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FTR, I started playing with Haskell early 2012 and I have no idea what GOA is. All I ever see at my prompt is ghci.

If this is what GOA is, it actually sounds incredibly useful: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/GHCi#GHCi_on_Acid. Looking up docs/source for modules? Enumerating typeclass instances? Yes please.
While I certainly wouldn't recommend this kind of article to most people, I wish professors from Computer Science departments would try to add just a little styling. It's painful to go through most of their sites.
The interesting thing to me is all the comments saying "the state shouldn't be involved". Maybe that's true (I don't have an opinion because I haven't researched it at all), but it doesn't matter.

If you are running a company, these are the kinds of things you need to care about. One's personal sensibilities don't matter a lick when the regulators come knocking.

Instead, I would look at this (and whatever fallout occurs) as a warning of the kinds of things you have to think about and use it to sharpen skills so as to not be on the receiving end.

And, once again, if you don't skirt gray areas of ethics, you are less likely to face problems. Did Twitter give an offer? "Well, that's open to 'interpretation', and I'm going to interpret it as 'no'."
Yeah, but it's not directly comparable. They let you rate stuff, but it's not very granular. It's just "amens"; not up- and down-votes, or even a 0-10 scale, like we offer. It's quite one-dimensional.
My recent subscription: http://bartoszmilewski.com/ The blog in one sentence: Think in Haskell, code in C++ & multi-core to spice it all up.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/

PS: Awesome thread! So many nuggets.
There's a lot I agree with in what you wrote, and some that I disagree with as well. Personally, I'm fairly certain that I understand the truth that underlies all existence. This truth can be expressed in a statement that embraces and extends the truths in all other worldviews, and perhaps extinguishes them as well: Until proven otherwise, this is all one big joke. The only way to lose is by allowing the Universe to troll you by taking it too seriously.
I'm surprised no one's asked yet -- how did he obtain the samples of dinosaur sounds?
This is a really intense article in my opinion. The military may have successfully used unmanned aircraft to cause less pilot deaths but the emotional trauma and PTSD that comes from war and murder is still present... probably more so as they must more intimately know their target before killing them. That and the disparity of killing targets in Afghanistan and Iraq and then stepping out of your trailer back into the heart of America where everyone is just "going about their day." That back and forth routine on a daily basis is even more traumatic then spending 9 months deployed and then coming back to the US.
Verbal offers do count, regardless of whether the person handing the term sheet over had authority, Instagram was required to act in the reasonable interest of investors and find out if the offer had teeth. Avoiding "formal offers" by evading "formal authority" is rather obviously not in investor interest.

This is most certainly not nonsense if true, though it is a bit ridiculous given the windfall for investors.

If you have ever been a major shareholder in a company, you would understand - not considering legitimate offers for acquisition is a major no-no and violates the most important responsibilities of a the corporate stewards.
Dell's Android offerings always sucked. I would argue they should not have even bothered. Their computer meanwhile vary, and some are actually pretty decent.
We've implemented a DNS-based transport for ZeroMQ, but I am not quite sure it can be made work especially in WAN environment. DNS propagation delay can take several days which is not always an option for application names (as opposed to hostnames).

As for the aborts, I've put all of them there myself, no need to remind me :)
So what happens if it's determined that Mr. Systrom did lie under oath? Does he face criminal charges, is Facebook fined, or what? I assume it's too late to split up the companies again.
Hmm... Noted! Will put it on the todo list. Thanks!
http://www.web2py.com

By far the most comprehensive, most underrated Python framework (actually, any web framework) that I know of. Incredibly complete library. Fantastic community. Most responsive project creator/manager-place is a dream.
Uh yep, it has had the potential to affect me. Grew up on a reservation as a white biological child of a native american (blood quotas) of a different tribe than the reservation. So, yeah. Despite a certain websites cute version "wasicu" really does have a pretty bad meaning.

Having said that, my opinion is no less valid than if my Dad had not decided to move us from the west coast at a young age.

Either you commit and actual crime or we are legislating mind control and weird interpretations of words. Given the "code words" discussions that came up in the 2012 election, I am pretty sure the Cardinal De Richelieu[1] would be right at home prosecuting hate speech.

1) "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Near the bottom the article briefly mentions that the regulators were worried about "self-dealing" in the Facebook-Instagram deal, where someone was offered a personal side benefit for making the sale happen.

It's a serious problem in corporate governance in the US, but it's not in the interests of any individual involved, including the victim, to uncover any particular instance of it, because the deal is done and a prosecution would only damage the company they presumably still own.
Advice I'd add: pay careful attention to the responsibilities you take on.

Owning a car -- you have to maintain it, possibly repair it occasionally, insure it, etc.. A pet is quite a large one -- want to travel for a few months? And you'll probably have that dog for the next 10-15 years, and they may get sick along the way. Owning a house, of course, but also renting -- you have to deal with minor damage, rent, keeping the landlord informed ("I didn't notice water started leaking in during the winter" is very bad).

Debt, of course -- what if you can't quit an exhausting job you detest, because you're paying down large debts?

Many of these things are rewarding (I love having a dog, for example, though it does make some things hard...) -- I'm not saying don't do them, just realize what you're trading. Take on new responsibilities one at a time, and do it with your eyes open.

I personally wish I'd been slower to take on new responsibilities when I was first out of college -- my first salary seemed huge, and so I traded up my $900 car for a $12K one, married my long-time girlfriend in a way-too-expensive wedding, and got a puppy... not mistakes, per se, but it was all much too fast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_%28psychology%29#S...

There's plenty of stuff
There are many ways many people can get screwed in business deals but usually it is up to the injured party to show injury and file a claim of some sort. It is very unusual in the US justice system to have a state agency do an independent investigation of a business deal to protect the interests of particular investors. Government agencies are supposed to protect the interests of the public at large.

I would be very interested to know what the procedural background here is. (Unfortunately, this hit piece of an article does not go into detail about this).
Specialized, single-purpose hardware is right now some 10x more energy-efficient for the same task than a GPU, (and some 50x more efficient than a CPU). Given that modern chips are not limited by transistor density but by energy density, we're going to see more special-purpose hardware in our chips, not less.
As I also answered for Amen and Well.io, their site is quite one-dimensional - as it only offers "likes" (upvotes). There's no granularity in the rating scale. We offer up- and down-votes, in addition to a 0-10 scale. I think that's quite important for a social list site, atleast if you want to be serious about rating and ranking stuff.
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We'd love to read a blog post of your own on bringing up your son to be a child hacker.
I really miss old-fashioned forums.

I know you can point out that they weren't that different from this site or that facebook groups are not that different, but it doesn't feel the same.

I hope they enjoy a Renaissance someday soon and cohabitate with 'social media'. Maybe a new, shiny framework or CMS for making them?
ha-ha on myself! I read "With DARPA and Google racing to perfect instant translation" as "PERfect" meaning 100% perfect quality, and not "perFECT" as in to smooth out the details.

Well, there goes my PERfect understanding skills.

That's not a bet I want to take. We have "instant translation" now - I've seen demos. It's just rather crappy. What level do you expect that we'll have in 10 years?

My challenge would be to take chapter 12 of Gödel, Escher, Bach and translate it into Swahili then ask the Swahili speaker if it seems stilted or normal. Well, compared to what a human translator would do.

Chapter 12 contains a mixture of English, French, German, and transliterated Russian, but is perfectly understandable to someone who doesn't know the non-English language, because the text describes how to understand the missing parts. It also uses "ASU" as an inversion of "USA", where "ASU" is defined in the text as "Alternative Structure of the Union." Will the translation into Swahili handle that in-text complexity?
Come now, if it is one in every 100,000 and we've got 50,000 of them the odds are we get a white tiger every other generation.
Thanks for the input! We're hard at work with a mobile version (should have went mobile first...), but it's on its way - 2-3 weeks shy of a release. We're doing a responsive theme, but right now, everything just sucks. Sorry :(
Samsung uses Android to sell chips: Samsung SoC, Samsung DRAM, Samsung AOLED, etc, etc. With Dell, well, it would be packing other people's chips and putting other people's content on it. So indeed, it's not a game Dell can play.
Anything PHP can do, another language can do better.
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I tend to prefer having face-to-face interaction with interns, because it lets me determine more easily what they're understanding and what they're struggling with. Physically being in the same space can also create a more helpful environment where interns are comfortable to ask questions as they arise. Still, this is becoming less and less important with virtual offices, and tools like StackOverflow that can be better than asking a coworker anyway. Also, I've found that with introverted interns, communication can often be better through email than in person. Since I work on a distributed team at Coshx Labs, feel free to ping us about our intern program and if we'd be a good fit for each other.
The article makes it sound like they are giving up on mobile in general as all the products mentioned are tablets, not handsets.

I'd be curious to see if they have any WP8 or Firefox OS products in the works.
Since you can pack ANY reasonably short text into QR codes, it works well for encoding a vCard (e.g. at the back of your business card), and we even encoded pure Perl code once for a job campaign.

So, there might be good reasons and use cases for using QR codes, but just encoding a URL probably isn't, looking at the conversion rate.
The context was that he wanted to view the interaction of the candidate with their spouse not his own spouse in order to guage/divine their personality. Dinner was just a pretext.

Sorry if that was unclear.
Hmm.. I don't agree with you. There's always going to be trollers, but look at reddit; they managed to crowdsource links. If you can crowdsource links (with all the hazzle of Indian SEO-spammers, bloggers wanting traffic and corporations wanting to push their products), lists should be do-able too. But I acknowledge there's a real challenge there, for sure. Thank you for your input :)
I do the same. However, I also view the generated PDFs in Emacs and I set it up so that the PDF-in-Emacs will auto-reload whenever the PDF changes. And I agree, refTeX is amazing and awesome!

Lately, I even left pure LaTeX and migrated to org-mode and its LaTeX/PDF-export. That is a pretty brilliant combination, I must say.

Really among the many things Emacs does, LaTeX is one thing it does exceedingly well.
This is now https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid/issues/78
It's also posible that you simply got better for a natural reason, and then rationalized the outcome post-factum.
Even works on my iPad. Color me extremely impressed!
The best medicine for depression is to imagine you were not depressed, think of what you would do, then do it. Even if it doesn't feel quite right, keep moving.

It is not always easy, but it is always the best way to move forward. Depression is a dangerous cycle. Therapy can be helpful, but it can also be debilitating by causing you to identify with your depression. The best thing a therapist can do is to push you to follow the advise above.
Nexus imagines a world that is posthuman, not transhuman
What's wrong with function objects? They're essentially functions with partial application.
What about a common "intermediary" language? Instead of writing n^2 translation algorithms, you'd only need 2n: one to translate into the intermediary, and one to translate out. Such a language would have to be incredibly flexible though; my vote is for lojban ;). Done correctly, such a system could also teach the intermediary language to the speaker during translation. Eventually people would start to forgo the translation process and simply speak the common tongue.
There's a simple cure for that: Isolationism. Simply close your borders and call it a day.
I'm hacking together something very similar to this right now, actually...have you considered doing a Pinterest for lists? Instead of the user curation component, doing more of a "make lists for me that are public on my wall"? Like, "Countries I've been To," "Movies I Want to See," "2013 New Years' Resolutions." Etc.
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Can't there be a manufacturer that would make vanilla Android like Google with the Nexus brand ?

We would need that especially when a LG can't get enough stock.
As an armchair expert, I doubt this is what the code means.

Rationale: "Short-and-Sweet", and the use three letters for at "K" sector, Normandy? Firstly, why waste a letter on 'at'? Secondly, how many "K" sectors were there where this could have been from?

Moreover, this decoding is not exactly filled with actionable info. All I get from it is "there's somebody somewhere who knows a bit about the enemy's positions". What does one expect as response? A return pigeon "please tell us more"?
There could be a Microsoft payment involved, or Dell might just be strategically deciding that they'd always be a fringe provider in the Android ecosystem.
IPhone's voice recorder. grin
Exactly. If there is evidence that Systrom did not act in the best interest of shareholders for personal gain, that would be a severe violation of is fiduciary responsibilities, and that would be the under the jurisdiction of the State of California. That is probably the only reason the state would or should be involved.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but why would anyone ever use your site?

It's well designed and does a lot of the marketing, web-design-y stuff right, but I can't see any reason why I'd be motivated to start using your service.
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> Fly the winner(s) to our office in Atlanta, GA to discuss the winning submission in details with some of the top information security experts in the world.

That may be a bit prohibitive, given that they will still have to use air travel, possibly to and at least within the USA. I figure the people that come up with a mitigation against a system like this would be very smart to stay the hell away from claiming credit for it.

And the top information security experts in the world are working for what we'll loosely designate 'the other side' here, I don't think they'll be on your discussion panel.
We use GAE for jsonengine at Hey Jimmy.
Yes, so you need to take that meta tag out of the header. Then it will look find, just really small, on a phone.
> It is very unusual in the US justice system to have a state agency do an independent investigation of a business deal to protect the interests of particular investors.

Quite the contrary. In the United States, states watch dealings like a hawk and legal opinion is that states hold the line on antitrust and other anticompetitive corporate governance issues. Federal invention is seen as supplementary here. California v. ARC America Corp. (1989), at 490 U. S. 102[1]:

> Congress intended the federal antitrust laws to supplement, not displace, state antitrust remedies.

(IANAL, etc.) I'm curious. Why do you consider this article a hit piece?

[1]: http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/490/93/case.html
Not that there was an app store to market them on when most of us were that age.
Hopefully, in the next 10-20 years, we will be able to heal spinal cord injuries.
Supposedly lavabit.com is (from the admin perspective) about as close to zero knowledge as it gets. Logs are kept for a minimum to diagnose abuse/performance issues, and crypto keys are strictly between the user and server. As I understand it, the only legal compromise would be a national security letter style gag order to alter the binary that interfaces the client (be it Outlook, your phone, or the web-mail host) to the back-end data store, which is stored encrypted on disk.

Security flaws are another thing entirely. I have no idea if anyone, aside from internal developers, has vetted the system for flaws that typically result in server compromises.

I was a satisfied free user some years ago, and the above was my understanding of the service after a few pointed queries to the support address.
I do agree that C++'s STL is sometimes too verbose.

It's important to be generic, but it'd have been great if the most common conveniences were added as well to make it pleasant to use. E.g.: erase remove idiom, count but no contains, specifying begin() and end() even when you mean the whole container, ... Anything where you need to type the variable name of your container more than once to do one operation on it.

Not just the containers and stl algorithms have that annoyance, but also the string stream operators to convert numbers to strings, this is way too verbose imho.

At least the new initializer lists make some things way more compact and convenient now :)
Did what I could within the character limit. Fair enough title considering that it affects Samsung devices (which make up a large part of the Android install base) and that it gives access to all physical memory.
My most successful application of QR codes has been on my resume. Each resume had a unique link to a page on my personal website/portfolio with some extra info (PDF download, link to github/linkedin/etc) and some analytics so I could see if it was getting any hits and what other parts of my site people were looking at.

Didn't expect much to come of it, but I ended up getting some positive remarks on it in interviews.
Didn't IBM help we know whom to sort their victims' data during the WWII? This kind of argument doesn't work.
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Something doesn't look quite right about this Yahoo hack. Yahoo doesn't store MySQL passwords in PHP source code like that. Maybe he pulled these out of something else and wrote that file himself as an odd way to show he got the passwords?

Also, the apparent SQL injection is on a yahoo.net domain which Yahoo uses for untrusted third-party stuff mostly. The fact that the error seems to be from ASP is further evidence that this is very likely some third-party hosted app that doesn't actually have much to do with Yahoo and likely poses no danger to Yahoo users beyond the ones using this particular third-party service, whatever it is.
Betteridge's law of headlines.

This article has basically zero content. Where's the full decryption? And the 'suggestions' on the right-hand-side are basically pointless. "Determined Jerry's Headquarters" - fantastic, but communicates nothing of importance to the recipient.

To me it looks like a message encrypted with a one-time pad. "PABLIZ" also looks more like PABUZ to me, which makes sense since I think they were typically broken up into five letter groups.
Ah yes, the derailleur thing sounds like the real issue that internal gearing aims to fix.
Any time you are selling or dealing with securities you need to be working closely with your lawyers.

From what I understand, Zuckerberg showed disregard to FB's board when going through this process, and it looks like Instagram's founders acted in the same manner. Sounds like they just sat around and hammered out a deal on a personal level.

That can't be the case. You have to have your board as well as lawyers involved because you could be breaking securities laws as well as breaching your fiduciary duty as a corporate director.
And the top information security experts in the world are working for what we'll loosely designate 'the other side' here

I think that would be accurate if it read:

And some of the top information security experts in the world are working for what we'll loosely designate 'the other side' here

There are some pretty goddamned smart people in the cypherpunk / hacker community, who would (and do) find this kind of surveillance crap abhorrent and who will work to resist it. I certainly would not say that all of the best people are on "the other side". Maybe time will prove me wrong, but I doubt it.
If Twitter was prepared to make a higher offer, why didn't they? There was nothing stopping them from making a pre-emptive offer. It's not Instagram's responsibility to beg for a higher offer from Twitter, especially with a higher, time-sensitive offer on the table from Facebook.

Nick Bilton is among the most respected journalists, but he's written some really questionable articles lately.
Are you claiming that Samsung doesn't make a profit off of phones like their Galaxy S3 aside from the profit on the Samsung chips inside? If that were truly the case, why would they bother making phones when they could just let others make the phones with their chips?