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English is in fact my first language. Cannot comment on my read age (since I don't know).

In general I am well aware of the word's definitions, but what I wanted to get at was what the OP meant by them or what they were getting at in general.

Seems they were very angry but weren't able to really clarify what about. Their point wasn't fleshed out even enough to convey to others.
You should add more services! I wrote http://handlehelp.com which checks for username availability across multiple sites. It's open source[1], so you can use some of my checks if you'd like.

[1]: https://github.com/kyleconroy/handlehelp
What's also great for this is ScraperWiki (http://scraperwiki.com/) which supports python, ruby, and php.
Maybe because you have to pay for private projects and Bitbucket UI still isn't as fresh as Github's.
just random stuff regarding what I do and what projects I make and other stuff and how is everything for me in the land of freedom and freelancing
This is my thought on the modern flush toilette:

http://makeameme.org/media/created/skeptical-third-world-kid...

I lived in what was essentially a rural cabin for 5 years. We had no indoor plumbing and stored water for cooking and bathing in barrels. We used a composting toilette (see "The Humanuer Handbook"). After moving back to a "real" modern house in the city, I am daily reminded of the tragic waste of potable water that modern plumbing endorses.
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I remember the article that basically made me care about IPOs was this story about the IPO of Microsoft: http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/13/inside-the-....

It's long as winter, but it actually made IPOs very relatable, not to mention exciting.

It gives you a good understanding of the circus surrounding the offering price.
I've flown to over 50 countries and the rules are the same everywhere.

The whole TSA uproar is actually more of a reflection of the anti-government, libertarian, personal rights above community rights attitude that uniquely exists within many Americans.
The part of the article that bothers me here the most is a leading nueroscientist asserting that the brain is not computable. That is demonstrably false: The brain is a quantum system, just like everything else in the universe. All quantum systems containing n qubits can be simulated by 2^n classical bits. It may very well be impractical to compute a decent sized brain, but that's still technically computable, which is a serious problem in his whole "you can't reduce human nature to a computer algorithm" tirade. Yes, you can. It will be impossibly huge and slow, but you can.
It seems like every username starts with vowel.
It made it better linkbait but confused some commenters...
Ah, looks like the only thing I'd have off that list is the Samsung Nexus 10 and it's packed away in a box. I presume it being on that list means it works, still a pretty tiny fraction. I'm sure that will grow, especially after this good news.
Why gardeners live longer?
Western industrial economies have exported aspects of industry that can cause ill-health to some developing economies. Examples...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_breaking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste

In the Black Country in the UK about 30 years ago we saw a number of foundries packaged up and moved to Bihar. I can't find references at present, but I'll keep looking.

However, the overall picture is one of gain through industrial technology I think.

Media technology might be different because it makes a commodity out of our experience. Not sure how that will change things.
At one time we believed in tariffs. If they stole it and made it, at least they would have to pay to bring it back to us. We wouldn't tariff countries/products that respected our rules.
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Indeed. Actually I was thinking as I wrote it about how any monopoly is essentially trying to extinguish the fertile ground that it first sprung from.

What word would fit instead - would 'ironic' be any less controversial?
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The entire plane interior is fire-retardant and there are lots of extinguishers around.
That's a much more informative list, thanks!
>Addressing fellow scientists, he dismissed the singularity as “a bunch of hot air,” and went on further to declare that “the brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it.”

wat.
Reading the article, it turns out the answer is: No.
If we could make exercise easy/fun/cheap enough to not require lots of executive function from participants, the economic and social impact would be stratospheric. That's a hard problem that probably can't be solve incrementally because the differential between regular exercisers and the total adult population is about 5x.
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In his response to this MPEG-LA news Xiphmont (in response to a troll comment) claims Xiph are contributing to VP9, including writing the spec, so it may well be that VP9 aka VP.next is merging with Daala and the IETF Internet Video Codec project. It makes sense to me as Google and the IETF both provide some level of defence against all this patent BS, which would be pragmatic for Xiph to take advantage of.
Regarding the reddit check, a username can be unavailable for registration even if there is no profile, after an account is deleted the username is reserved forever. Not sure if there is any way to check if a username is actually available with out trying to register it. For example "citricsquid" is unavailable on reddit but your service reports it is available.
good luck. i can imagine how you are feeling - hopefully it's something simple / physical, but if it is ms and you want a programmer to talk to, feel free to contact me (andrew@acooke.org). although i have ok vision so won't be much help with this particular issue (when first diagnosed, i did try to get emacs working with audio output, terrified i would be blind in days, but ms isn't necessarily that bad, and the attempt fizzled with it only half-working...) (there is a linux distro for blind people - i didn't install it, but my impression was it was pretty out-of-date and it would be better to try get emacs-speak working on what i already had).
There are also people who believe in god and all other sorts of things. Doesn't mean they should be taken seriously.
Thank you for summing that up so concisely. I'm going to try to remember the "so you think human nature is something more than physics?" argument for the future.
IBM Watson is IMO a huge embarrassment for SV.
I had no idea gardeners live 14 years longer! thanks for sharing
I think its funny I'm getting downvoted because people are projecting onto what I said. Hint: there are more possible answers to the question "Why aren't there more women programmers?" other than "the industry discriminates against them" and "they are not qualified."
> Edit: Thinking back, some mission statements worked well. "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software" comes to mind.

AFAIK, in management parlance, that would be a "vision statement". Mission statements seem to be a little more nuts-and-bolts. But I only remember this because the Microsoft one was held up as a vision statement in my business classes. =)
Does the VC community actually have a better record than the government does in picking winners? A lot of VC funds do quite poorly.

Of course, you could say that good VC funds do, and choose what you count as good VC funds in hindsight, based on returns. But then you could also say that good government programs and agencies have good records, if they're also chosen in hindsight.
Because the writer is accustomed to Python as their language of choice? Maybe it's a Python shop? What if they want to integrate it into their Django site?

If you're coming from a primarily Python background you won't just be waltzing right in and using CPAN modules right away. You have to understand the underlying language as well. Python and perl's object oriented systems for example are quite different (using Moose helps somewhat granted the person knows it even exists). Then there's the issue of understanding various contexts. These differences may take time getting used to depending on the level of the developer.

Python also supports regex as well, which can be useful for weird situations. Granted however it's not going to be as tightly integrated as perl. There's even a Natural Language Toolkit if you want to get really crazy with things.

TLDR: Right tool for the job should take environmental circumstances into account as well
Me too, that's all there was. And that may be the answer: only allow yourself the command line for longer and longer periods of time. Force yourself to learn it.

I really like this book, even today: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003302.do

The key to being proficient at the command line (as distinct from writing shell scripts) is to think of it as composition.

For example, run this:

$ file $(which $(man -k python | cut --delimiter " " --fields 1))

(The first '$' is your command line prompt, yours may differ; you don't type that. The other '$' characters you do type.)

Now run each command from the inside out, starting with the man command. See what each command does. Build it up bit by bit, that's exactly what I did, like this:

- the man command

- the man command piped into the cut command

- the man command piped into the cut command after reading "man cut" to remember about the --delimiter option

- the output of that pipeline fed to which

- the output of which fed to file

Note that I didn't use any for loops or variables, the shell did the right thing for me.

Read the man pages for each of those commands.

set -o vi or set -o emacs (or their equivalent in .inputrc) helps a lot when you compose things incrementally. esc-k k k (etc) is your friend if you set -o vi.

Read man bash. It will take you a long time. For today, read the section on READLINE. While in man bash, search for the word READLINE at the front of the line, like this:

/^READLINE

Slash = search

^ = anchor the search to the front of the line

READLINE = what you're searching for in the current man page.

For now, all you need in your ~/.inputrc file is:

set editing-mode vi

This will give you vi command line editing in bash, as well as any other program that uses readline, like the python REPL.

For more info on .inputrc,

$ man readline

which is documentation for the C interface to readline, but is mostly about how readline is used by a user. For example, in man readline

/VI Mode bindings

gives you all your command line editing commands when you use vi mode.

Get a mostly table of contents of man bash, for your searching pleasure:

$ man -P cat bash |egrep -v "^ " |egrep -o "^[^ ]+"

Sort it:

$ man -P cat bash |egrep -v "^ " |egrep -o "^[^ ]+" |sort
Like .biz, .travel and .museum? :P
I recently interviewed at AirBnb and one of the first question the interviewer asked was if I did my undergrad at an IIT. This was a regular while guy in San Francisco.
And I am not a fresh grad, I have been a programmer professionally for over 10 yrs.
I thought it was insane that he choose judge me by that metric where there were so many other metrics he could go off of.
> we'll give you one free game that'd cost us barely anything

...because we really hope that you buy the DLC.

That's what makes that gesture really pernicious to me.
I believe Bootstrap 3 does in fact use border-box - hence the padded grids and a major driver behind the drop in support for IE7.
Foundations are a possible answer. In the last year we've seen foundations give grants to a number of tech groups and/or platforms. iPython via Sloan and Code for America via Knight for example.

There are many areas where venture capital has not and is not well suited for various reasons, many of which you list. I think people's focus on consumer funding won't work because crowdfunding is even more driven by the allure of consumer facing products than VCs are. Foundations seem to me to be a good place for this.
I hope this works. The attempt to grab .ski domains for ski related companies only [1] would keep me from obtaining my dream email address.

[1] http://www.dot-ski.com/2012/06/13/starting-dot-application-f...
Another good rebuke of Kurzweil's theory of the mind: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/21/homuncu....
I pointed this out elsewhere, but a rush hour subway train in New York City carries over two thousand people (and that is assuming that the train is not over capacity), nearly as many as were killed in the September 11th attack. One well-timed, powerful bomb could kill almost everyone on such a train, and if it were detonated while a second train was passing by even more people would be killed. These trains travel over major bridges and under important buildings; the damage of such an attack could be enormous.

It has not happened yet, and hopefully it never will happen. The bomb itself would probably be difficult to procure and transport to New York City without being detected by an intelligence agency. What we can say is this: body scanners, luggage X-rays, and shoe removal have done nothing to prevent such an attack, because no such measures are in place.
There's nothing new about that belief.
The human mind is one of the few things that we encounter during everyday life that we may not even have the right conceptual framework to understand.

It is an open question whether the physical processes of the brain can be simulated by a computer, and it is even an open question whether the physical processes of the brain account for the full range of human conscious experience. I look forward to seeing this field evolve during my lifetime, but significant progress may continue to elude us.
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it may be more accurate to say "parts of the brain of an average human may be computable". Ofcourse I have no data to prove either way. There are incredible human beings who lived in the past and living in the present, who brain is faster than the fastest computers put together. But simulating super humans like ramanujan, is it even possible?
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Yeah, I am obviously biased, but I consider this a stupid way for them to play this politically... it isn't like Apple wants them, so picking up their toys and going home is just giving Apple exactly what Apple wants. A much better response would be "ok, we are going to make users want us do bad you have no choice but to let us in", and that's not going to happen with their current strategy, but is easily see-able if they cause a nudge in the numbers of the already large jailbreak community.
I hear you.

But Glass is just the current one amongst many future devices. What are we gonna do when we cannot even perceive the recording equipment ? Spies do this, and journalists are quite happy to use these techniques.

Someone with a 360 camera piped via fibre-optic to the recording device may not have to even look at 'you' to get the money shot you dread.

I think you're right that there will be a lot of urination videocaps, just for the Lolz or occassionally for perverts.

We are all in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars, still others at urination-tube.com ?
This is freaking awesome. WAY better than the letter crap
Should look up the domain name too.

And what's the point in showing the ones that are taken?
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Could you include domain names (.com, maybe .io/.ly) and maybe Facebook url? If you had those this could be great for finding pronounceable names.

It's be great if you could set it so that it would just keep trying until it found one that was available on all services, but I can see that adding a ton of overhead, so I can see why you haven't done that yet.
What you're saying is merely postulation, it's not "demonstrably" true, not to mention your use of the term "impractical" is probably the most misleading use of that word I've read today.

You're writing off thousands of years of philosophy and dozens of years of experimental results in maybe a paragraph, if I'm being generous.
The US pursued the same strategy of piracy while it was developing. Any rational country does so, if sufficiently powerful to withstand retaliation from the global superpower. (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/business/new-economy-intel...)
This was the first time I've seen 3.0 and I really love the flat clean look. I skimmed through the linked page but couldn't find a specific statement about what they're going to be doing with this.
The implicit conclusion from both of your points is that the government should be able to select fucking great people like you over others to offer affordable housing to. Sounds like a recipe to dystopia.
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Completely agree with this. Very very rarely any real innovation happens. Most of the time financial success is viewed as innovation. It may innovation in terms of business. But hard to say they are innovation on a scale that is more universal.
Ramanujan isn't different than you or I in that regard. His brain was an assembly of neurons, connected via synapses. There's nothing pointing towards the fact that this assembly is any different from any machine, regardless of achievements in the field of mathematics. Because we fail to understand it fully yet doesn't mean it transcends physics, that would be absurd.
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A big heads up to those people who still support ie7, that is. Google and Facebook dropped support a while ago, and ie7's usage share is around 0.6-2.0% globally.

http://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/versions/

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...
What examples do you have of the Chinese (or anybody else for that matter) doing this with the innovative high-technology initiatives this article is referring to.

China's space program is fairly recent, they didn't steal from Apollo or the Shuttle program immediately and copy it. They are purchasing energy production technology from other countries (US and France if memory serves correctly).

If you want to really look at this as a global rather than a local issue, we could consider the Chinese and all other countries as partners. Illinois benefits from California, but you don't complain about state to state transfer of knowledge (or do you? I'm Canadian, I don't think we do).

In many cases American companies have labs in China, and according to a contact at Dolby, it isn't because China is cheaper any more, it's because they are good. Very good, and everybody benefits from the collaboration.

If you want to look at innovation only for the purpose of lining somebodies pockets, than their is no difference between making a hugely innovative product vs. something people just pay for.

But if you want to change the world and have an impact, might as well all be in this together. And I suspect the Chinese spending on education and research is near what the US spends in that regard.
My guess is, the billboard has some kind of control protocol using wifi, bluetooth, etc.. And that such protocol is not secured or is minimally so.
>It wasn't discussed openly before

It was, at least in some political magazines.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7551/1.html (German article from 2001)

References:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/05/43443

And besides Internet, just for the record https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/06/990602-275397.htm
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I love, it has some great user name suggestions. It would be great if it would check some more sites.
> Personally, I'd say Paul Allen's counter-argument, which I recall as boiling down to the inherent limits of human-produced software, is the most plausible counter-argument

I often wonder if the ultimate end counter argument may be that the same things that make us "intelligent" are also those that give us our human flaws - exactly the same things that we were trying to avoid in the first place by using computers. Perhaps we can't have human-like intelligence without also being forgetful, inaccurate, selfish, lazy, irrational, greedy, angry, sad etc. If someone did invent a computer with all those attributes, would it be useful?
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"It is non trivial to smash a liquor bottle to produce a long shard strong enough to cause mass damage. And it has to be smashed without rousing attention amongst passengers."

I am pretty sure a terrorist would (a) practice smashing bottles until he can reliably create a weapon and (b) smash the bottle before boarding the plane, in an empty bathroom (I have been to international airports where no flights depart from an entire section during the night, yet passengers are free to wander around or sit in those sections), and just carry it on board because there are no security checks before boarding the plane.

"And the knives rely on serration to cut through steak so are very dull."

So you think a somewhat dull serrated edge could not be used as a weapon? Prisoners manage to use far less effective weapons to kill each other; why couldn't terrorists do it?

"given that every country in the world has a TSA"

What is your point? Everyone has a public display of their airport security? Do you think that it is impossible that everyone just wants their citizens to feel safe and that the point of a public security check is to do just that?
Damn, I only just added the reddit check. Looks like I might have to revert that...
Well I certainly salute your passion. I am not nearly dedicated enough to go through this point by point. The stack issue comes down to this; C uses the assembly (i.e. machine) stack. It is an almost ridiculously simple mechanism ideally suited to pass parameters and allocate 'automatic' (yes this is a C term too) data. Avoid large aggregates and arrays on the stack because stack space is limited. Providing you adopt a conservative approach, you never have to worry, 90% of a 2K byte stack in a small embedded system is typically safety factor/headroom.

My personal view is that C offers a perfect tradeoff between simplicity and capability, it has a magical quality that has made it the most important single computer language for nearly 40 years and on into the forseeable future. Increasingly its importance is as a layer that more programmer friendly technology sits upon, but it's no less important for that.

I've read that the difference between chess and go (the oriental game, not golang) is that on Alpha Centauri if little green men play a game that resembles chess, they will almost certainly play a game identical to go. Go is simple enough it is almost inevitable. For me it's almost the same thing (I stress almost), with computer languages and C.

One final point; C syntax is ultimately a matter of taste. If you find this to be a completely obvious, correct and straightforward way of doing a non-overlapping C string copy;

while( *src )
*dst++ = *src++;
*dst = '\0';

Then you 'get' C. If you find it a confusing monstrosity, maybe C isn't your language.
Github? Seriously?!

I'm sorry, this just completely blows my mind.
I'd understand if you called git innovation (though the real innovation is distributed version control, and it existed before git, git is just a very good implementation), but calling github "innovation" seriously lowers the bar for that concept.

I mean, I love github, but come on, they aren't even the first ones to come up with the idea. SourceForge existed years before them.
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