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Einstein asked a question, the writer said he did not understand the music. Okay so most people would perhaps have just tried to "explain" the music in the intermissions - but I doubt that would have the same effect.

One of Einsteins skills was explaining logic in simple easy steps to build up a very complex picture. For me this story (be it true or not) shows his brilliant tutalege in action :)
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People whose opinion I care about aren't that fussed about other being "a bit socially deviant". Apparently Einstein had similar views, so I feel I'm in good company.

Society progresses only by the friction created by all those unreasonable eccentrics.
Thus far they don't delete tweets from the search results even after they have been deleted within twitter itself, so I suspect they are append only as you suggest.
You do not have to switch everything over in one step or ever. The good thing about HAML is that you can mix HAML and ERB in a single project and everything works just fine. If you want, you can gradually convert old ERB templates to HAML or you can just use HAML wherever you want and leave the old ERB code as it is.
This way you can try HAML without any risks and see if you like it or not. After the initial learning curve, HAML is really great.
Twitter search was originally another company which was purchased by twitter latter on. It recorded and indexed tweets without any magic sauce, but in a way that other developers could as well. Thus, even if search.twitter doesn't feature a given tweet, any arbitrary API user could have it, and there is no way for twitter to remove those. Thus perfection is out of reach, and even if they did delete results from search, it would be more of an act of appeasement than an actual technical solution.
Im with Swombat. Who cares what society thinks :)
The problem with your argument is huge. It requires you to basically have a whitelisted internet experience. Since most of the browsing we do is to new sites and new content, Adblockplus and Noscript have value in letting you evaluate the site first, then do whatever you want with it after.

It's a safety buffer and a very, very important one.

Unless you donate to the site/project or enable ads after that you are leeching content.

The responsibility for that goes both ways. If you depend on ad revenue for your entire revenue stream your business model is flawed. Let users do things like purchase the model outright to avoid annoyances or to donate. It's unfair to assume that a product won't be supported.
The NoScript FAQ on the subject has also been updated: http://noscript.net/faq#qa3_21

For more background on this debate, check out this post at Adblock: http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users
I don't think they did overreact. Noscripts function is to block scripts, Adblocks function is to block ads. They found a popular plugin that attacks their functionality and they took steps to combat it. I'm glad they did so.

The major point behind all of this is that extensions should be an island. You shouldn't be messing with the work of anyone else, especially for the reasons they had here.
One of the big points in that article mirrors your example. The correct response is to allow the user to decide.

"But targeting the other program in such a way is no different than someone installing two A/V softwares. Sure they may conflict in some areas"

"This software program conflicts with this software program. You can choose to run them both and accept the problems that occur accordingly or you can choose to cancel this installation or remove program X"

Do you want to cancel, remove program X, or cancel the installation?

Give users the option to opt-into using your software, don't force users to get into a proxy battle by automatically opting into things.
Nonsense.

"Nuclear submarine leaked radioactive waste into British waters, secret report reveals

By Matthew Hickley
Last updated at 12:24 AM on 28th April 2009

The Royal Navy's main nuclear submarine base has repeatedly leaked radioactive waste into the sea, previously secret documents show.

Radioactive coolant and contaminated water were accidentally dumped into the sea at Faslane, near Glasgow, at least three times in recent years.

And an internal Navy report described a 'recurrent theme' of failures to follow safety rules.

The nuclear watchdog said problems were so serious it would have considered shutting the base down had it been a civilian operation - but it has no such legal powers over military sites...."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173881/Nuclear-subm...

It's NOT safe. There are accidents on a regular basis. They just make any/all the information about these accidents classified state secrets.
This will not work. A good adblocker will load the ads, but it will not display them. This is basically what my recognition center did before I switched to adblock (and had an improved internet experience due to (massively) reduced load times and no annoying, blinking things). The important thing about the last sentence: You cannot assume I actually react to something in the ad, and the ads are loaded, thus, there is no way for the server to recognize a good adblocker.
Can you trust 37signals with your password?
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Thank you. This is a PR move. They could mow the grass, let the goats eat it, send employees out with scissors, or burn the field twice a year and none of it would have any impact on global temperatures.
How similar/dissimilar is CrossTwine Linker from Pypy? It sounds quite similar from what I was able to read, in the sense that it is a JIT VM with pluggable frontends. Does it support pluggable backends as well, or just the front end?
That or the author knows time travel.He was born in 1986
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Titanic casualty figures:
http://www.anesi.com/titanic.htm
No, IRC is fundamentally about the channel structure.

Additionally people have used an assortment of clients to receive messages including local apps, web based, etc.

It isn't about how you receive the message, its the structure of how people are organized to chat.
It's not by him, but supposedly by Jerome Weidman:

http://www.afn.co.kr/archives/readings/einstein.htm
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Tell us all how anti-nuclear activists caused Chernobyl. Ohhh... they didn't.

"Nuclear submarine leaked radioactive waste into British waters, secret report reveals

The Royal Navy's main nuclear submarine base has repeatedly leaked radioactive waste into the sea, previously secret documents show.

Radioactive coolant and contaminated water were accidentally dumped into the sea at Faslane, near Glasgow, at least three times in recent years.

And an internal Navy report described a 'recurrent theme' of failures to follow safety rules.

The nuclear watchdog said problems were so serious it would have considered shutting the base down had it been a civilian operation - but it has no such legal powers over military sites...."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173881/Nuclear-subm...

THIS is why the anti-nuclear movement is as strong as it is. They know the military and the nuclear industry HIDES serious accidents, Sometimes the military makes the accidents state secrets, and the radioactive material is left right where it spilled. This British Sub base has trashed the surrounding countryside and the people live near the base will be starting to drop dead from weird cancers any day now.

Not to mention all of the former Soviet Navy bases are trashed by subs leaking radioactive waste.
Bjork went through this stage where she used to say, "Boys are only good for sex and beats."
The actual author is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Weidman and is 96 years old.
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Ah, tells me how much I scan. I was unable to see Weidman reference even on second reading, and had to search
Too late for me, I removed it already. This is a matter of trust, not features.
“The alternative of never making anything available on the Web is just silliness.
Then the pirates will just make it available for you. ”

At least someone gets it
In digital age, can movie piracy be stopped?
> It would be news if the next version of the iPhone had a real hi-def camera to allow to acquire HD video, however I doubt that this is apple horizon any time soon.

This is actually a very likely next step for the iPhone, especially considering the success of Mino's Flip HD
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If WP is correct, he is 96 as of now, with 11 years spent in eternity.
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Oh boy, that's an embarrassing newbie mistake to make.
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I should have been clearer: it's one of my top five productivity apps. The other four would be:

Textmate, Omnifocus, Balsamiq Mockups, Yojimbo
Yes, LiveJournal has had cliques of users splitting off. But part of the reason you notice them is that LiveJournal is very well suited for people writing long posts where they bitch and moan about how they're going to leave, and having other people comment on them, in a way that lots of other sites aren't. Basically, LJ is a hybrid blog/social networking site (although I don't think the word "social networking" even existed back in 1999).

(Of course, I should note that I've been an LJ user for seven and a half years and have met lots of people who have been important to me through it, so I'm not exactly an unbiased observer.)
How well does it handle motion? I ask because whenever I try to take a photo from my car with my iPhone it ends up distorted. The sensor scans from top to bottom, which means that anything that moves (like signs, etc) will look like they're bent.
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If you want to go down that route, you must include the CO2 emitted by the manufacture of the lawn mowers and their transport from China (we can assume) to Mountain View.

Regardless of whether trucking a load of goats around uses more gas than running the lawn mowers (a hypothesis I seriously suspect is incorrect), goats manufacture themselves whereas making steel and aluminum uses a lot of energy.

And if you want to argue that demand for goats breeds more goats which increases their methane emission, shouldn't you also include the fact that demand for more lawnmowers makes the lawnmower factory hire more people, which then have a salary to do things like buy cars that they wouldn't if they were unemployed?

It's effects like that that people appeal to when they say corn ethanol leads to a net increase in CO2 compared to running gasoline directly. Somehow assuming a baseline that implies that people would be homeless bums living at 3rd world level unless they are employed by the ethanol industry seems like a dubious calculation to me.
I would take it a step further. Why email plain text passwords? It usually stays in your inbox. This increase the chance of someone being able to get your password. It now exists on your laptop/desktop and on a email server, depending on your settings. There should be a reset password, but not a recover password. Send a link to a secure page which asks for something the user knows/has username ?
It's fairly easy to download all the pictures again with the API, though you'll find there all a maximum of 604px x 604px. The linkage and tagging is the harder thing to export. I know exporting the tagging is at least doable.

Hiding the defriending process is pretty common, if not universal across all social networks.

I suspect the lock in isn't really that great, people only really care about the last few weeks in most cases. The main lock-in is that your friends are still there even if you leave.

Ultimately I think people won't need to leave networks like this when they become active elsewhere, they will instead use aggregation to keep track with their friends on the old networks (for example in my product http://friendbinder.com) or possibly built into to new networks if they work how to do this properly.
Already posted to Metafilter two years ago (along with, frankly, an extremely unproductive debate in the comments):

http://www.metafilter.com/64034/The-Waw-effect
This is a great article.

With regard to the 'call to action', I wouldn't under estimate the difficulty in changing the context (duration, specificity or 'me'-centricity) of our judgments because:

a) our need to judge is not causeless. It arises for our self-concept and

b) changing our thoughts is nigh impossible if they conflict with what we fundamentally believe is true.

So this whole things comes back really to what we believe is true about ourselves.. Is our self-concept true or is it a figment of our imagination?. Our judgments, and therefore how we 'see' anything, arises from that. Like the Paul Simon said, '...we see what we want to see and disregard the rest'

So how do we see what is true?

This is tricky because the mind that asks the question is the same mind that has created the self-concept.... and so it can never reason it's way beyond itself. We invest a lifetime justifying, aggrandising and clinging to the thing we call 'me' and so seeing ourselves as we really are in not going to happen using the old familiar tools.

It seems to me that to know the simplest of truths requires an openness that few of us are used to -- no thinking, no talking, no reasoning, no calculation, no busyness, no effort of any kind. Simply holding in mind what it is we needs to know and leaving an open and welcome space to be able to hear.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh nails this for me: "The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient..... Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea."

Can you see now why approach is particularly troublesome for hackers? We have brought up to be value knowledge, reasoning skills and discourse... and ashamed of ignorance. Yet it is ignorance that is called for!

So what to do?

Not the place to attempt that one here (perhaps a blog post) but it seems that our own path through life is itself this process of becoming willing to let go of our clinging to our pre-conceptions -- of answering the fundamental question 'Who am I without my judgements'. Life will always find some way to pry our hands away from clinging, even if our clinging is to the need to no longer cling.
This kind of beginner mistake makes you wonder how 'hacker safe' their system really is. You can bet that they will be improving their security soon -- making bold claims about security is one way to guarantee lots of free pen testing.
It is a closed carbon loop as long as the grass the goats turn into methane ultimately regrows. It's true that you have a sustained amount of methane due to the flux through this loop.

The same is true for fossil fuels, in principle the loop is closed because eventually plants will turn the CO2 back into fossil fuels. It's just that because the time constant of that loop is thousands of years and we burn it much faster than that, most of the fossil carbon will eventually make it into the atmosphere.

Even though methane is a more efficient greenhouse gas than CO2, the time constant on the CO2 cycle more than makes up for that difference. When making these calculations, you can't just look at the amount of emission, you need to look at what sustained amount of atmospheric level results from that emission.
How badly does it effect your battery level? I think that is the deciding factor in a number of the restrictions from Apple.
Very interesting, but I think being closed source and not working well with Rails are probably a major obstacles to acceptance.
It seems pretty likely to me that some part of the effect described here is just people misunderstanding percentiles.
Apple dev site does this.
1. gnu coreutils

It's a little more than 5, but they're all required :)
What's worse is that they've known that it's an embarrassing security flaw for years, but they apparently thought other things were more important. Not really very comforting.
hm, i just read the whitepaper linked from the url. i would rather like to see updated benchmarks from the computer language shootout, or at least have the source code of the examples available.

btw, the "computed goto"-patch mentioned in footnote 8 IS the implementation of the threaded-code technique mentioned for ruby 1.9.x
One thing worth pointing out is he's saying that they're storing plain text in the database, which may not be the case. They may be storing the password in the database with two way encryption. I'm not arguing the merits of that, only pointing out he's claiming fact on something he has no specific details on.
This is a form of deferred compensation. Old-style companies had armies of vice presidents who didn't do much, but in fact were being rewarded for work they'd already done, with a smooth transition to retirement. This is how those old-style companies encouraged loyalty. Now that that's gone, it's every employee for himself, hence the rise of contractors.

The value of a company isn't in the stuff it owns, or it's brand, or even in its source depot. It's that it's a collective of people who can identify and solve new and difficult problems. Loyalty matters more than ever... Managers who've never been actual practitioners don't understand this.
Very interesting link. After reading that I think I may be generalizing from my own example. So I'll keep an open mind - thanks.
In the same sense that my Japanese builder not using deadbolts and reinforced bars on the first floor windows, it is certainly a newbie mistake. Granted, there hasn't been a breakin in this ward in 5 years, but it could happen and then he'd be sorry he saved the $200 on his last 100 apartments.

There are costs to absolutely everything, even doing the hashed password in the DB trick.

Specifically, it puts one more bar in front of people logging into their account, particularly for some users who are habitually incapable of remembering their passwords and use the remember password link every single freaking time. (These people exist. Everyone collects stats, right?) You all know the conversion rate dieoff that happens as you add each additional form element to a checkout or survey form, right? And how increasing any funnel by a webpage increases the failure rate of the funnel, right? Well, imagine the equivalent of both adding an extra form element and an extra web access, right in the middle of the funnel, and if the user fails to get through the funnel they don't just bounce, they stop using your service for good.

At 37Signals scales, losing half of the 10% or so of accounts which might need password recovery is worth a lot of money. At least several tens of thousands a year. That is an awfully big price to pay as the insurance premium against someone getting a full compromise of their database. (Though I'm sure their users would be grateful if the insurance worked. "Well, sucks that an unknown hacker has a tarball of all the business contacts I've ever put in your database. On the other hand, at least you didn't compromise my password -- my gmail remains safe!")
A long time ago I learned a technique where you use a random salt to add several bytes to a password. The salt is not stored, but rather the authenticating server does a brute-force search for it, using the user's password as a stem.

For some reason, it just doesn't seem useful to me to store the salt with the user's record, if you're worried about someone with a rainbow crack running through your password file.

Edit: that last paragraph was stupid.
reddit made this mistake early on and they learnt their lesson. They no longer store passwords in plain text.

The popularity of a service does not guarantee that it's developers are covering all the bases.

I'm glad Django stores all the passwords as a sha1 hash.
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This is a very interesting and well thought essay. Especially the stats and facts behind some of the positions he is taking are very interesting. With regards to creativity, I would tend to think that: if we look at nature, there seem to be two inherent trends emerge from time immemorial: 1) nature is interested mainly in prorogation of species(thru reproduction) and 2) at the subject level creativity seems to be one of the big driving factors. Meaning, if we look at every species, it is hardwired to reproduce, and lot of physical and non-physical characteristics/actions are specifically put in place by nature, so that species propagates(including humans). Second, behind lot of our endeavors, creativity is the underlying force. And so, for example art, music, scientific discovery (and even sports or programming), the underlying desire is to create(something). I tend to think, even behind the desire to be powerful (for example CEOs/other powerful positions etc, in present times is nothing but desire to create(or failure there of fulfilling this desire and thus reflecting in powergrab). And so in case of women, this particular desire(to create something) is inherently fulfilled(or fulfillable) by giving birth and creating a human being. And of lot their energies over centuries has gone towards this (and then tending and caring for their created product). Whereas men has no such outlet, so they need to express it somehow - hence this is also one reason why see men all over the place at top in lot of fields.
While it's important that the passwords aren't stored in plain text, it should be noted that it is also the last line of defense, not the first. There are plenty of other things to stop you on the way there (not having access to the email, not being able to crack into their data center, the normal stuff).

Just because passwords are in plain text it doesn't mean that suddenly everyone is in trouble.
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That really annoys me, I'm a big boy and can deal with battery intensive activities. Much like using data uses a lot of juice, I'm alright that I get a hit if I take half an hour of video. Being protected from running down my own battery is lame.
You lost me...the way I've always seen salts used is just before hashing, but the same salt is used for all the passwords. Then when authenticating passwords, you salt & hash the incoming password and compare to the stored record in the DB. Am I doing it wrong?
So many sites email your initial registration details to you in plain text. Even if they store them hashed up in future it's just a bad bad idea :(

I know my damn password - I just typed it in :)
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If the server can decode it so can anyone who has access to the server. Not only that, but 37S reveals the password of other people's accounts to the admin. Pathetic.
What's the problem with a "reset password" option?
Not necissarily. You can't write something into a contract that's not legal and still have that clause be enforceable. Stuff that's not legally enforceable is written into contracts all of the time. The question was whether or not this is one such clause, and the point of this sub-thread was that none of us seem to actually know the answer to that.
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Using the same salt for all records makes it significantly easier for someone to crack your whole DB. A different salt for each row means they'd have to go through the effort of creating a rainbow table for each row instead of a whole database.