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The USAF's and CIA's use of drones in the Middle East has sparked the imagination across all kinds of projects such as this one. But the reality is that military-style drones that can stay aloft for days are extremely expensive to purchase and to operate. The well-known Predator drone, for example, costs $4 million per airplane, and it requires a classified global satellite network, an uplink station manned with three operators, and a deployment crew with a forward operating station. It is only cheap when compared to the absurdly high cost of manned fighter jets and spy planes.

Comparing them to what is available for civilian use is a joke. Normally what you see are shaky line-of-sight quad-copters that can stay up for 20 minutes.
I wonder which pays better, being a fall guy for News Corp or the NSA... either way, I'm sure it'll just mean one less salary to turn over at the end of the year.
I did this a while back as a test; it traveled two hours away without postage, despite both recipient names being the same.
Even if it increased the number of people paying the original listed price ($3.99) in this case to slightly >70% they would still gain less money than $5 and it would not have seemed as clean. In either case, I find it more interesting that so many people would pay money when they are not required.

Apparently even people "against humanity" still have a sense of justice.
It would probably violate multiple international treaties, but I know I'd be willing to pay $50 or so per shot, if the drone had an onboard weapon that could be aimed over IP. That would do some good in the world, and would be pretty exciting as well.

For safety, targeting could be supervised, and approval to fire issued or withheld, by the company selling the camera time. It's something that should probably be licensed by the host country, for the sake of legitimacy.
You don't have to install RVM, but it does help. It was never that difficult for me, but I use OS X for Ruby dev mostly.

And there may be a variety of ways of doing things, but that's because (1) Ruby has been more well-used than Go, and (2) it has more flexible loops, etc. to make it less verbose, and yes there are a variety of ways to add methods, attributes, etc. but after you spend a little time to understand how the Ruby object model works, you'll understand why- almost everything is an object. Also, the language has evolved, so there are some differences in syntax between 1.8 and 1.9 but you can still use 1.8 syntax in 1.9.
This same thing is used in molecular dynamics simulations. For instance, there is an algorithm called RESPA that is used to break integrations of different types of particle interactions into appropriate timestep intervals. Bond vibrations must be calculated much more frequently than non-bonded interactions.

The algorithm (reversible RESPA) is formally derived from the Liouville operator (which governs the time evolution of any property):

A(t) = exp(iLt) * A(0)

For instance, A(t) can be position or momentum. The Liouville operator must be symmetric in order to generate a reversible numerical integration algorithm.

The result of all this is basically that:

p(t + ∆t/2) = p(t) + ∆t/2 F(r(t))
r(t + ∆t) = r(t) + ∆t p(t + ∆t/2)
p(t + ∆t) = p(t + ∆t/2) + ∆t/2 F(r, t + ∆t)

where p is momentum, r is position, and F is force.
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If someone broke into an apartment lobby

Do you really face 10yrs for breaking into a hollywood apartment and releasing nude tapes you found?

I can see him going to a jail for a while, but 10 years is an awful long time for a crime that very likely didn't leave permanent damage of any kind (psychological, physical or otherwise).
There are entire websites dedicated to releasing nude photos of women without their permission. The only difference in this case is that these photos happened to feature wealthy celebrities; their media backers, as part of the effort to exploit these actresses, are calling in favors from powerful friends in the government. This is not an issue of invasions of privacy, it is a matter of the rich and powerful once again having the government serve them, while everyone else gets trampled.
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"Cognitive dissonance"? Even if I were to admit that your proposed situations was analogous -- and I don't -- you're making the dubious assumption that the majority of us believe 10 years is an appropriate sentence for the physical crime but not the virtual crime. I happen to believe 10 years would be steep (understatement) in any case and I suspect I'm not alone.
When your game does regain control, it can run the simulation for N steps (however many it usually does for the given dt), then finally render the scene using the latest state. (so the game will appear to pause, then skip ahead). Or it can try to play catch-up, it does 1 tick and render at a time, but with a reduced delay between frames until it's "caught up". (so the game will pause, then appear fast-forwarded for a bit).

Either way Tlark is right, you really don't want the game logic to be affected by framerate.
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Let me put it this way, then: I don't believe these kinds of incidents are at all common enough to make any changes to American gun laws. Your chance of getting caught up in one is statistically zero, so if people want a gun to hunt or for self defense it outweighs any safety benefit of tighter gun laws.
Aren't delaware corporations, in a certain sense, like users of a website? All you need is an email address and you can stay relatively anonymous.

It's kind of like the authentication problem online.
For other simple methods of numerical integration, look at the Trapezoidal Rule and Simpson's Rule, two staples of high school (or college) calculus.

Since we're talking about gaming, it bears noting that Box2D (and most physics engines, for that matter) uses the Semi-implicit Euler method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_Euler_method). The author of Box2D mentions that this is a better method than Verlet integration because calculating friction requires knowing velocity.
The death toll from the European wars is in the millions.

In addition to the wars per se, European governments have killed millions of their own citizens, and they've been at it for centuries.
Wow,

I had never noticed how intension, used here in "intensional definition", was a different word than intention. I wonder what percentage of people who looked at this stuff outside a formal classroom haven't been confused by this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensional_definition
This looked like a title of something I'd see in the Onion. No country can revamp cybersecurity in 5 years, especially not one as bureaucratic as India.
That's the nice thing about private security firms. They're not technically law enforcement, so there's no need for a trial.
This is the American philosophy. We've been amending The Constitution since shortly after it was created.
It's about policy and mechanism.

Let's assume for a moment that severely restricting ownership of firearms and ammunition is a good policy. The mechanism necessary to do it in the straightforward way - a constitutional amendment - is almost impossibly difficult. Perhaps a roundabout mechanism would be easier.

If that sort of thing was allowed by the courts (it isn't), similar end-runs around the constitution could be used to do things you might not be so happy about. The fourth amendment, for example says people have the right to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures". It doesn't say anything about tapping your phone or using a laser microphone on your window, but the courts have held that it means a warrant is required to do those things just as it is to search your house.

It's much easier to change policy than mechanism. You probably don't actually want a mechanism for bypassing constitutional rights at will in place.
I love the discount for them embedding your advertising on their site. Great idea. Good luck with it all.
Now that sounds like a great idea.
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Technically, the article is flawed. It's easy to make your own ammo.

I've reloaded ammunition using commercially available components (cases, bullets, primers and gunpowder). A complete black-market operation would be quite a bit harder, but not harder than say... manufacturing designer drugs.
Man who hacked celebrities sentenced to 10 years in prison
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So now that the court agrees that the sentence for hacking email is 10 years, when do we start convicting the entire NSA, AT&T, on up to the Executive head (the President) for doing this to the entire USA? If there is no conviction for these people, then he is clearly not being treated equally under the law, and deserves to be set free.
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I take issue with the suggestion that there is very little education going on, specifically with regard to Adafruit. The tutorials on the site do not go into complete depth when discussing every project they post but the content they produced sets them apart in my mind from, say, MAKE who put their content behind a paywall. They also tend to link excellent resources for addressing topics at a lower level.
I think this is actually an argument for open protocols. If Google put this clause in the terms of service for Gmail, you could switch to Yahoo! Mail, or you could switch to Fastmail.fm, or whatever else. But when it's a proprietary social network, you can't switch (in practice), because all your friends and followees are on Instagram - not the other thing that you switch to.

When services interoperate using open, decentralized protocols, competitive pressure helps keep a lot of the ugly stuff out of their Terms of Service. We all win. But with Instagram, or Twitter, or Facebook, one company has a complete monopoly on a particular combination of (functionality + approximation of social graph). Competition is locked out, and only regulation can prevent the company from doing whatever they want.
how many successful co-founders are there between 30-40?

Historically, at least, it'd be most. In Gamers at Work, Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) even noted that he was seen as being a "young" founder in Silicon Valley being in his 30s in the 1970s. What we're seeing nowadays with 20-somethings is relatively new.
Looking at this from a different point of view maybe altogether, one of the big issues I think concerning HTML5 mobile web apps (not used in a native app wrapper to get included in the appstore) is discovery.

Where do I actually find compelling mobile web app user experience when I am trying to solve a problem in my web browser as a user when I search using a search engine?

I noticed a few years ago that Google cut out their mobile only results option - and now when you search for anything on a smart phone you get a mish mash of mobile friendly and conventional web optimised results. For a little while there Google would put a little mobile icon next to mobile optimized results - but that has gone too. I know perhaps the point of mobile is moot now - since we have a sizeable amount of tablets accessing websites too. But just in my own personal research all my friends who aren't techy say they much prefer sites that look right on their 'touch' (be it mobile or tablet). For instance, is there even such a thing as a 'mobile web app store' out there?

If consumers had an easier way of finding great mobile web apps perhaps this would grow this channel? I'd be interested in perspectives on this - maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way.

I'd also like to make the case that I think HTML5 will continue to make a very important contribution moving forward - why? Because as we get more devices, it's really starting to get silly how many apps I constantly need updated and feel like I need syncing. I think as prices come down we will find ourselves with several devices for home, out and about and at work - using the 'fat client' model of installing all these apps just gets annoying.
That's interesting, if also a bit antiseptic. I think trying to describe spirituality in such a bracketed, mathematical way is a smidge like trying to describe an emotion with an equation.

It doesn't describe what spirituality means to oneself -- which, from person to person, can mean many different things.

After all, isn't spirituality really all about personal meaning?
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Why start with Backbone.js? Why not use AngularJS instead and decrease implementation time? The primary reason to use backbone would be that you are trying to retrofit some existing page or services, and if you are doing that, you are going to spend a hell of a lot of time that you could just spend rewriting it all in angular and have less code when you are done.
Much of the cost of a Predator is because it's a weapon. That's not to say there is an abundance of excellent drones for civilian purchase, but I don't think they would need to be terribly expensive.
Also true of many awards for companies, like "[$someMagazine]'s 10 Top Companies in Biotechnology". There are even cases where companies have to pay to be considered for such awards. I think a lot of people know that too but the awards are still considered reasonably prestigious.
Given the amount of publicity this is getting, I would argue it will be a net positive. It will provide a strong deterrent to people hacking celebrities in the future.
This sentence is everything wrong with the American justice system. I do NOT want my tax payer dollars to be spent keeping a hacker in jail along with with murderers and rapists.

Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton drive around coked up and drunk and get either probation or a 1 month/1 year sentence but someone hacking a phone (who doesn't endanger anyone's life) gets 10 years???
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I was hoping for a new Alternate Reality Game, along the lines of I Love Bees [1] or The Beast [2]. Advertising or not, some of this "viral marketing" can produce large, immersive narratives.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(game)
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Guess it varies, according to this report from the Post Office in 2001 https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/pubs/ar01_01.pdf there are both shorter and longer sentences handed out.

I really can't speak for the judicial system of course, I do know that people I've talked to about this case see "email" as being less "real" than physical mail, and I also have spoken to people who have had their mail stolen and used against them. It is hard to be dispassionate about relative punishment in that case.

It may be that if someone stole your mail and published it you would just laugh it off. This guy took it a bit further than that I would say.

And just for context, in California at least since our prisons are over full, the most this guy would serve would be 5 years, and then he'd be eligible for parole in 18 months, less time off for good behavior. I don't know if Florida has similar issues but there are times in the California system where the goal is to have the person spend at least some time in jail and that sometimes requires a longer than expected sentence. (No idea at all if that is the case in Florida though)
Backbone is not like Sinatra. Backbone is a hell of a lot more work than Sinatra. Backbone is a framework that more easily can fit atop existing design and services, however it takes so much time and in the end you just have even more complex spaghetti for someone else to maintain when you leave.
You should consider featuring a free preview somewhere prominently on the page. Most people won't think to click your RSS button to find them. I know it says "free videos" right there on the button, but it's still very easy to miss.
I too think that the sentence was extremely harsh, but people can and sometimes do remain permanently traumatized after having nude pictures of themselves posted for the entire world to see.

Just because someone is a celebrity, doesn't mean that he or she wouldn't feel violated, humiliated, or degraded by such an experience. Supposedly the reason that the White Stripes stopped touring was because Meg kept having severe anxiety attacks on stage. This started happening shortly after someone released a sex tape that supposedly featured her. So basically, whether or not it was actually her in the video, the idea that everyone thought it was traumatized her so much that she couldn't even show up to work without having a panic attack. That seems pretty severe to me.

It's also important to note that there are teenagers who have attempted / succeeded in killing themselves as a result of having their private pictures being released.

I think that 10 years is too much, but I don't think for a second that it wasn't a serious crime.
I don't think you can argue for democracy and then complain when the countries elect people you disaprove of.
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having lived in louisville, i can say it's extremely difficult to do things without a car. i lived there without a car for several years. it was do-able, but i was dependent on friends to drive me places every once in a while. also, it's the mid-west so when people find out you don't have a car, they treat you like a space-alien.
It's a very well thought out article and for that reason I really, really think you should consider changing the title. You were not almost Adam Lanza because you did not almost go to an elementary school in Newtown CT and kill 20 children. You may have almost been driven to murder or violence, but that's different. I know your intention with the article was good and I did enjoy reading it, but I can't help but feel like the title is using the name of an absolute monster to drive click traffic and that does not sit well with me at all.
Perpetuity is a funny word when it comes to the law. In hindsight site it always seems to be a synonym for convenient.
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I don't know if my story is same as yours but I have gone through a similar phase in my life. I started programming in 2001 as a student, continued doing it for 2 years in my job at one of the largest IT company in India. Programming was fun. Back then I was able to code all day without getting bored. There was no time and motivation to do things like watching movies, dating, etc. which other people of my age found a fun thing to do. As a student I found it great to do technical things my peers(or even teachers) weren't able to do and I liked when they called me a "hacker". As an employee I found it very satisfying to find solutions to problems that no one else in my team was able to do. Then after 2-3 years at job, things changed. I lost my interest in coding. I was not happy anymore. I got depressed. Why?

After few months of soul searching I found the reason. My excellence at programming was due to external motivation - to be recognized and applauded by peers. When I got that I lost my motivations to do that. Given the quality of work done in big Indian IT companies it was really difficult to find people who were better than me. I was thinking about it in a wrong way. I needed to change myself, my goals and vision. I did that. I asked myself what I want from life? I learned all that I wanted was to do something meaningful with it. I don't need the recognition and applauds from others but I need to feel that I am making good use of my life to contribute something back to the world. I realized I never loved programming itself but I did it for other reasons - to get recognized by peers. I changed my reason to do it. I now do it to create value. I now do it to make things that people need. I now do it to make a small part of world better. I feel better when I know that my work is creating value for someone.

I don't love programming anymore. I don't need to but I can find it very satisfying to do things that are even more boring to do than programming if it helps me in achieving what I want - "Creating Value". It doesn't matter what others think about it. I need to feel that I made a contribution.

My suggestion - Start Contributing.
I just had a realization on why people may consume like this.

People spend so much time working hard instead of doing what they really want to, because it is expected of them. By consuming they feel their work was worth it and it is the only way they can avoid the dread that they have wasted their lives not following their dreams?
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As a US citizen, the culture here is one of retributive justice. Most couldn't care less if the indicted person was reformed, what they care about is that they suffer. Watch any highly emotional event that takes precedence in American media like this weeks shootings. Look at how the public responded by calling the person the devil and that he should rot in hell for eternity. They don't even realize that their mentality is partly to blame for what is happening.
>aren't a lot of people who have jail-broken iOs devices, already by definition people who want paid apps for free?

Careful not to fall into the trap of conflating jailbreaking with piracy. There are many, many good reasons to JB not even counting apps that end in -ous. Google voice and SMS extensions, f.lux, theming support, wifi tethering, and a great deal more low level customization than Apple gives you.
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Punishments in the US are not proportional to the crime committed, nor are they deterrent. They are simply a factor of who lobbied the government at that time to pass those laws. In some sense, they are random.

Sometimes, punishments for violent crimes are lower than those for downloading songs/movies or some victimless crimes like recreational drugs.
Paul, thank you for taking the time to write this. I appreciate it.
The numbers are correct, but it was written in an odd way. Grovers algorithm gives a speedup of sqrt(n), so the exponent gets halved.
Google was not even close to being the first to give away services. Hotmail and Yahoo mail were around before Google even existed. And that's just the first two that came to mind.
For starters, psychiatrists in the US could show a little more compassion that what I have heard countless times: the patient is fit into a limited diagnosis of illness, given pills, and told to come back in two weeks.

Psychiatry and psychology are not practiced that way in most of the Western world. There's a much stronger emphasis on psychotherapy and talk therapy and an understanding that it can take a damn long time to help a patient in distress.
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The lesson here is clear: if you have money, there is no such thing as crime. If you don't have money, like this guy, then even if you plead guilty you get years in prison.

HSBC can aid terrorists and launder money from drug cartels and pay a fine. Goldman Sachs knowingly sells junk to their clients, minimizing their own exposure to the financial crisis, and gets a bailout.

Fuck this shit.