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Any extra info in the script console?
Even languages that are explicitly designed to be minimal can be anything but. For example, Scheme. The call/cc function is a lot more complicated than it sounds, and it sounds complicated. People are talking about removing it from the "minimal" Scheme. (There are two versions of R7RS, the big version and the small version. If you think that call/cc is actually simple, then you haven't tried to write higher order library functions such as map.)

And Scheme's syntax for numbers was invented by Cthulhu himself.

(Python 3 was supposed to be adopted this slowly, last time I checked.)
Apparently the other tricky bit is that Windows can be set to auto-configure network proxies (presumably for enterprise support), so the infected host pretends to be the source of auto-config info in order to direct the other systems to connect through it to get to Windows Update. At which point the infected system can infect the package, which has been signed so it will auto-install.
Thanks for the reply. It's hard to remember sometimes that if wealth is defined by what humans value then increased choice can lead to more efficient wealth. I'm just having trouble reconciling the fact that wealth is being created when we achieve more efficiently what we want but the overall pie is not increasing. Perhaps the pie analogy has limitations. In your example, the pie wouldn't increase, but it would be a better pie. Does that makes sense?
It sounds strange as we are not used to thinking of wealth in terms of "better" or "worse", only more or less.

Now, you could say that there's money wasted on pizza marketing or too many entrants for all pizzerias to survive, so some will go out of business. All true, but those are short run phenomena. Over the long run, the result is greater efficiency.

Yes, this is what I'm thinking of. Too many competitors in the short-term. Is there a point where there are no more efficiencies to be found though? Or the efficiencies are so small as to be negligible? Like having 101 pizza shops vs. 100.

On an intuitive level, increasing the efficiency of production feels more important to me than maximizing efficiency of utility. But both affect wealth positively.
"I'd much rather access data from Mongo, Riak, Redis, and Couch using the SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements that I have known since 1988, instead of having to learn four new database APIs."

Doesn't work because those are set operations which are meaningless outside the relational world. If you want to use set operations, use a relational database.
The SecureList summary was much more detailed:
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193558/Gadget_in_the_mi...

Flame took advantage of WPAD, a little-known magical hostname (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protoco...) to do MITM attacks on the Windows Update servers.

Flame then installed 'WuSetupV.exe' with the description "Desktop Gadget Platform" "Allows you to display gadgets on your desktop".

What's amazing is that Windows Update doesn't require explicit validation of an update-only certificate chain. It seems like any certificate from the Microsoft root can certify updates (!).
Hi, it's long and rambly but I'd like to know what parts (if any) were interesting, I could talk more about working at an investment bank, about my experience consulting in general etc, or something completely different.

I'd also really appreciate anything that helps structure thinking about a business/passive income generators such as this http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas as I think thais will be the focus for the next few months.
I thought they were headquartered in Austin for some reason. Am I thinking of some other chat company?
It's not got a mirror flaw that you need to work around which loses light, and the secondary is steerable. So the optics are definitely better than the Hubble we have. Just taking those instruments you mention and putting them on this NRO bird would give better results than the Hubble.
Isn't there speculation that Lodesys is a derivative of IV?
Easily enough done on Postgres-XC, and you still get full ACID compliance across shards as well!
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Kind of a bummer that ClearCam is apparently abandon-ware now, yet still up in the store for $2.
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Seeing as you build your own 'filesystem' on top of a simple key/value interface, I think advancing the backend support might be good 'low hanging fruit'.

It doesn't even have to be something as 'cloudy' as rackspace, support for something like webdav as an ARQ backend would also be nice.

That being said, I have actually no idea about the codebase and user base, so this could be a completely wrong assumption :)

Personally, my biggest 'problem' with Arq at the moment is, that the iPhone client works, but I'm missing stupid small things like thumbnail previews for uploaded images.
FWIW, it's not a legally binding pledge, it was just some guy saying, "yeah, we'll do that".

(Correct my if I'm wrong, that's what I remember from reading about it before, but something could have changed recently.)
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Apple did step in...

http://gamepolitics.com/2012/04/13/apple-wins-motion-lodsys-...
Nice, generic and overenthusiastic post-acquisition blog post. They'll likely be shutdown within a few months.
One theory is that cloud hosting providers use memory as a metric to estimate a customer's use of resources that aren't directly paid for (bandwidth, CPU, support, etc). So even though you may be way overpaying for increased memory based on current RAM prices, their data may show that you're much more likely to also use more resources you aren't directly paying for and set the price accordingly.
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Try AngularJS, that thing is truly a miracle.
Postgres-XC is also in beta. Basically it's sharded PostgreSQL with full RI enforcement between shards, and seamless query integration. I assume they are working off the 9.2 codebase (hence the beta being the same time as Pg 9.2) but maybe it's only 9.1 (i.e. no JSON).

Postgres-XC is probably the most exciting PostgreSQL-related project out there. It promises full write-extensibility across the cluster without sacrificing consistency.
Well, this seems wrong on a couple of counts. For one thing, Steam has iOS and Android clients as of January of this year. For another, Steam was released a decade ago in 2002 - and if that's "1 decade too late," I'd like to see a prototype for a game distribution client that would work on the 1992 internet with 1992 hardware. (Seriously, that would be kind of neat. Very different, I suspect, but interesting nonetheless.)
This is a truly powerful thing, especially for mobile web-apps where you need to constantly synch with a central server.

Also, native mobile apps using WebKit don't need to embed CouchDB in their app anymore - they simply use PouchDB to synch with their couches.

Not to mention the benefits this could bring to desktop development. All you virtually need is a WebKit instance to build a truly scalable desktop application that uses open standards for most of its components - HTML5/CSS3 for interface and a Couch API for storage.

Really awesome! Keep up the good work.
Has Oracle pivoted to become a law firm?
You, me, and every single one of their customers. Who doesn't want lower prices? I wish they had a 128MB option!
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Inside Minecraft proper, it would be prohibitively difficult. Redstone doesn't really support programming that complex (keeping 3D state, cleared areas, randomizing the board, etc.).

With a couple new blocks, though -- a new game control, the mine blocks themselves -- it would be a moderately easy mod. Putting dynamic textures on the blocks to display numbers wouldn't be (in principle) any harder than some of the grass mods, and there's an onDestroy hook for the block you could use to clear space.

I wonder how hard 3D minecraft would be.

[Edit: Ha! It's been done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV6n0UWJM2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW71giahaLM

This is why we google things before building them.]

[Edit edit: Oh, nuts. Those are both still 2D. This is why we review google results before deciding not to build something.]
Are there sides? I'm just saying something you can do with it. I don't see this any different than magazine subscriptions like Home and Garden that have about half the pages as ads. I tear any double-sided ads out of the magazine.
I've tried repeatedly to compose songs in Major rather than minor, as I usually do, but I keep ending up with a fucking Pachelbel's Canon chord progression :| It just sucks you in like a whirlpool you have to constantly swim away from.
And the given diversity statement certainly does not reflect any meaningful definition of the "sort of behavior [Debian] is actively seeking out".

Do you not see the contradiction in the message you quoted?

>Inclusivity does mean telling people who are not willing to allow others to be included [to leave].

This is self-contradictory unless there is no party that is "not willing to allow others to be included". You necessarily exclude someone. Is the line then, "We allow anyone who is not actively trying to get us to disallow someone else?" And if so, wouldn't that make anyone pointing out WBC-esque signatures an excluder who would have to be excluded to remain ideologically sound? What about people who are not specifically trying to exclude people? What if they say saying "God is OK with [group I dislike] contributing to Debian, but that group is still evil"? Is this tantamount to exclusion because it makes the individual feel ostracized, and if so, how do we tell when a statement is sufficiently likely to cause a feeling of ostracization in a person such that we have to stop it?

What about divisive political issues? Surely there are Debian contributors who oppose gay marriage on primarily religious grounds and surely there are Debian contributors who support it. Wouldn't any advocacy of either position be "non-welcoming" to some significant and contributory group? Isn't saying, "Yeah, but people who [oppose|support] gay marriage are not worth my energy anyway" exclusive?

The statement is so broad that it means nothing.
Nobody finishes their PhD without enough food to eat as a child so they don't die before they reach age 12. It is luck that you were born to your parents. It is luck that you are still alive despite the hundreds of dangers and probabilistic events that could have killed you every day since you were born. What you do with your luck that you have is up to you. Working hard doesn't prevent you from getting hit in the head with falling tiles.
I'd add satellite dishes and woks to the list of things that work pretty well.
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He didn't take no for an answer; that's one very clear signal that he is ignoring

Here you are again putting absolute faith in one side's description of the events. Do you think Swinger Dude would describe the story in the same way? We really have no idea.

Even more importantly, conference organizers really have no way to know. Let's say you are running a conference and you get this story about one of your speakers. You talk to him and he says "it wasn't like that". What do you do? Cancel his talk?

Unless you're asking for HR-style processes, any policy you try to create will continue on exactly as it has in this case: Information flows to the event organizer, and the organizer makes future decisions based on his/her judgement of the credibility of the actors involved. Maybe the speaker won't be invited back next year. Maybe Ms. Elman won't be invited back next year. Maybe the organizer won't care. Who knows.

As far as being uncharitable: People lie. Even more often, they misrepresent situations to their narrative advantage. This story has certainly gotten the author a lot of attention, and probably many new fans of her blog. There are many potential motives here and I see no reason suspend healthy skepticism.

Do I really think this behavior isn't really an issue? I don't know. All I have here is a one-sided anecdote from a stranger. I'm not even sure it clearly qualifies as Sexual Harassment, ie intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.[1] Even taking the story at face value, it's not clear there was actual intimidation involved - just awful behavior. Take her summary paragraph:

"It was incredibly disappointing, humiliating and degrading on so many levels. I had been turned from a professional colleague into "a hook-up" at a bar. I was disgusted by his behavior, his comments about his family and the fact he is even associated with the Django community."

There's no variation on "it was scary, I was concerned for my safety, I felt intimidated". Taking the story at face value - yes, this was incredibly boorish behavior, but the right solution IMHO was to get him bounced from the bar. This kind of behavior happens in all kinds of bars to all kinds of women - bouncers are well-equipped to deal with it. Conference organizers are not.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment
I'm reminded of Henry Kissinger's quip on the Iran-Iraq war:

"It's too bad they both can't lose."
Yeah I can do that, I'll add that to the queue.

The high level is Rails on the very front for legacy reasons, and it's easier to find libraries that do, authentication, authorization, billing etc... that speaks to solr or a restful service running on noir hosted by tomcat, cassandra is the main DB. All backend tasks are performed by Hadoop or storm, and those jobs are all written in Clojure.

To be honest I feel that the Java interop isn't that bad. It's easier than doing interop from ruby/python down to C or C++. It provides access to lots of high quality libraries and you get the JVM. I think it's more than worth the price.

Although I know many functional programming languages, Clojure is the first that I've stuck with long term, and I think the strength of the ecosystem has a lot to do with it. Languages like Erlang, Haskel, and lisp are really interesting, but the breadth and depth of the libraries isn't comprable. Being a small company we need to be careful how we allocate resources. We contribute back where we can, for instance we contribute to clj-hector and cassandra.cascading but we're only a two man dev shop.
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Well you probably know its not really just the RAM you are paying, they just use the RAM amount as a label. If you take a large chunk of RAM, that significantly reduces the number of other users that can go on that machine. Really its the whole service is expensive when you want larger amounts of RAM.

Basically I think we are paying for all of their support people and infrastructure and also a healthy profit.
Time to buy shares. And sell 2 years from now.
They wouldn't, because at least gene has its role. Life events + genes + free will => destiny. The role of the first two are pretty self-evident. I'm not sure about the role of free will, if it exists.
Since they are seeking to invalidate the patents, I am rooting for Oracle in this suit.
You can plug keyboards and mice into many of them , but you can't use them for games.

I was very annoyed when I couldn't play COD4 with keyboard + mouse on the 360.
One thing about cantennas is that they are linearly polarised, so you could go from half to full duplex on the same frequency by having four of them, two at either end, rotated 90 degrees apart.
Great presentation, for anyone that hasen't checked out Drew's application to Y-Combinator, here it is:

http://sulemanali.com/blog/2010/11/29/drew-houstons-y-combin...

*On a side note, one thing (if you can) is to add a little humor/personality in your application:

Q:Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

A:The ridiculous things people name their documents to do versioning, like "proposal v2 good revised NEW 11-15-06.doc", continue to crack me up :)
I'll ask again then. How can one know from reading a patent whether or not it's a pure troll?
Wow - that's some epic transparency. Kudos to Matt and the Cloudflare team for that.
You're deflecting the question. Computers have documents, files, or whatever it is that you want to call them. Some times we want to edit them with more than 1 program. How do you propose that we do so, absent the file metaphor? Perhaps there is a better way, I look forward to your solution.

Or perhaps you are suggesting that we shouldn't have documents at all? We shouldn't have word processors or spreadsheets, or pictures. I can't tell because your comments lack directness.
I work for a competitor to you but I don't mind helping you out a bit.

A - Your install flow is bad, just let people use the app if they've given you a facebook auth. You want to remove steps to the funnel.

B - Do not ask for the publish_stream permission, ask for publish_actions instead. The advantage of publish_actions is that it appears on the first auth page, and not the extended permissions page. You can do almost everything that you need to do using publish_actions that you can with publish_stream. Do not ask for both though, or else they will both be on the extended permissions page.

C - You must get Open Graph going ASAP.

I can describe some wrinkles to publish_actions v. publish_stream, just ping me.
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I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.

If they have publicly promised it, and people have taken action upon it (for instance buying games that they wouldn't have bought otherwise), then if they fail carry through on it you have grounds to sue for promissory estoppel. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel for more on that.

Winning said lawsuit is not a sure thing. But the pledge may wind up being more binding than it would appear on the surface.
Groupon's core problem is that the lifetime values of their stakeholders, both the merchants and the customers, decline quickly. If you compare the customer acquisition cost to the current lifetime value of a customer, it seems profitable since the company is growing so fast that most of its customers are new to Groupon and are still high-value. However, research on the earliest cohorts of users shows that the older the customer is, the less profitable they are, indicating that once the growth is tapped out the customer base will rapidly decline in value.

There's lots of analysis out there that use the numbers directly from the S-1 to highlight this fact. The crux of the problem is that Groupon needs to find a SUSTAINABLE way to deliver value to businesses and individuals and this doesn't seem to be the case right now.
> I don't know what operating systems you are using, but My mac with the latest operating system still has a multiple "library" folders and a "system" folder. I presume windows 7 still has a windows folder, a program files folder, and documents and settings folders. Any unix type system has /usr /bin /var /etc . These things are so apparently ingrained it appears you are incapable of perceiving them.

Those operating systems do separate user and system files with different permissions. Some even default to putting user files on a separate partition.

> as for your third point, this is what is called the fallacy of the false dichotomy or false dilemma. The solution for this is that there's more than just the 2 options you are imagining.

Please enlighten me.
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I think you have someone else in mind. Perhaps one of the commenters on her article?
I like the infographic showing the series of events, definitely goes a long way in terms of aiding transparency. I wonder if it could be a new trend?
He emphasizes hiring great people essentially because that's the only way you'll be able to hire more great people. He goes on to make the point that if you lower the hiring bar and start hiring lower quality people, that in itself may cause you to lose the best people. This process, he says, is irreversible.
Surely, I'm not interested in buying CDs and punching in codes :) I prefer to download a purchased game, install it, and run without any DRM.
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I actually feel Mikko & the folks at f-secure are very good at explaining things to people who aren't everyday "virus fighters," but i felt the exact same way you did (like they were scaremongering) when they said "The Nightmare Scenario."

I'm on the fence about this issue, honestly. Part of me feels like they believe passionately that we're stepping into new, dangerous territory. The other part of me indeed feels like this is great advertising for not only them, but their industry (And they're going to push it all they can).

But the fact of the matter is they admit they can't protect you, whoever you are, from these types of targeted attacks. I've seen well respected speakers from Defcon go back and forth with Mikko on Twitter about the efficiency of AV.

It sucks you're (the parent) being downvoted but this is an issue, what with the incredible amount of FUD that comes with every serious attack.

EDIT: My mistake in misspelling Mikko's name. Sorry about that.
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Soket (http://www.soket.me/index_e.html) will be presenting at Development Innoventures and Salon (Cambridge, MA).

Come learn about, and brainstorm with new social venture, “Soket“, a new corporate intrapreneurship model to stimulate innovation for poor communities in the developing world. Learn about their pilot project, in collaboration with Nissan, to repurpose batteries from electric vehicles as storage for solar powered irrigation systems.

What do you think about using Intraprenuership as innovation engine for Development?
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You are mistaken on my background, and I have no preference on whether future Apple TVs succeed or fail.

What are you seeing on Apple TV that suggests that cable channels are going to embrace an alternative to cable?
Usually while lifting. They seem to come when I'm thinking about nothing at all! I don't think about it on purpose... just happens.
Not too long ago there was this diplomatic incident in my country where the US military forgot to mention they where bringing (or tried to smuggle in) a briefcase with some GPS equipment and other stuff. They where discovered when their plane was inspected and the briefcase was not in their customs declaration.

They where forced to open the briefcase, which was less than 1 meter (3 feet) wide. They agreed only if the briefcase was opened under a roof, alluding it was standard procedure because of spy satellites looking at its content.

That was when I realised that spy satellites currently have ridiculous amounts of optical resolution I had never though equipment could achieve in orbit.
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A lot of the sample videos have very high frame rate, so it might not work on historical video.
DRM free core dumps surely should be more fun than DRMed ones. ;) But seriously, having or not having DRM is not really directly related to how often it will crash.
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I would love to know if the graphic was made by hand or in an automated fashion.
I like meebo, I always have and still use it (for AIM). I consider myself a fan even though I used to hate: "They got 15 million for online instant messaging?"

I really liked how in the early days they would show off their growth, new office/employees, etc. when you logged in. It subconsciously acted as a source of inspiration.