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I really think you are mixing up your units, so to speak. Smith spoke of men wanting to be loved and to be lovely. The reducibility of society to the individual is a feature of liberalism - indeed, it's probably the defining characteristic. Once we try to make a collective a unit of polity, we run into trouble.

Smith's math was - for every dollar in profit "p" you make, you create "x" dollars of consumer surplus, and "x" is always much more than "p" ( because people simply would not bother. The "unconscious" nature of consumer surplus, and the clear historical disasters wrought by large efforts based on intentions show clearly that we need discipline in our evaluation of what we do that does good. One was of doing that is price and profit.

There are the Adam Curtis films, in which he tries to use neocon logic to critique liberalism without being the sort of neocon one can spit on, but his films are problemsome. He at least asks the right questions, which are hard questions, and you can't blame him for being responsible enough to provide at least one answer.

Profit is little more than a "qsort callback" related to priority. it is a tool for the always difficult question of "what shall we do now?" There are certainly forms of gain which entail rent-seeking or despoilment which are called profit ( but are not, really - there are either economic rents or involve the creation of negative externalities ) but beyond that, Smith's read really is that of a moral philosopher first, and I've yet to see a really good counter to it that does not involve something akin to universe-building.
+1! I also believe the potential is huge but I'm having a hard time on actually thinking WHAT would I do.
The thing I remember Derek the most for is CD Baby and the grand switch from PHP to Rails which was cancelled after two years; causing great controversy.

His entrepreneur philosophy has beauty to it, but he was totally off track about the whole PHP/Rails thing. Of course it'll take forever to rewrite an entire company (practically) in a different framework. Don't do that. If you want Rails, switch over incrementally to avoid a Big Bang and use it for new projects.
Thanks for the analysis. Sounds interesting.

Yes, I'm less interested in quick scaffolding, be it via code generation or ready components, but clean reusable view components does sound appealing.

Rails helpers are great for some things but more complex cases like custom form builders can get ugly (no, formtastic is not always the answer). Will give Hobo a look next time.
> I really doubt the government is regularly spying on your printing.

For some values of "the government" not including many governments; see $OPPRESSIVE_REGIME.

There's a lot of stuff "the government" does now that would have been unthinkable before various terrorist bombing attempts. Really, forcing everyone to remove their shoes before boarding a plane?

And, if you doubt that the US[1] spies on its own citizens you should have a look at the Echelon programme, where a legal loophole was used by the US to gather intelligence on its citizens. (The US gov can't do it legally, so they pass a name onto another gov involved in Echelon.)

[1] US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
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Anti-viruses will always be necessary. There is money to be made in sending spam, running bot nets, and mining data. Regardless of what operating system you are running I'm sure there is someone out there who could find a vulnerability if he or she was motivated enough. Is this more of a PR move? Whenever you talk to Mac users they seem to flaunt the fact that they are virus free or is it that no one bothers since so few people have macs compared to pcs?
It isn't blocked yet.. Give it a few hours.
I say this to many people. If the definition of a virus or malware is something that hinders performance and functionality of your computer, then most commercial AV products fit the bill. They have a massive footprint, stop you doing normal things, constantly interrupt you and generally are impossible to remove completely.

It staggers me how competition in the anti-virus market gave us so many bad products. Even the ones that started out good slowly morphed into expensive bloatware. Security Essentials was the first step against that trend, and I'm happy to see it go all the way.
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I am the editor of Interesting Times Magazine, so I have a fair bit of domain knowledge (although I merely consider myself a hobbyist magazine editor at this point).

I am thinking of scratching some itches that we have currently.

Some of the stuff we spend a lot of time dealing with:

-Converting the external source files (often .doc or .docx but variations occur) into text files with html tags (it's what we use internally).

-Finding images for articles and storing them alongside each article. Keeping track of who should be given credit.

-Keeping track of changes in the internal source files and the PDFs (ie typos were fixed in the PDF, and this should be reflected in our internal source files). The reason for doing this syncing is that we want to put everything up on the web eventually, and we want every text to be exactly the same.

-Some kind of diff mechanism which could tell us if a PDF differs from the text files that we use internally (this is kinda hard due to the PDF format, or at least the hacks that our graphic designer uses to make it look nice).

-Keeping track of leads for articles as well as deadlines for individual authors.

-Brainstorming general ideas with the team (currently done over email which is a hassle when you are dealing with 10 people).

-Coordinating layout work between various graphic designers (or, rather, this is something we WANT to do and have TRIED to do in the past, but failed to do because of the hassle).

-Being able to do mock-ups of various layout ideas (bonus point if I can do it myself without having to go through my designer).

Now, this is a quite diverse list, and I would be happy to just solve 1 of these as it would free up lots of hour for me.

Is anyone else in the magazine business? What do you wish for in project management software?
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I've had dinner with many people in their homes, and at my parent's house my mom hosts a home-made dinner every Sunday in an open invite sort of fashion like this, so I am familiar with and really like the idea, but I have a question that a lot of the clients might have.

In this situation (possibly complete strangers meeting for the sole purpose of eating) what is the norm for after dinner socializing? I think it'd be fair to say that some people would just leave after they're done eating, but how does a host go about inviting their guests to leave? Or would hosting such a dinner automatically entail at least a round of talk afterwards?

If you can keep it simple, than it'd be easier to host. I just say this cause my mother's dinners usually last all evening long, and that isn't something I'd personally be willing to host, although a small dinner would be much easier for me to manage.

Not that you should try to regulate it by any means, but would you have readily available advice to users?
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Great, I was wondering what would be an idiomatic way of solving this in Clojure.

Given the addition of core.logic into Clojure 1.3.0, one could even skip the implementation of cKanren. Although to be honest I'm not altogether sure how core.logic measures up to cKanren.
The best part is the twitter quotes in the special frames - how else can we convey and support the idea if not by quoting random strangers from 160 character-limited message service?
It's even worse if you arrive at the landing page with an old browser: Then the most important thing the team wants to tell you with their single shot at your eyeballs is that they are uber-geeks who love web sockets. Like I, as a potential customer, should care about that.

I'm guessing here, but they should be able to build a landing page that tells me what their product does without needing web sockets to build it. Without it I'm not even going to make the effort to come back later on a browser that they might support just to find out what on earth their offering is.
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Much respect to Pausch. One of my persistent fears is that, within sight of my own demise, I'll be too paralyzed - with anxiety, with fear, with whatever - to make good use of the time I have left.

I have a profound amount of respect for a man who has defied that so completely.
Maybe its a PR move for Microsoft more than anything. "Windows 8 has a built-in anti-virus and is more secure than ever!"

I feel like Windows gets targeted the most because there are just so many computers running it. If 80% of computers out there ran OSX I wonder if anyone would give a shit about the next vulnerability in Windows.
This is why I am moving my company back to the States and why the Chinese startup scene is so depressingly obscure. The Chinese government can go to hell. I'll take my business and dollars somewhere else.
Wikipedia's decision to left-align Wales' picture has been tremendously effective at spreading the news that Wikipedia is running a funding drive.

So far I've read about here, the Register, Reddit, Techcrunch and a couple of other blogs who couldn't help pointing out the hilarity.

Money could buy that amount of publicity, but by gum it would be expensive. Congratulations to all involved.
Yes, this really is an amazing rover! But I wonder why they chose such a complicated landing sequence. So many places where things can go wrong.

I hope this rover actually does land successfully - with its RTG power source it could last for decades!
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> “This is just proving that higher up someone thinks women don’t play games, and definitely don’t pre-order them.” said Eleanor.

If it's true that someone chose to not include female cloaks then that person needs a slap.

But isn't it possible that no-one actually made the conscious decision to exclude female gamers, and that they just didn't realise that the cloak came in male and female versions?
It's for that crisp piece of paper that said you did it.
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Something I'm wondering: is it relatively easy to just dive into these libraries and start doing useful things with facial recognition?

Or is it more of a toy at this point?

I have a few ideas in that general direction, hence my asking.
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This is a yet another article reminiscing about "the old way" claiming "the new way" takes away something which was never there. There is nothing romantic about a book. There is nothing especially important to kids about print in contrast with a digital edition. It might not be a fair comparison taking a 600$, 10" monochrome ink-gray kindle reader and comparing it with a large, colourfully printed kids book, but assuming you have a device able to reproduce it, being sturdy enough to survive your average 2-years-old, what exactly is the advantage of a book? The idea that a tree died for it?
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Isn't there huge fragmentation in Android webkit? Plus focusing on iOS and Android covers most 'mobile' cases. Other platforms hold a harder justification.

Perhaps the route forward is a simple web app to cover everyone, then focus on the top platforms for native.
I'd say that your last question is key here.
Is there a problem, really? Well, it depends on the target of your game.

You can apply several layers of security on top of your game, and you will likely deter 99% percent of tinkerers.

You'll never be able to stop someone really determined into breaking your game.

I've had some experience before with games and the hacking around it. There are many measures to take in account, but they depend very much on the game in question.

The fact that a game is made in flash is never an impediment to hacking.

Some games will only send short, timestamped input signals to the server. The server runs a simulation of the game and it has an authoritative state of the game. Then, it is a matter of sprinkling several validation checks related to the player's position, where can he shoot at, etc.

Once you get to that point, you'll say to yourself: "Is this really worth the hassle?"

It really depends on your game. If it is a puzzle and you are worrying about the leaderboards being hacked (an incredibly easy thing to do sometimes), then you should summarize the game's actions and come up with a hard limit.
Meaning, you should ask the question: "How many blocks can the player destroy in the 30 seconds that this round lasts?"

If you sum up the time from when the player clicks a block, animation triggers and then the block is destroyed, and that number is 1 second, then it is likely that the player won't be able to destroy more than 30 blocks during a round.

I don't know, this is just an example but it can be way different from what you want.

Let me know the type of your game and I can give you a few pointers if you like.
While hacking may not be a problem, it sure is a lovely subject to research and analyze.

I'm sure you know this but it is always good to have in mind: never trust the client.
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"Are people more likely to die in jail than outside?"

I don't know - do you? It seems very likely that they live longer even in jail than if they are being executed by death sentence, though.

Of course even being in jail as an innocent is a tragedy, but my personal feeling is that being executed is even worse.

I've never been to a prison and I don't know how the prison experiences vary by country. Somehow I have a hard time believing that in my country the infamous shower rapes are the norm. But I don't know.

I am surprised that the claim is only 10 innocents who have been executed. Even just casually reading I have a feeling that I read about more cases (and definitely about more cases who have been on death row but were freed in time, maybe because of the initiative of that law professor with his students?). Maybe you mean 10 innocents per year?

Perhaps it is also less likely that a case is being resolved after a death sentence, because there is less incentive to look into it. While people are still on death row, there might be more urgency to trying to prove their innocence.
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There is no such thing as unlimited.

However, if you were to take p(x) as the pdf of people needing exactly X storage and take the standard assumption that the integral over it's domain (0->infinity) = 1, then you can work out the expected amount of storage required per customer (integral of xp(x) over it's domain). Now as long as the cost required to host that expected amount of storage is less then the amount they are being paid, well then, they still make money.

But what usually happens is that they take various 'measures' to cut off the right tail of the pdf to make it more profitable. That's dishonest.
I don't really know it really depends on the number of a contributor! The goal isn't to have a huge blog with 20posts/day. The hard thing is to get a motivated team to get started to be sure the idea will last (there's no point if everybody post something at the beginning and then nothing).

Maybe we should start to talk on IRC? Or Google groups to see who's motivated?
I was also surprised that it does not work in IE9 - to make matters more annoying, the back button decided not to work (it just kept flashing me back to the 'We heart websockets' tagline.

Lack of IE9 support is an irritant (one fixable with fallback, bout your business, your call). But that annoying back button issue that resulted in me having to close my browser and reload just to get back to HN to make this comment is on my short list of web behaviors that make me never wish to visit a site or vendor again.

It does surprise me how many web sites, especially ones in many cases geared towards dev teams, either explicitly cut IE8/9 out of the picture, or render so horribly that they make me wonder whether they intentionally degrade the experience to be 'clever' or if they really just do not care about that much of their market share.

For the record, I have the most current versions of IE, Chrome, and Firefox on my PC, and run Win7, Win8, Ubuntu and OSX on other PCs just to make sure my web properties are useable for 95%+ of my visitors (I've cut IE7 support recently, but IE8 is still about 20% of my traffic).
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I don't see the point of using something as complex as a unix kernel for an embedded real time system. There exists an open source RTOS with a lot of space flight history called RTEMS, www.rtems.org. That might be a good choice.

Also I'm not sure they actually are using Linux to control the rockets since that would pretty much make them impossible to qualify for human space travel (i.e. DO-178B qualification).

EDIT: Looking at their jobs site it seems they are using VxWorks. This is more reasonable ...
By the way the "big thing" isn't the hardest part of this. The most important thing is probably the review of issue/pull request, and everybody who want to help can do that ;)
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I don't think it is selfish at all. You put in the work to learn something and you are giving it away for free. People who are earnestly searching for information will find it one way or another.

I'd consider selfish to be learning something and keeping it all to oneself.
The article seems to use "turing machine" or "emulator" in a more figurative sense, not to mean that the spider's neural network literally simulates simple rules that emulate a brain. The analogy to timeslicing makes more sense: the state of a computation can take less neural-network space than the ongoing computation, so switch between them and remember the variable values.

Also, the broader speculation in this article reminds me of https://www.xkcd.com/505/
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What matters is how much of this malware gets onto devices. If the vast majority of Android users get their apps from the official store and Google Can prune the malware effectively, it may not really be a problem.
This is a very narrow, romantic view of things. If a future kid finds a 40 year old e-book reader, would that be less of a find than the comics? more? Are books better because they wear and tear? I can buy a new book, then leave it outside in the sun and dew for a week, would that make it better? Why isn't a digital edition, that could also supply a kid with references to the original mythologies and books worse?

Would you like your child to learn about the world from a dated, occasionally incorrect encyclopaedia, simply because it weighs more?
What is the difference between a print of a picture on paper than on a screen? Neither is an original creation. An artist can create a 100% digital image on his PC, but according to this logic, printing it in a book gives it some magical "quality". Books are not physical objects because they have pages. You're superimposing your own values, as someone who grew without computers on this era. Leafing through an old book isn't more or less enriching because of the weight, the yellowing pages and smell of old glue, but because of the discovery and learning.
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This is very cheap on the writer's part. I agree, Jimmy Wales' face showing up is super irritating, but I personally did not like the tone.
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Or that they initially thought it was unisex but when they actually tried it on the female model the IK came out looking wrong in some obscure case. Or it had unexpected tearing issues. Or they had a fixed release date and couldn't get the female version finished in time, or .....

Still a stupid decision. They probably should have just scrubbed both. I'd wait until we get word back from the publisher before trying to work out what actually happened and if it was, in any way, dishonerable.
Because Mars is a pain in the ass to land heavy gear on.

There's too much gravity, too little atmosphere, and we haven't perfected AI. You can't rely entirely on parachutes, the air bags they used on the last few landings won't hold up to something so heavy, and landing with direct use of retrorockets would pretty much require a human pilot to be sure of -- and even if we had a human pilot, the enormous amount of dust it would kick up is problematic.
This would be true if rockets actually never exploded. But it seems to me they actually do, and that's why it's useful to test very unfortunate scenarios as well. It's not like they design jet engines' blades to come loose and cause destruction, but they - or some aviation authority - have decided that the engines should not explode even in a case of blade separation. I find it a lot more comforting to know jet engine is tested to not explode in such situation than I would if I was told jet engines are designed perfect. Because perfection is not something engineering can achieve, only extremely small probabilities of failure.