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My Users Say "No Thanks" to Free Money?
I do miss Occam. It was a good way of thinking to layout your program in steps with data moving through the system. Other, newer languages do the same thing but feel like they don't trust the parallelism in some ways ("here's how you write programs, oh yeah, this is how we do parallel").

I often think Occam and Forth / Postscript are the languages that made me think the most about what a program should be.
Man. I would hate to be Kit Kat... "gimme a break off that Kit Kat bar" or anyone else who has a series of words said in a semi rhythmic fashion...

So you got a few words stuck in your head. That doesn't mean it's part of a sinister plot to brainwash you. Occam's Razor.
While we never got it to production, we had a project based on the transputer in my first startup back in 1987 (a couple of naive high school kids in Denmark bootstrapping a high end workstation company).

Our plan was to use it to create a infinitely expandable workstation for both 3d and audio work. The design of the transputer was incredibly elegant, it was pretty much as easy to design with as a 6500 one chip computer and didn't require any extra support chips.

The Occam language was also pretty elegant for its time. It was essentially parallel Pascal. I don't remember it having any OO features, but the automatically parallelized looping constructs were unique for their time.
Wouldn't that create the reverse incentive for AT&T though? Jack up prices so that people get used to free iMessage but when get penalized heavy when they use those heavy messaging habits on someone without an iPhone?
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Domain-squatting parasites not interested in haggling, apparently.
That's not free money. That's a discount.
E-commerce is still less than 5% of retail sales -- huge growth opportunity
Fukushima now radiating everyone: 'Unspeakable' reality
Yeah, my thought when I saw that was "what a fucking eunuch".

If I had to choose between being known for who I am (which, I assure you, would lead to controversy rather than admiration) and being adored mindlessly, I'd choose the former. That's just me, and I'm quite happy having neither because it keeps my life peaceful.

This guy's parents fucked up if he really believes he can "have it all". Changing the world and being loved by the world (while living) are mutually exclusive. Jesus got crucified, Lincoln got shot, and so on and so on...
A Second Great Depression, or Worse?
How is that different from any other job application? The job will clearly go to the boss's nephew, who is totally great at computer stuff because he plays so much WoW. (Though it is a well known fact that the best middle management comes from Eve Online).

Seriously, you will generally want to look for people who are intelligent and good at abstract thinking. In my biased opinion, you should be shooting for the best humanities majors (In disciplines like English, music, philosophy and math), as the targets of such an apprenticeship. Not high-school graduates.

Until it catches on, your competition for employing them will be Starbucks and grad school which means they will be a steal compared to programmers trained at Stanford or MIT (TM). A liberal arts major would be pleased to be making 30-40k a year out of school. Also, you can always fire them if they don't work out.

If it then catches on, you might be able to expand to people who are interested in making programming a career, then you might be able to catch some of the

Currently, CS courses at top universities have very little to do with the business of actually programming, they are more based on mathematical theory. SE courses tend to look more like 'software engineering management.'

In each discipline, you learn important skills... but they tend to have very little to do with the craft of sitting down at a computer and making your thoughts into working code. (I have a master of science in computer science, I learned many things that made me a better coder, but the degree didn't teach me to code, work experience did).
Hum, yes. But based on what you have to do to get it, it's pretty close, no?
Here's how it would work:
You decide how many different friends and family you are going to send your secret message to, and how many of them will need to agree to unlock the message together. Let's say you pick 15 recipients and 8 need to agree. Then ANY 8 of the 15 messages can be combined to decrypt the secret.

No 3rd party service needed at all.

Couldn't you encrypt the results again with different numbers? So you could do interesting things like 'my wife AND (any 3 of 50 others)'
I've got around 50% followers to follow ratio...
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If you are interested in a production quality open source pathfinding library take a look at Recast/Detour. It's used in a number of AAA game titles and is probably one of the most robust implementations out there:
http://code.google.com/p/recastnavigation/

Full disclosure: the author works with me on Tinkercad, a web based solid CAD.
It didn't. Several people point this out in the comments.
I'm not a frequent Facebook user but I log in at least once a day. The first person on my list is a girl I am dating who is about a -2. I am the second person on my list also at about -2. About 30 more people have a negative number. The remaining people (about 500) are all a positive number. I don't even know who many of the people are at the bottom of my list.

It is interesting to note however that my brother is a frequent Facebook user and his first person on his list ranks at about a -26, and EVERY SINGLE person in his graph is assigned a negative number. Despite this, he still doesn't know who a lot of the people are on the bottom of his list.

Other things I noticed:
- Some people that I barely even know but just became friends with are ranking highly on my list. I imagine this is because I probably viewed a bunch of their pictures after being friends, combined with the fact that I don't often view profiles of people I am friends with.

- Some of my more recently added friends have the same exact value.

I wonder how much information could be extracted about the algorithm by creating a dummy community of people and connecting them together, then recording the results. I imagine much of the algorithm could be reverse engineered by this if anybody were up to the task. I will probably work on it if nobody else does and publish my findings.

EDIT: Explained what I was trying to say better, fixed grammar.
Don't panic yet. It still requires a trillion machines for billions of years to brute force.
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- in some circumstances if the destination is unreachable it might be desirable to still compute a "best effort" path to the node that is the minimal heuristic distance from the unreachable destination

This is actually very important, especially in RTS games! If you have a unit selected, and he's standing near the edge of a cliff, and you right-click off the edge (intersecting lower-elevation terrian), then the naive Astar algo would make the unit run away from your mouse cursor, because it would search the whole map for a valid way to get there --- however the player very likely wanted to get as close as possible to the edge, e.g. to attack an enemy he spotted.

(In other words, when pathing to different elevations, the the player almost always wants the unit to "run up as close as possible" to the edge, not try to find a valid path all the way around the map.)

It's actually a very tough/interesting problem, because it's probably impossible to "always do what the user intends in every situation" by merely looking at his mouseclicks.
I also find this story disturbing.
It seems to be about burning fossil fuels and eating dead animals, all for the amusement of a social media baron who reminds me of Jabba the Hutt for some reason.
This setup probably makes people feel like they're being bought. You can still buy their clicks, but you'll probably have to figure out a way to make them feel like it's all their idea.
If you don't think this is constructive criticism, don't ever build a product in a space largely influenced by engineers. You need thick skin to be a PM and get feedback from engineers.

Adobe could be learning a ton about their product from this response. If they say to themselves, "Those Developers just want to say, 'See, I told you! damn Adobe!'", they will have wasted a major opportunity to better their product.

Their target market is obviously not developers, and there is a lot of feedback here i would just chuck as interesting but meaningless to the product. There is some, though, that will directly impact whether an engineer will laugh when his non-tech friend asks about Muse or shrugs and says "It's not perfect, but if your needs are light, it'll work" (just like I was telling my father-in-law Dreamweaver would work for the genealogy stories cd he wants to make for the family).

Adobe needs to get the product to the second place.
I don't fully get it. Is that blog post basically a "Scala is so much cooler then Java" post?

I must agree that the "We want our language to do everything, and with everything we mean more SymtaX!" approach Java is driving at the moment is not very cool, though. They should continue to optimize for enterprise software and enterprise dimensions as this is what Java is quite good at.
As a fellow german, but not a Fachinformatiker, I suspect colleagues without a degree still have a hard time to work their way up into more advanced management roles or just into the higher income brackets. I wish that would not be the case though.

What I find intriguing, although I'm surrounded by "Programmers", almost no CS! We have physicist, mechanical engineers, mathematicians, historians and english majors even.
"why do poor middle Americans support policies that harm them in the short term?"

Actually, asking the question that way leads you to another answer; they believe the policies will benefit them in the long term. Some people may observe, for instance, that an extensive welfare state may have an apparently economic beneficial effect in strictly monetary terms for those on the bottom but that it has a very corrosive effect on almost every other social measurement. Or that the growth penalty you take in supporting the welfare state is complicit in itself keeping the welfare recipients poor enough to need welfare in the first place. Or an awareness either conscious or otherwise that a democracy can't survive long with the majority voting themselves benefits from a minority, regardless of what other arguments in its favor it may have.

This paradox is better phrased as "people are voting against what I think is their best interest, what gives?" in which case the answer immediately becomes obvious: They don't agree about what constitutes their self-interest. And given that they are where they are and you aren't, perhaps one might take at least a moment to consider a motive other than stupidity or error.
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I agree it felt a little spammy, but I'm so used to people online selling their mothers to save a few cents (think Groupon). Discounts are pretty much part of the American culture. Not this time, though.
> I'm a little unclear on what problem you're trying to solve.

So am I, actually, sorry. My initial thought was that a central authority (a host that might go down or bankrupt) could be avoided if I were to split my secret into parts, distribute them among my loved ones (telling them what it is about and that I trust them they'll not meet behind my back while I'm still alive), accompanied by instructions how it works. This way, there's no plain text of my super secret stored anywhere.

This solves the "my secret should be known by my peers when _something happens_"-issue. The "inform the others if something happens to me"-problem actually persists and for _this_ problem, a service like the one posted probably is a solution, sending out "the person has not been reachable for X days, please meet and uncover his secret"-mails to the peers.
One of the best decisions I ever made was to hire a high school dropout into a de facto programming apprenticeship.

The guy dropped out for family reasons, went to work in factories, got a job in IT eventually, but was really bright and hard working, but stuck in a dead-end help desk job. One of our other devs knew him and suggested we give him some programming projects on contract- like $10/hr. So we did. He did a good job, so we offered him an entry level job, working closely with the dev who referred him.

So he moved across the country on the promise of a $15/hr 6 month apprenticeship, and in that time, learned everything you'd hope about building a Java-based web app that handled a lot of traffic, and after 6 months he was full-time at full entry level salary. After a couple years, he became one of our leads. After we got acquired, he went on to the acquiring company, then joined another startup as their first employee.

But, I would not have taken the risk unless a) he had a sponsor, b) he had some distinguishing credential.

In his case, yes, he dropped out of h.s., but he was also taking AP Calculus at the time. To me that was a sign that was enough of a time that he had the horse power to making it worth taking a risk on him.
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a 24 ounce steak?? Only in the US of A :)

That's literally 3 times heavier than a large steak in the UK.
Elephant in the living room unmentioned in 1000 words: immigration.
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'my wife AND (3 of 50)'

You could take k=54 and give your wife 51 keys.
His evidence that he was treated as any other customer is that ... a robot retweets mentions of their restaurant, prepended by "Cheers!"?

He gets a steak. I get a retweet. Yeah, boy, Morton's treats all their customers the same.
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Hi All,
This is Joel, developer of awesome screenshot. I am so sorry to add the amazon search result in google search result page without info our users first. It's such a bad decision.

This additional features was designed to scratch our own itch. Because when I search some shopping items in google, I always want to check them in amazon at the same time.

In the spirit of transparency, we should disclose that this feature does bring small amount of revenue to us, which enables us to continue to improve this product.

Since so many users don't like it, we already updated a new version(3.2.1) to remove this feature.
IBM unveils chips that mimic human brain.
> Let's face it, the best experts aren't the ones who knows all the answers, but the ones who know where to look for the answers.

In many ways I feel like this is exactly what a degree in Computer Science or a related field gives you. Becoming an educated member of society isn't about learning the "correct" answers it is about learning to ask the right questions. It is about learning some questions outlive their answers. Universities enable students to glimpse the horizon of human understanding. A glimpse of the infinite unknown.

I understand people feel burned by: their experiences at university, hiring practices of corporations, poorly performing well credentialed hires, and the cost of education in general. However, let's not toss the baby out with the bath water here.

@brudgers said it best:

> Modern higher education has grown because it offers such a powerful solution to many of the problems created by apprenticeship particularly lack of equal opportunity, exploitation of apprentices, diversion of resources to training and away from profit making activities, and long term commitments to particular individuals who may not be suited for the profession.[1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899059
What is the point of thinking about it? I thought about it for a while, realized there was nothing to gain by focusing my mind on this topic, and haven't thought about it since.
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Can you explain your math a bit more? I find it difficult to believe that even a botnet can generate 72k USD equivalent per day.
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No, I didn't! Didn't know of it, although I should have gone looking for one.
Acc. to this article (http://blog.arpitnext.com/2010/08/googles-reply-on-chrome-ex...), Google does not review add-ons by third-party devs at all.

Which makes me think we shouldn't be installing any of them.
Works for this simple case, but I think iterating the procedure is more general. For instance, suppose there are 6 people -- A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, and you want it to be recoverable given any 2 of the A group and any 2 of the B group; I'm pretty sure that can't be handled with a solution like the above.
That's one hell of an SLA to commit to.
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Though only really useful to those who can read code/program themselves, I find the "Extension Gallery and Web Store Inspector" extension to be useful for this kind of thing. It gives you an omnibar icon when you're viewing an extension in the Chrome Web Store/Extension gallery which let's you view the actual permissions the extension is requesting, a list of Chrome API calls it makes and you can also go in and view the actual code of the extension. I tend to do this before installing any extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbamfloeabgknfklmg...
Potentially, but if so, it should be something which you'd have to opt into or open only for fellow developers.

The last thing I want is to get spammed with "bug reports" from lay users with trivial or non-existent issues.

If they implemented this but made it take even one extra step like flipping some switch in the settings, it would filter out most lay users and garner some more useful feedback.
> Edit: it also seems like a perfect target for hacking, as people may write information there that evil people could profit from greatly.

Also, law enforcement.
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Impressive to note that it can utilise the host's GPU if present. Nice touch, in an evil way.
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Heh. Is the phenomenon absent in those cases, or just weaker?
If you read his discussion of how it works, though, that's very much not what this is. What you're asking for doesn't even make sense, to be honest.

It's not about who you search or view. It's all just a big guess at who you might be interested in. From what I've gathered, it tries to find probable relationships based on all of these factors:

Comments, Likes, Tags, Events, Applications, Friends, and Work and Education data

Note that those are both your own comments, etc, and those of the people it's trying to relate you to. Who knows exactly how it combines all those to come up with its guesses, but I'm quite positive it has fairly little to do with who you're actually viewing (though I'll admit, maybe that's a small factor in there, too).
I think the inspiration came from quora.com.
I think the fact that he put "adored by society" as one of his values is admirable. Most of us do have unconscious values that conflict with what we think is correct, such as seeking validation, or ingrained views on money being good/evil that may not match our conscious reasoning. By writing everything down and acknowledging his values, the author is able to recognize that what drives him isn't necessarily what he wants to follow (see "conflict with truth") and is able to work around it.
The best way to get a response from someone you're trying to do business with is to laugh at them and then low ball them. Definitely.
I'm still peeved that Google Voice refuses to deliver MMS or even notify you that they won't be delivered. Right now they just drop into a black hole. That's what's keeping me from using it exclusively. There's no way I can tell all my friends and family, "send me SMS, but all pictures have to be emailed." they'll never remember.
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Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. I`m sure this will come back to bit him/her in the ass. DNACafe really isn't that great of a domain name, definitely not $10k worth of greatness.

To anyone here who has been/is a domain squatter - how many offers do you typically pass up on per domain (I'm sure it varies, so generalize)? Is there some sort of offer that you could not pass up on? Do you think this guy would even pass up on $1k. I don't understand the mentality behind it all.
> Only in the US of A :)

More like "only in a steakhouse." We USAians have normal restaurants, too; in those, a steak is 6oz or 8oz. Sometimes 12oz, if they're trying to be ostentatious about their large portion sizes.
Yes, domain-squatting parasites are the worth scum ever.

By the way, to french-speaking people: I've bought quite a few nice french-sounding SEO-optimized domain names and am willing to sell some of them for less than $10000 :-)
(Disclaimer: I used to be an intern on the BBP)

Here's the rationale for the Blue Brain Project and Human Brain Project (and I guess for this, but I'm not familiar with this work):

We understand a lot about how the brain works at the low-level (neuroscience, molecular biology, epigenetics, etc.), and a lot about how it works at the high-level (psychology, cognitive science, social sciences, etc.). But there's a big void in between where we know precious little, and don't really have the research methods to investigate well.

So the purpose of these projects is to bridge the gap using simulation. The hypothesis is that if you simulate the low-level parts in exquisite detail, the high-level phenomena should appear as emergent properties. If there's any difference, the hypothesis continues, then that implies that your knowledge of the low-level parts is incomplete.

The Blue Brain Project has had success in this matter; here's one off the top of my head: a couple years ago when they wired up the first neocortical column (a cylinder of brain tissue about 0.5mm x 2mm containing something like 10k neurons that acts as a unit in the mammalian neocortex), they simulated it over several seconds of real-time. They found that it showed a pulsing behaviour that bears a striking resemblance (in frequency and shape) to alpha waves visible on an old-fashioned EEG. Is it a coincidence? Possibly, but it's also very tantalizing.
If you control the message that goes with sharing such a link, that can be a deterrent. For example, even when I would have liked to share some Appsumo deals on Twitter I didn't because their own tweet link always has some really spammy annoying message, which you can't edit.

The other possibility is that you didn't have enough users to convert any.
Generally speaking the mortgage interest paid on your primary home is... but not interest paid on investment properties, or other types of loans, etc.
A non-zero baseline is fine in some cases (line chart of the temperature of a person with a fever for example), but the issues here were multiple charts at varying Y scale starting points, and bar size comparisons of a property that we do want to go to zero (zero failures).
I freely admit that we apprenticeship supporters wave our hands around a lot while yelling "apprenticeships! apprenticeships!" without providing necessary detail.

A lot of those details could be worked out along the way. I'd be more excited to see the supporters provide actual apprentice programs than details on how everyone should operate such a program.
use the source, luke.
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