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It's the visitor's choice to visit a webpage.
It's the developer's choice to choose widgets.
Do you really think it's fair to say,
"I want to use your widget, FB, which happens through your servers, and I want to use them my way without your consent."
The default option (not choosing the widget) is always fair.

My point is that to make such widgets illegal, widgets that service three consenting parties, is completely retarded.
You've ask a couple of very deep questions there.

Why wouldn't we see this effect on earth, and have taken it into account when determining the strength of earth's own gravity?
We could be observing the impact of this without exactly realizing it. I won't speculate too much on this because I haven't read enough about it but it might make more sense in light of my next answer.

Would we see this effect with electric fields as well?
We absolutely see this effect with electric fields. In the last century we've grown to understand that in electromagnetism we don't simply deal with isolated electrons and positrons. These particles are actually surrounded with clouds of virtual electrons and photons which have an impact on the field (this is a simplified view but it's enough along the right lines to give you the right impression if you haven't studied physics). When we talk about the field around an electron we take this into account by assuming that all these contributions sum to give us the field that we actually observe. If you want to read more about this then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory#Renormaliz... is a good starting point.

Could differently oriented electric and gravitational fields compete to orient a given dipole?
Yes, all relevant fields will have an impact on what's happening. I don't want to speculate too much beyond my knowledge though and when it comes to quantum gravity we're already there.

I know that this wasn't the deepest contribution but hopefully it will help shed some light to someone...
I was an astronomer first.
tl;dr:

1. You can't learn how to program quickly, but you can learn how to program.

2. Remember the design recipe.

3. The structure of your programs should follow the structure of your data.
This is what got him kicked out of Yale: http://abahlali.org/files/Graeber.pdf :)
Interesting post. It's really impressive how smoothly everything ended up going in Israel, especially since the government got out of the way

Now, here is the issue. I worked in public policy formation in Toronto - specifically working with developing the startup environment in Canada. Based on my experience, way too many of these programs in Canada focus on minority groups. In fact, the majority of them do.

We analyzed literally hundreds of programs created to encourage entrepreneurship in Canada and approx 75%+ of them were exclusively for natives, africans, minority females, the disabled, people in ultra rural areas, or people who plan on hiring a considerable number of these groups.

This is not to say that all programs are like this, but in my professional experience, I haven't seen a program come out that rivals what happened in Israel. The incubators that are made here are ultra conservative, typically investing only in entrepreneurs that have considerable work experience (10-15+ years) and are running a biz post revenue (most times in the 7 figures..).

In terms of making these programs, the bureaucracy is just so overwhelming (which is part of the reason that I left). It is incredibly difficult to set something up that could be acquired by private VCs with all the red tape.
Thank you. I'm sorry to say this but the TV and music industry have time and time again shown that they are completely uninterested in new distribution models and if history rings true, they will never 'get it'.
Yes, the story goes that the NSA assisted IBM in its development by tuning the specific values in the S-boxes to be resistant to differential cryptanalysis, which had not yet been publicly discovered.

They also reduced the key length from 64 to 56 bits. I found this suspicious and didn't accept the explanation that those 8 bits were needed for "parity". Yet, respected cryptographers say this actually brings the key size more in line with the effective strength. So those additional 8 bits in the key were not contributing to the security and it improves the "truth in labeling".

Why would they build weaknesses into standard blocks, the biggest consumer of which is the US government itself?

When the NSA had at times insisted on an upper limit for a protocol's security (e.g., export crypto), they usually would require a simple upper limit on the number of secret bits in the key. When they've submitted fixes they tend to be elegant and minimal (e.g. SHA-0 to SHA-1).
Forgive me for my ignorance, but shouldn't "Ulysses had himself tied to the mast" be "Odysseus had himself tied to the mast"?

I haven't read Ulysses but I have read The Odyssey.
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no. their competition is torrents without ads. why would i volutarily choose a worse product?

i pay for netflix, because they have added value by being convenient and available on lots of devices without any fuss. simply being legal is not a real advantage, and certainly not one i am willing to pay for.
I take that back. If people don't understand the natural laws of the Internet, it may stand to reason that blocking widgets is a matter of national security.

However, I think a better approach is to educate each other on how the Internet works, so that blanket measures can be avoided.
Excellent article. Jon Evans laid it out the way its suppossed to be. Salsforce is an incredible company with a huge future, but saying that CEOs will suffer the same fate as violent, tyrannical dictators is ridiculous.

For one thing, these large firms have a natural system of checks and balances (see relation between CEO, board of directors, and shareholders). In almost all cases (assuming the proper precautions have been taken), a CEO can't just run amok being wild against the wishes of everybody else involved. These issues are typically resolved at the early, early stages with mild disagreements and a back and forth. More often than not, a CEO will step down due to this (let's see this happen in Syria or Libya..)

Secondly, these CEOs have and maintain power because people have given them power. People enjoy the products/services that their firms produce and continue to purchase them. Nobody is coercing users to hand over their money to these firms. This is a fundamental, excruciatingly important difference between the state and the firm.

I could go on for days, but I'll wait for somebody else to chime in.
"Ulysses" is the Latin rendering of "Odysseus", so is sometimes used interchangeably.
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GitHub is certainly overpriced for its private plans, but I don't think releasing the source would destroy their profitability. Once the ball gets rolling on something like GitHub, network effects play a major role in its continued usage and popularity. Good support and constant evolution of the platform also encourage users to pay for your hosted service even if the code is available elsewhere. GitHub's features like pull requests, profiles, and expected presence on resumes as the de-facto standard "git hub" (har, har, har), and overall convenience would continue to promote usage of github.com.
Yes, it reads logs generated by dive computers.
Or go ask the CTO to talk to the lawyers about what happened to Target. That talk will help avoid a very uncomfortable talk later on with the CEO and HR.
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If you don't like that maybe you should stop doing enterprise Java for a living. There are whole other worlds of programming out there.
Hmm, interesting post, but I tried it out and didnt have anything happen. All i got was the regular message. Here's a screenshot: http://i52.tinypic.com/x54iys.png
If you are worried about the government getting involved, then for the love of whatever you hold holy, do not be hostile. That response will be shown in court to add damages and will be plastered on the news reports.
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I'll throw in some soundtracks: Deus Ex (thanks @_danilo), Machinarium, and The Social Network (and Reznor/Ross's new tunes for Girl With The Dragon Tattoo...and Ghosts).

and for some other instrumentals: Andrew Bird's Useless Creatures, any non-vocal track by Broken Social Scene, Nosaj Thing (anything he makes, really), and James Blake.
Our Java application has gone from $240 per month to $6000. Total bait and switch. This is a business killer.
The only code that I've ever been happy with was module code I open sourced. It took a lot of time, use and feedback to get there. Hard to argue that it was really worth the time, except for my own pride.
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If it was DRM-free and available immediately (no 8 day delay bs), then yes. Constantly refreshing TPB waiting for a torrent to pop up for a show that aired >3 days ago is more annoying than commercials.
Absolutely! Many of our very best and most involved beta testers are visually impaired; their involvement and feedback's been invaluable -- not just on matters of accessibility but also/especially when piloting new & experimental features -- we've been extraordinarily lucky to have their support and assistance.
I was reading a book called "Super Crunchers" (a book on industrial use of data-mining), and it mentioned a company called "Epagogix" which predicts movie profits (also covered less tersely by Malcome Gladwell - http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_10_16_a_formula.html).

In Super Crunchers, it describes a meeting between Epagogix, some potential investors, and some Hollywood heavyweights. The investors quizzed the movie guys on why they didn't want to buy in - the movie guys said that even if Epagogix could get 100% accurate, they wouldn't use it. If they used it, they would lose some of their own influence, and so they wouldn't get invited to the right parties. The investors loved that response, because it meant that the market was ripe for disruption. Epagogix wasn't so happy, though.

When broadcasters control a channel, they don't just get to tax it. They get personal perks as well.

You might think that the purpose of toll boothes is to pay for roads. People who work in toll boothes might think it's the other way round.

TV channels are the same - you might think execs are there to ensure only good shows get access to limited screen-time, but they think that limited screen-time exists to keep them in a job.
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This is a total bait and switch. On the same day that Appengine took our site down for 18 hours with no apology(we support 3000 daily visitors with an average time on site of 13 min). They announced that costs would increase from $240 per month to $6000. SIX THOUSAND! This is truly the definition of evil if you ask me.
I can't comment on willpower over everything, but if it is about working out / doing chores / getting to work, I have a hack for you:

Well.. it isn't really a hack, but something to remind yourself every fucking time that you're stalling. All you need is enough motivation to do it for 5 minutes. FIVE MINUTES!

Thats enough motivation to basically start an activity and forget about everything else in the process, and getting on with it. Just start doing it... FIVE MINUTES!!!
Why would I pay $2 to watch content without ads when I can just download the same content from a torrent site for free?
...and as we just learned, this is enough info to uniquely identify you, even without your name :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967
The giant elephant in the room is being overlooked: Advertisements have a lifespan measured in months, weeks, or days. Television content can stay relevant for decades.

Imagine it's the year 1997. Aliens from the planet GNU have gone back in time and provided us with bittorrent, and technology making dial-up modems a million times faster (but they still drop their connection if your mom picks up the phone). You just torrented and watched the latest Seinfeld episode, "The Muffin Tops", and have forever changed your muffin-eating habits.

While watching, you saw ads for Apple's "Think Different" campaign, McDonald's Arch Deluxe, and that "Da Da Da" Volkswagen commercial (which is now stuck in your head). You go out and buy the car, buy a Mac, and buy a Big Mac because the Arch Deluxe tastes like crap.

In 2007 you watch The Muffin Tops again. The old ads from 1997 are still embedded in the file. Apple's ad seems weird since the logo is all rainbows. You drive to McDonald's to get an Arche Deluxe because now you're an adult and it'll taste good, but they don't have it anymore, so you cry and drive home to sign a petition website to bring it back. Nobody ever reads it. Along the way your Volkswagen breaks down and you remember how that terribly sounding ad tricked you into buying such an unreliable piece of junk. You get a lift from the aliens, but they charge you one anal probe for the ride. Now you hate Apple, hate McDonalds, hate Volkswagen, and hate that the aliens didn't have the common decency to at least warm up their metal tools before use. Ouch.
Unless the thing I "should" be doing is immediately necessary or massively more important than the secondary thing I end up doing I'm generally pretty happy to follow my motivation around.

I normally seem to get back to the important thing when its deadline or reason for happening actually becomes so important that it really needs to be a focus.

It might be the issue isn't that you're focussing on the wrong thing, it's that you stop after having done the first thing. When the code based work starts closing in on me I start picking targets of what I will do before I'm allowed to sleep. I can do as many other things as I want, but that has to be done. I also seem to focus better on boring tasks when I'm tired. It mostly works.
Product Placement. Product Placement. Product Placement. Product Placement. Product Placement. Product Placement.

I know it's kind of annoying/cheap sometimes when a camera zooms in on the Bud Light logo in a fridge, or when Don Draper says that he loves Smirnoff (lawl), but its the only choice that the studios have. They must turn to product placement as their primary source of advertising revenue.

Because if they just release it, realistically, somebody will just download the file, remove the ads, and reupload it so the net effect will largely stay the same. One huge difference is that people who normally dont torrent and stream (like my girlfriend and mom) would probably do this. Granted for every episode they download, I download 10, but its an improvement.

If they would offer torrents with ads, available IMMEDIATELY upon airing it (say the torrent is available the second the show airs or 20 minutes before or next week or whatever) and I could get it at a comparable speed (or faster) than TPB, then that would change things. Product placement is still much cleaner and more sustainable.
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i don't really see the point. i can't imagine the transfer protocol matters. otherwise, putting ads that have less capability than web streams (because they're contained in a local file) seems like a red herring. content companies have tried streaming and they've simply decided they don't like the internet.

it seems to me that content available online experiences immediate devaluation. why am i going to pay more to place an ad during your content when i can target the same audience for pennies elsewhere online? why am i going to pay the same for syndication or for physical media?

streaming license costs will continue to rise until they reach equilibrium with existing revenue streams with the corresponding rise in access costs, or decent quality streaming will cease to exist (legally). likely the latter will happen simply as a result of the former.
It's only great if you can monetize it.
> (though not an indistinguishable beverage containing diet sweetener)

Really? Indistinguishable? This presumably doesn't invalidate their results, but a lot of people can distinguish the taste very well. This just seems like sloppiness on their part.
I wondered how a naive approach would work in comparison: You can reliably represent just over 2^20 codepoints in a UTF-8 character or 2800 bits over 140 characters. Standard ASCII is 2^7. 2800/7 gives us a potential 400 ASCII characters using a naive approach alone or a compression of 2.86x compared to the 5x he mentions.
On one thing we agree. There is rarely if ever a place for calculators when doing real math, for which I have a healthy interest and appreciation. But that's not because advanced calculators offer an advantage; rather, it's because they are usually irrelevant and at best only marginally helpful in the construction of proofs.

However, as you say from your educational experience, calculators can simply be banned on any lower math exams where they're inappropriate, or the exams can often be designed so that the calculators, even with CAS and equation solving capability, offer no meaningful help.

Like I said, if advanced functionality is not needed or wanted, a vastly cheaper HP 300s or TI 34 today would be more than adequate.

My point is that students are not going to spend $100 on a non-graphing calculator, and professionals are either going to want a 50g for its substantially improved capabilities, or will not be using a calculator much to begin with.

So that leaves me concluding that 15c limited edition buyers will be professionals with nostalgia for the 15c but little use for calculators these days.

My enthusiasm for graphing calculators (specifically, rpn stack-based graphing calculators) has little to do with graphing, and nothing to do with equation solving or CAS (neither of which I used much on my graphing calculators), but rather simply this: Take the 15c, give it a better display, increase the stack size from 4 to a lot, and make the last few stack levels visible at all times. That's what an RPN graphing calculator gives you, and that's what's worth $100.
> I will assert that you simply can't program any non-trivial program in Java or C++ without an "Environment" to help you.

How large is non-trivial? I've built some pretty big systems using only javac, java, a text editor, and make.
Hats off to Microsoft's Greg Lowney, who, in the early '90s -- working pretty much by himself -- pioneered this corporate focus on accessibility. A great example of intrapreneurship within a big company.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/10-22lowney...
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Well, there's the whole "I'd rather buy it than pirate it" thing. Plenty of people want to buy content, it's just that the content makers are stuck in old-fashioned business models.
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I wish I would clean my apartment when procrastinating. Instead, I procrastinate by coding (for fun, not work). That's it! I'm going to clean my apartment... tomorrow... or maybe the day after...
Newspapers are also a concern:

http://home.gwi.net/~dnb/former_newsrep.html
Maybe I misused the term minimum "viable" product. But isn't it a standard practice for lean startups to run something like a potemkin village to test if there's interest?

I don't see why I shouldn't do the same with an open source project.
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Github's widest margins are obviously at the high end business plans, and businesses would run an internal github in a second if it was OSS. There goes Github FI as well. It would cripple them, the only way they can possible host all open source projects at no charge is because they are subsidized by the big fish.
More useful to speakers of all languages would be an "edit" button, so my typos don't live in perpetuity.
Except this same scenario happened if you recorded off TV; or used a DVR like Tivo.

Now imagine the benefits of a torrent option where they have the option of updating the ads every 6-12 months; and releasing fresh torrents (or even better they use your IP Geo info when you fetch the torrent and have region-specific torrent offerings with different ads in them.)

Maybe if its a legit source, you're more likely to download it when you need it from the trusted source, instead of hoarding the file for 10 years, swapping it with friends through other means, etc.

Bonus for increased likelihood that you're swarming with people closer to you instead of slower connections on the other side of the globe
One of the better (and easy) perks for a company to offer is really convenient, no hassle package receiving for employees. You probably already have reception and ops, so having a way personal packages and mail can be delivered comfortably to work (without inconvenience to yourself or the company) is a big win.

Palantir is an example of a company with a GREAT ops department, and they handle a lot of employee stuff. My friend is moving, and they're handling shipping some of his items separately, on top of normal moving arrangements; plus all the routine package receiving and forwarding they do.
(mysql_connect(): Too many connections) I guess is no fun to code a database-cache system...
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One thing I don't understand: wasn't there just discovered a ring of antimatter circling around the Earth? Wouldn't it just disperse into space if antimatter caused antigravity? Stupid question, I know, but just something that's beyond my comprehension.
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"This guy has at least some relation to the theft"

Not so, that is not known yet. Is the civilian GPS resolution sufficient to hit exactly one house? Does it ever give errors? How long was the signal at this house? When? When did the signal stop transmitting? Has anyone been to his house within the last week? How about in the general area? Meter readers? Deliverymen? Sure, he was at the business where the Apple employee got drunk and left the phone behind. Just like thousands of other people in that time frame, many of which undoubtedly are from his neighborhood or passed through at some point.
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I was under the impression that ODBC, OLEDB and ADO.NET all spoke TDS on the wire.
"At some point, not too soon after the theft took place, that prototype was in that house."

You have absolutely no proof of that. If you do please link to it. Statements from Apple goons aren't evidence. I could state that you are a terrorist pedophile so we should search your house for child porn and bombs. That doesn't make you one unless there is actual evidence shown to a judge in order to get a search warrant.
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Sloppy perhaps, but the point is still conveyed adequately. A diet beverage might not taste identical (Coca Cola Company acknowledges this, and in fact their diet products have a different flavour profile designed to better match the artificial sweeteners) but they certainly can be an adequate substitute when it comes to satisfying your brain's sugar cravings.
My issue was with jrockway saying "why should I download a file with ads for free when I can download it for free" and then saying that the solution is to charge for it... when it will also be available for free.
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This sounds like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. Nice writing!
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