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Search is in fact so hard that even with all the improvements mentioned in the article, searching Google today is only marginally better than searching Alta Vista in 1997. I still type into the same user interface I did nearly 20 years ago: a search box. I still get results in the same form I got them then: a paged list of ranked items. And even on the first page, the list is still full of irrelevant results, though nowadays they are more likely to be intentional content spam than an accidental result of the search algorithm itself. I'd peg the overall improvement at no better than 20 or 30%, which is astonishingly little given all the research dollars at the disposal of companies like Google and Microsoft. Search must be very, very hard indeed.
OK. So the argument, if I might restate it to make sure I follow, is that Plivo knows the big companies have the relationships and clout to not need the price abstraction benefits they provide. So Plivo is letting them plug their own carrier relationships into its software so that they at least control the telco "business logic" for those companies, even if they're not able to get their aggregate, steeper price for the minutes themselves.

OK. I think I understand that. Thanks!
I suspect Arduino (at least the ones I've used, Uno?) are a bit underpowered for higher level managed languages like JavaScript.
> Even even further down the line, distribute the human controllers into the defensive swarm, so they're hard/impossible to distinguish from the "dumb" drones, and less of a Single Big Target worth hitting.

You'd look for the larger drones that never pull turns over 8.5g.
Not necessarily. Evolution does not mean improvement, just adaptation. Unless there's some sort of biological pressure, such as a predator or an environmental risk, change won't happen or will happen much more slowly.

The time scale is also important. In very cold environments, such as the ones described, everything happens at a much slower pace. Consider it this way: heat is a proxy for energy (technically it is energy, but it's not all the energy). Energy is required for change. Very cold environments mean less energy, which means less change over the same time period.
I would start by examining where all the major Tor exit nodes are, since that's likely where you would hide your heavy trafficked Tor hidden service, right beside a giant exit node to blend in with the other traffic. Feds already know this, this is probably how they caught Freedom Hosting.

Failing that go looking for hosting services that accept bitcoin, or online wallet services esp one's coded in php, since this guy has expertise in that area it's logical to assume he's running a hosting front so when the feds come in to seize the servers, he would be the guy they ask to retrieve it. You wouldn't want to trust your multi-million dollar drug site to colocation you'd want to see your server all day and be able to get to it or notice if somebody sabotaged it. He kind of already dropped he had physical control of the server when it crashed once while he was "out of town". Now cash out a lot of your coins and pretend it's for contract services, DDOS, hosting ect. You could also then enjoy plausible deniability, claiming an unknown customer set that site up and it wasn't you. Since your site accepts bitcoins, you have a reason to be using them. All well and good.. unless you talk too much and drop intel on yourself so they can use other circumstantial evidence against you in court.

He would also have to launder and sell all those coins. If I were him I'd be selling them directly to buyers in an underserved country using a decoy clearnet fixed-rate exchange, or I'd also be running my own small exchange and dumping coins in it, using fake ID scans and paying for traffic to simulate customer records. I'd probably also run my own mixing service like bitfog, lending service, or online casino/betting site to help launder them. If there's any large bitcoin investment funds still around I'd be all over that too, getting new coins out from other investors and giving them my SR coins.

Feds can identify the operators of all the above and then compare them to identity markings DPR has dropped on himself. Anybody with a 60% or higher chance of fitting the profile mark them for long term surveillance they will slip up eventually. Feds already know all of this.. which is why you need to be incredibly careful and never get too comfortable running the world's biggest outlaw darkmarket. Satoshi is a good example of excellent OPSEC. Never once did he stray from the topic of development of bitcoin. There is only 1 post in his entire bitcointalk history that does and it was when he chastised some idiots who wanted to sign up Wikileaks back in 2010 for donations, warning them Bitcoin would be killed before it could even start. He certainly didn't talk about politics with the exception of his genesis block comment. He also seemed to have had chosen a fictitious personality and slid in and out of it confusing anybody trying to go after him. Every unique phrase or word he wrote was analyzed then looked for in old whitepapers and mailing lists... nothing.

He also doesn't give interviews
Sunday Project: Car Lease Mileage Usage Calculator
So, lisp machines of the 80s?
Yep. Scott's nightmare was that everyone would think his products were fine.
That's like saying that cars have cost horse carriage manufacturers $X billion. What a silly statement.
That's correct. Under the current law, cloud-based storage is an implicit acceptance of giving up various privacy protections, under the principle of third-party disclosure.

The principle summary is that if you share private information with a third party (disclosure), you are voluntarily making that information non-private, if not public. That opens the door for the government to request the information under ECPA, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. For more on that, check EPIC, which is a lead plaintiff in suing the government over the mass surveillance without a warrant programs, broadly collected under the PRISM moniker in public discussion: http://epic.org/privacy/ecpa/

Wikipedia adds: "For instance, email that is stored on a third party's server for more than 180 days is considered by the law to be abandoned, and all that is required to obtain the content of the emails by a law enforcement agency, is a written statement certifying that the information is relevant to an investigation, with absolutely no judicial review required whatsoever.

When the law was initially passed, emails were stored on a third party's server for only a short period of time, just long enough to facilitate transfer of email to the consumer's email client, which was generally located on their personal or work computer. Now, with online email services prevalent such as Gmail and Hotmail, users are more likely to store emails online indefinitely, rather than to only keep them for less than 180 days. If the same emails were stored on the user's personal computer, it would require the police to obtain a warrant first for seizure of their contents, regardless of their age. When they are stored on an internet server however, no warrant is needed, starting 180 days after receipt of the message, under the law. In 2013 members of the US Congress proposed to reform this procedure." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priva...

Written in a time when POP was king and emails were pulled from the (expensive) server to be read and stored locally, it assumes that anything on what we now call the cloud is abandoned after six months, again giving up various privacy protections.

Google—Gmail—and Dropbox both operate within this legal regime, as cloud-storage companies. As the parent states, citing that argument lends credence in a court that gives deference to the federal government that created and relies on the argument to request data.
Yeah, this came up a lot when I tried to search for past deals. That's why finding a real figure for the price of the plane seems really difficult, even for a plane as widespread as the F-16.
Yeah, that tends to be much more harmful than any infection.
This is actually pretty cool. A pity it didn't get the visibility it deserves.
That is a great job - and a great post too. Thanks for sharing that.
That is a lie though. If I pick up a rock and somebody else does as well and we both use our hands to break off pieces of the rock (private means of production) and trade parts of the broken rocks with each no coercion occurred.

That is technically a capitalist society without coercion.
No, scheme machines of the 10s.
just to answer you: I Like Javascript.

I like my functions as first class citizens. I like my prototypes and my inheritance model. I like my callbacks and my closures. I like how I can move from client-side, to server-side, to my TV, all with the same language. I like how easy it is for beginners to produce something useful and for seasoned developers to produce something good.

There are many other languages that share such traits but Javascript is one of the few that can be picked up by beginners interested in any field (eg: games, web, apps) and keep surprising you. It is extremely powerful in the hands of those that devote time to learn how things work. Its one of the few languages that you can learn as a beginner and keep with you as you become a better programmer.

I don't think it should be the only language someone knows but it should be a language that everybody knows.

So yes, there are people who like javascript.
There's not really much need for scripting on an embedded device. Embedded systems are meant to do a single task and run continuously. If he is already comfortable with C, he clearly doesn't have much use for a language like Javascript when it comes to microcontrollers.
I feel that Meteor is awesome and has quite a bit of potential, but why stray from npm, which is one of those things that is actually awesome about node? I really wish Meteor would use npm. Is there some technical reason they don't?
JavaScript certainly has it's quirks, but if you get to know it it's not a bad language.

And since CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript you can use it anywhere JS runs...
Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm visualized by animated GIFs
I'd expect Javascript programmers dwarf Lua programmers by a couple of orders of magnitude. At least one OOM if you want to limit to people who only know the language "well."
Certainly an interesting concept ... and I'm sure that will be some cool things that come out of this project.

I'm not sure I like the idea of a high level language, trying to control low level hardware. (seems almost counter intuitive)... however, if you wanted such a thing ... Node seems to be the way to do it... from both an accessibility and speed perspective.
Wow....this is soo cool. Even though I am no fan of JS, I can't wait for Ruby to be embedded on hardware like this.

Oh the possibilities!
Using hardcore workouts as a stress coping tool is not much different from having a drink or two. You're not really addressing the source of stress.

Working out hard is additional stress. It boosts cortisol just like job stress. Stress depletes magnesium, and so does hard exercise. You will be hurting your health, not helping it, if you're stressed out and then do crossfit type stuff. That you can't train hard and endure other forms of stress is well known among athletes.

I exercise often and hard because I'm vain, but the health benefits of exercise are way oversold in my opinion. The pyramid of good health is 60% diet, 20% sleep quality and stress, 10% social and spiritual life, and then at most 10% exercise.
Does github offer a distributed cdn like this also?
Why doesn't he go ahead and state the logical extension of that, which is that every product made in any organized society requires some level of coercion? Chomsky is long on criticisms of capitalism but short on suggestions for replacing it.
BeagleBone Black also has a real-time module (effectively, a limited microcontroller on the same die as the CPU), which I expect could make for some sweet libraries.
These college students want to change the way you store your spare key
I submit that a major, if not the primary reason for the Leaf's disappointing sales is its atrocious, shameful, ugly design. It honestly makes me wonder if Nissan wanted it to fail so they can say "we tried" and have a scapegoat for backing away from electric tech.
A few days late in my reply, sorry.

The distinction I make is that it isn't Facebook that is violating your privacy. Facebook. If anyone is violating your privacy it is your friend/family that is giving the information to Facebook, and I think that in providing this information to Facebook they are violating your privacy, but you shouldn't blame Facebook.

My best analogy is the 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' argument. It isn't the gun makers fault if you murder someone, just like it isn't Facebook's fault if someone gives them info about you, you didn't want shared.
Makes sense. Nobody as large as NYT organization would do their maintenance during weekday morning hours. So there must be another behind-the-scene story altogether.
How Cheap a Product Can You Have And Still Have Salespeople?
Swartz was indeed persecuted, not prosecuted
Here's the rub: Google wants to have it both ways (legal defence, slim "actual" privacy protections). But, what the "sensation and disingenuous" responses really are is a political critique. It's a surprisingly common tactic, similar to the reduction ad absurdum, where you pin your opponent to their position, to see them wriggle and squirm. It's not a friendly way to critique something, but Google doesn't need our protection. So I say, amp up with "sensational and disingenuous" critique and carry on!
You assume it's EFF that's doing the avoiding. Why would they turn down an opportunity to get donations?

All other bundles were delivered DRM-free, Steam was never the focus of any promotion until customers asked if they could get Steam keys.
Theory of change (aka Logic model)
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That's not a detachable VSTOL module, its a detachable vertical/short take off module plus a much more expensive and complicated airframe designed to be regularly handle water landings without complications.

Of course, even if "ditch it in a convenient large body of water" was a suitable substitute for vertical/short landing capability for carrier-based aviation, it wouldn't provide the same benefits for, e.g., improvised land-based airfields.

So, this would be less capable -- and probably more expensive -- than just building a VSTOL aircraft to start with.
My view -- which marketing people frequently yell at me for having, so take it for what it's worth --

There are product categories outside of tech (in particular) that are sold to consumers, whose products are more or less interchangeable. Those products get marketed and sold a lot more on how they make the buyer feel, than anything about the actual product. So Volvo is bought by people who want other people around them to think they're the kind of person who would prioritize safety (and therefore boring/conservative) over other attributes -- even though none of those customers, and none of us, actually have any idea whether Volvos in 2013 are actually safer than any other car.

This is classic brand marketing -- it's how Coca-Cola, P&G, bottled water companies, etc. make a living. And it's fine for them.

BUT in the fields in which we operate -- both enterprise tech and consumer tech -- the customers more often actually care about the products. So marketing that is disconnected from actual product differentiation generally doesn't work.

The clearest illustration of this in the past decade is mobile handsets. There's been a series of dramatic (and catastrophic) rises and falls of mobile handset companies -- Motorola, Nokia, RIM, HTC, Samsung, Microsoft. Each of these companies, when they were on top, had state of the art marketing teams and advertising agencies doing classic brand marketing at huge scale -- and none of it did any of them any good when the product trends turned against them. I know a lot of the people at these companies and in each case they were utterly shocked when their brands and their marketing budgets were not more effective buffers against big declines when technology shifted.

So my general MO is -- admire companies outside of tech that are really good at consumer marketing, daydream about someday being in a business where I can pull a Don Draper and sell a product on the basis of it being "toasted" (the classic Lucky Strike cigarettes positioning -- even though all cigarettes are toasted), but never assume that I can get away with marketing a technology product on the basis of anything other than real product differentiation.

p.s. The pushback I often get on this is, oh, no, I drink Coke vs Pepsi or Pepsi vs Coke because I like its flavor better. Same with bottled water and all the rest. To which I say, you are fooling yourself -- in any double-blind study you'd never be able to tell the products apart. Hell, people can't even tell white and red wine apart when they can't see it.
I didn't measure, no.

I suppose maybe it uses the optimized compiled packages code, and the main code doesn't really do anything, so -O2 doesn't matter.

However, I would still expect "-threaded" to have an effect.
Most of the things he says are hard are things I would rather not have done for me in the first place. I don't want the search engine to know who I am and I don't want it to bias its results based on what it thinks I want.

I don't want the search engine to do math, find flights, or look up bus schedules; I want it to find me a calculator site, find a site where I can look up flights, or find the page with the bus schedules on it. I don't care what the search engine's opinion about those things might be; I care where the authoritative sources live.

Fuzzy spelling-correction search can be useful.
I'll be honest in saying that while I kind of understand what app.net does, I really think they need to work on their messaging. It's a social graph distributed storage service, kinda, but provided in some way more private than ad based social networks like facebook or google plus?

I'm pretty Internet savvy, have spent most of my life building large web sites, and outside of reading articles about app.net every once in awhile (which I forget and then end up with the half-informed summarized memory above) I really can't figure out WHY I should be using it as a user. I'm sure part of it is them just not having a AAA app yet that just does something awesome, but I do wish they'd work a bit on their homepage so that all of it was more clear at first look.

Just some non-specific advice from an Internet traveler. If it's tough for me to figure out, it's likely tough for someone with much less experience. Right now, all I understand are your core values (which of course I agree with) and have trouble seeing how I actually use the service.

Thanks ahead to the people I'm sure that will comment on this and explain it a bit better, my general point is that I should be able to figure it all out quickly on one page.

Good luck duders! It's a product I'm generally curious about but never have enough time to do serious investigating on.
I rarely drink maybe one beer a month at my wildest but I live in a province of sport drinkers where weekdays but especially the weekend people drink until the pass out. Most events are attended by people who drank before arriving which is common but I mean they started drinking at 7am and the event is at 10pm.

Currently I a non-drinker have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease which sucks because it's insulting for me to have of all things what is considered a disease of heavy drinkers. It hurts, I mean my liver actually hurts and it's frightening to have a problem like this a damaged organ in my body. I'm not even fat my friends all ask how I keep so thin, I mean I'm 5'8" short for a guy and at my peak I was 180 pounds but you'd never know it by looking at me, but all my life up to a few years ago I was a consistent 150 pounds. I'm down to 165 pounds but still my doctor telling my my risk of heart attack and stroke is double due to a fatty liver, and this from a family of people who all die from a stroke or heart attack.

Your liver is precious! I don't think people realize how important it is they hear jokes about their liver when drinking to the point it's a joke or just noise more than advice. Then Tylenol the next day to fix their hangover which damages the liver even more.

You liver is the only organ which can regenerate but I would guess not from systemic damage only physical damage to specific defined areas.

Long live our livers!
I started working out daily last year and almost immediately noticed a marked reduction in my tolerance for alcohol. A couple of drinks and I'm done---any more and I start feeling hung over before I've even gone to bed. Has anyone else experienced this after taking up a regular exercise schedule?
>10% of people is still 600 million people. That's more than the number of scientifically literate people. Is science therefore irrelevant? Why are you bothering to make this point?

You seem unable to grasp that something might be irrelevant TO most people (as in: they could not care less about it) and still relevant IN ITSELF.

Plus, science is a bad example, because it's totally unlike history or classical music. Someone not caring about science still comes into contact every day with products of science, they shape his life in major deegree, the economy he lives in, his health, his food, etc.

With classical music or history, people can forget about them and nothing happens to them (well, apart from them being less educated, but since most other people are too hardly anyone notices).
The court didn't find him guilty of harming the U.S. though, they found him guilty of charges that have zero requirement for actual injury.

So with that in mind there's no reason that Manning should have to say that he harmed the U.S. And as it turns out you'd have to be pretty blind to come away with the idea that there was zero injury to the U.S. So in this regard he's only saying what is plainly obvious.

His explanation makes sense though and certainly seems sincere. He's a junior enlisted soldier, wickedly smart, trying to make a difference in the world. He has his own personal issues. The military (and Army in particular) are, despite his best efforts, practically in a different universe than he is. And now he sees an opportunity (perhaps with a wee bit of coaching from the IRC channels he was hanging in) to uphold his oath to the Constitution and show the American people what their military was really up to.

So far the only part that's different from any other junior enlisted soldier, sailor, etc. is how exactly he chose to act out on his idealistic moment. Most do something stupid but incredibly minor and go on to have a normal life.

In this case, Manning's defense team is exactly right: He should never have been over there, because his particular idealistic outburst had much wider ranging effects than something like flying up to DC and walking to the White House and demanding to speak to the Commander-in-Chief (which is something that has certainly never happened on one of my duty days).

So I feel sorry for him, I really do. I just wish he hadn't been led in the direction he was, because I don't doubt that he meant well.

Certainly his statement was designed to not piss off the sentencing judge. But it meshes very well with his earlier statement from when he pled guilty, and so I see no reason to doubt its truth or sincerity. He meant well, things didn't go the way he expected they would, and so he offers his mea culpa.
Who needs documentation when you can just pop open a REPL and copy-paste your functions to see how they compile?