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Translators come cheap in a country where English is relatively well spoken.

This one point is supposed to suggest that the rest of the comment would also be cheap? However you carve it, it will be quite expensive, once you throw in trained scouts, administration for scouts and moved families, foreign bureaucracy, domestic bureaucracy...

China is going to beat us

So? The spirit of the games is supposed to be participation, not grinding other people's face in how awesome you are. Be the bigger person and say 'congratulations'.

It's not like these children are going to be mistreated.

Tossing them away like trash into a now-foreign culture because they don't run fast enough for you is pretty heavy mistreatment.

The best way we can fight back is to rely on America's basics, one of which is immigration.

"We'll let you in if you do our work for us" does indeed seem to be the modern US opinion on immigration, yes. Or you can fight back by not spending shitloads of money to chase shiny baubles.

But in the end, so what if the Chinese game the system by heavy investment? Everyone knows they do it. When they take and keep the #1 spot, no-one is thinking that they're simply superior physical specimens - that's old cold war thinking at play. All you do by purchasing athletes from other countries is dirty your own hands and making people think the same of you. Worse, even - 'the US had to import its talent to stay ahead of China's native talent'.
The writer of this article is a dumbass. The whole point of Dixon's post was to explain the shift to transactional models. As a side note, he said 10m users was a Series A benchmark, not a funding benchmark. Plenty of under 10m user sites can and do raise seed rounds.
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Dump it and rewrite it in ten thousand lines of beautifully crafted code.
Very well written story and also very educational on the faith peopl put in cloud backups. Even if you have a cloud backup/syncronised it is still worth popping over your mum's or a good freinds with a some burned DVD's or external USB drive (if you have two you can swap them every time you visit). This approach is good as a cheap offsite backup and also social at the same time.

As for linked accounts, that again is another education many of us have probably overlooked and I would say if you do have a 2-factor facility that uses SMS, maybe think about digging out an old phone and getting a PAYG SIM with a token credit and using that number. But security is a never ending drive bordering on paranoia and in that you do what is enough to help you sleep at night after reading the article.

Don't think I have seen a article doing a test on how easiy it is to recover a hacked account and how long it takes. I certainly have never seen any speed comparisions, nor consumer reviews in that area. Anybody know of any at all?
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Implementation has the chance of being the "hard part" only _after_ the idea has been thought.
Moreover, I would suggest you read Johnson et al's research on mini-flash crashes (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1448.pdf) if you hold that the markets are stable dynamical systems.
Extend the metaphor: Mr. B also has to write his name on people who he thinks he will need in the future, lest they be fired.
Why? He has a different profile – overall, however, no advantage.

If runners with double amputations consistently win gold medals and basically exclude those without double amputations then it’s the time to think about something (but not excluding those runners, I would rather suggest regulating their gear first – like the swimsuits that were more heavily regulated during the last years).

Anything else is a panicked overreaction by confused able-bodied people.
I have never actually used it personally, and it may be too difficult to integrate into a startup, but to get things rolling you might try looking at Frontline SMS: http://www.frontlinesms.com/

Set it up yourself, get a couple of phones with unlimited texting packages and incoming texts will be paid for by the user.

As I said don't have any experience actually working with it though and don't know how easy it is to integrate into a custom app.
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You may be right, but that's not a strong argument against the GP. "Academic credibility" is only somewhat correlated with graduate success.
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Perhaps I should've re-worded my previous comment because I did not mean to suggest that we abandon manned missions forever or that we try to experience space vicariously through robots.

I'll elaborate. There is tremendous risk involved in sending people to space, I'm sure those who sign up for it understand and accept that, but it's a tragedy when it goes wrong given the caliber of people who end up dying. The overhead in designing for human needs (oxygen, water, food, waste facilities, etc) seems like a waste of time and engineering effort until we can better guarantee their safety. Of course I think the time will come when it becomes as safe and accessible as a trip on a 747, but I think an effort in purely autonomous systems that parallels the efforts being done on manned space technology should be considered to serve as a supplemental aid to further space research - a lot of which, I'm sure, would end up contributing to that dream of reaching the stars.
I am sure that there is room for an x86 linux distro, if steam got behind it.
I can't imagine the distopia that'd result if things like zoning laws or environmental regulations were decided by the same process.

You have a brutally dry sense of humor.
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I don't have the experience with it to make informed comments, but I can't help feeling increasingly that TED is or has become another version of "the beautiful people".

The money swirling around it doesn't help, in this regard.
It should also be noted that on the iCloud web site there is no link to change password.
This is the url to access the "My Apple Id" page and change the global password: https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
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Gore and Morningstar farms are two more data points in very different markets.
This was several years ago, but Blue Cross was one of the several companies I looked at - the policies were pretty much the same across companies.

I ended up not getting any. The only thing I was looking for was dental, since most basic health care is covered by the province. The rates I found were around $2K a year, easily more than I would normally spend, and when I read the fine print, I couldn't get comparable dental coverage to my previous full-time job without having been paid in for 24 months.
"It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap"
In theory, patents exist to cover ideas which are hard to think up, but obvious once you've seen them. Double-tap fits this description perfectly.

I am against patents in general. But this is perfectly in line with past hardware patents. For example compare to 1950s radios where the volume control was also the on/off switch. Pull it out, and the radio was on, push it in, it was off, and it remembered the volume that you wanted. That button design was patented.

I don't see a difference in kind on that patent and the double-click patent.
After working call-center IT infrastructure for two years and being exposed to lots of post-high school, fresh-college entrants, in no universe would I ever say the "high school" atmosphere/community is a plus side to anyone working in IT.

YMMV.
I don't think you're correct. Anyone who's storing a password in plaintext is probably going to use a fixed-width field to do so. I'd bet half the internet stores plaintext passwords. A lot of the web is one-off e-commerce systems that no one should trust anything with.
This is worthless.

It's a copy and paste of this question on Stack Exchange: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/155488/ive-in... but with broken formatting, and nothing else.
Consider the ecosystem of the internet plus phones and computers as "the social network". You'll see what we have actually works how you'd like, right now.

Facebook lets you talk to your old friends, twitter lets you meet new ones, and google plus is there if you want to get serious. Tumblr for a more expressive context, and wordpress for the rest.

The problem with creating a new social network is that you'd have to replicate a dozen companies with varying degrees of porosity in their services.

Add to that my second point: we don't know what we want yet. Things are still evolving and developing, in a high pressure cauldron of talent and money. Once things cool down and take shape we'll see what we like and someone will spend time making open source plugins. It's a really fun time to play on computers.
I'd update my resume and start looking for a new job. I've been in this situation twice in my career and neither ended well even with me busting my arse making real improvements.

You have to be the super-hero every day...
Comparing this to swimsuits doesn't seem fair to me. Everyone is able to purchase the same swimsuits.

This is impossible...barring everyone chopping off their legs and getting a carbon fiber pair instead.

To say he has no advantage in races that can come down to hundreds of a second is crazy to me.
The problem is that RWH teaches Haskell with "real world" examples that actually do useful stuff (such as the JSON chapter), and high-level theoretical concepts such as functors and monads are subtle and complicated enough, especially for FP newbies, that they need to be taught from first principles, not by wading into the deep end by showing a real-world implementation of a parser.

Personally, my "eureka" moment was reading the "IO Inside" [1] page on the Haskell wiki, which explains the IO monad in a way that made it click for me, as a imperatively-trained programmer. You can think of the IO monad as a way to force a compile-time dependency between I/O operations by having each IO-performing function take a "baton" value (the "IO" instance) as an argument, as well as return it. The explanation of how Haskell retains the appearance of purity in the face of impure I/O by passing an instance of RealWorld around is genius. That's a brilliant way to start out explaining monads, and it's something simple that you can use to explain the other monads such as the state monad (which the IO monad is built on).

I haven't tried the Hutton book yet.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IO_inside
How does this research suggest the market is unstable? According to these authors, the market was (in their view) dangerously perturbed 18,520 times, more than once per day. In spite of that, it remained stable. The flash crash took an afternoon to recover from. Knight took a day.

If you perturb a system over and over and each time it quickly swings back to equilibrium, that's pretty strong evidence it is stable.
But they have free candy and the latest video games
Is there anyone approaching the patent problem from another angle? Say by trying to productize research on prior art discovery? Or anything that would help patent officers become more productive (as in any of: do more without loss in quality in equal time or the same with increased quality in equal time or do more better in less time)?

Sure a human will vastly outperform the state of the art algorithm on any one patent but when talking about thousands of applications week in week out and increasing, some kind of automation to filter the cruft would be useful. Surely as bad as things are now, the worst that could happen is no effect? Would certainly be a better application of machine learning than classifying the mood of movie ratings or calculating social media "klout".
Jamaica has won zero winter Olympics medals. Same with Brazil, Greece, Iran, Israel, Mexico, the Phillipines, Portugal (I stopped looking around p - check the link above) - all sizeable 'summer' countries with zero winter Olympics medals.

You probably recall the film "Cool Runnings", in which the team did not win; the point was that they were plucky underdogs and did better than expected, but they didn't place.
This [1] was the explanation which finally made monads "click" for me. You can think of the IO monad as a way to force a compile-time dependency between I/O operations by having each IO-performing function take a "baton" value (the "IO" instance) as an argument, as well as return it. The explanation of how Haskell retains the appearance of purity in the face of impure I/O by passing an instance of RealWorld around is genius. That's a brilliant way to start out explaining monads, and it's something simple that you can use to explain the other monads such as the state monad (which the IO monad is built on).

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IO_inside
Great move. Always a Facebook fan. I use more than 5 hour a day.
Not having any backup is, for a technically capable user, indefensible.
>what exactly happens in your chromebook?

Parallel processors running perpendicular today.

>Anyway, pastebinned:

Thanks!
My iPod Touch too. I guess it would finish loading eventually but I don't see why it's taking so long.
As someone who is even more unfamiliar with low level programming languages and forensics, I would greatly appreciate some elaboration on your comment. What exactly gives you the impression that he is such a novice - You pointed to a quote about the "jnz" statement but I'm unclear as to how that points to the author's inexperience.

Also despite the fact that the author seems inexperienced, would you say his conclusions are credible?
Doesn't Google fall back on SMS or a phone call if you no longer have access to the authenticator app?

I know I have a printed sheet of one-time codes, but I think if an attacker compromises the phone number on my account, I'm screwed.
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what is the force in the Microsoft DNA that prompts them to systematically return to this kind of anti-competitive behaviors as soon as they get a chance?

"Only the paranoid survive"?
Best guess for initial break-in is phishing. I've always thought there should be a "sudo" light/display on the monitor that can only be accessed by the superuser, making attackers unable to completely mimic a dialog requesting secure access.
You've made (2) a superset of (1) here.

The fact is, he identified a problem and then handed it off to others to solve. Any of us could've identified that problem, and most of us could've implemented the solution after a bit of work.

Especially in a group environment (dev listserv, public forums, etc.) we expect to have users that can identify problems and others that can solve them. Adding patents and claiming "Invention!" for incremental improvements is harming progress.
The problem is that sites can truncated your password without telling you. Hard to make the call not to use a site if you don't know it is doing that.
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Team might not imply that, but:

1,000 people who directly reported to him

certainly does.
Just a comment to add.. John Carmack's keynotes aren't the usual fluff you get from most CEOs... he gets technical and doesn't hold your hand.
I would attribute this to the following:
1. As a society, and culturally India historically has not given sufficient importance to physical fitness. So while historically there was great importance given to spiritual and philosophical pursuits(they had universities setup more then thousand years back dedicated to philosophy - Nalanda), the physical/bodily aspect was not only overlooked but considered almost an overhead/obstacle to ultimate goal in life. Even Yoga's birth(in India) was related more to spiritual pursuit. Not surprising to see origins of Chess in India(even though Chess is a sport, but it is mental). And India does reasonably good in Chess even now.

2. Even the food habits, historically, in India are geared more towards supporting this bent towards mental/spiritual aspects than physical. Hence prevalence of vegetrianism. Now vegetarianism can be one of the healthiest lifestyle(there has been known triathletes who are pure vegetarians)...but that requires a well balanced diet - which is not the case for majority in India(for most in India, vegetarian diet has lot of grease and less nutrition).

3. There is a reason why Cricket is the most popular sport in
India - it does not require great physical fitness yet you can play it for hours. And cricket does grab a lion share of sporting opportunities in India (and most lucrative).

3. Prevalent thinking still is that sports is waste of time, and you are better of spending that time on studies...hence you will see abundance of Indian American spelling bee champs even here in US, yet you will not see many in athletics

4. Combine that with lack of creativity and focus from Government in India in identifying(and persisting) with a sport which can fetch medals (like Turkey etc)
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How was this peer-to-peer Internet actually put to use, and why isn't it used that way anymore? I think I could name Usenet, but what else? Most of things I do on the Internet nowadays is using the www - a hierarchical structure. But were there p2p equivalents of any of the websites we use today?
The same could be said of India 150 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#Modern_India
I'd wager anybody with a little work, when told "Don't add another interaction point to this radio" or "Try to find some way of cutting down on distinct inputs" would stumble upon the radio knob solution given a little time.

This isn't art--even a cursory exploration of the solution space with vague constraints should get you there.
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Does the catalyst really matter?
Are there any important sites (like news / discussion sites) that require this?
Instead of the program suggested in the OP, on the command line you can also do this to generate random passwords:

perl -le'print map { (a..z,a..z,0..9,"\$","!","-")[rand 65] } 0..pop' 7

Note this particular one only generates 7 digits with no UC. You can alter it to your taste or needs.

You can also wrap it in a shell script to generate a bunch in a row (in this case 10), like this:

for i in {1..10}

do

perl -le'print map { (a..z,a..z,0..9,"\$","!","-")[rand 65] } 0..pop' 20

done

As an aside I don't like any web based site that generates passwords (nor do you need that as just shown) since there is no way to know if the passwords generated are being logged along with some identifying information.
That's just an example of a task which would be difficult to implement without any management.
Your right, there are so many details we dont see beyond the attention grabbing headline were everybody will naturaly go and instantly think `but all systems have a off switch, you pull the ruddy plug out` and with such headlines I'll bet most people were thinking that before even reading the article. This and how loved people in any form of finance, with HFT being one of the most loved area's. But with the blame culture in many area's of life, there will be investigations and somebody will either chuck themselfs onto a sword or somebody will be blamed and made a scapegoat. It is all down to confidence at the company from now and nomatter if they did the right things or the wrong things it is that alone that will dicate the fallout. Sad in many ways. RIM being a classic case were the media have controled the stock price, which has controled the media that control the consumers that just ends up in a deadly spiral of self forfilling doom and gloom, nomatter how well or badly they actualy do. I'm sure there are better examples but as you said, its down to company image. Nothing to do with anything else and that alone is the most important thing as a years income is not a problem if your around for more years, if it looks like you wont then it starts to spiral badly.
He is far from winning. Let’s worry about this when he (or others with double amputations) are constantly winning, shall we?

I think we have no right to exclude him at this stage.
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How many people do that to their PC? The vast minority. The situation that is on phones and tablets isn't all that different than what people do by choice.

The majority of people don't care. If the people don't care, why would a company do it?
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rand() is not cryptographically secure. You should not rely on it in security-sensitive situations.

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand.html
Extend your arm with a quarter between your thumb and index. That's the moon.

Now take a coaster in your hand. That's our earth as seen from the moon.
You might also want to try "Super Duper" which allows you to clone an entire Mac disk very easily. You can then test the backup by booting from the disk. It's also helpful when installing a new OS. Clone your existing disk, install the new OS on the clone (or on the original knowing you have an exact clone if anything goes wrong).
> It took me 4 years of manic polymathic learning (at the expense of my actual schoolwork) to come up with this list.

I'm impressed that you independently came up with those ideas, but it seems like an average news day on HN. Those problems are regularly being discussed.

I think that highlights that, even in our inter-connected social media world, our biggest problem is still one of communication. You are quite right that anyone can easily gain the skills necessary to work on those projects. Maybe you can even find the capital necessary.

However, you are going to really struggle to catch up with what people already know. If you want to build a driverless car, for example, you are going to spend years reimplementing what Google has already figured out because there is no good way for the average person to build atop their existing technology. By the time you finally get to new problems, someone will have already figured them out too.

The first startup who figures out how to solve that communication gap will provide the most transformative technology to date.
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Is "the progress of science and useful arts" promoted by granting monopolies over such things? That is, would Apple have chosen not to create the iPhone without patents like this? I think not.
Another great GC discussion for LuaJit: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector
Here it wasn't slow, but it wasn't quite as smooth as I expected. Is it being manually animated by JS, without using requestAnimationFrame or CSS transitions?