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I find complex systems with a lot of variables interesting and "hack worthy." Economics is one such. The human aspect and outcomes of the "hack" appeal as well.
There are thousands of things that are rough in life or that can be improved, yet one constant complaint I hear about startups nowadays is that they're solving web2.0 problems that move text or images from one screen to another.

To fix things, you first need to hear about the process, to learn intricate details about it, how people end up in these situations and what's at stake. Only then you can become passionate about solving issues that don't involve screens, keyboards and mouses. Do we know it's rough? Yes. Do we understand their issues and have ideas how to fix this? I doubt many of us do.

In my country, if you're late for 90 days with your mortgage payment, one specific bank transfers your debt to another entity which sends you a letter requiring you to pay the entire debt within 1 year or they'll foreclosure on you. I wouldn't have found this today if it weren't for this article. And maybe in the future, the dots will connect and this information will help me improve the lives of such people in distress.
Thanks! I am willing to modify a text file :)
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In the end, all we have are our mental models and experiments to back them up.... we'll never know what anything 'actually' is - all we can do is model things to whatever degree of accuracy we can.

A construction worker doesn't need to go around thinking about his hammer as being made up of mostly empty space, and of the electromagnetic forces that give it it's properties, it's a hammer! We all know what it "IS" right?

But it's not that. It's not even what we think it is. It's not even what the best physicists think it is.... and in the end, all we're left with are incomplete mathematical models, or models that are only accurate on a certain scale.

BTW - how do we then explain hawking radiation, if virtual particles are "just math" and not real?
"Making a conscious (or unconscious, as the case may be) decision to scan through 20-something RSS items a few times per hour means that you're constantly interrupting what you were doing in order to perform another task."

Okay, I call shens on this whole article.

Using RSS means that I speed-read over a few hundred article headers during half an hour over coffee and pop open around a dozen articles to read in full.

The problem they're talking about is checking your RSS feed obsessively - which has exactly the same issues as checking your email obsessively, or your texts, or your Facebook wall, or whatever the heck else that you should stop interrupting yourself with constantly.

"Keeping up" does not have to mean being OCD at the expense of getting work done.
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I am not the author of this article but I really apologize if this article has bad practices. I am just a beginner who wants to learn how to design secure login systems in Php. It's a key skill for every web developers.
Please, can anyone post useful resources on designing flawless login systems in Php. Thank you.
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I just use FeedSpeak (http://feedspeak.tk) - an app that reads your RSS feeds to you, so you can listen to articles while doing other things.
There's a YC startup working on this problem of helping startups decide their pricing - https://freshplum.com. You should email them to ask for help.
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The remnants of ArsDigita were acquired in the end by Red Hat. For a time the (Java rewrite of) ACS was sold to a few places, but I don't think it is active today.

I consulted on ACS/Java for about 6 months. It was a great example of the Second System Effect. Incredibly over-engineered. Slow. Baroque. Obscure.

Wikipedia says of the Second System Effect "tendency [..] to have elephantine, feature-laden monstrosities as their successors". Whoever wrote that must have been thinking of ACS/Java.
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The entire article was invalidated (in my mind) by the simple fact that you can choose when you want to open your RSS reader. You don't have to be pinged every 20 seconds. Don't punish everyone just because you can't control yourself.

RSS is immensely useful for staying up-to-date with postings from a broad collection of websites, and without missing a lot of good content, and it's pretty much universally supported. It annoys me very much that there are so many "hip techies" encouraging killing RSS when it is clearly superior to Twitter, or manually browsing all of the different websites, at syndicating content.
Agreed.

I personally go through my RSS feed every few months and re-evaluate my feeds. If I have feeds that have low signal to noise ratios, or simply publishes articles that I never read, I remove them.

Also, I segregated high volume feeds (such as Flickr picture feeds and Gizmodo/NYTimes/BBC etc.) into a separate account. I have two accounts, one (low volume) where I try to take a closer more thorough look at everything, and another (high volume) where I simply do a quick scan then mark all as read.

Don't blame RSS for your inability to manage it.
Maybe someone should explain to Wikileaks how to use GPG.

The failure here is that Wilileaks used a single password to protect a file that was distributed to multiple parties, meaning that multiple people had to maintain a shared secret.
And it has begun...

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They do mention a metallic storage system which should last a vary long time. I suspect the microfilm was there more for publicity than any real expectation that it would work in 8000 years. Still even if you can't directly read them they may degrade in such a fashion that you can reconstruct a useful significant percentage of the original message.

A backup metal film system resides in the crypt as well.[1][2]

[1]"The New Georgia Encyclopedia — Crypt of Civilization". Retrieved 2008-06-29.
[2]"History of the Crypt of Civilization". Retrieved 2008-06-29.
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This comment of yours is even less interesting than the aforementioned link, while occupying more screen real estate. Explain that.
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Good job on figuring it out! Thanks for spending the time.
I wrote a blog post about that a while ago: http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/the-means-of-produ...

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No, its that, to a lot of us, this is a new part of the story that we've never heard before.
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Oh, how I hate this "ads will pay for everything" attitude.
I'd pay for content with an option to get it via torrent.
Torrent is mostly a convenience to me not a way to get something for free. Especially when something is not even available by official channels, for money or not.
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That's my interpretation of the following update posted by the original source (heise.de):

"[2. Update: Mittlerweile äußerte sich erneut Tina Kulow von Facebook Deutschland. In einem Tweet schrieb sie: "Um es klar zu stellen: 2-klick-Button ist nicht ideal - aber kein Problem. Nur ein Like-Button der grafisch so tut als ob er einer ist, ist nicht ok. Das ist alles." Nachdem heise online dem Button für den ersten Click, der die Like-Funktion aktiviert, ein verändertes Design gegeben hat, sollte demnach der weiteren Nutzung des 2-Click-Buttons durch heise online und andere Websites auch von Seiten Facebooks nichts mehr im Wege stehen.]
(ju) "

So it says the two click button is not ideal, but not a problem. Though the graphic on the Like-Button is not okay, and so on.
Disk space is a soft limit. Hard limits are repos. I find it hard to beleive your company can't spend $100 on offloading to a managed resource such as GitHub.
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This is actually the precise definition of conditional probability derived from Kolmogorov's measure theoretical construction of probability. It's easily the most popular construction of probability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_axioms
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I went to NEU for comp sci undergrad. While I was there it converted from a Java school to a Scheme school. It happened almost overnight when they hired Matthias Felleisen and told him to bring some of his friends.

I am so grateful to have had my education become heavily functional for my last two years. Changed my life permanently for the better.
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I always like how these are scheduled to be opened at a specific date. If we remember thousands of years from now what the original plan was, we'll probably have records of what was kept inside. If we forget, it won't be opened on schedule.
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Almost all of the energy needs of the human body is satisfied by molecules of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which is produced in the mitochondria. Every cell contains many mitochondria.

Neurons use the ATP to pump sodium and potassium ions across the cell membrane (from inside the cell to outside the cell or vice-versa) causing an electric gradient across the membrane much like the gradient in a capacitor. When the neuron "fires", the "capacitor" is discharged. The discharging happens much faster than the charging caused by the sodium and potassium pumps. The neuron is arranged so that this discharging process tends strongly to "cascade" or "propagate" down the long thin part of the neuron -- and that is a simplified explanation of how "electrical signals" travel in the brain.
Like many others here, the couple times I've been along from start to exit, despite all the contracts and promises and hard work at low pay with no overtime, key contributions, etc, so far, never a dollar, and in one case, a protracted legal battle as they tried to steal my preexisting IP which I had a signed agreement from them acknowledging belonging to me, signed before I started work.
I've been looking at similar solutions. I've tried using fluxflex.com, but it only seems to work for public projects. The main purpose of my site is not to have full-scale operations: just a place online to test it.

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I find it ironic that this article features a picture of data on the Bullet cluster, which is currently one of the strongest pieces of evidence favoring dark matter as a form of matter. Hajdukovic is quoted as saying that he's "currently expanding his theory to account for these observations." That translates as "I haven't found a compelling way of explaining them yet."

It's great that he's considering alternatives to the usual approach, and it would be fantastic to have a second viable model to test observations against: competing theories encourage open-mindedness. I'm really happy to have his work up on the arXiv. But I don't believe that a speculative idea like this merits attention in the mainstream press until it can at least give plausible explanations for the major successes of existing models.
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This seems plausible to me. I'm not a physicist, but I think the case of dark matter can be compared to the case of the planet Vulcan.

In the early 20th century, in the heyday of discovering planets by observing existing planets and realizing that classical mechanics didn't quite predict their orbits correctly, it was observed that Mercury's orbit didn't fit the classical model well enough. Reasonably enough, it was presumed that there was another planet orbiting inside of Mercury's orbit. This planet was dubbed "Vulcan", and the fact that no one had ever observed Vulcan was explained away by the fact that it was clearly too close to the sun to be observed. This was all well and good until the early heyday of Einstein's theories, which made small but crucial changes to the mathematical models of classical mechanics. The orbit of Mercury was found to be perfectly consistent with Einstein's model.

The question of dark matter supposes a dichotomy: either our current understanding of physics is essentially accurate and there's a ton of fundamentally unobservable matter in the universe that explains any anomalous observations, or our model of physics isn't quite right yet. Intuitively, I think it's more likely our physics are off.
As the link in samth's comment describes, they are really different books that had different goals. If I remember correctly, HtDP was partly inspired by the big chunk of SICP that requires somewhat external domain knowledge (mostly calculus and some electrical engineering), and the authors wanted to write an intro CS book that didn't require any special prerequisites. They were also written in different times, for different audiences. Didn't MIT combine their CS and EE curriculums as "course 6" (and still do?) requiring someone who was ostensibly majoring in CS to do a lot of EE, physics, and calc? I imagine CS was a different kind of major in the 80s when SICP was first written than it was when HtDP was first conceived.

I tried to read it, after having read SICP, but I couldn't get past two or three chapters. It's very much geared toward a complete beginner to programming and goes quite slowly, with tons of hand holding examples. This isn't really a fault, they obviously cannot satisfy a complete beginner and a working programmer with a CS degree who wants to fill in holes in their knowledge. I'd like to try to go at it again, maybe after they finish updating it, perhaps doing what Norman Ramsey has said on Stack Overflow in recommendations of the book: "If it's too easy, go faster!". There's a review on Amazon from someone who claims to have a PhD in CS, who said it was very valuable. (maybe that says something about their PhD program? zing! I jest.) So take my review with a dose of salt.
You seem to be using obfuscatory wording to avoid the issue. We have evidence that physical brains are not just correlated with consciousness, they are the cause. Anesthetic is probably the best example; once you've administered anesthetic to a brain, consciousness is lost, while removing it restores consciousness. There is no continuity under anesthetic, the time is just 'skipped'.

A simple book that will help you get it, is "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker. Science assumes that consciousness depends on the brain, since that assumption explains the observations. What's more, we take assumptions for facts once we have enough consistent observations to overcome the biases of reasonable people.
Yours is even less so. Like the parent, i found the story uninteresting. If anyone with a sad job got to the frontpage, goodbye IT news. In the end, if the guy thinks his job is sad, quit it, or campaign against evictions. Pretending to be sad and effectively asking for sympathy is ... i can't find the word.
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This is what I don't understand about cable TV (as I've used it in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands anyway; not sure about the US model). It's rammed full of adverts, yet we're already paying a subscription for the service. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for this, but what gives?
From my experience working in technology startups, I can say without a doubt that the CEO is focused on getting a product, any product in any state of progress, out the door and that HR thing you speak of is an office held by the beneficiary of nepotism and maintained with loyalty who's sole job is to complete the tasks assigned to them by the CEO, usually in a haphazardly incompetent manner.

For example, I once worked at a firm where the HR person was my direct boss' sister-in-law and was living with one of the [shithead] project managers I had to deal with, who's sister-in-law was the receptionist/marketing genius. Do you think any of those four people had any grease to make demands on whether or not a product should include, or even be based upon conventions that would assist those with disabilities if said inclusion were to set back the shipping timetable? I think not.

tl;dr: CEO's focus on sales and revenue, HR is a rubber stamp/sick day tracker, which can be outsourced.
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I've used PDA in games A.I. programming several times too. In fact I'd be surprised to see anything beyond a casual game that didn't use high level 'task stacks'.
Bury it all you want, i have sympathy for the evicted, not this sleazy redditor. Posts like these are the reason i removed 'reddit.com' from my reddits.
Oh, so the great Zed Shaw says Schneier saying it's so doesn't make it so.

The great thing about people accusing others of subterfuge is how it may never reach a suitable end.

How do we know Zed Shaw is not a shill for those opposing those for whom Bruce Schneier is a shill?? What to do!
I always wonder how future civilizations will interpret time capsules like this. "And here, children, we have the primitives sacrificing their possessions to their god 'Kap-sool', ruler of time"
Repeating from above:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Stories don't have to be about hacking. In fact, the Hacker News guidelines used to explicitly mention that good hackers were interested in things other than hacking.

I am upset at the trend in HN to increasingly post only technology-related posts. A news submission with no intellectual undertones can be voted up dozens of times as long as it's related to Apple, Android, or something similar. Posting shallow content just because it's tech is the quickest route to becoming Reddit. And that's not a bash on Reddit, I enjoy reddit--but it's not where I normally go for "deeply interesting" content.
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Hard to believe, but the sources compile cleanly on win32 (using mingw). And ... it actually works!

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Well, and knowing Linus, few months from today he will probably get frustrated by some limitation and write his own Git front end (that everyone will start using) and it will be a better front end

The question is which platform would Linus use for a web front end?
Isn't Hulu pretty much the same thing?
For those interested, there's another account of the ArsDigita story via interviews with Phillip Greenspun in Jessica Livington's Founders at Work.
Your sympathy extends to plugging your website and you're calling him sleazy?
I've been programming for about 17 years and here's what I tell my students:

Every program has 2 goals: To explain to the computer what you want it to do, and to explain to people what you want the computer to do. Good code is readable and correct.

The first time you encounter a problem, your first idea of how to solve it will be awful. This is true no matter how long you spend thinking about it, no matter how much experience you have. The best workflow involves thinking, then coding, then thinking, then throwing away most of your code and doing it better. You can't find the flaws in an implementation while its in your head - you need to see it on the screen before you can fix it. Your second implementation will generally be better. The best code I've written I've iterated on 3-4 times until it looks simple and obvious.

Unit tests will help you iterate - write them before / just after your first attempt at the code. Then when you rewrite the code you'll have confidence that you haven't broken it.

You're not writing poetry. Sometimes your code is hard to read because you're doing a simple thing in a complex way. Other times your code is hard to read because its algorithmically complicated. In the second case, spreading the algorithm out over lots of places will make it almost impossible to understand. So, don't stress out when you can't make your code into a haiku. Sometimes you can't - but you should try anyway.

The best way to learn what good and bad code looks like is to read code. At first, reading code will be harder than writing it. You should do it anyway. Your own code is ok, but other people's code is better. Pick an opensource library you use and try and figure out how you would write it. Then read the code and see how they did it. Their method might be worse than yours. - But remember, their project is successful anyway.
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May I suggest picking up a newspaper from time to time? The Economist (which is actually a magazine that calls itself a newspaper) is pretty good too, although they don't tend to do the human interest type of things as much as real newspapers do.

If you haven't noticed foreclosure rates and done some thinking about what that meant in human terms, you were simply not paying attention, to put it very directly. (And maybe you have good reasons; you live in Singapore or something and don't care much about the US housing market)
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Exactly... but, i can imagine how someone who is obsessed with keeping his rss feed reads all read will have a problem.(much like email). I personally have found it useful to have a limit of not more than 100 posts a month.If i do, i unsubscribe on some feeds that have become irrelevant to me.
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What kind of loophole in your signed agreement did they try to use to get hold of your IP? Was there a problem with the contract, or were they simply hoping you would cave in order to avoid a legal battle?
Actually, the argument from the reactionaries in the article is very much aware that it's hard to go back and add censorship after services launch. Their argument is that before allowing any services to launch, censorship tools and suppression capabilities need to be already in place.
Then there's the other elephant; No one wants to watch traditional advertising anymore. We've seen the alternative (pay per view, dvr skipping, and pirated content) and we like it too much.

Be creative.