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Like that huge firetruck used to put out small fires. Cities only need them for big fires, but, if you gotta have one and keep it ready, it makes sense to deploy it every time.
I'm not following your logic.
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Samsung implemented multi-window exactly as Google wanted: opt-in instead of opt-out or forced. I highly doubt the Android team is unhappy about that. Several top Google apps support it (Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Talk and YouTube, judging from my Note 2). Given that (and the many other windowing hacks I've seen including ones by such obscure companies as Facebook and Sony) I expect some sort of cleaner, official multi/floating window support to be coming in a future version of Android. I would have even predicted next week before the rumor mill started saying to expect 4.3, not 5.0
Yes, L2TP falls slightly short of OpenVPN's performance stability, but it can be made secure as OpenVPN if AES encryption is used.
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There were instances of property destruction (but not assaulting residents?) at actions organized as OO, but not at Oscar Grant Park, where the evictions happened. It's not as if the evictions were a situation where police were "responding" to property destruction.

Occupations across the country and the world met similar evictions through the use of force, although the use of tear gas specifically has been rare in the US.

If there was any qualitative difference in the police response, I think it has more to do with the character of OPD than the character of OO. The same thing happened at the port of oakland occupation in 2003 (where there was zero property destruction), which was equally brutal: https://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-07.htm
I currently eat meat but I would rather not eat this... they already inject all kinds of stuff in "real" meat... I can't imagine what they would do to a completely engineered meat..
A bit of a description about each app would really be useful.

Also I want to second bradleysmith's mention of including forums built by HN members which clone the hacker news format (though not necessarily just in Arc.)

Also just Chrome extensions... does no one make greasemonkey scripts anymore? Am I like the last person who still even does that?
Seems like another case of capitalism at work.
I like this. I like this a lot. I think far too often people take the concepts we study too seriously. Things get challenging, things get precise, but the moment the humor leaves, the creativity is gone.

Think of how easy it would be to learn something if you make a joke every 5 minutes while learning it (about the subject). In your mind, you turned this abstract concept into something else, something funny, something with pathways and connections that weren't expected. You manipulated it, changed it, saw it in a new light. When you were trying to find humor, you created pathways to other things that you thought were similar. You already connected the object in your brain before you knew where it fit, just by trying to find humor in it.

The really, really good ideas are the ones that almost sound like jokes, but there's an ever so slight hint of severity to them.

Edit: I think I missed the point I was trying to make. Give this to a freshman computer science student. They get to read a fun story. Instead of an intense debate about which language is the best for thing X, or being forced to learn language Y, they get an overview of the entire history, with some cheeky humor that they can remember when they find a bit of truth, or a bit of false, in this story. I will bet they remember this thing better than a 300 page book dedicated to all of the subtle differences between the languages. Plus, they might laugh and enjoy what they're doing.
I agree that filling your time with non-technical professional obligations and meetings can really destroy your productivity. However, the author seems to think that Tao's greatness is in large part attributable to his working schedule. I'm not really convinced of that. I imagine there are a lot of other things that make Tao really good at what he does. Moreover, I also would guess that for many academic (and probably industrial) careers, non-technical professional obligations, like serving on committees, can be good for increasing your visibility and the size of your network. As with anything, prioritization and moderation are key.
That's because there's a step missing in your model, which goes like this:

Idea --> Engineering/Design --> CAD File --> Prototype

And the reason it doesn't get done that well in places like India and China at the moment is that it's not easy or quick to create a sustainable engineering sector that can reliably take ideas to a working prototype stage.

China, and to a lesser extent India, will slowly develop this over the next 10-15 years I think, since Western companies are gifting them a huge amount of engineering knowledge in exchange for cheap engineering, or so-called High Value Engineering (HVE), but there are a few hurdles even so:

1. Education.
2. Cultural issues around problem solving.
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An interesting video, but fair warning before you watch: it gets pretty graphic about halfway through. They show some clips of people with the side-effects of krokodil: the skin drying out, falling off, and parts of bodies getting pretty raw.

I don't have a particularly weak stomach, but my dinner started getting restless.
I wonder what the alt currencies are up to combined at this point (Litecoin, etc.)
ARM support for Secure Shell was released in 0.8.8 in December.
This is pretty confusing: "John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house."

If they were negatives, they were developed. Was this undeveloped film? Or do they mean "never-printed negatives"? How would they know?

And the illustration above this text is a bunch of Kodak slide boxes, not negative envelopes. I never got negatives back in boxes like that. So I'm confused about what is what here.

Nonetheless, the photos are wonderful!
"Krokodil" (which just by the way, barely creates trace amounts of Desomorphine; the chemistry just isn't correct. No-one really knows WHAT it creates) is guaranteed to kill you. Suboxone (while possible) generally didn't have that sort of guarantee. I'm not sure which is better.
It's still amazing what businesses are able to accomplish with summing, counting, percentage of total, % change period over period, average, median, min, max.
I think the closest we'll get to a personal flying vehicle would be something similar to a powered hang glider / ultralight. The way I envision it would be retractable wings using carbon fiber for the skeletal structure, and an electric motor somewhat like in a Dyson vacuum cleaner for power (along with a fuel cell so it can run off hydrocarbons, as that has a better power to weight ratio then batteries). If the mass of the entire device is less than the mass of the person it is carrying then I would think damage (to third parties / structures) would be limited.
If I ever want to get rich, I'll set up shop convincing small businesses they need to do things the way Google does, if only they want to remain competitive.

Oracle has used exactly this business model to great success, and obscene profit, for over 30 years.
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Samsung will never truly ditch the platform that helped it become the number #1 mobile phone maker in the world, at least not in the next few years. While Samsung undoubtedly have a plan for Tizen, swapping out Android for Tizen is probably suicide right about now. Without Android, Samsung probably wouldn't be in the place that they are right now: highly profitable and popular.

The average consumer doesn't buy a phone because of it's CPU, battery life or operating system, they buy phones based on the number of apps in an app store. The reason Apple were the number ones for so long is due to the fact they were the first mobile phone manufacturer to have a decent app store. Sure Symbian had app stores and before that you had stores where you could buy Java apps for other phones, but nothing unified and supported by just one device existed.

The only way Tizen will succeed is if they manage to build an app marketplace that can rival Android or iOS: consumers want apps. As Microsoft and Blackberry have shown, it's not easy releasing a new OS and getting developers to spend time and money to build for yet another operating system and marketplace with little market share in comparison to Android or iOS. The Lumia 920 had some of the best hardware and camera around, but failed to reach the masses because of the app store drama's.

Lets not forget the other side of the story here. Samsung are helping Android out here as well, every time Samsung sells a phone it's currently benefiting Android not hurting it. Currently it is in Ssamsung's best interests to see Android succeed as it took what, five years for Android to be the dominant player in the mobile space via it's quantity not quality approach in the early days. Anything is possible here for either platform.

I foresee Samsung releasing Tizen phones and Android phones in the future, then depending on the success of Tizen choosing to venture down a completely Android-less path. Only time will tell what truly happens here, not conspiracy theories.

I am a happy Samsung Galaxy S4 owner and I really like the TouchWiz additions Samsung put over the top that make the phone more user-friendly and easier to use. I don't see the additions as a degradation of the Android experience, I actually prefer them and they're leaps and bounds more stable than the additions in the S3 or S2 (which seems to contradict this article suggesting Samsung want Android to fail).
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The problem is a deep class divide between the haves and have-nots.

Britain of 1850 had a deep class divide, but they managed to keep the trash off streets. The rich do not have an interest in sewage running into the rivers or slums that are breeding supergerms. The upper class in England and America drove all the public health measures (such as sewers, clean drinking water, vaccination campaigns, etc.) in the 1800's that made cities livable. What is different about India? Why is this not happening?
Ok. Is there any rationale behind it?
That filter doesn't prevent you from reading email lists?
Maybe it's not really dictatorship vs democracy.

India has an English democracy. Everything in India was originally designed to support a wealthy English middle-class (if it was important directly from the UK), or to extract wealth from poor Indians so it could be exported to the UK.

I'm saying, India's institutions are overbuilt. They were originally designed to work in a far richer, and far more orderly country. There are certainly some things which are "one size fits all", but for anything which is only appropriate with a large, law abiding middle class it fails horribly in India.
I have never been to India but I live in Thailand. India sounds like a hot steaming mess, but then many of these countries are. Thailand is extremely corrupt and ruled by a few oligarch families; democracy is bought outright.
But what they have done is recognized the opportunity for foreign investment; the laws to start a business in Thailand are basically impossible for a foreigner - except! - they made new laws under a Board of Investment that can get around all that and make it super easy. If you have cash, you can build a factory here under very favorable terms.
Perhaps the difference is that in Thailand the entrenched powers have a vital interest in attracting foreign investment where in India they dont?
Aside from laws the cultural norms may also be a problem. Laws are really not enforced here but the culture is such that hygiene is excellent pretty much everywhere. Not an issue.
I've maintained for awhile now that the distinction isn't between "big" and "small" data, but between coarse and fine data. Now that everything is done through the web, previously common data sources (surveys, sales summaries, etc) are being supplanted by microdata (web logs, click logs, etc). It does take a different skill set to analyze noisy, machine-generated data than to analyze clean, survey-like data; it's a skill set that is more biased towards computational knowledge than classical experimental design, hence the shift in emphasis.
I live in a suburb of Chicago; no Zipcars nearby. I am a member though, as it allows me rental both in the US and Europe (I travel to Europe often, and I find Zipcar rentals very convenient there).
Hmmm, 2 comments.

That shows that the computing capacity required to subvert the bitcoin network is significant - even if the bitcoin-integer-calcuation to FLOP conversion is wobbly, if all of the top 500 (known) supercomputers together cant even get close to the 50% of mining capacity required to manupulate the blockchain - that's a good sign, right?

But... I wonder just what sort of non-public computing power is hidden inside .gov and perhaps .mil domains… I'd be surprised if "they" didn't have machines/clusters that'd blow the "Top (publicly known) supercomputer" out of the water. Whether "they'd" have the combined capacity of the top 500 or not I'm less sure about.
Extrapolating relatively few truly random data points from massive datasets, for analysis and modeling, is what "Big Data" is all about. This article would have you think that working with clusters or snippets of impossibly ginormous datasets is somehow less "Big", but that's sorta the point. Perhaps somehow should inform the author that the more data available doesn't translate into working with more data.
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I don't think Google dropped the ball on active digitizers, other OEMs did. From what I remember, at least two other companies (HTC and Lenovo) also tried active digitizers on tablets. And soon after that (right around the original Note), Google started adding more stylus APIs in ICS.

Unfortunately, the HTC and Lenovo tablets flopped (and I can say, from personal experience, the HTC Flyer deserved it - the stylus was laggy and very disappointing) and only the Note took off. It's really disappointing how many OEMs are going after the Note's screen size and how none of them are going after the active stylus (though I'm sure Samsung's Wacom investment has complicated that). My Note 2's stylus is one of the few reasons I put up with TouchWiz.
This one is fun: http://t.co/Fa52L70CLN
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Running postgreSQL server on your apple laptop in 2 minutes
It would be interesting if the bit coin network could eventually move to doing useful work like folding@home does. That way mining would not just be a waste of resources. Obviously, the current ASICs wouldn't be able to switch.
I would definitely move the call to action button "Get Started For Free" to be above the fold. It seems like it would go nicely above the "Digital Project Spaces for Creative Teams" section.
Be wary about drawing conclusions from "most of the jobs were small." Most of my jobs are small -- because I'm running experiments so I won't have to redo the big one.

That said, I'm a huge proponent of running stuff simply at first. Few businesses will ever grow to the point that they need more than a single large database server and one or two backups. Don't waste your time prepping for something you'll probably never need, especially when fixing the problem when the time comes is only marginally more painful than doing it right in the first place.
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Yes, it's very annoying.

I don't use gmail, but used to use <prefix><dash>username (prefix-username@) with qmail - and at some point had to have email at a site that used Exim with standard setup - that allowed <prefix><plus>username (prefix+user@) -- but not with a dash (it is possible to configure Exim to do this - but with qmail it is standard).

That's how I discovered that a lot of sites erroneously filter out + from the username part.

Now host my own email with Exim - but rather than use a prefix, I've just set up Exim to route all users at all subdomains to my inbox, so I can use adresses like:

site@s.example.com (s for spam). So far I that have worked fine.
I know that's not what you mean, but I find it quite amusing that you describe Oracle (a 30 year old company)'s business as convincing people they need to do things the same way Google (a 15 year old company) does it.
Bitcoin calculations right now is not really a waste of resource. It's used to "audit" the transactions to make sure no one can double spend any money.
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Found out a couple of years ago that indians can travel to over 50 countries and was a bit shocked as I always thought having an indian passport was a bit restrictive in the opportunities to travel and getting a visa was a bit of a hassle.

Recently stumbled upon a dataset that was granular enough and also showed where indians could travels if they held visas from the UK, US and Schengen countries. Not knowing where most of the places were I decided to put it on a map and D3 seemed a perfect fit for the job. Here's the result.
"We don't have big data. Our data is small, and could be easily stored in a MySQL or even a flat file" said no dev team ever. Everyone is "just like Google" so they need NoSQL, scaling, clouds and so on.
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What you say about secret sites may once have been true.
It is almost certainly no longer.

It is unlikely that at this point, the NSA or others have as much general purpose computing power as, for example, Google.

Why would they?
They don't need that much general purpose or floating point performance anymore, because it's reasonable for them to just fab their special purpose own stuff.

I'm sure they have some semi-specialized architectures made for doing their most important analysis tasks very quickly (which may or may not be fast in bitcoin-relevant ways), and for everything else, they have a smaller number of general purpose datacenters.

I can't think of any good reason the NSA would have 1-5 million x86-64 computers laying around, instead of 1-4 million more specialized processors, and a million x86-64.
You know, Samsung did the exact same thing last year with the S3 and Flipboard. I believe that, at the time, some people had similar concerns. In retrospect, though, that deal turned out great for Android. Samsung paying for exclusivity helped give the Flipboard developers an incentive to do the (long-desired) port. A year later, "everyone" has it and most people have forgotten that Samsung had an exclusive window (if they ever knew it at all). If the ITV app turns out similarly (and other have pointed out that the exclusive window is limited), I don't see any reason to be worried on behalf of "Android".
I've seen a fair number of startups that throw around how they are going to make big money by utilizing the data they gather (called "big data" regardless of size) - it's all a bit of magical underpants thinking: we'll gather a bunch of people/users, we can't figure out how to make money off of advertising or charging them, so then we'll talk about how the "big data" they produce will be worth a fortune and people will pay to have access to it. Know some folks in the HR SaaS space that think this is how they'll hit $100m. It's just comedy.
For most data, it is in fact a waste of money.

Personally, I am loading the data I play with on a postgreSQL database on my laptop (if you have a mac and want to do that quickly, you may want to check out the link I just submitted http://en.blog.guylhem.net/post/50310070182/running-postgres... )

You can do crazy things with the current hardware specs. Like loading all the data the world bank offers you to download, index it and use it for regressions (I do). In 2013 you only need a laptop for that.

Most data is not big. Big data is "big" like in a gold rush, where the ones selling the tools are making the biggest profits.

EDIT: Thanks for the postgresapp.com link! It is a little bit diffent- here I wanted to use the very same sources as Apple, without adding too much cruft (like a UI to start/stop the daemon as I had seen in other packages). I also wanted to see by myself how hard it was to 'make it work' with OSX (quite easy besides the missing AEP.make and the logfile error). It was basically an experiment in recompiling from the sources given by apple opensource website, while staying as close to the OSX spirit as possible (ex: keeping the same user group, using dscl, using launchdaemon to start the daemon automatically during the boot sequence like for Apache)

That being said, you're right, for most people postgresapp.com will be a simpler and faster way to run a postgresql server :-)
Should have written it in java
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tl;dr: it will kill you within about 1 year. Horribly. But it's still popular.
The majority of work done on btc is useless though, because very few hashes end up validating into blocks. It would be nice if all that compute power was being used for some productive use, and you just did a consensus raffle rather than arbitrary hashing to pass out new coins.
Er, of course―boring is easy―but that link isn't a very good way to make the point... truly cringe-inducing. 😵
That's not sarcasm. That's self parody.

Does a two day old account give you a logical reason to dismiss my detailed criticism?

Or does a two day old account disguise my identity allowing me to comfortably criticize influential people?

For all you know, Jon, I could be your mother.
> He imprisoned citizens without trial.

There were actual laws on the books long before FDR (some repealed and some not) that gave such authority to arrest and detain US citizens without trial or for controversial reasons. The first time in 1798[1] and the second in 1917[2] and the third and 1918[3]. If we're just talking about imprisoning without trial and not the rationale behind it, then even Abraham Lincoln is guilty of that[4]. Not that FDR is my favorite president, but the US Government has had a long history of abusing* power and bending the rules when it was considered critical by certain powers that be (regardless of political party and historical popularity of the politician). I just don't think one can single out FDR when it was already a precedent in times of war (and near war) to do so before him.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_Sta...

*Obviously open to interpretation and subjective
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