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Throughout my life, I've had a larger than average exposure to the children of the very wealthy. What strikes me is that they seem afflicted with the same existential angst that plagues us all from time to time. They wonder what everything means, what the point of doing anything at all, much less something great, truly is. In short, they are always in search of meaning, and never find a final goal in which to place their faith.

The main difference is that for you or I, even if we slip into nihilism, depression, or hedonism for temporary spells, reality always demands our attention. Even mere millions last at most years if truly spent with the abandon the "fuck it all" lifestyle requires. For the children of the very wealthy, they can escape into these distractions for years, possibly forever.

Some of these children manage to claw their way free of the meaningless merry-go-round of booze, drugs, sex, travel, and wild purchases. Anecdotally, the things that seem to assist this process are, in no particular order: a family mythology as found in families such as the Rockefellers, newly discovered religious faith, restrictions upon their finances, a hobby or profession with it's own addictive qualities (such as running, or programming), or a significant other that provides a surrogate middle class mindset.

It's a bizarre situation, but wealth can kill just as surely as it can protect. I don't have the answer here, but if you're fortunate enough to make it big, spend some serious time thinking about how to protect your children and your grandchildren from the downside of your success.
>>impossible to hide you're enriching.

With laser enrichment, you can do enrichment in a typical house with typical power consumption, so it seems easy to hide.

But building the tech today is quite complicated, and hopefully that stays that way in the future.
I'm going to assume that you yourself didn't grow up surrounded by addiction, poverty, and crime.

What you refer to as 'will power' is socially constructed to a much greater degree than you seem to realize, and is deeply intertwined with privilege and opportunity.
Ironically, the mobile view is a MUCH more usable and navigable look at the data. The technical restrictions of mobile reined in a lot of the excess flashiness.
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I implemented these. :-) Glad folks enjoy them.
I have a ridiculous number of Sci-Fi and fantasy novels hanging about. I never get rid of them. I think it's because each one represents something like an entire year (often much more) of one human's efforts.

With movies, say, you know it was hundreds of people. So it's no big deal. But with books you are tossing someone's whole world.

Also I like to reread them. Honest.
This reads exactly like the beginning of an action thriller movie.
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Irradiated just means that it has been exposed to radiation. Doesn't necessarily mean the copper is itself particularly radioactive. Depends on the specific circumstances.
The same topic was covered (by the author) on Act I of this week's 'This American Life'

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/503/i...
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John Rahaim, SF's Planning Director, recently gave a speech regarding the challenges SF has faced in adding units and offices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhp-xKxB_A (34 min, starts about 1:25 in)

Some of the most important points he made:

-80% of the city's growth will occur in 20% of the city's area.

-Neighborhoods are in opposition to projects which follow community-crafted plans that were designed to encourage growth. He argues that it is not the amount of growth, but the rate of growth that those neighborhoods are opposed to.

-Large segments of the city are zoned to protect industrial and production businesses.

-Last year, SF reviewed 8,000 permits (for everything from routine window replacements to new construction). Of those, 6,000 were considered "routine" and were issued over the counter while 1,800 became "cases" that require additional review and hearings. For comparison, NYC (a city with 10 times the population of SF) reviewed only 500 equivalent "cases". It issued most permits (including one for a building that purports to be the tallest residential highrise in North America) "as-of-right" without any review by their planning department.

TL;DR: SF's planning code is much more strict than that of NYC and gives residents a lot of veto power.
Yes, not using cache at all would make everything very slow. I'm now of course talking about using in session memory cache. If it's too small you can reconfigure it using browser.cache.memory.capacity parameter with Firefox. With fiber I never use caching. But yes, with 512kbit/s connection I unfortunately had to use disk caching too, to avoid re-downloading anything I simply could. But of course in that kind of situation and configurate you're really aware that you're not destroying all data between sessions. For privacy virtual machine with hardened configuration + tor is good idea. Otherwise there's no reasonable expectation of privacy anyway, as they're saying. In technical terms, there are so many ways to track users who do not harden those, that there's no reason to expect any privacy. As we have seen with all these NSA discussions, all technical options were pre-known already. You don't know if sites use some techniques or not, but it's reasonable to expect that they do use at least all publicly known techniques. And possibly some unknown. So making attack (or tracking) surface as small as possible, when looking for privacy is reasonable. Maintaining any data between sessions is just stupid if you're looking for privacy. Always boot clean virtual machine, which is similar to other virtual machines, is best approach. Otherwise there are tons of things they can do to track you.

Btw. even if browser keeps cache, you can always clear storage paths.

One of things that doesn't seem to be known to many users is that many databases contain deleted data (marked free) for long time. They just don't think about it. Just go through all files stored by browser, you'll end up finding stuff that you woulnd't expect to be there, if you're naive. Right attitude is to expect everything to be stored always, and take proper care to destroy data when it's required. This is just like the issue with SSD drives. If you write something on drive, you wan't to destroy. There's no sure way to destroy the data from drive, without totally physically destroying the drive. You simply don't know, if the controller has written data to cell XYZ, and then re-mapped XYZ to somewhere else. Just overwrite it approach does not work in this case. And you can't even guarantee that the manufacturer tool could properly erase that cell.

Just final words. Etag doesn't have anything to do with "images", it's not tied to content-type at all. Next week I could release "css" tracking exploit, which uses etags, which is kind of css checksum. Uh...

In these days, privacy and security is hard, it's very hard. Even if you think you're doing things right, there still might be several things that you're not doing right. Even if you have used serveral years to learn how to do things right. Even after that, there's still possibility of bad luck.

But all this stuff is generally known and properly documented, so there's nothing new.
In as much as he posted on another account's timeline without permission, he "hacked" it in the "unauthorized access" sense of hacked.

re: reason; where does his reason come into play? It does not seem reasonable to post to M.Z.'s timeline, I'd guess he did that because he was P.O.ed at being dis'ed by the support people.

In the bureaucratic theory I am aware, if you have rules (policies, proceudres, standards etc.) you need to apply them consistently. Sometimes the rule will allow for discretion, sometimes not. I don't see room for discretion here.
Re: Green Card, you might also consider the Green Card lottery. https://www.dvlottery.state.gov I know that it seems like a long shot (and it is) but I got it on my first try and a friend of mine got it on the first try. Applying does not cost anything and takes about 10 minutes. The application period starts in October I think.
I think the biggest question you should ask yourself is "do you want to move to NYC, or find a new job in Hong Kong?" I personally would rather be in Hong Kong unless the job in NY were truly exceptional. If you want to go to NY, go to NY -- the finances/etc. will work out, but unless you have some specific fixed expenses, it's probably not the primary consideration.
My mom makes the same argument about housewives.

Weirdly enough Dwight Howard, Howard Stern and Larry Ellison also think they deserve better.

Survival of the fittest and all that...for the rest there are unions.
Since when have these been around? Also, can you share some details on how the Google search easter egg infrastructure works? I've always found these very interesting. They kind of give a human touch to what sometimes feel like "cold" search result pages.
And let me (just for fun) go even farther and provide unsolicited interpretation. Does your anger have anything to do with the possibility that you have the same issue that she had, value (subconsciously) your successes based on how others perceive them and her article 'devalued' what you achieved and triggered defensive reaction?
I know through friends that if you apply for a green card once and don't get it, then it tends to raise a yellow glad on the next try. I don't know if this lottery would raise such a flag but I'd do research on it before blindly applying.
Too bad it's a queue and not a stack.
I'll show myself out now.
We have no idea if that was up to Jobs or not. Honestly this is very far-fetched.
I am really excited to see how this will play out in Cyprus. I really hope it works, has it ever been tried elsewhere?
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there was a recent article on Blomberg news about american expats giving up their citizenship, and the burden of paperwork was cited as one of the key drivers for the rich but not super rich types in HK and Singapore.
I don't think this duty artists if you limit yourself to green card status and not citizenship.
"Kickstarter for Terrorists" is terrifying prospect.

But also slightly amusing, I'd like to see a parody done.
$1500 max in Brooklyn and live where? While it certainly depends on what part of Brooklyn and what type of rental you can tolerate, $1500 is low. The average monthly rent in north Brooklyn is now over $3,000 - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/realestate/costly-rents-pu...
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4 - aren't you forgetting state income tax?
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Lend them to friends when they visit, give them to a charity shop - that way someone else will enjoy them too. Why would you need to get money for them?

There's no need to throw a good book away, or leave it collecting dust on your shelves (which is close to the same thing). Most books nowadays won't last longer than a human lifetime due to the perfect binding and terrible paper, so you're not keeping them for posterity by hoarding them.
As CoffeeScript also went through this same process, bootstrapping itself away from an original Ruby-based compiler (at this moment: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commit/6446e0004c...), Kal is now in some sense "two self-hosted steps" away from a "normal" language. That's pretty neat.

GorillaScript (here: https://github.com/ckknight/gorillascript/tree/master/src), Coco (here: https://github.com/gkz/LiveScript/tree/master/src) et al, are also implemented in themselves. I hope that this trend of compile-to-JS languages tending to self-host continues.
What a cunt reply. The slave masters have trained you well.
Pay the man!

As many others have said: The TOS was only available in English and that's not his first language. He did the only thing he could to get your attention and fix the problem.
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I've been looking for a way to make this less annoying, hanks!
> inexcusable

Ask for your money back. Surely there's a writer out there who will meet your requirements at your price point.
You know what, looks like you're right on this one and I am wrong. It wasn't clear on a first read whether they were saying "his father" as in "his biological father" or "his adoptive father", but on a second read you're right. I still think the statements hold in their generality but clearly not in this specific case.
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> There's no excuse for not contributing.

My effective income tax rate is 50%, and then there is an additional 25% VAT on everything I buy. How much more of my income does the all-knowing Eli Gottlieb suggest I "contribute"? Perhaps I should give away the remaining 25% and go live on the streets as a declaration of solidarity?
Weighing in from the "Recruiting" Startup industry myself, check out https://grouptalent.com/ (which i have nothing to do with) if you are in that hiring mentality, that way everyone knows exactly what is going on and there is a better reaction set all around.
My guess is he thought starting by explaining that he has a CS education would make them less likely to assume his comment was from an ignorant foreigner.

Unfortunately, that didn't work either.
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What many people don't seem to know is that the location bar in Explorer (at least on Windows 8) can act as a run dialog, and it supplies the launched program with the current folder as a parameter. So simply hit Ctrl+L and type "cmd" or "powershell" or whatever command from your PATH and hit enter.
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Internet points are indeed worthless. Understanding that reacting to insults is usually a losing move socially and then failing to modify your behaviour is not just a losing move, it is a decision to lose. This is more true in real life than on the internet where it is much safer to read an attack on your ideas or positions as a direct personal attack.
Curious, do you remember the title of that Fortran book? Was it a for kids book or an actual textbook? It sounds like a great place to dive into Fortran, from what you described.
I have gotten rid of a few books like that, but once they get old enough they seem to acquire a certain quaint charm. My books on DOS and BeOS, for instance, I'm stuck with now. Of course, Windows Game Programming with VC++ 6.0 was a goner.
They could encrypt it using a pre-existing NSA public key.
- How long did it take you to learn Forex?
Though true, the "banners" aren't always obvious. Some folks may have a complementary mission. The golang authors are perhaps not directly working to "organize the world's information", for instance and their banner would read "making it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software".

It is still, a nice exercise to do it though ... and I might turn mine into an LLC anyway :)
Something I'd love to do as a civic duty would be to help scientists get their code in shape. It seems a lot of science is being done with code that is basically deemed to ugly to even publish. I can't be the only hacker that wouldn't enjoy spending some time on code that actually involved some algorithmic work as a break from gluing blocks together.
Sorry, but that is in the "description of related technology" section. Meaning it helps establish the CONTEXT of the present patent but is not itself part OF the present patent.
Okay, I do more research into stocks as youve, suggested. Thanks for the input.
You know, I agree with everything you have said.

But couldn't your team be a bit grateful? Though he did post to Zuck's account, he didn't sell the vulnerability as a zero day on the black market, no?

A cheap insurance policy, making the payout, cultivating trust with white hats who are nonetheless decidedly a bit bone headed (if not well meaning).
Early 2012. I forget the exact date - I started them as a demo in I think Dec 2011 and then they sat around on my workstation unchanged for a couple months, so I think they went out around Feb 2012.

I can't share technical details, sorry.
I framed my old cpus, perhaps you too can make wall decorations out of these servers (or parts of them).
For me the actual 'live screenshot' seems to be at a random position in the page, not lined up with the screen of the laptop in the picture.

Nice idea, though.
I would still rather use a simple texture mapping - map the image to a rectangle and then just rotate the 4 corner points. Rest is done naturally by your texture mapper. You can implement a texture mapper easily by finding the top-most rotated corner, take the two edge lines coming out of that corner, linearly interpolate texture coordinates on these lines for each horizontal line they cross and then simply walk linearly between those two texture positions spread across the horizontal line range. Then replace the edge line whose endpoint you reached by the next line until you reach the bottom-most corner. You can add surrounding texels to the mix to get the bilinear or another filtering. Also, Bresenham's line algorithm can be used for each of the line interpolations (though my assembly language experience showed that fixed point ints were actually faster). This is also embarrassingly parallel.
We do not know that. Using thermodynamics we can establish a limit on how much computation we can do (if I recall correctly Applied Chryptography says that a super nova does not have sufficient energy to count to 2^256 in base 2). However, we have no theoretical bases regarding how much computation is involved in breaking AES256. All we do know is that we (the public) do not know of a way to do it.
This echoes---in what I can only call poetry---the cries of countless developers/hackers suffering (hopefully vocally) through management issues at their workplace.

It links to another particularly blunt article that should be promptly forwarded to management in conjunction with the aforementioned one:

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-software-projects-are-terrible-and-how-not-to-fix-them/

A more rational "get a fucking clue" (assuming a certain level of respect toward you already exists).
- I can see where you are coming from now. I never thought of getting a job in an area of the same skills I wanted to become an expert in.
> ... the issue is that a program has at least two different logical structures: its lexical organization in text, and its dynamic organization in time.

That's a concise way to put it and I'll certainly remember and reuse it! Did you come up with it or did you come across it somewhere?
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May I ask which browser did you use?
- Phaus, Im so grateful for your input. I appreciate your direct honesty with me. It makes me want to reflect on life.
Posting something on someones wall isn't so much invading as it is leaving a sticky note on their door. By that metric UPS invades peoples homes quite regularly when they fail to deliver a package. Had he actually accessed any non-public details of a users account that might be one thing, but the only data he was able to view was the post he had created himself. In short, it was his data, from his account, it just happened to be located on someone else's page. Honestly it's not even that bad of a vulnerability, more like a mild nuisance.
Note the overloaded use of "courage". It isn't so much the lack of responsibilities as it is overcoming the inner voices that judge your every action much more than any outsider does.

But that's just what I think he meant.
Thanks for saying that about my writing; it means a lot.

On your question, I got started in programming through math homework. My teacher at the time assigned huge ammounts of little geometry problems therfore as a hacker type, I was convinced I could figure it out through a computer. I googled for a while and played around with Python for much more time than I would have done the homework. After a few weeks, with more than a little help from my dad, I had made a little python script that could figure out the area of circles and the like.

After that, my mom saw my interest in programming and talked to the local high school's AP CS teacher to see if he could do a little class for me. I imagine doing that is infeasible for most people, but if possible I think a non-parental figure could be great.

In terms of problems to solve, I hack a lot on various sysadmin tools for the high school during the year, but I've also played around with trading bots. (My parents work in finance) I'm not really a gamer so I can't really speak to that side of things but I'm sure there are things to do there.

On a side note, if either one of your children want to talk, just email me.
We develop knowledge management and collaboration tools for NGOs and government agencies. We use open source and contribute back to the community, primarily in the python ecosystem.

There's also a growing part of our work which does not involve programming. This includes things like strategic planning, training, and usability reviews.