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I don't necessarily agree or disagree with you, because it's hard to make any argument given with how you frame the question. What does it mean that the deceased Feynman has rights? In life, it would be illegal (in America) for a hospital to disclose that he once came in for a flu shot. But it is completely legal to get a coroners report which explains the cause of death and all other related medical details. It doesn't make sense to discuss "rights" because Feynman as an alive human is not the same as Feynman dead.

I know you're not talking about legal matters, but some of the issues behind libel and speech law are derived in part from moral concerns.

As a side note, it's not all together clear that it would be illegal to publish something like this were he still alive, as he would be considered a person of public interest.

Now, the issue of whether it's bad? That's strictly a taste thing. Had the author of e biography chosen to publish any and all seedy letters found in Feynman's private collection, I think we could agree that that is "bad", as in, bad taste...but I think the case could be made that the publishing of this type of personal letter is not in that same category, in terms of taste
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Was P. shorthand for PRINT .?
No idea what the other two commands do I think *OPT was for addressing a serial port or the screen but my memory is very hazy.

BBC BASIC on the original RISC PC was my first experience writing code. I think that machine is still in my parents' garage along with the 6 volume BBC BASIC reference manual.
Zeitgeisty at the moment: "being awesome"

See also:
This blog post by Julien Smith "The Short and Sweet Guide to Being Fucking Awesome" (2011)
http://inoveryourhead.net/the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being...
and also the free kindle book "The Flinch" (late 2011)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Flinch-ebook/dp/B0062Q7S3S/ref=sr_...

I do think its good to overcome the shortcomings hamstringing your happiness.

Still; There is a striking similarity between Atwood's and Smith's blog-post, besides the central message. Both refer to a big success in their own field (Stackoverflow / Best selling book). I'm wondering if they would've reached their "serenity of awesomeness", if it wasn't for this ...
I agree with this. I just try tackle a problem with the new language. Obviously you won't "learn" a language fully by one project but you should get a feel for the language, it's syntax, it's libraries, it's communities.
RAID is not a backup strategy. RAID is an availability strategy. Unfortunately, it appears that many people don't understand the distinction.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try to work on it. Both the language and the editor are currently in development (it's just an alpha version) but as a user you need to use the editor due to technical reasons (syntaxless). Of course you could write your own editor and just use bp as a standalone compiler but that would mean you need to develop an editor that can produce the generic XML output. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do this so I'm working on a default IDE to make it more user-friendly.
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I once started work somewhere where they did software releases by RAID.

Their systems involved shipping a server (effectively an appliance) to the customer with all of the working components on it. However, there was no build or deployment process for these components - so the only way to create a new server was to take an existing one and create a copy.

This was done by opening up a working server running with RAID 1, removing one of the disks and installing the disk into a new server. Let the RAID recover the data onto the other blank disk then remove it and put the other blank disk in and let it rebuild.... result, a copied server!
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As far as I know the US is the ONLY country to ever have used nuclear weapons in war. And they may not have wiped countries off the map but they certainly did a lot of damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nobody can be trusted with nuclear weapons.
Is there an example of what this special hash looks like? E resulting hash that is, not necessarily the attack that leads to its construction.
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terrorism is an a violent act against civilians designed to instill fear in the general population.

It got legally redefined by the government. Is now the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Is now any unlawful forceful act with any wider motive, basically.
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I read a lot, but only on internet, blogs, tech docs, passionate ideas. It has been like this way for years, It seems that I do not have time for big books that worth reading slowly. I am not sure if this is healthy.

When I was younger, I read a little Confucius with a lot of time, that's very different life.
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Seems they would be close enough that they didn't want to share it. Trying to avoid too many script kiddie attacks on unpatched rails servers.
http://www.arakoon.org uses (Multi-)Paxos. Version 2.0 in development at https://github.com/Incubaid/arakoon (e.g. see https://github.com/Incubaid/arakoon/blob/2.0/src/hope/mp.ml for the state machine implementation).
Important people arrange to have their papers handled by a trusted person or group. They usually select what goes where, and how it gets dealt with.

While certainly a private thing that gave him happiness or solace or peace in life, I'm confident that he chose to include it in his collected record on death.

This seems consistent with everything that (I imagine) I know about him from reading his own autobiographical stuff, as well as other peoples' attempts.

(Aside: Klaus Fuchs, the guy whose car he borrowed, turned out to be the mole at Los Alamos, and that car was instrumental in the performance of Fuchs' activities.)
I don't disagree with you on any count, but I think, to a degree, there are going to be relatively standard languages at any large company. The majority of Microsoft programmers are probably out coding in some variation of C#/.NET and the like, while Apple programmers are somewhat locked into Obj-C etc.

When you reach the kind of scale these companies have attained (30000 people at Google!) you need some sort of internal commonality in language knowledge to allow effective code reviews and intercompatibility between divisions. Java/Python/C++ each have their own flaws, god knows Java has some flaws, but I believe allowing free spirited use of whatever coding language best fit the project would lead to a net loss in productivity (in review, lack of reusability, etc.), even if it was a better approach from a theoretical perspective.
Businesses don't like lost productivity.

Google still uses Java for the same reason we all still speak English instead of Esperanto. An existing community of fluent speakers is far more valuable in daily practice than theoretical superiority.
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Yes. If you look at attached patches, they include this special hash in the test case.
In case anyone is confused, what happens when the server catches fire or is stolen?
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The zero-day exploit market is bad for security
I've been bugging my friend that he should learn to code a website for the past few years. And for the past few years, he's been stating that "its not for me" or that "I'm not the techie type". I hear this all the time from people who don't know anything about coding.

A few months ago I showed him a demo of my website (artJutsu.com WIP) and showed him the basics behind the code. I also showed him how to create a simple site. The dev site (on my laptop) has many different concepts that I'm still hammering out. To him it looks complex, so I told him that it doesn't have to be.

I gave him the following advice for why one does create a program. "Just think of a "simple" problem that you'd like to fix. It doesn't have to be super robust, or super smart, or super technical. Just try to solve this problem through an elegant interface."

For me, artJutsu (once I get the main part completed) will solve a variety of small problems. Yes, there are things in it that is very complicated, but that comes from research. We're in an amazing time as developers where we can access a rich array of resources just with a simple Google search. The great thing is, the simplest solution usually solves the problem just as well.

I always was the type of person that hated reading those coding books and doing lesson after lesson with very little getting done. For the most part, you don't really know WHY you need to know techniques and theory. Its just way too confusing. I find getting down and dirty building something teaches you a lot more. Theory is great, but what good is it if you don't know that you need to know it? I believe that getting your feet wet will enhance the traditional learning experience.

Anyway, after a month of coding, my friend has created a pretty good "list" site for his wife. He's at the point where its getting tough to maintain his code, but he loves it. The joy of creating a useful tool to solve a problem is what we thrive on.
Unless David E. Sanger is a new Jayson Blair, I'd say the connection is confirmed, not just suspected. There are no weasel words in the article, meaning both the journalist, his editor, and NYT are putting their reputation at stake. This is as strong as a newspaper story gets.
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Good idea! This is definitely a feature I'll be adding in. The more I use it the more I see a need for the reminders to be displayed in an easy to read list. Either under Manage Posts or a separate page or both. Thanks for the comment.
Yeah, I didn't realize it was 1-indexed until you guys pointed it out.

Unsurprisingly, it still works (it just loops a few too many times).
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Ah thanks. Sorry, am reading from an iOS device and reflexively ignore all Download links at first.
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Yes, in BASIC you could enter keywords abbreviated with a . to save typing. The tokeniser would turn it into the byte or two representing PRINT ready for it to be interpreted.

I think you're thinking of the four volume RISC OS Programmers' Manual, plus slim index, that came in a big white cardboard sleeve. Augmented later by a Volume 5 of changes with later OS versions to save re-printing costs. BASIC itself was introduced in the User Guide that came with the machine IIRC and had a one-volume reference manual of its own at additional cost.
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"Several layers of masking obscured the zero-day exploit inside, requiring work to reach it, and the malware was huge — 500k bytes, as opposed to the usual 10k to 15k." - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detecti...

This is a great read and very informative!
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Yup. That totally extrapolates infinitely. No reason to worry.
Feynman has a unique insight and perspective of the world.

One of the lessons I learned from him, and I can't find the quote now, but when he was diagnosed with cancer he had this to say:

Everyone knows that they will one day die, yet they find a way to "live" life despite that fact. They have ambitions, dreams, desires. The only difference for me is that that the time is now limited. Why would I be depressed about that when the basic principle of life is the same. The only difference for me is that the time is shortened. It's simply a matter of scale, but the philosophical conundrum remains the same.
Violation of international law huh...as long as the law doesn't apply to America or Israel I guess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law_and_Israeli_s...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/29/us-israel-nuclear-...

Oh, that and the fact that America and Israel can't trust anyone but themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-9aAFvWXA
We live in a sad world where most companies don't have a real disaster recovery plan. Many times in my career I've had customers ask me to save them because they "thought" they were backing up but when they went to restore from the {tape|floppy|backup disk} media they found it to be corrupt.

Backup and Disaster recovery strategies seem really easy until you think through all the failure modes and realize the old axiom "You don't know what you don't know" is there to make your life full of pain and suffering.

Years ago my customers would literally restore their entire environments onto new metal to verify they had a working disaster recovery plan. Today most clients think having a "cloud backup" is awesome.. Until they realize in the moment of disaster that they are missing little things like license keys for software, network settings, passwords to local admin on windows boxes etc.
HIV (just to be clear, I have no clue wether HIV was assisted by some military programmes, but I can safely say such "mistakes" have been made in the past by the same army, like when they used to test nukes for example)

Luckily this time it's a simple pc virus we can easily disassemble and counter - I think cyber war's still miles better than the alternatives.
As a founder of a self funded start-up this piece felt a bit like ESP.
redundancy != backup
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I've been following Satiereal Saffron Extract for a couple of weeks now. You cannot have success at Satiereal Saffron Extract if you do not have the right equipment and I wanted to have a timeout to share my discovery with you. It was about as much fun and games as a root canal. I, really, have to be ordered to fathom Satiereal Saffron Extract. I often wonder if it's best to concentrate on Satiereal Saffron Extract or Satiereal Saffron Extract. That is amazing. I'll be strong for you and they have to have that in order to have an edge.
When Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood in 2009, 60% of Americans wanted the crime prosecuted as a terrorist act [1], the Bipartisan Policy Center referred to it as a terrorist act in a report [2], and Wikipedia currently refers to it as a "non-state terrorist attack" [3].

While there is not an internationally-agreed-upon definition of "terrorism", according to U.S. law, terrorism is defined as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents" [4]. Premeditated, politically-motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by clandestine agents ... the Iranian car bombings would legally qualify as terrorism under U.S. law.

This is a very silly argument to be having here. I'd really rather be reading about some interesting technical aspect of the technological warfare against Iran, and I really don't want to keep on cluttering up the comments here with silliness.

[1]: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/gene...

[2]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/95190520/Assessing-the-Terrorist-T..., search for "Fort Hood"

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting

[4]: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2656f, subsection (d), paragraph (2).
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It does seem surprising, but ARM BASIC was fast. Seriously fast. I read somewhere that it was later optimized further for the ARM3, so that its core working set (for common operations) would fit inside the ARM3's cache. When you consider that was only 4kb, you get a feel for how well-written ARM BASIC was.
Great book, loved him being open / honest in the book.
HN is every bit as "cliquey" as high school.
Imagine I could blow MasterCard and every single bit of data they possess up. Its consequences are worse than 15 nuclear bombs.
Good luck!

I did the same thing myself a year ago. I've already got a long list of things I'd do differently if I started again today.
Ah, Derek Sivers. He is a very inspiring person, I really recommend reading his website. I particularly loved his piece about the person who was his inspiration, Kimo Williams[1]. I regret I haven't stumbled upon this earlier, before I realized the lesson myself.

[1] - http://sivers.org/kimo
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Unity3D has a few 3rd party visual programming languages already, but they're flow-based unlike blocky.

http://u3d.as/content/neo-pax/antares-universe-vizio-free/29...

http://www.detoxstudios.com/products/uscript/

http://www.hutonggames.com/index.html
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I wasn't arguing for protectionism (e.g. a tariff on competing systems) - just that if the govt had bought Archies instead of PCs and dumb terminals, that it was buying anyway, things would have turned out differently for the whole country, if not wider.

but wasn't really the foundations of a long running computer platform

Interesting, how do you mean? Esp. in light of the state of PC OSs at the time. If you had to restart computing what would you take as your foundation, MS-DOS or Arthur?
for most of my stuff dropbox pro (with packrat addon for unlimited file histories) + github handle all my backup needs. Of course this wouldnt work for all scenarios but i dont work with/have loads of huge files.
Is it really true that "someone published in a newspaper said so, therefore we can rely on its being true"? I don't think so.

Hard data, credible sources are what make a strong newspaper story - not a convenient message from someone who would be embarrassed if the story were untrue (something which is at least as hard to disprove in this case as it is to actually prove)
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Further to other comments, you would never see P. in the output of LIST. It would be expanded automatically to PRINT.
It's a new cold war. Eventually Iran will write viruses in return to attack US power grid.

All fun and games until Homeland Security Theater is given new powers to raid your home and shoot your dog if they think your computer is being used as part of a botnet.
Obviously, it did not work even for the author - he has learned these wisdoms while being on his way through life. Learning is achieved by doing, and not by reading through commandment lists. Try to follow more than 3 points at once - you won't manage. For most people, doing so would also go against their current state of mind (their nature). I don't get why this link has been upvoted so high.
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I don't know about self driving cars, but I have known people who did PhD level research in control engineering and then went into industry (real, heavy metal industry, like offshore oil installations in the North Sea) implementing advanced control systems.

The estimate they gave me of the contribution of their control algorithms (the "theoretical" part of the project) to the over amount of effort getting the thing working was less than 1%.
No arguments on settlements, but would you point to hard evidence that the US is in violation of NPT? I am getting tired of sourceless claims here.
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What amazes me, and please excuse my naïvety, is that the congressmen are constantly pushing for more control online- whether that be monitoring skype, access to our facebook, or what have you. Basically taking our freedom in the name of 'Cyber Security', however on the other hand, they're the ones who are creating these viruses, exploiting systems and posing cyber threats.

What has the world come to?
Searching big strings (of DNA) with suffix arrays and range tables
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Because it could ONLY be the US which doesn't want Iran to have nuclear weapons (or for that matter, all of the Middle East to be in a nuclear arms race). Right?
I never get much out of these slide shares. Obviously nothing beats being there in person, but am I missing some obvious 'presenter notes' section or something that provides more details?
What do you use for longer programs?
The NYT would almost certainly not have run the story with a single source backing it up.
"You decide" a convenient way to avoid providing evidence of strong claims while still making them? You decide.
The functioning definition is something like:

> the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce the US government its allies, the US civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

See, when US does it is called "exporting democracy", "conducting an operation", "liberating", "collateral damage" -- basically anything but terrorism.
Stuxnet was widely assumed to be a US and/or Israeli venture simply because those are the only countries with the apparent resources and motivation to pull it off.

But this NYT story is indeed a scoop. It confirms that belief and provides quite a bit more detail.
The things you hear about aren't limited to snafus. They also include propaganda and mistakes.

Blaming the US for essentially everything, with or without evidence, is a mainstay of many countries' politics.
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Same here! My school was fortunate enough to receive a shipment of Apple computers when I was in 7th grade. I quickly discovered HyperCard, and spent my free time the rest of that year building a "fantasy RPG" with it. Totally ugly, barely worked, only made it about 5 screens deep, but I learned to write "code" without really realizing it, and I fell in love with building.

Who knows when (if) I would have gotten into programming without HyperCard.
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It makes it more plausible that way. ;)
I know, but what is in even the biggest set of optional packages to reach 4GB? Fonts? Viewers and tools? Maybe it's just the old unix fart in me, but we've had entire OSs with many GUI apps in much less than 1GB.
Would you please respond in addition to (or instead of) just downvoting something you disagree with in order to suppress it? Thank you