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The difference with shovels is you need to be there and shovel yourself. Here if you have tool, you just plug it in and it does all the work for you.
What is the estimated number of cubelets or layers remaining?
Ah, the new logo is hideous! I don't see anything better about it other than the fact that it fits in a square. What's the purpose of the late-90's computer graphics style round triangle button thing? It's like a big skeuomorphic upvote button with an airbrushed Mario level in the background. Just get rid of it!
That is exactly equivalent to Haskell's Maybe, except I don't know if it's possible to abstract over type constructors in Ceylon to implement eg. Functor and Monad.
We got around the inaccuracy problems where I'm at by doing all the sensitive calculations in a more capable program (SAS where I'm at now--R when I consult), then exporting the results to Excel. It avoids most of the problems faced by the poor statistical tools in Excel. It's frustrating to think how difficult it is to cut Excel from the pipeline, but such is the dilemma with Excel being as virulent as it is.
So forgive my denseness here, but that can still be broken down into two separate protocols, right? 1) I wish to communicate with foo.com privately, regardless of whether foo.com is really who foo.com claims to be; that is, one time foo.com might be 192.168.0.0, and the next time it might be 192.168.0.1; but either way, regardless of who I'm truly communicating with, I can at least be sure that nobody but the recipient can decode the packets. Then, 2) I can guarantee everything in (1), plus that my the packets I exchange with foo.com are truly the foo.com that resides at 123 Main St., USA.

An analogy might be: 1) I seal a letter in an envelope, and the postal service guarantees that it will arrive at the address I specify, regardless of the human that opens the letter at that address; and 2) I seal a letter in an envelope, and the postal service guarantees that not only will the letter arrive at the address I specify, but that it will only be opened by the human I specify, who is identified by his postal-service-issued ID number.
There is already a similar app called http://theinternetwishlist.com/ by some female developer, Amrit Richmond.
(1) If we had 50 Silicon Valleys rent around here would be a lot lower. Thumbs up to that.

(2) San Francisco may be diverse by some analyst's spreadsheet, but in meatspace it is incredibly ghettoized. How many black people (to take an extreme example) do you see in Pac Heights or the Marina or even the Sunset? How many white people live in Bayview? It is the opposite of diverse.

The closest to "diverse" I've experienced is Toronto. If Canada had better weather, I think many more would move there. Pray for global warming, eh?
Did you read the rest of the comment? Specially the part below:

> That's where CAs come into play [...]

Unless you're somehow able to collect all signatures realiably without anyone MITMing while you collect the signatures over the internet.

That's why CAs exist. They're a reliable and secure way to collect signatures.

They're secure because they're authorities whose certificates are in your system and not sent over the wire. That's why they're preloaded in your web browser/OS, so they can't be tampered with in the first place.

Why have CAs and not just signatures for domains?

1. The list of certificates for the whole internet is HUUUUGE.
2. Certificates change.
3. Certificates get revoked.
4. New certificates are issued.

How could you update your certificate list over the wire making sure you're getting the correct certificates? Talking with a known authority, i.e. the CAs.

Of course, it can still be tampered if you download certificates (or programs bundled with certificates) from untrusted sources and/or not check the signature before installing.
Never thought I'd actually see this word used outside of an episode[1] of Doctor Who. That or maybe an episode of Jeopardy. It certainly doesn't appear to be a well known word.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Wife_(Doctor_Who...
One problem I had with the WP dev evangelists is that they seems stuck in the quantity over quality kind of mentality.

I'm pretty sure today it is clear that the number of apps in the store is not important compared to say, what apps are in the store. but till today, I still see campaigns by the local WP dev evangelists putting out contest to promote people submitting as many apps as possible (e.g. giving a prize for submitting 5,10,20,50 apps, etc).
2) I think you'd be likely to find it by just crawling the graph, but it'd be very hard to prove that you had found it. For example, @sockington https://twitter.com/sockington has 1.4M followers.
i am not a native english speaker so i might have made a mistake there, but the other reply explains my point.
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So far I've only had time to test it out with Santa Clara County. I have all of CA's data but since it's >10GB I'm going to do some optimization and testing first to avoid killing my server.
It's already separate (check the bottom part of my parent comment).

When you accept an unknown certificate, you're communicating with whoever is on the other side regardless of their identity.

You have to settle the identity of the other side at least once when you stablish communication[1]. Actually, you're not settling the identity, just a public key with which you encrypt the communication (which in turn is settling the identity as a desirable side-effect). You still need their public key because, well, that's how encryption works: you send a message encrypted with a certain public key, which can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key.

Fortunately, web browsers alert you not to do this because it's pointless. You see both encryption and authentication as a single step because web browsers abstract the process for you. Otherwise, why am I encrypting the connection in the first place? If someone's listening and you're not checking certificates, sending plaintext or encrypted is actually the same thing and offer ZERO encryption. I'd be able to read anything you say without effort.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...
yupp, seems about right. The physical was is drawing down so might as well prop up another
While I agree with the idea, I suspect even ‘Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km’ isn't a directly comparable figure across different countries. Here in Australia, things are a _long_ way apart. I don't know quite what the relative risks of long distance highway driving compared to inner-city commuting is, but suspect the ratios of, say, sub 100 mile trips compared to over 100 mile trips in Australia vs The UK is startlingly different. Whether that affects the fatality rate or not I don't know.
Microsoft is likely to preserve some errors in the name of backwards compatibility. Spreadsheets that calculate different values in different versions are going to cause them more headaches from their customers than these reports of errors, as the people who care are already using other methods.
Best part : "Gnumeric was originally such a good Excel clone that it even reproduced many Excel errors. When informed that these were errors, the handful of part-time programmers who maintain Gnumeric managed to fix them correctly in a matter of months"
My understanding is that the monitoring wells measure groundwater so the drinking water standards are relevant.

Yeah, the total is just there because I thought it would be better to make the data visible than not. Overall it's pretty meaningless but it might help in some narrow instances where you're looking at one small area versus another small area in the same timeframe. Sometimes the wells are very close together and different colored icons get overlaid so it's not clear from the map that numbers are even that high.
Seems to me like Namecoin is a practical, secure method of distributed identification and verification. It's basically a secure P2P key:value store based off of Bitcoin's method of operation. Its original intent was to replace DNS (the website name is the key, the IP address is the value), but I see no reason why we couldn't also use it to host public keys.
AFAIK those are $60, not free.
Knowing what you now know, what tricks would you use to make the web interface more like the VT100?

My guess would be keyboard navigation, and entering numbers as codes instead of clicking radio buttons.

It's important to remember that discoverability in an interface doesn't matter as much when you can train the workers. Not everything has to be intuitive, especially when you control training (and you can trade eventual speed for immediate understanding).

This is the basis for all the VI/Emacs users who claim to be more productive than in a visual editor/IDE.
Hey guys, I wish you all the best with your company, but I really think you could use a native English speaker to craft your PR messages.

Just for starters, any native English speaker will tell you that saying you're a "modern company" is non-informative and ever so slightly ridiculous (sorry to be harsh!). Also, if it's you speaking about your own company, use "we" instead of "they".

With that said, it sounds like you're doing really cool stuff!
This is a really nice conceit. I'd go further and say there are other types of pursuit that are dreamlike. Translation (my own work) can be like that, and to different extents for different languages. Hungarian to English is every bit as complex as difficult code because the structure of every sentence is so vastly different between the two languages that you have to hold the whole thing in your head to get the job done (in contrast to German or French, which I can do in my sleep). Math, especially analytical math, is the same way; you need to comprehend the whole model at once to make any progress.
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Mining = securing network from double transactions. This is about security of transactions, not about saving. Please stay on the topic.
Actually she has:

https://www.youtube.com/user/rosieburst
http://www.rosiehardy.com/online-tutorials
Wimbledon and the World Cup are #1 in their sports - and, unsurprisingly, I knew of them. But there are simply too many things in the world for the average person to know about the #6 event in marathons.
Someone should store them in a database and do some data mining on them
This decision doesn't refute the parent poster's point. The suspect always had the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. The decision just affirms that you have to explicitly stop the questioning by speaking your intention of that. The minority felt 2 hours of silence and badgering by the suspect indicates a wish to stop the questioning and invalidate further coercive measures to extract testimony.
Is there any doubt that Satoshi is a genius? Look at what he's accomplished.
Kind of like what wants a screen name like AzNpRyDe1983 or XXXlilCutiEXXX3 or FastIntegra345?
But then again, emergency services probably get to an inner-city accident faster than to an accident in the middle of nowhere, making the latter potentially more fatal. Furthermore, many ‘smallish’ countries in the list are in western Europe, with a relatively high standard of living and – more importantly – functional and widespread public transport.

I guess it all boils down to being unable to compare apples and oranges with regards to their banananess.
Where is Slava Pestov now?
Haven't seen him for a long time.
> Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle.

Alas.
It is unknown. However, if you download the game, you can see how many cublets are still remaining on the current layer, as well as how many layers have been removed.
Certainly a clever scheme. I personally don't buy into such nonsense, but I'm sure lots of people would.

The sad thing is this could be a legitimate product, but the over aggressive scammy marketing gives it a bad image.
I estimate it'd produce around 0.25 BTC/day, mining in a pool. That's about $30/day USD at today's price.

As ASICs come online, the difficulty is going to go up, which will reduce the daily generation rate for any given miner. I've been trying to decide whether or not to order a device now based on my profitability prediction for months from now when I might actually get it. I'm guessing by the time I get one I might be able to produce at least 0.05 BTC/day. Assuming that's $6/day, the $274 device will take about six weeks to pay for itself. Not too bad, but I don't know if keeping tabs on it afterwards is worth it for $6/day. It'd only be worth it if I think BTC are going to be worth a lot more in the future... getting back to hoarding coins as an investment rather than using them as currency.
so when can we expect to see this on Udacity/Coursera/edX? ;)
We're barely 13.4% into the twenty-first century. Give us some time, will ya? Even Tesla didn't make that prediction until the 1930's, well after the turn of the century.
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Apparently 2010 isn't much better.
Yep. I just sorted his list by something more reasonable than alpha.
Microsoft have been a player in the mac ecosystem for long, and most of people's complaint was that they didn't do enough (no new versions of IE, Office suite lagging after a while, the windows phone app coming later, etc)

The Core Intuition podcast also got sponsored by azure, and one of the host was joking "it's as if they thought it out to be used by developpers". If anything, microsoft will be more than welcomed I think if they put efforts to have OSX/iOS devices as first class citizens in their platforms.
> Else, we might as well say "IBM's entire product line is built on top of the discovery of electricity". Which while true, it doesn't mean we celebrate Maxwell and Tesla for IBM's work.

Yes we do. We celebrate Maxwell and Tesla, along with all of the other great scientists back through history, because without them and their discoveries the things we create today wouldn't be possible. That's the entire meaning of Newton's phrase about standing on the shoulders of giants. We may not mention every link in the chain every time we talk about any given product, but it is implicit that the chain is there. Every new scientist adds on to what we already have, and if their contribution is significant enough, the next generation of scientists will learn their name along with the ones we learned.

Ritchie built C. He built on Thompson's work with B, but the C programming language is Ritchie's creation. He was also not “part of an established team” when building Unix. He and Thompson built and led the team after leaving Multics. Considering that he wrote the language they built the system in and was also one of the two leaders of the team, your presumption that the same work could have been done without him is a bold one.

Steve Jobs sold some products for a while, and he did a really good job of it. He had a significant economic impact, but it was a temporary one. Future generations are not going to build on top of his work, because he didn't create or discover anything to build on top of. He was a businessman, and history will remember (or forget) him as such.

Valuing great work and discovery is not a “naive programming concept”, it's an inheritance from the scientific community. We honor those who have gone before who make it possible for us to do what we do. Without Dennis Ritchie, my working life and the things that I create would be very, very different. Without Steve Jobs, they'd probably be the exact same.
This is a great piece for putting the energy problem into stark perspective. I do quibble with a few of the arguments and some numbers.

Of the numbers presented by Ms. Carlyle, the one that's probably most arguable is the growth rate of solar. Installed capacity (that's a measure of peak output, not actual power production, more later) is doubling about every 3 years, not the 10 she suggests.

Solar energy capacity (power output, in GW) translates to energy output (GWh) based on capacity factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor). This varies by type of solar (it's higher for concentrated solar power, CSP, lower for photovoltaics, PV), and siting. A low range of 13% for PV in Massachusets, a high of 75% for CSP in Spain. Let's call it 15% on average (conservative but realistic).

Global solar capacity was around 69 GWm in 2012. Let's call that 7 GW after capacity factor. Oil produces roughly 500x more power at present, or 9 doubling periods. If solar output doubles every 3 years, we might be able to match existing oil capacity within 27 years.

That's not great, but it's within reason, and may be soon enough.

There are other tools in the toolbox: nuclear, particularly in the form of thorium or TerraPower reactors. Wind. Perhaps even large-scale geothermal development (Iceland, Kenya, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Indonesia, the Philippines, and US all have significant developments in the 500 - 3000 MW range). Anathema though it might be to the wilderness crowd, the Yellowstone caldera represents an immense potentially for development, and unlike many other geothermal opportunities, is within transmission range of significant population and industrial centers.

The other problem with oil, of course, is that nagging little climate problem. Yonatan Zunger posted a charmingly bleak piece on that here:
https://plus.google.com/103389452828130864950/posts/SgzQU5DM...
He got a job at Google back in 2010 and pretty much handed over the reins at that time due to lack of free time to work on Factor. He still posts on the mailing list though periodically.
If the USD pops then BTC may be less deflationary. The bubble did not pop because mortgages were paid back.

Loans are generally repaid in currency, paying back a loan creates even more currency as the additional currency created by the interest becomes an asset against which loans can be issued.
There were 4,096 total layers; currently 262 layers have been removed with 17,758,801 cubelets left on the current layer. So 3,834 layers and 112,689,867,042 cubelets remain.

The cube age is 166 days, so at the current rate of progress (~148,787,753 cubelets per day), it should take another 758 days to complete. However, the rate has been slowing from over 2 layers/day at the start to just over 1.5 layers/day. Combined with user attrition and this new ability to add/remove layers, it's hard to say when exactly it'll be completed.
For anyone interested in the generally fucked up state of clinical drug trials, I highly recommend Ben Goldacre's excellent book Bad Pharma. It'll make you angry.
He didn't enter the data for the other regions yet.
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This is really cool!

I have always admired the engineering work on Factor, but had thought the project would die when Slava Pestov took his job at Google. Great to see it continue to improve.
I'm sure you're excited to get it out, and you've put a lot of work into this game, but I would consider pulling it for now, and polishing things up a bit more first. First impressions are big. I would also look at Bombermine for inspiration. Just one guy on the internet's opinion.
I must say, that the syntax and semantics are not intuitive at all. I've spent half an hour trying to learn how does this thing work, and have not been able to. I guess, a damn good tutorial is in order. I think one of the primary reasons Python took off really well, was because of very good tutorials available. The language of Factor's documentation is still only tuned for language designers, not language users.
I'm so confused. Just put the word "rippln" into Bing and the first result was a non-sensical Yahoo News article that seemed like it came out of a random text generator with the buzzword app-marketing setting 'up to 11'

http://news.yahoo.com/rippln-invites-spreading-globally-over...

I read "Rippln" and thought of the digital currency "Ripple"...oh well.
Tell me more about how gold fell out of use as currency because mining became industrialized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

I'm not a gold bug and I see many problems with using gold as a currency, namely that the amount of currency in circulation should depend on how much stuff we can dig out of the ground. (In the case of BTC something about how many times a SHA-256 hash can be calculated.)

The idea that gold fell out of use as currency because of industrialization is either a completely new discovery in economics, or completely wrong. I'm pretty sure it's the latter.
good effort on the marketing, but when someone invited me and I saw the NDA, I went and found the video elsewhere and ratted out those MLM scum right away.

use your friends and family to make money? makes me feel dirty.
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Spoiler - interesting solution [from the comments]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/133494020/Extended-9-dots-puzzle-t...

Solved mathematically :)
I made a python script for this purpose a while back. Supports brute force and dictionaries.

https://github.com/process/Twitter-Name-Finder
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Under new libraries I see a reddit API lib listed. Why are they including things like this in Factor itself. Doesn't it kind of bloat things? Factor can strip this out if it isn't used of course, but can you really maintain all of these libraries? If you just add random things to Factor itself you're eventually going to end up with something that is impossible to maintain without a very large number of invested people.
Did he? I'm fairly sure I saw that on the PetetMolydeux parody Twitter account.
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The statement "nobody but the recipient can decode the packets" is meaningless if there are no bounds on who "the recipient" is.

The analogy for the first case is more like "The postal service guarantees that it won't be opened before whoever is reading your mail opens it", which is clearly a pretty meaningless guarantee.
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Did a 'sort' to list names from least chars to most and didn't like any, except the few that were already gone. Though the many better ones seem to be reserved keywords like 'nill'.
It's probably the smell of ozone and ions causing particles in the air to adhere to surfaces, cleaning it like how electrostatic air filters work.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-08/897083302.Ch.r....
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Dictionary word domain names are mostly gone, esp. if you are referring to .COMs.
Also, TCE is one chemical in a very long list.
I can solve it with just 5 lines. You just have to get the pen to infinity and then come back.

Wait, if infinity wraps around that'll take just one line!
I don't have an academic library to hand - but I'd guess you would have seen the phrase in the sixties in academia, but it probably didn't have the same meaning as it does today.

The roots of the idea of cognitive load - rather than the phrase itself - can be traced back to Miller's seminal (and much misinterpreted) "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" (http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy430s2001/Mill...) although he didn't use the term "cognitive load" itself.

The term "cognitive load" was certainly used in the 60's and 70's - I remember reading it in papers - but IIRC it didn't really have any formal definition or model at that point.

Modern uses of cognitive load track back to John Sweller's development of Cognitive Load Theory in the 80's. It was his work that really popularised it and pushed it out as a well recognised term in things like instructional design and the various disciplines that have morphed into what we now call UX.