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I have no interest in your presenting your unwillingness to do basic research as if it was a valid form of skepticism.

Whether or not you believe me, everyone else just went ahead and took a quick look, and learned something.

Frankly, I would be happier, given your seeming inability to be a part of this conversation in a polite way, yet also your seeming unwillingness to depart this conversation even after it was requested, that you actually believe I'm wrong, and go around "calling people on this," so that everyone has early warning just how much you actually know about this field, instead of having to wait to listen to you speak.

"Shannon was a much better chess player than any program available in 1949."

On a technicality, this is correct: he started his work on December 29, and it wasn't until five days later, January 2 of 1950, that it was able to beat him.

All the same, you have no idea what you're talking about, and are asserting your beliefs as fact.

The correct way to handle "that doesn't sound right" is a search engine, not putting your hands on your hips and telling someone they're wrong in public.

Go check now, little bird.
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There's a theory that some Neanderthals had red hair, via a genetic mutation. That mutation is different to the one causing red hair in Homo Sapiens.

Wikipedia says that the gene mutation for human red hair could be from 20,000 to 100,000 years old.
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Unlike Ruby on Rails build-in I18n library, R18n autodetect user locale (for Rails, Sinatra and desktop apps), translate models or any objects, has flexible filters, use better locales architecture, can load translations by any way (files, database, etc) and use nice Ruby-style syntax.
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Are you looking a IP addresses to get initial map coordinates? Curious.
I think there is a flip side of it too:

Fliers need to make it clear that they are OK with the fact that if they want to be treated better, security will not catch all security risks.
"2.) Singularity as in breakdown not as in single. You purposely muddled the meaning to make your quip work."

This is a blatant falsehood. I have solely and exclusively used it as a title for Kurtzweil's concept. It has no meaning; it's a name. I have muddled nothing. It is inappropriate for you to make accusations like this without evidence.

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"3.) Moore's law fueled as in AI gets interest on their intelligence"

Yes, that's what I said at the outset: this whole thing is driven by the false belief that intelligence is a function of CPU time. There is no experimental evidence in history to support this, and there are 65 years of counter-examples.

Repeating it won't make it less wrong.

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"Recursive as in AI makes smarter AI makes smarter AI..."

Oh.

This gets to a different false presumption, namely that the ability to create an intelligence, as well as that the power of the intelligence created, is a linear function of the prior intelligence.

This whole treating everything like it's a score, like it's a number you tweak upwards? It's crap.

You can't make an AI with an IQ of 106 just because you have a 104, and the guy who made the 104 had a 102.

This is numerology, not computer science.

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"4.) Science fiction or not i find it unlikely."

I can't even tell what noun you're attached to, at this point. What do you find unlikely?

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"5.) Bayesian. Look up prior."

What about bayesian, sir? I don't need to look up prior; I used it, correctly, in what I said to you. You're just telling me to look things up to pretend that there is an error there, so that you can take the position of being correct without actually having done the work.

There are zero priors of alien life, sir. That was my point, in bringing up what you're now blandly one-word repeating at me, in your effort to gin up a falsehood where none actually exists.

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"7.) Thanks ;) You actually never address my main point though."

You don't appear to have one.

Maybe you've forgotten that you were replying to someone else, who already said that to you?
I've used one, it's just a laptop. Granted, I like to toot my own horn too, and my machines are no slouch so the performance benefit of SSD and high resolution was not something that was new to me. I have a new iPad and the 220 ppi is completely wasted on white space and sharp fonts. It offers no usability benefits in my experience. I don't do any media work.

I hate to be that "640k should be enough for anyone" guy but I'm not seeing much benefit to having all these extra pixels. Even if you did do some kind of high-detail image editing, you'd zoom in...

Now if it could run games at this resolution, that would be another story, but it can't. So who cares.
Maybe I'm missing something. What possible purpose (other than getting the file) could there be to convincing Dropbox that you have a file?
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Common Misconceptions in the US.
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I also have to suggest The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Graham was a genius and revolutionized the financial world. He wrote the book in the 50's, and it has been republished with anecdotes tying it to the modern day many times. The most recent republishing was after the tech boom, so that version has many references to that phenomenon in the anecdotes. However, Graham's original and unabridged words are included as well. He's incredibly lucid and pragmatic, denouncing mysticism for analytic techniques. The book is still considered to be the bible of value investing; Warren Buffett said his investment philosophy was "85% Benjamin Graham."
Personally I find the glare from matte displays far more annoying than that from glossy. It diffuses across the whole display and makes contrast much worse
"You don't have JavaScript enabled. Good luck with that.

You're probably also running a painfully old web browser. It hurts us to see you suffer so."

You might want to tone that down a notch. I'm running Opera v12, but just keep JS off by default, white-listing sites as necessary.
Google App Engine's SDK used to (still does?) use a very similar scheme.
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For some of us high density displays have been a holy grail for years. Up until now progress has been stuck as an archetypal chicken and egg problem between display manufacturers and the appearance of resolution independent display servers (granted, though not without trying, Apple has resigned itself to a compromised form of the latter). So for those who have been waiting eagerly for this, it really does change things dramatically from here on out. If you don't particularly care about that sort of thing, it certainly is just an incremental improvement. So, at least speaking for myself, this is where the discrepancy in opinion you've been seeing will come up.
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The American military has always had a very strange sexuality - on the one hand, "don't ask don't tell", but on the other, at Abu Ghraib and other places, the first thing they do as soon as grown-up supervision's back is turned, is sexually abuse male prisoners, and photograph it and share it. The norm seems to be, rigidly suppressed latent homosexuality.
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It's interesting how people's personal preferences affect these things. I hate the gloss on my MacBookPro because it makes it very hard to watch any movie without being distracted by reflections on the screen.

I accept that it's an excellent screen, and if I was in a better environment (or doing professional work) I'd be grateful for the good screen.

At least we're not still using these things anymore. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=screen%20filter)
By "get" I just meant download directly, which could be slow and eat a lot of bandwidth. And then if you actually want that file in your Dropbox, you'd eat even more bandwidth doing the upload again. But syncing once from Dropbox is faster than downloading from someone else and then uploading to Dropbox and then waiting for your other computers to sync. And since you don't have to get the file from the original sharer, they don't have to have enough bandwidth to go around, just let Dropbox handle the copying.
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Wow, that arrogant page regarding for users with no Javascript is... wow.

I browse with NoScript enabled by default, I don't need some site thinking it knows better than me and being patronising.

Might want to change some language use there.
It's not just Symantec.

I've had issues with multiple AV companies that pertained to binary-string signatures in my code. The AV companies I've dealth with all seem to have online ticketing systems that allowed for rapid correction of these situations.

A few months ago, I found that a command-line screen-capture tool that I publish was flagged as malware by multiple AV products due to behavioral characteristics.

In ScreenKap, I was experimenting with obfuscation of text-strings used by the code. I removed the obfuscation from the code and resubmitted to VirScan.org. I received a clean bill of health.

Note that I did not formally pursue this with any of the AV companies as the string obfuscation was an experiment and was nothing that needed to remain an integral part of my product. If my assumption is correct ( please note that it is an assumption ), we might be restricted to coding in the way the AV companies think we should code.
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SnappyTree is a procedural tree creation app designed to demo webgl and proctree.js. SnappyTree produces proctree.js JSON which can be used to generate trees client side in other web applications/games. In addition, SnappyTree also provides export options for wavefront and collada file formats so the generated trees can be used in other native applications.
When I used to write Windows software, Authenticode signing solved this sort of issue. Does that no longer work?
As far as I remember, Turing's original paper had a couple of errors, which is why he published a correction very soon afterwards.
doubt anyone would end up on their website not knowing who they are

Their community forum is the most popular non-Korean place for strategy discussion. I think many people get here without particularly caring about TeamLiquid itself.
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I'm on a MacBookPro. I cannot scroll anymore. The [Add Event] button is obscured. The calendar is doing weird things with the menu - why doesn't voost go over it like the rest?
I have actually had similar service running on my servers for a while now (took me about almost 3 months to design, code and test), though it makes legally no sense to make it available to the public, as you will need a solid ISP that will guarantee you that it won't abandon you as soon as they receive a letter from the Copyright Mafia. The service will eventually resemble a glorified cyber locker, since it makes no sense to delete the most popular files. Secondly, you aren't really protecting your customers unless you can provide payments through bitcoin, but even that wouldn't be safe enough.
Is it actually possible for everyone to sign their executables? Last time I did it, I had to fork over something like $250/yr for a signing key along with providing copies of various documents. This seems a little high for someone who just, say, wants to make free utilities available to the world.

In the case of Firefox, one would think it would be possible for you guys to do something about it on your end, because you're the ones who added this reputation system that's causing users grief. Record known-good SHA or MD5 sums of unsigned apps like Firefox that you know are okay, for example. Or just not default this feature on.
You can prove you were the owner of the spent coins to the police if you wish but this doesn't allow the data mining company to know all of your financial history.
Last I checked, Authenticode certificates are not cheap.
Got a citation on the damages amounts? Haven't heard that before.
You bring back memories. There was a fellow associated with Dartmouth who called himself Archimedes Plutonium and would hijack many of the mail groups with what most classified as bizarre and off topic posts. IMHO, his posts never generated useful discussion (they were always off-topic) but instead caused a lot of spam in the newsgroups. It was about this time that the term "don't feed the trolls" became popular :)
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Why are you characterizing people who choose to overeat and engage in dangerous habits as the "more vulnerable members of society"?
Yes and no. Think of it this way: if you have a graph of security against cost, there is a line which represents possible tradeoffs of best security for a given cost. You are saying, we need to think about where we want to be on the line. I don't think we are even on the line.
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There is no real difference. The term "capitalism" is felt to be dissimilar from "free market", but no one is usually able to articulate a coherent difference. The central problem is that "capitalism" took on negative connotations over time and became deeply connected to Marxist/anti-Marxist rhetoric. At its core, though, it's still largely about ownership, even in Marxist critique or anti-Marxist defense. "Free market" is also a loaded term, it seems to signal being a libertarian, but generally refers to exchange restrictions; libertarians usually use "property rights" with respect to ownership issues. "Market" is fairly neutral, I think.

To take a stab at it, "capitalism" emphasizes the ownership elements of markets; "free market" emphasizes the exchange elements of markets; "markets" is just a neutral term, there aren't markets without ownership (rightful or not) and exchange (good or not). Neither "capitalism" nor "free market" deny exchange or ownership, it is merely a rhetorical emphasis; both specify the same set of objects, they just signal which features the author intends to dwell on.
An actual Xeon is not going to draw its TDP in power under a simple workload like serving static files. Even if you get it up to 100% CPU utilization, it will probably not be drawing its TDP. Modern intel processors have a bunch of mechanisms built in for managing power draw (and similarly, heat output) - they can clock up and down in response to workloads, bringing a single core up above standard clock to speed up single-threaded loads and bringing all the cores down when the machine is doing less intensive things (like running a message pump or waiting for socket connections).

If anything, I'd expect static file serving on a Xeon to produce no more than say 40% of TDP. If you're lucky, serving up all the static files will load all the cores fairly evenly and get the CPU close to '100%', but none of the floating point or integer logic units will be remotely loaded - it'll be almost exclusively branch/copy work, which isn't going to put much load on the CPU itself or draw much power or generate much heat. It's also going to be spending tons of time waiting (on the NIC, etc) instead of actually doing computation, which can generate a lot less heat if the waits are done using the modern busy wait instructions instead of a spin loop.

EDIT: A comment in the OP provides a conservative estimate of 43W for the actual draw of the entire xeon-based system (not just the CPU) in the benchmark. He also points out that it has more RAM (which will increase power draw).
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well then kudos to you for being consistent :)
I think I might have invested $19 in a Kill-a-watt meter before I published that benchmark.

Using TDP for the Xeon that is operating at a small fraction of capacity is going to mislead. Leaving out the disk drive (let's say 5 watts) helps make a great multiplier, but is divorced from reality.

Their Performance/Watt number in the table is, I think, actually a transactions/energy. The watt multiplier would be about 19.
There was not enough space on the margin of Turing's paper to describe the bug.
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Let's say I'm a copyright holder and I see my content on the bittorent network. Would the IP address of the downloader on the network belong to boxopus? If so, if I then asked boxopus to hand over the all user's details (dropbox accounts and email addresses I guess) that accessed the torrent in question through their service, would they have that data on their servers?
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Hi Hackers,
I have been programming a long time and I enjoy it alot. I don't get much free time these days and my job requires me to be a bit of a generalist across the .NET Stack, ASP.NET/SQL Server WCF,REST,and Javascript. With the lack of free time and work time being spent more recently on solving mundane business issues in a chaotic unorganised environment with not much good team work or good management for that matter.
(I've already designed the application framework, delivered it, supported it a while, tried to spread the knowledge among the permanent staff.)

I am feeling like I am ready for a change of career at the moment and I am debating with myself about taking some well earned timeout to do some intensive educ-macat-ing and studying up in a specialist area of technology and maybe perhaps getting involved in some open source work, building relationships in the tech community and perhaps building a product or two to help with my learning. I need to decide what to specialize in, I have many interests that I would like to pursue ( .NET Mobile, BI, Javascript frameworks, SQL Server, Functional Programming,Node, NoSQL, Music ), but I think I need to focus
in one area, perhaps becoming more expert in an area of the Microsoft stack or maybe throwing a curve ball and going for something completely leftfield.

I obviously have to keep a roof over my head and keep everyone fed and clothed, so I reckon I can afford perhaps 6 months to a year out of my security and just see where it takes me.

All suggestions most welcome!

Thanks.
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France (Mitterand) told Khöl (Germany) it wasn't the right time, maybe in ten years, to reunite or to tear the wall down. But it happened because there were already holes in Bulgaria the previous summer. Unification is more the symbol of the communism falldown than a capitalist victory.

Actually that was my political economy 101 course credo I took in uni.
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One word refers to an economic and political system, the other describes a market.

It's possible to have a (mostly) free market in an different type of political system.
gave up eating fish in favour of grains

He did not say that at all.

He said that there was the well-documented introduction of a new (convenient and scalable) source of sustainable food, grains. But now the people there are no longer surviving on a Vitamin D-rich source. Thus, their skin adapts to accept the only other source of vitamin D, UV from sunlight.

Also, it is important to note the scale of the changes. He is talking purely about change relative to other Europeans at the time, not Equatorial or even North African skin tone direct to blonde and blue-eyed...

In my opinion, a little bit more historical evidence from Scandinvian food scientists and census data, especially in the last XX years of globalisation should indicate whether this hypothesis is consistent with food changes and other trends.
This is a very poor (and misleading) comparison.

First, the author admits that the Gigabit ethernet link was the bottleneck for the Xeon system, capping it at a mere 15% CPU utilization. However, he goes on to use published TDP numbers as the system power draw. TDP numbers are only approached under the most demanding of loads and 100% CPU usage, which this clearly was not. At bare minimum, the author needs some sort of power measurement device to make a reasonable comparison.

Second, serving static web pages is not a difficult task. The Xeon system is overkill for such a task, so of course it will be less energy efficient. In the real world, the extra capacity on this server could be used to perform more difficult tasks or run other processes.

Third, if we assume the Xeon server would scale linearly without being bottlenecked at 15% CPU usage by the Gigabit ethernet link, then it would serving approximately 46,300 pages per second, or almost 8.5X that of the ARM server. Take into account that the actual power consumed in the real-world will be less than the TDP, and the efficiency gap between the ARM server becomes very narrow. Even if the Xeon TDP numbers are accurate, the new margin is still less than 2X.

Finally, the Total Cost of Ownership calculations in the conclusion are based (as the author admits) on the flawed benchmark numbers. If they can only achieve a 77% TCO reduction by completing handicapping the Xeon system, then the ARM system may not be that advantageous. Especially when you consider that without the bottleneck or with a more demanding workload, you would might need as many as 8 times as many ARM servers to replace the performance of the Xeon server, which isn't going to help real-world TCO.

I'm a big fan of the ARM platform, and I'm very excited to see ARM servers enter the marketplace. However, false benchmarks like these aren't going to help anyone. ARM servers will have certainly have their place for a lot of different workloads, but to suggest that they are 15X more energy efficient and have a 77% lower TCO based on these numbers is disingenuous.
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"He was never still."

There are similar issues in the UK (another member has posted a summary of the UK legal position below).

What happened to 'asylum' in the original meaning? Places of refuge?
There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.

The Xeon machine is running at under 15% utilization due to the gigabit ethernet bottleneck, yet they're using the system TDP (that's the worst case thermal specs which you design your cooling around).

If you put a 10 gigabit NIC in there, the advantage would be closer to 2x performance/watt, since the Xeon would be processing 6.66x as many requests (1/0.15). This is also a last generation Xeon - Ivy will be out by the time this CPU is.

That they're not just taking the power at the wall of both systems probably means doing so would tip the balance closer to the Xeon - and you pay for at the wall power, so that's what matters.

In addition, their choice of 4gb for the platform is worrying; it's almost certainly a 32 bit machine. Which rules out an almost perfect use case for the machine; a memcache server.

ARM in servers is coming, to be sure. 64 bit ARM will bring unprecedented gigabytes of ram per watt. But toe to toe on CPU heavy tasks, they will still lose out badly on performance/watt at full load.

At least from the numbers in the post, I'd stick with virtualisation.
Real title: "Why Microsoft is for once the cool kid in the technology world"

Submitter's title: "Microsoft betrays the trust of customers and partners in the name of progress"

Submitter's name: iProject

I smell an agenda. Flagged for blatant violation of posting guidelines, and general poor taste.
I seriously disagree.
HTML5, even though it has it's (workable) shortcomings at the moment, can do this. Why would you base an opensource project on a non-free, non-standard framework that nobody heard of?

Sure, what it promises is nice, but no.
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