesome! I've been looking forward to the day I'm no longer relying on "experimental" C++0x support! Here's a smaller tl;dr for those who want it:

-foreach loop

-first-class rvalue ("temporary") types

-lambda functions + closures

-implicit typing (auto keyword)

-decltype(), getting "declared type" of any expression

-variadic ... templates

-expanded STL -- incl. threading and RNG's

-construction from C-style initializer list

-Unicode literals

-enum class that doesn't auto-decay to int, enums with configurable base type

-explicit strong nullptr constant; no more NULL macro nonsense

The rest of the stuff is (in my opinion) less general/noteworthy.
This. Really. As long as you are still genuinely passionate about it everything else will take care of itself ;]
I think you missed the point of the leaked letter. It claims that AT&T could have gotten the relevant coverage improvements for roughly 1/10 the price of the merger ($3.8 billion vs $38 billion). Why is AT&T willing to pay the extra $34+ billion? Taking out a key competitor seems like the obvious motive.
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Waiting for TC++PL 4th Ed. now.
At that time, I kept a physical log of all URLs I saw (by hands, even very long ones!), just in case I needed to visit the web site. I still have it but the addresses are no longer valid. :)
> Node gets a lot of attention despite
> not doing much of anything new

Most people close to the project (Ryan, me, Mikeal, Felix, etc.) are usually pretty quick to point out that node does virtually nothing that hasn't been done before. Async IO is not new. Event loops aren't new. IOCP isn't new. JavaScript isn't new.

If anything, node's success so far has been a result of combining established technologies in ways that make it easy for more people to write reasonably fast programs that use the internet in fun and interesting ways.

Novelty isn't really what it's all about. If anything, I look at novelty as a hazard. Most ideas are bad, and it's hard to tell when they're new. If you can take some existing good ideas, and make them more fun, that tends to be a more successful strategy (or at least a more enjoyable one.)
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No. Node is a lower-level API than Twisted.

The "fibers" utility is quite popular. There are also several different promise libraries, and a few code-translation approaches that simulate coroutines.

They all build on top of the very simple EventEmitter and continuation-passing-style ("callback") style that the node-core API uses.

As a JavaScript luddite, I prefer passing functions around and listening to events :)
I find it cool and potentially very useful. Good luck guys.
I think so, but I don't see how the two amounts would logically be related, so I presume that is a coincidence.
Of fucking course it can be both a social experiment and a good will fund. It's a fucking social experiment about a good will fund for crying out loud.

You people are really starting to stretch, what is really going on here? Do you hate coffee? Starbucks? People who drink at starbucks? People with money? People who aim to show that most people are basically good? What is it?
@genieyclo I would love to know the results that you compile. We run a startup: recruiterbox that helps startups manage their hiring process. Please let me know. Thanks! Raj
Let's not overgeneralize by lumping everyone into a single "financial industry" - really some sectors like banking are highly regulated while others (like hedge funds) much less so. Despite high bureaucracy, the financial industry as a whole isn't effectively regulated in terms of the types of financial instruments that are traded. Hence our problems with massive underwriting of mortgage-backed securities.

The financial industry has too much bureaucracy and paperwork - not enough sensible regulation and with that I'm 100% in agreement. Why not treat financial instruments like drugs are treated by the FDA? Each new financial instrument would need to be studied, approved, and it's distribution controlled for the public benefit. We could reduce reporting burdens for financial houses, but increase common sense controls on the types of securities that actually serve a public benefit. That would be my vote.
Hmm a vague OS reference and the generic "Apple laptop" instead of just saying what model it is, as there haven't been that many.

I have a feeling this wont be your last Apple because there probably was never a first one. Or you don't want to admit you're talking about a PPC PowerBook which is over five years old at this point.
I think there's validity to your argument, but you come across as a bit arrogant. A few comments to your post:

>The CS profs make a mess out of math.

Properly done CS _is_ maths. Maybe most of it is not in the branches you're interested in, but the core of CS is maths (think Turing, Church, Von Neumann, Codd, Hoare, Martin-Löf, etc.).

>it's a strain to call 'flows on networks' computer science.

I've always heard it called part of operations research, which happens to be an rather useful field to teach CS students. Yes, it is taught at probably a very basic level, but it is still useful as taught. And saying that:

>So, CS wants to hijack flows on networks. Not really good.

is disingenuous at best. Actual networks, like the one you're using now to post about your discontent with CS are basically run on computers, and are, not surprisingly, part of what CS people worry about. There's a whole field of very applied CS that's a direct application of some basic operations research results.

>For both teaching and research, CS needs to clean up its act in math.

In a general sense, yes, it would be good. Maybe you also need to read some better CS stuff?

>I have an example: Some years ago I took a problem in practical computing and derived some new probabilistic math for a solution.

You go on to rant how editors of CS journals weren't smart enough to understand your paper. That might well be the case, but it is obvious that you were not any smarter, sending a paper which is pure maths in nature to several CS journals, when the "problem in practical computing" was merely an application of your result, and not the main point of your paper. If you were a physicist working on some very deep results of quantum mechanics that happen to have a direct application to, say, molecular biology, you would still send it to a physics journal, not a biology journal, wouldn't you?

>Here's what they need to do:...

That's a good plan for learning a bunch of maths, not CS.
Atomic operations (atomic ind/dec) can still cause major performance issues because depending on the architecture it can cause a lot of bus traffic and cache invalidation which can greatle increase memory pressure for previously cached operations.. a better solution would be to use a more cache friendly counter that puts multiple counter on different cache lines and lazily reconciles them so you only need to synchronize one out of n operations, the problem is that this can cause a big increase in memory usage so its only suitable for highly contended locks. The ideal situation would be for the intepreter to analyse contended locks and then switch to this approach only when neccesay. The technique is called sloppy counter and has been used in linux smp kernels.
Don't forget the auto keyword.

The question is, how long before I can actually use this stuff?
I think she was being sarcastic. But yes, it does make MongoDB look good (as in, better than Redis, not just 10X the speed of CouchDB) in stupid benchmarks.

MongoDB is designed to be fast by default, which I like. But it can bite you.

I like its speed, and its interface, binary data (which saves disk space), and documentation. I'm not sure if it's data structure is sound though. I'd really like something with CouchDB's append only log, and MongoDB's interface (fast and easy), rich updates, and documentation.
Well, as IANAL - I used the word implies as I am not 100% positive...

However, I would propose this is one example where the populous needs to start exerting their opinion on how these things should be interpreted. We are far to reticent to express our view and too complacent in accepting the position of the government in matters where it is critical that we remind the government that this is a REPRESENTATIVE democracy and as such, our views must be properly represented.

I am reminded of when I had a dispute with my home owners association about a ridiculous rule whereby I was precluded from putting up anything other than white curtains in my townhome.

The rule stated that the externally facing view of any curtains must be white. Which is what I had.

The complaint came that due to me having gold colored curtains on the interior side of my windows, at night, when the lights were on - they could tell these were not white.

They attempted to fine me. We battled for months. I went to several HOA meetings and was confronted with an opinion that "these are the rules, we do them to uphold the property values of the community" -- I emphatically reminded the HOA that not only was this argument ridiculous that WE were infact the HOA and thus WE should change the rules to not be so "fucking retarded".

I ended up winning - but the lesson was that bureaucratic authority applied unnecessarily begets mediocre minds reaching for abuseable power.
Such a person is acting within the anticipated and accepted guidelines of the experiment. People put in money knowing and expecting people to do exactly that. When Sam Odio took money from the card he was taking it for reasons not intended by the people who put it in. Therefore, unlike proposed but actually non-existent person that drinks $600 worth of coffee in a week (give me a fucking break), he is stealing.
auto falls under "implicit typing". Clarified this.

And we've been able to use a lot of C++0x for a while now:

http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
He's like the kid who destroys other kids' sandcastles to show that they were not so awesome after all. What's not to hate?
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Familiarize yourself.
I did both. What is your issue?
I'm guessing it would be one of the Intel Core (not Core2) Duos - the first edition Intel Macs. Those won't work with Lion, as they are 32 bit. But it's still quite old.
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BART is not under contract or obligation to provide you with cell phone service. They offered this as a convenience to their customers, nothing more. They are well within their right, in my opinion, to not provide it. Just because people got used to it doesn't mean it's automatically a "right" of theirs now. (I could go off on a rant about the overly developed sense of self-entitlement that seems to be running rampant, but I won't).

And there is no obligation on their part to provide access to 911. I'm sure there is some requirement for them to provide emergency assistance, but that doesn't mean passengers being able to call on their own.

If anything, I see this as being the end of their deployment of repeaters altogether. "We tried to be nice, people got upset, it became a political shitstorm, so we'll eliminate the problem and remove them so there are no future issues."
It was kind of lame that I couldn't read LessWrong on my commute home. I really enjoy that part of my day.

Otherwise, yeah. The comparisons to Egypt are a little over the top. It's awesome that cell phones work in the Bart tunnels at all.
martythemaniak is claiming that the dominant thinking about the iPad/tablet is wrong. Pointing out that the Wall Street Journal has repeated the dominant thinking by reporting someone's opinion doesn't actually address the charge.

It actually reinforces the part of martythemaniak's claim about the thinking being dominant. Many who say thing like "There is no tablet market, but there is an iPad market." also claim that the conventional wisdom is that Android tables vs iPad will be a repeat of Android phones vs iPhone, so I think that is an interesting detail.
This is a very good question, I'd like to know the answer myself.
Definitely a brave man. It's a bittersweet award for me (Medal of Honor) because most of the recipients died in the line of duty. I'm really glad that this corporal did his duty and made it home to receive the honor in person.
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That's not the problem, the app being closed source and being able to do whatever it wants with my data is the problem.
I want to vote on every point, a bit of needed natural ego/pride (1, 2 & 3). I want to help people (4). I need my techs (5,7). I need security (6). I really enjoy doing stuff (8)
Why the MBA is better: faster CPU (meh), waaaay better screen (the 11" is the same resolution as the 13" MBP), big trackpad, nice keyboard, and nice speakers.

OK, it's also sexy, but who gives a toss?

And I've been unable to find a reasonably priced PC laptop with an SSD (when I last looked, the only Sony ones with SSD are the MacBook Air clones and the top-of-the-line business and gamer models), so that means swapping a hard drive. Most people don't swap hard drives in laptops.

I don't care about thinness and aluminium casing. I just care about the weight, battery, screen, keyboard, trackpad, and SSD. Apple is the only one that really delivered when I was looking, about 6 months ago.
This was a great article. It's so easy to assume that there is a process that will get you to your goal. The goal is the goal and you alone need to figure out how to get there. Any proven process is a valuable tool but is not the focus of efforts.
Having seen start-up occupying warehouse-sized spaces with plastic foldable tables set up next to one another filling the whole space, there are values of "open space" greater than your typical cube-divided office space.

That office layout, and some technical problems (said shop's first Google result was of a quarter-million passwords compromised by way of a developer's poor password choice, neglecting to use RSAkey auth, and, well, cleartext storage of user passwords), were chief among reasons I declined any further interest in the opportunity. It still ranks high among horror stories I've personally witnessed.
Don't forget Job's presentation of the building to city officials (good video to watch):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2632158
Does your i7 PC have an SSD drive in it?
I concur.

What's telling too is that people who want to get work done in such an environment stay home to do it.

Including the zealots.
It's awesome that cell phones work in the Bart tunnels at all

Upvote this man (and give me some downvotes if it balances things out for you). Too few see the world this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
There are a lot of books on the kindle store which are free, so you could do that.
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Now Sony is copying Tesla's fabled "Tower of Power":

http://www.damninteresting.com/teslas-tower-of-power/
Games Factory

http://www.clickteam.com/website/usa/the-games-factory-2.htm...
All in all a brilliant experiment illustrating the possibilities and pitfalls of social gifting. This is something a company like Foursquare can improve on.
Echoing joelthelion, I wonder: is this just a service selling you access to Tahoe-LAFS? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to just install Tahoe yourself instead of paying them and worrying about whether their version of the code is less secure than the publicly audited version?

(Actually, even if not. Why would you pay someone to have access to your own files on your own computer?)
Godwin's Law isn't a value judgement; it's merely an observation. It's neither good nor bad that a comparison to Nazis or Hitler is likely to occur in any sufficiently-lengthy online discussion.

(Though people may use it as a sign a conversation has jumped the shark, it need not be.)
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It's not clear to me why some people seem so keen on seeing a single tablet seller. History has shown numerous times how monopolies are bad and how competition benefits the consumer immensely.

The tablet market is new and still mostly luxury. I wouldn't place any bets right now, even considering Apple's head start.
> I am surprised at the hate against Sam Odio.

His surname, in Italian, means "hate" or "hatred".
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This is really cool, I had a similar idea last year but it only got as far as registering a domain (auctionyourtime.com--nothing there...) and building a prototype over a weekend. The primary reason I ditched it was I just didn't see enough money there (for the business) and also thought the auction prices would end up too low to attract quality people to put their time up for auction. Are you going to stick with the "one at a time" format you have now? Really cool concept because I for one would happily pay a lot for quick access to experts on certain niche topics. (Currently I just cyber-stalk experts and offer money if it makes sense...)
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I say this is great news.
A lot of the new stuff really does make C++ both nicer to use and a good deal safer, and it will be interesting to see more boost-y style of C++ become widespread.

Also glad they waited and went with C++ 11, and not C++0x which sounds like a l337 speak swearword.
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This is why cell phones need the ability to create a transparent mesh network.
If I knew, I would have worked on it or shared the idea here.
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I know that. But God is not X. It is not a question of native language but culture. I'm worried that it might completely miss the message with people of different culture. Would it refer to Allah and some people, probably many in the USA, would suspect him to be a terrorist and hate him for using publicly such reference.

I'm not of any strongly polarized culture. I'm just sensitive to respect people of different cultures. Some of them may consider reference to God as offending.

I don't want to give more importance to this than it deserve. This thread is turning Reddit like and reaches the opposite result I wished. I just wanted to draw attention to it and if some people did, than it was worth the loss of the karma points.
Samsung Series 9 are damn sexy but they don't come cheap. For Linux, a Macbook might just make more sense.
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In early times when your loved one family member and friends went abroad for their earning, the only possible source for knowing their condition was through their letters and it took ages to communicate via letters.