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While we all get stripped searched for water bottles, the pilot is sending commands to the airplane with the same network as the passengers. byebye laptop NetBook smartphone cellphone.
Passive personality is particularly interesting.
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Um, I just put my computer in front of a window. I like watching the sun come up and go across the sky as the day goes on.
"The US State Department seems to view decentralized darknets as an important area of research for empowering free expression abroad."

(my emphasis). Depressing!
But that 35% corporate tax rate is the highest in the developed world, so Google's overseas tax rate is going to be lower than 35% even if they didn't pull anything fancy.

Also keep in mind that 35% corporate tax rate is also almost pure fiction too -- standard exemptions, let alone loopholes, are among the best in the world.
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I'm annoyed that Gladwell classifies Jobs as a tweaker. He's not. He's a tastemaker. From TFA:

> When Vincent shouted, “You’ve got to tell me what you want,” Jobs shot back, “You’ve got to show me some stuff, and I’ll know it when I see it.”

Can you imagine one of the British hacker/tweakers in the article (or a hacker/tweaker you know) EVER saying something like that? The respect I have for role comes from them having both the vision AND the skill to take something someone else invented and make it fly. Jobs sees a thing, decides "that sucks" and has the people he hired bring him iterations with varying degrees of feedback until he's happy. That stretches the definition of tweaking so far it basically makes the word meaningless, lacking both the engineering and the raw ideas. Jobs is probably the best tastemaker of all time, a great presenter, and a great CEO, but comparing him to the great hackers of the Industrial Revolution is offensive to me.
I remember seeing Clifford Stoll on CSPAN saying something along the lines of "Rich Schools will have good teachers, poor schools will just have computers."

The article reminds me that this will extend to textbooks.

[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153929-1]
I think subtle forming and or font changes is probably the easiest approach.
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I'd just like to note at this point that I find rmc's analogy personally offensive. (One side of my family tree went missing in 1942: the ones who stayed in Poland after 1939.) A bit more sensitivity about metaphors might be welcome here ...

Setting that aside: http://www.out-law.com/page-479 provides some advice on the Brussels Regulation 2001 concerning e-commerce. The B2C provisions in particular seem weighted to protect consumers, even when the supplier business is outside the EU.

However ... "In the case of disputes involving countries which are outside the scope of European law, there are a number of issues which must be considered. There are a number of international conventions dealing with choice of law, and consumer rights. If these do not set out the relevant position it is then worth checking whether the UK has entered into an agreement with the foreign jurisdiction. Any such agreement would set out the basis on which jurisdiction is determined between the countries. Failing this it would be necessary to consider the legal position under UK law, and what the courts consider to be the appropriate forum for hearing legal issues."

So it's basically a horrendous hairball of treaty law and interlocking legal systems. (And to make matters worse, the USA has a fundamentally different approach to determining jurisdiction in e-commerce, established via case law rather than a regulation aimed at defining consumer protections.)
In your example, that is O(1). A computer can add two numbers in constant time. How could that be two steps? It is obviously only one operation.

In general, you can count steps as whatever you like. For instance, you could say it takes O(n) CPU operations or O(n^2) file seeks. But then people use the word "time" as a proxy for those. You'll hear "constant time" or "order-n time".
Moore's Law is actually quite ubiquitous. In The Innovator's Dilemma a large number of examples are given of similar trends that lasted for decades, including such things as the volume that a hydraulic scoop could scoop, to the distance that a steam ship could travel without refueling, to the capacity of batteries.

It is therefore no surprise that solar power would show a similar trend.
I can't help but think that projects to overlay a darknet on our existing Internet infrastructure are several orders of magnitude more likely to succeed.
relevant exercises from one of scalaz' authors

http://blog.tmorris.net/lifting-haskell-addendum/

http://blog.tmorris.net/lifting/

and the applicative functor and following chapters in Learn you a Haskell (it wasn't real easy to navigate scaladocs, source, etc. Some folks used to just hoogle and then look for the same-named scalaz method

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-user/browse_frm/thread/...

and the scalac switches -explaintypes, -Ytyper-debug are kinda helpful.
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Same. I use a flexible desk lamp (also from IKEA), which is really useful to regulate the type of light I want. For computer usage, I just point it at my white wall, which scatters it uniformly around the screen. For reading books, I can just twist it in my direction to get more light.
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Looks interesting. Kinda like what Jasmine provides (no DOM required), but allows you to target real browsers.
Whether you are the original poster or not, you're not a troll, you're a sociopath emboldened by anonymity.
Cloak yourself in some idealistic mission if it makes you feel good- but your mission isn't to make the point that "people around here need to be a lot more skeptical"- You're a sociopath that enjoys kicking a hornet's nest just to watch the reaction.
Actually this isn't quite true either. In fact Xerox would later sue Apple (which was dismissed for legal reasons -- largely because they waited too long to sue):

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3538913398421433...

Here's what Andy Hertzfeld says about it:
Well, we had no formal relationship with PARC while we were developing the Mac. We got a single demo before the Mac project got off the ground, when the LISA project, that sort of cousin or bigger brother of the Mac, was in development. And so from that one demo we were already pointed in that direction but I would say that Xerox PARC demo galvanized and reinforced our strong opinion that the graphic user-interface was the way to go. And then the influence of PARC was strong in the project, but not through a formal relationship with PARC; more through PARC people getting wind of what we were doing and coming to work at Apple.

http://www.mac-history.net/the-history-of-the-apple-macintos...

And note that Gates also visited Xerox PARC in the same time frame. And speaking of people leaving PARC to work at Apple -- Simonyi applied to Microsoft in 1981. Clearly he was fairly familiar with the work at PARC.

All this is to say that claiming that Apple had exlusive rights to the Xerox technology and everything Microsoft learned about it came from Apple is an absurd claim. Bill's quote is pretty accurate.
I don't think you need to get through those three books as your first order of business learning to program. "Give up you're never going to get it" is a ridiculous attitude to have when trying to learn anything.

Try something simple. Work your way up to more and more complicated things just like any other learning endeavour.

If you want to stick to plumbing type programming then go for it. If you want to branch out into a more formal computer science type understanding, by all means grab some text books and learn some data structures, algorithms, abstractions, oop patterns, etc.
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Xerox wasn't using any of that stuff to its potential; the million bucks they made off it by way of their Apple investment was the best they were going to get. And unlike the Indians they didn't even have to get "kicked off the land" to get it! When Xerox shared their ideas, they still had those ideas and could continue to use them much as before.

No, if you want to redeem the claim that Apple "stole" from Xerox you can't really do it based on the ideas that came out of those meetings.

The one thing Apple did that was vaguely disreputable is: they then hired away many of the key Xerox people. You can't say they "stole" the ideas but they did "steal" the employees. Not in the sense that it was illegal - employees have free will and freedom of contract and there was no non-compete clause - but that this went beyond what Xerox reasonably expected to come out of the transaction, so you can see how Xerox might have been miffed.
On the other hand, that article points out that it proceeds to save lives (in the form of reduced traffic fatalities) during the rest of the time that it's in effect. And the springtime negative effects are due to the change to DST, not DST itself.

The better goal, perhaps, would be end standard (winter) time, not daylight saving (summer) time.
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That '50%' figure widely stated was only a brief spike that occurred when laws & society changed, making it easier to obtain them. For marriages consummated this year, the number is under 1/3. If you're both above the age of 25 for your first marriage, the number drops to 1/5.
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> Here in the civilized world we have a fundamental right to privacy.

I live in the UK. I thought it was quite funny that he tried to compare the privacy policies by saying the UK is better. Now the UK might be better in some regards but with the amount of CCTVs abound I still say they have problems with privacy.
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Another claim of authorship: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203169

More credible than nmongo.
That's not an automated landing system failure, that's a landing gear failure.
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What exactly was a hoax? The document pasted was rather detailed and, while somewhat overblown, was obviously written by someone who knew what they were talking about. It contains a lot of criticism of design decisions by MongoDB; these are pretty common and being opinion, can't really be called a hoax.

There's also a couple of anecdotes of MongoDB supposedly failing in various ways in the author's experience. Are you saying those were fake?

Just because you submitted the document here does not mean you wrote it. Pastebin logs the document as being submitted on 5th Nov. http://pastebin.com/FD3xe6Jt

I don't buy it. I don't think nmongo wrote the doc on pastebin. Maybe I'm overrating my character-detection abilities, but it didn't smell like it was written by some immature time-wasting kid.

edit: I use mongo in prod; very much a student of the "right tool for the job" school. Not trying to add or subtract weight from the original text; ambivalence reigns supreme regarding internet nosql battles. Just saying that my possibly unreliable circuits detect quite a gulf between the original document and the OP's hysterical, caps-lock-engaged cry for attention here.
I agree with Charlie. Also, try "opting out" of Klout - good luck. Best I could do was disable Klout app access to Twitter, etc. I regret ever signing up with them.
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Overlaying on existing infrastructure is a faster way to get up and running, but ultimately a darknet that depends on another network is vulnerable to that network's centralized 'off' button.
If only it had a consistent pronounciation, speech recognition would be so much more widely used.
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that a well-funded team of computational linguists could come up with enough equivalent grammatical/synonym permutations to render a very large number of versions of text.

Two problems: 1: When outlets learn this is the case, they just make sure never to publish the exact phrasing of any such leaked document. 2: This only helps you track down the leaker, not prevent him from leaking. The "phone home" document would presumably catch the leaker as he's collecting the documents.
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There's so much existing C code in the world powering almost everything we do that you just have to know C in order to get a thorough understanding of computing.

C is to computer science as latin is to medicine. All medical doctors need to know a little bit of latin
This SciAm article has actual numbers / charts - worth looking at: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/16/sm...
When solar becomes cheaper than the alternatives, the propaganda machine can only slow the adoption, not stop it. The entities that consume large quantities of electricity are mostly unaffected by IQ lowering media transmissions.
That's a really nice idea. I think my solution is better though. If an attacker manages to access my email account, all they're going to see are PGP encrypted emails.

https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...

They wont be able to read password reset emails or anything else in there.

I might set up a canary though, as it sounds like a useful way of being made aware of a compromise.
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It's an iterative process of tweaking, then stepping back to take a wider view, then tweaking some more, then stepping back again to evaluate, etc... until either (1) you're intuitively happy with the result or (2) your result conforms to some objective standard, or (3) both. It requires introspection and knowing how to "hack" your intuition. Different people hack their intuition in different ways, here is one way to do it, one that doesn't require drugs and going on a trip to India to meet holy men: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3175272

Some people have this naive romantic notion that you basically go through some period of "suffering" as an artist and then suddenly you have some "grand vision" unfolding in front of you that's hidden to everybody else. What they miss is all the boring, often tweaking-like work that you have to perform before you are faced with that vision. Suffering without doing work doesn't lead to anything.
I'm ready for the Jobs dissertations to be finished. I've made up my mind -- he was professionally successful but a personal failure.

It's my interpretation, so I'm not trying to change anyone else's opinion. But to me, if you have to scream at subordinates and mock colleagues and generally treat everyone else as inferior, you have failed -- in spite of one's accomplishments.

Some call that perfection or simply dealing with the attributes of genius. I call it a cop-out to let petulence and immaturity be an acceptable excuse for success.

An open request of all existing geniuses: try impressing us with accomplishments that don't require you to stomp on the dignity of others.
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So basically every computation counts as a step?

But how about control structures? Like in Python:

"for i in range(4)", how many steps are there?
I do something similar. I have a led desk lamp with a clamp [1] on it, and point it at the wall behind my monitor.

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> Or may be if Raskin was able to had it his way, we would Apple would have brought a PC to nearly every home and has as much impact to the society as MS had.

If I'm not wrong, Raskin's I'd say "anti-vision" consisted of no GUI, no mouse, basically a kind of machine that even predated PC-s (capable of even less, but therefore being simpler to use). Jobs wanted more than anywhere existed and still having it simple to use.

I think it's easy to compare.
I always thought that mathematical operations run in constant time ... how can they not?
Sadly, I can't share any code, but here's my basic observations:
First, calling a standard Java object from Clojure is extremely painless. It's a bit more complex if you're dealing with listeners, but in general terms a java object is a java object without very much getting in the way. This means that all of your favourite GUI libraries are usable without modification.

Second, as Carl pointed out, Clojure does have state, it's just tightly controlled. So tightly controlled that multi-threaded programming is much easier. There's some things that I'd like on top of what it does, but it's very powerful and useful.

Thirdly, I'm not denying that thinking functionally takes a while, but as you develop the skill, it's amazing how many things actually look pretty stateless. I've met actuaries who use F# for all of their calculations. Equally, converting game state to a 3d scene graph is a pretty stateless process (although I've yet to meet anyone who's actually getting paid to do functional game programming).

Hope that is interesting. Will be glad to share more.
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Please don't pedal this nonsense.

The UK has a large amount of privately owned and operated CCTV cameras. Most are operated by private shop owners etc. They solve countless crimes every day, and deter crime.

There's also CCTV put in place by local councils, to stop anti social behavior and again, prevent crime.

You've been reading reddit too much I expect. There is no conspiracy, no centralized CCTV program where the government spies on us all.

Unlike some countries I could mention, we have a pretty low crime rate. Some of which is due to having various CCTV systems.

The UK does have a problem with speed cameras though. It's a way to generate extra revenue from the population.
Regardless of their intended audience the fact that they're interested is the important thing. If it's good it'll make it's way around the world.
minimalist testing FTW! (e.g. node-tap style). cant wait for a way for this to automatically run for me every time i update my githubz and then send me robot pictures representing my test status (sad robots for failing tests, happy robots for passing tests)
Well, now I feel stupid. But still, if you sell something that needs to be shipped - show the shipping price as soon as possible.
Or you could pick a well thought out OO language like Java or C#, maybe even Python. Unfortunately you're trapped using the abomination for iPhone development unless you pick Monotouch.
Another noob question about the grid. Suppose you wanted a 10x50 grid (let's not waste any LEDs!), or basically a non-square grid.

Would that difference cause considerable change elsewhere? At the code level? Or with the Arduino controller?
yeah, but you just want to have collaborative markdown editing _
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This admission has my "spider-sense" tingling also. The communication style between this guy and the author of the pastebin log seems so different.

It is plausible that someone guessed the password of nmongo's throwaway account, quickly changed that password, and then started posting the whole thing was a hoax.
See, that's what I didn't get about the article: DARPA intended the Internet to be built against single points of failure.

Where is the Internet's 'off button'? Sure, there are exchanges and backbones that are more important than others (e.g. LINX in London), but it takes sustained and continuous efforts by a government to even come close to filtering/censoring the Internet effectively.
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TCP backs off aggressively to avoid congestive collapse of the network. It is backing off in order to preserve shared infrastructure. If everybody used your UDP trick then the Internet would literally collapse. This is detailed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_c... . You should respect the rules of the road.
This is true. I think it's the only practical approach given current technology though.

When somebody comes up with a £50 home wifi access point that has a range of a mile or more inside an urban environment, that is when we'll get a proper darknet.
I was quoting the GP:

People who will probably never work again, due to lack of education or ambition.

There exist plenty of large areas dominated by people who are, let's call it "empowered to provide meaningful services to the community". Yet, these areas are more often examples of urban decay than they are of thriving communities.
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I never said there is a big central repository. There doesn't have to be for privacy to be invaded.

I would say you have a low crime rate due to social reasons, you can't just point and say it's because of CCTVs.
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How did they improve on it, those first Mac didn't have everything those Smalltalk 80 images had, and Smalltalk already had overlapping windows and drop down menus. If anything, those first macs were a poor copy, not a better one.
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A simple salt would fix the issue with it finding on google (unless your salt is incredibly common).
Most people are passionate about something, so tell me about it.

That's my sticking point: in situations referred to, the person in question all too often isn't prone to discussing what he _want_ to discuss, but what his fans do. How to, as a random face wandering up as so many do, can one elicit some fragment of "say, what do _you_ want to talk about or do?"

The nuance struck me when meeting (as just another face in the room) Steve Reich and Philip Glass. During a talk, Reich lamented that everyone wanted to gush over his early works, which he made clear he viewed as immature - not bad, but something he has moved far beyond. Able to stand nearby someone's hallway chat with Glass, I was struck by how _much_ the two had to talk about, how the other person wasn't anyone the great composer knew, and how I had absolutely nothing to offer/initiate in conversation despite a desire to do so and an ability to work a conversation well _once_it_started_ on some point - but alas I had no point to start on.

To wit: when opportune, I want to say to great/famous person X "so, what might _you_ want to talk about?" but such phrasing is inane.
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Indeed, we should make a point of not wiping anybody's fanny. What I had in mind is a type of existence where one has bare minimum provided (shelter, food, clothing, access to information), but that also as a feature provides a social stigma. This institution should be viewed by society as a temporary stop or a final refuge a safety net if you will.

You want tobacco? Go and work for it. You want booze? Go and work for it. You want PS3? Go and work for it.
i didn't mean to imply that. i do agree that your db client should check for write errors if you care about your data, and that mongodb should make their official drivers have safer defaults.

but the poster to which i was replying seemed to be saying that machine redundancy was somehow optional. it is not. hardware fails, and the architecture of whatever db server you are using is irrelevant when it does.