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> In this particular case, venues like the EFF blog are counting on the idea that readers don't know what the ECPA is

I assume you're talking about this post by the EFF?

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KE...

I read through the text of the bill, which someone else helpfully posted: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3523/text

All those information sharing clauses begin with "Notwithstanding any other provision of law." That leads me to wonder why you believe the provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act are not overridden by that.
Probably just that I'm never alone with girls who don't want anything physical from me (and me from them). Seems more fun to have a movienight (or whatever) with a bunch of people, rather than just two friends.

This fact probably skews that part of my experience.

Another possibility is we define "something physical" differently - I think of [light] cuddling as something physical, from what I've heard a lot of people don't.
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This is my understanding of the problem: when a Go program is initialized on 32-bit windows or linux systems, it tries to allocate 512MB of contiguous virtual ram. When the virtual address space is too fragmented, the initialization will fail and the Go program won't start. Is this correct?

We're considering using Go for an end-user desktop application for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Of course, we don't have control over whether our users have a 32-bit or 64-bit system. And, of course, our app has to work 100% of the time. What can we do to make Go work 100% of the time on these 32-bit systems?
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> "800 million users entrust Facebook with their personal information" [1]

Make that 799,999,999. I do not trust any corporation that supports further institutionalized intervention in our lives.

[1] - http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...
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"Good enough" is not good enough - you need to do better than the average. If you make something good enough, you'll spend more time fixing st later. Paying more attention to details now means you won't have to worry about them later. At least that's what I found to be true... but yeah, breaking everything down into small steps and working on them now is better than dreaming about the big end...
Why do we so rarely see it in popular culture? Oh, I don't know. Maybe for the same reason you don't see TV shows about people getting along and living normal lives; there's no "drama" when things just work.

I really hate articles like this.
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One of the reasons the PayPal mafia is said to have been such a force is that none of them really got rich from PayPal. I wonder if a huge Facebook exit, which will turn many of these guys into deci-billionaires, will affect them.
In my view early in life and later in life, it's possible.

During prime match making years, 20-30, you've got to be kidding. The only exception I can think of is people who were family friends from very early childhood that behave more like siblings when they get older.

The idea that, for example, any 28 year old male I know will just hang out completely platonically with, for example, a 25 year old female "friend" which he met in the last 5 years, sounds like complete science fiction.
Not over CDMA without the proper extension that enables simultaneous use of data and voice. And even then, the OS/driver stack has to implement it properly. I can assure you, even on LTE, it does not work on my Android 4.0.4 device.
forgot that they were all thieves once upon a time did we? ;)
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It's only an issue for non-GSM phones i.e. CDMA phones used in the US and parts of Asia. CDMA does not allow data and voice to run at once over the same radio, while GSM does. Since LTE is an entirely IP network, voice can be run over it like any other IP network. Current phones/carriers do not support it though, but there's some talk that it will be introduced in the next year or so.
I can't stand the "good enough" crowd, I hate it when people aim for mediocrity.

It takes the same amount of time and energy to go from zero to "OK" as from "OK" to "good". From "good" to "very good" is even harder.
So a lot of people (I see this a lot with artists, I'm sure it's the same with startups) stop at "OK", then see how hard it is to stand out from the crowd and how much more effort it takes and hope to being discovered (=someone doing the work and taking them to the next level and making them rich)
And then they start whining because everybody tells them how talented they are.
True, but right now, programmers often aren't even using what we have available to us very efficiently. There are a few- a select few- who are making supercomputing systems more efficient, but by and large we have a long, long way to go.

Furthermore, the things that have 'changed everything' in the last few years are all user interface related. As we get better at human speech recognition and creation, that will be when things truly are wholly changed.

However, one thing I do have to ask those who know better than me: Does the Landauer Limit imply that we won't be able to optimize any further, at a certain point, in terms of hardware capability? And would this include optimizing for size? In other words, if we hit that limit with something the size of Watson, could we reasonably still expect it to reach the size of a cell phone, half a century after that?
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When I tried it I got this:

"Sorry, not implemented yet. Please append "?format=json" to your URL."

When I did that it worked.
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Driving a more expensive vehicle is not an indication of being wealthier. In the Millionaire Next Door, there were arguments showing that there are many wealthy people who live modest lifestyles and those who own expensive, luxurious items, were often living paycheck to paycheck. I think jumping the conclusion here base on cost of the vehicle or vehicle type is wrong.

I know plenty of wealthy people who drive Priuses (far from the luxury vehicle you expect) as well as a slew of other older, common used vehicles on the road. Plus one study is not a good indication to argue such.
I'd argue that when a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman become friends, at least one party wants to have sex with the other. This desire doesn't need to be realizable, but the desire must be there.

Why? Well, because we want to have sex with people we're attracted to. Thus, the only way for neither party not to want sex, is for neither party to be attracted (physically, intellectually, emotionally) to the other... but if that's the case, and neither party finds the other attractive in any attributes, then why would they be friends in the first place?

I suppose there are those rare instances where both parties find the other physically intolerable, but enjoy the intellectual pursuits. But then, perhaps we need to redefine man and woman in this context.
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That is only partially true either. Where the laws are vague, the decisions of prominent courts fill in the gaps.
Ubiquitous wireless networking does more to create a nano-sensors everywhere future than cheap supercomputing. Micro-controllers have had more than enough computing power to tell me the temperature in the back yard with battery power for decades now. It was sending the data anywhere usefull that was hard.

As little as 2 years ago, $50-$75 was about the cheapest I could put a project on the internet, wired or wireless. Today its about $5. You can buy the whole little computer in the form of a TP-Link router running OpenWRT for about $22.

I have seen the future and its made of wifi.
> 'C'

Why do you put C in quotes here?
Laptops were already pretty ubiquitous at coffee shops around Cambridge, MA ten years ago. Longer than that actually. But I guess we weren't exactly representative of the nation.
> Porting Forth is not a few months long project ;-)

Indeed; an 'intermediate' Forth programmer is defined as someone who has written their own Forth implementation but nothing else in the language.
So, is Perl 6 a thing yet?
We actually have this on iOS: it is called IntelliID; that said, the concept doesn't work very well, because by the time the phone gets its data connection warm enough and is able to do the minimum two round-trips over the incredibly high-latency cellular connection to get the data (and have to wait for the lookup itself, which seems to be an entire half a second for this API), you are pretty much fighting with the call timing out and going to voicemail.
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This article is about a peculiarity of the German system (preliminary injunctions, no proportional damages) that make the German system especially harmful to the sued companies.

The underlying problem of a patent system that encourages companies in the emerging world of mobile technology to sue each other instead of, as a patent system should, promoting progress - that problem exists in all of Europe, and the USA. Actually, it is probably SLIGHTLY worse in the USA, because of the much wider scope of patents (business method patents, less strict scope for software patents).
It seems odd that it only returns a province/state when just the area code provides more information than that. Example: any (647) or (416) area code will always be from Toronto, but numbers for both just return ONTARIO.
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Your cousin is a successful MD in the SF Bay area with a family, what planet do you live on where this is considered non-high-achieving/non-ambitious?

He's basically at the apex of society's status pyramid, that's why he doesn't give a fuck about any of the frivolous crap so many people chase around - he's already achieved his dream and he is probably the envy of many.
I think this article is written (and this question is asked) from a very American point of view. Having grown up in another culture but spent a significant part of my life in the US, I've come to the conclusion that there's a bit too much sexual tension in this culture; as if the underlying desires are being repressed, and thus could burst out any time there's an opportunity (like, say, being friends with the opposite sex).

For me, sex and friendship are different dimensions. I can have sex with someone I'm not interested in being friends with. I can be friends with someone I'm not interesting in having sex with. My long-term relationships, of course, have always been with someone with high values in both dimensions. And I'm still very good friends with several of my exes, who have gone on to happy relationships. We stopped the sex part, but the friendship dimension stayed.
Right, but I don't know how complex it was at that time in the past.
not to mention that it doesn't talk ONE BIT about statistics..
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A cybersec tightening is inevitable. The US is getting hit hard. The lockheed hack ( http://www.dailytech.com/Reports+Hackers+Use+Stolen+RSA+Info... ) was a pretty loud wake-up call. The "not a nerds" in DC are slowly realizing that this issue can help them get election money.

The US's infrastructure is predominantly private so the tightening will inevitable be in (a) policy and (b) spending. Not speaking directly about this bill, but when the government does both for security, it's always a cluster-!@#$ shit-show.
It's a giant blank check. Broadly speaking, it lets companies do anything, shields them from liability and keeps the whole thing under wraps with the FOIA exemption so long as they're dealing with a cybersecurity threat. What's wrong with the existing laws? They didn't tell us. They just asked for a blank check.

I've seen comments saying this does nothing. If that's true, it ought to make you even more nervous. If it doesn't, please send me a blank check. I promise that I won't do anything I wasn't already going to do. You trust me... right?
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You must have tried it in a web browser. Using curl sends different request headers. When you are using a web browser, it asks for text/html. Try ?format=text
There are some unnecessary technical problems.

Android's native Exchange integration requires you to give up "remote administrator" access to your device; that means that the Exchange administrator can, at their whim, wipe your device and all your data. (There are other requirements around needing to enter a PIN each time you active your device, etc.) I don't know if or how this can be configured at the Exchange server end (and have been unable to sufficiently motivate corporate IT to find out), but the upshot is if you don't want to give up this remote access, you probably have to forego Android's Exchange integration.

There's TouchDown, a one-stop-shop for Exchange integration which keeps Exchange-related data in its own little silo, so when the remote kill order comes in, it only kills off the silo. At 20 USD it's not cheap as apps go, and AFAIK it needs you to enter a password to log in in order to be compliant etc. I have not used it.

Instead, I just use IMAP to access Exchange email, forego calendar integration, and blame IT when I turn up late for meetings.
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No, the same thing can't be done using plain HTML (+ Javascript and CSS). You can get result that visually and functionally looks the same but it will be very hard to get desired result (it is not worth the time), e.g. have you ever tried to get window height in HTML and do something with that? Actually I would love if I could use QML instead of HTML in browser in some cases. HTML and QML has quite different purpose: HTML is for documents that can be styled using CSS, while QML is for UI. Web apps could benefit from QML a lot if we could use it in browser. However I guess there is no interest for that most probably, because with FireFox you can write web apps using XUL for at least 6 years already (if not more) - the only problem is that apps will not be cross-browser.
I wouldn't really call this a "move away from C++", necessarily.

The Qt developers have said that the traditional widgets have practically been put in maintenance mode, and that all development will be in Qt Quick's dynamic interfaces (QML is part of Quick).

The problem, however, is that Qt has no foothold in mobile devices. That window of opportunity has closed when Nokia switched to Windows Phone 7 and ditch Maemo/Meego. And on the desktop... if I want web-ish interfaces, why wouldn't I just target the browser?

There is a huge community of users that uses Qt to just write (and maintain) desktop applications. Qt Quick sucks for that. Besides that, you cannot expect huge existing applications to switch to Quick. For those users, the future of Qt seems bleak: it's not in the hands of a company that caters to that audience (Trolltech's primary source of income was Qt, Nokia's is cell phones) and development pace is glacial.
Like a few others, I disagree with his point about perfectionism being a bad quality. I suppose this may just come down to semantics (the definition of perfectionism), but I don't think being a perfectionist necessarily means that one is incapable of deciding when to release and move on.

I've been a perfectionist my entire life. In elementary school, I used to do all my work in pen. It felt neater and more permanent. When I was forced to use pencil, I would throw away entire sheets of paper rather than erase and leave a smudge. In high school, my latin teacher called me "Mr. P", short for "Mr. Perfection." He'd hold up my quizzes for the class to see, and laugh at how I used a ruler to perfectly frame the declension tables I'd drawn, and how I'd used my pencil to lightly shade the background of the title row.

Excessive? Yes. But I've learned to reign it in and use it to my advantage.

A huge percentage of the success of any creative endeavor (whether it's painting, programming, song-writing, whatever) boils down to how much effort its creator put into it. Often, the only difference between a good creator and a great one is the amount of time they spend striving for perfection. If your goal is greatness, a tendency to say "good enough" prematurely can be disastrous. No, give me a pupil with an eye for perfection and the perseverance to achieve it, prioritization skills be damned. I can teach him to prioritize.

A pragmatic perfectionist is a force to be reckoned with.
I've seen it happen multiple times in the context of groups of friends. A large group of 10ish people, roughly half male and half female, all close friends, usually originating in college. The group is close enough that any two of the members can hang out 1-on-1. Long term relationships or mutual disinterest keeps most of the potential sexual pairings from happening.
I don't know, maybe it's not likely to have friendships at that stage with no sexual feelings whatsoever, but there's also a big gray area where you can like someone enough to be friends, and maybe be a bit attracted to them, but really aren't that interested in taking it further, for any number of reasons. Maybe one of the two of you is already in a relationship, maybe you anticipate too much emotional complexity, maybe you're already having enough sex and just don't feel motivated. Of course, there's always a chance that if two people like this end up in the right situation, something could happen, but it's far from a certainty.

In my experience this kind of friendship is actually very common, especially among large mixed gender friend groups. The dynamic only ever seems to frustrate the guys who aren't getting any--but in those cases it's really just the frustration of not getting any being projected into the friendships. If the guy finds a girlfriend or whatever then the tension disappears.
The vast majority of college friendships are formed in the first two years, ages 18 and 19, possibly 20.
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From the wiki entry: "Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with only 2.85 trillionths of a watt of power being expended in the memory media."

Do we really have chips that update a billion bits per second for only two billionths of a watt?

Also, reversible computing would take things much further without violating Landauer.
> As little as 2 years ago, $50-$75 was about the cheapest I could put a project on the internet, wired or wireless. Today its about $5.

How do you do it in $5 (or if that was an exaggeration, the cheapest possible cost)? I would like to do this.
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Not sure what you're basing that on, but I have multiple female friends from the last few years whom I think of like "siblings" and wouldn't consider having sex with.
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Come on, we all know what he meant.
With e-books this shouldn't be an issue, as you can sell smaller units of product -- for example, just a chapter -- without incurring the cost of shipping, carrying excess inventory, etc. It seems the main players in the e-book market (Apple and Amazon) are sticking to a fairly conventional model but I think the industry is still open to disruption.
We're way further than 3 orders of magnitude away.

"Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with only 2.85 trillionths of a watt of power being expended in the memory media."

That would put a piece of memory changing at 1gbps at 2.85 billions of a watt of power with current technology.

Past that, modern CPUs are still horrendously inefficient with respect to how much data they're shuffling around to perform computations, since they're optimised for getting maximum performance out of a single thread.

A chip operating near the Landauer limit and efficiently computing useful results on top of that makes our current CPUs look like abacuses.
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The author makes a quite interesting point about our culture. Media portrays a fundamentally more sexualized dynamic between men and woman than exists in reality. "Friends" is a pretty great example--pretty much everyone in that show that wasn't related ended up sleeping together.

I don't think you can explain it simply by saying friendships are not good fodder for drama. The Lord of the Rings is a wonderful story about friendships, of all different sorts. The relevant friendships are all between males, of course, but it was written nearly 60 years ago.