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> I didn't say "there is nothing wrong with changing your MAC address" and didn't imply that's what he was charged for.

> "Changing your MAC address, for instance, is no worse a threat to society than wearing a hoodie in public"

I'm not sure how else to read this other than "there is nothing wrong with changing your MAC address."

> And I still don't believe it's justifiable for the virtual equivalent of either trespass or burglary to fit in a category of crimes that are more serious than physical assault on a living, breathing person.

It may be more or less serious--it depends on the context. Trespass into a network system with intent to steal credit card numbers is worse than punching someone at a bar, while trespass into a network system just for kicks is much less bad than beating someone up. That's why both crimes can range from misdemeanors to serious felonies.
I've never known anyone in the biological sciences to use LaTex. Everyone here tends to use Word/Endnote because that's what they've always used (and its what the PIs can use). But you're right that nobody likes it. I think tht LaTex is just too complicated for people to get their heads around. Anything that isn't WYSIWYG just isn't too going to fly for the vast majority of biologists. Writing in LaTex is just too much like programming for them. (For good reason - it is programming)

For my last paper though, I was able to do it all with Google Docs, except the citations. I ended up just embedding citations like {author, 2013} and using either Papers or endnote to do the insertion.

However, I still had to submit the article in word format, so I really didn't gain anything and had to effectively reformat it 3 times. I think this has as much to do with Word/Endnote's de facto monopoly as anything. Since the journals require it, we work with it.

All of that said - I'd love to see something like this take off, but there would have to be some buy-in from the publishers.
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I understand what you are saying, and it certainly has an element of truth, but I don't think it's as valid as many companies think. The liability exposure occurs in the hiring process not the onboarding process. When they interview these people MULTIPLE times and act (if you use the articles examples) in bizarre ways during that process, the liability and prosecution risk is already there.

It may very well be the reason some companies do these things, but its not going to help them a lick. Hiring incompetence is an obvious sign of what the work environment would likely be.

It seems that most people in this country have just accepted the interview process as a 1 way thing. It's not, it shouldn't be, and the examples of why its broken are readily apparent.
That's not the question Rand Paul put to Brennan, for one thing; for another, there is a large class of persons for whom the answer is 'yes.' You want the answer to be 'No,' but that doesn't mean it is.
..and that is what it would be about. If Costco can hurt their competition by forcing up their labour force costs, plus at the same time give a good aura, and advertise their hiring policies to potential employees, it's a win-win-win.

This type of thing isn't done off the cuff, there would be very careful analysis behind it.

Most people would think this is against Wal-Mart or other large retailers, but where it would really bit is the very small corner-store operations, which not only collectively sell a lot of stuff, they prevent customers from going into bigger stores for small items like milk and bread.
The first 4k$ was raised in an hour -- impressive. FAKEGRIMLOCK has been on a roll; his articles are (surprisingly?) inspiring and very much to the point...
The Vic20 had some really good software. I still remember Gorf on it. I had a skiing game that was quite impressive for a game that used less than 3.5KB of RAM (yes that is 3.5 kilobytes).
Well, yes, if you take it to the ship first vs what amounts to waterfall extreme, there will be profound differences in the code. I suppose if you make it your mission to analyze code to determine whether or not your programmers are using TDD, you could figure it out. But then we're getting into a pretty artificial situation.

Who cares if the code is clean and the project is successful? TDD may be a useful way to get to clean code for /some/, perhaps /most/. But this is not true of /all/. I'm not arguing against its usefulness for someone like you. That's silly, you obviously value it. I'm arguing against the "moral imperative," which is utter nonsense.

TDD is neither necessary nor sufficient for success, and we should stop pretending that it is. I create a class, it has an interface with a purpose, and I test that interface. I don't write tests first, and I don't have trouble writing tests after I write the code. I organize my thoughts on pen and paper, and use very light documentation to test the size and purpose of my methods. The projects I work on are successful, everyone's happy. This is true of several other programmers I work with on a daily basis, but not all. Several also practice TDD, and it works for them.
I've tracked every calorie / nutrient I'm eating a couple different times in my life. I always wanted a barcode tied to a detailed (and downloadable) nurition summary, which others have already mentioned. I also greatly appreciated labels which reported glycemic load, inflammation factor, and provided a colored calorie triangle, like here:http://nutritiondata.self.com.
Landing page comment: "Write research papers, right inside your browser"
As a researcher, I immediately ask "Why?"
What is wrong with my Latek utils and fabulous MS Word that my research lab gave me for free.
Then, where are some templates for the journals/conferences I could possible use with Authorea. You can reach far more people if you included templates from most journals/conferences. Then I can see this taking off.. Otherwise it is nothing but a fancy text-editor to me with Latek support and is trying to be like arXiv. As it is, arXiv has a lot of noisy publications.
Most of my team works remotely and we use this for pair programming all the time. It shares both the mouse and full keyboard control.

We use it in conjunction with Skype for voice.
I pose an alternative hypothesis: They do not, in fact, have jobs to fill. They are seeking to add outstanding talent, but they're not hiring unless they see it. What has changed is that it has become advantageous to leave phantom job listings open as advertising for anyone of outstanding talent. (where 'outstanding talent' means 'someone who was already employed doing this precise same thing, but left because your competing firm is his only means of getting a raise')

An employer with jobs to fill, at the end of the day, is going to want to fill them. He's going to have trouble if he doesn't fill them. It will be a problem for the company if the jobs go empty. Yes, they may technically be job listings, but the jobs are not, on average, designed to be filled. Any listing that stays open longer than a training program would need to bring an average applicant up to spec represents a job that for the purposes of the unemployed, the economy, and the company, statistically doesn't exist.
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I always thought if you have a product that works but is free , you can commditize it by selling your infrastructure as a service ( paid API , hosting , etc ... ).

For instance , instragram could sell a way to make instragram clones in the cloud, like wordpress has a free blog script and sells blog hosting for that script, you get my point. Once you understand a domain and develop an app for that , should be easy to sell your app infrastructure as a service for thirdparty apps.
Go into any mid-priced restaurant in Australia where a meal costs about $15-25. See if you get greeted into the restaurant, seated and served at the table, including having your drink refilled, any problems attended to and your bill brought to you.

You will not. You will go to a counter, read a menu, order the food and return to your table. At some point you will either be paged, have your number called, or possibly have your food brought to the table.

This is because waiting staff are unaffordable below a certain price point on the food.
The author confuses TEDx with TED near the bottom though he mentions it's TEDx earlier.

> TED, you’d better vet your speakers from now on

Obviously TED doesn't typically vet the TEDx speakers. In fact apparently 378 TEDx events took place just last month. It's starting to feel like there is one of these events just here in Vancouver every month now.

https://www.ted.com/tedx
SXSW should never cost you that much, ever.

Flying from any hub will be <$200 round trip. Book in advance and you can find cheap rooms (or share a room with other starving founders) and you can do it for <$80/night.

Food is free. There are enough companies sponsoring events with food that you should never, ever have to purchase food- unless you're having a lunch meeting with a potential partner, client, investor, etc.

Booze are free. If you're paying for drinks anywhere- you're wrong.

The people I've met at SXSW have opened doors, landed contracts, moved investment talks forward, and have generally helped more than I could have ever imagined.
quite a lot of enterprise opensource software companies do that. And their gigs are not cheap ;)
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The article brings up the idea of bioengineering Neanderthals, recreating living representatives. I personally object to the idea of creating people who are probably intellectually inferior to us. The other idea of creating Neanderthal cells to study genetic differences and advancing the understanding of our own genome is much more appealing.
That does not make any difference. A US citizen could be affiliated with Al Qaeda, for example.

Also, you keep adding 'US citizens who do not pose an immediate threat' even though that was not part of Rand Paul's question in the letters to John Brennan, and it is nothing more than a straw man. If the person does not present an imminent threat the the use of military force would not be necessary, by definition.

For persons who do present a colorable threat to the US in concert with Al Qaeda or its affiliates, regardless of their citizenship or situation within or without the boundaries of the US, the President's determination is the due process. If you don't like this (which I quite understand) then what you want is to amend the AUMF. Because it very clearly grants such broad authority to the President.
Its not a valid link . it throws a 404
MIT panel warns of challenges of hyper-networked world
Things like this are why I have DuckDuckGo as my browser's default search engine.

"!amazon thingamabob" (or just "!a thingamabob").

Way more convenient than going to the homepage and worrying about search auto-focus.
Right. The linked commit that is the subject of this thread is a DMCA takedown notice, which is a legal instrument designed to allow holders of copyrights to prevent their copyrighted materials from being distributed. Setting aside the merits of the DMCA, it has nothing to do with any definition of "copy" (yours, Oxford's, or Wikipedia's) at all. It is a remedy for copyright infrigement, which, again, is a legal term with a very specific definition[1]. No matter how creatively you define the word "copy", designmodo's actions simply are not equivalent to "copyright infringement" by any legal definition.

[1]http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/501
great mind game - looked and felt good to me - i did finish the 10 levels in about 10 minutes so ya, what's next? congrats on the game and thank you for sharing!
I've added this to the to-do list...
Thanks for the feedback. This is still work in progress, and we are planning to improve the export function to publication-ready format (as you suggest). This said, we want to bring the authoring process to the web principally for 2 reasons: 1) It makes collaboration easier 2) It expands dramatically the possibilities of sharing scientific content respect to a 'static' PDF format, ultimately impacting transparency and reproducibility of scientific results.
Great explanation. I'm not sure why (or if) ember states it so clearly.

A view calling controller.model.property is MORE tightly coupled than controller.property. The controller is tied to the view and the model as it's supposed to be. The view is not tied to the model.
Linux distributions since time immemorial have followed the same trajectory. They start out because the existing distros aren't paying attention to some detail (eg a particular DE, a particular class or location of users, workflows etc).

They get popular because those users appreciate such a close match to their needs (or dies due to lack of interest/development). Buoyed by success, the distro grows. It adds more and more packages. The bug lists start growing. The pace of development slows because the developer availability trails the number of packages, bugs, and users, getting spread thinner and thinner. Decisions become increasingly conservative because of all the things that could break and the number of users affected. Besides things already work.

Users feel increasingly disenfranchised and notice the lack attention to their relevant detail. A new distro gets born. You could probably model the whole process using Conway's Life.
Interesting take on this
This is pedantic but an F-22 can't hover. That was an F-35B.
You're right, I've added both to our bug list. Thanks for pointing that out!
That's cool, and I'm sure the author's conclusions are correct for that code base.

However, the skeptic in me can't help but point out that this is not nearly rigorous enough to say his method can pretty reliably determine TDD vs non TDD code in the general case.
And apparently crashing now - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5336155
I like the other senators helping him out by 'asking him to answer questions whithout relinquishing the floor'.

Zerohedge coverage here with some quotes: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-06/rand-pauls-filibliz...
I already did, as has tptacek: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335651 You're just playing word games at this point. 'Will' and 'intention' are synonymous in English.
I find TED mostly marketing these days and less substance. I'm a fan of people that TED attempts to bring together, but I have no love for the organization.
Another strategy--and I'm not sure about the morality of this, except it's less evil than the above--is to pop up a "please rate!" dialog right after doing something nice for the player.

For example, have a random time-based trigger that will unlock a DLC item in the middle of regular play. Tell them they got it, make it shine and sparkle, and then--maybe not right away, but after a minute or so, after they've gotten back to the game and might be playing around with their new toy--ask them for a rating.

Another way to put it is: if Nintendo, as some unknown up-and-comer, had released SMB3 on the App Store, a ratings dialogue would almost certainly appear approximately two minutes into the Kuribo-shoe level.
I have been using a microsubscription model for an MMO strategy game for iPhone/Android that I helped develop. (http://spaceuncharted.com) We charge $1/month or $10/year for access to the full game. Here are some things we've learned:

-- Apple only allows auto-renewing subscriptions for magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. So, for us, users have to re-subscribe every month, which has lead to very poor retention rates. On Android, we use auto-renewing Paypal subscriptions, and have had more success.

-- Having to manage separate billing systems for iPhone and Android adds a lot of development time and headaches. The Apple billing system is particularly time consuming because the errors you get if something isn't configured just right are not helpful.

-- Subscribers can have very high expectations for a service that is costs $1/month. When they're paying, they (rightly) demand a high quality product. We've been very liberal with giving out refunds or credits when bugs have arisen or we've had server downtime.
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Congratulations. It's a brilliant work of art and technology. Good luck, you guys have a great career ahead of you. Hard work pays!
I spent 4 months working in an all pair programming-all the time dev shop and was frustrated on a daily basis not being able to start and stop pairing seamlessly.
This looks absolutely killer for solving that problem. I love collaborating on code, but having to both jump on the same workstation on and off again can really be a bummer. Looking forward to trying this out with a few of my co-workers.
See this excellent presentation by Solar Designer on this very topic: http://www.openwall.com/presentations/Passwords12-The-Future...
Wow, that seems like some pretty serious brand dilution.

I'm curious - does anyone know if TED charges any sort of fee to the local TEDx licensees?
> If you are "going indie" you have to think about your real motivations -- are you building games to make a profit, or are you building games that you want to play but do not exist?

This. The latter, indeed, always make the best games. But if yer making this game because you want to make a living making games, push ads, track phone calls, pull down people's address books and sell that shit, after pumping fake downloads and such. If you want the money to fund the game you really want to make, just go full on evil, no half measures. You can be nice on the game you really wanted to make, when gameplay can float it on its own.
This is a perfect example of emoticons clarifying tone. Way to go people. :)
It's not a bad thing for us. It's a bad for the people that minimum wage is supposedly trying to help. Increase minimum wage, decrease low skilled jobs, and increase mechanization.
I think when I signed up originally, used it for a while, then didn't get quite ENOUGH people on it to keep my interest. It became dominated by a handful of "oversharers". None of my close friends I wanted to use it with, ever did. Its a beautiful product, don't get me wrong. Just metcalfe's law didn't work for me here.

kudos for replying dave. next time I'm in the bay area, would be happy to grab a beer and discuss how I used path vs other socNets.
I just want templates for different journals/conferences for the same topic. All their formats are annoying, but at the end of the day, every PI/researchers wants to publish in something that is peer-reviewed. In a university setting, paying to read/download a publication is an after-thought. The entire transparency/reproducibility of scientific results is a good goal but is very long-term goal.

Some entities like ScholarOne/Cambridge Journals wants you to individually upload your images and your text separately. Since a user is just writing their paper on Authorea, maybe, you can keep track of what journals they are aiming for and reformat the publication for multiple journals in ONE SHOT. That'd be the biggest time saver ever.

At the end, doing research is fun but publishing is a painful process, and you are judged based on publications. Reduce the pain.
Well, there's this other stuff in the Constitution about Congress having powers to define the rules of war and Congress has exercised that power. You have to take the Constitution as a whole, not just the bits that suit your argument.
Are any of those lessons public, or semi-public? I am very interested in stuff like that as I am working on crypto systems for a gov't project.
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Important: TEDx and bad science
TEDx does more to damage the TED brand than anything. The correct alternative to TED if you can't afford it is BIL, or watching the videos online and commenting somewhere like hn or twitter. TEDx is basically universally horrible.
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Obviously. It's a significant advantage to be able to use the TED brand.
Open invite! Send mail to sean, he'll get you started. We're not publishing them and we'll ask you not to circulate them, but instead to let anyone you know who wants to see them to just mail sean.
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No, not really. Also, I invite you consider the second half of my comment above. As far as I know, there is no law limiting the Administration's use of drones pursuant to its lawful exercise of military force.
Do we need a replacement for SSH?
The OpenSSH team is doing an amazing work. Besides making the tool as secure as possible, they are also improving the protocol. The recently added support for encrypt-then-MAC modes is a great step forward.
While it's sad to see pseudoscience in TED talks, keep in mind that this was on TEDx, a local venue of which there are hundreds, which the author mentions himself.

I think, you can't blame TED for not checking every speaker at every local venue.
That still really is the answer for password hashes.

The right ordering is scrypt, bcrypt, PBKDF2, but even if you choose PBKDF2 you're still worlds better than salted hashes.

It makes sense for NaCL/Sodium to just pick one, though, and it makes sense for the choice to come from the hash contest.
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I totally hear you. And this is part of what we want to accomplish. As for the transparency/reproducibility I do not think this is too much long-term: already now if you prepare a paper on Authorea and publish it on a refereed journal, you can include a link to the Authorea repository. Which means even if the Journal version is static, it links to a 'dynamic' repository which contains the sources of your scientific work. So I believe Authorea is already pretty close to achieving that goal.
Alright, email sent. Would love to work through them with the rest of the team at work though, think it would be good for all of us to have a good understanding of how to break crypto systems.
I have a lot of respect for the OpenSSH team but think that they are saddled with a protocol that was designed (a) before anyone had a good idea how to design resilient cryptographic transports and (b) without a clear understanding of how people would want remote control channels to work in 2013.
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Woaha!! Gotcha!
Did they misspell people as 'peopel' (based on the url)?
I'm not defending the DMCA. Did I mention it? I pointed out that DM copied other works I saw previously on dribbble. Adding information to the discussion, that spawned more threads.

"What exactly is the point you're trying to make?"
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First, it was an F-35.

Second, the faked CGI jet had a pilot.

Third, since we're going to admit fairy stories as evidence, Once upon a time csallen was wrong. the end.

The second point really drives home the fallacy, but accepting tall tales as evidence is super dangerous. you should never do that. ever.

Finally, argument from analogy is always a very weak. There is always a more direct argument to be made. If analogy is the best argument you can muster, you need to reevaluate your position.
I think I can blame TED for lending its name and reputation to a process which would inevitably turn up talks like this...
As long as they're used 'to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States' by al Qaeda or its affiliates, they're being employed lawfully.

I'm not saying that that law is good or desirable. I'm just pointing out that that's how the law stands at present.
If I'm writing a paper, it's great for collaboration if it can be written in the browser. Being able to preview my paper in the browser sounds nice too, but to publish it I need to be able to compile it into a PDF.
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