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My train of thought:
From Holden --> Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye) --> Books influential to adolescence --> A Separate Peace --> Gene Forrester --> Phineas --> Finny --> uspto.gov --> Live trademark search --> Finnie --> domai.nr --> "phinn.ie" --> back to uspto.gov --> "phinnie" is good to go

phinnie (phinn.ie) one more name to toss in your hat.
Corporations are abstractions. Governments are abstractions. Society is, substantively, nothing but people. If we admit that some people are willing to pursue their particular ambitions by abusing other people, it behooves us to restrain their capacity for damage, no matter what conceptual abstraction they're using as the instrument of their abuse.

Corporations and governments are fundamentally the same thing - groups of people - and aiming to shrink the power of one by giving even greater power to the other is no solution at all.
It is interesting to look at virtual machines from the prospective of what they enforce. The JVM was a huge step forward when it allowed for safer memory management. Garbage collection is possible precisely because JVM enforces its memory model. You cannot use pointer arithmetic and arbitrary casts. This helps to ensure the level of ecosystem and make developers more productive. Erlang VM enforces immutability at its core. We can call it safer concurrency management. We can combine hundreds of libraries and still maintain this safety. I would argue that if something is not enforced in the VM, but rather a is "good guideline", the ecosystem descends to the lowest safety that is enforced.
But if someone chooses a ciphertext (without knowing the key), how could they get the checksum right (which is also encrypted)? If the checksum was wrong, the system would refuse to decrypt the corrupted message.
Having not owned an electric car before, I just wanted to know the little things that could bother people. How long does it take to charge. How often do you have to charge? How far can you go? What's the practicality of it? Just for short commutes? What fees are contracts are there that could be a game breaker?

I know the answer to some of these but just wondering if there were others that I'm missing.
I had the same "Leai ndot" impression of the blog logo, though felt it was more legible on your homepage.

Maybe connect the post and dot with a bar, or remove some of the spacing. Make the "o" a solid dot instead?
I don't think he's arguing that message passing will generally outperform shared state with cache coherence. Particularly not for applications which are designed well. The argument (as I understand it) is that since the hardware is fundamentally doing message passing, (and since that will become even more of a problem as hardware continues to scale) it will be easier to design an application that performs well (but maybe not optimally) if you use the message passing paradigm, and easier for your application to perform poorly if you don't. You're right though that this isn't exclusive to erlang, but applies to all languages which eschew shared state.
The harm is you are you and you are not them. They are them and no matter how much we think we can make their lives better, they are busy and don't want to hear it.

The problem is when they are kinda dumb (most of the time?) and the targed spam or leadgen job postings actually work.

"Job in your area paying $175k/year for your exact experience!" -- but when you inquire, it never exists. Conveniently they happen to have similar jobs with compensation structures consisting of wobbly jello.

Read the classics: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/permission-m...
This is exactly what a lot of companies and managers will try to tell you.. But it is a bunch of nonsense.

An actual 40 hour a week programmer is an awful asset, if we do more than ~20 hours of work a week the rest is bad code and the shit we are to tired of thinking about to fix/automate. The ones who work 50+ hours have forgotten that things can be automated or even pondered before diving in, or that are powerless to fix the accumulating breakage of their group/project/company.

That being said, a 20 hour a week engineer who is partying the remainder probably isn't great either.

I currently work 3 days a week, but I spend about half of the remainder studying things that interest me, mostly in CS or physical sciences. A few years back, I worked 2.5 days in tech support, while finishing up my BS.

I would say live and breathe it while you are there, you should be senior/mature enough that you don't require mentoring/sponsoring to do your job, be a bit humble about your immediate "importance" and handle those longer term pains, and have a nice (but unapologetic) explanation for how you spend your other time.

If overall I spend less than 25-30 hours a week thinking about the field then expect to gradually feel rusty. But then CS is not a good field to mentally slow down in.
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Half high yield bond funds, half blue chip stock funds, bank all earnings, re-balance once a year, and take out 4% a year from total. On average you will do just fine! (Check against history if you want to verify)
In countries with good overtime laws, you get overtime even in salaried positions. Where I live, there are _very_ strict laws about what constitutes overtime, and the limit is at 40 hours per week. For any work beyond that, you must get paid by the hour and get at least a 40% bonus above what you would normally make. If you do not get this, you can sue your employer and will win.

It is possible to get exceptions to this law, but no exceptions are possible on an individual basis - they must be negotiated across whole groups of employees by a labor organization. Such agreements allow certain groups of workers to 80 and 90-hour weeks, but the conditions and payment are very strictly negotiated. Another exception is for owners and founders.

Consequently, overtime is only used where strictly necessary. I think this is an excellent system to protect the rights of laborers.
What a brilliant teacher of conceptually tough questions. I am an art major with cursory physics/math knowledge, but could understand and ponder further implications without any further help. This man is a genius.
Nothing nazi about this. The title is semantically different from what was intended.
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Really great UI design, I love it.
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Note that this talk is way older than Wikipedia though.
No. There's no such thing as "refusing to decrypt a corrupted message"; cipher cores either produce an expected plaintext or, if the message is corrupted, an unexpected plaintext. Attackers can use changes in behavior based on the differences between different unexpected resulting plaintexts to infer the original plaintext.
No, I'm not saying that.

"might help out everyone more"

"efficient investment into startups" is not "helping out everyone more", despite the echo chamber that is silicon valley.
Does the SanDisk Extreme post speed ratings? It looks like the flash drive shown in the article has some of the fastest posted speeds, at 200 MB/s read, 120 MB/s write. The SanDisk Extreme doesn't post speeds, it appears, but just says "up to 10 times faster* than USB 2.0" and I can't figure out what the asterisk refers to.
S/MIME and an email client like Thunderbird?
Why lack of LTE is not an issue in Europe?
Is the coverage in Europe smaller then in the US?
In Poland 35% population is covered with LTE, so I would assume rest of the Europe has at least that.
What FB should have done is let users control what is in their feed - give them options to define groups of people and let them view just certain groups in the feed, or split the concepts of liking and following. Instead it seems Facebook is happy to spam users for you if you'll pay for the privilege. Not really good for anyone involved, and not worth it for businesses long term to pay only to be perceived as unwanted spam amongst personal posts.
Thx for the pointer. I have to look into them. The issue I have is that history prior to 2000 is not valid going forward. You can say that I'm a disciple of Nasib Taleb's Fooled by Randomness.
Month to month plans are not nearly as good or cheap in the US as they are in Europe. I've been doing a lot of investigation about this and it's frustrating because I want to buy a new unlocked phone here in the US but it's almost not worth it here because you still have to buy some absurdly expensive plan.

In Germany I was able to buy a 20 euro a month data only plan for my iPhone and I was perfectly happy.

I ended up ordering the iPhone 5 on Verizon at the subsidized rate ($300) and stuck it on my dad's Verizon account for $30 a month (cheapest data plan only) and then when I go back to Germany later next year I'll just cancel it and try to get out of paying the early termination fee. Even if I have to pay the fee it's only $350 which, added with the initial price of the phone, is the same price as out-of-contract iPhone 5.
Some readers, like Henk van Ess are reporting that they’re still able to snag them. He used Chrome to make his purchase as other browsers wouldn’t allow him to complete the transaction.

This is sad.
Hey, tone it down mister.

The parent does share a good thing that's not always immediately thought of.

Yes, USB devices do have serial numbers - absolutely. A lot of systems will however not care and just mount at random, if it's automounted. As an example, on Desktop machines - this is very common. You might use a Desktop for doing this.

It's a good idea to combine the parents parent post with the, sadly, only good nugget out of it.

Be careful to think over what happens when you restart/unplug the drives. Will the mount points change? If so, be sure to configure up the mounting of the drives with the USB ID of the device.

(USB ID is found with for example the `lsusb` program, you'll probably need to install an extra package to get it)
This reminds me of a great quote.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" -stroustrup

If you have to write about how your language matters, you have already missed the point. If it mattered, people would be using it.
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Not necessarily... If you work with media (photo, audio, video), then the space needs mount very, very fast.
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I would suggest you read cell biology papers from 1996 and from the same authors and institutions today, nearly 20 years later. There has been a pretty staggering amount of insight gained into how cells "work" and by work I mean where folks can predict changes that would occur by making changes in the structure of a cell.

As others have observed it is now possible to 'print' a virus using a DNA printer. Further there is growing evidence that viruses are a change agent for evolution as they physically re-write the genetics of a cell to propagate, and even after the virus is conquered sometimes their structure lives on.

When you combine those, you can see that we're approaching a point where a non-nation state actor (basically a smart biologist in reasonably well funded lab) will be able to code a genetic change, print up a retrovirus to make that change, and then instantiate that change in a test subject (or themselves).

Evidence suggests the first 'customers' for that technology will be athletes who are looking for an 'edge' but when it happens, it will appear to have happened 'over night' where something fundamental about a person can be proactively changed. Whether its baldness, red blood cell production, or the color of your eyes, the changes will be profound and for many quite upsetting.

The key is that people will be able to get changed without the regulating agencies being able to intervene and that will change things quite dramatically.
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I really enjoyed this article. It was an upbeat analysis and he put some good thought into why software freedoms are important for business.
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In Japan, working yourself to death is common enough that they have a word for it: karoshi

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07...
Don't you just keep hitting "change identity" in the tor browser bundle until that doesn't happen anymore?
Awesome electrical field based 3D gesture chip.
Well, it is actually almost 2013 :P

On a serious note, I think this is more of a marketing gimmick than a tech issue. Also like having very limited quantities and proclaiming "we're sold out". Not saying that is the case here though.
I was there for the first Nexus launch, that kind of experience can make you a bit more conservative. :-)
If I were in this position, I'd have run an IRCd from static boot media. I don't think Petraeus should've been fired for being unable to keep his pants zipped, but I do think that a CIA employee who doesn't know how to cover his tracks properly when having an affair needs to be shown the door ASAP.
You might want to consider buying the rights to the backward version of holden. http://nedloh.net/
Another benefit to add to that list - no inventory to manage...
It's a very fair point, and I think it's good to always err on the side of "not being shady".

Just to play devil's advocate, many companies would never have broken through the clutter if they didn't break a few rules to be seen at first. This includes great companies many of use use every day (like AirBnB). Reddit was forced to create fake accounts and pose fake conversations to get started. Google certainly was breaking some rules when they began scraping/indexing the entire web (i realize this is an oversimplification).

The ones that are truly garbage disappear when they start breaking rules. They piss people off. The ones who do it right, and offer something valuable, rise up.

Again that is just playing devil's advocate. I don't think it's black and white, and I think it's a really interesting conversation
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On a regular trading day (ie no earnings report, no news expected), trading straddles for a short term gain does not make sense to me. The stock has to move more than the price of the 2 legs + commission for you to break even. Feel free to trade straddles on GRPN, FIO, QCOM, AAPL, GOOG, PCLN and other stocks with a history of wild post earning swings. You might get very lucky.
Yep... and HN loves Google Buzz. Oh wait.
We don't know that such a person couldn't eventually enter an inner world where they find a kind of peace and fulfillment. It doesn't necessarily have to be a continual conscious horror of being frozen in a hospital bed.
So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect? I'd be ok with HSPA+ speeds (I find Verizon LTE to be extremely underwhelming), but as I understand it, Verizon doesn't do HSPA+. What will the Nexus 4 fall back to?
Are you referring to the FTC 30-day / 50 day rule regarding mail/telephone orders?

http://bit.ly/PSuzVo
Most shops are willing to let you work remotely. Anyone that's down with stat. mech. has a solid base for quantitatively attacking most problems. Luckily the 'domain' knowledge required is general human consumer behavior, which you'll know quite a bit about already. And a surprising amount of that can be reasonably modeled by a microcanonical ensemble.
They could have just used GnuPG over pretty much any e-mail service?
Unplugging the monitor/closing the lid is the most ridiculous solution I have ever heard. Maybe I want to use the laptop keyboard, or the trackpad. This isn't even theoretical, I actually want to do this all the time.

What if I have a bunch of rar files on a usb stick that I want to extract. They can't extract in place because of fat32 file size restrictions. This happened to me yesterday.
Like some people have mentioned, I don't think that the N4 is actually sold out. I think they're just making small batches available slowly as to not instantiate a big performance issue on their servers. Keep refreshing the page every so often and click 'Add to Cart' once you see that button. F5'ing the page and then clicking that small gap in between the 'Email' box and the 'Notify Me' button after each time you press F5 will increase the likelihood of pre-empting someone else's click (since the Add to Cart button will be located there).
Going straight to the Python Stockholm Meetup after yer flight? :-O Mmmmh, jetlag
This covers a lot of Urban Airship's value proposition. Are these two services finally coming into direct competition?
I guess I mainly think it produces worse societies that are worse to live in, without correspondingly incentivizing innovation appreciably. I've lived in both the US and Scandinavia, and the US feels barely teetering on the edge of "advanced first-world country" in comparison: poor infrastructure, bureaucratic healthcare that causes angst when switching jobs, large numbers of homeless people, huge prison systems, swathes of poverty-stricken ghettoes, visible class demarcations, etc., etc. It felt like such a weird place after I'd spent a few years away and went back, and I realized how it just didn't seem like a nice place to live, but I never realized it could be better than that (I had previously only compared the U.S. to clearly worse-off countries, like Mexico or India). Not just that I thought it was unethical that there were so many poorer people (which I did), but that it was also worse for me, as a middle-class professional, because of the existence of all these social problems. I guess I could've retreated to a gated community and attempted to create my own bubble, but I've had enough of the suburbs.

And I don't think you have to give up business or innovation to get it. If your Scandinavian startup becomes the next Mojang, you're still going to be fabulously wealthy, so I don't feel at all disincentivized by the distant possibility that I'll have to fork over a percentage of my hypothetical future millions (I'm certainly not going to move back to Texas just for that). There are more successful companies per capita than you'd expect (certainly more than most American states), and the economy generally still runs on a market basis, there's just a little more sharing of the wealth.
This got me looking for USB 3.0 sticks. Up here in Canada our go to source is NCIX (they sell to the US as well I believe).

These two deals are pretty good, both better than the Amazon price.

64GB: http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=74959&vpn=AN005P-...

32GB: http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=69506&vpn=PEF32GS...

* I do not work for NCIX, just figured I'd share the love.
"Meetup.com is one of those services that will do the job of driving traffic to your meetup if you create one." This is a great point, but I think it's also important to focus on creating successful meetups. This is a huge time commitment. Creating a consistent arena for your user base requires coordinating activities that they would love, and then reaping the benefits of customer loyalty. It's an excellent idea, but you need to devote a good deal of time to it (sometimes even a person).
"I don't think I could do a single task for 80h/wk productively, but I could certainly do my primary job for 40-60h/wk productively and then spend 20h/wk doing meetings with users, conferences, etc."

What experiments have you performed to validate this hypothesis?
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Why do I need to eject at all though?
I don't see how allowing things I've "liked" to send me messages was ever enticing to the user. Originally a "like" was just a thing your friends could see, it didn't mean "subscribe me to this marketing channel".
Ask HN: What are the best web design/development firms nowadays?
I'm looking for firms that develop websites for clients.
I'm sticking to galaxy nexus until this persons question is answered.
Nice. 1/10 of Facebook.
What's being called 'skeuomorphic' is not at all skeuomorphic
This is such a great idea!
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Paul Graham stated that the interview dates won't be adjusted, just the announcement:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775020
Yes I saw the original HN thread and figured this was a pun on selling t-shirts out of the back of your car
As far as I can tell both Hushmail and Tigertext are US based or have US operations. As such they can be subpoenaed (and this probably applies to other countries the US has law enforcement agreements with). Throw in a "matter of national security" to keep it secret and they would eventually have found out what is going on.
This is awesome! Glad to see they're paving the way! There's nothing like the face-to-face interaction of the university classroom, but for many the MOOC is a viable, and often preferred, alternative for education.
For things like the number of layers, the total number of options is relatively small -- usually people try between 1 and 6-7. For most of the other parameters you have to be smarter than that, especially since a lot of them are real-valued, so you can't really explore them all.

One of the trends these days is to perform automatic hyper-parameter tuning, especially for cases where a full exploration of hyper-parameters via grid-search would mean a combinatorial explosion of possibilities (and for neural networks you can conceivably explore dozen of hyper-parameters). A friend of mine just got a paper published at NIPS (same conference) on using Bayesian optimization/Gaussian processes for optimizing the hyper-parameters of a model -- http://www.dmi.usherb.ca/~larocheh/publications/gpopt_nips.p.... They get better than state of the art results on a couple of benchmarks, which is neat.

The code is public -- http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jasper/software.html -- and in python, so you could potentially try it out (runs on EC2, too).

Btw, Geoff Hinton is teaching an introductory neural nets class on Coursera these days, you should check it out, he's a great teacher. Also, you can always come back to Google, we're doing cool stuff with this :)
It'll be on a new site for teaching complex things in non-complicated ways. The goal is to allow everyone from clever middle school students through retired people to understand the coming changes to the world. There's a huge on-site community focus too. We don't want there to be 100,000 anonymous people just going through the motions. There will be plenty of interaction between course material and community feedback. It's kinda awesome.

Topics will be presented in multiple ways (simple and intermediate) so you can have plenty of different views on the same material. The material works as both zero-knowledge intro to the topics as well as quick refreshers if you haven't seen the material in a while (quick -- what's an eigenvector?!).

The launch courses will be 1.) real-world applications of probability and statistics (signal extractions), 2.) linear algebra for computer science, and 3.) wildcard (a random assortment of whatever the heck we think is important or entertaining to know). Future courses are: introduction to neural networks, introduction to computational neuroscience, introduction to deep learning, advanced deep learning, how to take over the world with a few dozen GPUs, avenues by which google will become irrelevant, and robotics for fun and evil.

This is phase zero of a four phase plan. I'll get some pre-launch material together to shove down HN shortly, then it'll launch a few days later. Hopefully you'll hear about the project again.
Facebook does have groups. But yes, what Facebook did was a bait-and-switch: there were likes, which were just biographical information, but then those turned into subscriptions.