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That naked short selling is allowed is an anachronism coupled with the lobbying of the self-interested. In the olden days, it was reasonable to give a time delay to deliver the physical paper that proved ownership. Now everything is electronic so _could_ be verified instantly. But there's a lot of money to be made by doing it and the government will covert catastrophic losses, so it should be expected that everyone does it.

Fortunately the solution is quite simple. Force short sellers to make the shares available instantly at the time of the short. They could be held in escrow by the exchange until settlement either way. Go go gadget SEC?
> I think that there are way worse dangers than "humanoid bombs"

Yes, I am much more concerned about the scope for ubiquitous surveillance and systematic domination that even fairly modest gains in AI will allow. Something along the lines of the Emergency society in A Deepness in the Sky.
That was my first thought. The guy went insane. He's not making sense.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that your article was odd. Just, it seems odd to have that comparison made. Sort of like comparing a programming language to a framework if you will.
To add a bit more to the conversation: The movie "Dark Star" which cam out in 1974, predating and anticipating many of the sci-fi tropes popularized by Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. The characters have a conversation with a bomb and try to rationalize that it shouldn't detonate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_%28film%29
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For others who are slow: He means Larry Ellison, not Larry Page.
Well that's just factually incorrect. MongoDB now has a per-database write lock and will have a per-collection write lock in the next version. So your halt under write-load statement is incorrect.

The map reduce implementation is quite new sure. But it is getting better and you can always link it up with Hadoop.

At the very least provide links that aren't nearly 2 years old.
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Would most of the attack been rendered impossible if Matthew answered his phone at 11:39 instead of letting it go to voicemail?
I'm sure it will get better with time. It's trying to catch up with a huge software product that has hundreds if not thousands of professional engineers working full time on it. You should file a bug report.
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Twitter moved to Scala, not Java.
Java can be valuable if you really get into it, to a point where you begin to understand the internals of the JVM, because that is not going anywhere soon.
Not to rain on your parade, but 550 users on a game site is still quite small. I'm far more familiar with sites in the USA but I assume the general rules will apply. With sites I am familiar with, Google Adwords is usually used until reaching 100,000 users or so. If a site caters to a niche audience then it may be possible to find advertisers/ a sponsorship with far fewer users. Gaming attracts a general audience, however, so I think you would need to grow your user base before reaching out for sponsors.

Feel free to reach out to me with any specific questions.
Oh, maybe HD Camera? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hd-camera-13mega/id455960193?... I don't have an iPhone so I can't try it :(
Come on, you know it was not coming out of GS pockets. It was a heads I win tales you lose situation.

Evidently there is some amount of time between when a stock transaction is booked and when it clears - like a purchase made with a check. They were essentially writing bad checks by selling stock they didn't own. If the price of the stock went down, they would actually go out and buy the stock at the new lower price. If the stock went up they would say, sorry that stock transaction "failed" - darnedest thing, just happens sometimes.

"Instead, he preferred to just sell stock he didn’t actually possess. That is what is meant by, “We want to fail them.” Trafaglia was talking about creating “fails” or “failed trades,” which is what happens when you don’t actually locate and borrow the stock within the time the law allows for trades to be settled."
Could you provide a citation that Mathematica has "if not thousands of professional engineers working full time on it", please? I also find the claims of 100s dubious. But I'm interested.
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No, the profit doesn't come from GS.

Say you think XYZ, currently priced at $100 is going to go down in price. You tell your broker (GS in this case) to short 1 share in the market. GS sells XYZ (someone else buys it) and you get $100 in your account while the quantity of XYZ shows up as -1. Later, the price does drop to $90. You tell GS to buy 1 share, and you pay $90 for that share.

You now have $10 in your account ($100-$90) and the quantity of XYZ in your account it zero (-1 +1).

Someone else in the market lost this money, you gained it. GS was supposed to have borrowed this 1 share from someone, but they didn't. In other words, for a short time, this 1 share was created out of this air.

If there was a system to make sure that every single transaction was backed by an actual share, then this would not have been possible. However, transactions are not actually reconciled on a real-time basis.

Someone with more knowledge of the back office will have to explain how such naked shorts can exist in books for longer than 3 days (perhaps GS was rolling over these shorts?)
Not a fan of Ruby (which pretty much nails RM's coffin for me), so really can't comment. You appear a fan of Ruby, so I take what you say with a grain of salt.

> there's no comparison between Titanium and RM.

Well, there is. As much, I guess, as there is between PhoneGap and RM. I really just saw RM and Titanium having more in common then what PhoneGap had to offer, and saw the comparison as a bit odd. PhoneGap's goals are different then RM or Titanium. That's all I really meant.
>That world already exists.

Which was my point. Worrying about hypothetical android bomb carriers is silly when we live in a world where you can pack an atomic bomb in the space of a travelers briefcase. That allows for enough mundane methods of delivery to make suicide androids unnecessary. And as pointed out elsewhere, you don't have to have sentient AI to create something sophisticated enough to deliver a bomb.

EDIT: Struck the word "almost" from it's place next to silly in the above sentences.
> of the indiscriminate use of A.I.-based warfare

There is no A.I. based warfare - the drones are controlled by human pilots.
I don't see any luck in the "dinner" refered in the article neither in any of the examples. All those events have been predicted by the people who fight hard for building a society where those kind of events precisely became the default instead of rapes and pillages.

Btw, excelent movie.
You can invoke R from Sage. http://tutorial.sagenb.org/home/pub/4/
Great article!

My apologies if this is too off-topic, but it's interesting to see everyone's virtualenv setup. I normally have my project/site/app in my environment folder, so it looks something like:

projectenv/
bin/
include/
lib/
project/

but I've also seen (as is the case in the OP's example):

project/
env/
__init__.py
database.py
...

or even having a separate folder for all environments:

envs/
env1/
env2/
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project1/
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project2/
...

Would anyone say there's a "preferred" setup?
You're misinterpreting the premise of the article. The article is talking about ethics, not about some sort of danger. From an ethical perspective, if using a nuclear bomb is justified, then the delivery mechanism is irrelevant.

However, in the case of the sentient atomic bomb (and I think talking about it as an android obscures this question) we get in to stickier terrain. A sentient atomic bomb is a sentient being whose sole purpose in life is essentially genocide. That is definitely morally repugnant to me, and by extension I'd say it's problematic in any sane ethical system.

Creating a sentient atomic bomb would be no different in my ethical system from raising a child from birth to be the guidance system for an atomic bomb airplane.
I think that we're largely missing the point here. He's worried that his fundamentally harmless research will end up powering horrific weapons of mass destruction, enabling them to attack even more precisely and with more devastation. And quite frankly, I share his concerns that if those weapons were developed, we would use them without thought or care. And apologies to my fellow American Hackers, but America's got the rep for it, what with that one time they dropped a couple of nukes on hundreds of thousands of unarmed men, women and children, killing hundreds of thousands and levelling a couple of cities.

But, I digress, he's talking about androids sneezing us to death. I'm not going near a shop mannikin ever again.
Yes. A commission appointed by Bush took a look at the nation's intelligence community after the Iraq failure and found it to be severely lacking.

http://articles.cnn.com/2005-03-31/politics/intel.report_1_m...
Duplicity is a simple tool for signed/encrypted (PGP) differential backups using a variety of protocols including: ssh/scp, local file access, rsync, ftp, HSI, WebDAV, Tahoe-LAFS, and Amazon S3. I'm assuming that rackspace storage supports at least one of these?

There is a very easy to use command line interace, and also a GUI (which I have not tried).

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Some colleagues of mine had an even worse day. The launch went perfectly but the lens cap released while the Earth was in the IR camera field of view and the entire mission coolant was burned off in a few minutes.
Well, since android is basically a posix compliant linux system with a ui layer on top, this seems like an obvious step in the direction of having a full android steam client, which will be a massive win for them, especially since I imagine much of osx code base ports across relatively easily.

(Yes, I know there are differences, but the point is that the same base code can be ported easy if they do it right)
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At http://blog.kicksend.com/new-version-of-web-app I read:

"Under the old pricing model, Kicksend’s introductory plan allowed users to send up to 1 gig per month for free, with additional plans available for users who wanted to send more than 1 gig per month. In the updated model, users can send an unlimited number of files at no cost, on all of our platforms."

Honestly, I'd love some insight into how this makes sense.
My first internship (not CS) paid around $14 an hour, with full benefits. My IT internship paid from $15.xx/hr and no benefits, with a standard raise every semester you worked. I know the software interns got paid the same $15.xx starting off, but their raise was variable. I think at the top end they were making $25 an hour. This was in Georgia, so figure COLA adjustments and all that.
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You have some facts about Bill Gates wrong. Not only is he smarter than other smart people but he's also harder working than most other hard-working people. It was generally accepted among his classmates that he was the smartest in his class at Lakeview and one of the smartest at Harvard.

Also, you could say that Bill Gates got lucky with the CP/M OS deal, but he was shrewd enough to give himself the advantage in the majority of the contracts he made with others. Luck did play a huge role in Microsoft's success but their success was multiplied by Bill's intelligence, hard work, cunning, and competitiveness.
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Definitely this. A terrorist with an engineering/chemistry/biology degree/knowledge could do a lot of damage in todays society. It's not hard to imagine if you let your mind wander

(the explosive homemade uav into a stadium would be pretty bad, could fly in from anywhere)

I don't think he gets that security is probability based, consequence * _likelihood_, then you concentrate on the factors you can control like monitoring for people with intent, looking for known patterns, developing response plans, etc

Limiting the technology available is an exercise in futility, and has negative impacts on society to boot
ok, here's a question.

what if the "bare" git repo (/srv/git/helloworld.git) belongs to a user "git" and the non-bare setup (/srv/www/helloworld) belongs to use "conradev" ? this (different users) setup is what one would prefer when multiple people are working on the project.

git pull hub master would fail in that case as it would be executed by the git user. so you'll probably have a lot of hard time figuring out permissions. what are your suggestions now ?
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Wikipedia.org states that Wolfram Research has 400+ employees. Given typical software company staffing levels, they probably have apx 100 people working on product development.

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Often, the difficulty of bringing a game to OSX is porting DirectX graphics code to OpenGL. Once that's done, the hard part of Linux support is dealing with distribution fragmentation and dependencies.

Steam on Linux will probably ship with the audio/graphics/input libraries it needs, so 3rd party developers don't have to worry about environment nearly as much.
Thanks, I love duplicity from a technical standpoint, but for some reason, I'd like to have a native OSX UI and the ability to access my data from my iOS device while on the go.
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Because the author found out about it first. And why is it terrible?
Is flaw # 5 (or #1 depending on how you look at it) not having two-factor auth on the personal account? Or does account recovery by-pass two-factor auth by design?
Be wary of having .git accessible to the outside world. If it is routed, possibly due to default web server configuration or an oversight, it can be rather easy to fetch the complete (or in the case of packed refs, nearly complete) history of your application server by walking the git objects in reverse from refs/heads/*. This could reveal database configuration details or other particularly interesting things.

The server need not even be set up git over http (via git-update-server-info or what have you) for this to be an issue.
Yeah, the Shuttle never flew a polar orbit, nor did it ever land at Vandenberg. Fun fact: the only reason the Air Force had a say in the Shuttle's design is because the Shuttle was supposed to be a fast-turnaround spaceplane with enough launch capacity to serve as the standard spacelaunch system for the entire government, including NRO flights.

Then we actually flew the thing. Whoops, the heat shield falls apart after reentry. Whoops, the turbopumps can only last one flight. Therefore, six months of downtime between flights. Whoops, Columbia and Challenger! Therefore, the fleet might be grounded at any time, for years at a time, since the Shuttle can't be flown without humans, (Landing gear deployment requires pulling a manual lever, on the insistence of the astronaut corps. Otherwise it was entirely automatic) and the public doesn't like it when astronauts are killed.

Thus the military returned to conventional rockets. They even built an unmanned spacecraft for the "go up and steal a satellite" mission the Shuttle never ended up performing: the X-37.
No, its not good for them. I have no idea why they do it, only that they do with surprising consistency.
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Another poster on r/netsec (https://pay.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ui0k4/cloudflare_wa...) mentioned that it was 4chan.org.
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The Shuttle's return payload was 14,400kg. HST is 11,100kg.
Convincing humanoid androids with enough space for a nuke are most definitely not a current 2012 destructive technology. Walking is still a challenge, let alone any sort of intelligence.

I'm not really clear on what an AI has to do with it though. A remote controlled robot would be easier, cheaper, and more reliable, but even that's unnecessarily complicated. If you wanted to move something heavy through a crowded area without attracting attention, you'd just hide it in any of the common wheeled things we see every day. Like a wheelchair. Or a car. Or a truck. I'm pretty sure terrorists have "Let's put this bomb in a truck" figured out already. The 2010 Times Square guy solved the transportation issue, he just wasn't good at making bombs.

EDIT: More to the point, almost any technology has the potential to be used for purposes that we don't like. The real question is about the people who resort to those tactics, why they choose to, and what means they have access to. The vast majority of the world is against nuking large groups of people, with androids or not. The ones that do don't usually have access to nuclear material, bioweapons, or advanced robotics.

If anything, a "nukedroid," would be the next generation of ICBM, built to avoid missile defense systems. I don't think science fiction's common prediction of widespread androids is realistic, and there are plenty of equally far fetched weapon predictions that would be difficult to defend. What about a nuclear mole-bot that burrows under a city from hundreds of miles away before surfacing and blowing up? Or nanobots designed to infiltrate through a water supply? For the foreseeable future, metal bullets and explosives in conventional cases will be the most economical form of killing people and blowing stuff up.
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Thank you, that lead me to the actual report here- http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/wmd/report/index.html
Excellent movie.

Two of the creators in Dark Star (Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb) worked on Star Wars, Alien, others. Also George Lucas was of course aware of Dark Star. So it's a bit different from mere predating/anticipating.

(Though you are probably aware of that)
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That'd work for a bare piece of wire, but a resistor is covered with enamel.
> You are right, but if we had an easily installable coreboot we could just ignore whatever comes with the computer and just flash coreboot over the existing firmware.

No, you couldn't. The move to secure boot means that firmware updates are signed, because otherwise you could disable secure boot simply by pushing out a fake firmware update.
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Part of this attack bears a certain resemblance to the recent Bitcoinica compromise, in that, from what I understand, they were also forwarding admin emails to personal accounts, one of which was compromised leading to the attacker gaining control of the bitcoinica virtual servers. Cloudflare were fortunate - at least the changes made were reversible, whereas the bitconica compromise resulted in the virtual servers being unrecoverably deleted after breach and theft.

There are lessons to be learned from both incidents.
>>Samuel Goldwyn obviously never worked in a sweatshop.

And you obviously don't have to be in a sweatshop to work hard. You can work hard as a Janitor, driver, programmer, stock trader, president or whatever.

To be 'lucky' through hard work you've got to be clever enough to pick up the area where you want to work hard.If by any means you can't start where you would have liked, you need to keep moving gradually to the place you would like to go.

My advice: If your hard work doesn't look rewarding in both the long and short term. Iterate quickly, take a quick feedback and play a different game. But whatever game you play work hard while playing it.

EDIT: To all those people who are downvoting. Hard work in the wrong direction doesn't give the results you expect. Is this such a difficult and surprising thing to understand?
I am an undergraduate physics student, and we are forced to use Mathematica on a weekly basis.
I avoid it whenever possible, but this is what I've been looking for. Awesome!
No need to limit it to self-taught/trade-taught programmers, CS people, and EE people.

I once worked with a brilliant programmer who was studying Classics and English Literature and he had an entirely novel approach too, and brought real value to the team.

That's the cool thing about programming -- it's an abstract thinking skill, so anybody with any sort of formal training will bring their specific ways of working and thinking into the game.
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Why do you avoid it, because it is proprietary?

Because mathematica is actually really a pretty great math program.
Make kevin cringe less by calling him a "graphic designer". That extra "s" makes them die inside. :)

Also, nice job, kevin.
Sounds like if the hacker had just done it out of hours, perhaps when the person in question was asleep, they would have had uncontested access to the accounts and the hack might have been far more damaging.
>>It is possible to be born into success.

It definitely is, but it only takes you there. You have carry it from there on.

Most of rich kids feel its their 'right' to be rich, regardless of whether they 'deserve' it or not. I have a lot of friends who inherited crazy fortune from their parents. According to them poor people getting rich due to whatever reason is 'unfair' to them.

Most rich kids just like the status quo to remain unchanged. Their idea of getting rich, is they staying where they are, without much effort and others remaining poor.
But if it's a naked short, the only transactions are between me and GS.

I sell short at $100, GS gives me that $100. If there's no share behind that to sell, then they just gave me that $100 out of their own pocket, right?

So then the stock drops to $90 and I cover my short by sending GS $90. There's still no real share to deal with.

So GS gave me $100, had no source for that money other than their pockets, and I gave them back $90. They're down $10 of their own money.

This can't be how it works or they wouldn't do it, and if they did, no one would be complaining.

So how does it actually work?
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So just how much more "lucky" is Warren Buffet than a thousand other capitalists? If you took away every penny he owns and made him 25 again, do you really doubt he would be able to earn it all back?
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That's my point. These aren't "better than Hubble" telescopes, they're just optical assemblies. That's more than nothing but it's hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment short of a Hubble equivalent observatory.