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The bug has been declared invalid. You can still record comments on Launchpad, and you can still say the bug affects you, but no action will be taken by developers.
Well, I wouldn't have hired those people regardless of their Facebook postings.
Facebook just mirrors what I see in reality. If someone is so short sighted that they post things that will keep them from being hired, they are likely engaging in a number of behaviors which are not helpful to them getting hired.
I think this is a little pessimistic. If you have the capability to be able to predict a persons life, personality, etc. for the capability of hiring someone, you also have the capability to match people with their dream jobs. Ones that they would excel at.
Also check out his other project: http://rvl.io Nice. (if it could go full screen it'd be even better)
Yes, in this particular case dpkg will behave perfectly well.

The OP is, I believe, trying to argue that apt-get is in general less likely to blow your foot off, therefore you should default to using apt-get in general since it makes you less likely to lose a foot in the long run.

If you prefer to memorise specific safe cases for brevity of typing, that's absolutely fine. The OP, I think, prefers not to do so, and the same goes for me.

Assuming I'm correct in describing the OP's argument, hopefully you can now both go "oh, okay, that's what he meant" and move on :)
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Just a few weeks ago I was checking out my feed on my phone at lunch and saw a post from an old friend I hadn't talked to in years saying he was visiting town for a few days. I sent him a message and we ended up hanging out one night that week, and we had a blast.

Or, last year, there was an old friend who'd seen one of my updates pop up in her feed, and decided to send me a quick message to see what I was up to these days. We ended up talking and hanging out quite a bit, and now she's become one of my closer friends, after we had drifted out of touch for years due to moving away.

Without Facebook, would we have been on each other's email list or blog or whatever non-social-network method of sharing info? Probably not.

Those aren't the only things it's done for me, either -- and just two days ago I got another one of those sorts of messages, though it's too early to know if anything more than a quick "oh here's what I'm up to these days, how about you" exchange will come of it. But I think even that's worthwhile.

I'm also not particularly concerned about them having cookied me and learning a bunch of sites I've visited through that. There it's mostly a numbers thing -- out of all the millions of users, I'm not too worried about someone deciding to try to hassle me with my info somehow. Compare that risk with how easy it's made it to reconnect with all those old friends.

(I'll talk about the nightmare scenario of this post in a separate comment, this is just meant to illustrate the positives vs the current negatives.)
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The advantage for me at least is volume. In online interaction you can connect with a large number of people at once. For example, it's easy to carry a chat conversation with 2 or 3 people whereas in real life you'd need to actually have everyone in the same room, interested in the same topic, etc. Of course the trade off is usually depth (and as you mentioned, privacy) so it's not always the best thing. But it is very helpful for short updates with people you don't talk to otherwise.
Very cool, my buddy has been harping me to get GW2-- Where did you get the data for this?

Cheers
> What do I get from Facebook that I don't get from "analog" social interaction

An easily maintained wide network of shallow relationships which is extremely useful when looking for a job, or something to do on Friday night, or the fourth person to split the costs of gas when going to a larger event... Basically, it allows you to spam people you barely know in a socially-acceptable manner.

Benefits of a network like that may be far greater than a small group of trusted friends. I'm not on Facebook because of its creepy/stalkery vibe but there is value there, probably a lot of it.
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This definitely will happen. Like 100% sure. It happens right now, the beginning. And facebook won't be some magic data provider, maybe they'll supply 1-2% of all data if the company will survive for so long at all.
Behavioral prediction will be Very precise. And you won't be able to anything, all endpoints will be controlled - ISP, cell operators, physical stores that sell hardware, banking, payment alternatives (bitcoin etc.). They are mostly controlled now, there is just no such precise and powerful analytical programs.

This won't be end of the world or the internet. Not even close to it. Things just will be different in the future and people would accept them.
The hypothetical analytics company in the article scares me, because I'm pretty convinced it will exist at some point.

I mean, there are already quite a lot of people who try to do it, but at some point, someone will achieve non-garbage enough results and use them to screen job or insurance applications. Or will just be good enough at marketing to convince insurance company that the results aren't garbage.

It's probably fine for people who can afford to refuse a job offer based on ethical issues, but the overwhelming majority of people don't have that luxury.
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This is weird, because right now you are reading my comment moments after I have typed it in, and we're likely are not even on the same continent.
The article aside, please take note of the infographics. They are among the worst I've ever seen, particularly for a professional publication. I actually stopped reading the article when I ran into them.

I only got to the first two, so I'll attack them directly:

1) Using all diagonal lines with no color and no difference in angle or pattern, beyond a slight amount of thickness, makes it extremely difficult to easily see the dividing lines. The text is tilted all sorts of different ways making it very hard to digest. Why are there additional pie-looking things stacked around with different squiggly lines? The effect is extremely jarring and I wasn't able to garner any meaningful information from it.

2) Again, the text is slanted this way and that way. Why is 27% the largest number? 40% appears the smallest. What does that even mean? The black points seem to point to something, or maybe they don't?

When you're trying to convey information, this is a perfect example of how not to do it.
Stop getting degrees where-in you can't get a job that will pay the debt back. Seems obvious to me.
What's your plan once you're cut off from the internet? A satellite connection?
Hmm, yeah, I take your point. Finding ways to coexist peacefully is a big problem and I think you're absolutely right to point out that existing strategies for that haven't scaled beyond a certain level. I'm a bit skeptical of seasteading both because it has an upper boundary of utility (size of the habitable ocean) and it seems like a really potent market externality generator (the ocean is already overfished and hugely polluted).

But my first objection is more theoretical than practical, and the second one is true of the status quo.

Perhaps seasteading is a good hack to a planet crowded with irreconcilable ideologies. Increased mobility between states could mitigate some of the harms of moral arbitrage. (There's a great long now foundation talk by Nils Gilman that bears directly on the problems of social differences between existing geographically bounded states.) I can dig that.
Yeah. There should be a similar conceptual explanation for Strassen's algorithm, but I haven't seen one. The 2x2 block matrix decomposition corresponds to viewing a (2n)x(2n) matrix as a 2x2 matrix over the ring of nxn matrices. There isn't any notion of evaluation for a 2x2 matrix ring, but we might look for other natural ring homomorphisms. The determinant and trace seem like obvious candidates. Unfortunately, the determinant respects multiplication but not addition, and the trace respects addition but not multiplication. Any ideas?

Edit: I've asked djb and we'll see if he responds.
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"I cant wait to hear Richard Stallman's reaction to this."

The 'feature' we are discussing can be easily removed, I don't see that rms will have too many additional problems with Ubuntu.
Would something like this work?

http://www.blockaid.me
But it doesn't take much idiocy to make a mistake (keep passwords in cleartext in a database, leave unpatched machines open to the wild, allow SQL inject attacks, etc.).

Security needs to be taken seriously at a practically fractal level. Historically the FBI has not been good at this.
Right. Jon often lives on the road and spends a ridiculous amount of time helping startups and startup programs. Definitely a 'hard time' in terms of commitment (particularly if you ask his wife;) but far from hard times in the economic sense.
I'm not sure I understand. I thought Iran's plan was to physically sever the connection between its internet and the external one for the vast majority of citizens, similar to North Korea's Kwangmyong network[0]?

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_%28network%29
I often find the idea of doing something more intimidating than actually doing it. Especially socially.
These days people are experimenting with compilers and parsers.. . If you want to reinvent the APIs of the JVM or the DOM be my guest. My college computer science teacher said it in the best, "software is about standing on the shoulders of giants."
Its not so much about brains but technique, the technique of the software community as a whole is increasing, we are way better in making software that REACH than the 90s, I am 20 btw
> I assure you that's not how I'm using the phrase.

Except it is. Medicine can be practiced by anyone who knows how, not just people with the right-colored skin.
LinkedIn scares me more, because I think most 22-year-olds don't really foresee that they might have the need to change their career histories. The idea that you might have to bump your college degree by 5 years is unimaginable at age 22.

I don't foresee myself ever needing an explicit lie, but it's hard to keep a story consistent over 20 years. The online paper trail is a bit scary. I wouldn't even have a LinkedIn profile but it occasionally comes in handy to have access to the people in the network.

I think more people are going to be burned by consistency risk (even unintentional and non-deceptive) than by what we tend to think of as garden-variety embarrassing stuff.

I also don't think anyone with data mining talent is going to work for health insurance companies doing intrusive cross-site work for less than a million per year (we're talking about work that isn't just unpleasant or boring but actually evil) and I can't see those companies paying that much. They'll hire more cheaply and get crappy work and the world will be fine.
Vector supers were bandwidth machines though. The memory is SRAM and a 8 GFLOPS T94 probably() has about 100 gigabytes/sec of theoretical memory bandwidth. Compare that to 6 GB/sec theoretical bandwidth of LPDDR3.

) Cray lists the fully loaded 32-cpu T90 has doing 800 GB/sec, a 8 GFLOPS T94 has 4 CPUs
"Do you seriously think Socialist societies are not capable of technological advances?"

Construct one and we'll see. Previous attempts basically turned into murderous oligarchies. To me, that places Marxism outside the realm of practical consideration, since it seems impossible to actually implement.

Less flippantly, it's always been engineers and inventors rather than investors (capitalists) who are responsible for innovation.
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What a depressing read. At some point robotic warehouses will be the norm. Until then there will be lots of places like this. Commerce often means that the lowest bidder gets to deliver the goods. What they don't tell you is how much the lowest bidder is squeezing their employees just so they can be the lowest bidder.

Don't end up like Brian, get yourself some marketable skills other than running around a warehouse to pick orders. Or you might very well find yourself fired just when you need your job the most - for instance when your wife has just delivered a baby (which with any normal company run by people with some heart would result in paid leave).

And when those robotic warehouses roll around these jobs will simply cease to exist.
What you have described is more or less Diffie-Hellman. Unfortunately this alone wont guarantee your package's safe passage. If it did Verisign, would be out of a job.

The flaw is, you can basically just have the same scenario but replace Alice with the post office:

Bob puts the item in a box with a lock and sends to Alice. Post office intercepts the box, places their lock on it and sends it back to Bob. Bob removes his lock and sends the box back to Alice. Now the post office removes their lock and obtains the package contents.

The only way around this is to have some truly trusted third party. Even in RSA, if you aren't absolutely certain of the other user's public key, it won't work, which is why web-of-trust and other techniques are used.
Ack, I'm sorry about that. They were both on Skype. I know the second interview had some problems with a slow upstream, and I'm not sure what the problem was on the first.

I think I'll try to get my next interviewees to record on their end and I'll stitch them together after.

Thanks for the feedback!
The more i read about apple news related to patent issues(simple ideas that should not have been granted patents) and suing, i am starting to develop serious hatred for apple. Even though i respect the products they've come up with; i don't feel like buying any apple product.

They seem to be trying to create a monopoly - implicitly making an effort to stop companies both big and small - start-ups from innovating. They seem to fear competition.

This patent issues among all these big companies is starting to hurt a lot.
If these companies learn everything about everyone, what happens if what they discover is that most people have their own little problems and health issues and craziness? The truly awesome people with absolutely nothing wrong with them? Good luck finding them!

As far as the migraine bit goes: there are already some sorts of medical discrimination that are illegal to use for hiring in the US, though I don't know exactly what is and isn't currently allowed. But analyzing someone's FB posting to try to find out that they suffer from migraines seems like the sort of thing that violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the law and would quickly get shot down. And the Affordable Care Act is already taking steps towards making it illegal for insurance companies to abuse this sort of information. If you don't like the scenario in the article, keep that in mind next time you wonder about whether government regulation is ever appropriate.
Precisely. If you think that classes are all that you are ever going to need then you should read up on the Expression Problem

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
Problems: 1) HIPAA? a big, scary barrier to entry for experimental firms; I imagine it to be like the FAA; the time and money it takes to get things qualified for use in the air presents an enormous barrier to small groups with good ideas.
... and then there is user interface, debugging, support for various formats, documentation, and other mostly boring stuff.
Perhaps a student should go to a cheaper school if the profession they have chosen isn't ever going to pay back the money they spent on college.
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As people say, static generators along with a small toolkit of your own will probably produce better results. But what is proposed is a compromise between an already started job and a good cost-scalability ratio, though…
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The data comes from a recent image published on the GuildWars official blog: http://guildwars2viz.com/static/img/viz/gw2_data.jpg

I just calculated the percentages based on the pixel coverage of each bar. I'll also add in on your buddy's harping - get it, it's a fun game! ;)
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Here's a weekend project with a similar goal, but aimed at Dropbox. Still needs a bit of work though..

https://github.com/Modoatk/DoITLive
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No it's not. The"plan" is to have an slow global Internet connection (about 256 kbps) that connects you to The Internet (which is of course heavily filtered), and a faster (a few MBps), domestic intranet that connects offices, government agencies, banks, news agencies, universities and schools together. Home users can sign up for this intranet thing too, so purchasing (and downloading) a movie (from a server inside the country) would take a couple hours, not a day. That's the "carrot".

Blocking google or gmail was never in that plan; dangerous social networks, like Facebook, twitter and G+ are all blocked (and have been, for years) of course. But a search engine or mail provider theoretically should be left alone!
How do you name things? From your text ("I have a segment defined as a pair of start and end position plus its observation, a sample as a vector of segments, and all samples as a dictionary of samples") it seems you have a lot of different names for different things. Decide what names are important and which ones aren't (the "vector" and "dictionary" probably aren't).

Eric Evans wrote a big book called Domain-Driven Design about these things, but his advice basically boils down to this.
Seems pretty silly to think that anyone who wants to make more than enough money to live comfortably wants to do so only to compete with their peers or make up for self-esteem issues.
Depends if you're a member of Apple's legal team or not.
It is a little hard for me to feel sympathetic with the need to conceal dishonesty on resumes. Meanwhile, we talk to lots of great people who don't have LinkedIn profiles; it is by no means a standard requirement. If you can't be honest to LinkedIn, just keep your profile off it.

No matter who gets elected in November, by 2015 guaranteed-issue health insurance is going to be the norm, so this health insurance story about reading tea leaves out of Facebook wall posts to ding people's premiums seems far fetched.
Design was never the "killer differentiator" - it mattered to a subset of people, for a subset of products.

If you look at the world through Apple-shaped glasses, you see a VERY skewed view of the world.
Came to complain about the same infographics too. I don't even understand why they tried to make the charts look like a bad tetris game. Seems like a perfect example of 'chartjunk'.
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I just came to the Bay Area (Cupertino to be exact), to meet with some potential clients for my startup. Things have gone great so far. But I need some advice on where I can run into a more startupy crowd, where I can look into maybe getting some working (coworking) space etc.

I'll be commuting between Florida and here, so where should I look for housing (right now it's the Essex Hotel, which is great but I don't feel in the midst of it all).

Look forward to some advice from fellow HNers who have set up shop here!
I am just amazed by the creativity of the author. All his projects look interesting.
Thank you, and you have just reminded me why I am liking the explosion of no-SQL stores - we have for a very long time been storing all our data in one factory design, with one, really flexible and powerful layout.

Being able to have a red black factory is rather nice. Although it does mean we now need to think carefully about what factory we shall need before even starting. And accepting occasionally moving the while factory three blocks over, during prodction
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I always hear people say Iran has a significant amount of freedom-loving and mostly moderate people living there (for ex as seen in the green movement).

How come we haven't heard of any protest against these moves to suppress the internet?
Sorry, was distracted by the other conversation with dherman, and really shouldn't be spending any time on this anyway, but I've verified your operator associativity is wrong.

To start with some example code:

for (var a = 7 in /7/ in 9 in b);

If I run that in node I get:

TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for '/7/' in 9

As this code is vaguely equivalent to:

var a = 7; for (a in ((/7/ in 9) in b));

However, it gets converted by sjs to:

for (var a = 7 in (/7/ in (9 in b)));

That's obviously different, and gives this error instead:

ReferenceError: b is not defined

(I really should get back to actually doing my job now, though; if dherman responds again I'll totally notice and follow up: that conversation is really interesting to me.)
Coming from the UK, $100k plus for a bachelor's degree seems ridiculously high. Is this normal for a degree in the USA?
It's interesting how it is assumed that the criminals cited here are not smart enough to find alternate ways of communication.
Yeah. Perhaps they gave it to the team that does their covers; they've got a 'desperate to seem novel' feeling to them lately that doesn't suit the image of the publication (or the quality of much of the content inside).
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Interesting, I had no idea the original 13'' series 9 had upgradeable RAM.

I also almost never upgrade the BIOS unless I run into problems which are fixed in a more recent revision, and most manufacturers don't even provide updates past the first year or so anyway, it's just the general attitude of having to have an OS installed as a requirement to update something as low-level as the BIOS that rubs me the wrong way.

Lots of other manufacturers get it right. Live CDs (Lenovo) or in-BIOS upgrades (Intel and possibly ASUS if I remember correctly) are a much cleaner way of handling these upgrades.
Agreed, their website is full of stuff about the benefits of switching your corporation over to Ubuntu.

You can't make statements like that and then say "it's free, don't complain".
Definitely not. Most public schools have in state tuition of under $10,000 per year with lots of financial aid for those in need.
> And, no, you don't have root or control of my data, unless you're telling us about some backdoors you're inserting into Ubuntu.

There are many cases where code controlled by Canonical runs with root privileges: The installer, the package system, a whole host of daemons (that usually drop-privileges after starting but still, they start as root). Every time you install a package, that package can run arbitrary code with root privileges -- this is why you shouldn't install package archives / PPAs you don't trust.

Basically what he meant was you place ultimate trust in Canonical by letting them control every single binary on your machine.
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