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Being able to build in one step is a common practice in software engineering everywhere, not just on unix. If you've ever heard the term "Continuous Deployment", then build in one step is being done (and hopefully more besides).
That isn't a recommendation, that is a module which was not mentioned at all in an article where it is directly relevant.

It is standard; it is trying to fix the problem, rather than lambasting Python because setuptools is broken and you have prejudices against the solutions to the problem which are actually moving forward.
I've enjoyed Abundance by Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X-Prize foundation. It's by no means laden down with details, but it is an entertaining overview of emerging technologies and how they might be put to use.

http://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Future-Better-Than-Think/dp/...
Penrose likes to say that there is a fundamenal limit through either a quantum process

This is a common misconception about Penrose for some reason. I think what he's really saying is that there is some as-of-yet-unknown physical process that is responsible for consciousness. In order for us to discover what exactly that physical process is, however, we will probably (though not necessarily) have to completely revise our understanding of quantum mechanics. For example, we might need a theory that successfully integrates QM with relativity.

Wikipedia has a decent article on hypercomputing(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation#Hypercomputer_...) (i.e. computers that can do more than Turing Machines), which is essentially what Penrose believes is responsible for human intelligence. Many of these weird hypercomputers use non-quantum properties of the universe to achieve hypercomputation. Two common examples are creating and collapsing different threads in space time, or computing with arbitrary precision real numbers.
The most interesting bit for me is at the end of another blog entry:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive...

"An intern at Microsoft Research Redmond, George Dahl, now at the University of Toronto,

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gdahl/

contributed insights into the working of DNNs and experience in training them. His work helped Yu and teammates produce a paper called Context-Dependent Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144412/DBN4LVCSR-TransASL...

In October 2010, Yu presented the paper during a visit to Microsoft Research Asia. Seide was intrigued by the research results, and the two joined forces in a collaboration that has scaled up the new, DNN-based algorithms to thousands of hours of training data."
OK, so I guess I need to plan significant amount of time documenting. Not just "the last day".
Cloud Bursting Between AWS And Rackspace
A technical user, sure. But that's an awfully big step down in security guarantees: "Hardened, secure boot with guaranteed validity and authentication at each step." to "Wait, did we install Ubuntu on this box?"
Hrm... if you don't trust your core to that extent... then why use it?
I've just finished reading Bruce Schneier's "Liars and Outliers":
http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Outliers-Enabling-Society-Thrive...

Very interesting and gives you a lot to think about. Highly recommended.
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It's not the fee that's the problem. It's the permission.

Suppose Wikileaks developed installable software that embarrassed the U.S. government. Would their key have been revoked, making it impossible for anyone to run their software? Yes.
Locked down hardware started long before smartphones and Apple were even thought of.
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern DBs and the NoSQL Movement
Stop doing automagical conversions and all these problems will go away.
No, this is an elegant bug tracker for hackers - http://ditz.rubyforge.org/
That is not entirely true. However, I think the issue with defending the language is that its more fervent supporters are using it as a confrontational political leverage instead of just plain culture.
Microsoft kept PC partners in dark about Surface
With a powerful enough computing system, we could just run an artificial world and hope intelligence evolves within it.
Stern Grove Festival
Most languages are in the same boat. PHP, Java, C, etc...
I recently watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoda5BSj_6o

in which Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about challenges in making 'friendly' AI. Yudkowsky draws a lot of examples from evolution to show how a system blindly optimising for an objective function can result in all sorts of things that a human specifying the objective function wouldn't ever have expected.

The linked article at one point says:
"In order to be a perfect and beautiful computing machine, it is not requisite to know what arithmetic is." After watching Yudkowsky's talk, which I found very insightful, I got the impression that it could be very difficult to make a machine that wouldn't do very unpredictable things, unless you had a very deep understanding of exactly what you were telling it to do.

The talk might be of interest.
It seems it's already removed from Google Play.
It is a fallacy to assume that because private keys have been leaked in the past, private keys will necessarily be leaked in the future.

Remember, the DRM-can-never-work argument doesn't apply here. DRM-can-never-work is that the user must be supplied the decryption key with the encrypted content. That does not apply to signing; you must be supplied the public key, but the private can be held private.
Wrong.

If this were true, then when the colonists from "core" countries left a colonized area, then that area should have seen an increase in wealth because those rent monies would have remained in the colony. The history of numerous areas, such as Haiti, Kinshasa, and Zimbabwe say that this did not happen.

The wealth of the upper class comes from courage, determination, intelligence, organization, and productive use of time.

Furthermore, following your rule, Mark Zuckerberg, who is formerly a long time renter, should be less rich than his former landlords.
Blogs are mostly one-way marketing, they take what's already inside your company/brain/startup and push it out towards the world. That's the exact opposite of the direction that matters most.

OK, a blog is often useful since your customers will want you to communicate with them in some way. But worry about doing that effectively before you worry about incrementing some integer on a social networking site.
The investors don't care about the school, they care about the interest payments they will receive. Bonds are often considered lower risk because the income is fixed.

Earning "huge" amounts of interest is exactly what they are doing. They get cash, they put it back in the bank. The lawsuit is about the "huge" interest rate being rigged.

Oh, you ask why they don't do that and never build the project? Because they're paying interest on it in excess of whatever they're earning. The earned interest is only to minimize the cost of sitting on the borrowed money.

Using a broker to decide the winner leaves less paper trail. It'd be weird for three competing banks to have a three way call every time this happened.
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On Writing Well by William Zinsser (http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...) is fantastic. It's not specifically about ad copy, having passion about what you're writing, as well as the fundamentals in this book, will help a ton.
I disagree as well. I agree with what you say in the last sentence, but I do not think too much time spent on blogs is anywhere near the most common blogging mistake made by startups.
Those don't really require textual matching, just regular audio fingerprinting. In fact, doing that would match Starcraft or movies podcasts, where people are quoting the source.
Thanks for the link! That is interesting.

I followed though to the SO thread and discovered that you can install windows .exe installers using easy_install into virtualenvs. That is really usefull, its a shame that PyPi doesn't also link to the windows installers so that you wouldn't have to put the path to a windows initialler in.

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Install windows binary packages into virtualenvs with easy_install - http://stackoverflow.com/a/5442340
Google celebrates Turing's 100th Birthday with a doodle
Remote JS console for HTML mobile apps
Yeah, sentences like "this was like the scam in Office Space, multiplied by a factor of about 10 gazillion: Banks stole pennies at a time from towns all over America, only they did it a few hundred bazillion time" struck me as really poorly written.
Single Responsibility Principle and Rails
You realise no British user can possibly take this app seriously? Anal sex. That's what bugger means. Happy hacking!
Inside your virtualenv you can just easy_install pil_installer.exe.

Edit: I think I should expand on the limitations of this. You can do this to any exe that was built with distutils, which you can check by changing the file extension to zip and seeing if it opens up.
Because, as mentioned in the article, there was more interesting information to be found in the mailing list, which Phoronix combined into their blog post.
> The question I would have like Schmidt to answer is this: is Pakistan a country?

Given that there is no real agreed definition as to what exactly a country is, it's unlikely that Schmidt could answer that. Also your definitions about what a country is are strangely arbitrary and seem to have little to do with whether a country is a country or not.

But, but almost any definition of country, Pakistan is a country. It may have many problems, but it's absurd to suggest that it might not be.
Have you ever watched a movie, listened to music, or played a game? All pretty useful eh?

Stachify makes most people laugh or smile, which probably lowers their stress a bit. Lower stress means improved health. I think that's pretty useful.
It 404s now.
> How many of you were taught in school that if you pay yourself a minimum wage and make up the rest as a dividend/bonus you can avoid paying a significant amount of tax (legally)?

That's the one I don't get. At tax time, it's still income. It's not like that bonus/dividend is magically untaxed because it doesn't show up bi-weekly or monthly.

The rest of isn't taught because The Man wants to keep you down - it's because teachers aren't taught those things either (at any level) and most of them have enough on their plate just trying to satisfy state requirements. You make it sound like a grand conspiracy of old, rich white people and it's not.

What the wealthy do have that most of us do not is the access to resources and a bit more free time to use those resources because they're not scrambling for a dollar like the rest of us.

I generally agree on the rest of it, but I'll add this: sometimes you're so far down a hole that the existence of light or that someone gives a damn about you is not even imaginable. Sure, you may have people that will get your back in a tight spot, but that's a far cry from knowing people who can make your life materially and spiritually better and would willingly do so.
Universities are given access to Windows source? I'd never heard of this before. Do they give access to all accredited universities, or is there some other kind of restriction?
In my opinion Penrose has been so wrong for so long about so much of artificial intelligence and cognition that it's hard to take him seriously any more.
Checking Your Facebook Privacy (Again)
The link you are giving is 5 years old. But more importantly Matt Cutts says this which is not the same as what you are claiming (with support from that link):

"My personal preference on subdomains vs. subdirectories is that I usually prefer the convenience of subdirectories for most of my content. A subdomain can be useful to separate out content that is completely different. Google uses subdomains for distinct products such news.google.com or maps.google.com, for example. If you’re a newer webmaster or SEO, I’d recommend using subdirectories until you start to feel pretty confident with the architecture of your site."

"Personal preference" and "confident with the architecture" doesn't equal "less effective from an SEO standpoint".
Hacker uses malware built-in chat to toy with researchers
Google/Amazon control of new gTLDs: "squatting at the highest level of the DNS"?
We've submitted the individual implementations on HN in the past few months. Here are the discussions.

Python: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761954

Node.js: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4137576
wow that was quick, guess it was kind of inevitable, wonder if all the forks will have gone as well
In general, you want to buy something. You have to get a quote from at least three vendors, then you pick the lowest. For contracts, like to build something, paint city hall, whatever, you solicit bids by publishing a notice in the local paper. Usually the bids are sealed, which "guarantees" people make a fair bid without undercutting their competitor by a dollar.
Yes, pre-boot vulnerabilities were a motivating factor.

But why forcibly disable Custom mode on ARM then? This is especially disturbing considering that ARM may very well be the major computing platform of the future.
That's orthogonal: the issue here is that if you want to sign a bootloader (or anything else) then you can only do it with a single key. While there's nothing stopping Win8 stickered machines containing two keys, you can be sure that not all of them will, so you need to sign your code with a Microsoft-derived key if you want it to work everywhere. That means you can't sign it with your own key.
My use of modeling was indeed inappropriate. What I meant is the working principle of cortical neural networks. The artificial model would then be a kind of proof of concept.

Regarding you other point, it is a matter of research strategy. I think that the path trying understanding the working principle of real cortical neural network is the shortest path to AI. My impression is that the other path which is to play around with artificial neural networks is too hazardous.

We can make a parallel with learning to fly. We are in a similar situation regarding how the brain works and AI. Understanding how birds fly require a true research. People seems to simply focus on flapping while this is not the real working principle of flight.

I see there a strong analogy with artificial neural network. The most relevant properties of cortical neural networks are ignored.

With flight the proof condition of mastering it was obvious. With AI, it is less obvious. I would be glad to hear suggestions. Face recognition is the most difficult condition because this process is the end product of many prior processes like 3D perception and feature extractions. My current impression is that talk decoding would be a much better candidate. Siri shows the potential impact of such AI product. At least the turing test would be a direct match.
I think i can thank Matt Taibi for both making me easily recognize and completely turning me off of hyperbole.

Thanks Matt.. now i actually kinda feel like an adult now.
I think the OP makes some excellent points, but unfortunately he uses the phrase "no risk" instead of, as I'd phrase it, "dramatically less risk." There is definitely opportunity cost. At the beginning you won't have an income. If you're 30, like myself, you'll watch your friends who didn't go down the same road start to pile up "stuff." Cars, houses, whatever. They'll have it and you won't. Even if your startup turns a corner to provide lifestyle income, there are still issues. This is a purely anecdotal example, but yesterday my wife and I went to a bank to talk about pre-qualifying for a mortgage loan, and apparently you need two years of self-employment history.

But here was the point that I think got lost in such a binary stated view of risk: right now it's easy to jump back on the totem pole. If I really wanted to buy property that bad, I could get a job making well over my previous salary within weeks. There are not a lot of entrepreneurial endeavors where that is true.

Consider something like opening a restaurant. There is not just opportunity cost but real investment cost before you even get started. And if you bomb, and statistically it's very likely you will, there is not nearly the the likelihood you can at least go back to where you started. As another anecdotal example, my friend is a second year lawyer at a firm, one of the few people in his graduating class that got a nice corporate law job so that he actually has a chance to pay off his massive loans. And he pretty much hates his life, but there's a huge chance that if he left to pursue one of his dreams, there would be no "reset" button. There is no easy chance that if he doesn't succeed, he can just go back to being a highly compensated corporate lawyer within a few weeks.

So yes, there's obviously risk in starting your own startup. There's always a cost to pursuing a dream, and not everyone wants to pay that cost. The distinction is as a technology startup founder in this current environment, your cost is dramatically lower than anyone else's, and I think that's ultimately what I think the OP is trying to say.
A friend of mine introduced me to CasperJS and I love it. It's built on top of PhantomJS.
Original 1964 Dartmouth BASIC Manual
Putting the GIF in TGIF: Animiated Reactions to Google's Updates
I am going to ignore the first part of your comment because, well, I asked that this thread not go that way. The problem with the other thread is that claims were made about vi efficiency and not one bit of data of any kind was provided to support these claims. Nobody learns this way. This thread is already very different as many have provided very interesting comments with valuable insight, including yourself.

I understand flow very well of course. I can't say that I've ever used an editor that prevented me to enter that state. I a not countering your statement, just providing my own experience.

Aside from programming I play the piano and classical guitar. When I play music I am in flow. That didn't happen until I had reasonable command of the instruments. With vi (or any other tool) the same is required. I wonder how much time it would take to go from vi neophyte to playing it like a piano? That initial phase is painful if you have to get work done.

I also understand the value of playing a good instrument and using good tools. And, while this value may not provide any hard quantifiable benefits to the project timeline it does provide benefits for the practitioner. The project might still be six months late, but there will be more daily enjoyment, if you will, for the practitioner to remain on focus. That could have value. Whether or not there is a difference between someone who has never touched vi and a vi expert remains to be determined. The vast majority of programmers don't use vi.

After reading your post and others on this thread my immediate reaction is that vi advocates might want to consider not characterizing vi as "more efficient" but rather highlight what it might do for a programmer. I can't come up with the words right now, but "more efficient", in my book, calls for having quantifiable data at the project level (not the file level).

We all know that saving a few keystrokes here and there isn't going to bring a project to conclusion any sooner. We had a project where we spent six months tracking down a bug that was due to a rounding error someone made in a calculation of lookup-table data used in a polyphase FIR filter module. It was one of those things that was right in front of you but nobody could see it. The project was late by an additional six months (it was already late) because of that bug. That's the kind of thing I think about when I say that saving a few keystrokes on the editor doesn't matter in the context of a project.

I'll read the article you pointed out and see what else I can learn.

Thanks for your input and valuable insight.
Although I would like to agree with you, I'm not convinced.

The reason Ubuntu (and Red Hat) aren't pushing to get their key included in the hardware is clear from the article:

"Microsoft's WinQual key, for much the same reasons as Fedora: it's a key that, realistically, more or less every off-the-shelf system is going to have, as it also signs things like option ROMs, and the UEFI specification only allows an image to be signed by a single key."

The Microsoft WinQual key monopoly is there because option ROMs (and other drivers) are only given one slot for a signature. After Microsoft signs the ROM, the manufacturer _can't_ add a Red Hat or Ubuntu signature to the drivers for their hardware.

This means even if you convinced all the manufacturers to include, say, a Ubuntu key, you still couldn't verify option ROMs were secure. Only Microsoft's key would work for that - thus, Microsoft's key will be the only one installed by the manufacturers.

Your next solution - creating unstickered hardware - is not a solution. There are a few manufacturers offering a linux option (Dell, Lenovo), and a few who sell only linux hardware (system76.com). In a UEFI secure boot world, there would be < 1% of hardware that wasn't locked to Microsoft's key, while 99%+ would be locked. I know users are supposed to be able to access a BIOS screen to disable secure boot, but that makes installing Linux much more painful than installing Windows 8. Why cede the advantage to Microsoft?

The best way to fight this, I believe, is to put your time and resources into coreboot.org and the FSF.
It is the usual misleading puffery that was popularized by books like the four hour workweek.
How many downvotes did you get? :) Apparently you get downvoted nowadays for having an unpopular opinion. Strange.
Summary: China asks nvidia for weird list of cpu support, oy maybe opensource drivers (not clear). Nvidia says no. Article wonders Chinese will knock on amds door.

...who might say the same, given track record.
I'm surprised that Microsoft pushes this in such a blunt way. They could have at least created a semi-independent non-profit to take care of signing. It seems like EFF or some other organization should push for antitrust investigation on this issue.
sigh If you want to help, check out the Python-dev thread where this is being hashed out ad-infinitum rather than flamed to death: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-June/120430... - for the tl;dr crowd - yeah, things have problems, want to fix.
Sorry.. Am calling BS on this... To read any protected memory regions on an NFC card a fairly complicated handshake has to occur with various exchanges of keys - you can't just read details with your average NFC reader in an Android phone using an app that doesn't even require root...
Very interesting. Neat look into how humans are just made up of layers that perform a certain task. The layers themselves don't know the overall structure or results of their actions, but their combination creates the human. The parallel between humans and computers in this regard has been widely noted, but I hadn't made the connection between the evolution of humans that led to a more complex and thinking organism and possibly using this method to foster artificial intelligence.
Well don't forget that in the USA housing is reltivly cheap.
Right, I use w and b to go forward and back one or two words at a time. For lines, I :set relativenumber and use that as a cheat sheet if I want to move or delete n lines down.