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It is almost like you didn't read my post. They provide forkIO as a basic tool to do both. That is explicitly not different tools. They also provide additional abstractions to make different tasks easier. Tasks like parallelising sequential code, which you want to pretend is the only kind of parallelism that exists. Haskell provides different abstractions for lots of things, that doesn't mean those things require different tools. It means convenience matters.

>If you're more interested in performance than non-determinism, learn about parallelism first."

First, not instead of.

>GHC implements some major extensions to Haskell to support concurrent and parallel programming

Yep, that really sounds like they require different tools, the way the mention them together as a single topic.

>GHC supports both concurrency and parallelism

And does so with the same tool: forkIO. Completely contrary to your claim that haskell is evidence that it requires separate tools. This is once again made very clear on a page you link to:

>Ordinary single-threaded Haskell programs will not benefit from enabling SMP parallelism alone: you must expose parallelism to the compiler. One way to do so is forking threads using Concurrent Haskell (Section 7.18.1, “Concurrent Haskell”), but the simplest mechanism for extracting parallelism from pure code is to use the par combinator

They are literally saying "use a higher level abstraction instead of rolling your own directly with concurrency constructs". This is the same advice that is always given when a higher level abstraction is available. It directly contradicts the claim that parallelism requires a different tool. It explicitly states that you can do it with the same tool.
Not if he arrived via train.
>The man told him that he was doing “research” and the camera was transmitting the images to his glasses.

Sounds like some pretty irresponsible "research".

Even if the intent is utterly benign, it's pretty easy to see how this could end badly. I'd say drone-man lucked out if this is how it all went down.
We're giving away the last BaconBiz ticket in the world
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Amy Hoy's conference for bootstrappers is sold out. But we have an extra ticket and we're giving it away. Just tweet at us to enter. We'll put you all in an array and use `rand` to pick a winner.
Tor over Tor Hidden Services does not go in plaintext and it does not matter if exit nodes are being sniffed, because you never leave the Tor network.

That is SSL is not a problem for you, because the URL is self authenticating.
This is especially useful if you have a newspaper, because you can print the address on the paper and not have to worry about CA and this kind of stuff.

Worth looking at is probably also GlobaLeaks (https://globaleaks.org/) that is a system that also uses Tor HS. This system is more actively developed and is designed to be extendable.

We are also happy to say that just last week we released the 0.2 release of GlobaLeaks. You can see a live demo on our site: https://globaleaks.org/.
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Okay scrolling on Firefox should be fixed now.
My paintball gun would have been put to good use in this instance.
I don't disagree with you. I have no idea how the market will react. However...

PhD admissions are highly selective, and terminal MS programs are highly expensive. The Master's degree means you were either a top student (able to pass PhD admissions) or independently wealthy and probably packing serious connections.

When it no longer means that, is it still going to provide the salary bump? Quite possibly, yes. I wouldn't call it guaranteed, though.
An old thread now, but I thought this article was pretty topical, re: one of the highest-paid coaches in college football:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2013/05/13/the-magic...
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Yes, I am serious. I want to know how having an office space helps a business. More so a tech startup. I'm not being pedantic, just genuinely curious and interested.
Scholarly Open Access is the name of the blog. Scholarly Open Access Blogger is the person being sued.
If they can come to my seat and tell me to turn off my device because they detected a source of interference, then I will turn off the device. If they can't or aren't willing to detect the source of interference, the real risk is likely dubious.

Furthermore, avionics equipment should be and is designed to work despite minor external interference. If a consumer electronics device, such as an iPhone or laptop, could drastically effect the operation of avionics equipment, it should not be considered flight worthy. Granted, certification tests probably don't consider such radiation sources, but the risk is so small its likely its not even worth testing.
People want to feel they have some level of control over a negative situation. This is why people will take a way home that is 15 minutes longer to avoid a 5 or 10 minute delay caused by a traffic jam. It's also the reason people are sometimes afraid to fly but not afraid to drive, even though it's generally far more risky.

Perhaps clicking repeatedly is an outlet for trying to control an application that has developed its own agenda.
I used to do this same thing and never heard about pen testing firms being sued by their client. Most likely he was spinning a yarn.

It is more likely that a security consulting firm will be sued if they report no issues and the bank is later compromised.
Mt. Gox has anti-money laundering policies. They have a withdrawal limit of $10,000 per month for non-verified accounts, this is utterly useless for laundering money by any serious actor. I feel fairly certain claiming that you can launder $10,000/mo. a lot easier, and more privately, than by going through Mt. Gox.
Kings Cross has undergone several major overhauls over the last few decades, there's a good chance that the routes have changed.
Unless of course his intent was to draw attention to the fact that this is going to become a major problem, and soon, due to the absence of regulation around drone airspace, in which case, success!
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I dream of a day when there is a Minister for Communications that doesn't cause Australia, once again, to be an internet-culture punchline.

Maybe you should be dreaming of a day when there isn't a Minister of Communications all together. Just that title creeps me out.
>There's plenty of concurrency and parallelism out there but there's not a single piece of important software that is written in a functional language.

Important to who? I use tools written in functional languages every single day.

>Many people claim many things but when it comes to empirical evidence. it turns out that imperative, stateful programming is still the best choice.

You don't see the obvious hypocrisy there?
Designer School - Teaching more than just syntax
The police can do a lot of things without a warrant that you and I shouldn't and often can't do. For instance: they can pull your car over and then shine a flashlight through the windows to inspect what's visible in plain sight in the passenger compartment.
How is this particular incident a legal grey area? It should be covered under peeping Tom laws. Does WA state not have these?

ETA: Did some more research and found a claim that only nine states have peeping Tom laws. Am surprised.
That doesn't change the fact that it's misleading and not the original blog title. HN Policy is to keep original title unless there's a strong reason to change it.
Maybe everyone on the plane should pray that the equipment works properly, because it can't hurt!

The best argument I've heard is that its about distraction (EDIT: and in-cabin projectiles), and takeoff/landing are more prone to harsh landing situations.
That Jack Black looking dude really is Jack Black. Randall hired him to play his alter ego, _why, in public appearances.
Yes, and the more money you 'create' by altering the database, the more likely they'd be unable to pay out.
Google: Android Users Have Now Installed Over 48B Apps
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No, that would pretty much break the whole public-key cryptography if it were possible.
Got it, thanks for clarifying. My original point was just that .Net isn't dying as the article said. It may not be making a lot more dollars for MS, though, agree with that.
Why are people resistant to obeying arbitrary rules based on unsubstantiated speculation? You got me there.
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Mt. Gox is AML compliant. I had to send in various ID for them to accept SEPA transfers to my account.
I would find it off-putting if someone pulled that line on me in an interview too. Being a programmer does not mean that you are a simply a code monkey, incapable of expanding your knowledge of the field.

You would think that all companies would want someone who understood programming enough to be able to write about it in a way that others could understand, but perhaps not. Some places "get it" and some don't.
Success? Sounds like a good way to get in trouble in more ways than one. I don't think I would have been as gracious as "ok I'm going to go call the police".

Even if he was trying to bring the issue to light... there has got to be better ways then potentially getting your ass kicked by strangers.
I'm pretty sure that only 30% of people admit to not turning off their devices

On my recent flights, I've observed that very few of my neighbors completely powered off their devices and at least one did not turn on airplane mode (he told me so).

I would think that the 30% number is much higher, and probably rising as the years go on and more people forget or care less.
One of the most interesting things about how they are handling this is that they claim they are not lowering admission standards, they are just allowing people who meet those standards but can't participate in the regular program due to having a full time job, inability to move to Atlanta for 3 years, or whatever the reason is.

It will be interesting to see how the market reacts to this degree. Will it be regarded as a masters degree from a top 10 program, or will it be seen as a cheap online degree that doesn't hold the same esteem?
Mind telling if the salary is ok with them?

Having lived in NL before, I would fancy coming back, but salaries/taxes make it prohibiting to move back at my current lifestyle. Is booking offering above market pay?
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It's not the water that's the problem, it's the force of the impact. Quad-copters are very lightweight, they'd easily be thrown wildly off balance by a good burst of water.
Steve Jobs' death.
My last flight said you couldn't use iPhones during the whole flight even in airplane mode. What's the deal with that?

The person next to me just lied and said he had and ipod touch ...
Disagree with the owners on what? David Koch supports the Cato Institute, NOVA on PBS, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. What if I disagree with libertarians but I like science? Should I buy or not buy some Dixie cups?

I agree that it's good for people to support companies they believe in, but that takes introspection and investigation. This app promotes neither.
I think this response completely misunderstood the point of the techcrunch article's mentioning of the iphone. It doesn't mean that Home was inspired by the iPhone, just that the people developing it could not possibly be using it on a daily basis (dogfooding) as a test of quality and usability, because they had iPhones which could not run facebook home. Therefore, the original thesis seems to be it was bad because it wasn't actually used by the people developing it, not because it was iPhone-inspired somehow.
> To be clear we were talking about concurrency safety, not type and memory safety; Go is type and memory safe.

Not if you're using parallelism (GOMAXPROCS > 1).

> If an organization using Go chose to tell programmers they could not send pointers between goroutines or share global state, Go would be just as communication safe as Rust. Just in Go, this communication safety is optional.

It is in Rust as well. You just have to declare that you're opting into data races; safety is the default and enforced by the compiler if you don't opt in.
This immediately brought to mind the story by Heinlein in which an argument is made that several world countries "own" the moon, since land rights should be extended from Earth ground level into the heavens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon

> Harriman seeks to avoid government ownership of the Moon. As it passes directly overhead only in a narrow band north and south of the equator, he uses a legal principle that states that property rights extend to infinity above a land parcel. On that basis, Mexico, Central and parts of South America, and other countries in those latitudes around the world, have a claim on the Moon. The United States also has a claim due to Florida and Texas. By arranging for many countries to assert their rights Harriman persuades the United Nations to, as a compromise, assign management of the Moon to his company.
New Ruby programming and web development newsfeed project
I disagree. The tools that journalists have been using to protect their sources are woefully inadequate in the digital age. The government has moved forward with surveillance techniques and is always advancing its information-gathering methods. When I ask friends who are journalists how they stay anonymous and protect their sources, the best they can do is "meet on a park bench and don't use the phone."

It's high time for journalism to upgrade their toolbox for gathering information and protecting their sources in the 21st century. However technically sound this effort by the New Yorker is, it is a step in the right direction.
That's correct, I should have worded it more explicitly.
Those two and the Atlantic is what I have subscriptions for right now. VF is kind of iffy, though. My wife and daughters make fun of me for having the subscription but every two or three issues there's something really good in the back. And it always smells good, if you have the paper subscription.
North Carolina may ban Tesla sales
My guess is that this would be fast enough to build almost any Mac app and many iOS apps. The bigger question for me is, how gross would it be to deal with the "Objective-C-ness" of the Cocoa APIs through JavaScript?
Yes, but the quote still implies some confusion about things.

If the code is licensed GPL, you do not need the blessing of the owner, you already have a license. If the code is licensed GPL, and you want to use it, why do you even care who owns the copyright? There are reasons you might care, but they are not obvious, and the OP does not say why he was interested -- the implication of that sentence to the casual non-geek reader, is that the new yorker needed the copyright owners permission to launch. The OP doesn't even mention the GPL.

If the code really is licensed GPL, that passage is misleading, is it not? Probably because the author himself is confused.
So which terms do you suggest? What I was talking about was event handing systems needing different things than computational systems, and misapplications of tools designed for the former in the latter. The way I use the terms "concurrency" and "parallelism" is largely consistent with the way language designers involved in Haskell, Rust and ParaSail use these terms.

What other widespread uses of these terms conflict with my usage, and what should I have said to avoid "another round of terminology war"?
Avionics design must be resistant to interference.

Unfortunately, perfect resistance is impossible (see GPS and LightSquared).

The notion that you should turn off "anything with an off switch" as an open-loop solution to the problem is folly. Short of removing the batteries from a device, it's hardly guaranteed that it is truly de-powered.

Furthermore, plenty of things don't have an off switch. Pebble watches run via Bluetooth. I doubt users think to turn them off.

It's not an easy problem. Sealing the passenger cabin into a Faraday cage may be the only way to ensure RF isolation of instrumentation.
I'd sincerely like to hear what people think about the contrast between Poulsen's behavior and sentiment toward Swartz and (separately) Adrian Lamo vs. his behavior and sentiment toward, say, Bradley Manning:
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/18/wikileaks_3/

Maybe what impresses him most is a person's hacking chops and not so much the scale and morality of the actions that got a person into trouble.
"Air is a public highway" Supreme Court ruled in 1946. Maybe it is time to consider a minimum altitude, which must be obeyed outside public areas? Something like 300 or 1000 feet depending on local conditions (building height, terrain etc). Would that make sense?
How much does it cost? What's the battery life?
They can pull your car over with cause, yes. This is something we cannot do. However, it's not illegal for you or I to view the contents of someone's car, even with a flashlight. If it's in plain sight, it's perfectly legal.

There's a lot that maybe we shouldn't do but is completely legal anyway.
I think one of the big things bike messengers get over cars is that they can park a ton faster than a car.
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> I think the basic principal is that it will be unusable within the USA, because you'll have no way to convert US dollars into Bitcoin.

You'll have no way to convert electronic dollars into bitcoin. Saying that the government can prevent the conversion of cash into bitcoins is like saying it can prevent the conversion of cash into drugs.
> the brilliant activist and Internet pioneer

Ew. closed. Pointless idolatry does not make me want to read such an article.
> Nobody withdraws millions of dollars in physical currency

I'd suggest that the hackers who manage to alter their balance are exceedingly likely to be the kind of people to try and obtain a physical withdrawal of their wealth!

But even in electronic form, there is some settlement going on behind the scenes. Let's say I hack my bank and give myself $100 billion dollars, then try and transfer this to another bank in a country with a suitable lack of extradition treaties. No receiving bank is going to blindly accept a transfer in of $100 billion. Do you think they just take the other bank's word for it, that they are good for the money?
Either their moral code is something you agree with, or it's something you don't. Who they apply it to is completely irrelevant.

Furthermore, you can "cry" whatever you like. Personally, I find calling someone hypocritical to be utterly banal and entirely pointless. It means nothing for their argument. Man is flawed independent of his convictions.
If you are relying on Tor exit nodes being trustworthy, then you are using Tor incorrectly. All Tor does is anonymize your traffic, it makes no guarantees once it leaves the network.

Either make sure you are using end-to-end encryption or only use Tor for information you don't mind being public.
It will end with drones capable of neutralizing AA guns with bomblets, followed by homeowners installing Surface-Air missiles, followed by drones using ECM, followed by...

Actually, good point! On the bright side, this seems like a great business opportunity.
> How can you be sure that the data you are submitting is not intercepted?

HTTPS
And if flying the drone is legal, you would have been taken to jail for assault, thereby turning the man into a martyr. You can't kick someone's ass out of the blue for doing something that's perfectly legal to do.
You mean those moon plots that have been sold on radio and late-night TV for decades on TV weren't real?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/the-man-who-sells-...
I'm sure they have channels for information laundering. Example: they present the Tor evidence to one of their classified courts, get a sealed warrant to wiretap your house, and then re-collect the information from a bug they plant directly on your computer. Or they could just watch you closely until you screw up. Or they could honeypot you.
> How can you be sure that the data you are submitting is not intercepted?

Tor is not meant to guarantee that your messages are not being intercepted. It is simply not meant to protect against this. Use end-to-end encryption. (Does strongbox use encryption on top of tor? I am not sure).

> How can I be sure that all my traffic is not running through one government network (because all tor nodes still left are compromised)?

That is the more pertinent question, indeed. That's the correct question about Tor security, and would be what woudl cause Tor to fail at what it does intend to do. There are some written analyses of this risk.

> How can I be sure that I'm actually submitting my information to the New Yorker in this case as opposed to a government server posing as them?

Tor isn't necceasrily meant to guarantee that either, an SSL cert with a known/trusted fingerprint would be. But you're right the new yorker is not doing the right things here either.

I am less worried about the integrity of Tor, but I think you are right that the new yorker is not doing all the right things to maximize security/anonymity here. Security is hard. But among other things, they ought to be serving all strongbox related things (including the endpoint you access over Tor) over https, and publishing their SSL cert fingerprint in multiple places all over the net.
Presumably because the submitter's username is also the domain, so by using a link shortener he can hide the fact that it was submitted by the author.
True, BUT because banks operate on a fractional reserve system, it's quite likely that banks have available credit for lending (or creating, in the event of an error such as this) for such a small amount without exceeding their fractional reserve. In other words, banks only have to hold 10% [1] of the money in everyone's account. The rest is loaned or otherwise invested to generate returns.

So in a sense the money created IS real. At least, as real as any other money in a bank account.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#United_Stat...
Some people like to leave their device on precisely because "an authority" is telling them to turn it off.
I would argue this at least creates a cause of action (civil law claim/lawsuit) for Nuisance, for disrupting one's right of private enjoyment of their property. Such a argument might lose and I am not aware of any criminal charge on point, in which case the defacto remedy...flying drones over this guys house 24/7 until he agrees (in writing) to no longer fly his drones over/near private properties.
If you disagree with what this anti-piracy group is doing, how is it fair to apply the standards they support?

I prefer to ask you, how isn't it fair? You are free to believe that 'You either think they're right or they're wrong'. I am equally free to believe that things are more complicated.

In this case I'll go by my own standard (which I apply not only here and now but whenever I have cause to consider such things in my interactions with others) - that of pragmatically holding others to their own principles even when I disagree with them.

If this group embarks on a journey of introspection and decides to profess a different set of principles, I'll gladly alter my opinion to suite. Until then they'll simply have to live with me being disappointed in them on the Internet. Or something.