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Wow your grandmother rocks.

Aside from all that, if you don't significantly modify your browsing habits, all you've now done is increase your interestingness to the NSA et al. and made your browser run slower and use more RAM.
I'm in Europe, my monthly cell bill is ~20usd - it's not truly unlimited as it's slightly speedcapped after 2gb, but there is no risk of unexpected costs. True unlimited would be probably twice that.
Perhaps I should expand the history, for those who don't know. In the early 80s, QNX was the first fully multitasking operating system available for the IBM PC architecture. It was small, efficient, real-time, and somewhat idiosyncratic. It was fully ten years ahead of its time.

At the same time, in another sphere, POSIX was shaping up as factor in the emerging Open Systems wars. It drove compatibility between big vendors like IBM and HP and Sun (over other idiosyncratic offerings, like Apollo).

Perhaps POSIX as a user response to corporate power had value, but there was also collateral damage. As I understand the story, Canadian colleges standardized on POSIX, and so a great little Canadian OS (QNX) was left out in the cold. They had to become like others to survive.

Conformity served to reduce innovation and developer choice.

Now fast forward to 2013, and leaving aside shared memory details, what is POSIX driving today? Don't forget that ultimately a non-POSIX OS killed them all. And don't forget that users have their own means of bubbling up new features and architectures in the Open Source projects. Their control is far beyond what users got out of POSIX in the Open Systems age.
What's the story with the guys who worked for Madoff? I've heard nothing of this.
If TOR were to behave similarly to google incognito, I think it'd be fine.
Hopefully we will actually see it in production... I really hope so... too often you hear nothing anymore after this kind of exciting announcement.
Back in 2004, I had 200 sites open in Opera. Worked fine on my Pentium II except for closing Opera, which took 15 minutes.

Nowadays I use Chrome, Firefox and Safari on two different machines, and they all have multiple open windows each with dozens of open tabs. I'm pretty good at bringing any machine to its knees.

My biggest problem was when Safari gave up and decided not to remember what was actually in those tabs. That sucked. Or at least, it felt sucky at the time. I have no idea what was in them either, so I don't really miss them. I suspect it means there's something on the Internet that I haven't read.
It would be a fantastic edition to "private" mode. Also, by being baked into the browser, it would give Mozilla a degree of control over the protocols passed. A user opting for the browser plugin instead of the standalone client would not be passing Bittorrent traffic over the network.

More relays and endpoints would be needed, but I wonder how kind of support could be gathered if Tor was publicized in such a way.
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> The idea that because it's free it's above all criticism is simply unreasonable.

Solution: shut down the free version. Addressing complaints from free users who demand things captures absolutely zero value when you're a struggling startup with too much else to do and limited resources still trying to make a viable business. Freemium doesn't work unless you're swimming in VC money and only care about user growth, not MRR growth.
A lot of people can't afford Apple, but look at the sense of design and pace of innovation it brought to the table. The repercussions of Telsa are going to be tremendous on the vehicle industry.
2 year old lithium batteries? Buying new batteries would be as expensive as the car at that age.
~10 billion nerves * 10,000 connections per nerve * 100HZ * ~ 100 neurotransmitters = a complex beast to simulate even if you could get away with 1 calculation per connection per transmitter and ignore things like propagation delays and fatigue.
I think this is a great idea, and an area where someone as big as Github could make a MASSIVE difference. A CodeSmell metric! Allow contributions to add extra smells to langauges, and then it looks after itself.
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Stanford and other groups have been working on "brain asics" for a few years now. The eventually success of these chip-sets will probably dramatically increase our ability to simulate brain processes more efficiently in the near future.

See http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/about.html
A nice idea, but probably not a good one.

The problems Tor would bring users in terms of slow connection, risk from malicious exit nodes etc. would outweigh any benefit for most people. Combine this with the fact that to gain anonmyity from Tor you'd need to (at least) disable JS and session cookies, which many ordinary users will consider to break their browsing experience, and you'll find that really all this idea would do is put a lot more load on the Tor network. That's assuming a 'default on' option.

Perhaps an 'anonymous mode' version of 'private browsing' which switches the browser to a more secure configuration (like the Tor browser) and proxies through Tor would mitigate some of these problems.
I wonder if this would hit software performance?
TIFF with lossless compression all the way. followed up with OCR if necessary.
> You might have heard until now of LESS and you might know it has something to do with CSS and styling websites

Or I might think you are talking about browsing text files..
I know, that is kind of annoying. It makes me want to work out how to hack it together in my shed and start a company.

(if I had a shed. and a lawyer to deal with all the patent suits from the scientists.)
Do I understand that correctly that it allows writing Malbolge[1]-like programs easily for the owner of the key?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
I don't have a certain date, but it won't be too much after the final stable release of Bootstrap 3
Pricing algorithms are different from trading strategies (although they're obviously related). In any case that's purely a matter of evidence, he either copied a piece of code or he didn't.
It's a technical doc without copyrights, that I wrote 8 years ago...
The whole concept of putting 'mobile data' and 'thousands of dollars' in the same sentence is an abomination that needs to be fixed - unless you're in Antarctica or on the ISS. Even maximum theoretical 4g speeds sustained at 24/7 (which would mean dedicated hardware/cell channel just for you) don't justify thousands of dollars per month - in countries where mobile competition works, companies can buy a service just like that far cheaper.
The developer was not innocent:- but the punishment was disproportionate and heavy-handed, considering that he did not appear to have made use of the source code that was taken.

The major problems raised by the story lie firstly in the technological ignorance that the authorities displayed; secondly in the developer's legal ignorance (in trying to correct the authorities' technical ignorance) and finally, and perhaps most importantly, in the breathtaking arrogance and conceit displayed by GS in it's handling of the case -- yet more evidence (as if we needed it) of the vile, corrosive, and fundamentally corrupt culture that infects our financial services.
Both are good enough. Give both a try. No matter what people argue once you test both at least for a day, you would be able to find the right one for you.
Reductionism is fundamental to science. There are places where it shows it limits, but I've always equated being reductionist with being clever, with taking a complex question and re-casting it in terms that can be measured/studied using the current state of the art.
I see it as a non-story. Even if that was what they meant to say (although they seem to have changed their mind since), it's more of an observation of Microsoft's practice of paying established applications to port.

Besides, I'm not sure they're really want to become contractually obliged to produce (and maintain?) a WP port...
Nope. I can walk down to the local (or not local) seven-11/walgreens/etc and get a disposable credit card for use in paying for my vpn provider, and provide them that I am Jake Blues and live at 1060 West Addison St, Chicago, Il.
Google's API documentation are generally abysmal. I have learnt not to spend too much time on the docs but rather look at the samples and source code. But there are times like when beta testing the APIs when there are no samples / source code and you mostly sitting ducks unless someone from google helps you out.
I have a hard time figuring this out. If the code executes, then it means the processor reads instructions. Surely there is some way to access those instructions?
My title got cut off. It's a presentation/lecture by John Carmack on basics of Lighting and Rendering. It covers lots of basics and is easy to follow.
Can you provide links? I never heard of any of those cases!!!
Why calculate anything when we can make most of it happen in dedicated hardware? http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/about.html
It's true that you can be an idiot in any language, but I have written production code in every 'high level' language of this type and only PHP seems to suffer from this problem. Take a random mail form, even has its own domain: http://jemsmailform.com/

Finding the obvious problems I leave as an exercise.
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In Windows, you can make a simple bat file that gets your dropbox id (the numbers that show up in your public links), copy/move the files to your dropbox public dir, then add the dropbox public link to your clipboard complete with the id. It's really basic and really hacky, but you can move it to the appropriate folder so it shows up when you right click > send to. I have one somewhere and it even 7zips everything up before moving.
I'm not a dropbox user, but I've always imagined you could simply mount your dropbox as a file system?! I'm surprised that that doesn't seem to be the case.
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It wouldn't be enabled by default obviously.
No idea why the HN dup detector didn't work. This search finds it:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Allvm&s...
Shut down the free service and no one will get hooked to your product, and choose a another free service to start with, and maybe even pay for it later.

Providing both free and payed tier is the way to go, especially in the commodity market segment like RSS readers, unless you are in a niche without too much competition.
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I understand that high frequency trading algorithms are often predatory, identifying other algorithms making trades, and exploiting their known behavior to trick them into making bad decisions.

Although it may not be the case here, one can imagine that this source would let you fingerprint the Goldman algorithms, and give you an idea of the way they make decisions. That might allow one of these automatic con man algorithms to steal a huge amount of money.

In this instance, the case is more likely that Goldman payed the programmer a million a year to deliver software that gave them a competitive advantage (of significantly more than they paid). By taking that software, he removes the competitive advantage they bought from him.

Let me ask a question:

Imagine you paid an online contractor to write you software. Maybe you paid them to make an Ap idea, or a website. Under what circumstances would you object to them putting the whole thing on a public github? What harm could it do you? That harm, amplified by the money involved, is Goldmans case.
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I had trouble understanding this tutorial head-on, but it's much more digestible after some intro reading material ([2] will make a lot more sense after understanding Forth [3]).

[1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html

[2] http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/spring08/cs259/llvm-2.2/docs/...

[3] http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf1/sf1.html
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That's a terrible idea. Bitcoin is difficult to use for both buyer and seller, has high transaction costs, and is associated in the minds of many customers with illegal transactions.

All that is secondary though to the extreme lack of stability of value, which is pretty important in a medium of exchange. You might as well be telling him to accept tulips.
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While this has indeed been the case so far, it's important to point out that the final decision is scheduled to be made by the Cabinet of Ministers tomorrow (Tuesday).
Thanks for the honesty. I'm always about 'the next paycheque' away from getting a standing desk, but never commit to it.

You seem to suggest an anti-fatigue mat was really important - this true? Did you try without it? What happened?
To me, Americans with III after their name always look like they're pretending to be royalty. Where I live, only monarchs have that (and only after their first name).
I'm all for CS, use it daily, love it. It's absurd how much less code you have to write compared to the generated JavaScript. Huge win for this alone.

However, TypeScript is perhaps the better long run alternative to plain, boilerplate laden JavaScript. Bringing type safety into the mix is pretty compelling, going to check out TS at some point.
It's a new subproject, yes, but the llvm project itself is over a decade old, and everything else is under svn.
I know, but for many people, pinging the remote host is their single idea for network issue analyse.
Thanks for your comment. We will keep you posted on how the situation evolves.
Then call the police if they are committing identity fraud.
While it's true that Mozilla can't maintain a list of what services their users are using, there are still security implications to using Persona. Mozilla (or anyone who with their private key) can still enable access any user account on any Persona enabled site.

Persona is perfect for blogs, but using it for a service people may be paying for, or handles any private user information (postal address, private messages or posts on a forum etc) is a bad idea.
Oh if its for commercial purpose please stop developing Apps for Google. Usage will increase for a certain period of time, and then it drops constantly...
One weird trick...
I can speak from experience - you'll be very surprised how an unlikely string of reds comes up when you're just betting black. Almost like it's rigged or something. Just sayin'.. .
Can you give an example of how you'd use it in your config?
If only the US would not have such disproportionate blind eyes towards the Wall Street bankers.
This is illegal right? Can we use the CFAA against them? Give them a taste of their own medicine for once.
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Npm is slow and unstable
That example of nesting is scary -- if your CSS requires that specific of a selector, something's gone horribly wrong. You're probably fine with #nav a {}.
Will they even last 20 months at which point lifetime account becomes advantageous? The Old Reader sure didn't.
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I understand, sometimes it can be tricky. I would recommend using the stable build rather than master snapshot but then it is my personal preference.

You can go for an ebook, if price is a concern.
Tons of them in Chicago as well
This is the sort of approach that the 'Understanding Unix/Linux Programming' [1] book takes - building common unix utilities in order to introduce systems programming concepts. IMO, it's a good starter for meatier material in Richard Stevens books.

For those interested in this sort of thing, Harvard Extension School offers a course based off of the 'Understanding Unix/Linux Programming' text taught by the author (http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~lib215/). I took it a few years ago and found it worthwhile...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-UNIX-LINUX-Programming-P...
The way things are defined in the US, the BMW 5 series is a luxury car. It represents close to the maximum amount of amenities for a given size class and, well, the car magazines call it a luxury car. There's not much else to it...

It's certainly possible they're equipped differently here, as so many cars are. If that's not the case and Austrians simply have a different sense of "luxury car" I wonder what you guys have that trumps the 5 series in that size category, as far as "luxury" is concerned.
It's not illegal when you're above the law. Law enforcement in the US (well, the entire executive branch of the federal government) seems to think the law doesn't apply to them. "When the President does it, that means it is not illegal..." In the present climate, it's "When the President does it, or authorizes someone to do it..."
The title's unclear because I'm not entirely confident in my understanding of the naming rules here; so I stuck with the title I saw on the page.

If anyone wants to know what content's on the page before they click (and scroll approximately a screen-height down), it's a practical look at some of the abilities Racket has for coding languages using the impractical language Brainf*ck as an example.
If Mozilla added a "Tor mode", I'm sure it would be configured like the Tor Browser bundle, ie with both disable JS and session cookies disable along with all the privacy enhancements. The existing "private browsing mode" hurts the browsing experience. That's why it's optional for times when you value privacy over convenience.

If you had noticed from the tweets, it appears that Mozilla has been slow to adopt Tor's patches.[1][2] Making Tor a supported feature would greatly alleviate this situation.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#firef...

[2] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#firef...
Hubot has a pretty interesting history, especially when you consider how crucial it is today to the daily operation of stuff at Github. There's a really good interview which has some stuff in it about Hubot from Hanselminutes (with Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers of GitHub): http://www.hanselminutes.com/375/on-culture-and-remoteness-a...
Genymotion is absolutely amazing. Not only is it super fast but also has images with Google Apps, which are almost impossible to get on an emulator.

The downside of using Genymotion is that it's so fast it will hide a lot of performance issues that you will see when running on an actual device. So please, test early and often on actual hardware with extreme amounts of data.
A different salt might be another way to phrase it.
I agree.

I should have listened to the little voice telling me to change "undoubtedly" to some other "likely, but not definitely" term.

I'd be curious to know how often that works.

Regardless, I suspect most don't do that.
Have you noticed that I, the person submitting the link, is no the author?
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Yes, you are agreeing with me, also mentioning an existence proof.
exactly. Why does everyone assume "Tor mode" would have the private browsing features disabled? Mozilla isn't stupid.
based on the link below https://gist.github.com/chriseppstein/674726 Sass appears to be more verbose in accomplishing the same goal... so... I think Less is more like CoffeeScript and Sass is more like Javascript?
The bundle available at the time included the fix. This post on June 26 says it's based on Firefox 17.0.7esr.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and...

The number of affected users must be due to not upgrading. Does the tor bundle automatically update?
Strange considering that there is a showroom on 11 & eye
Long story short, yes. 5th Amendment means that you have the right to remain silent, 4th Amendment means that you have the right to refuse searches until the cop provides the necessary documentation. Both of these rights apply to foreigners.

All the lawyer probably will say is refuse entry until the cop shows a search warrant, and speak as little as possible.

There are some abusive states out there when it comes to foreigners. Arizona for instance is famous for having abusive laws / cops towards foreigners. (Arizona SB 1070, part of which was struck down as Unconstitutional however). So its important to remember that the law changes from State to State (its only natural in a country that is ~3000 miles wide).
I actually collaborated with the Evangelical chaplaincy in that hospital for a few years, when I lived at that city. I knew Paulo and we became friends, but I have not kept in contact since I first left São Paulo and got married. When I did return to the city for a few years, I had a child and had a nervous breakdown, so I feared the traffic to reach the hospital.

Paulo and Eliana live at the Hospital das clínicas. It is the school‐hospital (or whatever you call that in English) of Brazil’s biggest, oldest, most influential university, the University de São Paulo. It is also Brazil’s biggest hospital, which makes it probably the biggest at least in South America. Quite naturally, it is the reference hospital for the whole of South America.

I never knew of family involvement in maintaining them. As mentioned, he lost his mother even before contracting polio; I do not know if his father is still alive, or if he has any other family. Same for Eliana.

It would have been quite natural for the Medicine school of USP to care for them as case studios, as polio was once prevalent and a mutant outbreak is still to be feared. But I suspect that, more than that, being a state‐run hospital no one ever thought of ceasing care or returning them to their families, if these are still available. It is not that expensive, as they share a section with other patients — they do have their own room — and need quite common medical equipment. Many doctors and other caregivers, such as chaplains — both are practising Christians, he Evangelical and she Romanist — volunteer time, and a few persons do brave the city’s insane traffic jams (usually measured in peak rush hours kilometers of jams; anything over 100km gets in the news, and that is not rare at all; going over 200km is rare) to visit them in the restricted alloted visit times.

This does not mean we have ‘great national healthcare coverage’. Just that these two were blessed by being referred to the Hospital das clínicas de São Paulo. As the cliché goes, it is a country of contrasts, an euphemism for inequality, often cutting in ways that some foreigners have difficulty in grasping.
Certainly interesting and deserves more coverage.
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