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Sounds like it needs more extensions.
It's trivially obvious to me that if the betterment of your economic situation is not your main goal in life, his advice is incorrect.

"If the main topic of conversation you have with your friends is not how you can better yourself, you need to get new friends."

I'm sure there is some small subset of people for whom this is true. But if that's the criteria for evaluating the truth of a universal statement then it would be hard to make one about humans that is false.
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If anyone is keen to hack on OT or OT-related products, a friend of mine has a great Javascript/Coffeescript library called ShareJS that makes building OT-powered web apps pretty easy.

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"For reasons too complex to explain here, even some systems, like Gmail's, that don't allow intruders to make millions of random guesses at a password can still be vulnerable to brute-force attacks."

Anyone care to explain?
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Nobody knows if this will affect anybody at all, as no Secure Boot equipped hardware is in the wild, nor has any manufacturer or OEM announced anything related to it. The fear mongering is based on speculations and worst case scenarios mostly.

edit: I might add that any system that wants to be compatible with Windows 7 or XP needs to have the ability to disable Secure Boot. That fact will probably have larger effect on manufacturers than Linux users.
If you broaden the definition of "better yourself" to enough to include all constructive human conversation, then maybe you could read this statement as a truth. But if you read it as plain English it's obvious that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about a very specific sort of conversation around improving one's career and skills.
I long for the days of an actual reputation system (like what cstross described in Accelerando), and I suppose in that regard, Klout is making progress.

I'd be happier if their system was based on some sort of actual reality, but hopefully they'll figure that out in time.

I don't have an "account" with them, but I saw my Klout score displayed from a Twitter app and it said I was influential about "Argentina". Never been; don't know anything about it; never mentioned anything about it in a conversation.

I actually want a useful reputation system to take hold so I can implement it in sorting messages. I've been working on an "interestingness filter" (where spam is just considered the least interesting of all), and would love to be able to say: "This email refers to topic 'X', and this sender is considered to be reputable about that topic, so I'll score this message higher than I might have otherwise."
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Dan Shipper (dshipper) and I have decided that for the month of November, we are challenging/policing ourselves to write a blog post every single day for 30 days. And we're inviting anyone to join us!

As developers, we know that after a late night of coding the last thing we really want to do is write a blog post. But we figure that blogging is a great habit to get into for tech entrepreneurs and here are just a few reasons why:

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We know that "forcing" yourself to write too frequently can lead to poor content that nobody cares about, and thus doesn't actually help you at all, but we'll do our best to make sure we always stay fresh and interesting. And since there are no rewards for winning or staying on track, we hope that whoever cares to join us will also share the same mindset. After all, we are only doing this to get better. So with that in mind, if anybody would like to join us, please do!

We are keeping a list of blogs committed to this No-Blog-Sloth November Challenge here (post a link to your blog as a comment, or message us if you want to be included): http://bit.ly/30posts30daychallenge

And you can find a recap of the details (basically a verbatim of this post) here: http://bit.ly/30posts30daychallenge_details

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"The adoption of data-bining we're seeing in the newer JavaScript client frameworks/libraries could be paving the way for something like OT to go mainstream."

Socket.IO plus some kind of generic data framework with a collection type.. you can get pretty far with most CRUD type applications if you just have a way (something OT algorithms handle) to resolve issues related to positioning in a list I think, and that could be generalized to take care of everything from sequences of characters in text to items in a spreadsheet.

When you are talking about graphs.. what sort of issues are you having?
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I was just googling for socket.io and operational transform a minute ago and that popped up. The slideshow I saw though said it just uses Ace to handle text.

Can it do OT on types other than text now?

EDIT:.. actually I see the JSON example. The hex thing game, I notice it has a fixed length in that array.. does this sharejs OT library handle cases where a variable size array has concurrent updates, deletes and inserts?
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I read the statement in a much broader way, and would disagree that it is at all obvious that he meant it in the narrow sense you are interpreting it.

In fact, if you read the whole article, I'm somewhat confused that you could imagine he even primarily means economic betterment.

It seems clear to me that he means you should be working to live your life doing things you want to do. That's what the entire article is about.
Hilarious, but also sad. What's going to happen to the $120,000 payment handed down to the other folks, plus all other Righthaven suits still in court?

Does it end up being just $120,000 out of pocket to defend against a frivolous lawsuit, or can people go after the people behind Righthaven for this as well?
That is a very good point. Monetization is key. Unless you have very deep pockets as a startup, if you don't focus on monetization in the early stages, you're more than likely going to fail due simply to the high cost of launching and maintaining startups. Building a startup simply because it's a cool idea or has future potential is almost a sure way to keep it from succeeding. It seems like this simple fact often gets overlooked when people begin startups. Money is king.
Just a suggestion for the website: the home page should probably be a nice landing page explaining what the project is about, rather than your blog.

Link to your blog for sure, but the home page should explain quickly what the project is and why I should care.
I don't know why it takes so long to grant a patent when all they do is slide it under the rubber stamp machine.
Considering all the discussion of career switches and unhappy jobs, I'd have to differ with you on that point. To me it seems like the "doing what you love" is more in service to having a better job than the other way around. But I can see how you might come to the conclusion you have.
I thought they lost because they did not own proper copyrights to the works they sued over, but rather had contracts which assigned a "right to sue" which the judge could find nowhere in the statutes.

That said, I suppose they might actually own some copyrights to other things. It would be poetic justice if, as a result of trying to protect their other cases, they had acquired copyrights only to lose them in litigation.
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I think you really are taking your own knowledge for granted. My sense in working with green programmers over the years is that the ones who never did assembly never have a feel for how everything fits together. They have real trouble understanding implementation details that matter to their day-to-day work.

That's not to say you couldn't learn lisp first and assembly later. But that seems like the hard way to me.
There are doubts about how open this project will be. I share that concern. But, I also give the guy credit for making the project at all. Maybe it will be more closed than I would like. If the project is a success and produces a lot of boards, then I expect real open source builds of software for it will follow from someone. As a start, I can't think of anything I would prefer to Linux and Python as a place to start. I sure want to buy a few of these boards to experiment with.
You're right that people have other things in mind, generally. But I think things like this, where their boss is all but absent and the computer grades them make such a future feel more real.
Here's how I did it for Scala. I went to project Euler, and did the first problem. Then I looked at other people's answers in the same language. I discovered they were doing these tiny little 1 line solutions using functional programming techniques, where I did much larger solutions. I started studying every aspect of how these solutions worked. Along the way I learned about fold, filter, map, and so on. Then I re-implemented my solution using functional idioms. Then I moved on the the next project Euler problem. It didn't take long until I had a pretty firm grasp of it. I did this in Scala; perhaps the same approach would work for you in your language of choice.
Heh. As much as I agree with pretty much everything he says in that presentation the GP's point is pretty relevant here: Rich Hickey is far, far to the right on the programming bell curve. Things normal people will have real difficulty grasping are going to seem glaringly obvious to someone like that.
The problem is that head knowledge and heart knowledge are different. You can take in a ton of knowledge and be able to recite it on call. But for some people, if they don't experience it, they're not able to take the same knowledge to heart.

I was in a business simulation competition once during university. At the end, when they were about to announce the winners, one of the judges got up and said, "Business is like sex. If you've never tried it, it doesn't matter how much you read about it, how much you know about it, etc. Until you experience it, you don't really understand it for real." It made for a laugh afterwards, because some people weren't happy with how he had judged their teams.

I guess it's because most people are not good at managing their own psychology, ala this post: http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/01/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-diff... Head knowledge is hard to remember when you're in the fire. Heart knowledge is instinctual.
I think imperative programming is more foreign for someone who doesn't know programming. Defining a program using equational reasoning is more natural to someone who knows basic math.
Hi! Author of ShareJS here. ShareJS works fine with variable length arrays.

Also, ShareJS isn't limited to ace. Textareas work as well. Here's the same document that was linked, editable from a textarea:

http://sharejs.org/textarea.html
Sure, someone always has to pay the bill. Taxes in New Zealand aren't massive or crippling, they are only moderately higher than the US. Think of how much more it costs to not have a skilled labour force. South Korea also has subsidized education, I live in South Korea and I pay 3.5% tax (that's everything, I have nothing to pay but 3.5% income tax). The education system here is not great and there are issues with it but over 97% attain a high school certificate and almost everyone under 30 has done at least one year post-secondary education.

Here is a question: how much does it cost the US, as a democracy, to not help everyone with the capacity to learn get an education? At the moment education levels in the US are often offset by immigration (immigrants with degrees and immigrants forcing their kids to study hard for at least the first generation). Accessible education is important to ensure an advanced society, innovation and healthy governance.
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"chaining-as-a-language-feature is inherently focused on stringing together a sequence of imperative side effects, where it can be nicer to use expressions for their values."

Out of interest, what do you mean by "it can be nicer to use expressions for their values"? Any example of that?

Cheers!
Some articles I've read suggest that it's intentional on the part of the applicant. The idea is to extend the useful life of the patent by delaying the application's completion as much as possible.
Programming is different enough from arithmetic that I don't know how much it helps.

At my school, all engineering majors had to take freshman intro to programming in Scheme and it worked pretty well.
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If everyone said "thank you" to every post, those would swamp any meaningful discussion. Think about it. On this article alone there would be over 100 such comments.

Generally, you can give a +1 by upvoting. If you have something to add to the discussion, you can add a thank you in that comment, but in isolation a "thank you" really adds no value.
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I believe the rights being referred to are things like Righthaven's own name, trademarks, copyrights and so forth, not just what they may have acquired from other parties.
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Intubated, when he couldn't talk, he asked for a notepad. He sketched devices to hold an iPad in a hospital bed. He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit.

I hope someone takes his sketches and runs with that vision. He's been able to re-imagine other devices wonderfully. To think of what he could have done with hospital equipment is amazing (that at his core, at his most vulnerable, he resorts to creativity) and sad (that he won't be around to execute upon these visions).
Much like Jersey Shore, Klout has a particular target demographic which find the service appealing (They're probably not reading HN). That particular demographic also happens to be very sought after by advertisers. Good for them I say.
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As others have said, Righthaven appears not to have had any ownership of the copyrights to begin with. However, we do know that Righthaven has of late been maneuvering to attempt to solve this problem -- it seems possible that they did actually transfer some meaningful rights to at least some of the materials they are suing on.

I only mention this because I'm rooting for it, as the ultimate poetic justice.
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What this reminds me of is USA's inane attempt to control encryption technology. Every state is used to controlling information, the tech is just moving too quickly for bureaucracies to even respond.

I'm sure there are thousands of Chinese engineers with careers transforming map coordinates. You don't want to put these people out of a job, do you?

Humans are funny.
Definitely worked well for some people:

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A whole inch thick? The first edition of The C Programming Language couldn't have been half that!
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I wholeheartedly agree. Their page now is at least magnitudes more informative than it was a few months ago--when I first saw a Raspberry Pi reference on HN.

I went to their page looking for an about link. I'm not sure if I found it or not, but either way, I left not knowing what it was actually about.
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I don't disagree that it's used outside of defense. It's just used very very commonly in defense. Just harmless speculation ;).
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It's also worth noting that Human Beings are territorial animals, and there are hundreds if not thousands of disputes like this all over the world. Cypress and Kashmir come to mind, but there are plenty more.
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This line is so beautifully & hauntingly crafted. I wish I had thought to add her books to my reading list sooner.
I've written ShareJS, which performs OT over generic JSON objects.

Getting OT-for-JSON working involved a lot of cases, but it was certainly tractable. The tricky algorithmic code is 440 lines long.

XML would be much more complicated to get right, but certainly possible if you're mad keen on XML.
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Which official map - the one posted in each station and online? Sure it's distorted: it has to make sense to millions of tourists. Most transit maps I've seen are the same: geographic realism is sacrificed to make it easier for patrons to get around.

Orange and Blue lines go under the Mall: this is reflected on the map. IIRC there is one stop at the Mall, several close. There aren't any Red line stops near the Mall.

several important government buildings

It's D.C. You can't shake a stick without hitting an important government building.
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I don't know what he means here, but one possible way to brute force would be to iterate the username and not the password. It depends on what you're trying to do, but if you just want accounts you pick the top X number of passwords used then get a list of usernames and a healthy collection of proxies. As long as your list of usernames and proxies are long enough you should be able to brute force your way into a lot of accounts.
I'm working on the same thing for node.js. Come help me write ShareJS:
http://sharejs.org/

Also, plaintext and JSON data types are generic and pluggable into other systems. I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but they might be useful.
At the very least, their unique take will be their commitment to openness, which iOS abhors and Android also makes difficult. Hopefully this means we can decide what software to install ourselves, and that we won't need to "root" our phones because they gladly give us root access.
So I really don't get why they would make them secret.

It's helpful to know the ford depths of a river crossing before you get there with your tanks.

Take a fanciful example. One could not, say, send a U.S. Army survey team to measure the depth of the Orne before the allies landed in Normandy. The Germans would really object to that kind of thing.
Yes please.
The 'anything hackers would find interesting' line is a loophole to introduce politics. I think emphasis should be placed on the 'If it appears in the evening news it probably doesn't belong here' line.
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I'm also not sure what these type extensions have to do with monads, monads just describe side effects as a type.

Read about the async keyword in C# if you want to know why monads are useful. I'm not sure why MSFT decided to take a great thing like monads and only allow one type of monad instead of building in support for the general case, it seems so typical in imperative languages that the forest is missed for the trees. They'll take a great thing like generics and then screw it up by only allowing methods on classes which ruins type inference.

for example:
var a = new Array<int>(1,2,3,4);
instead of
var a = Array.new(1,2,3,4);

I'm not sure why ordinary programmers shouldn't know what a monad is, it's an extremely useful pattern that makes code much easier to read. It's like not knowing what an array is.
Wow, downvotes with no response?
{ 'offtopic' : "

I totally agree with you, but i just want to draw your attention to the phrase 'the speed of C'. You almost make it seem like it's a global constant, like the real C-for-celeritas speed of light, some unobtainable blazingly fast mirage accessible only to quantum physicists and unix greybeards.. but we don't need a particle accelerator to beat the performance of C, just better JITters. There's not really anything in the language stopping the performance from being reached (okay, well for JS there's the type system.)

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