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by far my biggest complaint about my droid x2 is that I have no idea if or when it will get ICS. When google announces updates to android, rather than getting excited, I get pissed off. My phone is less than 6 months old, and was a top of the line phone. I have no idea if I'll ever get ICS. Isn't that absurd?
"It's a simple matter of the type of information they disseminate. "

And that type of information is? You seem to be one of the people assuming Stratfor is some kind of Blackwater intelligence company. They aren't.
No, I feel "They enjoy protections from the consequences of their actions," and, "if these people exist outside of due process, what's left?"
You're right, and I hope we'll see more innovation in this area, but I don't think it's reasonable (or a good idea) to expect Stanford professors to try to attack two very hard problems at once at this stage:

- Scale traditional educational techniques (lectures, homeworks, schedule) to a class size of 100,000 people

- Come up with an altogether new way to teach and assess students by taking advantage of the web

It's probably a good idea to figure out the bugs in solving the first problem before tackling the second.
The most important part in here by SPJ is "haskell is a playground for language design" and by John that "haskell's strength is playing with DSLs". Haskell started and is a research language; that is PRO and not a con. It gives simon the ability to give a talk at POPL saying look at this cool dependently-typed feature, and btw, the compiler you just downloaded already compiles these programs. We need more languages that are bridging the gap between cutting edge research and production compilers.
My email was obtained, and my credit card #. I used to subscribe to Stratfor to get another (more in-depth, geopolitical) perspective on the news.

Stratfor has sources whose anonymity (like with Wikileaks) is important.

If indeed the breach does reveal people who have helped Stratfor obtain information for its stories, it will be akin to if the group had hacked Wikileaks and outed Bradley Manning before he was caught by the government.
You mean “without any prior evidence”. The phrase “a priori” means “by reason or deduction alone, without empirical evidence”. The phrase “a priori evidence” is an oxymoron.
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Startup Chile is fantastic. The program helped us double sales and expand our product line far in advance of what we could afford. It was a life-changing experience for my girlfriend who now wants to start her own business instead of working for someone else. And it took away a lot of the drudgery of starting up a company. We got the chance to live in a great apartment with a view of the Andes, eat well, socialize with many smart people, and even travel to places like San Pedro de Atacama to see the stars.

The recurring complaints you'll read are from people trying to spend the absolute minimum and running into problems. They are honest and thus reasonable, but without explicit numbers it is also hard to put them in perspective and judge the program. I think most participants will be very upfront in telling applicants they need to plan to spend more than 4k to take full advantage of the program. In our case we needed to submit around 7-8k in expenses to get the total 42k grant over about nine months. But if this is bullshit I would like to signup for more of it. My costs are at least 3k a month outside Chile. 1k a month is nothing. For teams of 2-3 people to complain about that given all of the advantages strikes me as lacking in perspective.

As far as the availability of funding, I know more people who have taken funding in Chile than have taken it in China where my business is ostensibly based. That said, the point of Startup Chile is not that you are promised future funding or that Chilean VCs offer great valuations (I had very little contact with them beyond some unsolicited emails). That seems to be a very American thing as with YC and TechStars. The point is that you DO NOT GIVE UP EQUITY during a period of high uncertainty while you iterate towards product-market fit. Anyone who can't raise funding on much better terms after participating probably doesn't have a very fundable business.
To me this read more like "Look at all this in the here and now! See, it's still golden," with some halfhearted nods to the future. Her list of things 'this generation is playing with in new ways,' was a list of things already making me feel the space is over saturated.

Oh, and The Verge is pushing the envelope? The Verge is a more cluttered Engadget/Gizmodo in my view.
" They pass the stories onto governments/corporations."

And non-profits, and NGOs, and humanitarian organizations, who need or want information about places that don't get much coverage in the New York Times until the shit has already hit the fan. Places where maybe they have people working.
Love the subscription packs and the friction free signup, but once I'd picked a pack, I wanted to go back and add another pack to my set of subscriptions... but couldn't figure out how, probably because this is an MVP.

When looking at my subscriptions I clicked on the pub in the upper left to go to your homepage (to add a pack to my subscriptions) and what it does is change the view in some way that's totally not obvious to me. I get a different top story. Maybe its changing the sort order, but theres' no visual indication of what has changed, only the story I was reading is replaced. I click it again and it switches back.

Great MVP, and bonus points for the effortless signup.
This is a "Javascript has retarded semantics" problem, nothing more. This would never work in Lisp.

Moreover, despite being a strongly-ish typed language, C++ has pretty ridiculous implicit conversion semantics, only statically rather than dynamically.
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I agree totally. Situational ethics abounds it seems.
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Bradley Manning was not one of the "good ones". Sorry.
Not sure how it looks from the other end, but having applied to a handful, including solving a few nontrivial puzzles, I never even received a reply, even to say thanks for solving the puzzle, but you're not a good fit. Yc should have a seminar on business etiquette.
I agree with you that doing proofs isn't the most important thing --- though I might not be so adamant about avoiding it.

My own experience with ML is so narrow, it's hard for me to say what else should have made an appearance --- I made up the example that you rightly called me on. I worked with a research group on a reinforcement-learning system with a silly name, and we used a whole messy pile of linear algebra. I guess I shouldn't have expected to recieve the same kind of grounding in all the ML topics.

I agree that projects would make for a huge improvement. They are difficult, but no more difficult than they need to be, and practical. You're right, grading 20,000 of them would be madness. And maybe that's OK --- what's wrong with assigning work that won't be graded?

(OK, there are lots of things wring with it, starting with motivating the student to do the work, and ending with the lack of quality feedback. But even suggesting projects for self-directed students might be enough to get a blog-ecosystem going.

I don't know much about pedagogy --- I'll talk to some people who do, and maybe they'll dope-slap me into agreeing with you totally.)

But I don't think we disagree particularly -- math should only appear when necessary to understanding. Easy things shouldn't be made difficult just for the sake of some kind of scholastic masochism. But difficult things should be attacked with vigor, and not nerfed for the sake of the audience.
It's not actually a recommendation, Nginx docs says :

"Look, here is our official release under nginx.org and there is some wonderful work from volunteers which you can install development, stable and nightly builds without hassle"
The intention of this law is good for employee in spirit but I wonder if companies will now be reluctant to have clear career paths in fear of a lawsuit.
If Dick Cheney were running Stratfor, they wouldn't have said that Iraq probably didn't have WMD.
> Did you forget the context of this thread already?

Did you forget saying that people joined OWS out of incoherent rage, and defending the troops who actually did join the armed forces to kill innocent people? Who painted racist slogans on munitions, etc?

> My remarks that those of us opposed to SOPA should engage in more organized action rather than throwing in with Occupy were in response to this comment:

Oh, I see. Your baseless slander of tens of thousands was because someone had said we should join forces with them. No problem then.

> You still haven't explained how I'm a murderer by proxy and you aren't.

I didn't say I'm not. To the degree that I am, and yes it involves a lot of avoiding taxes, I am trying to stop it. You on the other hand support the troops, etc, and are unwilling to apply your incoherent rage rhetoric to the actual destructive elements of society.

For all that you (may not have) voted for any war-mongers, you certainly support the conservative status-quo in your willingness to speak out against Occupy, etc.

For instance, you call Occupy members a net drain on society. Perhaps they even are (or rather, the needless police presence is...). But any society pursing a baseless war needs to be drained of its resources before it can use them to kill more innocent people.

> So what gives you the right to call me a murderer by proxy?

Huh? What gives me the right to call you something?

Rather, what do you think removes my right to call you something?

> ... but how would you know if I did?

You'd have said so. And you wouldn't defend the troops. For instance you'd have commented that the racist motivations they had and the armed forces' willingness to recruit them despite this (because of?) was the reason why you couldn't support them regardless of their superficial motivations such as "justice".

> Does that mean you are by proxy guilty of everything that's happened in the Occupy camps that you defend?

Did I defend blanket-defend Occupy? That'd be like defending Anonymous or any other non-group. As long as there's one under-cover Scientologist causing trouble I can't speak for them as a group even if the rest were all certified angels.
Didn't mean to imply that timeframe for the position was the only consideration. But the article didn't imply that the job description was different from what Seagate offered, but rather than his employment was simply terminated.

Unless I'm reading that incorrectly.
I'm really excited to join KA as an intern this summer!
You're right. That's not cool. But I haven't really run into anyone who thinks we should shut down sites without due process, particularly on HN. Even still, I shouldn't jump to conclusions.
It makes you sound like an idiot as if you have any say in judging other people's problems. Please stop, it's bullshit.
Yes, it does seem like timeframe is a key consideration here.
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I'm curious. What happens if you sue a small California law firm in small claim court? The article says that in California small claims court, the company must be represented by a non-attorney employee. If the law firm consisted entirely of attorneys plus one secretary, would they really have to send the secretary?

What if you sue a company and every employee is an attorney?
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If you choose the "Blank" starter pack then you can import your OPML file from Google Reader.
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More reasons to love my gym.

A lot of weights. I'd say "a ton", but that'd be undercounting just 45#s by a factor of 4.

3 power cages, with lifting platforms and bumper plates. DBs to 200# (I'm still at about 120#). Another squat cage. A few Smiths to keep the bros off the real boys' toys. Recent some TRX gear (ring pull-ups FTW). 10 chinning bars, a couple of dips stations, GHR, bar jacks, chalk, and other goodness. Lots of machines for people who like that sort of thing.

And a really serious night crew.
I'm pretty technically advanced (both with computers and with photos) and I don't know how to remove watermarks. They prevent theft like the lock on my front door prevents theft: not by making it impossible, but by making it harder. They're both fairly unobtrusive ways to prevent opportunists from stealing.
Eh, the wall of text probably had more to do with the fact I was coding all morning and the verbal parts of my brain had gotten bored and restless. But seriously, if you're going to copy ifttt.com, copy the "focused, no frills, functional service.", not the core idea itself; or at least not so slavishly.
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The Pirate Bay does not exist outside of the confines of due process. It exists only because it is transparent and complies totally with Swedish law.

No one is doing TPB any favors. If anything, it gets more negative attention than it (legally) should.
> And that type of information is? You seem to be one of the people assuming Stratfor is some kind of Blackwater intelligence company. They aren't.

Oh, thanks so much, jonhendry! I really appreciate your filling me in. Reading America's Secret War, by Stratfor's founder, had left me entirely in the dark about their mission and capabilities until this very moment. I stand enlightened.

The fact remains, the sort of person who is emailing high-level folk at Stratfor either knows things or wants to know things of geopolitical importance. A source with a compelling piece of data the public doesn't know about, perhaps. Or a business tycoon with a question that, knowing it was asked, completely invalidates the public narrative that company had spun.

So if your mission is to get access to data about how people are running the world, a great place to start is a private global intelligence firm.

No one is saying they're not allowed to do what they're doing. Only that "trades emails with a private intelligence analysts" is probably going to be a pretty good proxy for "has interesting, secret shit to talk about."
Agreed. I considered delving deeper into this but it just turned into a "those evil lobbyists!" rant that no one hear needed to read.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this article was the Marathon trilogy (and Durandal's rampancy) by Bungie (pre-microsoft acquire). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Trilogy#Rampancy

(sorry I just nostalgia'd myself :( )
They enjoy protections provided by operating in a country where their site is legal. They're not operating outside due process.
Me too! I thought he was gonna present the best way to use your iso and available lights... :)
I thought I'd put in a note about my experience with a comparable program in Singapore called iJam. A very similar thing, though at the time it didn't include office space or travel expenses - basically a government managed micro-grant of $30,000, repayable only if you make $2MM in revenue.

I was also very frustrated by the amount of bureaucracy and the difficulty in getting payments - much of the time whether or not payments made it through was based on personal relationships. In fact at one point our payments were suspended simply because one of the advisors on the review committee didn't like us. In the end we got our cash - but lost a lot of time and ultimately didn't find it to be worth it. A better approach for us would have been to find a supportive early investor.

However, all of that said - even in Singapore, with its reputation for completely clean government - the program was riddled with conflicts of interest, double dipping, and other problems that led to a fair bit of controversy. So I understand the need to put stricter controls on how the money is doled out.

Net - this isn't so much about Chile, but rather about governments trying to be investors - they can't move quickly, they are not profit motivated, and they tend to rely on relationships rather than merit in the absence of clear guidelines.

I'm hopeful that the Chileans will figure out a clean set of rules that apply to everyone equally which will make equitable the tradeoffs between the free money and the pain of dealing with some bureaucracy.
Very interesting! I'm not a very math-minded person but that was fairly easy to follow along with. The nice pictures helped :)
Yeah, same here -- I'm a subscriber too.

But, Manning got caught b/c he bragged to someone who turned him in. I don't think Wikileaks was hacked.
He actually does discuss Shepard Tones and the Shepard Scale in the book, and explains how he thinks they are related to Bach's compositions.

Near the end of chapter 20, there is an example of a harmony that, when looped, creates the illusion of an endlessly rising melody.

In this harmony, the loudness of each note in the melodies rises and falls so that the lower melodies feed into the the higher melodies and ultimately fade out. In our brains, we hear this as an endlessly rising melody.
You could think that.

You'd be wrong.

Short, high-intensity work, and strength training, both have very large EPOC effects (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption).

The issues with processed foods are manifold. They're also easily avoided by eliminating the foods completely. A large part of the problem is that they encourage yet more overeating, while being robbed of crucial nutrients. Whole foods typically promote satiety while being nutrient-rich.

You might do better on your goals to follow up on a few of the references I've posted, as well as your own further research.

I do believe in a long training session, possibly two, per week. And I really enjoy it (hiking, cycling, rowing). But I don't think, my experience hasn't shown, and research doesn't support this being the missing factor for most people.
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> I've copied the information in your mail to myself without harming the original.

If you opened mail from my physical mailbox, you'd have committed the federal crime of mail tampering, which faces a fine and/or jail time. If you opened 3.3 million letters from my mail box, you'd probably be the first person to live the remainder of their life in jail for mail tampering... regardless of your age.

My mail is stored in an easily accessible box at the end of my driveway. If it has any form of lock, you're committing a much more serious crime. When you're hacking into a passworded system to steal email, your crime should be treated with just severity. Not only should it be regarded as committing a federal crime, but there should be charges for breaking the lock too (I'm against the DMCA's whole copyright circumvention bullshit, because it hurts the little guy. But no protection against email fraud hurts the little guy.)

> If you fail to lock your door, you are in effect allowing this possibility. If you communicate over a "clear" channel, without taking steps to encrypt that data, you are again allowing this. That's why I don't view this as a valid moral claim.

If I fail to lock my door, it's still immoral to enter my property and steal everything. Just as it's immoral to enter my unlockable mailbox and steal my mail. If you don't find it immoral for someone else to read your mail then honestly you should have no qualms with posting the entire contents of all your email addresses online for us to scrutinize as well.

If there's no immorality about stealing a corporations emails, containing hundreds or thousands of peoples personal emails and information then you should have no morality problems about HN trawling your own emails.

Regardless of if I lock my door or not, I have a right not to have my property looted. Regardless of if I use a strong or weak password for my email, I have the right to not have my property looted.

My problem with this world is people like you, who will be the first to scream fucking murder when some trivial wrong happens to you but you claim everyone else has no moral claim for not doing everything you deem appropriate. Get off your fucking high horse and learn the god damn definition of morals because at least knowing the definition might help you find a set.

I'm giving myself a 99% chance of being down voted, but put your money where your mouth is. I want to see your goddamn emails.
Tech blogging's devolved into a frantic scramble for ad impressions and traffic from various social sites with almost no effort put into any article. You can see it most days here ... a story will go from the HN front page to the tech blog's front page so it can circle back to HN's front page.

I really don't think they've even come close to a golden age of tech blogging - Engadget summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog that was summarizing a blog, with the entire chain of copy/paste journalists doing their best not to leak traffic to sources or external sites, and then AOL making that official policy, and then the rest of the blogosphere copying them, is probably not the best they can do.
This is very true, but my main issue was my phone receiving a delivery confirmation when the recipient never actually received the message. That seems like unacceptable behavior to me. Assuming the messages are IDed in some way, why can't phone A just keep sending message 1 to phone B until it receives a confirmation for message 1 from phone B? And phone B can just ignore any duplicate message 1's and send back confirmations for them anyway.

Obviously this becomes a very complex problem over a large scale, but I feel like Apple can do better than this.
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I've always been interested in automotive computing, but having a computer in my car has always been impractical... until now!
Get off this, dude, no one thinks Dick Cheney's running Stratfor. I bet he has friends on their client list, though.
I spent much of a week tracking down a bug in a Clojure program where primitive false was being sent through a network, and read back in as boxed false. It looked right when printed out, yet somehow the wrong branch of an if-statement was being taken. This was in a program under 2000 lines, in my first semester of college, before I had ever held a full-time programming job.

Most people are not trained to notice these kinds of problems, or the simple checks that can stop them from confusing a list of lists and a list of lists of lists. But if you take a step back and think hard about what's happening to your time, you'll find that many hours are sunk chasing problems that are, in many ways, simple. Having static checks is like always having someone to read code over your shoulder.
LuaJIT2 is awesome, but it still uses the Lua 5.1.4 garbage collector, so if the problem was GC related (i.e., memory fragmentation), then LuaJIT2 wouldn't help much.

OTOH, changing how you do things in Lua CAN be a big help in not generating garbage. I love the ability to ignore memory allocation in Lua, and I'm annoyed that I have to deal with thinking about it, but at least it's pretty straightforward.

Also, depending on the game, you can nuke your Lua allocation every level/section/other segment, allocating Lua memory from a memory pool. That can also help a lot with fragmentation.

But if you're doing a game that's one continuous experience, you have no choice but to be careful with managing memory. Again, it CAN be done from within Lua (think object pools), and that could be easier than porting to C++. And with LuaJIT 2, it would likely be fast enough in that case.
So, I'm curious - which patterns do you consider non-obvious in Python?