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:) I didn't think it would make it this long without someone calling me out on that but you are 100% correct, rooting is not the right term for what happened since they did not actually control the account. Some might argue however, that since they took the liberty to allow everything possible that for all intents and purposes (except of course changing my password which would do them no good anyway) they had administrative access to my account.

Also, just to clear up what happened, I was asked to allow separate permissions for modern warfare 3 (much less lenient ones) and when i did that, psn also hopped on board and opened up everything (which I clearly did not authorize). I don't think that facebook has anything to do with this except for the fact that it is possible. I would hope that this sort of use of their service makes them unhappy.

I would take personally any app that asked me to allow certain rights and then piggybacked on every single possible right without notification. Some people don't care, I think it is an issue to bring to everyones attention. I'm glad you got amusement, hopefully some others got more.
Please prefix the pundit neocon's name to these types of submissions.

Linking on Thomas "Flat Earth" Friedman is the political equivalent of linking to goatse.
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No, but that's an understandable cultural misconception. The money is relevant, but not the main issue at hand.

In these communities, nobody cares about money, because your standing in the community isn't determined by how much money you have, but by how much you have contributed. This is kind of implicit in 4chan users, where it's considered tacky to even claim explicit ownership, because memes are understood to be products of an amorphous community. It's explicit on places like Reddit, where cultural standing is measured as a number.

Yes, the author would not be receiving money for this product, but having created the game as himself (as opposed to as, say, a semi-anonymous Newgrounds member) he draws more ire. Contrast the relevant videos: the original Kickstarter video features a single strong personality, a person mediating the experience of the memes in the game, while the response video is relatively anonymous, attempting to minimize the mediation between the viewer and his point. The fact that the response video also calls out other YouTube celebrities who do the same thing—i.e. offer mediation and commentary of other content through an explicit personality—should be incredibly telling.

Other comments that say things like, "I'd be honored to have my content featured in someone's game," are missing the point. It's a basic culture clash: the article's author expresses distinct authorship which can be traced to a concrete person (or persona), even if he gets no profit and open-sources the result, while the people who make up the response understand that authorship as contrary to the whole point of communal humor, i.e. memes. The other meme aggregation sites are also 'mediators' of a sort, preventing people from experiencing the direct product of the community.
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A) If you're viewing on your phone, it's mobile optimized
B) If you're viewing it on your desktop, why would you want to go to your phone?
C) Time.is has to be the easiest URL to enter by hand in a device browser. :D
Last time I checked, it was an executive order to move a drug from schedule 1 to 2 (has medical use).
I recall an article, possibly in one of the April (spoof) editions of Computer Language magazine, outlining a method of adding GOTO to Forth. Probably considerably easier in principle - a buffer containing unresolved jumps, a support function to check the buffer and fill in the actual BRANCH addresses, and a couple of immediate words GOTO and LABEL to populate the buffer and call the support function. So provided your buffer data structure was clever enough and your GOTOs always matched a LABEL somewhere or other, it would handle forward and backward jumps easily. Evil, evil, evil.
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I got that part, but why are there files there in the first place...?
On the flip side, I'd like to know how they seem to consistently miss one of the most important pieces of information about my career: I'm leaving the U.S. soon. I'm planning to emigrate in the next three years, either to Australia or New Zealand. I've made a few LinkedIn connections with folks there (hi, Duncan and Steve!). I've joined LinkedIn groups for software professionals in both countries. I subscribe to Google Groups for the same purpose. I regularly search LinkedIn's company listings for software companies in both countries that I'd like to keep my eye on. I have literally come right out and told them this in feedback about their apps.

LinkedIn has access to all of this data about me that really should be setting off alarm bells in their recommendation systems, and yet it's not happening. I'm constantly given recommendations for companies, groups and jobs I might be interested in in various areas of the U.S., and none of them take that fact into consideration.

How can they miss this?
This reminds me of an article Time Magazine did on Norway's Halden Prison.

Essentially, when the Norwegian justice system treated their inmates more humanely, their recidivism (crime after prison) rate became 40% less than the US and the UK.

Similarly, in Norway, there are only 69 inmates per 100,000 people, compared to 753/100,000 in the United States.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00....
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You also need to make sure your IANA tzdata is updated to account for this. I think this leap second was first added in tzdata2012a, but I'd have to check:

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I suspected as much. This is someone attacking a straw man to generate controversy.

Thanks for finding those quotes.
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"Obviously" goto is bad, but to quote one of Lua's designers, continuations are much worse, and yet it's considered "cool" to support continuations. It's programmer groupthink; one very smart person writes a famous article about how goto is bad and forevermore it's "obviously" bad. Goto is sometimes useful, and like lots of things it can be abused.
It's on the back burner right now because we're working on other stuff -- sorry I can't provide a timeframe.
Yup. It was a hard lesson to learn. Don't ever let the success go to your head. Time, fortunately, has allowed me to get better at this :)
I respect that, but I think having that financial cushion also affects you emotionally. You have the freedom and luxury to take your time and be more patient, and not take any rash short-term risks because money isn't an immediate issue.
1.7m in Gulag / 108m in Russia = 1.6% incarceration rate

Pop # taken from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

2.3m in prison / 312m in USA = 0.74% incarceration rate in the US
There needs to be a way to override those behaviours though, as there are situations where the audio of a YouTube video (for example) isn't very interesting, and you'd rather listen to music. Lack of background-playing in the iOS YouTube-app is still an annoyance to me.
the higher the opportunity cost of starting a Company (vs. getting a well paid job)

I know that my education, and work experience will payout huge when I start a company. The emotional and intellectual development learned in school and working for companies afterwards will be an amazing asset and would be for anyone.

When you drop out, you have nothing to lose, and so you are "all in", which allows you to take bigger risks.

Using the poker example, when you have nothing to loose you are effectively playing "on tilt". When I was broke (limited commissions coming in), and I didn't know what to do I started a wedding photography business. I made a profit, but I wasn't making real money and there was no real big opportunity. The next thing I work on will be massive in ambition since the opportunity cost would be leaving my insanely awesome job.

Having nothing makes most people focus on survival, having some income and confidence that there is another job out there if it doesn't work has to help people more than it hurts them.

And, as you read this, you are probably thinking about your friends working at big companies that would never leave to start a company. I would argue that the vast majority of people are not entrepreneurs and not going to school wouldn't change that. They would just have a worse job.
> increase the age of required education to 18 [2]. This sounds like a good idea on paper

I would recommend reading Cevin Soling's "Why Public Schools Must be Abolished" for the opposite viewpoint:

While it is possible for a North Korean POW to learn calculus under duress from their prison guard, it is reasonable to assume they will: A) associate math with incarceration; B) despise the inmates who learn for appearing readily complicit with their captors; and C. try to forget the information the moment they are free.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/02/27/w...
Amazon, mostly because they have eInk displays that will not hurt my eyes. Using an iPad for reading for an extended period is not a pleasant experience. eInk is the way to go.
Because he's mainly in Windows? I avoid the command prompt like the devil there too.
The safest option is to try and start something on the side, get enough traction to be able to pull together a seed round, and then have that new company sponsor your h1b.

However, from what I heard - if you're on H1B you can only work for the company that sponsored your visa. So, the "best option" itself is pretty dicey.
What type of spam did they do besides automated bots? Email spam? Facebook spam? Twitter spam?
He doesn't hate college, he just wants us to think more deeply about whether we should go to college. It's gotten more pricey over the years, yet enrollment has increased. College has become the default option for anyone who has the intellectual or financial ability and he questions whether that is good
Amazing, the single gesture is very well implemented.

Can't wait to swish my hands around to skip songs! :) And once you have that, you should build a futuristic minority report kind of a demo video ;)

Also, if you're looking to hire, you should definitely put a "Team" page up on your site.
And what of those of us who are just young and don't have extensive networks everywhere yet?
'there’s no way to explain how the company that has done no PR, no marketing and is still operating on an invite-only basis is "captivating so much of the conversation"'

At first I thought of the article as a Submarine? ~ http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

"... 'As the app (Tote) was being used, he recognized that women were grabbing, tagging specific items that they were able to view later when they got home,' said Cohen. What Silbermann saw was that huge numbers of people were grabbing items and sharing them with friends. 'He recognized that these women were sharing their tastes.' ..."

but the initial idea noticed the above phenomena & rebuilt as a service. The idea appears to come out of nowhere but it didn't. Hence the mantra, "connect everyone in the world through the 'things'" ~ http://pinterest.com/about/

"... They want to know how they did it. Aside from what Cohen sees as the obvious simplicity and elegance of the site, Cohen said Silbermann remained open to smart people throughout the development process. Early on he engaged with partners, customers and even designers. “I used to see him in New York just taking out small rooms to meet with customers ..."

This is the schlep-work ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html ...out meeting with clients to further Pinterest as a new kind of digital version of a high-end coffee table mag and has the potential place to profit ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest#Business
A script code to copy/paste for users to interact with on their site. Submissions would be fed to the main site. You could frame the running list as a 'what burns me' or 'if I could fix one thing' theme. With FB integration etc.
I'll call bullshit. Either they care about external developers or they don't. This is saying they don't.

Google's culture seems insular and elitist. Besides Guava, they did the same thing with GWT (which, as much as I love GWT, didn't work out in the project's best interests, IMO), and now are doing the same thing with Dart (AFAICT).

Maybe in the 90s you could get away with this. But now if you don't have an active external community, whenever your old guard of Guava/GWT/Dart developers gets bored and leaves, the new guys that come in behind them aren't going to care nearly as much about the Google internal technologies vs. the true open source technologies they've been hacking on before/after their time at Google.

So the Google/internal technologies will eventually stagnate.

Perhaps internally-driven projects can get more stuff done in the short term (thanks to dedicated resources), but I think in the long term the external community out-innovates internal projects (due to the internal teams getting burdened with legacy requirements (cough GWT), politics, etc.). Dunno, that's my impression.
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You can find the line number that the func was defined in and reparse the source. I do this in quite a few decorators that need source.

The other option is to wrap the thing decorated in a doc string

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def foo(s):
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put some haskell or DSL stuff in here
"""

Then you don't have to reparse the source, etc etc, but it still gets packaged as a function.
You've probably accidentally disabled the two-factor auth on your account. I strongly recommend checking.

My phone always asks for two-factor auth. In fact, I had to wipe my phone and re-auth, so I used one of the throw-away codes. When I re-init'd Google Auth app (which annoyingly requires disabling and reenabling two-factor auth, AND invalidates one time use keys), it immediately reprompted me to complete an oAuth cycle with the two-factor code for the core Google account on my phone.

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I only know about the Facebook spam, but wouldn't be surprised if there's more going on. http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/02/10/pinterest-is-sp...
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Much better immediate punishments could be devised if the goal was deterrence, but society has phased those out. The modern philosophical justification of prison is physical separation from society and environment to prevent repeat offenses.

Making prison "suck less" might even give inmates a shot at a life after they are released. But given that you see prison "suckage" as a feature (especially given the generally accepted ideas of what goes on in prison), I can only conclude that you've ruled out any possibility of yourself ever ending up there, and thus don't really care.
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The problem doesn't seem to be in the school system. The US education system is #1 in terms of teaching literacy to people of Asian descent and #2 in teaching literacy to people of European descent. There is insufficient data to compare to other groups.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011004_1.pdf (See tables R1 and R3, which give breakdowns of the PISA data you are citing.)

However, you might be right that knowledge of literacy is a problem - crime in the US does tend to be disproportionately committed by groups of people who have low averages on PISA literacy tests.
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Never let anyone forget about this. I still feel angry today when I think about it and I didn't even buy one of the CDs.
Some reading materials should obviously be censored (e.g. information about lock picking, practical drug recipes and violent pornography).

But not even the US prison system should want to limit prisoner's intellectual development! To help prisoners grow will make a subset of them productive members of society instead of parasites. Win-win.

Edit: I'm a European, but not dogmatic. My native Sweden should imho use harsher sentencing in some areas. But this was just ridiculously contra productive.
Economic incentives are sandwiched between two other factors. One is more attractive, and tends to dominate discussion, and the other is more powerful and tends to dominate actual behavior.

The more attractive force is morality. People consciously approach their own behavior in moral terms, and they struggle, occasionally successfully, to defy economic incentives that conflict with their moral values. This personal focus on morality (even if it is a narcissistic delusion) makes it much more natural to discuss policy in moral terms than it terms of incentives. I don't think this is helpful for policy discussions. We should all follow what we think is right, but policy needn't reflect moral consensus.

The more powerful force is culture. Think of all the people in jail for selling drugs who could be living middle class lives if only they had rejected their social identities and social ties to follow economic incentives. It's hard to imagine more powerful economic incentives than the ones operating in American life today. If you're a poor kid and you dedicate your life to achieving technical competence in a highly paid profession, the economic elite is ideologically invested in the idea that you should be rewarded with a comfortable, secure upper-class life. Not only are they eager to see you assume the most economically productive position in life you can, in order to bolster the U.S. economic growth that their investments largely track, but even more importantly, denying you the social position you've earned would undermine the legitimacy of their social position. And if you shoot for Harvard law or Harvard medicine but fall short, you'll still fall in the upper middle class somewhere. The incentives couldn't be more clear, but mistrust and cultural ties muddy things up. The fact that people make many of the most crucial decisions of their lives as ignorant children, or have those decisions made for them by ignorant parents, gives culture a big advantage over incentives. People don't see incentives with perfect, X-ray vision. They see them through whatever lens they've been equipped with by their upbringing.

The effectiveness of incentives, then, depends on cultural factors. In the case of corporations and thoroughly bourgeois businesspeople, we underestimate the power of incentives. In the case of everybody else, we overestimate the power of incentives. In the case of persuading inner-city youth to dedicate themselves to lucrative (for us as well as them) middle-class lives instead of lives of crime, our failure is less in providing opportunity (aka incentives) than in teaching them to see the opportunity and believe in it so that it becomes possible for them to work towards it.

I do believe laws should be seen more as a system of incentives than as enforcers of a privileged morality, but laws should be designed to be effective incentives for the people who live under them, not for homo economicus.
My thoughts almost exactly on the programmable front... like Better Touch Tool but rather No touch Tool, although the latter name does retain the locker-room hilarity of the former.

Perhaps a gesture to bring up the app switching ribbon and a gesture to reference the item (numbered from left to right maybe.)

I'd also like to have the option to calibrate it, my eyes are painfully photosensitive and I tend to work in very dimly-lit conditions.
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Sounds like Martijn doesn't actually know much about Linux kernel development.

Patches get rejected from the kernel all the time for many of the same reasons listed in the linked post. It takes a long time for most new kernel contributors to get anything substantive in, and major changes almost never go in without huge reviews, fights, competing proposals, etc..

The only difference between that and what this post talked about is that for the kernel, a lot of the sausage making goes on in public (though far from all of it).
You should reread this sentence from my comment:

> Is it possible it's truly some kind of involuntary medical/mental phenomenon? Of course. I'm just saying that I doubt it.
An H1B holder can't simply move from their sponsoring company to another in the same way that a permanent resident or citizen can, but an H1B can be transferred to another company that also meets all the requirements. There's paperwork involved, but it's definitely possible and legal.
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Hi guys. Since there seems to be an ML component, I was wondering how this was built. Do you start with a basic hypothesis and see if it holds for some training set and then refine it or right off the bat go with a generic classifier like SVM (with some features in mind) or something like that and then tweak it?
Also, how did you choose the dataset for this ?

This project is very cool. Congratulations and good luck!
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Wow - I originally didn't download because I've used something similar before that worked only kind of well.

This works fantastically and is usable enough for daily use as a simple way to control iTunes or Spotify. Well done!

I'll look forward to more gestures.
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Blown away.

How far are you guys from full Minority Report-ization of my Mac?

I mentioned in another post that I tend to work in very dimly lit spaces due to painfully photosensitive eyes. A non-mandatory calibration dialogue would probably be a handy thing for folks like me.
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There is another, more fully-featured app called FluidTunes which I used quite a while ago. Not sure if it still works on the latest version of iTunes: http://majicjungle.com/fluidtunes.html
Sure, I'll do a deep dive here.

Doing high-performance scrolling is a hard problem. You just can't do it in HTML, at all.

Native code is not a silver bullet. If you're implementing a table view cell, the newbie approach is to just put subviews on the cell for each slice of content. This performs horribly because the graphics card has to composite all the sublayers while you're scrolling.

The faster approach, as he alludes to, is to do everything in one view, using pen operations to move around and blit each section. If you're serious about smooth scrolling, this is what you have to do. Tweetie was famous for its smooth scrolling, for example; it's because Loren Brichter used this approach.

Of course, if you're coming from the web/css world, doing everything with pen operations seems incredibly foreign and backwards. But you get good at it quickly. And it's worth it, UX-wise.