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A 'whois' lookup won't help the deeply paranoid:

• what about the operator of the whois service you contact? My impression from some quick Googling is that whois.networksolutions.com is the default in Ubuntu. If you fear NetworkSolution's web interface, why would you trust their whois interface?

• AFAIK, the 'whois' protocol isn't encrypted. An enterprising domainer could be sniffing for promising lookups.
This might be of use: https://github.com/languages/Python
At least it would keep them from using them to extort money from other victims.

A patent troll could lose without the patent being invalidated. It could be that the patent is enforceable, but not in this particular case (a case where a jury finds the defendant wasn't actually infringing).

We've seen patent trolls go after victims with nebulous claims that might not win in court even though the patent wasn't likely to be invalidated.

This may prevent those situations because if they lose and they have to hand over the patent, it deprives them of future extortion money.

It may at the least limit the scope of companies they go after to actual likely infringers.
Sad qt was a really good framework and excellent use of c++
Great comparison. I love knockout for its ease of use.
Old news. I'm pretty paranoid when checking for domains that might be free. I never use my registrars search (only if I'm about to buy in the next 10 seconds).

I have been burnt a few times by godaddy in the good ol' days :)
1) The domain is cheap, should have registered it the first time round.
2) If GoDaddy is domain tasting, then they'd return it in 2 more days and you should be able to register it normally?
3) You shouldn't use GoDaddy because Bob Parsons is an elephant killing douche, not because they do domain tasting.
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No, I'm talking about what people take away from it. I don't think the target audience would equate the Genius with "tech support," regardless of what he actually is.
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I found the late George Carlin had an even better explanation of the New York Times piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dY4WlxO6i0
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Colemak puts the colon key above the home-row, and using Shift, which for Vim is rather unfortunate. I guess you can always remap it.
My first thought: way, way too much text. Really. This is an application that is absolutely screaming for a team of great designers to pour over things like http://thenounproject.com and integrate their findings directly into each 'thing' and activity that can be logged.

* No mobile client yet? I'm going to use this a lot more if I don't have to be online to do it ..

Come to think of it, I'm quite inspired by the idea of combining the above two points into a side project of my own .. ;)
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I think you're reading the argument exactly backwards. The perception is that algebra (and advanced mathematics) is much harder than other subjects and the perception is that people can be good at a lot of things and still be bad at math. His argument is that in reality everything is taught poorly but it's easier to fudge the results when grading is necessarily subjective.
Free market. Seriously? There are no free markets anywhere in the world today.
> Seeing Knuth talk about tweets feels weird.

Does it make you feel better that he released the book as a .ps?
Having a bunch of software is one thing.

Representing yourself as a platform is something very different.

A platform a representation that you are providing a set of services on which others can safely build. It is a form of contract. And this representation has to be trusted because who in their right minds would otherwise invest on a 'platform' that turns out to be a flag of convenience? If a company loses this trust they ultimately lose the right to be called a platform. They lose developers and are ultimately left with a bunch of unused APIs.

Incidents like these described by DC are extremely important and should be publicly voiced because they bear directly upon the decision making of others who may be in the process of weighing their options. Should they or shouldn't they trust this alleged 'platform.' It is a huge strategic decision that can make or break a company. So people like DC who are prepare to go public with his experience are doing us all a favor because they are providing more perfect information, without which the market cannot operate accurately.

People can choose to criticize this or that dimension of the way various people played their parts, but that really isn't the key point, is it? Surely the key point is, can you trust the 'platformness' of FB? Did they imply one thing - that he was building a valuable product that they would be supporting - THEN choose to compete and wipe him out? That's the key point. The manners, the exact detail of how the wipeout was conducted aren't the point. If the story is accurate it is surely the breach of faith the is important. Some may argue that to expect otherwise is naive. But without some such faith there is no platform. You can't have your cake and eat it.
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Why can't you make the max payout based on a percentage of the total money spent on the case by the loser.

That way if company A spends $10 million on the case and loses, the winner can recoup say $8 million.

But if Person A spends $50k on a case and loses, the winner can only recoup $40k.
"The reason why algebra is important has nothing to do with the GP's idea that it is the most objective of studies."

I said neither that algebra is important, nor that it is the most objective.

What I'm saying is very non-controversial: failing at algebra is not just a problem but also a symptom of a general educational failure in an individual.

Even if algebra served no other practical or intellectual purpose at all, the fact that it reveals educational problems is valuable in and of itself. And that quality is due to its objective nature.
On another note, anyone actually run into a random k-SAT problem in "real life"?

Because there's a lot of research into solving SAT "pretty quickly", one of the half-reasonable ways to approach an NP-complete problem is to find an efficient reduction and use a premade SAT solver/heuristic. I don't think nearly as much work has gone into that sort of thing as, say, integer programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming), but I remember reading something about it a couple of years ago.

Of course, when people realise their problem is NP-complete they tend to go a different way with things. The usual answers are:

1. Problems in practice are small enough for brute-force (or a simple backtracking search)

2. We probably don't need optimality, just use some kind of heuristic or metaheuristic.

3. Too hard, let's do something else.
can anyone give some detailed examples on "encapsulating/abstracting away state."
That's a neat idea I hadn't considered before.
It's WPtouch - that behavior is inexcusable. I've disabled the plugin so you shouldn't see the problem any more (although it will also not look quite as nice on mobile, unfortunately).
Yup. Oddly enough, YUI had a core team member (Eric Ferraiuolo) at Throne of JS to talk about Y.App, but apparently didn't get a mention in the linked blog post. shrugs
Not sure what you mean about displacing Britain, but sounds interesting, can you elaborate?

I would have thought you could structure a deal to maintain power where necessary so that China can't come in and cut off your bandwidth, but maybe not.

Regarding the chips, I wouldn't have thought you need to be 100% sure, 99.9% might be good enough if you can get there by random sampling of significantly less chips than 100%. In any case, that cost analysis is what's required and that's the case e.g. Huawei are making here.

There are reasons to be careful in dealings with the Chinese, but it might be better for both sides if some level of transparency can be maintained.
I don't think so. Easy is not homogenous. This ad doesn't show novice users browsing the web or reading their work e-mail without running into trouble.

I think the ad is effective because the Genius doesn't help them with things that are "supposed to be easy." It shows that with just a little help from the Genius Bar, the novice users can do things they'd never dream of figuring out on their own. This ad targets people who would never expect even the "easiest" computer to let them make home movies or do their own presentations.
Give me a break. He didn't have this idea back in June. It was a result of his twitter and Facebook platform experiences.
Is this really what is happening?

I don't understand much clojure but looking at it it would seem to me the solution is actually found in a smart way, iteratively restricting the domains for a single variable and then propagating the changes (which I think is the standard constraint programming approach).

In ruby you'd do something similar with gecoder.
Seems to me that you are missing the key point.

If FB did not declare itself a platform...if it had not encouraged others to build on its platform...if it had not encouraged DC to build his product on this platform...then you would be right. But if you are a platform, if you do encourage others to build on your platform (which is the whole point) and if you encourage a company to continue developing a product then it is not right. It may be realpolitik. It may be that having done all those things the platform company realizes that something it has encouraged is more strategic than it had realized, that it doesn't want a third party owning that product and it has to reel back its promises (which is what is sounds like here) but that is (a) a crippling result for the poor developer who took you at your word, and (b) and blow to your credibility as a platform. One incident like this won't kill you. Two won't. But at some point people just won't develop on your platform because there's no trust. ALL successful platforms have to walk this tightrope. Some do it better than others.
You know why no one will ever take this blog post seriously? It's about DEFCON.

Those that have not been, let me sum up what the conference is about. It's in Las Vegas. The general attitude is that you should be drunk 24/7. Most of the attendees are horny losers who wish they could come up with talks like "hacking gender" and "cable modem hacking". The weekend becomes a blur, and you just hope you're sober enough to make your flight home. And something about security talks.

Those of you that have been, and didn't just go to talks and sit in their hotel room, know what i'm talking about. Mardi Gras for nerds, toned down a bit, with something like 5% female attendance.

If you want to combat sexism in your industry and at your conferences, you probably need more organizations like Ada Initiative. But it's not going to do a god damn bit of difference about DEF CON. This whole piece hinges on the idea that there's one "worst" offender, and if we can just get them all to play nice, feminism will reign and no woman will ever be victimized at a conference again.

Wake up.

Sexism is a big, big problem, all over the globe, in many different communities. I can quote you about 10 different stories of women being harassed in the general vicinity of where I live. I don't need to tell you about a woman who was groped at a bar, because quite frankly, nobody is going to do shit about it. If I wrote a blog post about that bar, still nobody would do anything about it.

Calling out one conference and making this thinly veiled assertion that all conferences are just like it is not only deceptive, it's blatantly misrepresenting the community surrounding the conferences.

Women are the most aware people about the power of sex in culture. They are born with people looking at them different, and depending on their lot in life, will experience both degradation and achievement all based on circumstance. The idea that a woman could write an article like this with no idea that occasionally a drunken man will make a pass at them is preposterous. Therefore I can only assume it's written specifically to start a kind of cultural flame war with the intent being to bring more attention and resources to their organization's cause.

In short: Using DEF CON as a model for sexism at all conferences is the most ridiculous thing i've ever read.
In which case you'd have to pierce the corporate veil.

IV scare the shit out of me.
You could also use evince or okular on windows.
Here's my version without using reverse or underscore. If coffeescript supported reverse loops or negative indices, this would be a lot cleaner.

add1 = (arr, val, n)->
d = Math.abs(n||1)/(n||1)
n = if n is 0 then arr.length else Math.abs n
i = if d < 0 then arr.length - 1 else 0
end = if d < 0 then 0 else arr.length

while n and i isnt end
num = arr[i]
if num is val
n--
arr[i]++
i = i + d
arr
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Since Google sees the NDK as something that is only intended for legacy code, games or performance hotspots, I doubt that.
I don't think we have to bring down the whole patent system just to stop software patents. Let's just stop issuing software patents and just deal with existing software patents however we can? One possibility.
Since the domain isn't available anyways, what is it?
No. It's just rude.
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I type in dvorak. If I don't my hands hurt.

And go install emacs. Its shortcuts are easier to type in dvorak.
Definitely needs email reminders! Otherwise I doubt I'll remember coming back every day.

Maybe you could also look into embedding the form directly in the email. I know it can be done, as I've gotten emails from Google adWords after browsing their help pages. They contained a full blown form for me to fill out.
I wonder: if accurately reported, does this objection signal that the USA thinks commercially-available encryption isn't sufficient to prevent Chinese spying?
You are being too negative. In high density areas there is far less likely to be downtime, and the vehicles can wait just outside that area in a sensible parking place, such as one with electrical chargers. It is the suburban areas where they are more likely to need parking, and more likely to have it.

I reckon self driving cars will also lead to significantly less car ownership. Taxis will become cheaper, more flexible and more plentiful (political shenanigans aside). The Zipcar model works too as the car can come to you.

And of course the cars can be coordinated to alleviate congestion. For example the system may work out that a particular car going at 29mph for a stretch instead of the limit of 30mph would avoid a glut of traffic 5 minutes ahead, or take a different route, or tell it to wait 5 minutes when it is empty.
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The point is not what he may have been 'trying' to describe. Rudeness is not necessarily about substance. It is about expression. He could have expressed himself in many ways. He chose to do so in terminology that was patronizing and rude. I wouldn't do him the disservice of thinking he didn't know what he was saying or the implications of how he chose to say it.
Yes, at least in unit tests.

Sometimes you need to call stuff which you cannot work around so it is required to patch calls.
I don't think so. I'm English and so consider myself well versed in sarcasm. This isn't sarcasm.
Quoted from the article, Obama's father and mother "passed some excellent genes to the current president."

I don't think the author knows what "meritocracy" means. Someone with good genes "making it" is what a meritocracy is.
This is old news, ICANN ended "domain tasting" via the 5-day grace period in 2009 by charging additional fees for those that engage in the practice:

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-12au...

There are 104,419,043 .com domains out there [1] and GoDaddy claims to have registered over 53 million domains (non-.com extensions included) - what are the chances of a new domain being registered with GoDaddy? If GoDaddy were to do domain tasting they would go bankrupt pretty soon.

[1] http://www.dailychanges.com/
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Exactly. It is a breach of faith that goes to the heart of what a platform is supposed to be.
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but, but -- Qt moved to an open-source model a year ago.

qt-project.org
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Yeah in my experience reductions to IP are simpler and result in smaller problem sizes.
There's like 5 million articles on the internet already. WTF
This is known as Domain Name Front Running.

GoDaddy have said they don't do it:

ICANN has neither accused nor investigated Go Daddy for front running. (Another registrar, Network Solutions, has come under fire for domain name front running.)

The simple truth is Go Daddy deplores this type of activity and has implemented safeguards to ensure Go Daddy customers remain protected.

I wouldn't usually defend GoDaddy, but while it is possible that they did front-run, I suspect a coincidence, or that the blog author did a search somewhere else too.

[1] http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/you-can-trust-go-daddy-wi...
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Wow, this is the wordiest I've ever seen someone be about their STAT-101 material.

Also, "Second, while most startups do not succeed, I have reason to believe that this one—Amicus Labs—will succeed." totally fails to account for the fact that this is true of everyone with a failed startup. No one starts a company thinking it's going to fail.
IMHO - smart reply. This is indeed the essence of DC's point.
The one thing i'm missing most in all these frameworks is proper data access, offline

I agree that it's an awesome time we live in with an mv* framework coming out every day, but where's the love for offline apps? None of the frameworks seem to support grabbing data from SQLite in a proper way without including hundreds of extra kb's of js.

How about a real world scenario where you store products, and categories and prices in an sqlite database, and want to access and filter those, especially offline? There's no use in using a REST service, and you'd have to implement Sqlite Support yourself in all of them. (and no, compiling from coffeescript or depending on Nodejs doesnt count)

Building a (properly performing!) CRUD system for a tablet that works offline is still a hassle.
That's why i'm currently working on CreateReadUpdateDelete.js, a project that aims to solve this by bringing my tiny ORM to JS.

Check it out if you're interested in a WIP, there will be a post here soon.

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Is this good or bad for Toyota?
Toyota is presented as a classic example of high-quality and super-efficient manufacturing processes in school. They have had a wave of recalls recently with the latest one coming today. Is this the sign of a failing lean manufacturing process or is Toyota taking its commitment to quality one step further?

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/01/autos/toyota-rav4-recall/index.htm
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Domain tasting used to be easy money for spammers. Simply "taste" a huge number of domains, such as misspellings of popular sites, and put typically ad-filled domain parked pages on them. Figure out which ones make money and which don't, register the ones that are profitable, let the others lapse, and move on.
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I agree. I think this is the culmination of a lot of thinking that started with his experience with the music business.
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And still pay $1 per GB for the privilege.
For this string with cursor at end: "cd /usr/share/gammu"

Bash[1] deletes to the space. Zsh[2] deletes to the slash. I installed Zsh just now to find this out, and I love that Zsh appears to use ctl-w to delete words like vim does.

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[2]: zsh 5.0.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Well said, thank you!

I am incredibly surprised that what I said was so controversial. Objective measures highlight (and therefore prevent or contain) fraud in all matters, and education is no different.
Below is a valid program of:

* perl
* ruby
* python2
* python3
* lua

In fact, they all return the same result![1]

== the program ==

print ("howdy")

[1] visually. If you ignore the newline.
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Why is this a bad thing? and not a good thing
"No, you can't. There are a long string of false assumptions and logical flaws in your post."

Stated as fact, but you give no reasons why anyone should believe it.

I thought this part was quite striking: "algebra does show us that the student has fallen off the path to education."

Isn't this essentially my point? For you, algebra is the defining characteristic. If you don't know algebra, you don't know anything. The claim is not that math is an important part of an education, but a much stronger one: math is the foundation of all other types of knowledge. That's how you're able to conclude that failing at algebra means failing at every other subject.

To repeat my earlier point, this is not persuasive. Everyone wants to believe that they're particular skillset is vital and important, because everyone wants to feel vital and important. It seems important to think against the grain of our own biases instead of pandering to them.
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What's the difference between Lucid Tracker and Daytum?
There's evidence that Amazon is about to make another go at same-day delivery, see: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/0...
a (very incomplete) draft of section 7.2.2.2...still great
This is great. Completely agree. He believes this to be an oft repeated cycle in which the small guys get hurt because they are suckered in to develop on a platform. Because whilst the platform is augmented by the added value such developers bring to the table, they have little or no security and can be crushed at will. There have been many platforms. There will be more. All have to walk the fine line between short and long term self interest. Microsoft played hardball but did a better job than this. More developers had more stability for longer and made more $$$. Developments like this are scary.
If this is true, someone should build a bot that randomly creates garbage domains and searches for them through godaddy repeatedly (so they buy millions and millions of garbage domains).