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"Francisco Dao is the founder of 50Kings, a private community for technology and media innovators. He is a former leadership columnist for Inc.com, a lifelong entrepreneur, author, and former stand-up comic."

In his world, I imagine that there is some truth to his reflections. Not many Americans live in such a world, and only so many more aspire to. I live in a mostly upper middle class neighborhood where I know at least four husbands not working, having been caught by national, local, or organizational politics. A couple are more or less of retirement age, a couple aren't. It is possible that they are suffering more than I see, but I definitely don't see it.
And the collateral damage of an automated filtering system is huge.
When I see things like, I try to actually answer the question "why don't they fix this"? Often it's not because the company in question is dumb, but because they're operating within certain design constraints.

Think of the design space here:

Given:
1. Facebook has close to a billion profiles linked to people's real names.
2. By default, these profiles are publicly searchable.

You want to design messaging so that:
3. People can message people they're not friends with.
4. But you don't want to encourage spammers in any way.

3 & 4 are hard to reconcile. If you have what is essentially a global telephone directory, letting people message anyone is going to lead to horrendous spam. By the sounds of the article, they do some clever filtering to let you know if your message gets through, but it seems they still have to learn towards too-strict filtering. (It's not just viagra and penis enlargement pills - probably most FB spam would be "LIKE our page for the BEST student events in Reno" or "hey girl u look fine u got bf?")

Maybe the pay-a-dollar-and-get-refunded-if-they-reply feature could work, I don't know.
I would respectfully disagree and provide the counterexamples of my rural friends and family in Wisconsin where the tallest mountain in the state is about 500 feet, and on the other side as a counterexample I present "Colorado" and "Hawaii"
They don't give you a diploma though. And I bet it would be a separate kind of diploma. And it's not just degree but also connections. An ex-MIT is likely to hire another ex-MIT. So not much is happening at the moment.
I think the intent is to get this standardised, and I'd assume they already are working with standards bodies on this. Mozilla are very much in favour of openness and I can't think off the top of my head anything they've actually done which is intentionally proprietary.
I learned more from the clubs I joined and/or formed in university than I did from the lectures.

I do wonder whether, as the technical content becomes more widely accessible, there'll be

A) A premium put on conscientiousness.

and

B) Whether clubs for specific topics will become more popular.

The second one is very ... odd ... because it would seem to require either a provision for local spaces that isn't currently there (but might be as libraries change) or much better tools for online communities.
Taxes are included and they apply to customers within the EU. If you convert $29.99 to EUR and add the required taxes you get 29.99€ almost exactly.
Link to the indiegogo project: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
They might have. They wouldnt tell anyone what they know, or what they dont know about.
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You'd be surprised. For some children (particularly those who are very easy to wake up from noises), the static noise generated by rain is like morphine.

We couldn't have made it through the first couple of months without it. Granted, that's diaper territory, so who knows whether it had a wet sheet effect, but still. If your child can't sleep and is very quick to wake on sounds, give it a try. And thank me later.
There is a lesson there - you cant sell a lot of kit (available at some future date) at a price that is over 30% more than a ton of other folks got it for. The reward price "spread" is an attempt to reproduce that initial enthusiastic sales surge but I wonder...

Might come off but it feels like a marketing "cock-up" to me.
If you used Anaglyph glasses to block red and blue, then you could make your tetris game where falling blocks were red and the landed blocks were blue to achieve the effect they talked about. It'd take some tweaking to get it perfect.

If you wanted to make the cardboard idea work, you could make a tetris with two displays, where one side shows falling blocks and the other side shows that they've landed. This seems like it'd be harder to pull off correctly than the other idea.
Well, currently we have this Tory media adviser, or what ever he is supposed to be, who is said to have influenced this current government in to not blanking cigarette packets as he is connected to a tobacco company. Dunno why you picked an old example when we have a current one, which has more of an obvious self serving connection. Mandelson can be argued to have been "advising" from principle.

That said, I dont see how any one can be sure an adviser is advising and not setting policy. And if they don't have influence, there is no point having them, but then people would argue that ministers should have advice from advisers, especially as most of them have no grounding what so ever in the department they are supposed to be running.
Yeap, no dice. Still offline 7/24 7:23AM EST
Linked: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

Looks like the new prices are $625, $675, $725 and $830 (USD).
Don't worry, you're not weird. I used Emacs full time for 8 years and I've made occasional attempts to go back to it for various things. In my opinion it's awful, and I know a fair number of people who feel that way. In my opinion the most important thing about Emacs is that pretty much any language out there has some Emacs support, but in my opinion that just makes it an editor that's equally bad at a lot of languages :-)

It's not for everyone. If it's not for you, there are plenty of perfectly fine (even gasp better) alternatives.
I know the conversation is over, but

> Sorry, genetics don't work that way and poor people aren't all stupid.

If you reread what I've said in multiple places in this topic, I don't think that at all. In fact, that is why I started arguing with the initial post. To summarize:

1. Being poor does not make you stupid.

2. Giving money to the poor is best handled by an organization that can ensure the money is not being abused. In the U.S., the cost of adequate administration of aid to the poor is not possible, and they do such a poor job at it that welfare is abused to the point that it is hurtful to the poor because it keeps them down and dependent on the government or worse it keeps them using drugs. Charities such as the Catholic church which gives more money and time than any other organization including the Red Cross are better fit to do this, however the growth and acceptance of atheism/child abuse by priests/the economy/several other rights (gay right to marry, pro-choice, wanting openly-gay/female priests) issues continue to lower giving without a similarly efficient organization (nuns who work for room/board without families) getting those funds.

3. I understand that not all have the opportunities I've described (libraries, computers), and I think they should. It is more common in the U.S., and one of the main reasons it isn't used as much or in the right way is due to parenting and community. I think that we need to spend more time working on all of that, not just using the welfare system (which in the U.S. is a bureaucratic mess that is unable to effectively manage how funding is allocated).
Good way to probe for most acceptable pricing level before project design is finalized.
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It's a subconscious equation between "Internet" and Facebook et al. When your first click or URL is to check these, the information you retrieve is effectively white-washed by the like/retweet cycle.

I feel there might have been a gap since the introduction of Social Media which may have robbed a generation of its ability to work out the "Web" or the "Internet" for that matter. I mean, I grew up in the 90's in the days of Geocities (even before Wikipedia) and library computer access was most interesting when I couldn't reach a site.

So how do I get around that? "Proxies" says an even geekier friend and now I'm scouring forums for info on configuring Netscape to use a proxy with the included IPs. At home, I got to use IRC and that turned out to be a fountain of knowledge (still before Wikipedia).

I feel sorry for kids who never got to experience driving stick shift.
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Sure. And it was once illegal to own an English version of the Bible. (Greatly paraphrasing) Gutenberg's technology rendered that position untenable.

Ok. Got a handle on the books. What do you do about pirate radio?

The law is the law. The restrictions, codes-of-practice, whatever - they are medium specific. What's invalid is the idea that you can regulate the Internet like you can a "curtained off" section of your local VHS video library.
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No one's advocating such measures. The "go away" implies that the claim was repressed, instead of fairly considered.
I agree....the whole reason this was interesting was because there is a connection between blank, a lot of readers, and the Snowden case.
For a good font—not some crap on DaFont—you're talking many, many thousands of hours. Often just one person's labour, often by eye. Software makes it a little bit easier, but you're still kerning every single possible character combination by eye, and you're still redrawing glyphs at every possible size to make sure they don't render like shit.

There are lots of dinosaurs in typography—Linotype etc—but the best studios are tiny. Some great links to great studios here: http://jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts
Nokia's 41MP Lumia 1020 looks impressive
The distinction between the two groups is not that clear. I suspect many users don't care too much, but if they stumble upon a "don't track me" option, they'll select it.
Can't they get some companies to order a few hundreds or thousands, too? Maybe some European carriers or something (of course they'd have to guarantee money back if they don't deliver). Ending this campaign successfully would help their PR a lot.
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Having just worked as a system administrator for a college for the past 5 years, I completely agree with gahahaha. I'd say less than 5% of the student body had any computer skill beyond "turn it on and fire up a web browser".
Let's see if it makes a difference on the funding speed

http://movebits.net/2013/07/23/ubuntu-edge-funding-level/
Interesting book but confusing advice from someone who seemingly knows what he's talking about.

The very first chapter starts with three hyphenated lines in a row! I’m imaging my typography professors facepalming right now…
http://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.htm...
In general, a great point - it's something I should have thought about more, earlier when I was more of a head-in-the-clouds aspiring hacker.

One detail, though:

> somehow, many if not most people working in these high-wage jobs don't accumulate all that much money.

This sounds plausible, but I'd prefer to see it backed up by statistics.
"[Kogan] LivePrice allows you to purchase a product while we are in the process of manufacturing or shipping. The price of the product gradually increases... " http://www.kogan.com/au/liveprice/
Funded. There was no way I was gonna fork out 860, but did it at 655. Hope someone figures out how to get Windows Phone on the thing!
What I really want is to be able to buy one without having a PayPal account.
While the fonts themselves are proportional, usually each letter (counting space as a letter) has the same width every time, it just happens that an 'i' takes up less space than 'w'. Regular spaces are usually 'en-spaces', meaning the width of the 'n' in whatever typeface you're using.

That being said, spacing is obviously very different in justified type (and a huge pain to set by hand), where it will change depending on which words fit in the line.
I've always been surprised to see people mention they want to start by changing the world.

Such a mission is probably on top of the Maslow's hierarchy [1]. Starting first by making sure you can sustain your family seems more natural to me!

Now I know that people went broke and miserable and also changed the world, but being happy feels like a achievement, too :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
Maybe that was the point but it is a pretty lousy one. The ones that stayed and thrived may have 'sucked it up and enjoyed the challenge' but how many bright capable people hated it and were made miserable or left (perhaps the whole industry or even the workforce).
Carl Sagan once famously said "We live in a society dependent on science & technology, in which hardly
anyone knows anything about science & technology" Nowhere is this more true than in Parliament!
I believe that's the point of that $80k enterprise tier.
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For me, that page hasn't updated in ~12 hours. It would be nice if they labeled their axis though, it's really annoying to figure out the scale at the moment.
I can confirm. I have iOS7 running on my iPhone 5 at the moment.

Its actually clearer now since there is no "on" or "off" label. Its just off and white or on and green.
> ... if one says An en-ess-eff-double-U

Once you get up to the double-u, you start to feel like you are wasting your time.
The fact that the site is still down makes wonder what they're doing.

Provided that the hacker did report all the security bugs to Apple, one could suppose that it would only require of couple of days to fix the bugs, put the site back online, and start performing a full security audit along with massive code rewrite in parallel.

The only reason i see why they would still be offline, is that they instead decided to rewrite some crucial portion of the code from the ground up (which is what the email they sent the other day would suggest). But 1 week in emergency mode for a company like Apple really means rewriting TONS of code...

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Anyone know the state of Objective-C on the server ? I really like that language now that it has ARC, and i wonder if apple is still using that technology on the server side
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With the iOS 7 launch already on a tight schedule this is a disgrace for both Apple and developers trying to renovate their apps.
Sorry for the typo. It's fixed now.
I don't have a bookmark unfortunately, but I read first hand a couple of years ago a study mentioning that employees did spend more and more as their wages went up (ultimately leading to golden handcuffs).
> "What else will be banned?" This is what worries me the most. If there is going to be a government approved 'blacklist' it suddenly becomes very easy to block content that the politicians decide is unsuitable.

This will happen.

In 2008, The Finnish police have added Finnish hacker Matti Nikki's website criticizing Internet censorship to Finland’s new national child porn filter.The scan also found that the top three results of a Google search for "gay porn" are blacklisted. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Finnish_internet_censorship_crit...

In Sweden in 2007, the child porn filter also blocked the Korean Bonsai Association. Far worse than Bonsai trees, the porn filter was also used to block a political web site over a Mohammad cartoon that enraged muslims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4700414.stm

What political web sites are blocked the child porn filter today? We have no way to tell.

Slippery slope, indeed.
I am struggling to justify buying a phone now that won't ship for 10 months. By then Apple, Samsung, HTC etc will all have far superior devices
And ofcourse following the link in the KB article just produces a timeout from my ipad (though i do get a proper message that i'm not on an iOS device when accessing it from my mac). You wonder why they even bother? If you have no intention of opting people out, why even put up the page?
just guessing, maybe all the cases where you need parallel computing AND low power: computer vision, robotics (drones, self driving cars etc..), automation and so on?
Most likely the filesharing is next to be censored. I can smell it a mile away. This has nothing whatsoever to do with bad porn at all. Porn is the excuse to get the censorship framework firmly in place.
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> the kinds of jobs that pay well also have a tendency to require complete focus. They consume your attention, your life.

That's probably true at the seven-digit level, but most of my tech friends who are in finance work no more than a 9 hour day, 5 days a week. The only exception is Citadel, though this situation may be characteristic of the Chicago finance industry rather than NY, London, or Singapore.

Several of my friends made the shift to that industry partially for the money but mainly to get off of the long hours and travel of consulting gigs, the gaming industry, and small companies.
Hi all,

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That isn't the point, he specifically likened the situation to asking out a girl; and "no means no" is an emotionally charged idiom, for that matter.

So "you should still respect her \"NO\"" - How is this relevant? He doesn't expand on why you should do this, so we can't link that logic to the situation and and, all we have is "You'd accept 'no' if you asked someone out, so you should also do so here", with no further reasoning on how the two are similar.
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Only if you've previously exchanged messages with them.

How many people do you think load images versus click Report Spam on an ISP with a feedback loop? And which group do you think would be a better target for future messages?
This should probably be mentioned somewhere!

As well, know that as a EU buyer, if I buy from you in $, the VAT still applies.

See http://docs.recurly.com/vat for more information
Forgive me, I cannot believe that even the most basic choices take a lifetime of training, reflection, and listening to criticism. For instance, in the linked-to document he advises not to use Papyrus in your PhD thesis. That advice doesn't take a lifetime.

Hearing that advice isn't going to make me a threat to professional designers (who I work with and admire tremendously), but some very basic rules of thumb are all I am looking for.
By "Being able to talk about memory allocation" I meant that the programmer has control over these things.
And Australia. http://www.news.com.au/news/internet-filter-threatens-warcra...
That seems rather like a limitation of web tech than anything else. You do not get very much control over hyphenation on the web. (Also note that dynamic hyphenation is necessary here since the layout reacts to brwoser width changes.)
shown before where?
Why did you use it for 8 full years if it is so awful? Maybe other alternatives for your use case were simply more awful, thus making Emacs the best tool for the job?
What if you are not a random stranger but someone whose information they hold and may be improperly securing?

The best way may be to get another user to allow you to try entering their social security number to see what happens. I don't see that the company could have any issue in that case.
I'd imagine they'll learn fast when properly motivated.

(Though to be honest, no-one has ever explained how this is all supposed to work. My UK 3G connection randomly stopped showing me some web sites, that were entirely non-porny, and I had to confirm my age via a credit card or something to remove this block. If you have to do the same thing on home internet then everyone will opt out eventually as the uselessness of it is pretty quickly apparent.)
Interesting point. In the U.K. it seems they are talking about regulating the WWW, rather than the Internet, but yes.

At the same time we have PRISM awareness, so it seems the internet is 1) "monitorable" and 2) "regulatable", if those terms can be used.

You would think that if PRISM is effective, it would be a much better way of catching child pornographers than implementing any sort of filter, and then perhaps people might calm down about the legal pornography.
They say "Every part of this mission scenario has been demonstrated one way or the other" but I'm struggling to think of a proper artificial gravity demonstration. Are there any?

Gemini 11 had some success with a similar scheme involving tethering themselves to their Aegena craft and spinning up. However this was far from straightforward and only created tiny amounts (Wikipedia says 0.00015g) of artificial acceleration.

In order to get 1g from a 50m tether it would have to spin at a little over 4rpm, which seems like quite a lot for such a big thing. Also the difference in acceleration between an astronaut's head and feet would be something like 0.3 m/s/s, which hasn't (AFAIK) been tested.

The Gemini experiment was amazing (especially given it was some way down the list of mission objectives) but I don't think it qualifies as a full demonstration of the technique. I know this project is not intended to be a finished design, but they give the impression that artificial gravity generation is a solved problem.
Would you say "an NSA agent", or "a NSA agent"?

The point of using "an" is to avoid a glottal stop, because glottal stops are awkward and scary.
(This is now the code in the article.)
Like most techies, you're focusing on the effectiveness. This is both missing the point and dangerously underestimating the intelligence of the people behind such measures.

Just like most of the anti-terror security theater, it's not about being effective in any way, it's about slowly getting the general population to accept increasingly repressive measures and a tighter grip of the "ruling class" on society in general.

Once filtering has been generally accepted, they can gradually start figuring out how to censor the things they really don't want us to see (and guess what, it isn't porn) without having to worry about further social or legislative hurdles.

There is no technological gap between "us" and "them". There's a gap in political savvy between "them" and "us", and we're on the wrong side of that gap.
Well, then he made the right choice, because he turned his presentation into a summarised subtitle of the story he was telling.
Ah, thanks for the correction. Speed-reading her Twitter header...
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