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Some of us developers have been working on the rehabilitation of the term "hack" and "hacker" (Hacker News anyone). The various Anonymous/LulzSec attacks of the last few years have been amusing and most have not been directly attacked individuals or been extortive (however, they've still been illegal, and I have not agreed with them).

Although a politician, Mitt Romney is still a person. No one has rights to his personal information he has not decided to share.

This attack is despicable.
Honestly, I'm amazed that Nokia are the only ones doing this. I read that every Android manufacturer except Samsung is losing money, yet they all continue to pump out uninspired black plastic blobs (Samsung included, actually). HTC showed a little spark with their One phones, I hope it continues.
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Right. The relevant metric is how long you remain fertile, not how long you live.
It's integrated with app engine and other google services, so i.e. you can store references to google drive entities.
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I don't think so. Since it would bring fear, only if the people were wrong in the first place (not innocent). And that fear is nothing like fear for your life, or the life of the others, or fear of being sexually molested, or offended by any other physical or psychological means.
So far they've made $0.30 BTC and the story has hardly broken...
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> My main point was that mutation is not there to escape local optima, although I should have been clearer about the efficacy of crossover for that purpose.

Mutation is absolutely there for the primary purpose of escaping local optima. If mutation's job was only to climb the gradient, then you would just use a much more efficient gradient ascent method. By having random mutation, you are effectively saying you want to stay in the known-good region most of the time, but occasionally explore a new area even if it goes against the perceived gradient.
By putting the price at $1,000,000 they might have a chance at actually getting the information. Sure they could have put the price at 10 or 100 million dollars, but the probability that Romney would pay out would be miniscule. I am sure at the ransom price is more money than these guys have ever seen. Why not price the information at a rate which somebody might actually pay?

Since bitcoin is decentralized, I cannot imagine any law passed could successfully outlaw it.
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A product with an unknown price that you can't buy is better than a product you've been able to buy for a year now.

Interesting.
Those amounts that look like 8 bits of binary are interesting, but don't seem to convert to meaningful ascii.

That would have been fun.
i have a passion for killing flies that my family thinks is borderline psycho and this does not help to subside that mental instability...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-jk9ni4XWk&feature=g-vr... This talk shows 4 instances of societies where very old people are being active and happy.

Maybe 'mental' aging is a big byproduct of the culture and not only biology.
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Surely if it's true he needs to release his tax records and play "Don't give in to criminals". Might even make him look good / a victim.

The chance of seeing the inside of a jail massively outweighs the chance of these guys getting any money...
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I don't think anyone was saying that there's no need to increase pixel density in 2000 or 2005, at least not to me.

Can you even focus 1mm in front of your eyes? I can't, but I'm old.
If a baseball player is successful, the price of their trading cards goes up. Why? There's no concrete relationship between the two; the league doesn't pay the owner of the card per win. It just makes enthusiasts want to have the card to show off, and attracts speculators who intuitively expect the price increase they themselves help bring about.

In the same way, the success of facebook.com doesn't create any income for people holding FB shares, it just makes it psychologically easier to flip them. The price goes up for no better reason than everyone assuming it will.

The stock market has become a casino where self-perpetuating phantasms create noise that swamps the signal. I can't blame any company that fleeces willing speculators rather than try to sway value investors using actual yields. I'd love to propose a fix but I don't have one.
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Bear in mind there apparently some nasty hardware limitations in the USB controller that tend to make USB webcams unreliable: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1...

I'm guessing that whyenot dodged them due to a combination of luck and not having any USB peripherals connected other than the webcam and Wifi adapter; the more USB devices, the more likely you are to run into a problem.
Ah, so the folks who were inexplicably sure that it had nothing to do with his Pirate Bay association were completely wrong.

The good news, I guess, is that Swedish prison will likely be a less heinous experience.
As a sign of the disruption to come, even the sales people in that article (which is from 2001) were moaning about savvy "internet buyers" who show up at the dealership knowing exactly which car they want and how much they should be paying for it.
I definitely see the checkerboard at slightly-closer-than-normal distances. Like, slightly less than a 30 cm / 1 foot.

Maybe that is because I am slightly short sighted? I don't know.
Romney would never pay directly, that's not an option that is even in the realm of possibility.

Surrogates, though, or better yet supporters...

The ideal outcome for the person who made the post is that Obama and Romney supporters get in a bidding war.
"It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission."

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/
Just nitpicking here: how is cooperative coevolution a crossover-dependent approach? Are you referring to some specific algorithm?
Being "fearful" or "worried" about the political consequences of a document being made public isn't the same as "terror." Not wanting to leave your family alone because they may be raped and murdered is terrifying. I think that's the dilution the parent comment was talking about.
Will they seamlessly let you use Google services in a non-hackish way?
I don't want to use Bing, Live, Sky, etc.

I'm afraid unless I buy an open source OS, I'll be pushed into an ecosystem without choice.
Seems like a natural fit for Naval et al. We used something similar last year -- https://www.clerky.com/
For the majority of the ones on this list, I think its a problem with the idea they decided to pursue...
AFAIK Darwin is licenced under Apple's APSL which is copyleft-based so it's likely the BSD's can't lift code from Darwin.

There was OpenDarwin though, which the developers shut down due to lack of interest and other problems. Now there's PureDarwin but development seems very slow.
Oh, interesting! One thing I like about TagTime as it works now is that it captures things like spacing out or getting interrupted by a coworker or other things that you can't infer from screenshots.

But for people who don't like getting interrupted by the popups, your solution sounds good. (I find the popups aren't distracting at all -- they even tend to reinforce what I'm focusing on, or remind me to refocus if I was distracted. It's not like getting interrupted by email where it pulls your attention away from what you were trying to focus on.)
Way to go Alex!
a veteran RTS game designer and his response was very heart breaking, he just told me that Game AI was good enough and that "people" wouldn't care about a better AI

This makes me sad.. most RTS games have such terrible AI it often pains me to play them (and I love RTS games). Yeah yeah everything is moving towards online multiplayer, but I can't be the only person who would pay extra for a good single player experience, because often I really dislike the multiplayer experience and despite that I'm playing a lot of online games at the moment (Path of Exile, World of Tanks, League of Legends...), I usually prefer to play single player games and for this good AI is very important to me.
With a considerable amount of imagination. At least they allow us to get our grubby hands on them, if briefly.
You should check out what this guy is doing: http://www.iwearyourshirt.com/
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Point taken, but I'd be happy if candidates just released both sorts of information and weren't so afraid of being transparent.
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4) Have real products that people can play with in stores (last time I was at Best Buy, not a single phone worked)

5) Support products long after they are released
Minting $1,500,000 at the Federal Reserve of Foo Fighters.
No, that's group selection. If a progenitor could live a very long time and continue to produce offspring, it might be worse for the species, but it would be so much massively better for the individual's genes that those would be passed on.
These must be targeted at those without access to Fry's.

Seriously, $30 a month for three years???

You can get netbooks for less than $300 and sometimes even full powered notebooks:
http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/ads/2012/08/31/58825/Asu...
paying the ransom is just as bad, since it confirms that there's something worth covering up.
A quick point and a theory:

First, it's not true that the average American pays 15% in income taxes. An typical family in the middle of the income spectrum pays about 5.6%.[1]

As far as Romney's returns go, I have a hunch that the political problems wouldn't be in the numbers, but in something like his charitable giving, of which there's an awful lot. What if one of the church programs he gave to turns out to have had some politically incorrect pamphlets, for example? Suddenly he'd be in a position to have to defend everyone he'd ever given $1 (or more likely, $10,000).

[1] http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3151
> It makes apparently simple purchases really hard work.

Yup, that's the crux of the matter and it is on purpose. Pure market segmentation as explained by Joel Spolsky[0]. They want to capture the surplus from the <rich or lazy or inept> who can't or won't check the prices while keeping the price-aware customers.

[0] Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
I suppose it's within the realm of possibility that he could make the payment privately, deny that he ever did so, and then take the position that no one was ever in possession of the documents and the whole thing was just a scam and the documents were never released because no one ever had them.

It's plenty likely that the whole thing IS just a scam and they don't actually have the documents.
In single player games you have NPCs (non-player characters) and in multiplayer games you have bots (again, computer controlled characters). For instance, Team Fortress 2 has bots and Half-Life 2 has NPCs.

The difference is, bots behave and mimic actual human beings. They are bound by the same rules, and have the same controls and range of motion as human players. It's hard to distinguish the difference at times, granted they're far from perfect.

NPCs on the other hand, seem to be this "dumb" AI the article is referencing. They are intentionally made this way to serve a simple, singular purpose. They are either scripted for dialogue or just peppered throughout the map as meat puppets.

Why is it that we aren't seeing the bot approach to AI implanted into single player games? Why aren't we facing opponents who have their own missions/agendas in single player games, who are bound to the same controls/restrictions/exploits as yourself?

The current AI approach is to place enemies in hiding positions who want nothing more than to fight you to the death, without any purpose or reason.

I want AI that wants to do something, like another player would, that isn't concerned with me in particular, that has it's own goals/rewards instead of just fighting me or spouting dialogue at me.
"The SMSC 1V8 power has been disconnected from the system supply."

I notice they don't talk about this much at all, or give credit to the person who figured the issue out (who I believe may have been banned from the official forums for talking about it). It turns out that the high temperatures some people were seeing on the LAN9512 chip weren't actually normal at all; they'd screwed up and connected the output of its internal 1.8V regulator, which wasn't meant to drive external circuitry, to the 1.8V rail. So on some boards (depending on tolerances) its internal regulator ended up providing the 1.8V supply for the entire board and overheating quite a bit.
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A more interesting question is, who is paying the Swedes, and how? They really don't have a dog in this fight, so whatever motivation they have, it hasn't been made public. Yet.
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I am currently using Brunch[1] as a build system.

How does grunt compare, and why should I switch?

[1]: http://brunch.io/
People that keep writing articles like this should not buy Apple. Apple is going to do what they're going to do. Either accept it or buy Android. Those are your options.

But let's be serious, Apple risks "consumer trust"? Not in any way that is likely to be measurable.
No one forced Microsoft to choose expensive lawyers. If they don't want to take your frivolous lawsuit seriously, they're welcome to buy el cheapo legal services.
As a big fan of Age of Empires series I have to disagree, after a while the game (even in hardest mode) becomes predictable and after that the solo mode game is pretty much done. That doesn't happens on a LAN party because humans evolve their strategies as their opponents gets better and that increases the life cycle of the game in orders of magnitude. Which would be a very important economical incentive for an on-line game.

The thing is some research has to be done for this and the game industry is not very healthy to support research.
A possible motive is to force Romney's hand to release it himself. It still makes him look bad - but not as bad as a bidding war between his supporters and detractors.
I never understood why Android's Dalek would be threatening to Oracle.
Later, the article mentions how Tesla must put up service centers in some states to be allowed to sell there. Doesn't that count as a business presence?
This is definitely a nice showcase for three.js.

I don't think one could lower the entry barrier any further.
More projects should use this approach.

I started playing with it immediately and I am already thinking about projects I could use this for.
But there are middle grounds between machine learning and simple state-machine approaches. Probabilistic state machines, online learning, (especially reinforcement learning), sound to me like they would be ideal in a game environment.

You want the character to act realistically according to his position in the world relative to the player? Define his observations, define his "reward", define a set of possible actions and state transitions, and let him go! I'm curious whether this approach is starting to be more used in game AI, it seems like a natural fit to me. Maybe some pre-training is needed so that it doesn't act randomly at first.

However, the idea of handicapping the AI by actually reducing his observations or his set of possible actions seems like a much more natural approach than more explicit handicapping methods.
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I've been playing with SpotCast quite a bit - it's great fun so far :)
Of course, neither Apple nor the FBI are guilty, the leprechauns did it.
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Amen. Like a few other first-party Google apps, Reader is atrocious.

It's very easy to have it load with very stale data and have the "refresh" button literally do nothing. Then you have to [back] to the main page, then click "All Items" then press refresh.

How does a bug like that stay active for years? Anyway, I've used NewsBlur for a while, excited to get it on Android.
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How much value -- how many stories, how many glimmers-of-an-idea, how many things-I-learned-growing-up-in-the-thirties are lost when an old person dies?

I wouldn't wish death on a single person.
The ransom note has pretty specific language:

"Romney's 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team moved down the stairs to the 2nd floor and setup shop in an empty office room. During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied."

Anyone at PwC will instantly know if this is true or not. My guess is that the specifics will check out (why else include them?) and give credibility to the claim.

But even if those specifics are true, how will anyone know that they really have the returns? Maybe they just figured out where the returns were stored and are trying to force someone else's hand.
This isn't about getting Romney to pay, it's about getting some suckers to send a little money to the addresses on their own. Here's the balance for the "stop release" account https://blockchain.info/address/1HeF89wMjC48bWNgWvVo7Wu3RaLW... and the "promote release" account https://blockchain.info/address/12AP6iCwRNFQqKLStH3A4b4hw3SL...
In my experience of having used a WP7 phone for the last two months, I'd say a twitter app is almost useless on the windows phone. Twitter is already baked into the the people hub, as is facebook. I would appreciate a proper Google+ app though.

I can't speak to all the competing apps. I do wish there were a version of DragonBox algebra for WP. That's the only one I've pined for that wasn't available, although I am looking forward to the new Evernote mobile features making their way over to me eventually.
Either accept it or buy Android.

Or Windows Phone, looking like a stronger alternative all the time.
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Even if you take 78 birthday candles to mean reach the age of 78, then there is still an issue with that statement. Likely to reach the age of 78 implies that the median age is 78, not the average. The median age is likely different than 78 (my guess is lower due to the distribution being skewed left - but that is just a guess)
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Uhm, we do pay taxes here you know :)

As for the motives... IF the arrest of Anakata was a paid job, what other reasons than keeping good relations with the U.S. do we (or rather, the Swedish state) need?
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Sorry to hear that a lot of people's bitcoin deposits were lost in the BitFloor hack.

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Why would you even need a json document to modify another json document ? Could you not author a DSL to reference XPATH like structures and have operations performed on them ?

Secondly I don't see what additional benefit this adds to JSON documents across various use cases (HTTP servers / parsers / persistence / etc). From an API's perspective, are parsers expected to accept this patch-document and apply them to json-documents that they already loaded ? The closest match you get to something like this in the XML world is a XSLT. Feed one XML document in and it can be converted to an XML or output of another kind. You cannot expect HTTP servers to accept these via PATCH and update documents atomically. Resource modification is not atomic in eventually consistent systems.

For those systems where an update / patch can be made atomically, updating a field on a document without replacing it makes sense. However doing it via another json document is not the way to go IMHO. Use a DSL instead.
It reminds me of RIM Playbook and "Amateur Hour Is Over!"

That didn't help RIM, let's hope it works better for Nokia.
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I assumed it was A-nonymous when I read the article, but on re-read I think you are correct.

That probably explains why the story hasn't exploded more like other stories about Anonymous or Lulsec have.
=> trucks will make more hours a day driving

=> we need need fewer trucks

=> we need fewer drivers minding those fewer trucks

I fail to see what would make truck owners offer 'competitive salaries' given that there will likely be X>1 truck drivers competing for each 'truck minder' job, and that the job requires fewer qualifications (drivers do the minding today, and future minders will not need a drover's license)
> What benefit would your machine learning AI bring to a RTS game?

Currently if I understand correctly, the traditional approach is to define a bunch of actions and figure out a realistic way to choose what action to perform, tuning a state machine carefully to make sure the character is realistic as well as beatable. I can imagine this takes a lot of work.

I think a huge benefit of machine learning could be to change the nature of the interface that the character designer has access to: instead of designing the character's internal states, probably relying on collaboration with a programmer, a designer could be tuning reward functions, which more naturally express the character's relationship with its environment.

In other words, the designer can now treat the character states as a black-box model, and instead worry directly about its input-output behavioural relationship, something I think an artist might have better intuition for compared to dealing with explicit state machines.

Being able to do design by means of tuning rewards and actions could help decouple design from programming, which I think would be hugely beneficial for industry.