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Your point is of course correct. I was trying to point out the similarity in viewpoint of some of what abraininavat had replied to the OP (not the OP himself).

Ignoring how JL looks and behaves (which is not really germane to the point), the commoditisation of everyone's data by a select few "Siren Servers" (to use Laniers term) without any payment to the originators themselves is - in the long term - not a viable strategy.

Regardless, I stand by my point that his book is thought-provoking and worrisome, though it does not give any concrete answers.. that of course is up to us as a tech "community" to fix (before we all merrily cut off our noses to spite our faces).

edit: corrected the username i was referring to, and spelling.
From reading what people have been saying it seems like the military steps in when the it feels the government over steps the will of the people (secular ideals of the country). However, since this has to happen from time to time, it isn't really taking an active role in persevering democracy per se and mostly leaving it up to ordinary people through political processes (until they step in).

From what has happend so far pertaining to this situation, it seems like that is true: https://twitter.com/rmncr/status/340525959784562688 (translation via google: "Information: Gumussuyu Military Hospital citizen soldiers dealing mask. Thanks! #direngeziparkı #occupygezi")

I wonder what it would be like in the US if National Guard medics were to show up and pass out aid to people during OWS and related protests…
> And of course no mention of the officers name.

I'm guessing you think a police officer was killed, because of the ambiguous (I would say misleading) wording of the article. Or are you saying you want the name of the officer that killed Gerardo Diego Ayala?
Neurons in AI are not supposed to exactly mimic the behaviour of 'real' neurons...
From the comments:

> I do something similar via a shell

> echo "masterpassword gmail" | md5

Please do not do this, md5 is not a cryptographic hash and is relatively trivial to reverse.
Ie; is possible for someone to discover your 'masterpassword' given any one of your passwords generated via this method.

If one of your passwords is leaked then it is possible for an attacker to brute-force this to find out a list of possible 'masterpassword foo' combinations (although not knowing the length increases the search space).

If one of those foos is 'gmail' for your gmail password then it is game over.

Even if your foo is not similar to the service, if the attacker is able to get 2 of your passwords then the search-space is much smaller (looking only at the overlap of the reverse of both md5 functions).

This may not be relevant if you only take a 'random' sub-sequence from the generated md5, thus only disclosing part of the hash to the attacker.
They don't count those - they don't even count the baby that was in the SUV one guy stole and it flew out of the window during the police chase.
My two points would be that in the UK people as sent to Prison AS punishment, in the USA it seems they are sent there FOR punishment.

Also it's not the punishment that stops most people committing crimes, but the fear of getting caught. No matter how bad prison is, if we let people see such lawlessness in their communities that they feel they commit crime with impunity, then some will.
Great movie, but the book contained a lot more they didn't show.
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That is what "officer involved shooting" normally means — a cop shot them.
Since this is a thread about his personal preferences, I will add my personal commentary of them.

He seems to hold very strong opinions about certain things, but it appears (at least to me) that not a lot of thought went into forming these. Some are just arbitrary ("Not all my shirts are red or purple, but many are. I like those colors.") and some are just wrong ("I am an Atheist, for scientific reasons").

He's a very interesting fellow though (obviously a genius in his work) and has contributed a lot to the free software movement. It's nice to see what he's up to lately.

[gonvaled replied to me below; and my reply here]

I'm not commenting on his belief (or lack thereof), simply from whence it came. I make that comment regardless of the fact that I am either a theist or an atheist. My research consists of developing QFT/QM numerically for simulation, so I can say there is no law of nature that supports his statement that atheism stems from any scientific reason. Dirac's equation? Nope. Creation-annihilation operators? Nope. Did I miss an equation somewhere? Science explains how nature works and provides predictive capacity; that's it. Do you disagree with that?

Furthermore, I didn't list any criticism of Richard (as I have none); in fact I gave him two compliments: "genius" and "he's interesting and I like following what he's up to".
Rest in peace Andrew Scott Reisse. Cliché but true, nobody is ever promised tomorrow.
>Rings with fewer than 6 members are uncommon in chemistry

In chemistry, or in nature? five membered rings show up all over the place, both aromatic and otherwise. Granted, cyclobutyl (4 member, square) and cyclopropyl (3 membered, triangle) suffer from ring strain and are uncommon, but 5, 6, 7, (or higher) rings show up all over the place.

Examples off the top of my head are the cyclopentadienyl ion pervasive in inorganic chemistry (see ferrocene, et al) and amino acids tryptophan, tyrosine, histidine, and phynylalanine all feature cyclic aromatics 5 and 6 membered, as well as proline with a non-aromatic 5 member ring.

The takeaway point is that although ring-strain (having non ideal angles (120 or 109.5 degrees)) increases the internal energy of the molecule (destabilizing it), other factors, such as aromaticity, which decrease internal energy (stabilizing it) may balance or exceed the ring-strain, still giving a stabilized, if non-ideal geometry.

(But yeah, 3, 4 membered rings, ugh. Look up platonic alkanes for some really crazy strain angles.)
Am I the only one who was reminded of Julian Assange?
You could get away addressing that as:

GB Technical Services

Unit W7a

Warwick House

18 Forge Lane

B76 1AH

The postcode effectively encodes the post town and county. It may not be easily 'human readable' but Royal Mail will deliver it no problems.
> In general, in any area of art or sensation, there are many ways for something to be good, and they cannot be compared and ordered

>Indian classical music (I tend to enjoy Carnatic more than Hindustani)

what
Just anecdotal stuff,

Friends in Greece who work for the government have not been paid for 6 - 9 months. But they stay in the job for whenever the pay day does come.

Friends in Spain work for cash in hand because their potential employers save money on the various social insurance costs they have to put up, but cannot afford because times are tight.

Local mid size companies are using the down turn as a great excuse to let people go, while pushing their own salary up. (Noted from friends who work in payroll who have access to that kinda info)
I've been a seller on eBay on and off since 1995. Selling is inconvenient and shipping has always been the biggest pain point. After the sale, it's rare where I feel like my time selling on eBay was well-spent, but it's kind of fun and I find it interesting to see how much my unwanted stuff can fetch.

I'm interested in seeing how Sold progresses. For the niche, pricier items that Sold is focusing on right now, I'd be more willing to invest the time to handle the sale myself since the payoff is presumably higher.
I agree not having to work doesn't mean you won't. You will still do something you like, for instance a hobby or philanthropy. I doubt bill Gates would be cleaning toilets, busing tables, or the other menial jobs necessary for a functioning society, though.
True. Even having a decent grasp on the topic (or perhaps, because having a decent grasp), I find it difficult to try to peel apart bond energy, electron density, bond length, etc, from each other; They're all effectively functions of each other and the entire system.
Those are interesting, but one study was temporary, so no one quit their day jobs, and the others were in third world countries which have different economic dynamics.
It's awful when anyone dies, but I have to confess this seems so much worse to me since he was on the verge of seeing the fruits of his labor result in a historic success.
Proving the parents point I think :)
He probably does use the right tools for his day job. This looks like play time. We're developers all day, can we not be scientists at night?

If you're familiar with SVG, why not contrast the differences/merits of it instead?
The requirements could be integrated into the generation scheme. As long as it is reproducible, you are fine. Essentially something like a pipe:

"pretty long passphrase I use for everything" + "bank" | bcrypt | only numbers | length 4
Holy crap. I am student in the UK, recently did a internship at a fairly well known company. Got paid £16k for that year. If I were to get a full time job, it would be around ~30k a year. These figures are insane, people have told me in person this is what the figures are really like in SF but wow.

I think applying for a couple of jobs in SF etc just for kicks will be one of goals when I finish uni.

I know the term Web Developer has become a pretty broad term nowadays and maybe I am kidding myself when I think about a job at google or other SV or SF company, but what do they expect in terms of experience from a graduate?

It would be great to talk to someone who has first hand experience with this, as mostly my knowledge is from reading blogs posts and such.
This is direct result of Euro currency - the strongest economy gets even stronger. Greece, Spain, etc. were producing low quality goods, but they were cheap. Now they are as expensive as better German products. That's why sane governments (UK, Sweden) stay away from Euro - not to kill export.

Clever move from Germany and prescription for the disaster (collapse of EU - that' optimistic and would help Europe to recover, or less optimistic like war) when people realize how they were cheated.

Greece, despite misarable situation, is still buying war ships... from Germany.
Usually job growth comes from startups, especially in tough times. If Europe had a stronger startup culture, it could've helped, especially for young people.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Adam+wiggins

Can you come back when you have something useful to say ?
Are we just going to pretend that Keynesian economics is some obviously foolhardy strategy and hasn't worked repeatedly in the past? It is understood to have worked with particularly great effect in Australia following the GFC.
Hello PS4?
I agree that ownership and property rights are an invention - though one of a free society. And you are correct that society can just as easily decide that these rights are no longer valid, though that is not a society I would ever consider free. To a certain extent that is happening already.
The day the individual is forced to give up his last right and his last dollar to the ugly greed of the 'collective good' will be a sad day indeed.
So put that high entropy pass phrase in Keepass and don't worry about a cracker getting access to all your accounts through a misplaced hash. With all these sites getting attacked you have to assume anything you put in a website is public knowledge.

I mean, using a password safe is no more inconvenient than having to go to a website. When set up, the safe can even be a one click auto-fill deal. I don't see any reason to take the added risk.
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Take one look at that graphic and tell me that there is such a thing as "Europe", other than as a continent on a map.
Graduate software engineer jobs in the UK hit £30,000 at the very top end. From the experience of friends in the industry, £24,000-26,000 seems more realistic.
> After the police give up the chase, a member of the public is almost invariably killed at an intersection within 30s, since the offender is still driving at high speed but there are no longer any lights and sirens to warn the public.

i call BS, citation?
Sigh. Wheres the image? I only see a pay wall.
With all due respect, and acknowledging many other bright people with a similar situation (i.e Bill Gates), he comes across as being on the autism/aspergers spectrum.
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I found the whole rap genius thing overblown. The idea that a single request should block a server until it returns is absurd, given that it probably is spending most of its time waiting on io. If you really need to load balance CPU bound tasks you should do it properly with a work queue rather than expecting your reverse proxy to do it. Its true their docs got out of date, but i found their response "we'll help you design your apps properly for the 21st century" reasonable, even though they got slammed for it.
Why not "delete my account"?
Park protest was just the tipping point. Current government has been slowly transitioning the country into Islamic rule. There were numerous things that preceded this, ban on abortion, ban on alcohol, jailing journalists/MPs, forcing religion on children, restrictions on TV basically all TV stations are owned by the government ( and not a single one mentioned the protests last night btw or the bombing that recently happened imagine no one reporting 9/11), and not to mention every recent protest met the same police brutality.
Given the amount of web sites he blogs about each day, I can't imagine he still uses this email workflow. On May 31st he made more than 30 posts:

http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html
Nope. Revolution needs some "force in the middle" - the poor, lazy an uninterested will not start revolution. French revolution was not started by poor people, but by "middle class" who was not able to extend its wealth and influence because of ruling oligarchy (all these barons, etc). The poor were used by them, but were not the driving force.

I am not sure that among young, comfortable, teached from kindergarden about tolerance, socialistic version of human rights there is enough energy to start anything (like making mind effort not to choose stupid and promising every for free politicians).

The intellectual condition of european youth is rather poor. Spaniards have choosen socialistic government who was dealing with important stuff like human rights for monkeys. Go figure...
I'm a junior developer in Spain and it's 26k€, and I probably can't complain given the situation here.
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As someone eyeing SICP with previous programming experience should I do SICP first and then do these koans? How big is the difference between Scheme and Common Lisp?
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The logic of it is that the pursuant might shortly commit further crime and not-pursuing endangers others more than pursuing. Additionally, it might serve as a deterrent to crime if criminals know they will be pursued strenuously.

It's not a universally accepted line of reasoning, even in communities across the US. But it's also not one just made up of whole cloth, 'for nothing'.
How does he reconcile using somebody else's cell phone to make a call if he's not willing to use one himself?
it's bad, but not as bad as these stats make it seem.

a lot of those youths do have jobs, but simply are paid cash in hand. when asked, they are unemployed for tax and insurance reasons. as long as illegal immigrant workers are working on the fields of spain, uneomployment simply cannot be that bad.

nobody is starving. roads, bars, stadiums are full. money is circulating in the system. it just is black, untaxed.
Big enough that you might get confused in subtle and obvious ways.
I don't think the cash in hand thing is happening in Portugal which is kind of surprising giving the small salary you get per month and the amount of taxes you pay now. Maybe they have some catch up to do.
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The BBC is covering it pretty well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22739423
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I read the domain as 'By tengine'. Does it has anything to do with tengine web server?
This kind of thinking did happen to me when I tried to generate a consistent world view.

At this point, there are just too many contradictions, I'd rather forget and simply accept the absurd.

For example, being an atheist, I don't particularly believe in holidays myself. I do enjoy myself with my family even if it mean a few capitalists make a little more money during the season. On the whole, a meaningless event makes the whole world happy.

I'm of a fairly open religion (Hinduism). So, there aren't ardent rules you need to waste time with.
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Unfortunately, usernames are very often reused, especially when a site simplifies matters and asks for your email address. This is an especially attractive bit of info because an email address and an easy-to-remember password can net you their email account (so you can delay discovery of your escapades) as well as every ecommerce site where they have an account. Gift cards for everyone.
That was in some sense intentional -- I prefer exp(i μ k) exp(-k² σ² / (2 n)) for the clarity of the expression in Fourier space.

That issue is not avoided -- it becomes ln(cosh(k)), which still only has a finite radius of convergence due to branch points at ± i π/2, and a complicated branch-sheet structure. It is not dissimilar from 1/(1 + x^2) -- a perfectly smooth ordinary real function on the real line, very pleasant to work with, but the (real!) Taylor series at 0, 1 - x^2 + x^4 - x^6 + ... does not converge outside of the interval (-1, 1) because it must go to infinity at ± i on the complex plane.
No offense, but this comment betrays a very limited understanding of the situation.

First of all, the European countries with the strongest welfare states do just fine. Also, social expenditures are not actually much different in the United States compared to EU countries -- it's just that more of it comes out of pocket [1]; in the end, it still comes out of your paycheck (as an employee) or profit (if self-employed). In fact, the US has higher net social expenditures than Spain (as a percentage of GDP).

Second, money creation does not work the way you understand it. The majority of what economists call the M2 money supply is not created by the government or the central bank, but by private banks through fractional reserve banking [2], i.e. loans.

And as a matter of fact, the M2 money supply [3] in Greece [4] and Spain [5] has cratered in recent years. The private banks have been "unprinting" money, if you like that terminology. While in theory this might have come from money being transferred to Germany etc., money supply growth across the Eurozone as a whole has also slowed down since the crisis [6], as opposed to the US [7]. Note that it is normal for the money supply to grow with the economy, even absent inflation, because M2 (= money in circulation) is an indirect indicator of economic activity.

Finally, much as "printing money" is favored as a term by some people, this is not actually what Quantitative Easing is. What Quantitative Easing does (simplifying a bit) is a central bank making loans in lieu of the private banks when the latter fail to do so in sufficient measure. The QE process has the central bank buying private assets with money it created to compensate for a shortage in the money supply; the crucial difference (compared to printing money) is that the process is easily reversible; when the economy recovers, the central bank sells these assets again and destroys the money it gets back. Thus, the central bank retains control over the total money supply. QE is what the US Fed has been doing to prop up the money supply in recent years because Congress couldn't get its act together.

Borrowing, likewise, is in the current situation in no way comparable to "printing" money. In fact, short term government bonds of most developed countries (T-bills or their equivalent) not called Greece, Spain, or Italy go for yields below the very low inflation rate: investors buy bonds even though they're technically losing money; similarly, those governments could technically make money by borrowing more at the moment because the aforementioned investors are willing to loan it to them at effective negative rates.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/OECD2012SocialSpendingDuringTheC... (a convenient chart is on page 8).

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

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Empirical_measures...

[4] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/greece-money-supply-m...

[5] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/spain-money-supply-m2...

[6] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/euro-area-money-suppl...

[7] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/united-states-money-s...
I read it as ByteEngine at first glance. Maybe it shares an E?
I would go with "How to design programs" - looks at the beginning to be siplistic, but it gives a lot of understanding about lisp like languages.

Then I would go with SCIP and then Koans.

I am treating lisps as a kind of mind game (I dont like crosswords :) so I do Lisp) since I cannot use it for everyday job so from my point of view Scheme and Lisp are not very different. There is different approach to things like mutable state and other more advanced concepts, but basics are the same.

If you want to have at least an illusion of learning Lisp that can catch up one day, learn Clojure. Or go with Scheme's ugly duckling son - JavaScript. :)
Of course, a simpler answer is that professors are busier than undergrads so they just put less time and effort into drawing these diagrams. So Occam's Razor?

Yeah, an undergrad, even though this was not a formal exam, would probably feel the need to prove themselves by faithfully reproducing their concept of a neuron. Most professors probably just wouldn't give a damn.
Here is my take: Just send me the box, and I'll put the stuff. I don't want to take a photo and list it and then agree on the price. If I did that, I'll just go and sell it on eBay on my own. How is it different?

So I give you the stuff. You figure out if it can sell. You take a good percentage cut. You deposit the money for me. Just make the process transparent in case I cared about the details.
While CL and scheme are both lisp dialects, they are quite different. Just to make a pair of examples, CL has two separate namespaces for variables and functions, scheme only one; scheme has guaranteed tail call optimization (which is used often to solve problems recursively), CL depends on implementations. To do these koans I would first go through Practical Common Lisp by Seibel http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Yes, I am shocked, shocked! that Ayn Rand gets people worked into a lather. How could we have ever predicted this?????
yes the e from byte & engine are fused :-)
As far as I know (I'm Portuguese), everything in Europe is very local so people are looking for work on their countries local job sites. There's also another problem that probably affect more the Portuguese people than the others: if you had a job you were paid a really low salary (the average is probaly around 800 EUR/month net), you were not able to save enough money to go abroad so, for most people, that is not an option.
Maybe so, but the who's hiring page from May has zero mentions of perl, and quite a few of python and ruby. If there is a good internship for a perl hacker in the Bay Area, I haven't seen it.

I got to meet Larry Wall, (was nice enough to come and talk to my class) and even he seems to have had trouble finding work during his career.

Actually, from your comment history, you seem like a perl aficionado. Maybe you could email me and let me know where I should be looking. I'd email you, but you have no contact info supplied.
The case of Aaron Swartz was about hacking and making information free for others.