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In Kay's Smalltalk, humans never saw code like that in the article: they defined classes, variables and methods through a graphical interface. The verbose syntax was for computers to read, when you saved code on one machine and loaded it on another. Humans only had to write this stuff after Gnu released a text-only interpreter; the subset of Smalltalk syntax that was originally intended for human use is pretty clear.
You're putting words in his mouth. Having an awareness of what others have said or thought in the past is not incompatible with thinking for yourself. There may not be much value in repeating what other people say, but there often is value in hearing it.
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Maybe there are other forces? Like air friction? I'm just guessing.
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In a way, the most effective use of this money would be to alert the target well in advance, in fact, before they even go hunting is best. Spend the bulk of the money on advertising the use of these drones, produce a couple of "hits" for the technology (even if the hits are, shall we say, lightly staged), and you will probably get better results that simply pouring all the money into actual drones.

You can't skip that step or the deception will be found out, but you sure could magnify your investment.
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That being said I've never felt hate here for being who I am. And I can say the same for virtually every where else I've been throughout my life, regardless of where or what context--with the exception of one place -- Santa Cruz, CA
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I was going to say that I found this entirely improbable, until:

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If you want to feel hated, and I mean something on the verge of knowing some of the people hating you have lynch mob like ideas entering their mind, go walking down Pacific Ave in Downtown Santa Cruz as a "Mormon" (LDS) Missionary (I imagine it could be even worse now post Prop. 8).
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Yea no shit. Try walking down Main Street urban USA in your white sheet and clan outfit an see what kind of reaction you get.

If people were hating on you, and I have no problem believing that you may have been followed, harassed and even threatened, it is not because of you as a human, but you as a representative of an oppressive, smug, petty, abusive and racist proselytizing space ship fantasy land thy wants to impose your particular lunacy on the rights of others.

So yea, I can believe that Santa Cruz would not be best pleased with you.

May e if you'd offered to smoke pot with people there...
No, but most of these founders are from an incubator like TechStars or YC. The lists are usually created by reaching out to a few key people and asking for recommendations.
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I don't know if this counts, When I first heard about zappos I admired their culture and saw some vidoes of Tony Hsieh on youtube. In a video he mentioned about the culture book of zappos. Then I sent him a email, asking I'm in India can I get one. In a few hours, his assistant replied on his behalf, I got the book in a few days by air mail.

I'm from India, never bought anything from them, It is possible I never will, but I've said this story to atleast 10 people after that. This is the positive side of unconditionally being kind to people.
I hope this will reduce incidents like these[0].

My fear is that it might be too little too late.

[0] http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-99386/seven-rhinos-is...
No I couldn't switch, unfortunately my username is at gmail.com, I don't get to chose to change providers and keep that same address.

You can forward it you say, sure I can, but at that point Google still gets to use my information as it pleases.
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Alternate title: Google Invests $5M in Spy Drones
[meteor dev] Meteor + Mongo may be a good choice for you. The leaderboard example at http://www.meteor.com/examples/leaderboard already has a lot of what you need. The trick is figuring out how to identify each client: whether you have users log in or just assign a unique ID to each client.
Just to play devil's advocate, open protocols, standards etc are hard to arrive at when there are competing business interests [1][2].

Also centralized systems make for less complexity. For example, despite having a standard for almost all major programming languages like C,C++ et al, if you want to compile your program using multiple compilers you have to put in some hours.

[1]http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch17s02.html

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars
It would be "pretty exciting" to kill humans rather than arrest them and bring them to justice?

I don't think there's anything you could ever say to justify that position. It gives me the impression that you're a maniac.
That's an argument for custom domains: if your email address is [yourname]@[yourdomain].com, it's easy to switch from Google Apps to a different provider.

Finding a way to make that a viable option for non-techies is, sadly, an exercise left for the reader.
Thanks for explaining all this.

The reason I brought up Merkle puzzles is because they depend on a symmetric cipher or one-way hash function, giving them one foot in that first category.
I think you're looking at it from a volume vs percentage aspect, in which you are correct, whereas what the commenter really meant is that startups are far more volatile and likely to fail.
That's pretty vicious.

If we want to make a less violent world, we need less violent people. Will you add yourself to the target list?
The government isn't exactly known for procuring things at an economical price or designing for efficiency. I mean just look at the cost difference between a space shuttle launch vs SpaceX.
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This is true. Also, a dictatorship is much simpler than a democracy, and easier to bring about.
So? You picked out one thing that everyone has had their entire life to think about and conflated it with things that have happened since Friday.

(That I can get a downvote for pointing that out shows how irrational people are on this issue. They can't take a breath and realize that I probably lean toward their side.)
If they're taking an average over the Earth's entire history, and the actual distribution of impacts over time is not uniform (as seems likely), that might explain the discrepancy. Though in that case it seems odd that they would use that average to predict a probability going forward.
Maybe, instead of universal healthcare, we could have a program that tried to fix people that were a danger to society? It would function like a cross between police and public broadcasting, both things already accepted by mostly everyone.
Unlike what you posted, the OP's engine runs fast and touch input actually works on my nexus 7.

I know that chrome for android is quite behind, but still.
If it's "standard", why is Google not doing it/doing it half-assed with Android? I think that's my entire point, which you continue to ignore.

I don't know of an Android version on any device that isn't rooted. There might be a few in the small minority, though. Most every bootloader, with the exception of several Motorola bootloaders, has been cracked/unlocked, etc.
I would love to be able to work in realtime (a la Etherpad) with someone else - would take pairing to a whole new level. Also, style management could quickly get messy - I know you are trying to keep the UI as simple as possible, but I would love to be able to quickly toggle between HTML and CSS on different tabs (instead of scrolling).
please do. i'd contribute more in response to encourage you, but anything i have to say on the topic is something i've drawn from my own processes and probably not worth discussing until i've at least done Wikipedia on it. and it's not really a topic i've heard discussed before, even in the context of "genius". though that is the context in which i've pieced them together. disclaimer IANAG
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Look again. Finding a collision in a hash function with n possible values takes an expected number of guesses proportional to sqrt(n). If n = 2^256, then sqrt(n) = (2^256)^(1/2) = 2^(256/2) = 2^128.
They are supposed to double check--see Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.. When a person who is not a public figure is defamed, the plaintiff only has to show that the defendant was negligent in making his defamatory statements, rather than the standard of recklessness to which he would be held in a case involving a public figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertz_v._Robert_Welch,_Inc.
Not at the moment. But it's something that's easy enough that it'll just make it into a release before we officially plan it.
I think you mean control of your data, rather than open protocols. For example, you can still access your Gmail via IMAP.

It would be great if users could have a decentralized store of the private data, and merely gave websites or applications access to the data. Unfortunately this is a privacy geek's pipe dream, as data hosting costs and complexity would result in low adoption rates (e.g. setting up your own OAuth server).

On a side note, this is a another area where Google+ falls behind Facebook. Facebook is a platform for other apps. Sometimes this results in stuff like Zynga spam, but there are good use cases such as allowing Twitter / Instagram apps to post in more than one location. Vic Gundotra has stated in interviews that Google wants a single conversation thread rather than have it fractured across different platforms, but that strategy is an all or nothing approach and they're late to the social networking game.
Sorry to hear about your problem. Three thoughts that hopefully can help you

1. Heard this from a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk on depression that made a lot of sense to me: "Nothing can grow without food - stop feeding your depression and start feeding something that you want for yourself - health, wellness, happiness"

2. Another good advise I heard from a noble guy on depression - get out of yourself and try to do something good for someone else. you will see something shift inside you and you will feel better. Service is something that can instantly get you out of your depression

3. Try to find a community where you can visit and interact with people. Human contact and personal interaction (not online) can make a lot of difference

Hope this helps and good luck
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Yes and no. I believe 10 years is obviously a bit much in this case, but if you tweak the variables a bit, this sort of thing can be tantamount to a sexual assault.

Imagine it's your sister or girlfriend involved, and the pictures are splashed across Facebook by an ex-boyfriend.

In this case, the victims are certainly less sympathetic, but the principle is basically the same.

It reminds me a bit of this Hunter Moore business:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890088
Modern harddrives and SSDs do a lot of work internally, SSDs especially. Probably the most important thing that an SSD does is wear-levelling, keeping an internal map of sectors and remapping them to ensure equal wear (so the OS never knows which sector it's actually writing to). This makes file system choice nearly inconsequential on a modern SSD (this doesn't apply to flash drives and flash cards though). The only important thing is TRIM, which should be enabled by default on nearly everything (just ensure that AHCI is set in the bios, and not IDE-Mode).
Is your pricing per order basis or total volume per month?
I'm experiencing some wonderment, does that count?
In this book Interface Culture, Steven Johnson argues that Apple's OS X (back in 1999 or so) was as significant a cultural contribution as.... Sgt. Pepper by the Beatles

That's back when Apple made everything 3-Dish and liquid and transparent. It did indeed change a whole 5-year chunk of UI designs. Maybe it was even the first skeumorphism...it looks like water

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)
Eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind, buddy
People seem to be focusing on this 10 year number and being really upset, but I'm wondering if anyone actually read the article. The article claims he had access to 50 email accounts and plead guilty to 9 counts of various charges. A linked document mentioned something about a "28-count superseding indictment", which I won't claim to understand. However, the point is, most people here appear, to me at least, that they think it's 1 person's email that he got access to. It's a little bit more than that.
Doesn't work with mobile Firefox, at least not on my tablet. Would be a dealbreaker for me, obviously.
The US spends about $52 Billion on people in prison. There are about 2.3 million people in US prisons, with nearly 5 million people on parole.

The reason isn't because the US puts more people per year into prison; the reason is that the US keeps people in prison for so long.

The incredibly high prison rate has other weird effects. People are expected to die in prison but prison guards are not trained to deal with people at end of life. Dementia in particular is difficult for anyone to deal with.

I found this article moving:

Life, With Dementia
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dement...)

And here's another article about prison hospice:

(http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1121-prison-hospice-...)

We know that prison doesn't work for most prisoners. So why do we spend so much money keeping people there? (There are some people who deserve to be in jail, and who cannot live in wider society.)
As long as that person was from a relatively low class.
Well, a bunch of reasons:

First and foremost -- 1) Like Google it has a "see no evil" business model. ("If humans aren't in the approval loop, we're not responsible.")

2) Its behavior as a company is generally reprehensible (e.g. strong-arming state governments into not collecting sales taxes -- it wants to have its cake and eat it w.r.t. affiliate marketing)

3) Its business models reek of dumping (using profits in one domain to unfairly compete in others). The main difference is Amazon doesn't actually make profits, so it's burning investor capital to win new markets so it can burn more investor capital to win even more new markets, etc. (It will make it up on volume...) The fact that investors buy into this is odd, to say the least, but it's still pretty odious.

4) as a small publisher, I'm still ticked off by the way it allegedly "competes" in the ebook market. (Kindles are the hardest ebook readers on which to read ePubs, KDP does not in fact pay competitive royalties, but Amazon has bamboozled the tech press into believing it does, and even seems to have several governments helping it maintain its near monopoly on epublishing.)

5) Then there's the whole fulfilment / outsourcing thing (e.g. see here http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f... and the linked articles -- if you think Walmart screws its employees, Amazon et al are far worse).
The DIY electronics movement is entering an incredible phase, similar to what happened to the Internet during the post-boom decade. Companies like Amazon, Google, Twilio, WordPress and others made it easy for non-techies to build awesome applications. Now projects like Arduino, Electric Imp, Little Bits, and Raspberry Pi are doing the same for electronics. You can make a great project without needing to be an electrical engineer. The Internet gave the masses the power of communication and information. DIY electronics are giving the masses the power to build the world around them. Adafruit (and sparkfun!) are bringing that incredible tech to the world.
Wow. He might have received less time for attempted murder [1]

http://themercury.com/articles/man-gets-5-years-for-murder-a...
Does this happen with the Humble Indie Bundles? The default price is $25. I wonder if they could release some payment statistics if that was an abnormally highly paid rate.
The idea of HTML5 is to avoid using JS in your app.
Github uses Campfire. http://zachholman.com/2011/01/automating-inefficiencies/
Thank you for a thoughtful and probing post. It is bold to write on a spiritual topic to this audience. I don't usually talk at length about spiritual matters, but everyone else here seems to be doing so and so I think it's appropriate.

I would like to talk about one idea you brought up: the idea that the Christian Gospel involves some sort of coercion. In particular, the little story you told about God vs. the devil.

This is what the gospel says. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16

We're sinking in quicksand. God reached out His hand to save us. But if we refuse, we will die. Does that make God a monster?

Indeed, if you refuse God's love, the consequences are not good. If you refuse my offer of a kidney transplant to you, the consequences are not good. Does that mean I'm raping you by offering to save your life?

Please do not blame God that there are people in hell. God doesn't use hell as an instrument of coercion. We sink into hell under the weight of our own evil. We put ourselves there. We wouldn't be happy in heaven, if we don't like God's rules here on earth.

But God loved us even though we could not repay him in the least. He is rich in mercy. God gave the world an unspeakably wonderful gift that we can never, ever repay. Jesus Christ took my hell upon himself. He took all the punishment I deserved on Himself. How can I repay that? That's the essence of unconditional love. And He offers this gift to you.

Christ is my brother, my friend. He died for me. He forgives my sins against Him and helps me every day with my pride and my bent toward sin. Do you realize this is not a game? He has seen what you wrote -- don't you think it hurts Him?

I'm genuinely confused why you insert such strong language in a thoughtful post about loving life and valuing the right things. If you disagree with the Gospel, feel free to say so. But why do you want to vilify the God I love, call Him "the devil," call Him a rapist? He is grieved by these remarks. I am grieved as well.

I will pray for you. You seem to be lashing out at God with the grief and difficulty you have experienced. That's an awful place to be in. I know from personal experience that my words are not able to help you, but God is able to help you. I hope that some day, you believe in Christ and come to understand that Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. No one can go to God the Father except through Him.
SpaceX's 2010 technology sure kicks NASA's 1975 technology's butt. Look, I love Elon Musk and SpaceX as much as the next guy but probably most of the cost advantage has to do with improved technology (especially materials science).
A few years back my physical mail was stolen and discovered in the backpack of somebody they arrested. At the USPS's request, I sent in a statement saying, yes, that was the Christmas card from my brother, and no, I didn't give it to the accused. Eventually I got a letter saying the accused was sentenced to 3 years.
I would be very angry. I would want the person to understand just how distressing their actions had been. I would want them to feel sorry for what they had done, and I would want them to know that this is not something that they will ever do again. I would want the person to make some kind of restitution.

Putting that person in prison achieves none of that.

Obviously, that's just my personal opinion, and I kind of understand that other people feel differently.
Imagine it's your sister or girlfriend involved...

If that's what justifies this degree of sentence, then I despair for our justice system (more than before). The principle you say is "basically the same," implies the standard should be "taking it personally." However, Lady Justice wears a blindfold as a symbol against just this reasoning.
The cultures of the world that live the longest do not do organized exercise: http://blog.ted.com/2010/01/06/how_to_live_to/

Going to the gym is largely an Americanism. Not exactly a culture I'd want to emulate for healthiness.

Consistent movement is much more healthy than sporadic bouts of high intensity. Walking everywhere is just about the healthiest thing you can do.
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"Some magazine made a list somewhere"

Lists like this for magazines and are obviously a well thought out strategy to build circulation. This year the Forbes list has even been expanded into more categories so more people can have a feather in their cap. Press releases will be issued and every small town newspaper in america repeats the info about how some person made the list in Forbes. And here on Hacker News (note pg comment on this thread with congratulations confirming the authority and importance of all of this) as well as blogs and other news site that need some fresh material.

The one question that isn't answered anywhere, that I can find, is who are the "panel of expert judges" that helped the Forbes people with the choices? That's certainly relevant.
Wow Amazon customer service is amazing.
That depends on if you need multiple cars to get other tasks done in your life. In some areas, you can get by with zero cars. Others with one for multiple people. Louisville is not a place easy to get by with no car.
Thank you so much for putting your time into this. This is a great way to learn programming and I will be sure to follow it!
According to Elon Musk the biggest single difference is the economic incentives of fixed priced bids (SpaceX) versus cost+ bids (traditional aerospace).

With traditional NASA bidding procedures there are very few to no incentives to contains costs. Military procurement has the same issue, combined with stringent requirements that preclude off the shelf for virtually anything. (Off the shelf is not, of course, an option for SpaceX. But if it was, they would likely consider it!)
I got maybe half your point though I'm not quite sure what your objection is.

"Holding users firmly by the balls in the cloud"? If your service already resides in the cloud, the technology you implement your client software in, hardly matters, no? Facebook app, whether is HTML5 or native, is largely unusable without a persistent internet connection. Yes, I am interested in doing less work. I do care about standards, thanks. I certainly wouldn't stand in the way of anyone wanting to learn whatever they want. If you want to build an app to learn Objective-C, all the power to you.
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