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Grammar and vocabulary is a learned social construct with peculiarities associated with the social group the grammar is derived from. What is correct in one social group may be wrong in another. For example, my first sentence is incorrect in some social milieus as it finishes with a preposition.

Demonstrating "correct" grammar merely demonstrates memorization of expected social norms ('communicate as the group does') for the group that one is a member of -- or wishes to be a member of. "Incorrect" grammar is not a global quality as all grammar and vocabulary is local with respect to group membership, geography, language exposure, temporal presence, and other factors. In addition there are certain idioms and informal speech present in specific social groups that may not conform to even that own group's peculiar grammar and lexicon!

Grammar and vocabulary are often a type of shibboleth used to demonstrate group membership or to discern group membership of an individual you are evaluating. Quite often pedantic demonstrations of grammarian prescriptivism is merely attempted to assert their social norm on another person of a different social group membership and are often uninformed as to the derivations of the rules they are attempting to impose. In other words, outside of pedagogic concerns, it's a dominance demonstration typical of primates and should generally be considered as nothing more.
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I completely forgot about provisioning profiles. Oh the amount of times I've said, "Fuck provisioning profiles".
Wearing contacts would have been impossible for me over the past decade, and I always had problems with glasses (specifically, waking up without good vision was a pain, and then there were various situations where I would want to see but not be wearing glasses...).

My assumption was that if there were long-term negative side effects, corneal replacement (or complete eye replacement) would become feasible within a decade or two. Corneal transplants are already done (using cadavers), and I don't think synthetic corneas are more than a few billion in research funding away with current tech.
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If so, tell me and who knows...maybe you may get your wish :)
It just needs an OS to go with it. I think Rob Pike should port Plan 9 to Go.
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I'm pretty sure this is not the same thing. The Gaussian filter you linked to blurs the entire element, including it's children. The behavior seems to be similar to CSS opacity, so if you want the children (like the text inside the blur.js demo boxes) to be non-blurry, you have to figure out some way to float them over the blurred element.
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Yishan knows more than most people about (the importance of) community on discussion sites, has the experience of being a major participant on LJ, Quora, and Facebook, and the engineering/engineering management experience of PayPal, Facebook, and some startup consulting.

I really doubt there's anyone more qualified to lead Reddit. I predict Reddit will add stronger social networking features to try to leverage the existing community in new ways; there has to be a reason news sites with great engagement like Reddit, Digg, etc. sell for less than 1% of a social network with the same stats.

He also built a pretty interesting invite-only physical tech community (like a less-crappy version of a coworking space), but I'm somewhat biased.

(what I really want is a hacker news social network, but there are reasons that is unlikely)

I wonder if this technically makes Yishan CEO of a YC funded company...
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That makes much more sense given the snippet of Haskell and isn't so hard to read. No need to email though, I'm pretty happy with the standard Lisp indentation style. Thanks for clarifying.
This seems like it applies the filter to the entire element (including its children), which would not give the same effect as blur.js without some complicated absolute-positioning trickery.
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No, the image is the positive of the reflected xray, white is more backscatter. Metal has little backscatter and neither does empty space. There is no 'backscatter plate' in terms of a background required to generate the silhouette as far as I am aware.
See my comment below. I don't think you quite understood what I meant. I'm not saying the code was written in scheme. I'm saying there is a product that allows you to write scheme macros to manipulate a database of machine code IR derived from disassembly and then turn the modified database back into an executable.

Hiding the source language makes identifying the origin of the malware difficult. There are obvious reasons to do that.
Neat, but http://aprs.fi has had this for years. Live cars map, too. :)
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Great post, I'm working on my build tonight and this'll come in handy. I usually end up just changing the Maps API key locally and never committing it which kinda sucks.

For Eclipse you can set the debug key here: Window > Preferences > Android > Build > Custom debug keystore. That's for the normal Eclipse/android build process.

Comes in handy when developing on multiple machines as you can't update an app that was signed with a different debug key (must uninstall first).
Wouldn't be the first space physics game, but cool nonetheless.
What shocks me most is the abundance of anonymous comments, probably fearful of how the TSA can make life miserable for them.
Very cool. This reminds me of Lytro's viewer - which typically uses Flash in most browsers, but is implemented in HTML5 for mobile devices like iPhone and iPad.

http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/289
Odd, isn't it, in a country that represents freedom from fear of your government and all that stuff....
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If you really love learning about new things and picking up languages for the challenge (as I do) then you should totally continue soaking up any documentation you can.

However, do not let the latest trend dictate how you use your knowledge. Programming languages are just tools, and sometimes its hard to remember that it's all in how you use your tool that makes it effective.
I'm guessing to celebrate they'll be releasing another weather balloon into space to drop angry birds paraphernalia.
No it is not necessary and it depends on your ambitions, some people like working with the latest and greatest some people like being trendy and yet others have no interest in the whole things. At some point though the landscape of computing fundamentally changes and the languages have to adapt and generally new ones more well suited for that landscape emerge. If you enjoy staying with the state of the art with computing many times using the latest languages is more complementary. For example their are languages that make parallel programming far more tolerable than some of the older but not old languages such as Java or C#. At some point as parallel becomes more and more important they will gain in popularity. That being said, if that does not interest you, you can always choose to sunset with your current languadge of choice. There will be a period where this is not a lucrative proposition, but as it ages and talent in the technology is lost to attrition, it can be as lucrative if not more than staying with the latest and greatest. For example COBOL developers and mainframe developers are now in high demand, it is not unreasonable to command 200k in either of those fields and they will most likely not be overcrowded as people are not flocking in droves to those technologies. But generally you have to chose one of the two paths, either you stick with what you know and sunset or you become the perpetual learner. I chose the latter because I love following along with where we are heading. But there is no shame in taking the other path. I have many friends that did and they are very happy with their choice.
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A real security hole, or one like "if someone watches you type your PIN code, they'll know your PIN code"?
The Chrome Release blog says it's fixed: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/03/chrome-stab...

And that the SVN commit history is available: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/dashboard/ui/chang...

But I don't see any commit that look even remotely related to this exploit. What's up?
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Reminds me of Smalltalk.
This one is still up:

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/07/howto-get-metal-through-a-t...

I can't imagine any BoingBoing writers sitting still if the TSA forced something like this to be removed from the site.
NASA's putting quite a bit of effort into educating the public, or at least, more than they were a few years ago. I'm hoping things like this and the Lego sets they built will get us interested in space again.
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I wish it was this easy ;)

The problem most folks have here is usually finding an idea someone will pay for. It takes being at the right place at the right time and a bit of luck to stumble onto those tough problems that people want to pay money to make go away.
I love this, but I wish you have a twitter feed so I can keep track/reminded of your site :)
This may sound extremely silly - but I'd love to have a desktop organizer application. Like I could decide to segment my desktop into 4 equal areas: games, pictures, applications, work-related. And then there could be a spot in the middle with an unsorted aspect. I could then click every item in the unsorted category and decide which category if any I wanted them in.

It would also be neat to have options on how many segments you wanted, the size of them, location, that sort of thing.

I'm not saying everyone wants this - maybe this will spur you into thinking of something else innovative. I just think that it's really annoying to drag and drop icons on my desktop as is - and an application could potentially make that easier.

I hope this helps :)
100% relevant to my interests.

One of the things I always think about is:

Say we determine (definitively) the origin of the universe. Now what?

The following argument even works if your a theist: So lets say god, the flying spaghetti monster, some alien kid in his mothers basement, whatever, creates the universe. If the question we ask ourselves is "How are we here?" then the next logical question has to be "How is the stuff outside of our direct perception here?" And then "How is the stuff outside the stuff outside our direct perception here?" And so on and so forth forever.

It's then that I think to myself: Well then the universe must not work on beginnings and ends, human perception is inherently flawed and the universe is incomprehensible.

Thats a pretty boring answer. So instead lets think about that hypothetical first being to create a simulation of sentient beings. That first being, lets call them Omega, can never be sure that they're Omega. They could themselves also be in a computer simulation. (Thank you Church-Turing.) So even if we are over thinking it and are the only sentient beings in existence, we'll never know it for sure.

Anytime someone mentions the measurement problem I always think of that scene in the matrix when Neo meets the Oracle for the first time.

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Sound insulation isn't that difficult, it just costs money, and it's one of the easiest places to cut corners. When people are looking at an apartment they look to see how the kitchen is, if it has hardwood floors, a balcony, etc. No one asks, "how is the sound insulation," but they should.

Municipalities would be doing civilization a huge favor if they upped the minimum sound insulation requirements for apartment/condo buildings.

Some neighbors are just plain rude and in their own world, but a lot of the issues that buildings can have are from poor materials.

The good news is that it's pretty cheap to throw down extra foam insulation under the floor to mitigate noise issues. But don't expect builders to do it.
The physics system looks a lot like that of Mario Galaxy, where each planet has its own localized gravity field of constant magnitude that just ends abruptly at a specific altitude. Although here the gravity fields can overlap.
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ ?
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Handy to know that setting exists. Thanks dude.
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Well... They would hopefully be smarter than committing the fix to the public SVN.

By committing the fix, they would effectively be releasing a step-by-step guide on how to exploit the vulnerability.
They learnt from watching all the research firms reverse engineer Stuxnet and eventually stop it. What they are doing is obfuscating the output. If you look at a default DLL or EXE build from VS it is amazing how much information is included that helps you attach a debugger and work out how it works.

The authors learnt from the Stuxnet experience and I wouldn't be surprised if they are not testing their own worm using black-box reverse engineering tools to figure out what the research guys will work out when they eventually find it in the wild.

This has worked so well that Kaspersky think that the authors actually invented a new language, when it is likely still just C++, some machine generated code, some obfuscator tools (game makers have been using them for years to stop crackers) and likely manually changing the outputted assembler.
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Hi, sorry for the delayed response,
thanks for your detailed responses, I don't want to go to school again but is there specific classes you recommend like AI, microcontroller programming etc ?

Do you work in the industry, you sound like you do...are you working on Google's self-driving car per chance : )
It also needs to be your creative work. I can't cut-n-paste a few paragraphs from Wikipedia (or some public domain text) onto my site, then claim you're infringing my copyright if your site has the same, or "substantially similar" words. (Though I _can_ get my lawyer to write you a carefully worded accusation of having something "substantially similar" without quite going over the line into fraudulently claiming copyright on the words in question).
What are the apt complexes like? Can you walk to stuff? Are the buildings mixed-use with businesses on the first floor?

In most of the country, zoning prohibited mixed-use zoning for much of the 20th century. It was a huge mistake that only be unraveled now. The side effect of that is that areas with good mixed-use and walkability are really expensive. This is a large reason that places like NYC and SF are so expensive, especially the areas with mixed-use zoning.

New mixed-use housing stock isn't coming online fast enough and the Bay Area in particular is very anti-desnity, despite the fact that they need it. Restrict growth, particularly growth with height, and you'll have expensive rents and housing prices.
"For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology's detection capability in detail"

Security through obscurity.

Are they afraid that if they disclose information people would somehow be able to find holes? If this is the case then why is this technology used? Why have gapping holes already been pointing out by numerous people?

Thinking that "the terrorists" don't have the ability to break this system without understanding the intricate details of it is just downright stupid.
I wish there was a tool with an Excel-like front end that let me do modeling coupled with a database backend.

It let me do a lot of what-if questions along with data input, formatting etc.
I'm not a fan of texting/calling while driving. I wouldn't text someone while driving, nor replying. If it's urgent, people wouldn't text me anyway.
It's my understanding that some of the key features are not possible under iOS due to restrictions in the SDK, namely:

- Reception of SMS by the app and subsequent features (like automatically reading the SMS aloud) because iOS doesn't allow the app to either be notified of an SMS or to intercept SMSs before the other SMS-handling apps (like Android does)

- Sending an SMS directly from the phone programatically - as iOS demands that the SMS send form is presented to the user and then requires a button to be tapped. So you'd be reduced to sending via an SMS gateway using a data connection.

I'd really like to be wrong here as we're currently dealing with these limitations too, so if anyone has any counter experience, I'd love to know about it

BTW, love the app Spenser. Well done!
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Work has been done with Guile to let it run emacs lisp. Hopefully, more can be done to finish this project. It would be great to have both elisp and Scheme as Emacs extension languages. More Google Summer of Code work?
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> the small size of the old UI definitely made it feel a bit like a second-class, constrained tool compared to the desktop.

Interestingly, my impression is exactly the opposite. The oversized new UI feels like a constrained toy to me, compared to my usual file manager(s).

On my desktop I can make icons 16px and easily manage hundreds of files and folders without even scrolling, or switch to a thumbnail view if I need to see larger pictures. The Dropbox web UI, on the other hand, has only one view option that seems ideal for neither documents nor pictures, and it doesn't make any use of horizontal space beyond the hard-coded 960 pixels. So it still feels too much like a website and not enough like a file manager application.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Large icons and bare-bones interfaces might make it easier for people to perform simple tasks on a small number of items. Besides, not everyone is looking for Finder/Nautilus/Windows Explorer when they open Dropbox on the web. In fact, I guess most people use one of those desktop apps to manage their Dropbox most of the time anyway.
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In my best Commander Tigh voice: "Looks like exactly the kind of code a Cylon would write, to me."
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What else? Have a third-party keylog you with 100% success rate, at once. But I kid I kid, either way, if you are compromised, you're going to lose those passwords no matter what.
I actually go to university now i started doing programming and built my own business at 16. I learned more than I have ever learned in school. I am really contemplating just going into working for a startup. I heard startups don't care if you have a degree, but I haven't heard back from any I have applied for. So if anyone could post whether they care if someone goes to Uni or if experience is enough.
Hmmm.. the "way to think" doesn't change as that would be like changing the way human brain works. Still some programming languages allows you to think more abstractly than others. For ex: You see a problem and in few mins you come up with an abstract solution because the language you use provide certain abstractions to help you solve problems. It is interesting discussion though and in my free time I do try to find about how human brain thinks :)
I find little timers like this crazy effective. When I switched to freelancing fulltime, I built a little Gmail widget to help keep me motivated.

It shows my bank account balance, in real time, ticking down to zero based on my monthly budget's burn rate. There is something uniquely motivating about seeing your money slowly disappear as you check your email.
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To continue the analogy..once we determine we're in a sim, maybe the next step is to figure out if there are any paravirtualization hooks we can use to optimize our universe.
I think it might just be bad wording. One of the requirements of notification for copyright infringement is to identify the specific instances of infringement.
I'd recommend Matlab too. Many quant shops use R or Matlab.
And...this is why I refused to complete purchase of my WP at home try on and went straight to CS.
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