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And you shouldn't :)

Python is used just about everywhere for just about everything (sometimes properly, sometimes poorly). While there are a lot of web sites that run Python, there are also countless other applications that use it that are unrelated to the web. See Scipy as an example.

That said, the earlier poster mentioning that many people are using Python for IO bound processes is not too far a stretch. Why else would Twisted Python exist, and why would the new Tulip async IO stuff be developed?
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And if I just told you to assume AES is broken by the government and find something better, would that be all the incitement you need? Or would you want actual evidence that at least hints it's probably instead of just assumptions?
I've always been partial to Voltaire's thought on the matter: "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."

Even if I had more time during the day to to whatever I pleased, I doubt I'd have the money to do anything interesting. I'd probably end up programming or working on something, which I might as well get paid to do.

I'd certainly rather program than maintain a garden. But I can understand why that's not true for everyone.
That's a little different. If you moved to Europe, took a job in Europe, lived in Europe and paid taxes in Europe, you'd STILL have to pay US tax. Very few other countries do that.
Yes, this is not clear (as far as I know).

The direct effect of inserting current pulses is to excite neurons. However, this is followed by a period of inhibition. I am not sure of the cellular mechanisms.

A reasonable review (with full text) is found here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2200868/

The review details the suggestions that there are both excitatory and inhibitory effects of DBS.

Another paper I know of is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19864437 which goes into excitatory and inhibitory effects in cortex.
>I became the guy who would “do-it-all”. Biz Dev, check. Product Management, check. Support, check. Accounting, check. PR, check. Ad Copy, check. Development Lead, check. While he took complete ownership over design (and really excelling at it).

Thats where you failed. You cover all that ground while he worries about.. design? Thats not going to get you to where you need to be. Sorry.
None that have lived to tell the tale.
Completely rejecting society is one of the most self-centered and egotistical things you can do. Only two classes of people obtain it: the very wealthy (basically, FU money) and vow-of-sileince monks (basically, "I'm never going to interact with humanity again").
I'm just fascinated with a program that isn't full screen, yet resizes my entire desktop down to 800x600 even still. Fancy HTML it is not.
It must be really popular. :)
Terminating a high volume of SSL connections cost effectively on EC2?
Exactly. I find programming relaxing (when working on projects I want), so If I wasn't working I would be doing that because I couldn't afford to really do anything else.

I also couldn't afford to do anything, probably couldn't afford internet at home either so I would be stuck.

Best of luck not working and instead doing whatever you like.
The "refrigerator" had a false back. When the phones were placed inside and attention directed elsewhere, NSA agents opened the back of the refrigerator and installed bugging devices (complete with reserve power cells) in the phones. The goal has always been to identify and entrap counter-intelligence targets.

Snowden is a false flag exercise, which would be obvious to anyone who read Catch-22.

You can never be paranoid enough, because they have a million people with TS clearance thinking of ways to get into your heads. That's just in the US.
> [...] by dissolving them with water.

I thought they mostly used sugar or alcohol (depending on substance).
PyPE - https://sf.net/projects/pype

It's sort-of abandoned in that I've had a user-submitted patch to fix a major bug since last October, but I haven't had the time to review and apply it yet. I wouldn't suggest anyone use it at this point (I only do because it is exactly what I want; no more, no less), and usually point people to use Eric4 or Eric5, depending on whether you are focused on Python 2.x or Python 3.x .
me too!! I was fascinated. I never knew hackernews audience could reach 5000 visits so quickly!!
it's on 8K now!! wow!!
Who's a servant? I'm exchanging my free time for money in an exchange that I feel is very worthwhile, and the 'servitude' I engage in is intellectually stimulating. If you feel like you're a servant, you picked the wrong career (or you didn't pick a career...)

Not everyone wants to run their own business.
It's nice that we can choose who we do or do not work for. Slavery and serfdom were pretty terrible.

I like my job; I don't think my work would be possible without cooperation and a shared environment. I don't mind serving others, if they are serving me too.
That somewhat depends on the mutation rate. I have it set to 20% and the cars are optimizing down to big wheels connected by what can only be described as a bar, which means they can drive in any orientation and are clearing later and later challenges quite effectively.
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Why do some live their lives as masters? Why delegate interesting work to others rather than do it themselves? Why give up that money?

You are not a servant when there is a fair exchange of money for services.

You become a "servant", or rather a modern "serf", when you lose control over such matters. It may seem subtle but it is an important distinction. If you are so indebted financially, living paycheque to paycheque, you are a servant to that debt and the interest it accumulates, you are a serf.

Without such bonds you can view your employer as a peer, a colleague, a contemporary, and not as your master.
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> Peanuts are banned from most schools.

First time I hear about that. An US thing?
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I won't speculate on eavesdropping since I haven't tested this, but what I hear when I heard his method is more of the security risk that he could possibly be pinpointed. A red flag would go up for me, hearing multiple people (the lawyers) clustering to one location.

Smartphones are a beacon of constant info...GPS and signal pinging can get your coordinates (at least general area), and Wifi can triangulate the position [0]. Cameras and microphones are just icing and still require a device to be compromised, whereas signals, require carrier network access...which is what PRISM revealed [1].

[0] http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/03/26/what-exactly-wifislam...

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57589100-83/nsa-whistleblow...
That's circular thinking.

Because Python is slow, Python is not used in scenarios where speed is crucial. That much is true.

However, if Python was faster, it would be used in those scenarios, so more people would be using it for speed critical code so it would provide real gains for a great many Python programmers.

This is exactly what happened with JavaScript: before V8 JavaScript was in exactly the same position as Python. Not many people were writing large programs in JavaScript because JavaScript was too slow. V8 sped up JavaScript 10x+ and people started writing much larger apps that do require that speed. If JavaScript speed suddenly dropped to pre-V8 speeds, we would all find the most popular web apps unusably slow.
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The author may be interested in this company that build s super energy efficient homes http://www.seconstruction.ca

$10 Canadian to heat versus the typical $500 using a small "hair dryer" to heat the home in -20C weather.
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| We spend at least 40 hours per week working for other people to become richer than ourselves.

Sure, there are people like this. But a great number of people do this as a sacrifice to make their family's lives better.

I find this post boring, arrogant, and narrow-minded. These aren't new problems, and you haven't arrived at some sort of new solution.
if you work for a publicly traded company and you buy shares in that company, would you not be working for your self ?
If self-employment is merely a "new boss," then why isn't self-sufficiency? Instead of relying upon the highly-developed apparatuses that society has created that enable one to achieve homeostasis and proceed through life, he is going to "indenture" himself to his bodily needs, creating far more work than in necessary. Is it better to be a "servant" to another than to be a "servant" to oneself? His point is incoherent.

Secondly, he presents this notion of a foundationally-flawed and perverse system, and asserts that he is going to leave it, without presenting an alternative. Suppose that one does reject society and become entirely self-sufficient. Then what? He appears to have no ultimate objective nor any motive other than disillusionment with the system. What occurs after he quits his job and builds a cabin in the woods? I'd rather be a servant to society where I know that I at least have nominal objectives and a context in which to live my life, than abandon everything and hope that a life of solitude (or whatever he intends to pursue, he was pretty ambiguous) is preferable to society.

His plan doesn't seem well-devised, and his explanation offers essentially nothing. Just because social arrangements in society are sub-optimal does not mean that abandoning everything is preferable, or even tenable.
Speak for yourself (duh...that's what the author is doing). I work for others to make good money to support my addiction to hobbies. I, for one LOVE quadcopters, reef tanks, micro-controllers, LASERs, PC's, my electric guitar, and everything in between. The amount of time I get to spend with my hobbies is MUCH greater than the actual 40hr work week. Fair trade.
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Eh. If I had the means and the time to not be a servant, I'd go for it. However, I don't even have a business idea that I'm capable of executing on. So meh.
This rubs me the wrong way. I guess I don't see why doing stuff that makes someone else wealthier, even incidentally, is intrinsically a bad thing.

If someone happens to find their job challenging, meaningful, and enjoyable, learns a lot, enjoys the company of their coworkers, and achieves their personal goals while working for a company or starting a business, why would the fact that other people are benefitting from their work put a damper on their enjoyment?

Or, like other commenters have mentioned, a job or self-employment might provide the income and opportunities to enrich one's life by living in an interesting place, getting to meet interesting people, supporting a certain lifestyle, enabling new experiences, and increasing someone's standard of living overall.

Don't get me wrong - I don't think that it's a bad thing, either, for someone to derive enjoyment from the mere fact that they aren't making someone else richer. And if that's what the author values, more power to him or her. But I really think it's sort of silly that the author is so puzzled that not everyone else thinks the same way.
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This is the most unique thing I ever seen, kind of would like to know everyone's opinion about this.
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>It may be theoretically true, but in practice, as nice as Python may be to use, it has proved a very difficult language to speed up.

I disagree with you. Python isn't much harder to speed up than Lua and in some ways it's better behaved than JavaScript. Still, both of those languages enjoy implementations significantly faster than CPython. Really, it's not the semantics of the language which hold back Python's performance but rather the fact that extension modules are extremely tightly coupled with a particular interpreter implementation. Lua has a clean interface with C, JavaScript implementations generally force the outside world to use doubly indirect handles on objects. CPython, on the other hand, is shameless in flaunting its internals for the whole world to see.

The only reason that PyPy has taken "multiple PhD-thesis level attacks" to near completion is because their approach is insanely ambitious. They didn't write a JIT. Instead they wrote a toolkit for partially evaluating interpreters on source files and generate native code by tracing an interpreter while it itself runs a program. It's nuts! It's amazing that PyPy works and the amount of effort is totally unsurprising.

Had they gone a more traditional route, the whole thing could have been done in a year or two. They would, however, still face resistance from a Python community that wants to neither give up nor rewrite their PyObject-laced libraries.
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I completely agree with this. Web/Tech are not the only industries that have startups. However, I do believe the "gotta have it right NOW" consumer attitude that the tech industry creates also creates the same kind of tech-focused venture capitalist.
There is a third way, of being present in the world for your worldly obligations, and being able to pursue your personal/inner growth and experience as well.
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You're missing the point. I already am thinking of it as broken, even without evidence, because I want to look ahead. This doesn't mean I don't use cryptography "because it's broken", it means I don't trust it as if it wasn't broken.

Also, to be a bit unfair, I have no idea who you are, but I know who Simple Nomad[1] is. If Simple Nomad told me the government had definitely owned PGP, AES, or anything else of that nature I'd be very concerned, no evidence necessary. The implication is that he already has the evidence, but maybe can't share it with me. Or he's really drunk and messing with me.... either way, good times ahead!

[1] http://www.soldierx.com/hdb/Simple-Nomad

> He has spoken at DefCon, BlackHat, ^Shmoocon^, and ToorCon, and he is known for his somewhat paranoid mindset.
Why do we waste our clicks upvoting this crap?
While I wouldn't use Go to make a game because of lack of good libraries/frameworks, performance is fine for less-demanding games (2d, stuff, minecraft, etc)
I wrote a utility called 'dirhelp' that can give you info on any directory:
https://github.com/jrenner/linux-directory-help
It's written in Go, binaries are available in the repo
Let's frame it in the "Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose" happiness rubric.

If you're smart, you level up to Mastery fairly quickly.

Once you're no longer an absolute novice, it's frustrating to spend your days without meaning or purpose. The novice finds meaning and purpose internally when learning. Once learning has plateaued, meaning and purpose come from integrating with society.

This is where the shackles of jobs start to erode your self: the masters at bad workplaces dole out meaning and purpose based on die rolls. They don't understand the connection between what people are good at, what they want to do, and how they should do it. You get told what to do. You have little leeway. When your choices are removed, the friction eats you alive.

Modern hippy startups try to get around the last part by letting people do whatever they want. Those companies can be pretty much counted on one hand though.

In short: companies exploit the Mastery of smart people while forcing you to look at Purpose through double slits and removing Autonomy resulting in your knobs of happiness being broken without you even realizing it.
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Be careful! This might look in someone's eyes as subversive action.
Starting with Go you could end up not bothering with C/C++.
"Fight Club" movie already expressed these "ideas" with much more taste and style.)
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Rent. Taxes. The very land your house is on.

Unless you become a master you are required to serve. If you don't find a middle-ground that is acceptable to you, the alternative is to live like a hobo.

Some people actually chose that.
I see your point. I guess I feel that the majority of people _are_ capable of realising real life doesn't imitate Hollywood and Snowden quite rightly needs to take some sensible precautions if he is to have any hope of sustaining this story and effecting the public debate and ensuing policy changes he's fighting for.
I'm using dtrace4linux just fine from another tree, which installs it as an add on, just like a package. It's massively useful for solving customer issues (replicated in the lab, since it isn't production safe yet). Having used it, I don't see a problem with continuing to use it this way, on Linux, forever.
Sorry to hear things didn't go according to plan, but I did enjoy "Hazards of Work". Thanks for that.
>Rearrange your instruction bodies based on execution / transition frequencies to improve instruction cache performance.

Do you mean...group all the frequent operations together so they overlap on cache lines? It's hard to tell how much this would help, have you tried it?
You might be a king or a little street sweeper but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

(Go on then, I deserve it.)
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Maybe you're right, but to be sure you should give your friend a few hundred, let him go buy a couple of different wines and blind test you. Record both how you like each wine and what you think it cost. Also for fun, write down the tastes and compare to the description (asphalt etc). Film this and put it on youtube so we all can see. I'd be willing to donate a few bucks for this, anyone else?
"Not being 100% in it" is subtle code for "I reject working with you." It's probably nothing you are doing. Think how a little kid would react. He is trying to rationalize in his mind that it's actually you that doesn't want to work with him. It's a sort of "its not me its you" psychopathic characteristic that comes about because a person refuses to take responsibility for their own negative attitude. The person doesn't like you and its YOUR fault. Advice: don't waste too much time drawing this one out.
This post really frustrates me. The moral is right and true: If you don't like what you're doing, stop that, and do what you enjoy. Find a way to make it a viable way of making money.

But thinking you can ever avoid being someone's servant... that's nonsense. The President is servile to the whims of Congress. Congress is servile both to each other and their constituents. CEOs are servile to their shareholders, and the shareholders are likely servile to someone else in their lives.

Often, they don't enjoy what they do either. But it's better than the alternative. Crushing poverty is something you're either extremely afraid of, or you've never lived it. Spending some hours on your weekdays doing something so you don't have to suffer that isn't a big deal.

The old equation for a long, happy life doesn't work anymore. With the rate of technological advancement, it probably won't ever work again. Why? Because 4 years ago, the iPhone had come out two years before and smartphone penetration was stupid low. The idea of an electric car getting car of the year was an absolute joke. Things that seem rote today literally didn't exist.

Working at a single company for the majority of your life also doesn't work. For one, people are wise enough now to know it's hard to be happy in an atmosphere that never changes. For two, many jobs barely exist for 3-5 years before becoming obsolete in one way or another, if you don't evolve with it.

But that's okay! We'll get the hang of this, as a society, pretty soon. But that focus you mention, on making your own shiny thing? Finding your own personal passion? Isn't that what our best and brightest have been telling us for at least the past 20 years, if not longer?

Sure, don't be a servant. But don't be stupid and avoid working for "the man" simply because it isn't what you want right this second. Sometimes putting up with a few years of grief can give you just enough leeway to do some really incredible shit with your life.
Judging from the comments so far, it may not be so inevitable. However, there is still the law of averages, I guess.
what does he/she mean by "And don't think self-employment is anything but a new boss. "?
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Translation: joke -> threat.

Sounds like bullying to me. No place for that. No exceptions.
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It's worth noting to joelg236 that you can easily drop C into your Go program using CGO (http://golang.org/cmd/cgo/) for parts that need to be extremely performant. You incur a context switch overhead but it can really boost performance in some use cases.
That worked surprisingly well on my blackberry z10.
A greeting card can make audio recordings. The upload could be postponed until later when the main battery is reinserted.

(not saying that I believe that there's any way these phones are recording when the battery is removed, just that it is doable)
this is quite amazing and scary at the same time...
Maybe there was a transmission of encrypted material (from a third party, something completely unrelated) and since it'd be difficult to determine if it was Snowden's they chose to take it anyways. (this is all, of course, presuming that the USG was responsible)
156 is tough but doable. A couple of my populations have cleared it. 175, however, looks fairly impossible :)

http://imgur.com/iIIcGnJ

Edit: 175 has been cleared by one of my populations at generation 155! 187 is definitely impassable, though. http://imgur.com/GwO4j4W
Also survivorship bias; we wouldn't be hearing anything about Tesla if it had failed normally.
The logic makes sense if you assume that the NSA is only using the data to target terrorists. In that scenario, the danger isn't that they will reveal to innocent civilians that they have your data. The danger is the precedent. Want to know if you are on their target list? File a FOIA. If they grant it, you're okay. If they deny it, you're in their sights.

But since we already know that they are collecting this metadata on absolutely everyone, I don't see what good it does to refuse to send it to you, whether you are a suspected terrorist or not. ...I suppose you could be fretting about whether you had slipped up and called Cousin Guido on your regular cell instead of a throw-away prepaid phone.
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