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What exactly makes it impractical to do powerful things? You may have disdain for certain language features but I don't understand how that makes it impractical.

Most of the tech demo's we're seeing coming out of the JS crowd are from people who have only just started using the WebGL API (which is still experimental). I'm extremely excited to see the things that experienced OpenGL developers will be able to do as the API becomes more mainstream.
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OK, so the link you provided is a gross simplification of current thinking. Government officials have been quite clear that CNE[1] is NOT generally considered an act of war, rather, it's part of the usual intelligence operations expected during peacetime.

It's CNA (e.g. operations designed specifically to disrupt or destroy civilian or military targets) which is "on the table" for act-of-war status, particularly if there is kinetic effect. An example would be if something like Stuxnet were deployed against the U.S. power grid.

The idea is that it doesn't matter whether a power plant was disabled via a bomb or a backdoor. Both the intent and the outcome are the same. So the declaration of policy you linked to is really a clarification rather than a "change of course".

The lines are blurry when it comes to CNE and critical infrastructure. The problem you have is that if, say, 3 competing agencies are all vying for control of the same powerplant for CNE reasons (e.g. not trying to cause damage), the plant might nonetheless get taken out by accident. I'm not sure anyone is clear on what to do in that kind of a situation.

[1] We can divide "cyber" operations into the following categories (straight from wikipedia):

* Computer Network Attack (CNA): Includes actions taken via computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy the information within computers and computer networks and/or the computers/networks themselves.

* Computer Network Defense (CND): Includes actions taken via computer networks to protect, monitor, analyze, detect and respond to network attacks, intrusions, disruptions or other unauthorized actions that would compromise or cripple defense information systems and networks. Joint Pub 6.0 further outlines Computer Network Defense as an aspect of NetOps

* Computer Network Exploitation (CNE): Includes enabling actions and intelligence collection via computer networks that exploit data gathered from target or enemy information systems or networks.
Impact of Globalization on Agile Manifesto
Great, now these Chinese hackers will be more careful in the future and harder to track.
What's the buzz about GVO?
Does having more data allow you to make better decision?
It makes things more difficult, but not "good luck getting a job." I have a friend who did quite a few years time for drug dealing. After he got out, he got an engineering degree, got married, and has a well-paying job. I think it's more about your attitude: if you seem like a quasi-criminal, people will be reluctant to hire you. In my friend's case, he found God while in jail, which resulted in his complete change in attitude.
For anyone interested, p7zip set for -mx9 got the file down to 2.72GB on my Mac.
A cell is a physical system. A physical system can either:

1) Be sufficiently large that quantum effects are irrelevant, like a billiard ball, and thus it can be modeled deterministically inside of a computer. The Tegmark paper proposes this is how the brain works.

2) Rely on quantum mechanical effects (which are non-deterministic, but can still be simulated inside a computer if you trust a computer's opinion of "random"). Penrose, Searle, etc. would argue otherwise, that there's a method to the madness, and that there's something "special" about the quantum mechanical effect on microtubules. We still don't understand quantum mechanics very well, so if human consciousness really relies on quantum mechanics, there is arguably a bit of wiggle room here, especially if you're a physicist of the same caliber as Penrose.

Microtubules are specifically of interest because they're one of the few brain structures small enough to arguably be subject to quantum mechanical events.

Tegmark argues that they're not small enough and that it's irrelevant.

The real question is:

Is it possible to simulate a brain within a computer?

- not -

Is it really hard? Is it too hard for modern technology? Is this problem simply too complex for us to understand? Do we lack the technology to build sufficient understanding today? Etc. Etc.

This article is claiming it's IMPOSSIBLE to simulate a brain within a computer. Proving that is a tall order.
My version's far more embarrassing. I go to a real life colleague of mine because I couldn't figure it out for the life of me, and as I explain it to them, I come to the answer myself in the middle of explaining it to them.

So I succeed in wasting my colleagues time and making myself look like an idiot.
I don't remember specifically, but that'd be my guess. Non-root users in containers have been fine for a while now.
>FX-8350 is a 32nm part.

My bad.

>AMD part has 1.2B transistors on a 315mm^2 die and the Intel part has 1.16B transistors on a 216mm^2 die

Yeah, I recently read somewhere that AMD significantly improved die area and power consumption of next FX cpu by using tools from graphics division. So it looks like the difference is not only in Intel's process advantage.
To be honest, I think anyone who believes 67% of college graduates should or at least will naturally be women, will be having these conversations consistently anyway, regardless of the merit of the argument.

But I agree with your last point, in that it CAN suck to be anyone in any industry. So there's a point of agreement. :) And I'm finished with this thread.
why didn't the camera man zoom out when he was showing the demo. really frustrating.
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There is a lot more to running a successful business than dev cost A and price B. and this is why so many Chinese clones fail
Hats off to your friend. In my opinion, he's earned it 10 times over. Because I guarantee you it was 10 times harder for him to get that degree than it was for the kid who walked the straight and narrow throughout high school and never deviated from the beaten path.

Many kids have a change in attitude when they go to jail. The problem is, society will never change its attitude towards them. Once a felon, always a felon.
Otherwise you do not have enough traffic to justify $240k.
Are the health insurance benefits group or individual? If it's group, are you aggregating everyone into a pool that's >50 people in size, or is each startup it's own group?

If it's individual, what are you doing with the people in a startup that are considered uninsurable (it's not 2014 yet so no guaranteed insurance). Some states, like MN with it's MCHA program, have guaranteed-issue pools for people who are denied, but that's only about 25% of states. Are you limiting your exposure to those states till 2014?

I've spent a lot of time in the health insurance/health care space, so I can appreciate the complexity in the benefits market. My last startup, Bloom Health, was in a similar space (defined contribution health plans for small employers) and we sold to Wellpoint, HCSC, and BCBS of MI in 2011. We started with individual plans, but eventually switched to group plans because the individual space was just too hard without PPACA in place. Lots of opportunities here now that it's almost 2014 and Obama has been re-elected. Good luck!
I've had the same sentiment for many years... Linux is indeed a miracle.

But after spending a lot of time with it recently (e.g. getting LXC running last night), I've concluded that it would be very hard to design a system with a security API that is worse than Linux.

The issue is that Linus doesn't design ANYTHING. He doesn't believe in design; he only believes in evolution.

Unix was designed, whereas Linux is mostly a bunch of code bolted on top of Unix. It's not sustainable in the long term. Someone needs to actually design something eventually, so there is a stable base for more evolution.

Spend some time looking through these:

- traditional Unix ACL-based security
- traditional resource limits
- chroot (not secure, but used as a "part" of many security solutions)
- capabilities
- seccomp
- LSM-based
- SELinux
- AppArmor
- ...
- LXC
- cgroups
- namespaces (apparently completed with this kernel release)
- LXC user space tools
- ptrace sandboxing
- (at least a dozen projects use this)
- user mode linux

And you'll realize it's just a huge mess. I'm sure the complexity makes Linux measurably more insecure in practice. Or it just provides employment for a lot of people -- who knows.

There's never going to be a way to clean this all up, since people are relying on all of it.

I don't have that much experience with the alternatives; I'm sure they're messy in their own right. (I've used many OSes, but not security-wise.) But this definitely has me looking towards FreeBSD and such. Too bad it is more expensive on EC2.

I mentioned Minix 3 here before -- it's probably a pipe dream, but being a microkernel, it seems like a good basis for a future secure Unix. It actually was designed in some sense.

From what I gather people take the existence of root escalation exploits on Linux for granted. If that weren't so (and it shouldn't be with a microkernel), then traditional Unix security might actually cover a lot of cases that all these hacks on top are patching up.

EDIT: Also, Linux should look to DJB for guidance. Out of all the hairiniess, how do you even do this on Linux (or any Unix)? http://cr.yp.to/unix/disablenetwork.html It just seems crazy.
The Crawfordian particle is discovered.
Bombardier to test electric buses that charge wirelessly
May be, not will be. Even the article you linked to is clear on that. The point is that attacks on US infrastructure using computers will not automatically be treated as less severe than dropping bombs simply by virtue of how they were carried out. That doesn't come anywhere near "all hacking == war".
We support CA only right now (insurance laws, broker licensing, quotes and enrollment rules being different across states), but will be expanding slowly to other states.

PS: And the server should be unmelted as of now. :)
even with proper browser support, websockets are fairly flaky. there's all kinds of issues with firewalls/proxies that can present problems.

i've been working on an app recently that was (hoping) to implement websockets, but at this stage it seems xhr-polling is still the best bet...
A newsfeed with ranking is a bit far off a space shuttle.
Wow, I am a big fan of bloom health (zenefits cofounder here), and would love to meet / talk! (you can reach me at parker [at] zenefits.com

It's small-group right now, each company is its own group. Right now we are CA only but plan to expand rapidly in other states -- although it might take quite some time before we're everywhere.
You can talk about happiness, but even the poorest people in the US still have access to basic sanitation and clean drinking water, and (usually) a roof over their head which is not something you can say for many poor people of the world.
Nice one, indeed!
Hello people, The author of the app here. Would appreciate any feedback and comments. Thanks...
Mandiant also released a video which is a screen capture of an alleged Chinese hacker ('doda') at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p7FqSav6Ho

edit: One quick conclusion. it looks like their teams are segmented - you have the guys like Doda who are doing the grunt work of sending out the emails and extracting information. These guys get discovered. Who isn't being discovered are the tools and exploit writers, a much more interesting target to uncover. Doda doesn't seem to be a terribly sophisticated hacker, he looks like an ordinary computer user that has been trained to use the tools.

Using emails with sequential ID's in them and opening your own computer up to being owned suggests further that he isn't very sophisticated.
Please please don't use google recaptcha at least for audio, it is completely unintelligible [0].
I think speech parsing is an easy problem compare to CV for computers that's why recaptcha audio has been made difficult to the point that both (or at least) human and computer alike cannot understand it. Machines have passed turing Test in speech it seems.

[0]:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/recaptcha...

Edit: Never assume that a person with audio recaptcha need would not be visiting your site; people with different needs are more daring and frequent on internet than in real world.
I dunno. Where I live, most farms are run by small family-owned corporations. I know many farmers. I also think that giving a corporation essentially market power over growing crops is deeply misguided.
War over the Soul of Science
http://www.target.com/p/batman-sheet-set-twin/-/A-13999144

Sorry, it had to be done.
Don’t be stupid, let me see your demo
Memorizing vocabulary for the sat is like learning to drive a car
If you try to explain the problem to your colleague in an e-mail instead of in person, you can avoid sending the e-mail if the answer comes to you in mid-explanation. I can't even count how many bugs I've solved this way.
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I've been a bit more of a lurker than a participant here for a few years, but the agency I work at does do projects of this nature, specializing in local business: http://www.formicmedia.com/ .

If your friend is also considering keeping the project in-house, he or she may be interested in checking out more information at the URLs below to get more of an idea of the types of processes involved.

SEO:
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

PPC:
http://www.ppchero.com/ppc-heros-beginners-guide-to-ppc/

https://www.facebook.com/business/connect

http://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375470?hl=en&r...

Good luck in your search!
Fact: The poor in US would actually be amazingly rich in a country like mine(India).

Add to this you also get something called social security.

Where exactly are the poor in the US?
A metaphor for what? What's the loaded gun?
I never got into C because of books like "Expert C Programming"[0], knowing they exist tells me that theres a ton of "gotchas", and life is too short for that if I'm not really crazy about it in the first place.

Then again, as far as actual grammars go, I've heard C++ is bad enough that the compilers are the standard, and that if you want to be "compliant" with real world C++ code you copy every feature [1] of GCC.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...

[1]: ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/rsx11freewarev2/rsx81b/374001/jargon.txt
Some breeds of dogs are very good listeners. I've heard of libraries where they occasionally have a dog around for children to read to: it apparently is a good experience to learn to read by reading out loud to a patient listener.

I've wanted to have a code dog for a long time. I'd invite the bug hound over and explain my code to it.
> In particular, we talked about Intel and AMD. He claimed that if AMD's architecture was produced using Intel's fabs, the chips would be better than Intel's.

I would have believed this maybe 4 or 5 years ago, but these days I don't think that's the case anymore. There was a time maybe 7 or 8 years ago when AMD was hands down better, then Intel started doing good work with the original Core 2 and then Nehalem, innovating on both the architecture and process sides. Now AMD is kind of where Pentium 4 Prescott was in that their latest architecture has to be pumped up to insanely high clock speeds to be competitive with Intel's midrange parts. I don't think shrinking the process node would help there, because they just don't have the IPC, and I don't think going down to 22nm would help AMD push their clocks that much higher that they would suddenly be competitive. And power consumption would probably go through the roof if they tried that.

That said I'm probably going to build another AMD desktop just to support them though an Intel would be way better for my needs, only because without them competition would die on the CPU front. At the price points I'm looking at I could get AMD's fastest CPU which competes with Intel's mid range and it'd at least do everything I need it to do, but the Intel would probably use less power. I'm kind of curious if AMD's Bulldozer architecture benefits parallel compiling because my hand wavy intuition says that compiling should be mostly integer code, and their processing modules do have two integer units so vaguely speaking it might be able to perform close to how an 8 core standard system would perform.
Agreed. Really looking forward to trying this on my Raspberry Pi.
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No, those are just the only two options for Monsanto to guarantee sustained profits without producing further advances. It's not clear that they deserve to continue making money like that. From a macroeconomic perspective of trying to feed the most people for the least money, it's almost certainly better to let Monsanto's inherently self-duplicating (and thus not naturally supply-limited) product do it's thing, let their legal department and genetic DRM research stop wasting money, and have their productive research be directly funded by the government if it looks promising enough.
If you want to be optimistic, you might look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Molecular_Patho... and hope that some of them want to get a broad ruling on the patentability of genes.
This is a great tip, thanks! I never thought of using git diff to test things out, and I definitely didn't know you could diff against a stash.
There is something else.

If you're in this position, you know full well that the odds of ever escaping from the trap are heavily against you. So the question comes up, why try?

Why sacrifice what little you now have and pit yourself against years of hardship to build yourself to a point where you will still be 10 to 20 years behind those with the privilege of being born into wealthier and more stable families?

Unfortunately the answer I saw time and again in others, was that there is no value in trying.

And my experience with growing up in poverty, sleeping rough, working without education (I thankfully never went to prison even though members of my family did)... is precisely that whilst I succeeded in breaking the cycle of poverty that disadvantage creates, I am indeed 10 to 20 years behind my peers who were born into a better situation.

People born into privilege (white, male, Western, middle-class, stable extended family) are born at the top of the mountain. Those born without privilege have a mountain to climb. Those born into disadvantage have an ocean to swim just to find the mountain and will get lost along the way.

I'm a big believer in giving people a chance. You will never see such determination and resourcefulness in people like you will in someone who has come from a dark place and will pit everything they are to make sure that they never return to that dark place. And even at the base of the mountain, you will never find people who will help lift others like those who have already struggled to get there.

It's a real blight on the Western world that we collectively abandon and condemn so many able and smart people who want to do better.
I don't think this is banal though.

I get a lot of flack for this in political circles but I think that IP law is a field which has more importance for the future regarding individual rights than, say, abortion. We are talking about IP-based monopolies here over crops, medical tests, and the like, and the scope of these patents is just unprecedented. I don't know what to call those who want such power other than evil.

The Supreme Court has been pretty good recently on these issues, for example overturning patents on recommended results in medical tests (and therefore allowing competing ways of measuring the same thing), greatly restricting uses of secondary patents in medicines and the like. Now they are considering two cases:

1) When you patent a self-replicating technology, is the patent exhausted when the product self-replicates, particularly when the purpose of the patented object is self-replication (patented soybean seeds have the purpose of producing more soybean seeds and that's what they are sold for the purpose of doing). I suppose this would have some implications regarding home rose gardens and the ability to legally share patented clones but aside from emerging transgenic crops the implications are not very heavy.

2) Can a part of the human genome in the abstract be patented? Who owns your genes? I think this must necessarily follow that these can't be patented from Prometheus v. Mayo (decided last year, no IANAL) because that case held that you couldn't patent what the result of a drug test meant. But if this can't be patented, then surely patents on crops are exhausted after first sale.
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Lua and Squirrel: The Case for Squirrel
You wrote:

> almost all the work on Opera's new browser will be done by Google. That is why I said "outsourcing development to Google"

According to that logic, using any open-source component is outsourcing development. Doesn't make sense.
Looks good but the "sign with your mouse and you're done!" bit made me laugh out loud.

The idea that I can "just make a signature" with a mouse is hilarious from a UI point of view and seems highly glossed over (both UI wise and legally).
There is a certain point where their bandwidth will exceed the noise threshold and it will be trivial to trace the location of their servers and of their offices, tor or no tor.

And if they are simultaneously the subject of renewed enforcement interest...

"""
Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.
""" - Neuromancer: William Gibson
This is running on a ie10 on winrt surface
, cool stuff good job to the maker (even touch is working)
Anodyne Pirate Bay Promo Post-mortem.
Maybe the industrialized farms aren't saving their old seed (because they're likely all using GMO seed), but the small (family) farms still are (especially organic ones). Why wouldn't you use this method?

Because it's much less efficient for many crops. The technology of saving seeds wasn't unseated by GMOs in the 90s, it was unseated by hybrid crops in the 20s.

"Today, hybrid seed production is predominant in agriculture and home gardening, and is one of the main contributing factors to the dramatic rise in agricultural output during the last half of the 20th century. In the US, the commercial market was launched in the 1920s, with the first hybrid maize. All of the hybrid seeds planted by the farmer will be the same hybrid while the seeds from the hybrids planted will not consistently have the desired characteristics. This is why hybrid seed is constantly repurchased by growers for each planting season."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_seed
Does anyone else love reading these, even though they are mostly way over your head? There is something about kernel release notes that makes them fascinating...
The Present Shock Of The Harlem Shake
Researcher Rewires Rat Brains To Sense Infrared Spectrum and Promises Much More
A lot of the stuff on the cypherpunks was added fairly recently I believe. At least, I don't remember those sections being there the last time I read it.

Gwern has an interesting approach to writing articles where he continually updates and adds to them so that they improve over time. See: http://www.gwern.net/About#long-content