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> I think saying that his opinion that something was stupid is a counter-indicator of its degree of success doesn't have much merit.

I don't think that's what's Curtis is saying at all. He's just saying that it's better not to call startups ideas stupid prematurely, because we can't really tell.

That said, I think you make good points.
You're missing my point, which was about priority order.

Most people are going to college hoping to get a job. They're learning because they're told they have to learn, so they do a bad job learning. In a field like civil engineering, you can't graduate unless you pass classes that are simply unpassable without learning some stuff. (I have a friend going through aerodynamics right now and I'm hearing about everything he's learning.)

This is kind of a microcosmic version of what we're seeing in general: we see people as workers first and human beings second. The universities and the kids are following suit.
It seems like you could easily fix this problem by substituting a different atom instead of exciting one of them. It would be interesting to see if the results are the same.
Really? What does encrypted mean? Hashed is not encrypted. You can't unhash. You can find a known source of that hash, but you can't "decrypt".

Knowing this. Salted and Hash and Encrypted doesn't make any sense. So either they are BSing because they are stupid. Or because they are dishonest.

From where I stand it doesn't really matter which of the two they are. When it comes to privacy I have no tolerance for Stupid or Dishonest.

As for the statement that they aren't legally required to notify you... That's not true. If any of the people on the list live or access their account from North Carolina, or any of the 14 other states that use NC's breach terms then they would have to. Since it is nearly impossible to tell that this is not the case they legally have to give notice. A company that deals in Reputation Management should know this.

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Friendly Tip regarding credible sources I can already buy the list online. With passwords in decyphered. This doesn't lend well to they were Hashed and Salted.
I found that it's much easier to consume less caffeine if you start the workweek off with the proper amount of sleep. I noticed that after even one night of low sleep, I'd have to drink lots of caffeine to get through the day, and that as a result, I couldn't sleep early enough at night (or had no inclination to.) Of course, that kept the cycle going until the weekend.

So... get good rest on the weekend and focus on avoiding caffeine early in the week.

Exercise or yoga in the morning helps, too.
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There's also the issue of requiring iOS 5 to use storyboards.
And lo! pg did spake! "Only the good ideas that look like bad ideas are left. All the good ideas that look like good ideas have been done."
Why are these school administrators even drawing a salary if they cannot or will not exercise their judgment in carrying out their duties?
Losing information on the scale these guys have is no doubt going to be bad for their reputation.
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Well ePub is a zip file of HTML documents. So some people do.
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So why did they need lobbying for more regulation? Why did they turn into complacent monopolies?
BTC mining on GPUs uses a ton of power, like quadruple-the-monthly-power-bill-in-your-apartment kind of power. If you're willing to pay the energy company and bring more harm to the environment for something, I don't feel like you're really thinking about the true cost. I'd rather just pay up-front on simple terms.
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Plastic knife also count, my friend got suspensed from school for bringing that.
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I believe that there is an even more important practical issue.

What if someone manages to embed something very much like the EICER string[0] in it? How many people do you think would use the bitcoin client on windows if their AV automatically deleted the blockchain as it downloaded in a misguided attempt to protect them?

Of course, first we have to know if this is possible at all. Does anyone know if there's either a) 20 bytes with a very high AV detection rate or b) some way to embed more than 20 bytes in a row in the block chain?

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
You're right. We should definitely sacrifice our principles, our values, our educational institutions, and our childrens' lives in response to fear.
Using police and criminal courts to enforce school rules is a well known problem in the US. It destroys lives and seems to be doing nothing to improve behaviour.

Calling it a 'science experiment gone wrong' is perhaps a bit disingenuous. Had she written down anything about methodology or expected results or any 'chemistry words' at all? Or had she just seen something on YouTube and decided to have a go? Still, this kind of youthful experimentation should be guided into safer forms, and not crushed under the boots of law enforcement.
Democracies tend to gravitate towards a binary choice, regardless of the actual number of parties. This happens all the time in Europe.

Don't mistake the fact that we have social policies different from those in the US for diversity, it is very much a cross-party consensus.
It was only a matter of time before someone tried this, if I were in their position I would contemplate it too given the rise of the cost of a Bitcoin and they won't be the last to try something like this. I the day a widely used software application like uTorrent decides to remove the malware and banner ads and instead bundles in a Bitcoin miner that runs when your machine is mostly idle (like download a torrent over night).
one can also write/print information on currency bills and no one questioned bills.
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I got the same issue. So I decided not to read the article...
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Well, I don't think we should look for malice when is just incompetence.

LinkedIn keeps asking me to share my mail user/password so I can connect with more people, and says that X and many others already did it. I can't tell about others, but X is my wife and I'm certain she didn't do it.

So well, as I said I think that this is just a matter of incompetence (ie. automated message gone wrong).

EDIT: typo
Animated version here: http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/
While its true Darwin gets most of the credit, its not as if Alfred Wallace is completely unknown or unsung. I recommend an excellent Nova feature made a couple of years ago called "Darwin's Darkest Hour". Its available to view free right now on the PBS website : http://video.pbs.org/video/1286437550/ . Wallace gets plenty of mention.
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My university also started off the CS programme with Scheme in the mid 90's when I went, and it was a great leveller. Maybe half the kids had been programming a lot before starting uni, and the other half hadn't, and by starting with Scheme, everyone was at the same level, which built a lot of confidence among the ones that hadn't been programming before.

Five years later or so, the great teacher that ran the CS intro course quit, someone else took over, and switched to Java. Typical. :-/
race is not, but educational background is. India & China are producing more graduates, post graduates, then any other country in the world. This is a known fact.
Image formats have come a long way. I think the author wants an image format that can replace .psd in a sensible way. TIFF sadly cannot do that. While it can contain layered raster data, it lacks a lot of other capabilities. The author explicitly mentions vector layers, but if you want parity with .PSD you're looking at also having to support adjustment layers (hue/curves/levels/etc), blending modes, opacity/fill, raster masks, clipping masks, vector masks, locks, annotations, guides, grids, gradients, tags, text, comps, channels, and countless other things I can't even think to list (I wont even dive into smart objects). Keep in mind that's just the layer data, there's tons of other metadata in the format as well. It is a behemoth of a file format, and the years of backwards compatibility inside of it have multiplied that complexity to levels of insanity. I have .psd files that if I enable backwards compatibility when saving will increase the file size by half a gig. Granted those are enormous source files to begin with, but with higher def screens on the horizon file sizes are increasing dramatically. Having something more sensible than .PSD is something we're going to have to deal with sooner or later.
These are irrelevant questions, as the article specifically states that he is in support of regulation:

"...Tom Wheeler, appeared open in 2011 to letting wireless giant AT&T Inc. acquire T-Mobile USA...But he had a price. In exchange for a $39 billion merger, AT&T would have had to agree to a slew of new regulations, according to an idea Mr. Wheeler laid out at the time on his personal blog."

If you dig into said personal blog, you can find the following article [1], where Mr. Wheeler summarizes his reasoning:

"Now we have the perverse situation where a government win means less regulation while a victory for the corporate interest opens the door to more."

It is clear through his explanation that his approval was meant only as leverage for harsher regulations on the duopoly of wireless TelCos. That is a pretty solid indicator of where his allegiance lies. Likewise, if you meander around his blog, you'll see lots of musings in favor of Net Neutrality.

[1]: http://www.mobilemusings.net/2011/09/awaiting-final-aria.htm...
While I also feel somewhat alienated from all the 'innovation' that is occurring in the 'social space', I assume that Dustin does not, and when he thought 'this is a stupid idea' he was evaluating it according to his own measures of value, and by his measures of value, both vine and pinterest are great ideas. So, yes, he messed up.

But my own approach is to think that actually getting the energy to make anything in our culture that generally tries to separate the content creators from the content consumers is an amazing achievement, and I try to avoid diminishing peoples enthusiasm to make stuff even if I think it's dumb.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

I doubt it was a decision based on race. She's obviously a "good" kid, and the cops and admin know it.

What's bullshit is that she was doing a very low-risk "experiment". It doesn't really sound like a real experiment, just a curious kid trying something out. Or at worst, the kind of harmless prank everyone used to do. But it was harmless, and she was probably just doing it for fun, or because she was curious.
This is an important sticking point. Maybe a Professional Engineering certification isn't the solution, but let's not get hung up here.

Example: P.E. certified people should have no problem creating weapons systems for a nation-state at war. Does that make it ethical? Depends on who writes the history books afterward.

Example: P.E. certified people might refuse to participate in experimental, unorthodox methods. But especially in software these often become the runaway successes.

In other words _you_ have to own _your_ personal ethics. You won't be able to point and say "I was just following orders!" The pointy-haired boss who gave the orders isn't going to be able to exonerate you of the guilt. Often he doesn't even congratulate you for "doing the right thing." Maybe he'll fire you or give you a bonus – or join you in prison! – but my point is: it's orthogonal to your personal ethics.

Ethics may sometimes appear to conflict with rapid progress. That doesn't necessarily imply an existential crisis, just a lack of forethought. So many ethical problems arise due to overflowing ignorance / lack of forethought combined with a sudden rash of malice (when it comes time to pay the piper). Ethics are a way of expressing realities about the world that conflict with the general Adam Smithian "enlightened self-interest." I view ethics as meta-enlightened self interest – like how Apple is more than just industry-leading, they carved new niches where no one thought to go.

Engineers (software engineers or otherwise) have untangled things much more complicated than this. It's only overwhelming if it blows up in your face.

Path seems like a classic case of all of the above.
Just a note to fellow developers: if you started developing for iOS way before storyboards and started working on a new project with storyboard, some methods are not behaving as it was previously.

For example in the awakeFromNib and viewDidLoad method, views that you created in storyboard wouldn't have been initialised even thought it used to work like that in Interface Builder. See this SO answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12811188/361247
If "high-intensity electromagnetic emissions" from cell towers kill people, I doubt making them safe is just a matter of placement.

If you want to place some in the middle of a city, they will be close to a lot of people, and if their emissions kill people, it's probably not a good idea to place them near lots of people. But they have been placed pretty much everywhere. It appears that either you're overstating the dangers, or we're both about to die any second now.
My understanding as explained to me by CERN, You can build a Time Crystal but it is tough to observe it after. The object don't so much spin through infinity, as infinity spins through them. Building a Time Crystal changes how it moves through Space-Time. Since we are moving through Space-Time really quickly if you change for lack of a better word the inertia of matter by changing how it moves through Time it won't stand still for very long, (well not relative to you) this makes observation nearly impossible.
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> My co-founder and I both went to school for Mechatronics Engineering, and one of
> the biggest obstacles we have run into so far is that there just isn't as much
> shared knowledge on the internet when we run into problems - unlike software.

Funny, that's partly how I picked mechanical engineering to study in college. I figured I should pick something that I wasn't already familiar with (like software) and instead study something not easily found on the internet. But that's a double-edged sword, as you have discovered, because (in college) it means you are intentionally choosing a topic that doesn't greatly benefit from the wonders of the web.

Well, at least there's cnczone. And mechatronics journals. There are a bunch of online marketplaces (including alibaba, mfg, or protomold or something), but that's not the same thing as institutional knowledge..
Never managed to finish that book. It also appears extensively in Peter F Hamilton's Commenwealth Saga.

Thoroughly recommend getting hold of the third episode of the British SciFi show Black Mirror.
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Knowing several teachers, it's not surprising that schools use the the police and courts to deal with kids. I would say parents started it first and ruined it for everyone else. Schools are afraid of being sued, so it is easier and safer for them (legally) to use police/courts to deal with child disiplinary issues.

One if my friends was complaining about the % of their school budget that is set aside for dealing with legal issues (being sued by parents). That is money not being used to teach kids.

We really need to return more power to teachers and school administrators so they can do their jobs without the legal system. But to do that, they need some basic legal protection.
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The very fact that a product/service/company does not have a clear and solid revenue model. The fact that their success is measured by generated traffic (downloads/page-views/subscribers etc) can cause some people to make very strange choices.

This may not be the reason but surely helps many in our industry to reach those dark spots of ethics and faithfulness.

If your users are customers, that is, they pay you, then you will care about their privacy, as you know that otherwise, you will loos them.

If they don't, and yet consume your bandwidth and CPU, you may find yourself end up sniffing their address-books, claiming copyrights on their images or selling their clicks and choices to campaigners.
Saying "I doubt this startup will succeed" is reasonable, but that's not the same as saying that a startup idea is stupid.

More importantly, startup returns aren't like roulette returns. Say we hold a friendly roulette game where the house doesn't take a cut (to simplify). If you bet $1 on every number you win nothing. On the other hand, if you're an angel investor and you bet on 100 startups, you win as long as a couple of startups hit big. Being wrong 95% of the time can really pay off.

Of course, what is rational depends on your goals. Some people get nothing even if they "believed" in an early startup. For example, it's possible OP wasn't a potential investor and as such wouldn't have gained much by holding a different belief about Pinterest anyway. Also, some stock analysts and tech journalists get away with making bad predictions, as they manage to point out only their good ones.
Expulsion? Seriously? I am grasping at straws here but since it's Florida is it possible she is the wrong color? Would another kid just get a suspension at best?

Here's one reference point:

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N30/sodiumcasedismissed.html

MIT students' pyrotechnics fun caused five people to suffer chemical burns (including three paramedics treating the first two). They were punished with community service and fines.
On the other hand, isn't Path's app distributed by a curated App Store?
paper and sticky tape should sort the camera out nicely.
While I highly recommend improv and consider it one of the best choices I've made with my life, I don't think the benefits translate as easily to public speaking as one might think. A huge chunk of improv is learning to turn your brain off and do what feels natural and obvious. If you follow a couple of rules and have played in enough scenes to get a good feel for it, you're probably not going to create an unwatchable scene. I feel little to no anxiety when I perform improv in front of a crowd, but if I haven't prepared well to give a talk, sometimes the shakes set in. There's just so much more that can go wrong.

Regardless, do improv.
i think meant fetal position, otherwise an accident may occur :)
Was also posted a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5555782
See, I am not convinced that it was an innocent "automated mistake". This is equivalent to the anecdotal old excuse one always hears from the government officials: "the computer did it". When some spamming process like this is automated, all it means is that it is being inflicted on lots of people and most likely deliberately, so automation is not something that can be accepted as an excuse, on the contrary, it is an aggravating circumstance.

I incline towards the opinion that these sharks do it quite deliberately. They just don't care how many people they embarrass and annoy, as long as some of those tech-innocent grannies and plumbers join up and thus put figures on their business projection sheets that get these sharks closer to cashing in big on an FB style IPO.
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In absolute terms or per capita? They are (by quite a wide margin) the most populous countries in the world.
You can easily add new files at the end, then rewrite the central directory header (which is at the end of the file for exactly this kind of reason: not have to rewrite everything to add new files). And because the CDH specifies offsets to files, you can replace the old entry and put the new one there (replace old offset by new offset, done). This does however mean the old entry will still be in the file until you "garbage collect". That's if the new version of the file is bigger than the old one of course, if it's smaller or the same size you can just overwrite the old entry and not touch anything.

One could even imagine padding files in the archive so there's some leeway in growing the compressed files, it'd likely depend on the format expression.
Just going to quote myself from a previous post:

There's definitely room for bias in the stats I've seen but virtually everyone reports almost no iOS 4 devices.

http://stats.unity3d.com/mobile/index-ios.html (Below iOS 5/Other: 1.2%) http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ (4.3: 1.6%) https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_frag
> However, part of building value as an employee (in fact as a human being) is deciding what levels are treatment are unacceptable and standing up against them.

Well that's true, I don't disagree. However, to be valuable on the bottom rung to large companies, you need to either show real management potential (and have a decent manager) - the good option - or simply be as drone-like and exploitable as possible.Are you suggesting that someone of less skill or experience has no right (forget legally - morally) to quit their job, even if it means a future of greater economic risk?

> Are you suggesting that someone of less skill or experience has no right (forget legally - morally) to quit their job, even if it means a future of greater economic risk?

No, I'm suggesting the opposite. However, society enforces the judgement by it's attitude toward the unemployed.

> If your husband or wife, brother or sister, parent, best friend, roomate - whomever - comes to you and tells you that they are going to have trouble meeting their obligations to you because they quit their unjust job, tell them, "you did the right thing. You need to value yourself and love yourself. I'll do my best to get by until you can pay me back, and I'll help you find a job that respects you in the mean time."

Of course, but a lot of these people don't have a support network, or their support network has no ability to financially support them.
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I'm outraged by the idea that everyone has the luxury to choose not to take a job to keep their social media private.
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So... a few friends and I were discussing what would happen if we lit the gas tap in the science lab. We were 11-12 and I think I had just seen an episode of Bottom with a lit gas pipe. We were strangely unattended in a science lab that day.

I turned on the tap and a friend lit it. Queue a rather cool jet of flame in the middle of the room. Teacher I guess saw the glow coming from the room. Turned it off.

Received bollocking like none other and a 2 day suspension to underline the seriousness of this.

Notably we were not accused of either arson or trying to blow up the school. Youthful - unacceptable - misadventure.

As usual there aren't any facts on what this girl was doing. On the surface though it seems expulsion and criminal action is way over the top.
You can just throw away a dollar bill with illegal stuff on it. You can not throw away the data of a bitcoin transaction without throwing away all transaction which occurred later on the block chain.