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Sorry to trot out an almost cliched expression, but when we talk about killing jobs, we need to remember the difference between creative destruction and, well, destructive destruction.

I've destroyed all kinds of jobs with software, but fortunately in my case, the people doing the job were begging me to destroy the jobs. There's so much low hanging fruit in office automation. Just scratch the surface at almost any company, and you'll find situations where someone downloads a spreadsheet and then types the numbers into another system and then emails the screen from the new system to someone still using another system who types in the numbers...

In creative destruction, you do create wealth by eliminating inefficiency and waste, but there is a short to medium term transition cost as the people who are no longer going to be paid to do the old thing find something new to do. Fortunately, in my case, all these people had oplenty of other things their organizations wanted them to do, so the creative side of the destruction was immediate.

Hmmm... now that I think of it, David Heinemeier Hansson destroyed my old job. I used to get paid a lot of money to slowly type servlets, jdbc, and jsps. Fortunately, for me, the transition was not only quick but very pleasant - I'm a hell of a lot happier, and there's still more than enough software out there to be written.

The financial crisis, on the other hand, was destructive destruction.
So if something doesn't help every single person in the world, rich or poor, it's not a contribution? Wow, you have some high standards.
well get us started in your area haha! it's the classic chicken/egg problem. any advice on how to solve it?
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I'm struggling to figure out how this comment is related to the one that you responded to. Did you respond to the wrong one?
Duplicate values that should be unique is such a common problem if you don't use constraints.

This is a good example of why ACID and declarative constraints are a very good idea for data management.You can do a bad delete from query if you don't have the proper safeguards (though querying ability of SQL lets you more easily preview your changes), but the initial corruption of the data is an easily avoidable problem.
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Similar concept that I used with a SimonDelivers box to catch field mice: put bait in bottom of box. place stick against box so it forms a ramp for mouse to walk up.

Mouse walks up stick, sees/smells bait and jumps into box to eat it. Box is too high (about 14" tall) for mouse to jump back out. No, I did not patent this mousetrap!

I tossed the mice to my chickens. The ones that got away were lucky; the rest... well let's just say my chickens lay some mighty tasty eggs :-)
The .xxx domain was created so that Internet "filtering" companies can block it and protect the children.

I'm serious.
If we're comparing it to things as ubiquitous as computer technology itself and electric lighting, then I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that the relatively exclusive nature of the ipad puts it at a disadvantage in such a contest.
You could have other students do collaborative "grading" for certain assignments, much like students vote on which questions get asked.

For example, the assignment is to pick a method for reaching customers. I describe my business and propose five methods for reaching clients. To get feedback, I then have to vote on five other student's ideas about how they would reach clients.

Whichever method the students choose is the best for me, I have to do.

Students can also note which ideas for reaching clients seem particularly good or particularly poor. You can cull the top of these annotations to discuss the ones of broadest use for the class to understand.

I think the principles of your approach are simple enough (and that's a good thing) that for basic grading you could crowdsource it. It's not as good as being able to pick your brain, but it's still pretty good. You could then use the voting method to find the biggest wins and the most useful fail-cases to discuss in class.
I see this as just another channel, which might not be what we need. I'd love to see a truly innovative service that combines the existing communication platforms (fb, twitter, email, sms).
I agree on that explanation; I feel I learned a lot from educational games that had a more simulation/exploration flavor. We played some oil-prospecting game in elementary school that was pretty informative (I doubt I otherwise would've learned in school how searching and drilling for oil works). I also learned most of what I know about bridge engineering from the game Bridge Builder, though it was an indie game not explicitly targeted as "educational".

There is some vague background knowledge you can also learn just be making a game fun against a backdrop that kids can pull in via osmosis. There are miscellaneous things I know about the American west's geography mainly due to Oregon Trail, for example.
> Why this insistence that Jobs had some magical special sauce that all of us are lacking?

I agree with this. The say I see it, Jobs' only superpower was obsessiveness, and the willingness to say "not good enough", over and over again.

Regarding the "tweaker" concept, I think there's an important distinction: Apple (and Pixar) didn't take existing tech or design and iterate on them; rather, they created whole new tech from scratch, which they then iterated on. The Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, CG animation: they all aimed at a pre-existing concept, re-engineered a whole new thing to address that concept, and THEN iterated ruthlessly internally.
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I agree, but for different reasons. It's simply not a newsworthy item. Gossip worthy? Looks like it.
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You're right, but I posed this very question to Kevin Mitnick once. He had just recounted how, during his prosecution, he'd been forced to give up his passphrase. (This was several years ago, and so I might have some specific details wrong, and I'm also going to be a bit vague about it as a result.) I asked him why he didn't just plead the 5th. He said he tried, but that they moved him into solitary and they started abusing him in jail. (abuse is my word, I don't remember the specifics) and they they used every method they could to force him to give up the passphrase, including, I believe, holding him in contempt for not revealing it. Eventually he revealed it.

It is my opinion, having read accounts of people being prosecuted by the government for various crimes over the past 20 years, that in many cases, the government does not hold itself within the bounds of the law, and that such prosecutions are often illegal themselves. Yet, they are able to get away with this, because, what prosecutor is going to destroy their career by pressing charges on cops, other prosecutors or judges?

Also, in this day and age, asset forfeiture is extremely easy. The government can seize all of your assets, effectively denying you the ability to pay your legal counsel, forcing you to rely on the legal services they provide for you. Further, even if you can afford your own counsel, as an "officer of the court" they are subject to extreme pressure. I've read about a fair number of situations where lawyers would not even introduce constitutional arguments for their defendants innocence because it would result in recriminations against the lawyers by the judge. (e.g.: its "frivolous" to claim that federal drug laws are unconstitutional, even though to criminalize alcohol an amendment was needed.)

I'm not a lawyer, of course, this is just my perspective.
Nice to see Robert Scoble referencing the app but the home page explains Wishery better than Scoble. Though I wonder how it looks with the new GMail UI?
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Point to the part where I'm wrong.
I read the site but I still cannot figure out, if you're a vendor, what is necessary for buyers to activate their account.
Okay, instead of 'square root' try spike sorting algorithms for recorded neuron activity. There are various ways of doing it, various software packages, free and commercial, ways of doing it in Matlab, etc.

(Ex: http://www.plexon.com/product/Offline_Sorter.html#Features)

Given a terabyte of recording data, I'd think it should be sufficient to specify the parameters they used for spike sorting. Someone else ought to be able to use a different package on the same data and obtain results similar enough to know if the first person fudged their paper.

Given a set of data, and a named algorithm, it ought to be possible to obtain the same result with any correct implementation of that algorithm.
jacksondeane - here's our opinion on that: the problem is communication intent - twitter/fb are about communicating to followers. you tweet a beyonce video from a cafe and your neighbors don't need to see that. but if you want to advertise a garage sale or send a missed connection, you don't need (or want) all your friend in nyc to see that. that's what we think the difference is.
The humor attempt falls a bit flat especially given that Canadian currency has been hovering near parity with (or above) US currency for years.
I've been looking for this... pay through twitter. Imagine the possibilities!
Its better for her to try and make it on her own. By the looks of it, she can do it.
I believe they said that they had been turning the power on and off for a while, trying to short circuit it.
wouldn't everything be? secure doesn't mean 100% no possible way that an attacker could ever compromise anything. it's also vulnerable to people looking over your shoulder.
From a financial perspective, Delaware is the often default-choice, but your best bet is having a good advisor/counsel to ultimately help work that out for yourself.
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Probably not, but relevance is only one dimension. I enjoyed this far more than any of the flood of bitcoin articles we had a whiles back.
First, charity isn't a competition over who can sacrifice the most.
At the end of the day, that $500,000 helps Wikipedia
five thousand times more than your $100. More, probably,
because his donation raises the profile and will convince
others to donate. Second, people aren't "expected" to give
anything, regardless of how much money they have.

But rich people are expected to give something to society, the same way powerful people are expected to use their power for good, and smart people are expected to contribute scientific breakthroughs and engineering feats, not build throwing sheep apps. The concept of noblesse oblige is the definition of this expectation. Perhaps you meant that they aren't required to give anything. No one is required to do anything except obey the law. Perhaps people shouldn't expect the wealthy to give, but that doesn't change the fact that they do.

Furthermore, it could easily be argued that Sergey Brin benefits far more from Wikipedia's existence (perhaps 5,000 times more) than ajross, and this donation is him showing his appreciation for that benefit.

However, I do agree with you on his self-righteousness, that is uncalled for. It is quite irksome to see someone criticize anyone for volunteering a large amount of their hard earned money.
They have tried just that:

FBI Director Louis Freeh is the most outspoken advocate of encryption
restrictions. He argues that the capability to conduct court-authorized
electronic surveillance should be built into any technology, including
powerful encryption software. [1]

One Freeh proposal is that all users of powerful encryption software be
asked to turn over their keys to a third party, so that law-enforcement
officials can gain access to them with a court order.

Freeh's allies include his boss, Attorney General Janet Reno, and
legislators including Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon (R-N.Y.), the retiring
chairman of the House Rules Committee.

"Let there be no doubt," Reno wrote congressmen last year. "Without
encryption safeguards, all Americans will be endangered."

See also law enforcements contention that they are free to invasively check the data on any laptop or phone that crosses the border, etc.

As always, child porn / blah blah blah (while not minimizing my concern for the children involved) is, as always, merely the excuse. This will, as always, be used for harassing people growing pot or civil rights protestors or to help beat hippies.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/encryp...
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I suspect that this stand is at least partly the result of vicious competition from Amazon - adding a $20 license fee to the BOM just might make B & N's devices completely uncompetitive. And if they don't have a credible electronic device on the market, it's hard to see them existing in 3 years.
it goes both ways - if you put linux on it, it doesn't have dalvik or whatever it is that android apps need to run. not everybody wants to run X apps, what's a pain in the ass for you is a great feature for somebody else.
I wonder if critics have actually read the book. There's quite a bit about Jobs' actual work and you get quite a bit of insight into what he did and how he went about it.

Gladwell is quite capable of spinning some idiotic theory on his own. You can't blame Isaacson for his shortcomings.
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This rules. Incredibly easy.
Nonsense. These studies are just averages and statistics not facts. People have control over their perceptions.
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Oh my god. John Gruber is really showing his true fanboy colors here again and again. He is going to cry about these "misrepresentations" of the great visionary Steve Jobs until people stop listening to him (and posting this garbage on HN). I understand why people are so drawn to studying a successful individual's life, but we must accept that every story must make some educated assumptions. Ultimately, who cares?!
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Game consoles, cars and GPS-devices are closed in the same sense that Macs, iPhones and iPads are. The vendor supplies the product as a complete integrated experience, not as hardware that you install whichever software you want on.
"What's changing is that technologies that dramatically raise the cost of investigating those crimes are now the default."

Do you really think so?

Last time I checked, facebook made really really easy to investigate the live of everyone as never before. I'm not the one that says that, the FBI chief officers said that.

Last time I checked, there are cameras anywhere in the cities, from banks and shops to circulation plates readers with days of video buffers, so if something bad happens(terrorism) they have more information(and less cost) than ever before.

Last time I checked, they store your telephone tower triangulation information that stores when you were at what time.

They even can analogize all telephone communications of the entire country on real time, store them on a hard drive, and transcribe it for easy searching.

Today this people have more information than ever, but of course, they want more because they want to control everybody.

Terrorism and children protection has become the wild card they use to break the freedom of the people, convert us in the serves and making them the masters ( I got to meet the TSA people).
SCADA systems often rely on time-deterministic routing of packets, which TCP/IP doesn't make easy. There are a number of issues with securing them, including the fact that unscheduled downtime can be catastrophic (ergo, no hotpatching without massive work).

There are some good posts on the SCADASEC mailing list. There are some lousy posts as well.

Culturally, SCADA system security is approximately where IT systems were in in 1995 with Windows 95.
You just sign in with Twitter and connect your PayPal account. After that transactions can be made over Twitter.
A good idea would be to have slightly friendlier tweets i.e. instead of 'Buy!' have users say 'I just bought X from @y'. That way it makes sense when someone checks their timeline, instead of a cryptic one-word tweet.
I made a app/bookmarklet that works pretty well in these situations: http://app.reminderbear.com/

Click on the bookmarklet and you can have the page you're on emailed to you in 2 months.
As far as I've heard, almost nobody clicks on ads. Just because ads produce enough revenue to support a business, don't assume that that means that a majority ever clicks on them. That's akin to an argument I read a lot on HN when people complain about particular content always getting on the front page (bitcoin, apple-this-or-that); that if it's getting on the front page, a majority must be for it.

According to this article from 2009 reporting about some consultant study that divided people into "heavy clickers, moderate clickers, light clickers and non-clickers" of ads, between 2007 and 2009, the non-clickers grew from "68 to 84% percent of the entire Internet population."

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/4720-16-of-users-click-on-ba...

The study also claimed that the more savvy people became about the internet, the less likely they clicked on ads. The population as a whole is becoming more savvy about the internet.
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News sites are really starting to get their act together and present content in mobile-friendly manners. The Toronto Star just launched an iPad optimized site at read.thestar.com - and it's awesome. They're using Pressly (no affiliation). Highly recommend taking a peek if you're into mobile news design.
I've always thought that a solution to the problems with insufficient 5th amendment protection would be to make your password a passphrase that contains an admission of a crime.

For instance:

"I admit that I smoked marijuana on the 5th of December 2010".
or
"I under paid my taxes in 2005 by $50."

These passphrases, as literal admissions of a crime, would have to be protected by the 5th amendment.

Of course, that presumes that the legal system operates under the constraints of the bill of rights, a presumption I don't believe currently holds very often.

(Neither of the example phrases given here are actually true about me. )
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For those that care:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricati...

Nvidia uses TSMC/UMC,
AMD uses GlobalFoundries
Sometimes it is an inevitable consequence of the march of technological progress that certain legal and civil artifacts of previous eras must fall away, and we need to let that run its natural course, instead of trying to put up pointless and ineffectual -- but costly and frightening -- bureaucratic boondoggles in its way.

We will just have to live with the fact that secure end-to-end electronic communication and storage encryption that is not accessible by law enforcement is available to anyone who really wants it. For the most part, this is good news for privacy, civil rights and protection from information crime; in a few extremely marginal cases, like terrorist plotters and whatnot, this is bad, but we can't have our cake and eat it too. Trying to stop it, roll it back, pretend it doesn't exist, etc. is a pointless waste of time.
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I felt pretty good about our application and stand behind it. Just a bummer to have what was a highly enjoyable process be capped off like this. As Arielle said, this sort of thing can have a major chilling effect - I hope it doesn't put women off from applying in the future.
And btw I'd do it all again.
i just realized i wasn't replying correctly earlier - sorry about that - see my response to this above
Misleading title, the quote is nowhere to be found in the article which says little beyond the fact that encryption is tough to crack. Nowhere does it say it can't be done.
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Yes, it does. That's where the US tradition comes from. It's originally derived from Roman law.

It's contrasted with Napoleonic code, in which innocence must be proven. It is or was the basis of law in countries conquered under Napoleon, and/or their colonies (e.g.: Mexico).
Couldn't someone:
a) physically remove your hard drive
b) mount it in a different machine
c) find your SD checking script
d) figure out what key file you're checking for
e) write that key file to a new SD card (or otherwise circumvent the check)

This assumes that your HD isn't fully encrypted, in which case you'd be pretty well protected. It does sound like a nifty way to auto-logout quickly though...
The problem with that is that the 5th Amendment, as specifically formulated, protects you from being compelled to give _testimony_ against yourself.

The success of your strategy hinges on the idea that divulging the password is an act of a testimonial nature, and existing precedents have not gone that way. Testimony is a very particular kind of thing, rather narrowly circumscribed.
That story was about persons' personal relationship with God as determined not by absolute value of material terms, but as a sacrifice from pure heart relative to one's abilities. Just ask that any Christian who actually understands what he reads.
The article postulates that there isn't a timestamp in the pattern of dots because the pattern is consistent on a specific printer, regardless of when the print happened.
The one in this specific example is likely ok in most western workplaces, outside of the US. Europeans don't freak out nearly as much over this kind of stuff as Americans do. It isn't porn, as anyone with a pair of eyes can clearly see.
What's nonsense?

Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG.

It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a relatively small sample.
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"In 2007 the Chinese military launched a ballistic missile into orbit to destroy an obsolete Chinese weather satellite. It scared the hell out of NASA because of the sudden cloud of new debris in orbit (which at one point forced astronauts to leave the International Space Station to during one dangerous pass by the debris."

This was by far the more onerous problem. What many folks don't internalize is that there is an interesting balance between being able to be in orbit, and the junk there. Once it exceeds a certain density the existing satellites will become victims to collisions, their debris will add to the junk which will take out all of the rest. One computer model has all of 'low earth' orbit from 100 - 150 miles out being destroyed (including the ISS) with the destruction of as few as 5 satellites. Actually deploying a debris field could render earth orbit unusable with 2 launches. What is worse is once you have this mass of junk up there you can't relaunch new satellites to recover, they won't survive. And you can't launch to Geo because you can't get through the swamp, game over for space assets.

Pretty much the space activity for the next decade after that event is cleanup strategies.
Not quite. Steve liked DynaBook, but he thought it was a laptop computer. If he'd taken the job as head of Apple Research, that's what he would have produced. Apple had a tablet - the Newton - and Steve killed it when he came back. It turned out what he hated about tablets was the need for a stylus, which was the Microsoft approach (like the Newton), and that's what he wanted to prove wrong.
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Maybe redbox cannot afford licensing for that? Also, I believe the future is streaming not physical kiosks.

People are demanding new movies from Netflix and this just seems like the most logical move for them since Redbox already shows people are willing to pay $1 for a rental.
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