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I interpret your sentence as follows: in the "hypothetical" case that this comes to pass, then you, as someone who had paid money, would feel ripped off. When you say "would" here, I don't think that it makes your "as someone who..." clause hypothetical. The way that I'd say this is:

If I were someone who paid, then I'd feel ripped off.
What phrasing would you use instead of "consumer", and what makes your phrasing better?
Yes and no. The TSA does have to respond to the comments, but can simply reaffirm the proposed rule without changes after the comment period. On the other hand, a loud public outcry in comments can lead to changes -- both from the regulatory agency and in Congress (by highlighting a vote-winning issue). There have been a couple of very successful civil liberties commenting campaigns (Know Your Customer, although it eventually got introduced via the Patriot Act; and Stop Real ID, which involved a very similar coalition to the one that's likely to be getting involved here).
In reality, you're more likely to remember a dream if woken suddenly than gently.
that it isnt compiled ?
Any of those topics could be taught at an arbitrarily advanced level. You could, for example, demand that each one be studied and a non-backwards-compatible alternative be designed with the wisdom of hindsight and, of course, implemented in C.

If I were considering that class for a grade, I would hope that those topics would be mostly introduced rather than dealt with in that kind of depth. (Now, if it were a non-graded, non-time-limited, free Udacity or Coursera online course that I could work my through as time allowed, I would rather have the depth. Just don't make me master one new decades-old technological toolbox per week and grade me on it.)
what makes you think they aren't doing just that? they could start shipping them out and make a profit on the machines just as the difficulty rate picks up and there is more profit to be made in selling miners rather than mining.
This is a funny sarcasm on the topic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213219

They are saying Excel - established data tool - is, in fact, dead for big data. And what else matters?
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Where can I find those $8 certificate? https://www.positivessl.com/ only shows me "from €49.00/ year".
Calc (from OpenOffice) was analyzed among others in 2010 "On the numerical accuracy of spreadsheets, Journal of Statistical Software, 34, 4, 1-29."

http://www.jstatsoft.org/v34/i04

"
This paper discusses the numerical precision of five spreadsheets (Calc, Excel, Gnumeric, NeoOffice and Oleo) running on two hardware platforms (i386 and amd64) and on three operating systems (Windows Vista, Ubuntu Intrepid and Mac OS Leopard). The methodology consists of checking the number of correct significant digits returned by each spreadsheet when computing the sample mean, standard deviation, first-order autocorrelation, F statistic in ANOVA tests, linear and nonlinear regression and distribution functions. A discussion about the algorithms for pseudorandom number generation provided by these platforms is also conducted. We conclude that there is no safe choice among the spreadsheets here assessed: they all fail in nonlinear regression and they are not suited for Monte Carlo experiments."
The 'extra' directory basically acts as a package manager. The "Batteries Included" approach Factor uses here makes it much more likely that libraries work out of the box.

This was very useful in the early days of Factor when language and base library changes caused bitrot in contributions. If the contributed library wasn't updated it was moved to an 'unmaintained' directory for later correction.
Ah, what timing
What is it? Why should I learn it? What are its "killer" features? Ain't nobody got time to learn about every new prog. language.. :)
That's good. No only if they made thinkpads with screen that doesn't make me want to carve my eyes out.
I'm no expert at cryptography and all that stuff, but i find the model of the httpsy link quite interesting. You include the identity of the site you're linking to in an extended httpsy address, so that you can be sure that you land on the site you linked to.

The beauty of the Idea is that it democratizes the trust domain. It creates a web where ordinary people decide whom they trust simply by putting down httpsy-Links.
If you have >7 domains and want wildcard certificates, it is the cheapest option.

Edit: also, if I can get an unlimited number of Lamborghinis for just 400k, where do I sign up??
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I am not talking about its raw computational performance. I am thinking about the usage scenarios of this machine as an average developer and how this machine could replace my Air. Most development tasks do not require the computational power of a MacBook Air and the ARM Chromebook actually feels quite smooth. The main thing is, unlike budget netbooks, this one has an okay display resolution, a very good keyboard, better than 11" Air battery life, less heat, flash storage (though small), and less weight and thickness. I personally did never even consider buying a netbook (Atom or otherwise). If for any reason you care about sheer performance locally on your laptop, I totally agree that this machine is not for you. This Chromebook easily has the most bang for the buck than anything I bought. If I did not have the money, I could conceivably live my entire life off of it (yes, it's that good) and a Nexus 4 (again, the best bang for the buck in smartphone area.)

I should point out that by no means I meant that the MacBook Air is not worth its price. Even at four times the price of the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, it is worth every penny in my opinion. It's a much better, faster, classier, sturdier, more beautiful, and higher quality machine in general.
OllyDBG every day, for x86 assembler :)
if you were to add support for windows, what graphic toolkit would you use?
It takes a few hours to get used to, but once you get the hang of it it becomes an amazing language. For most things postfix notation that Factor uses reads better than applicative (prefix) notation other languages uses. It's like jQuery's or linq's method chaining, only better :) and with less syntax. For example here is the solution to problem 22 in Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/problem=22):

: names ( -- seq )
"names.txt" ascii file-contents [ quotable? ] filter "," split ;
: score ( str -- n ) [ 64 - ] map sum ;
: solution-22 ( -- n )
names natural-sort [ 1 + swap score * ] map-index sum ;
As cool as an approach that Factor has, I cannot fathom why it is being developed for x86 for the life of me. (Besides claims of cross-platform native executable compilation.)

On ARM it would be interesting- or if it had a highly modular structure that would allow it to be "easily" ported to other microprocessors.

But on x86? What niche is it trying to serve? Is it a language-lover's-language? I guess what I'm asking is, why would I use a "high-level" Forth on x86? There has to be a reason, I'm just missing it.
The problem is that still most data is not big; even worse, big data is often either small data presented in a very sparse way (logs for instance) or is being subsetted or summarised to fit in Excel :(
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Dynamicly typed and interpreted, it is one of the many uses of the term 'scripting language' [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout%27s_dichotomy
I have never understood why it has to be that complicated.
when you can use dtrx for example

http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
Is there really smell of rain ? I think it's more like smell of rain and sand mixed .

In my place here in India people generally spread water in front of their home and shop and if there is sand it smells similar to when it rains .
You can also opt out of the scan when you travel which registers your opinion. On average this adds about 3 minutes to the security time, though sometimes longer (up to 7) if other people are getting patdowns. In SFO they log reasons and include health concerns and privacy concerns.
This is a contributing factor to the numerous reasons why rigid office schedules are counter-productive for technical/creative staff. (Some others at random: reduced performance without adequate sleep/food, wasted transit time, need to maintain work/life balance through outside interests that may counter to fixed schedules, periods required to resolve wayward body clocks after flights/parties, etc.)
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Actually, Forth (the predecessor of concatenate languages) has the best tutorials I've ever read - Starting Forth and Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie.

http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net
I use PS1='$ ' on the local machine and 'foo$ ' if I've ssh'd to foo. I prefer this because: the location of the cursor is more fixed, it doesn't wander across the columns as the environment changes, so my eye finds it more quickly; I've a decent amount of line left before it wraps at the end of the terminal, and I often type 100+-character pipelines on the fly; a couple of taps of Enter gives almost blank lines that logically separate when needed.
I'm curious as to why use a Spreadsheet for statistical functions if they cannot be trusted?
Deflation is not desireable in itself, but it is not a crippling disadvantage. Eg Japan has had a very long deflation spiral and it didn't affect the usability of their currency. And the west has been living in a world of negative real interest rates since the 2008 crisis.

As long as we don't have a big bitcoin credit market and we don't want to regulate the bitcoin "printing press" to adjust for market cycles, it won't even be a disadvantage. = As long as it's only a secondary currency to most users.
Love reading about Data Oriented Design.
Or, TSA has already decided to take the scanners down, and so now they are just looking to pick up free goodwill since it's bloody obvious what the public would say on the matter.
This would go great with Hub (http://defunkt.io/hub/) which provides pull-request integration.
Yes. If you're on Android, do a checksum of your classes.dex file. If you use the Android LVL, chances are the cracker will patch your app, and thereby change the checksum of classes.dex. You can use the checksum to then decide whether or not the app is pirated, and report it to your servers.

For iOS, you can check if the app is pirated by seeing whether or not the cryptid flag is set in the LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO of the MACH-O header, and then report it to your servers if it's not.
Overwhelmingly average human beings, yes.
Your own linked to site lists the following expenditures by the US federal government:

Pensions = 24%
Health Care = 24%
Defense = 23%
Welfare = 12%
Interest = 6%
Other Spending = 4%
Transportation = 3%
Education = 3%
Protection = 2%
General Government = 1%

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2013_US_fed

Who's fantasizing here?

Of course, these figures don't include so-called "black budgets" for such things as CIA/DEA/etc "front companies" from which these agencies generate & draw funds without congressional oversight.
It does lend itself quite well to this type of focus, however I fully agree that this isn't unique to programming. I suspect the need for "flow", or zen, or deep-concentration of what-have-you is driven by the nature of the task, which involves juggling & visualizing several layers of fairly complex abstraction and rule sets.

I wish he would have stopped short of needing to essentially diminish other occupations. I'm not an accountant, but it wouldn't surprise me if occasionally they too fall into the "zone". Why wouldn't they? Auditing a large and complex system could easily require as much mental agility as coding a piece of software.
Factor used to run on ARM [1]. Back then Windows Mobile only had 64MB of ram and it wasn't quite enough to do anything useful in Factor.

I used to run a video sharing website written in Factor [2], sadly the server crashed a few weeks ago and I haven't recovered the data from the disk yet.

Factor feels more like a Scheme than a Forth to me when programming.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20111117015025/http://www.bluishc...
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20130118204336/http://tinyvid.tv/
You don't have to learn it. It is probably mostly interesting to users of concatenative languages, or those who just want to broaden their horizons..

Personally, I've fallen in love with it a few years ago. Even though I don't use Factor for anything practical, the language itself (as well as Forth) has taught me a completely new way of thinking about problem solving. Something that I benefit from in other languages I use.

So if there is one reason you should at least check it out, it is that it will make you a better programmer. And I think anyone who's been writing code long enough, will know that there is always room for self-improvement.
(English is not my native language)

I am very surprised by the very large amount of statism that seems to be present in USA in general and on hacker news in particular.

The high level of support for GWOT and all the side dishes like TSA, mass surveillance etc is very surprising.

Each and one of all the things that have been done in the post 9/11 world may partially or completely be justifiable on it's own.

But please, take a step back and paint a picture of where we have come from and were we are going if this trend continues.

If I may help you...

http://i.imgur.com/tfPY1y0.jpg , here is a picture of the subway in New York in the 80's, dirty and full of graffiti - with drugs and violence present and by all means also music, food vendors and a lot of people going to their jobs.

http://i.imgur.com/AxWRPgl.jpg , here is the Moscow subway from the same time. Clean, spotless and no one behaves disorderly without the police arresting them quickly, police officers with none of the ridiculous limitations that the western police had in their code of conduct at that time.

In which of those two subways would you prefer to ride to work every day?

With every new alfabet law designed to protect us that passes through the parliaments, with every new government agency we move closer to a society that looks more like the Moscow subway station.

Not to long ago we were prepared for thermonuclear war to defend our ways.

Today we are giving up our open and free society with a cheer so we can stay safe. Step by step, piece by piece.

Why can't the otherwise so intelligent and educated crowd of hacker news see that our society is heading in the direction of a police state? We are not there yet, but it is where we will end up if we don't turn around soon.
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For those looking for "Why Factor" material you might like to look at some of Manfred von Thun's writings on the Joy programming language [1]. Joy is similar to Factor and Manfred wrote a lot of theory on the "why" of concatenative programming languages.

[1] http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-proje...
The idea the USD is going to collapse is farcical. It would be a global catastrophe of a scale not yet seen, but also not threatened.

Meanwhile, BTC gains and loses 50 - 80% of its value in a single day. I wonder which is more stable.
Well, what a about detailed study? Quoting from abstract:

"Microsoft’s continuing inability to correctly fix errors is discussed. No statistical procedure in Excel should be used until Microsoft documents that the procedure is correct; it is not safe to assume that Microsoft Excel’s statistical procedures give the correct answer. Persons who wish to conduct statistical analyses should use some other package."

On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bdm25/excel2007.pdf
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~gmelard/rech/gmelard_csda23.pdf
I did this once in Charlotte (which btw is normally an excellent airport). I had to wait about 15 minutes for 'the agent' to show up that would conduct the pat-down. There were about 5 TSA agents standing around doing nothing while I was waiting. Setting aside the wait time, they were all friendly enough, but they all had this look of "ugh... what is this guy's problem", and I wouldn't bet against the wait time being a purposeful deterrent.

So, while I will continue to opt out when possible, I wouldn't recommend doing it if you're short on time.
What's new here ? Mahout already did it.
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Also 1/5th the energy efficiency that BFL originally promised when taking orders, and their most vocal spokesperson claimed that there was no way that they'd be significantly more power-hungry than predicted, that anyone who suggested otherwise was trolling, and that the only reason to draw attention to the fiasco when their FPGA mining hardware which was announced with impressive efficiency and blew out the power budget so badly they had to redesign the boards was to shill or troll. Right up until they blew their power budget and had to redesign the ASIC boards.

Additionally, he tried to convince people to buy BFL rather than one of the competing boards by arguing it was so much more power efficient miners using them would be forced to shut down. It's barely more power efficient than ASICs which shipped months ago, and those companies are already looking at newer models.

Oh, for what it's worth that's also less than 10x the power efficiency of the best FPGA boards...
In that case it would appear to be unavoidable. However, when comparing the costs between offices I think it is important to take lost productivity in to account.

When looking at $cost_of_office_with_private_space versus $cost_of_open_plan_office it might make sense to go for the open plan office.

But $cost_of_office_with_private_space versus ($cost_of_open_plan_office + $productivity_cost) might lead to a different conclusion.
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I realize :)
That's what's cool about the Forth idea, and why it can be so effective. It's not that it's unintuitive, it just doesn't take Algol-style semantics as a given as we do today. (It was being used before C was even developed.) If we're interested, it's our job to see if we can fit our thought process into the Forth idea, not vice versa.

And it's a very coherent idea. It's meant to respect processor architecture while maintaining a good level of comprehensibility to the human. And it keeps a MUCH closer correspondence between "word" (essentially a routine) and actual instruction. That got WAY lost with C, enter the beast-compiler.

I think of it as a concept layer above assembly, that has features far beyond just mnemonic value. It's like Lisp to me- a language whose "syntax" is dictated by the functional necessity of a computing methodology, not the decisions of language designers. For me at least, the approach leads to much higher productivity for a variety of reasons.

There's also a very high probability that Forth is the first thing to be run when you turn on the computer or cellphone you're reading this from.

Now as to Factor... see my post above and help me out!
Concatenative language syntax is actually pretty easy at the basic level. I don't know Factor, but I used to dabble a lot in Forth. The single syntactical rule with Forth is that a symbol (called a "word") is one or more non-space characters, delimited by spaces. So the following three things are all words: SWAP ." -1

Next, there's the idea of the stack. Every word is executed, one after the other, and the words operate on the stack. So the four-word sequence 3 4 + . puts a 3 on the stack, then puts a 4 on the stack, then pops the top two numbers from the stack and puts their sum on the stack, then prints the top number on the stack. So the result, naturally, is 11. (Well, it is if you're operating in base 6 at the time. Didn't want to make it TOO easy for you!)

Oh, and there's also the concept of interpreting vs compiling. The colon word, which is spelled :, reads the very next word from the input and begins the definition of that word. Every word it encounters up to the next semi-colon is compiled, not executed. So if I did this

3 4 + : FOO SWAP DROP ; .

... it would still print out the sum of 3 and 4, but in between it would also define a new word called FOO. Which would be a silly way to program, but it demonstrates the point.

So the short form is: begin reading at the top left, continue rightward and downward until you reach the bottom. There's no syntax as such, like Perl's die "Can't open file" unless $fileopen; because Forth-like languages don't read ahead to the end of the line.

[Edited: HN doesn't do Markdown. WTF? Also, I don't know my left and right.]
Sending passwords in plain text is yet another thingy to stay away.

I need to admit videos are professionally produced, seductive... Anyone joining my ripple? (in the first moment I read "rip-off")

Relevant: http://www.sauliuz.com/building-on-what-you-own/ building on what you own!
Will add an MIT licence tonight.
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> • object-oriented programming, C++, STL

Funny. STL is as anti-OO as you can get.
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