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> Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality,

Philosophy and spirituality aren't science. Do you have any citations for brain's metaphysical abilities? Unless proven to be true, personal anecdotes and old wive tales aren't valid data points. Apart from it, I haven't read anything about brain transcending the physical.

There is a lot of unknown viz. we don't know what constitutes consciousness, but that doesn't mean it can be attributed to metaphysical. Physical or metaphysical, you need to know for sure - till then, it's "no man's land".
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It is. Needs ssh server and whatnot. I ended up just creating a share and git pull/push into it as local files.
Exactly! This has been my concern too. Everybody has their pet subset of the language. With the amount of native features growing with every standard, large C++ codebases look more polyglot than ever.
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The Nature abstract is about a "population of neurons" and triggering a memory related behavior while the extremetech article talks about "specific brain cells" and memory storage.

Nothing to see here, move along.
Anecdotal evidence... where's the data?
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A centrally positioned hotel in which to stay has got to be great possible ways to have which you could search around within the community along with stroll in regards to the town very easily.
The lettering is what makes the original poster. The original poster was most probably hand lettered by a talented lettering artist. Arial doesn't come remotely close.

Especially the capital "r". Arial's "R" makes me want to turn away. "I'm a capital p, but have a protuberance!" Its leg is about as graceful as a heavy duty shoring rod that has been heaved to, propping up an obese person. "Spare me that next step!".
If your employer is doing that, it probably a good time to start looking for another job.
What standing to sue does Facebook have?
> “If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends,”

Weren't they, at one time, one of those sites trying to get your Gmail password/account so they could sniff out who your friends were?
Generally the advice is to not try to time the market; set it up to be automatic and forget about it. You're investing for (presumably) 40-60 years, so a 5% move now shouldn't be that big a deal. The bigger thing is to just keep contributing even in down markets (when you might otherwise be reluctant), because by putting in the same amount every month, you buy a larger number of shares when prices are depressed.

However, I always wait until the end of the tax year to contribute (due to laziness) or do it at the beginning of the year (because I have extra cash then).
I agree. This was a damn good way of handling the situation: taking care of it head-on instead of watching from the sidelines and hoping things get better. I didn't think they would do much (except for maybe a blog post about how you shouldn't give your password to anyone or something similar), but this is totally beyond what I expected.
I wonder if Facebook might partially be doing this so people don't hesitate to use their service.

On the other hand, it's nice to see happening if a result actually comes from it. Too often announcements are like activity -- confused with lasting results.
Why compile to c++?

Compiling to javascript makes sense because javascript is the lowest common denominator for browsers.

Compiling to c++ wouldn't make any sense when you can compile directly to assembly/bytecode.

It would be like writing a python like language that compiled to coffeescript. It would be silly not to compile it directly to javascript.
> Imagine a crowded city, like NY where 5 feet above your head there are hundreds of drones like bees flying everywhere and delivering goods: food, small mail, lighweight groceries, etc.

Excellent visualization. You've nailed the kind of socio-infrastructural change this shift could lead to.
I have been generating just such a QR code on my Android phone for a few months - to pass contact info to others. Works OK.

Not sure about the "referral" tracking bit - but I am probably not your typical user.

Lot of "prior art" using infra red signals from back in the early Windows mobile days - might be worth finding out where that went in the business environment - and thus potential paying customers.
>Some of the error messages that PHP spits out are incomprehensible at best, and misleading at worst.

What languages (as a replacement for PHP) have better error messages?
I would think compiling to llvm is probably a better road to go down than compiling to c++, as long as llvm can target the platform you are interested in. C++ could link against your library then. And you could probably do it right now.
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Has he been using that logo before Cargo Collective? http://cargocollective.com -- I don't think so :)
I put mine into new opportunities.

Mostly equipment for the day I might venture out on my own.

I have an entire music studio (hardware and software), creative studio (cintiq, nice cameras [video and still], adobe creative suite), and the start of an electrical engineering lab in my apartment. I have built a pretty good home theater in my living room (projection system), and lots of DVDs for inspiration. Lots and lots of boooooks.

It's pretty expensive, but makes me feel more secure. I'm not worried about money; I am worried about boredom. Make sure to get good insurance.

I would spend some of it curating a taste in something as well.

The most important thing you have to spend is time. Whatever you can buy to save time (without losing control over things you need control over) is a good investment.
Some of those jobs pay really really well.

Plus, you have the option to not access anything you want to keep personal from the office.
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this isn't bullet proof .. but will counter lots of automated attacks ... plus you would have to know the credentials for at least to sites and then try two figure out the algorithm
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>I'd have always thought that the terms of service (that I haven't signed (checking a check box doesn't count)) couldn't just make something, that wasn't already, illegal.

A United States District Court considered whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminalized TOS violations, and the court concluded that such a statute would be unconstitutional as applied in such a situation under the "void for vagueness" doctrine. U.S. v. Lori Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449 (C.D. Cal. 2009).
It also expands consumer choice, if only incrementally.

For example, the US carrier T-Mobile has a whole lot of customers with iPhones despite not offering it themselves. That's possible because consumers are able to pick up a used GSM iPhone and stick their SIM card into it.

That isn't really happening for US Cellular, because Verizon and Sprint's (SIMless) handsets can't readily be made to connect to talk to their network.
I have no intention of arguing in favor of software patents. I'm merely trying to create some understanding.

My idea is that coming up with a good design is as much work, and requires as much expertise, as coming up with a good algorithm. To me, viewing it like that makes the feeling of 'being ripped off' much easier to empathize with. Which is not the same as agreeing that that is indeed the case.

When I said I disagree with

People argue you aren't being ripped off: after all, if
someone can do that in so little time, "you haven't really
invented or created anything (substantive)".

I didn't mean I disagreed with "not being ripped of" (and I certainly didn't mean: and the government should protect you against it). I disagreed that "you haven't really invented or created anything (substantive)". Many arguments depend on the implicit assumption that 'something that requires little time/work cannot be worth much'. That rather unfairly adds insult to injury.
My wife and I were actually just talking about something like this a couple days ago. Great idea, and looks like a great implementation! Great to have a way to limit what the kids can do and with whom, so the phone remains a tool and doesn't become a distraction and/or addiction for the kids. Maybe I should put this on my own phone! :)
IANAL, and I don't live in the US either, but I can tell you that at least here in Brazil the network traffic is the property of the employer, and you have no expectation of privacy while working, so they can do whatever they want with the traffic that is going to their routers.
I believe the Big Launcher might be of interest to you. I installed it on my old phone, which I gave to my dad. Now he can gamble from the bathroom; he's very happy indeed.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.kunes.and...
A real time killer and really great game concept developed in Löve is mari0, a Mario and Portal clone.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
| “If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends,”

What are the legal implications for facebook applications? Are there some classes of applications that would be affected by this policy? Given enough permissions, most facebook apps DO access your account and could potentially violate the privacy of friends.

The facebook position above doesn't seem to be limited to employers, but much broader based. I could imagine a shady employer saying 'All candidates must install this (greedy permissions) app to submit an application'. What would be facebook's position on that?
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Crowdfunding poses unique collective action problems. By definition nobody has put a large amount of money into a crowdfunded company, so no one investor has anywhere near the kind of strong incentive, bargaining leverage, or resources that a larger institutional investor would bring to bear in terms of oversight.

Also, when you pursue a public company as you described, its own disclosures should offer up a mountain of evidence to use against it. I don't know the facts of your case, but in general, securities fraud actions are based on the company's inadequate or misleading disclosure. If a company doesn't disclose anything, it's much harder to hang it by its own rope, so to speak.
If Facebook is serious about setting an example with prodding employers, they should take it a step further and expose which employers have asked for this information and make it public. I am sure Glassdoor.com would love to add this information to their database of reviews and having this viewable by those looking at prospective employers could be good metric to see how the company or management actually values their employees. It would be a deciding factor to me to work somewhere if a company I was interviewing for was trying to gain access to employee accounts and they were flagged publicly.
On what grounds could Facebook sue an employer who asks for your Facebook password? It isn't immediately obvious they have standing to sue the employers. Based on what I assume is their terms of service page (closest thing I could find) [1], it looks like they could sue the employee for giving away their password, but I don't immediately see any grounds for suing the employer. There doesn't seem to be anything forbidding you from using Facebook with somebody else's account at the moment (though look for this to change any minute).

I'm suspecting this could be posturing to stem the short-term damage while they try to get a law passed that gives them standing.

The best guess I could come up with is hitting the employer with some sort of cyber-hacking law, but I wouldn't be comfortable or happy with that sort of twisting of such a law.

[1]: http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Looks good on firefox/ubuntu. It's strange that there's a browser using the lang tag for this; as I understand it web pages create a font spec according to style attributes and not lang tags, and fontconfig would only substitute fonts for a range of actual chinese characters if the preferred matching font didn't cover that range.
The Game Boy can address a maximum of 4 megabits of ROM: http://fms.komkon.org/GameBoy/Tech/Software.html

Quite a far cry from the gigabytes of Wikipedia data you get with this, I'm afraid.
I'm okay with the higher risk. I think it's far better to have a higher level of risk than to ensure everything is super safe.
It's all about how old the kids are. To me, this is clearly not appropriate for teenagers, but entirely okay for younger kids. I don't think it's targeted at teenagers either -- restricting the numbers called is something they wouldn't go for.
SIM cards are the only thing left protecting consumers from carriers and to a lesser extent Apple. Apple still lock out features (APN settings, tethering) even on SIM-free models of the iPhone when a "recognized" carrier is connected. The only reason they do this is to protect carriers.
If you're unemployed and need a job, the choice between defending Facebook's NDA and putting food on the table is obvious. I doubt most people even realize that somewhere in Facebook's ToS it says they mustn't disclose their password.
Then they don't need to ask you for it.
That sucks. Presumably you have a better understanding of some of the risks now, though? "What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger."
I thought this comment was cute. This person is in a conversation with two of the biggest authorities in O.S design and he asks for a reference.

*Can you recommend any (unbiased) literature that points out the strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches?*
Why would the language of the future be any one specific language? Many languages can make use of multiple cores through threading/open-mp like libraries.
1) Beta test.

For example, the Firefox and Chrome nightlies:

http://nightly.mozilla.org/

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs

A couple million hackers can help "upgrade" the Internet every day.

2) Ask/answer questions. You're making it a lot easier for the next guy.

How can I do X in Linux?

http://superuser.com/

http://askubuntu.com/

How can I do Y in Gimp?

How can I do Z in Inkscape?

http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/
Nope, it's just a spoofing issue, that doesn't affect (as far as I tested) the actual implementation of Same Origin Policy by Safari. I.e., you cannot get access to my-cool-site.com DOM, if you're leveraging this bug.
This has been posted in some form or another a couple times, but, having written a few thing with Löve I absolutely recommend it, especially if you're looking for something to learn Lua but can't think of a project to start with.
If you try that against someone who knows how to play chess, he'll think you're an idiot. Even before the mumbling. Hell, one arbitrary move at the start and you have a good chance to look like a complete novice.
Hm... interesting. Looks like we might want to expand our library to have RC with and without atomic ops--that way we can get some of the cleanness of scoped destruction when appropriate without having to go whole-hog ATOMIC RC INVALIDATE ALL THE THINGS when we can getaway with it.

Thanks again folks!
Good one Sayeed. :-)

It was a rant. $5 pricing once a year. If that's outside of the affordability range, my business will be in trouble. Most people pay though, so I am not too worried.

VC funded business is fine IMO, just be prepared if you create a market, fast followers are coming. True for most companies across the world I suppose(Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz). Hence, I wrote about brand building, while you create value.

I think the takeaway is:

"the key challenges to doing business in India: how do you keep costs low and still make profits, break-even before you break out of runway, and not compromise on quality and service."

I think this is true for across the world. I mean everyone loves a deal! So maybe create a business for the richer part of the world.

Mostly food for thought. I like what GreyTip is doing.
Good question. Maybe in the long run they'll be able to bundle this with kid-targeted hardware that's locked down.
I love the idea and would be interested in encouraging people I know to try this out, but I need to know who the customer is for this product... the privacy of children is something that seems extra important to protect rather than sell to advertisers or whoever is paying the bills for this product.
Ask HN: Whatever happened to styling visited links?
A friend pointed out today on Twitter that major blogs like Techcrunch & co don't style visited links any differently.

This came as a huge surprise for me, because I've been religiously styling my "a:visited" links for years (see my own blog: http://sachagreif.com) and never noticed that this practice was not as popular anymore.

Any explanation for this? Do you personally still style them?
I have a 27" TB Display here attached to a 13" MBA. For me, the browser sits in the MBA. On the 27", I have terminal opened (maximized) with a tmux session, and from their, vim with tabs and splits, other terminal sessions, and what have you.

Yeah. I don't think I'll be giving this up.
Dustin Curtis should really be a marketing/pr person, specifically aimed at startups.
This is it right here.
Or give you a second password to show a cleaned up profile.
It's a standard replacement launcher with a GPS reporter and some remote tools built in. It's a very simple thing to do, but this is very well done at the same time. In short, yes, all standard Android fare, should work fine on a tablet.
Yes. In fact, I'd argue that privacy invasion played one of the most important roles in the rapid rise of Facebook and LinkedIn
Unauthorized access to their servers.
> What browser + OS you use?

I saw the problem with Firefox 10 on CentOS. My default font was specifically configured to Bitstream Vera Serif.

Setting the default font in the Preferences seems to only change it for the encoding in the active tab (unless you go into the Advanced dialog). For several Asian languages it wanted to use "serif", which appears to be the 20-year-old X11 default version.
Second startup this week I've seen involving kites. Same typeface too ;)

Looks great! Plans for monetizing it?
There's a big part of me that wants to say, "It's already been done. It's called TortoiesHg."

All the usual Mercurial command-line goodness, plus some very well-done Windows shell extensions. The biggest downside is that there just doesn't seem to be a good 3-way merge tool for Windows. Well, that and it doesn't enjoy Git's brand recognition.
I can't figure out what disconnect.me does in the background. I installed it and that's about it (doesn't show me any activity after a restart).
Index funds are great when you want to do direct deposits every month.. the don't have front-load costs so you can just set up an automatic transfer.

If you invest in ETF's which are traded like stocks then you have to contend with trading fees. The rule of thumb (I've garnered from reading blogs/ literature) is that if your portfolio is < $50,000, then set up automatic payments for all index funds.. however if you have a larger portfolio then it would be worth getting a discount brokerage account and using that to invest in ETFs. This is because having a larger portfolio means that your brokerage house will offer you a discounted trading fee. The advantage of ETFs is generally a lower management-expense ratio than index funds and more importantly you get access to things like REITs and other non-standard financial vehicles.
I work almost exclusively on my 11in Macbook Air, I have a 27in iMac that gathers dust because I find it uncomfortable to be chained to a desk. I think it depends more on the person and how they work. I got into the "Smaller is better" camp when I was forced to use a 9in Dell Hackintosh for a month when my 17in Macbook Pro was getting repaired. I found that I liked a smaler screen (not 9in though, that's too small) I sold the 17in Macbook Pro and picked up the 11in Air. I'm more productive because I have the Air with me 100% of the time because it's so small, I find time to work when I normally would not have brought my 17in Pro with me.
I don't know how they would disable that and the home button on a non-rooted phone.
Is good PR not enough? I'd say that bad reputation is actually one of the biggest threats to Facebook in the long term. If they could reinvent themselves as an organization as trustworthy as a bank with your private information, a big reason for going elsewhere would be eliminated.

In the short term, the network effect holds their site together, unless they mess up really bad. In the long term, however, these things do matter and Facebook knows that.
>Fact is, if Dustin hadn't done anything innovative (ie, worth cloning), we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I think the conversation is being had more because of the way Dustin presented what he did rather than what he presented.
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I think, the question is wrong, because of Browsers/Javascript. Not much C++ in sight there, for scripting Browsers/DOM. Even Stroustrup mentioned JS as one of the programming languages programmers should know.
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Actually the analogy is good. Having a physical token is very messy from a UX perspective. A menu is just as easy: If i want to use carrier A, i select carrier A in the menu, if i want to use carrier B, i select carrier B in the menu. This is what i do every day with my WiFi-network on my laptop....

Your µSD-comparison is what doesn't make sense. An SD-card can contain several gigabytes of data that would take hours to transfer to the phone. A SIM-card probably has a small key on maybe a few kilobytes that can be transfered and stored by any more or less modern communication-method, wired or not, within a few seconds.

But from a security perspective SIM is a much better solution because once you make the key transferable by software it will be much easier to steal an identity.
Sen Blumenthal to Bring Bill Banning Employers from Asking Facebook Passwords
I interpreted this two ways:

1. Facebook gets more of people's personal info.

2. Only Facebook gets this info.
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"Tortious interference with contract rights can occur where the tortfeasor convinces a party to breach the contract against the plaintiff" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference). In this case, the employer would be the tortfeasor, who convinces the employee ("a party") to breach their contract (the employee's agreement to abide by Facebook's acceptable use policy in exchange for access to Facebook), and Facebook would be the plaintiff.
It's part of the new hipster Web design process.

Good-bye good old purple visited links.
Although not suitable for all games, my favorite part about this engine is how well tied in box2d is in Löve. The developers have made it feel almost seamless, which makes the engine a lot of fun to play with. https://love2d.org/wiki/Tutorial:Physics
Privacy invasion? It has always explicitly said "enter your gmail username and password so we can import your contacts" or something equally obvious and transparent.
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Most jobs that I know that would do that actually just block those sites though. They sniff and block.
but you could go to 2004 and make > $1B in 18 months without needing any initial capital. Im not sure theres ever been a 'if only I had know this then' get rich quick plan quite like that in history.