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CCTV isn't going to trace you coming from your home, where you stopped along the way, how fast you went to each point and where you got out.

Drones can circle a city for days and with high resolution sensors can not miss a thing.

This isn't just a more advanced CCTV, it's a near-infallible machine.
> If you're standing in the crowd most people will take a backpack off & put it at their feet?

I do. Both to alleviate the weight, minimize the space I take up as well as reduce the chance of someone slipping a hand inside my bag. Likewise when I'm carrying a messenger.

I'm a little weary of this set of pictures. It seems like he's edging to the front of the crowd, whereas I thought the explosions occurred a little further back. Moving to the front would be a great way to get stuck, much like ending up against the rails at a concert.

Anyhow, I think crowd sourcing this kind of investigation can potentially be of great help to law enforcement, but I really hope the internet community keeps itself in check when it comes to determining guilt & doling out punishment.
Heh, I would have thought spelling the acronym out might be more clear than just typing ARC.
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> CCTV isn't going to trace you coming from your home, where you stopped along the way, how fast you went to each point and where you got out.

Why not?
Oh, I see. It still seems lamesauce for an article that's targeted toward techies to say that IBM created it. Seems like it's a journo looking for a story rather than someone who really cares about the subject matter. Oh well, it was interesting, but I'd rather read a blog post about it than a MSM magazine article.
Or more recently Steven Hatfill from the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Nope, I left early 2009 after building QC and its team for close to 5 years, followed by a year of iOS and then WebKit.

After that Cooliris and now back to entrepreneurship with Everpix :)
Heya, yeah I don't use 3rd party libraries but the compiler hooks SDL to do the screen init work.

If I get on Steam, I'll be able to use the DLL features to implement SteamWorks API
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Hey, long-time iOS dev here. Interface Builder is emphatically a beginner's friend. For "major league" stuff it is wholeheartedly the enemy. Avoid Storyboards like the plague. It's merge nightmare city when in teams, and a big enough app will suffer under the complexity required. It's simply not worth the pain.

With DCIntrospect (https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect), positioning in code actually becomes easier than nibs. You can print out the view properties, tweak positioning, then once it looks right you can get the values you need to tweak your code.

Additionally, getting to know UIAppearance and adding categories to UIColor and UIFont that return your app's standard fonts let you create a styleable application with consistent typography and color palette.
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Yes you are right, if that was marketed like the introduction of x64 it may work.

However there is a big difference: the move to 64-bit words was something that was in demand when it was introduced. There was a market for it, with a very clear value proposal.

In contrast a new "mode" with the same computational power plus dataflow annotations would be a tough sell: larger code size, and and better performance / watt only for some applications.

(Also, as far as I know AMD64 / x64 on Intel cores uses the same decode and issue unit, just with different microcode. Circuit-wise there is a lot in common with x86.

Here we would be talking about a new mode and also a new instruction+data path in the processor. The core would become larger and more expensive. Not sure how that plays.)
wisdom is to know when to apply a theory, knowing when to use a methodology. :)

WHen someone says, hiring remote workers is necessary they are talking about it in certain context. Although they might fail to mention that context, or may even fail to notice that underlying context. Not noticing the context doesnt make them fundamentalist, it means that they are not much rigorous or they reached the particular conclusion by trial and error.

However to believe in any such conclusion without trying to understand the context or just not being aware to the fact that there might be a context is a folly on your part and not someone who mentioned a particular strategy which worked for them.
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Nice work, amazing that you could crank this out in a couple of nights. Inspirational!
What are some examples of the evidence?
Think of all the millions of people who left places like Ireland to emigrate to the US back in the day. Most of them never saw their families they left behind again. At least nowadays we have internet... though with the 10 - 20 minute radio delay to Mars, Skyping isn't going to work so well
Can't believe it's already been 10 years though:

http://www.polhosting.info/web-archives/pixelshox_technology...
Woah, who would have thought it would be such a perfect tool for prototyping. One of my biggest complaints is that I am faster in code than most designers are in their tool of choice (photoshop and etc) - but this could actually be faster than just writing the code.
They used to be very common. Probably around the 486/early Pentium days if memory serves.
Do you really want a non-sarcastic answer to that?

Use some common sense: CCTV cameras aren't ubiquitous. There are gaps in coverage all over the place.
1) But if you run full speed into other players and hit them head on doesn't matter the level or professionalism or type of sport, your brain is probably not going to fair well. This isn't about the NFL in a large picture, but about tolerance as a society of a brutal sport that induces cumulative damage of the brain.

2) I can see an even better alternative -- programming, being part of an open source project (hey I didn't have to think hard here I am a programmer so that came first to me) and well pretty much any physical activity that doesn't result hitting your head against things, gardening or even walking is probably good enough to escape the sedentarism effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hatfill

Or even more recently Ryan Lanza at Sandy Hook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Lanza#Investigation

The media doesn't learn and doesn't care to learn.
This one actually looks like the backpack in the FBI photo. Specifically the gray stripes on the shoulder straps.
They're all very convincing. Probably because there are thousands of people with backpacks at an event like this, and they tend to take them off and put them on when they stop or want to take something out. But hey, let's just get their photos posted all over the internet as bombing suspects.
speculation. this is misleading and not productive
Machinarium's gameplay could (and should) be pretty much copy pasted onto lots of adventure games, both remakes and new ones. It's just perfect. I hope Amanita goes back to that franchise, there's still a lot that could be explored there.
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The sketch artist could have intentionally drawn the women as slightly disproportionate from reality just to make this piece more polemic. I don't see how that was prevented?
While I agree that there is a failure to understand contemporary technology, I also think the incentives given patent examiners are misaligned. They're rewarded for applications processed; they're not graded on the number of bad patents they reject.

A patent is a deal we, the people of the US, make with an inventor: add significantly to the sum total of our technical knowledge, and in exchange, we'll give you a time-limited monopoly on the technique you invented. The problem is that there isn't anyone unambiguously charged with making sure this is a good deal for us: that the knowledge we're getting is worth the price we're paying. It's technically the PTO's responsibility, and they do make some effort, but the incentives given patent examiners don't encourage them to be hard-nosed about it.

Currently, I don't think patents about to be granted are reviewed by the examiners' supervisors or anything like that. Seems to me there should be an internal committee that reviews every patent about to be granted by junior examiners, and an occasional one of those about to be granted by senior examiners, to verify its quality. Repeatedly approving applications that then get rejected by this committee should slow an examiner's promotion progress.
Thanks :). I spent a huge amount of time working with those techs lately so I'm pretty familiar with them. It's not like I could have done that from scratch.

Over the last few weeks I wrote a Web player with Three.js / Lua.js to be released with the Beta of my cooperative game-making platform (next week) - http://craftstud.io/, and last year I wrote a Google Wave-like thing with Socket.io.
Yes, this. I take it that the amount of inverse entropy is always diminishing. In order to fully simulate a universe with the same amount of entropy^-1 we need at least as much as we had at the initial moment. But entropy^-1 will always decrease.
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Most of these people have no means of escape from their poverty. And due to the worst drought in Kenya in many years, crops have been ruined, and countless individuals are literally wondering where their next meal will come from. The people of Nairobi need help desperately.
>impossible to simulate a universe like our own within our own

Impossible to perfectly model a universe, but not impossible to simulate something that looks like a tiny part of a universe.
CCTV isn't going to trace you coming from your home, where you stopped along the way, how fast you went to each point and where you got out.

Yes it is, that's quite common in Britain, or at least London, because CCTV coverage is so dense there. To turn your argument inside out, drone deployment is temporary whereas CCTV deployment tends to be permanent.
The bold part of the article was the crux of it;

>> "This extremely efficient mechanism for finding out the exact answer to your question is creating a generation of very efficient, but perhaps not entirely well rounded developers who can churn out code very quickly but perhaps don’t understand the code as well as they should."
That isn't the whole story on incentives, at least from the USPTO's perspective. While it is true that the overall budget is set externally (by Congress, for the most part), the money that the patent offices is allowed to actually spend is limited by the fees they collect [1]. So while they can't directly get themselves raises by drumming up more fees, they do protect themselves from layoffs and pay cuts by keeping the fee pipeline going.

Separately, so far as I know, there's no reason to think that the USPTO is immune from typical bureaucratic incentive misalignment. More applications do mean more work and the simplest way to deal with more work is to get more people to do it. More people would increase the bureaucratic fiefdom of USPTO decisionmakers (who are first in line in terms of deciding how to handle more work) and the increased fees coming from the increased applications are at least a good starting point when arguing for a budget increase next year. This is a weaker incentive chain than "the USPTO isa business funded by filing fees", but it is still a significant one.

[1] http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/08/usptos-future-budget...
Whoever placed these devices is/are presumably still lying low someplace in New England right now and has demonstrated a willingness to murder/maim innocent people and could be planning to do so again.

Frankly "due process" does not seem that important right now (as soon somebody is formally detained or accused, agree with you 100% on due process), but what is most important at this moment is getting credible leads/clues into the hands of law enforcement as quickly as possible.

The people poring over photographs are doing just that
Yes. By the time they enacted the plan they had an excuse, but they had planned to depose him before they had evidence.
It's not a no-compromises device, the whole thing is a portablity/power tradeoff. I'm happy with the result; moving from a 5+ pound laptop that I lugged around in a bag or left behind to a 2 pound one that I don't mind carrying around everywhere and using as a main workstation has been a nice change. The big downside is limited customizability, I would put a much larger SSD in it if it were at all feasible. I just keep the stuff I don't use often on a server or an external USB drive.

Using it on your lap isn't as awkward as it would seem. I'm a largish guy so I'm sure it looks preposterous tapping away at this tiny thing perched on my knees but it works just fine, although the flexible keyboard sounds like a bongo when I type on anything but a firm surface. You can also flip down the stand and use it unfolded 180° so you get your choice of two whole screen angles. In a pinch pen input is sufficient for writing an email or filling out a webform, or you can scribble freehand notes and transcribe them later.

The RAM hasn't been an issue. I haven't found any software that truly needs more than 4G of RAM, and the fast SSD makes swapping/not caching disk not a big deal. I don't think I'd want to take the battery life hit of a ton of RAM even if it were upgradeable.

If there were one thing I could add to the Surface Pro 2 wishlist it would be built in LTE, having to carry around a USB dongle or drain the hell out of my cellphone to get connectivity in places with no wi-fi is a drag. Reliable connectivity would also make the scarce disk space less annoying.
A great dragon is distinct from a komodo dragon or, from a eurocentric view, a Chinese dragon. 'A green great dragon' makes perfect sense used in the appropriate context.
Virgin has won me over completely.
Visual Basic is derived from the same roots. I think the use is acceptable.

For reference, I started on PDS (QBASIC 7) and used VB for DOS for a number of years. Awesome products. My father built a piece of software on PDS 7 which basically ran most of London's bus and payroll system. It had networking and everything.
> There's a water bottle in the backpack which leads me to believe that person is a runner?

Doesn't every stereotypical American have a giant bottle of water in hand / on his/her lips every two minutes?

> If you planted a bomb why would you stand in the crowd?

Makes sense for suicide bombers.
Without due process, law enforcement is just the vengeful application of (well financed) power.
I know, I was being facetious. I just like the thought of the campaign finishing and runn1ng posting each of his sponsors a $0.99 protractor.
Great comment. You make it sound like analysts have more imagination—was that intentional?

When I studied math I was definitely, in your taxonomy, an algebraist. But if I went back to it now I'm pretty sure I would be an analyst. I say that because my approach to software has evolved in an analogous way. Also I eat corn-on-the-cob in rows :)

I'd love to properly re-learn all the math I learned before. The way I did it at the time was mostly just symbol manipulation, and that way of thinking no longer interests me.
I think this pic needs its own top level comment. This looks very convincing to me.
Although it is not uncommon, I've never come across a decent explanation for my "deviation". Left-hand: writing, drawing, painting. Right hand: mouse, touchpad, throwing, hammering. I can't use both hands equally, it's very specific to what I'm doing. I play soccer with the right foot. Also, I cannot tell left from right without first pausing to think "left is the side with the wristwatch".
Of course this is helping. They aren't convicting anyone, they are tracking down leads. I'm sure the police would be engaging in this exact same exercise if they had the manpower. Luckily, there are hundreds or thousands of motivated volunteers who are willing to sift through this data and hopefully something really good is in there.
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The first computer I used was a 286 XT (or AT?), and it had a turbo. I remember playing a few games on it where the turbo button came in handy.

One specifically that I remember was called freefall, and simulated diving into a cavern. You had to move the ascii character representing yourself back and forth to avoid the cavern walls as you fell. Simple, but fun.
There's a big difference though.

On Mars if a small piece of equipment fails in your shelter, that's it. It's not like you can go outside and breathe some fresh air for a bit.
Smart pointers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer#C.2B.2B_smart_poi... and RAII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAII#C.2B.2B_example
Hasn't the US government been printing vast amount of money over the last 3-4 years, with little appreciable increase in inflation?

Keyesians argue that money supply doesn't cause inflation on its own. Probably worth looking into that, since the predictions it provides seems to match reality pretty closely..
With great power comes great bullshit.
It is, although Stripe does only use https. When you post that form stripe.js captures the form submission and submits to its server, returning instead some tokens to identify the charge, so what is submitted through http is actually just a mostly worthless token (assuming that the credentials for the app are secure).

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the site running on https only is important in the context of the user not being thrown away by the lack of https, sensitive information is only transmitted through https.
As far as ad campaigns go, I have been impressed by Dove's work in blending very interesting techniques together to give people an "Aha!" moment of new perspective. This one and the photoshop plugin are for me the most surprising, but the entire "Real Beauty" campaign is well done.
Agree - especially given that this was funded by the Campaign for Real Beauty, and it wouldn't exactly have supported Dove's ad campaign if the pictures looked the same or the sketch was reversed.
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It wasn't. It's marketing. Pure and simple.
This was the first programming language I was taught. I got super excited with it, by the second class I already had a working etch-a-sketch. By the third I was writing a roguelike based on Moria. At the point my teacher told me to do my own thing and went back to trying to get the other less enthusiastic students to learn. I had a blast that semester, loved that class.
You've obviously never visited London.
Is it even legal to accept money like this as a non-business entity? What about taxes?
I think it's worse than that, as there are incentives (ratings, readership, etc) for them to jump to conclusions like that.
I don't think the Ireland example is the best. My understanding is they left because their home country was poor and the grass looked greener in America (land of opportunity and all).

The grass does not look that green in Mars
The bag looks heavy too, and placing it on the arm allows a quick drop.

Try this: http://i.imgur.com/E4AmAk1.jpg
Unfortunately so-called "common sense" lags a few hundred years behind scientific understanding and most people for most of their lifes still think of themselves as a Cartesian spirit "trapped" in a body, at least until serious disease occurs for the first time.

The moment you really internalize that all your memories, dreams and reflections are collected in a small region in the front part of your brain, which basically is a ball of meat suspended in some fluid in your skull, is the moment you might start to actually care for your brain not getting thrown around too much. The same thing goes for car accidents and having a basic intuitive feel of high-school level physics .
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The thing is, in my world all of these drawbacks you've listed on your own are unacceptable for production use, and almost each of them disqualifies the LXC separately, not mentioning all of them together. In addition to that, you've mentioned that your knowledge of jails is outdated, and I can confirm that, it is ;) Most of things you've listed as drawbacks for jails is no more true: they are hierarchical, they have their own network stack, they can be restricted with cpu/ram/swap usage, and so on.

Of course, this is highly subjective, as everything else is - its cool that you can run Steam in LXC and I cant run it in jails, but running steam is not something I want and need to achieve, its security and separation of architecture blocks, and in this world, jails are 'better' technology. Keep in mind, this is not religious - LXC was my technology of choice to start with, but I had to drop it due its immaturity and issues. Will LXC fix all of this, I will probably switch in no time (probably, because of the surrounding features FreeBSD provides).
The number of drones you'd need to do that for even one localized event would be huge, and hugely expensive. London's much denser and more economical CCTV network has been a giant boondoggle by everyone whose job doesn't depend on declaring it a success.
As Obama said, it is not productive to look back at our behavior. I mean, how horrible, what if we look back at what we did and analyze ourselves. "God" forbid, we might feel guilty or responsible. Heck, we might even learn not to repeat our mistakes, or worse prevent them in the future and who would want that to happen.
Or C (ISO/ANSI)
Random groups of people on the Internet are stitching together photographs to help find the people who did this- that's not a police action or legal proceeding yet
Are there cases of category theory yielding results in a more traditional branch of mathematics? That would seem to be a litmus test of sorts.
Dove, killing it in the marketing game. I'm seeing this post everywhere
Another reddit comment/thread that is also interesting..... appears that another person wearing a backpack was in fact an undercover of some kind: http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cij0q/la...

Very curious to know this person's story. Looks like a fed.
Cashier's check?? What is this, the dark ages? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562660
Thanks for the definition but I was not trying to get into a political discussion. Yes Austrian propoganda sucks but Eritrean propoganda sucks balls!

I wish nobody was unemployed. Well not really - I don't want an employer - a boss. You should be able to do what you want.

Milton Friedman was a very productive guy. Besides coining "natural rate of unemployment" he also invented the "basic income" (aka"negative income tax") many years ago. Great idea!
There's more to it than that, re-read jackowayed's comment. Man-in-the-middle attacks are a real threat that should be considered.
Yes, and in the next commercial for Axe, women are objectified and treated as total objects by the men than desire them.

Both Dove and Axe are Unilever brands; they just target different seems of the population with messages that they know will resonate. It's great marketing, not social good.
Use some common sense: There are gaps in drone coverage all over the place.
When I was very young, we had a computer which had this button. I always wondered why pressing it would change HI to LO, as the name of the button suggested otherwise. I never really used it as my few games worked fine without it. I was too young to remember the name of the computer, and we got rid of it long ago.
Sorry for typos; typed on iPhone with HN client that doesn't support editing :/
To be punished for looking after oneself huh.. Well, we have to grow up someday. edit: to by slightly more productive, I'm unsure of any potential legal issues regarding this.
What happens if the data has spaces in it or new lines in it? in other words, how do you escape a space / new line?
That sounds like something a terrorist would say. I don't think we can take the risk of not keeping you in jail until we've sorted this.