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I'm very skeptical of any internal investigation conducted by an institution that exonerates it from all wrongdoing.

"Wrongdoing" is a broad term. The report says that MIT did not do anything illegal. It does not say that MIT made no mistakes.

Once again, have you actually read the report? If not, you should do so instead of relying on biased second-hand accounts.

I wouldn't trust any investigation by an employee of the institution under investigation

In other words, you don't think any institution can ever police itself. But the alternative is for it to be policed by...another institution?

This is, of course, the old quis custodiet problem, and it has no guaranteed solution. But I don't see why the default position should be that no institution can police itself. I think we ought to expect institutions to police themselves, and you can't do that if you automatically distrust anything the institution says about itself.

MIT didn't seek leave merely to redact names of employees...but also any information in which MIT has a privacy interest.

Source, please? The only things I'm aware of them asking for are to redact names and identifying information of employees and information about MIT's network vulnerabilities.

I see no reason why those who participated in these terrible events should be shielded from public opprobrium

Even if they were acting reasonably? For example, take the MIT network engineers who noticed the unusual activity and reported it, helped to discover where it was coming from (as in, what device was producing it--the laptop), but had no further part in the proceedings. They are named in the documents. Do they deserve public opprobrium?

The world is not black and white, and people have to try to make reasonable decisions with incomplete information all the time. I will agree that the MIT administration made mistakes (although it's a lot easier to say that in hindsight); but I do not agree that every single person affiliated with MIT who participated at any point in these events acted wrongly and deserves public opprobrium.
Your argument is that

>[the people in the article] would quite literally rather die a slow painful death than work and support themselves

And that argument is stupid. I don't care if you call yourself a conservative, people will call you out if you say something stupid. My point wasn't that you should be a liberal, my point is that you're smart enough to know better.

You keep saying these people would rather have AIDS than work. You're naive for thinking that they have the option to work; they would rather have AIDS than starve in a gutter.
By the looks of it, HTML.js is worse than plain DOM. Try `HTML.body.div.section.ul` in the example on its homepage, for instance - I'm willing to bet that's not doing what you'd expect.
Not necessarily. Warren Buffett's track record is helped by two major factors.

The first is that, being Warren Buffett, he gets opportunities that regular investors don't. For instance look at the 2008 sweetheart deal he got on Goldman Sachs. Any smart investor would have leaped at it, but the value to them of saying, "Warren Buffett believes in us" was why he was offered the deal instead of someone else.

The second is that Warren Buffett is a big fan of buying and holding companies. Which leaves him in charge. By all accounts from the CEOs who continue to work for him, he is a phenomenal manager. Therefore the fact of his investing creates long-term improved returns.

When you move away from Warren Buffett, who else has been able to demonstrate long-term returns above what mere chance says is likely for someone to achieve by luck? In one study that I saw, there was only one other, Peter Lynch. The odds that someone anywhere in the mutual fund industry would match him by chance were under 5%. So there you have evidence that it is possible to beat the market for the right person.

But what advice does Peter Lynch himself give investors these days? If you want to invest in the stock market, buy and hold an indexed mutual fund!

Nobody seriously believes that the efficient market hypothesis is literally true. However your odds of being able to identify and exploit such inefficiencies in the broader market are sufficiently low that you are best off acting as if it is.
you can try to pitch your website at popular start-up events. For example: http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-hackathon-2013/event.... Or attend some of these events and see if you can get people on board.
Ryan Dahl created Node. He's not just some schmuck.
My bet is that TV-over-IP eats the market before de-bundling occurs. In terms of cost, distribution, quality, and ease-of-use, digital downloads beat cable every time. The only piece of the puzzle networks still own is content production. With House Of Cards and Arrested Development, Netflix made a strong entry into the TV-making club, and struck the first blow against that monopoly.

In my view, we're two innovations away from internet tv for the masses: independent content production that can rival the networks for quality, and an easy-to-use streaming box to supply it. The latter is easily possible with technology on the market right now (Roku, Apple TV, etc.), and the former seems all but inevitable.
It's true that the U.S. and Tibet are on opposite sides of that spectrum, but there are a number of countries whose military spending as a percentage of GDP is between 1/4 and 1/2 as high as it is in the US, but who nonetheless defend themselves credibly. Examples: France, Turkey, Italy, Australia, Canada.

I can buy that some proportion of military spending is therefore for protection, but the actual amount of military spending seems considerably higher than the amount needed to keep the U.S. from being colonized.
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>as Apple refused to continue work on gcc due to the licensing changes

This. As stated in the accepted answer in the linked article, licensing issues are the real reason. Technical differences are ephemeral. The competition between GCC and LLVM has a habit of inducing improvments in both projects. By all means, at any given point in time one project can have an edge over another in this niche or that edge case. But fundamentally this is a philosophical divide between Free Software and Open Source Software.
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I know. That doesn't mean he can't be incorrect about something. Let's not appeal to authority here.
Your link doesn't appear to work.
One mafia boss used poor crypto, therefore I can extrapolate that all mafia bosses use poor crypto! /s
This reminded me of voodoojs which I've come across earlier. I came here to post about it.
Where is it backed up that it's faster than the keyboard?

For the couple of minutes I watched of him demoing it... I type waaaay faster than that. In fact, I can't possibly imagine how I could speak faster than I can code on the keyboard.

(Regular English sentences are another story, but code is full of important punctuation, exact cursor positioning, single characters, etc...)

I mean, this is awesome for people with trouble typing (which was my own case a few months back), but I don't think it needs to be over-sold by being "better"...
This communication method creates a type of interference called inter-symbol interference, or ISI, for any intended receivers of the carrier transmission. ISI is basically what happens when echoes cause a signal to interfere with itself. Since this communication method modulates the amount of echo in the carrier transmission, I can only assume that any typical anti-ISI techniques used by most receiver designs (e.g. rake receiver) would be confused by the rapidly-changing ISI caused by these devices, increasing the total noise present in the received signal.
> "The members will have access to classified information so they need to be administratively attached to a government element but the review process and findings will be their own," Turner said.

Annnd we see how we got here in the first place.

How can a representative government be representative when vast portions of it are protected with total secrecy? ...with artificial attempts at transparency?
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It depends what you care about more, the emails or the privacy. The privacy is now ensured, and it isn't like they've erased the emails from the users' minds, only the records of the email.
About 100k westerners according to Wikipedia - not a large percentage at all. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but those compounds basically hire their own security and ignore several SA religious laws. SA isn't yet a business-friendly environment for westerners, and that goes twice for Americans. Rather, some westerners are doing business in spite of a hostile environment. I would love to read about your experience and thoughts as someone who's been there, though.
When people tell the story of great content they tend to focus on the very high points. "Breaking Bad" is much better than "Dexter". Even "Mad Men" which isn't as good as "Breaking Bad" is much better than "Dexter", which is arguable the best show on Showtime. Aiming for decent content isn't as meaningful as actually getting that content. Starz and Showtime have failed to get anything approaching HBO or AMC.

You can change your approach but you can't change your taste and if whoever is making content decisions at Starz or Showtime continues to have their jobs then it will not get them very far.

You see it now with the results of Microsoft copying Apple's strategy. Microsoft is doing the same thing that Apple did but since they're out of their element it's not going well. They would have been better off just being a boring company that made a great Office product and an increasingly 3rd party hardware partner friendly operating system. In the same way it would have been better for Showtime to just show movies that no one wants to see but pay for the opportunity to not watch.
> each level contains two sections (a, b) between which the url will require only a slight modification

This sentence made no sense for me.
I was going to make a flippant comment about "Congratulations on living in San Francisco!", but hilariously, there's a better chance you live in Los Angeles (lower ridership percentage, but significantly higher population).

Even in Oklahoma City, where only ~1% of people commute via mass transit, there are still thousands of people who can live happily without a car because mass transit serves them fine. That does not mean that Oklahoma City has a great transit system.
But of course that's not the world we live in. Our mailboxes get stuffed full of coupons. We get them on our receipts. We get them in our e-mail. We get them in newspapers and magazines and even attached to the very products we're buying.

Yes, and I am sick to the back teeth of this crap in my mailbox and encouraging me to keep bits of paper in my wallet yadda yadda. Coupons suck ass and I make a point of preferring retailers that don't use them.

BTW this isn't 'the world that we live in.' This is a largely American phenomenon. In many European countries you can tell the mail carrier that you don't accept junk mail.
This is a licensing debate, but please don't conflate that with a divide between "Free Software" and "Open Source". Both GCC and LLVM/clang qualify as both Free Software and Open Source software. Both terms encompass both copyleft and non-copyleft (all-permissive) licensing.

GCC uses a copyleft license; LLVM/clang uses an all-permissive license. FreeBSD prefers to avoid dependencies on copyleft code, especially in their core; thus, they naturally prefer LLVM/clang.
You could try NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. It's used in the OS X x86 community to disable the built in Power management. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty you might be able to get it (or another related kext) to turn off frequency switching.

[1]http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=16
I was never sure which side of this argument I came down on, and then I switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard.

I had to slow down my typing for a couple weeks to get the finger positions right. The whole time, I felt like I was coding with a hangover. I felt like I couldn't think properly, just because of the reduced brain->computer bandwidth.
Probably not, the limiting factor for most database systems, even of the plain old boring scale-up not scale-out SQL kind, is disk IO. Before SSDs and virtualized storage, it was all about having cabinets full of disks (usually in expensive SANs) for fast database applications. Enterprise hard disk drives only gave you low triple digit IOPS, I think the highest I've ever read in a 2.5" HDD is about 450 IOPS.

If you wanted data resiliency, you used RAID60 or RAID10 or some exotic variant that would usually give you on the order of a 30-50% reduction in capacity and sometimes as much as a 75% reduction in write IOPS - it's always been the writes that have been killer, that's the stuff you need to make sure persists. RAID6 with a crappy controller or on an overloaded good controller would make you pay the write hole tax.

Commodity SSDs give you up to, if you're willing to take peak numbers, on the order of 45,000 IOPS. To get to that kind of performance in the last decade, you'd need a cabinet with between 200 and 400 2.5" HDDs, depending on everything involved.

Now, that's all 2000s era stuff. The future is bright, thanks to virtualized storage arrays turning commodity storage into massive virtual SANs with tiered storage on consumer SSDs being used like race tires, consumables replaced periodically to maintain top performance, and so on. Even so, the biggest benchmarks I've seen for enterprise systems with multiple 10GbE adapters running raw disk IO has been on the order of 1 million IOPS. I'm sure exotic systems will put out higher numbers, after all there are machines that support over 100 physical CPUs, but they aren't attainable and certainly aren't a broad market.

All of those words were said to essentially say that databases have almost always been constrained by disk IO. The SDN controller in the paper? Limited if any disk IO. A SQL database? It probably could be written in naive, pre-java.nio Java and still IO limitations would dwarf the overhead of the language. (There are exceptions, I'm ignoring certain overheads, etc.)

Maybe a NoSQL solution in Haskell would scream with this new IO manager, but I suspect it's going to be correctness rather than performance that drives anyone to implement their database in Haskell right now.
Just FYI, the filename extension can be omitted. E.g. http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/one
Which fucking countries?
I just wanted to see if anyone would agree with it.
I think you may be referring to cosmic background radiation. That's a different thing from backscatter off of an ambient radiation source.
What I find interesting is Icahn filed a press release yesterday, basically telegraphing his intention to post juicy bits like this to Twitter:

NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) [..]

Our Chairman, Carl C. Icahn, intends to
use Twitter from time to time to communicate
with the public about our company and other
issues.

[..]

It is possible that the information that Mr.
Icahn posts on Twitter [..] could be deemed
to be material information.

Source: http://www.ielp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=784592
This is a helluva hackjob, tho...seems like a market opportunity...
But it being very light is a consequence of the design as a whole. Light rail is already as light as it can be given cost/materials.

We already have rail transport on pylons, usually an implementation of a monorail[1], but it only solves the right-of-way issue. Everything else (energy consumption, speed, efficiency, passenger flow, safety) is not much different from standard transportation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorail
Apologies. That is a better comparison: A divide between copyleft licensing and permissive licensing.
Got myself a Fitbit this month.

Makes me take so much walks. All I want is to fill those 5 little stars to have it rumble on my wrist as if I had a level.

...

Fitness too.

But levels, really. I'm grinding so much.
Whoa, I had never heard of an attorney-client gag before:

> LADAR LEVISON: Well, just to add one thing to Greenwald’s comments, I mean, there’s information that I can’t even share with my lawyer, let alone with the American public.
I have known people who worked in Saudi Arabia and enjoyed it. I had a consulting job a few years ago: the customers were two university professors in Saudi Arabia who paid me to remotely tutor their daughter who was a student studying Java, semantic web, etc. I did everything remotely using Skype and it was an interesting experience. BTW, the daughter spoke highly of their culture and country - she was really proud of it. I don't like the idea of women not having fully equal rights, but I kept quiet about that since there is no reason to disrespect someone else's culture if they seem happy with it.
This is really quite shocking. Surely there is something unlawful about publicly firing an employee in this way. All that needed to be said was "Please stop filming".
Though I'm not sure you intended it, this is an excellent summary of why the US doesn't have a decent mass transit system. Even if you get past the formidable political opposition to any public transit system, you must contend with a coalition of that opposition plus an assortment of interests that want a different system, possibly because it looks better on paper (hey, Hyperloop!) but more commonly because it benefits them financially. So in the end, no system is built at all. If the high speed rail project is scrapped, it won't be in favor of Hyperloop. It will be in favor of doing nothing.
I have had multiple experiences with that. When I first put my resume up on Dice.com in 2009 after graduation, I was contacted by a lot of these IT companies. A couple of them gave me job offers just over phone interviews which struck me as odd at first but I was also a bit desperate.

Then, they tell you that they will provide you with 2-4 week training which allows you to lie on your resume and put down 5-7 years of fake experience. Their account managers send you job postings and ask you to create fake resumes that are specific to each posting and they have in-house people who proxy your phone interviews.

Really bad, but I think more and more people are catching onto it.
I'm not an investor but I've read both of Graham's main books. I don't think value investing in the Graham sense would lead you to a company as big as Apple, and certainly not with the company's stock as 75% of a portfolio!
> Right. Nixon's forced resignation, on a credible threat that he'd otherwise suffer a bipartisan House impeachment and Senate conviction---either a singular event in US history---in no way whatsoever held him accountable, nor illustrated a threat to future Presidents

Well, no, you'll note I didn't say anything like that.

In fact, viewed alone, that would be a very potent blow for accountability; but impeachment and conviction on articles of impeachment alone is fairly minimal accountability, especially for a President (for, e.g., judges its somewhat more significant, as the ban on future public office is more significant for them than for Presidents.)

It would, however, be significant for Presidents because it opens the door for immediate criminal accountability, but this impact is neutralized when we establish that even the consideration of criminal liability of the President for actions committed during the term of office, even those high crimes and misdemeanors so serious and well established that they certainly would have resulted in impeachment and conviction, is outside the scope of what can be considered.
I was thinking this as well. I see the GPL, and Copy Left licensing in general, as a sort of regulatory force in free software. If you want to participate the GPL will put constraints on you to play nice with others in the FOSS space.

Given what happened in the financial markets as they were deregulated I am extremely suspicious of the notion that removing the constraints of Copy Left will actually be positive in the long run. I have no doubt that it will help companies like Apple but I don't see the benefit for the wider community of developers.
This brings back fond memories of thisisnotporn, which sadly seems to have vanished from the internet.
Git-delete – A git filter-branch --comit-filter wrapper
Just out of interest, does anyone know how long it took between the time the tweet was published and how long it took for an identifiable/linked rise in share price? The article does mention "Less than two hours later" but I'm interested to know how quickly people react to a tweet like this.

Edit: Google Finance seems to suggest less than one minute. I'm not sure if any data is freely available that would allow me to see this jump in the seconds range.
How hard is it to move to Japan? Do you think Japanese people would be friendly to Indians?

It is not very difficult to move to Japan, provided that you have lined up a job with a Japanese employer. Many Japanese multinationals employ substantial numbers of Indian engineers. I won't lie to you, though, finding a position at one starting in India is tricky unless you first work for a firm that the multinational has a pre-existing business relationship with. I won't say "Can't be done" but tricky.

Japanese people are, like Americans and Indians, all over the map. We were able to insulate the 5 Indian employees of my previous Japanese employer from most casual racism. This was largely due to having several decisionmakers at a large multinational who credibly promised to bring that multinational's substantial socioeconomic power to bear on anyone who felt that our employees should not be treated like our employees.

A lot of countries have provisions for work visas, but sponsoring yourself (as in a startup), seems to be impossible for most countries.

In Japan, status of residence (what you'd think of as a visa) follow people rather than following jobs. I have a status of residence gained as an employee of the aforementioned megacorp. Keeping my status of residence just requires that I file some paperwork every few years. I won't lie, Kalzumeus Software (my company) had a much more difficult go of it than the megacorp did, but I was able to successfully convince the relevant authorities that my consultancy was sufficiently established to hit all the requirements of Japanese immigration law.

(I've since gotten married to a Japanese woman, which will make things a bit more straightforward after I switch to a spousal status of residence, although I haven't bothered to do that paperwork yet.)

FYI I watch a lot of anime and read a fair bit of manga now and then.

A word to the wise: this is not something which I would suggest dwelling much upon in professional, legal, or administrative contexts.
Working on a large scale & fluid Node project at the moment and we probably see at least a dozen dependency updates a week. Never caused a problem.

The community as a whole is pretty strict in it's respect for versioning conventions.
Speed and energy usage. The idea as I understood it was to compete with commuter flights; if i understand your idea correctly you are proposing a slow, lightweight trolley on elevated rails?
What I don't understand is that the same people who get up in arms about government, and bitch and moan about "rights to the fruit of my labor", don't like the notion that someone else can claim those very rights by putting a gnu license on something. At that point they get all whiney about unfairness to their little business and how they could just make money if the could appropriate someone else's labor against their terms (aka the thing they hate about taxes). It's an odd cognitive dissonance.
How many red fish are there?