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Nay. You're going to need both backend (routing, security, caching, HTTP, more caching, SQL/ORM/whatever, MVC, search/document stores, etc) developers and frontend (HTML, CSS, HTML5 (Re: "the hard stuff"), AJAX/JSONP/CORS/whatever). Off the cuff, knowing another language is going to be very little of the overhead, especially when you consider one side is dealing with local services and the other is dealing with mostly DOM (or using some library / "another language" to view the DOM in another light).
Gentrification happens, people get bitter when they don't own their homes. This is normal economics that happens in every major city (e.g. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, East Side, Austin, Mississippi District, Portland, Mission, SF, etc., etc., etc.). Much of this has to do with the end of white flight, which should probably be considered a good thing. The laws in SF are as renter friendly as you can get in this country. I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.
> who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for synthesizing ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. The food production for half the world's current population depends on this method for producing fertilizer.

Or are you talking about his development of chemical weapons? Surely, they weren't as devastating as nuclear weapons which were developed by an astonishing array of celebrated scientists.
‘Fine Print Hijacker’ settles conflict with Russian bank

http://themoscownews.com/business/20130814/191850685/Fine-Pr...
Google didn't "give" the NSA anything. The NSA forced their way in.
I was looking for something simpler :P
Fuel is cheap/rockets are expensive, descent doesn't burn much fuel.

This should allow mass to orbit at 1-10% of current cost.

The big problem to be solve here is firing a rocket while traveling backward at high speed. If they can pull off the Phase 3 test (high speed descent burn), space access is revolutionized (a space business boom):

* "transhab" space hotels (closer than you think, Bigelow already has two test stations in orbit),
* lower cost human trips to mars,
* massive increase in number, size, and speed of exploratory probes,
* communications satellites for everything (Google in the sky).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Test_phase...
The entire point of running a channel on a public IRC network like freenode is to enable ad-hoc collaboration and communication. In fact I'd argue that that is the entire point of IRC as a whole. A guide for running a secure and private IRC channel on freenode seems like a non-sequitur.

First of all, it only takes one user connecting to your channel without SSL to render your encrypted connection worse than useless.

Secondly, if security and privacy are of utmost concern, then you should be running your own IRC server(s) in-house, thus allowing you more complete control and the ability to issue k-lines etc.
There is another interesting Q/A on physics.stackexchange about why gold is... gold.

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/72368/why-are-mos...
Kde was inspired by Windows 95 (which was ripped off from...). Vista later borrowed alot back from Kde.
It's natural to think someone is a dick when they attack a person over a technical proposal. Their inability to separate personal and technical concerns alienating people from what they are saying is their problem, not mine.
Is this what Google actually uses to parse HTML5 pages? Seems like there might be some SEO value in studying it if so. Not for any "black hat" purposes, more to understand what they can and can't easily get to.
Just to build on what Eric said, we either use a single Android phone to relay messages for you or integrate with Twilio or another aggregator.

We work a lot in Africa and there are no Twilios here, and integrating with multiple carriers is both really expensive and really time consuming. So what we do instead is have the organization that is deploying a TextIt buy a cheap Android phone (they are less than $100) and load our app on it.

From then on SMS messages that are received by the phone are forwarded to TextIt and we route replies through it. It works amazingly well and lets people deploy apps literally anywhere in just a few minutes.
One of my favorite tweets re: this: "Who's reached their article limit now?????????????" Nick Greene(@Nick Greene)
Article gives no indication as to why.
Also, tubes will resonate and vibrate as vehicles go by. This could be actively damped at the pylons though, like they already considered doing for ground subsidence.
So memcmp was faster, right?
It hasn't been a good year for "expectations of privacy".
Yes, which is kinda sad.
both GCC and LLVM do it as a result of computing scalar evolutions for the variables, and then instantiating the final values after the loop.

There are certain calculations both will bail on due to solving cost (rather than inability to solve), but otherwise ...
Montaigne explained this phenomena over a hundred years ago:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm#link2H...
> you’re trusting an advertising company with all your personal data :-)

Although this is probably my single biggest gripe with Android, you should employ just as little trust in any of the big tech companies at this point; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc are all openly deceiving their customers. As Steve Gibson says, trust no one.
AFAIK setting +k does not encrypt anything; it's merely an entry barrier. Messages are still sent in plaintext in keyed channels.
I appreciate the insight. Thanks.
Will this be the #1 business mktg skill in the coming years?
September 21, 2012: Grasshopper hops 2m (http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/02/08/grasshopper-takes-its-...)

June 14, 2013: Grasshopper flies 325m straight up and down (http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/06/14/grasshopper-completes-...), which was hellishly impressive

Two months later, this test seems enormously more difficult than the flights without the sideways maneuver. And it's not even a year since it left the ground for the first time.
Western Union no HTTPS for their login form/homepage
Unless I'm being MitM'd. This is really odd and a large security issue.
My undergrad thesis advisor, Bill McKeeman, wrote his parsers in this fashion. I implemented a parser using this model and extended its existing lexer.

The token stream is an array of 32 bit integers, each of which is the token type bitmasked onto an index into the input file of the start of the token. If you need the token text, you reparse. Caches can be implemented as small hash maps from token index to cached value.

The canonical AST is the CFG parse tree with fixups to convert recursion to children of a node type for a variable number of children. It is stored as an array of integers. The node is a sequence of integers, with one integer for the root followed by each child in sequence. Each internal node's value is the index of the CFG rule evaluated to produce the node, and the children of the node correspond to the CFG rule's right hand side (minus keywords). Terminals are stored as integer indexes into the token stream. Nonterminals are the integer index of the child internal node.

Bill has been a big name in compilers for the better part of 5 decades now, and he said he's been using this pattern for almost as long. It's ridiculously fast, which is why he used it decades ago for DEC.
How is this a surprise?

The particular argument in this case is as old as GMail is: Google uses email content as a factor in presenting ads in the service. That's been the case since day 1. The case isn't suggesting Google gives individuals access to your email content, or publishes or shares them with other organizations. The case is directly about how GMail has always worked.
Great write-up on the LEAF. I recently leased a Chevy Spark EV, which is smaller and cheaper than the LEAF, with twice the torque. Unfortunately, only available in California and Oregon, but I'd strongly recommend it to anyone who can handle the size.
What do you think the difference is between a "real core" and a "hyperthread core"?
RF is nonionizing radiation, meaning that it isn't energetic enough to knock electrons off of individual molecules. Obviously it's impossible to say "it can't cause cancer" with 100% certainty, but in all the studies that have been conducted on RF over the last 70 years, there has never been any indication that nonionizing radiation causes an increased incidence of cancer.

Ionizing radiation (X-rays, gamma radation, etc.) is on the other side of the electromagnetic spectrum relative to visible light. These types of radiation are energetic enough to interfere with and ionize molecules, such as your DNA. This can directly lead to cancer.

The only thing dangerous about RF is that if you disperse too much RF energy into something (ie. your body) it usually comes out as an increase in temperature or as an influx of electrical current, which can cause internal/external burns, etc.

Source: mandatory yearly IEEE mandated RF safety training
>the BSD license was directly inspired by the GPL.

The BSD license clearly derives from the MIT X license (1985 at the latest) rather than the GPL.

Berkeley's code in 4.3-Tahoe (1998) used the BSD license (with slightly different formatting).
Yeah, our initial version only has support for a direct connection, so a port would have to be open to our IP. We are working on our tunnel connection, which is our reverse SSH solution, but its a different code path for Windows and not ready yet.

http://chartio.com/security/connection#tunnel-connection
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This is like the 10th submission of this nonsense: sections of this legal motion have been deliberately taken out of context to mislead readers.

If anything that quote is about non-Gmail users and even then it’s in response to a certain aspect of the complaint.

The lawyer cited a 1979 precedent (as lawyers wont to do) to counter a specific allegation:

“a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over tothird parties.” Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 743-44 (1979).

The whole case is built on trying to make physical mail (snail mail) analogies applicable to email, and Google’s lawyer is counter-arguing accordingly. They are accusing Google of "reading" emails when it's computers "parsing" text, that particular part of the motion is in response to the argument that non-Gmail users class action is valid since they didn't agree to the TOS, Google counters the mail providers’ "automated processes" are analogous to assistants that are allowed to open mail for their employers (the recipient). The "third parties" here aren't necessarily Google but the recipients of your email who happen to be using Gmail. As since you've turned over your information voluntarily to the email recipient they can apply “automatic processing” to it.

Link to relevant page: http://www.scribd.com/doc/160041493/Google-Motion-061313#pag....

The case is about Gmail "scanning" emails to target ads, Google is arguing (rightly so) that machines parsing emails is not equivalent to "reading" it, and that "automated processes" are necessary for spam filtering, full-text search, etc.

The entire motion, read it and make you own conclusions: http://www.scribd.com/doc/160041493/Google-Motion-061313
I think the phrase you're looking for is "ad hominem".
inter-disciplinary science of such effects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
Palantir's organizational framework will make an excellent case study for whistle blowing, secrecy and privacy. I found the bat phone pretty interesting. In particular, I liked the fact that after a security related incident Palantir retained the employee and strengthened their system; rather than the textbook "we fire you" without any acknowledgment of the issue with the system.

Palantir’s privacy and civil liberties team created an
ethics hotline for engineers called the Batphone: Any
engineer can use it to anonymously report to Palantir’s
directors work on behalf of a customer they consider
unethical. As the result of one Batphone communication,
for instance, the company backed out of a job that involved
analyzing information on public Facebook pages. Karp has
also stated that Palantir turned down a chance to work with
a tobacco firm, and overall the company walks away from as
much as 20% of its possible revenue for ethical reasons.
It does do something. It loops forever. The optimized version does nothing. This is a major difference in performance. No sarcasm; this sort of thing can manifest in real code, and when it does it will generally be a great deal more complicated. "Bugs that only appear at certain optimization levels" are not the absolute worst types of bugs to debug, but they're certainly up there on the great Hierarchy of Sucky Bugs.
Not only I am serious, but it's a statement of fact. Most people wouldn't care.

The same way most people don't care about archeological museums, old music and old books. How many copies do history books sell in your B&N, compared to cooking, self-help, crime novels and such?

At best, people watch some documentary on TV or visit a museum and quickly move on with their lives none the wiser.

(I, for one, do. I revel in old stuff, from Plato to the Retronaut website. And I'm doing a project with reconstructed ancient greek music. But people who care about such stuff are mostly outliers).
>Fuel is cheap

Not true considering you need to bring that extra fuel up in the first place, so you need a lot more fuel just to carry the weight of the descent fuel into space. It is a really tricky cost/benefit equation, but Musk seems to have figured that out.
If you look at the Falcon 9 renders on the spacex website, you'll see that the centermost engine sticks very slightly further out than the rest (also that video shows the old engine configuration, future Falcon 9's are going to have their engines arranged in a circle with one in the center.) That engine may be on a gimbal that allows a descent that would look something like the LEM's descent. Initial re-orientation in vacuum could be done with cold gas thrusters similar to what grasshopper currently has.
>> In science, the explanation is both the cart and the horse.

> I'm sorry, but no. Observation comes first, then hypotheses, then prediction, then verification.

The corpus of scientific theory is a set of tested, falsifiable explanations. Legitimate sciences don't rely on mere descriptions, even well-tested ones.

But let's take your claim and test it scientifically -- let's assume that we don't need explanations, we can get by with your stated criteria: observations, "hypotheses, then prediction, then verification." Here goes:

Let's say I'm a doctor and I've created a revolutionary cure for the common cold. My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until he gets better. The cure might take a week, but it always works. My method is repeatable and perfectly reliable, and I've published my cure in a refereed scientific journal (there are now any number of phony refereed scientific journals). And, because (in this thought experiment) science can get along without defining theories, I'm under no obligation to try to explain my cure, or consider alternative explanations for my breakthrough — I only have to describe it, just like a psychologist.

Because I've cured the common cold, and because I've met all the requirements that psychology recognizes for science, I deserve a Nobel Prize. Yes or no?

Ask yourself what's wrong with this picture, and notice that the same thing is wrong with psychology — all description, no explanation, no established principles on which different psychologists agree, no effort to build consensus, and no unifying theories.

> So, we have observations w/out a coherent, compelling, or generally agreed-to theory. If and when a successful theory is developed, it will predict observations to date and predict more effects not yet observed or observed and ignored. Well, that sounds like a pretty exciting field of science, actually.

Yes -- and shaking a dried gourd can cure the common cold.
I'm now home so I can both reply and complete my previous comment.

> Doesn't Kelly Johnson give Ben Rich the advice to never work with the navy?

It's more than that, it's Kelly's unwritten 15th rule of management:

> Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall before they break either your heart or a more exposed part of your anatomy.

It's in the early page (#2) of the chapter on Sea Shadow.

The bureaucratic morass was from the Air Force and mentioned in the penultimate chapter about the B2:

> When we began testing out stealth fighter, the combined Lockheed and Air Force personnel involved totaled 240 persons. There are more than two thousand Air Force auditors, engineers, and official kibitzers crawling all over that trouble B-2 assembly building in Palmdale. What are they doing? Compiling one million sheets of paper every day — reports and data that no one in the bureaucracy has either the time or the interest to read.

> The Air Force now has too many commissioned officers with no real mission to perform, so they stand around production lines with clipboards in hand, second-guessing and interfering every step of the way. The Drug Enforcement Agency has 1,200 enforcement agents out in the field [nb: the book was published in 1994, the DEA has learned since…] fighting the drug trafficking problem. The DOD employs 27,000 auditors. That kind of discrepancy shows how skewed the impulse for oversight has become both at the Pentagon and in the halls of Congress.

He also presciently notes that the way the B2 was done (involving multiple manufacturers in a huge project) would spread and infect all future projects as the number of projects would diminish and the DOD would spread projects around to avoid any contractor dying.
Ok. So what is interesting here, is that chemists have long suspected this (to the point that this explanation was dogma to me as a grad student) but new paper gives it a fairly rigorously demonstrations from first principles in a less-handwavey fashion.
"Cheap" shouldn't be your first thought. "Effective" matters more. Can you get the layout you want? Will you have to deal with embedded ads? Are you vulnerable to the vagaries of someone else's failure?

Wordpress is very popular, of course. Pay for a hosted solution somewhere (Dreamhost is like ten bucks a month), and use the standard.

Personally, I'm moving over to WebPop (http://www.webpop.com). It's a little more expensive, but it breaks out of the Wordpress paradigm, it's based on Foundation so it has all the modern responsive stuff without looking like Bootstrap, it provides total control over your code, and it has a clean separation of structure and content. Also, they're hosting on Rackspace and boosting with Akamai, so it should be robust against traffic spikes.
Exactly, we have to realize that those countries where the mobile penetration is ridiculous high, more than 95%, like any country in Africa, Asia and Latin America is basically driven by feature phones, and that will be the scenario for several years more.
Holy crap. Suddenly I feel like it's the 21st Century.
In many cases, thinking that we are limited is itself a limiting factor.

I've noticed this is true in ever facet of my life. When I was 14, I memorized pi to 50 digits with almost no effort. Later, I memorized it to 100, then 200. I realized at that point that I could memorize anything that I wanted to. I memorize phone numbers, credit card numbers, everything with almost no effort and not using any mnemonic device. It's so handy when buying something on the Internet to have every credit card in my wallet memorized.

Invariably when I demonstrate this to someone I get the, "Oh I could never do that, my memory is terrible." I actually convinced a friend of mine many years ago that he could in fact memorize pi to 100 digits... and he did and still remembers it to this day. I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.
That is a really good news! I have been using Twilio for a client of mine offering callback numbers for one of their product. I found out about Plivo last March at PyCon in the expo hall, and their price where 50 to 100% cheaper, while providing what I considered a similar service. We deployed with Twilio, but our next milestone includes switching to Plivo. Best of luck to them!
...but if the message contains a virus, then I should be protected from the sender's message exposing me to a virus, and I'll accuse the e-mail provider of negligence if they don't scan attachments in my messages for known viruses.

I'm not sure if I should be "stunned" by the admission that users shouldn't expect this kind of privacy, since e-mail is really nothing like postal mail as the article asserts, in the sense of packages being processed, delivered as-is and left unopened in the condition they were sent.
If higher-order functions can produce functions, could there be a higher order companies which produce companies?

The name YCombinator is not accidental. The holy-grail is the fixed-point for startups.
And I can't help to think of that old computer game Lunar Lander where you were supposed to land a small craft in a rocky terrain: http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/lunar_lander/
Boys were more motivated by competition, and girls were stressed by expectations that boys will be better.

Regarding the original article, people who were told the answer got flashed might simply doubted their intuition less.
27 Things Only Developers Will Find Funny
That's a dreadful vision. I expect a lot of people got into technology because it's "clean." There little chance of harming people or the environment with what you do. It will be interesting to see if people become disgusted by technology, in general.
Taxi Magic?