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My undergraduate degree was in philosophy, with a concentration in philosophy of mind, and while I can't recommend highly enough taking the time to read through and learn from the sundry perspectives and takes we've had on consciousness throughout history, be warned that that way lies confusion and dragons.

Kant certainly didn't know what consciousness was. He had some instructive things to say, and massively helped frame the debate for people who came later, but even present-day philosophers who have the benefit of modern science and technology to help in their investigation are no closer to pinning down how it is that meat can feel.
Having worked with telcos previously (both OSS/BSS but not TMobile specifically), I can say that I'm not surprised at all.

In fact, I'm pretty amazed that things even work at all. The amount of random connectors and systems is mind boggling.

Some examples: A Tandem system used for nothing BUT ftp from telco switches for call details. Multiple enterprise message buses. Systems with only object files and no source. The list goes on...
Should Warren Buffet sell on his total investment? I mean he's got a return of 10000000x, and he's been in it for a really really long time..
It's an amicable world view, but everything we know about the world suggests that moss does not have anything that resembles an experience, and that applying words such as 'happiness' to moss is utterly meaningless.
Upvoted for the ASCII art alone. That seems to be a lost art, particularly here on HN. Long live the ASCII art diagram!
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I've seen that too, but it's sloppy writing.

Knock-off: A copy, but doesn't use the name of the original.

Counterfeit: A copy, that uses the name of the original.

Fake: Doesn't work properly, or is copied only partly (for example using brass instead of gold), but claims to be original.

Imitation: Uses cheaper materials, but is upfront about it.

There are two attributes: Deception and Accuracy. Each combination of those two gets a name.
I was really rooting for this project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Mare_Explorer

Robotic boat over liquid sounds far more interesting with life potential?

Maybe a few more years.
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I always forget how sarcasm is lost online. I meant that as an example of a misleading, bad poll.
"Mathematics is lucky in that it's an entirely logical field where things can be absolutely proven."

A professional mathematician should confirm this, but my impression is that most of the interesting bits of math are fairly informal and creative--rigorous proofs only come long after the fact, if they come at all, and really just amount to dotting is and crossing ts that few people double check anyways. Absolutely proven is a bit stronger than is warranted, and at least some other fields can produce statements that have the level of "truth" that a mathematical statement has.
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The question about password strength is meaningless without looking at the attack. A 4-digit PIN with a 3 attempt lock-out (and no further information) is more secure than a 10 character password encrypted with MD5.

There will be people who say that it would all be fine if they just used bcrypt, but the fundamental problem is that if you don't use different passwords on every site, you're hugely at risk.

Consider a situation where you've given your "trusted" password to a site that you know does all the right hashing with password storage. Your super password is 20 characters of alphanums with specials and you're feeling pretty smug. You now hear that the site was hacked, but you're not worried as all they can get is the hash and let them just try brute-force, right?

Wrong. They hacked the site. They changed the login form and grabbed your password in plaintext. A hack means that they compromise part of the infrastructure. At this time it's sufficient to just grab database data. Changing presented HTML is possibly a little harder as it needs to stay up for longer, but if someone has access to the database, they probably have access to a whole lot more. This is why lastpass.com is less secure than storing your password database yourself.

TL;DR: make your passwords different.
Or that there is plenty of science in a form that most people don't (or won't) understand and so a declaration can make it digestible.
I've always been fascinated by the societal implications of "i think therefore I am" when demonstrated for mammal other than humans. For one, can one justifiably continue to eat their meat if we consider the reverse role, where we would exist, consciously so, only for a superior species to consume our flesh for nothing else than it's nutritional value.
You're right:

" he was out jet skiing with friends on an inlet near the airport and had a mishap"

"Casillo’s adventure began at a Rosedale watering hole, where he was hanging out with friends when they decided to go out racing their watercraft.

But Casillo’s ride broke down in the dark waters of Jamaica Bay at around 7:45 p.m. — and his pals didn’t notice they had left Casillo behind.

With his craft taking on water, he called Cowan in a panic.
“He said, ‘I’m stuck!’ and told me to call his friend Albert to come out and tow him in,” Cowan, 28, recalled.
But help didn’t come, and the stranded Casillo swam three miles toward the only thing he could see — the lights of Runway 4-Left, which sticks out into the bay.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/beach_of_security_...
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Its not the only reason people do pair programming, he's just saying that when he's pair programming that is automatically solved.
of course not - they are called average users for a reason. But when shit hits the fan and someone's privacy was violated and made the media, then FB will have a nightmare of a PR incident, and if there is money involved, probably law suits etc. Its just human nature to ignore what you can - and this privacy problem is a long term problem that tends to get ignored in the short term.
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yeah it's amazing how removing that black fixed bar make it seem suddenly so... open.
I ran into this same problem. Had to use the Chrome Web Inspector to get around it. I believe it's a part of PCI compliance, but plenty of sites accept credit cards without that nonsense so I'm not sure. GetGamesGo.com does the same thing.
Absolutely they could with my frame of thought. I like to think the best way to view the world is a world without humans. This, to me, is an easier way of thinking than attempting to place myself in the views of the thing I want to think about.

Moss enjoy the simple things in life, while rocks enjoy even simpler things. To me, these things cannot experience happiness - happiness is a human emotion that requires a memory of the past. Maybe a piece of moss 'remembers' the sun when the sun hasn't shined in a week. When the sun comes out again, it will be energized and start to grow. This would be the 'happiness' in a moss' life. A rock lays dormant until it can find a point of lowest energy to fall to, in which case it does. I think that's all there is to say about rocks though, because they don't seem to do much else. But what about rocks before? They came from lava, maybe they were spewn from a volcano, hurled hundreds of feet in the air before landing and solidifying. To me, if I were a piece of rock, I would prefer flying through the air (maybe when people throw rocks, they allow the rock to relive its previous life as a hunk of lava).

There are a couple things that you may run into trouble with when thinking about experience - humans have an innate sense of time that we base things off of. We have a certain number of experiences in a day, and that's the time frame of our experiences. What if experiences could be drawn out over hundreds, thousands, millions of years? What if suns experienced things on the time frame of hundreds of millions of years, what kind of experiences would be possible?

One (of many) more things to ponder that's inline with this type of thought - the effects of networks on consciousness. Because I have a consciousness, does that make every cell in my body conscious? If every cell is conscious, does that make every organelle? Does that make every strand of DNA? Does that make every atom in my body conscious? I would like to say no, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and because of the configuration of things in my body, I have been allowed access to a consciousness. Maybe a moss can never experience anything, but moss is just a component of a forest. Maybe a forest could? Or are forests at the level of cells? Maybe an ecosystem could experience something?

A rock was likely once a piece of a boulder, can a boulder experience? What about sand, the rock's likely next change in configuration? What about a mountain, where boulders come from?

What changes when we step up levels of complexity?

(sorry for the randomness of this, I write as the questions pop into my head - where do those questions come from?)
The point is that the proofs are actually possible. Even physics requires "proof by statistics".
What are these jobs in France you speak of?
If your job sucks, and you're not learning shit, you should leave ASAP. Then, when your next employer says

"I see you left your last job after only three months, what's up with that?"

You can respond:

"Honestly, my job sucked, I wasn't learning shit, and I thought it was bad for my career, but this place seems different"

And this so called "blemish" is an advantage.

I get what your saying, but I think if you have the balls to leave because your not learning enough, no decent employer is going to look at that as a bad thing, and if they do, you should keep searching anyways.

Edit: The difference in other fields is it is harder to find a new job, but if you were good, this probably wouldnt be a problem anyways
Good on them for taking the time to write such a detailed report. Shows respect for their users.
Anyone can learn how to play golf in just a few minutes, but what does it take to become a PGA-level player?

The corollary is, what does it take different people to become a PGA-level player?

That is to say, the second question is, is being a PGA star within reach of anybody, so long as they can do 10,000 hours of golf? Or does it take Tiger 10,000 hours while it takes me 20,000 or 30,000 hours?

Couldn't tell you, but it would certainly fit with the concept of some folks having a bit of a "natural ability"; 'Everybody can become a master, but some people can get there faster'.
I pay a few dollars more just to get my stuff by prime. Sometimes, the third party seller is selling the same thing for lesser (with n >> 3 day) ground shipping and still Amazon's consistency of service makes it an easy decision to make.
I think one of the most perverse things about the job market is that it's, in almost all companies, a lot harder to get a transfer (much less promotion) than to get a new job. Job hopping exists because companies impose timetables based on the average.

That was the driving reason I ultimately left my first company. I had success in the first several years either getting promoted or new internal positions, but hit a wall about 3 years ago in a position that slowly made me miserable. I got negative progress in my efforts to find another internal position.[1]

I've actually known people to look for jobs within their own companies using external recruiters because it's easier to do it that way than through the official transfer process, which often has bureaucracy and political overhead attached.

I never did that, but I thought about it a couple times.

[1] I was basically labelled "disloyal" for wanting to find a new position.
Not cool guys. I can't actually open the docs that I downloaded because I get a popup that says "Framing is not allowed!" and redirects me to a non-existent Github URL.
I think you are calling more things social than the word pre-supposes. If you call 4chan "social", then you have the wrong definition - 4chan is a forum, a place people discuss things.

Facebook, or "the social web" as its coined these days, is about the friend graph (ditto with twitter - its about who you follow, and who follows you), not about discussions.

Imho, the web will function perfectly well without facebook - each of the features of facebook such as photosharing, event organizing etc, all have ready replacements. Sure, the friend graph helps you connect easier/faster, but taking it away isn't as detrimental as taking away search.
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Great to see that. There's plenty of "you should learn how to code" posts, Codecademy, Treehouse etc, but there are very few case studies of people who seemingly A) used these tools and/or B) actually ended up being able to wing it learning to code mid-to-late-stage in their career. Not sure if this post really qualifies as either of those, as well. If there's more examples of this that I'm missing, please let me know.
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I'm kinda baffled how this recipe for using ssh, rudimentary sysadmin skills and scripting is deemed news. Maybe back in the heyday of Slashdot, this would be half-interesting -- like, uhh, when OpenSSH actually introduced tunneling, or when Iodine was introduced, or whatever... At best, a "protip" everyone could've discovered himself through a few minutes of Googling.
that was interesting, but it felt like two different articles rolled into one (a short non-technical and a long-but-shorter-than-that technical one).

anyway, so alter table modify on a primary key (int to bigint) requires that the index be rebuilt? is that true for all databases? or was the problem something else?
"It's better to assume everything has a consciousness until you can prove it doesn't"

This is basically a variation on Pascal's wager and is the logic anyone who can't prove what they are saying insists on. The snowclone is roughly "We should believe X until we can prove Y because of horrible thing we don't want Z"

Militant vegetarians claim it for animal consciousness.
Abortion protestors claim it for human consciousness.
Theists claim it about God.
Atheists claim it about the invisible pink unicorn.
etc.

To me its a position to be taken that leads to tautologies. I don't personally think it's a very good epistemological method.

Should you have to ask permission to turn off/throw out your computer because we have to assume it has consciousness until someone proves it doesn't?
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My point, though, was that mathematics is also a field filled with minefields and gotchas where experience is very useful. Moreover, that mathematicians are more than glorified theorem provers.
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Facebook would have to really screw up at this point in order to end up the next Yahoo! They made 1 billion in 2011, while yahoo only made over 1 billion 3 times (max was 1.8 billion in '05, my sources are the yahoo annual reports) since 96. The question isn't whether Facebook can be as big as Yahoo!, that is basically assured. The question is whether they can be the next google (who went from making 400 million when they ipo'd to 9.7 billion today).
ah, yes, you're right, was thinking of another api endpoint.
You're assuming that mistakes made in the past are likely to be repeated. It is as likely to assume that Facebook has learned from their mistakes.
That deceleration has cleared up nothing. They used some big words and declared "I win".

It doesn't matter that I understand what they are saying. If you have to use technical language to explain something then you don't really understand it, rather what you know is how to work with it, or manipulate it.
I hate when people disable pasting in password fields. Some of my passwords are 50 character random strings stored in 1password and sometimes I need to copy/paste and can not do it (ahem, icloud). I usually end up disabling javascript if the page still renders without javascript.
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Or maybe they should just be expunged from the budget all-together. They're a giant money sink. The war on drugs is fairly well lost.
Cross-pasted from the previous submission of this article:

By its nature, the only way to combat this class of attack is security by obscurity - hence, it should be assumed that OAuth client tokens and client secrets do not provide true protection against unauthorized client applications.

Of course the tokens can be obfuscated, but at some point the tokens must be used in plain-text to sign the OAuth request, and on a device like an iPhone where complete control of execution flow and full address space access is possible (via kernel exploits / jailbreak and a debugger), it's literally impossible to prevent this attack.

Issuing unique per-device device tokens would be an interesting approach, but then a trusted side-band would be necessary to issue the tokens to the device, and a lot of the point of OAuth is moot.

OAuth is still quite useful for user authentication (as to steal per-user tokens requires access to the user's device anyway). Plus, in the other common OAuth use-case (backend to backend), if the consumer token is stolen, your client probably has a larger security issue on their hands that would have allowed the attacker to pose as them anyway.

This is interesting in that it may allow unscrupulous app developers to evade Twitter's new API limits by posing as the Twitter for iOS or Android applications, but I suspect these uses will not be widespread as Twitter can quite probably send a Cease and Desist to Apple or Google and have the offending app removed from the market.
Absolutely - it's really high on our priority list
"What I like about your answer is how you kind of say that's not possible and then immediately hit on one way it might be possible."

Its an engineering crutch, like people walking around in a building cannot cause it to fall down, but if everyone jumped at the exact same cadence they could. Any thing is possible, sometimes the requirements to get there are so difficult the solution becomes effectively impossible.

If you consider Google as an example, the roughly 1,500 people who are in the search and ads teams make all the money for the company. Everyone else is, rounded to the nearest billion dollars, a non-contributor. But rather than accumlate cash faster than the Federal Reserve can inject it into economy, they spend it on projects which might get them into other markets. Or sometimes create entirely new markets. But that gives them size. And at both Sun and Google its pretty clear that the Bozo Event horizon hits somewhere between 10K and 15K non-sales employees. I don't know why that is, just that it has hit there two times. If Jim's reading he can pitch in DEC's number.

I agree with you're assessment that there are always other growth strategies, and I can identify things that contribute to the incursion of bozos, but that is a long way from the experiment that can show a bozo free stable organization with growing revenue.
Absolute numbers are not a meaningful metric -- much better to compare e.g. each sites percentage of overall traffic, or dollar of revenue per user. There's so much more money being flushed down the internet toilet these days that I would be shocked if Facebook were anywhere near Yahoo!'s numbers from their peak.
But i thought facebook's revenues are in the billions? Where is that money coming from?
Watch out, we've got a badass over here.

Not so much 'news' but perhaps a quick hack, nice reminder, a quick intro for the less experienced (who may not know what they are missing in the first place). Or perhaps someone who has set this up before in a different way might want to change how they do it.
"we’re currently in a golden age for early stage startups, and the early stage market will stay hot for at least the next 3-5 years"

"VCs are seeding deals without any price sensitivity, and a lot of angels seeing exits even when the teams fail"

"Angels are willing to invest because they have downside protection due to acquihires"

"downside protection is driven by acquihires from companies paying $1M-3M per engineer"

Fascinating observations. For me this is not a bubble. It is a fail safe investment opportunity. If you are an accredited investor just sign up for AngelList and start investing in seed rounds for startups that you understand. There is too much upside and too little downside. No wonder the funding environment for seed stage startups is red hot.
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Over the hill.
It's not insane, but it does increase the burden on those of us who use password generators. There is NO excuse for the sloppiness of the implementation, however.
Only up to 2006, at least according to this link:

http://www.quora.com/Orkut/Why-was-Googles-Orkut-built-on-AS...
You really did a great job! I took longer than you, but I followed a similar path. In hindsight, I can't imagine taking any other path, its been a blast! If I could emphasize one of your points, it would be to MAKE stuff, don't pick out problems out of thin air, MAKE stuff you want! I really happy for you, and I'm really glad you wrote this. I haven't agreed with someone so much in a while! Also, I would reinforce your point about git and github, that is as absolute must in my experience. It is your resume and one of your main tools.

Edit: Dont forget about IRC!!!!
This reminds me: I need to go through my 1Password DB and change all the passwords. This is a PITA but I only do it quarterly, and 1Password syncs nicely to my phone and iPad, so it's not the end of the world.
>"I'm betting Facebook is on the brink of rolling out a digital wallet."

I'm betting they're on the brink of slicing dicing and selling everyone's personal information. It's more profitable. It makes use of their principle asset. There are few comparable companies to act as competitors. It's a really big and lucrative market.

And it solves their problem with monetizing mobile.
It just compromises the application identity, it still does not give you access to anything useful and it will probably be noticed if you use it on any significant scale.

However, OAuth is indeed a bad way to authenticate for applications that run on devices in the possession of third parties.
These findings should not be misinterpreted, since it is indeed impossible to reach any goals. A person in their late 20s is extremely unlikely to become an olympic swimmer or a squash player because of physical limitations. And some people will relentlessly try and never succeed.

But believing that you can change is useful because it makes it easier to persist in my efforts to change. Because if I believed that change is impossible, I'd give up on the spot.

I found that I simply cannot believe a statement like "I can get much smarter" or "I can get much better at X", but I found that I can easily (fully, honestly, without reservations) believe that "I can get a bit more smarter", or "my intelligence is sufficient for mastering this material, so I need to push harder", or "I can get at least a bit better socially." These beliefs motivate me and make it easy for me to do the work even when it looks like progress is nonexistent. This is the meaning of believing that you can change.
So when bootstrap releases a new version suddenly everyone must switch to self-hosting their docs? Because leaving the friggin' docs online costs so much?

It's inconceivable we are having this discussion on HN.