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No, the shop did not sell Buckyballs "to a 5 year old".

The shop had them behind the counter (clue) and with obvious warnings. The 5 year old's mom insisted on purchasing them anyway. Mom is an idiot.

Thompson said she never saw the warnings that say, "Keep away from all children."

Ok, ignore the behind the counter and the blatantly labeled box...

"It never occurred to me that he swallowed something or that these could be something that he swallowed or that it would be something that was dangerous that he swallowed," said Thompson.

Oh really?

[The 5 year old] thought he was eating tiny silver candies called "dragees." The miniature ball-shaped candies are often used to decorate cakes and cookies. They are edible and even to an adult, look nearly identical to the powerful Buckyball magnets.

Where had he seen these, I wonder? Mom?

Excited about a dramatic "Death Traps at 10!" news story, the TV station sent reporters to the stores selling these...

The CALL7 Investigators went undercover to see if stores were warning parents and found that many are. The packaging also has several warnings that read "Keep away from all children."

http://www.getbuckyballs.com/images/xwarning.png.pagespeed.i...

Mom says "Gee, didn't see it." Mom is negligent.

Actual packaging: http://www.getbuckyballs.com/blog/wp-content/themes/buckybal... It's not a microdot.

// 30% of young child deaths are due to cribs, 16% due to bathtub seats, 12% due to car seats, and 10% to playpens. Are we banning cribs?
The suggested criteria for selecting a framework fails to ask the most important question, what are you building?

The lightweight libraries have their place in weekend-long hack projects. The larger frameworks lend themselves to multi-view, complex applications.
It's ridiculously expensive to treat someone in the ER for an infection rather than them having regular doctor visits.

No, it's billed at ridiculously high rates. That's not the same thing.

ER docs are not paid that much more than primary care docs. The cost of treating an infection in the ER is 1 hour of a doctor's time + drugs. The cost of a regular doctor visit is also 1 hour of the doctor's time + drugs. The hospital might bill at some ridiculous rate, but that doesn't mean it costs a lot.

Breast exams are actually well known not to be cost effective (or even beneficial) for women under 50 (though oddly, congress demands they be provided).

The idea that early action is always better is silly.
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That's what I was thinking - it's a pretty clean subset, but since it's designed for mobile it is probably missing too many of the more advanced features desktop games tend to use. Perhaps one day OpenGL ES could supersede the desktop OpenGL...?
I have a 'fake' account.

It's used purely for logging into Spotify, as there is no other way to get a Spotify account.
Usually the gaming community does not care about open source.

Gamers use whatever platform their favorite games are available on.
-You can set them to "Important Updates Only" but then you miss lots of posts you might find interesting. I want to ignore their Likes of memes/pictures but still get their posts of their own content, etc.

There is actually a setting for this - You need to "Unsubscribe from comments and likes by ___"

I worked vigilantly at this over a few weeks and eventually my feed went back to what it used to look like circa 2008. Then, sadly, a few weeks ago, they were all back one day out of the blue. Since then, the unsubscribe functionality has been straight-up broken.

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=2297060
https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=2300268
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Never replicated? How about "Knowing Is Half the Battle Teaching Stereotype Threat as a Means of Improving Women's Math Performance" by Johns, Schmader and Martens [1] ?

Participants were divided into three groups; the first group were told they were getting a problem solving test; the second group were told they were getting a math test for a study of gender differences; the third group were told the same as the second group and that anxiety could be the result of negative stereotypes that are widely known in society and have nothing to do with their actual ability to do well on the test.

As figure 1 on page 4 of the PDF shows, the first group had roughly equal gender performance, in the second group women underperformed, and in the third group performance was roughly equal.

Or why not "Solo status, stereotype threat, and performance expectancies: Their effects on women's performance" by Sekaquaptewa and Thompson [2] - once again, women performed worse in the stereotype threat condition that in the no threat condition.

Did you have some point, or argument, or opinion,
you were trying to make?

Only that your statement that there is little to no science to back up the blog's claims ignores multiple peer-reviewed studies.

[1] http://www.mdecgateway.org/olms/data/resource/9098/Knowing%2...
[2] http://j.b.legal.free.fr/Blog/share/Expos%E9s%20M1/Stereotyp...
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Games like L4D are designed to run on Xbox which uses DirectX
How could they tell what is active? I mean really tell? It's difficult.

Besides, the more accounts they can report as active, the more "reach" they can sell to advertisers, and the higher the prices advertisers have to pay for that space.
Is there an email that I can reach you at? I wasn't able to find one in your profile.
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Linux hasn't been free from DRM or blobs for quite a while. Official drivers are often closed source, things running in Wine are often closed source, codecs are sometimes non-free, etc. You can get by without installing proprietary code right now, but you can do the same when Steam and various games are on the platform. It's not like the presence of Steam automatically locks the source on the existing applications.
Yes, DirectX benefits from network effects, but there are a ton of mobile game developers these days developing for Android and iOS in OpenGL ES, and I could see a day coming when these network effects are reversed in OpenGL's favor. The fact that Valve and EA are going to support Linux and OpenGL is just a bonus, although a pretty big one. And don't forget Blizzard's Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 are also written in OpenGL for Mac OS X.
Whist we're at it I'd love to see the stats for twitter. How many of their users are actually active? Or those active users how many are real people an not bots?
This is great, and I like the "no excuse" angle, but the list is a little overwhelming. The problem of self-learning today is not to find ressources, it's to find a good one and stick to it until you mastered the subject. If there are several good ones, just pick one of them.
On this subject, see The Paradox of choice[1] and Buridan's donkey[2].

Sidenote: For me, "Windows 7, OneNote + more for students" and Dreamspark go to the same link.

[1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
Simply not true. If you're new to real-time 3d I'd ignore this advice. If you're experienced, then you probably have enough info and project-specific knowledge to make up your own mind.
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Is it practical to encrypt the entire cable as part of the interface? Or are you referring to each application encrypting itself?
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This is a common risk when you have an extremely progressive tax system, or rely heavily on taxing companies. Companies and high income people have volatile income, making tax revenues volatile.

If you want to avoid it, you'll need a more regressive tax system that leans heavily on the poor/middle class (e.g., the sort you find in Europe).
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Agreed. What I find is usually missing from a lot of lists of "learning" online is a time-proven track through a subject to take you from beginner to expert.
MySQL's warnings are silent, in the sense that the web application will never act on them. Guessing instead of failing early is a poor choice for a relational database, and is only explained by MySQL favouring ease of use and porting over data integrity.
Well, that does imply that we could keep making the same processors at smaller sizes for the same price. Power density issues might constrain speeding things up at that point, but it would certainly be a continuation of Koomey's law.

EDIT: Maybe more likely is that we might be seeing a future slowdown of Moore's law to a doubling every 24 months or more, allowing fabs more time to amortize their investments. This would be bad, but not the end of the world.
> Isn't "OpenGL - The good parts" actually called OpenGL 2.0 ES?

No, it is called the GL 4.2 core profile. GL 4+ core profile is a superset of GLES2. It does not include any of the stuff left behind from GL 1.x days.

GLES2, and Big-GL3+ have the legacy graphics features removed but the API is still horrible. More on this in my other comments in this thread.
> You want OpenGL or/and Linux, and you need performance ? Get a Nvidia.

Unfortunately they've dropped laptop support so not really
an option these days. The open source Intel/Radeon drivers in Mesa look to be the only game in town in the future.

edit: to expand, they've said many times that they're not going to support Optimus and that covers all except the
luggable laptops these days.
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"I find myself switching between Google and a blank screen for several hours"

This is normal for anyone who codes, even the pros and experts. So do not sweat over this thing.

Now, on the question of how to code/learn, I suggest you start with a small target/end goal. For example, "Build User management system" or anything like that. Then, pick a language of your choice and start coding. While you do that, you will google 100s of things, read stackoverflow plenty of times and bang your head on the screen as well. But at the end, you will be happy when that code finally compiles and run successfully or you don't get a 500 error in the web app. Stick to that project, finish it off no matter how small it seems like. You will learn a lot in the process. I am doing exactly that right now with web programming/dev. using Python/Flask framework. Last night, I learnt the best way to generate user activation links and how to use them. Simple stuff but I learnt like 10 things doing this alone.
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I was surprised at how much I liked this post, particularly the argument against "getfoo.com" as an alternative to "foo.com". Although I'd nit that security consultancies don't acquire customers from web pages at all; securit.ee would work fine, especially if you reverse hardware.
I've talked to some people who've worked on AMD (ATI) driver code, and at the time it was a mountain of unmaintainable co-op student code. The co-ops were allowed to write their crappy code, then when they left there was that much more technical debt.
What I'd really be interested in is a comparison of how the newest generation of Intel graphics compares between the two.
"If you're not Googling, you're not learning."

Exactly.
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I'm happy for tptacek. He's a great member of this community and deserves every success.
I think, given the target demographic, I'll let this one slide. It is oriented towards Males in the UK, who predominantly enjoy football. Gender profiling/stereotypes can actually be a very useful took for catching the low hanging fruit.

For example, I work for a company who's primary demographic consists of males between 18 and 40 with an interest in American Football (NFL). So, of course, I'm going to try to target the largest set of users when trying to acquire new customers.
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A couple of notes about the limits of things that have already been reached today:

A pixel in a camera sensor has to be a couple of wavelengths in size. This is basically the size that we can make them now. There are also diffraction limits for any imaging system, and a size limit on the lens (if your lens is too small, its surface won't collect enough photons in low light to make an image - no matter how you focus them). So I don't think it would be possible to make a deep sub-millimeter camera with usable image quality, and I don't think the 10-order-of-magnitude gains in power efficiency will be coming, either (if you can't shrink it, you're stuck switching larger circuitry and dealing with larger charges). Now, spy cameras can already be annoyingly tiny, but I don't think we're headed for cameras on a speck of dust or some such. One piece of evidence for this is that tiny sub-millimeter insects have lost most or all of their vision - eyes don't scale well to these sizes.

Genome sequencing: I think there are limitations to what can be done with these that are already being hit. E.g. looking at the USB-attached genome reader that Charlie Stross mentions, I see that it really needs to have the material which you're feeding it to be separated into DNA/non-DNA fractions for decent performance (otherwise, the micropores will be deluged by non-DNA material), and it needs a conventional chemistry lab in order to cut something as large as a human genome into manageable chunks. For this you need things like centrifuges, which can't become microscopic. I think there are fundamental limits reached here as well, since you can't make a pore arbitrarily small (molecular-sized) without having all sorts of molecular junk jam into it, if it is present.
We're continuing as an independent business; the two biggest changes are (1) we're hiring more people than our original plan, and (2) we get to work directly with our friends and rivals at iSEC, who were bought by NCC 2 years ago.

(2) is a big deal --- there are so many smart people doing what we do at NCC companies that we expect research time to get way more productive; also, iSEC and NGS/NCC (the UK "us") have different research focuses, like Android and 3G to our crypto and trading protocols. Black Hat next year should be fun. (there are crypto people at iSEC; I'm sleep deprived and on an airplane)
One thing he didn't mention (directly) is that the average US citizen donates about 6 times more money to non-religious charities than the average German citizen, even if you adjust for GDP/capita.
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This is an interesting purchase as Matasano is a services company that has some of the smartest people in infosec. For those not in the field, Thomas, Dave and Jeremy are well known and highly respected.

Many acquisitions are to get the talent but I can't remember another one where it's so apparent. The problem is that talent is mobile and $13m for a few super-smart people who leave after a year is expensive.
I'm obviously the wrong person to talk about Hadoop - having so little experience with it - but this article strikes me as link bait.

To answer your question, the author seems to think if you have Hadoop, you'll never need NoSQL. Here's his quote: "I think we're going to see Hadoop produce the next Oracle-sized database company. We're also likely to see such a company emerge from the NoSQL ranks, but Hadoop is a near certain bet right now."

This quote also seems wrong to me: "In fact, if anything, we are still only on the first few steps of the Big Data marathon, a race that Hadoop seems set to win despite its many shortcomings."

I believe the Big Data industry is well on its way. There are multiple big players offering an array of cloud services and software.
I know nvidia's support is not perfect. But frankly which is better, something that's not perfect but achieving "good enough" support, or something like ATi that has so many bugs you couldn't even use Gnome 3, a desktop environment ?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyN...
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I couldn't run any game under wine either without crashing, even older games that usually run ok like Baldur's Gate 2.
The open source driver are much more stable but on the other hand they are MUCH slower. Like, turning a good, midrange card like the Radeon 5770, into what low end crap would do in Windows. But you're better off with that mid range or a high end card since a low end card is not going to be usable at all for anything that makes use of the GPU, with the open source drivers running even free games like Xonotic on a low end card is plain crazy.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r...

On a game like Warsow, the difference between the open source driver and the catalyst can be as high as 34 fps vs 374 fps (34 fps is not enough for a fluid gaming experience, you need at least 50 to 60. Gaming is not like the 24 fps of motion pictures with each frame blurred giving the illusion of movement even with a low framerate since each frame rendered in a 3d game are sharp as hell.) on a high end card, and 17 fps vs 45 fps on a low end card, which means that the game is not playable at all on the open source driver, while it's tolerable on the catalyst.

AMD's stuff is not worth the pain. Don't buy AMD unless you have a masochist streak. I wish I had known before I built my desktop, I was being influenced by all the free software maniacs who were praising AMD to heaven because of their policy on giving out the GPU specs. Free software be damned, I will take nvidia's closed source driver over shit that is not working the next time. My previous GPU was a Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT and it worked like a clock.
I buy the "no bad students, only bad teachers" argument--though I must say that might teachers from 8th through 11th grade were good to very good. I buy the "more objective" arguments I see here and elsewhere. The "push-ups for your brain" maybe not so much.
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There will always be too much to do, even if everyone worked on the urgent stuff 100% of the time. As such, taking some time every week to work on the stuff you think is important-but-not-urgent isn't going to change that.

That's my thinking, anyway.
Gnome's standard document reader Evince works out of the box. As does Okular, KDE's standard reader. (Evince is also available for Windows, I don't know about Okular.)
I think the main problem is sourcing. If sourcing can be done locally, then delivery costs will automatically plummet. Take vegetables for example. The actual cost of growing the vegetables is negligible compared to the transportation costs of delivering and storing to the end consumer. There is also the added cost of storing. Companies are doing a lot to address the transportation and storage but not doing much to address the sourcing issue. I think one startup in NYC is doing some sort of urban warehouse farming to tackle the sourcing issue.
I think the problem with self learning is making the information digestable enough and regular gratification to the user about the things they've just learned (challenges that gradually increase in difficulty).

Highlight which of the sites offer that (with icons?) and it would help user pick the right sites based on their patience level e.g..
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> More than weird, will a 'tweet' have relevance 50 years from now?

It might just give the whole work a nice and quaint touch.
There is no such thing as a non-talent acquisition in consulting. We're not going anywhere; like iSEC before us, we continue to run independently as Matasano.
The issue is teachers cheating by grading more easily than they should, not students cheating. You are completely missing the point.

Graders look at how you got to an answer, what techniques you used, whether you got to the answer in a straight-forward way or not. These factors are going to be much more varied between any two tests, and probably give you a better sense of who has mastered the material even when the final answers are identical.

For the most part, they don't. I taught calculus for several years, and different students picked different techniques. I observed no correlation between particular choices and student quality. Good students answered more and harder problems, bad students answered only a few easy ones.

The only reason we demanded they show work is to make sure they solved the problem rather than copying the answer of the guy sitting next to them.
My big issue with all these frameworks is their near-ubiquitous use of classical OOP. I wish more would take advantage of JS's functional nature.
Nice work. I have seen many Lisp to Javascript, Lisp in Javascript variants. Would love to see a comparison of major features of all the variants. Can they run SICP examples. Closer to Scheme or CL. Macro support. Javascript integration.

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Alternately, you're just entirely too dense to have any participation in this conversation, completely miss the point in your haste to post "witty" and hilariously inappropriate analogies.
What the fuck do you think "generally" and "now" mean?
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I'm not sure how that would happen, since by definition mobile chips and OpenGL ES need to be "leaner" and maximize efficiency, to preserve battery life, while on the PC you don't care as much about so the chips are more "bloated", and contain a lot more features, since battery life is not much of a concern. Although we may see a return to efficiency, now that laptops are overtaking PC's, but they still need to get rid of the legacy stuff first.

I think what you meant is that OpenGL ES may one day be more popular and more used than the "full OpenGL", because there are a lot more mobile devices + WebGL.
Or even mixed integer problems.

From what I've heard, researchers are actually rejoicing, once they are proven a problem is in NP (instead of something worse or unknown status): because that's means it's quite likely that most of it's instances are tractable and we know lots about how to solve NP problems.
It's difficult with strong accuracy, with a 5% margin I don't think it's hard.

Sure they can fake their reports, but they do know quite well how many active users they have.
I don't. The slowing of the pace of innovation has been claimed for centuries but has yet to happen.

Switching architectures, materials, moving to atomic scale - there is still plenty of room at the bottom. I'm excited for memrisotor tech myself.