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> There's very little to be gained by reading pure Fortran code, especially if you don't know the mathematical tricks/optimisations used beforehand. The Python code, on the other hand, stays (relatively) readable.

Don't agree. Why trying to understand implementation in the language that will never be used in the production? And, there is a lot to gain by reading Fortran code.
One might be useful to help extract the extent of the surveillance - one might incorrectly assume certain information is untrackable for example.
No, it really isn't. A Lisp OS (like Genera) is about extensibility down toward bare metal, not up towards applications. As you point out, if all you want to do is live your whole computing life inside of Emacs and hacking about with Lisp, people have been doing that for years (decades) without an underlying Lisp OS. Having a Lisp OS is being able to live inside that environment and being able to say things like "I'm going to add a new queuing scheme to networking" or "I wonder what happens if I change how the GC subsystem works" and the ability to do that is in the environment, in Lisp, all the way down.
Keep the power in space. Use it to mine asteroids and convert water-ice to rocket fuel. With the asteroid as a heat-sink, your efficiency will be amazing!
Awesome info, thanks.
Yep. Maybe you could try some kind of a weekly checklist kind of thing? Like your weight and a bunch of yes no questions. So it takes like 1 minute.
I think you need to find a way to make it provide value on an on-going basis. Otherwise the utility of that app is pretty low.
Maybe you guys could find some way to bridge what "regular people" and "maniacs" like. Basically to somehow gather input from people that are wiling to do that without scaring regulars away. The data you gather could be the most valuable thing your company has.
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Could you provide page number or chapter name or (preferably) a quote? I searched for "Thompson" in the book and couldn't find anything.
No idea who he is. Did he develop Android OS?
So Brin is now the head of Google-Ex? ;)
very Creative good stuff
Because the review panel is a joke.

First, they wanted Clapper to do the independent review. [1]
This is the man that openly lied to congress and remains scott-free to this day.

Next they picked Michael Morell. [2] This dude was the acting director for the CIA until March of this very year. Clearly he has the capacity to conduct an independent review of his NSA buddies.

Joining this luminary will be Cass Sunstein [3], author of such classics like "Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech", and the person who proposed the government should infiltrate what he deems "conspiracy theory groups":

However, our main policy idea is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories [4, page 14]

Supporting these brains is Richard Clarke, who built his personal career on pushing the "war on terror" after 9/11. He also recently added "cyberwar" to his extensive portfolio of things he has absolutely no clue of. His views on privacy protections and large scale surveillance are well known:

If given the proper authorization, the United States government could stop files in the process of being stolen from getting to the Chinese hackers. If government agencies were authorized to create a major program to grab stolen data leaving the country, they could drastically reduce today’s wholesale theft of American corporate secrets. [5]

(It doesn't take a genius to realize this is the proposal of a person that probably doesn't even have internet access.)

Of course, all of these people work in some capacity for the Obama administration. It didn't even occur to the government morons running this show that maybe, just maybe, they should not pick people with an obvious and direct conflict of interest. They don't even bother to give the impression of caring.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130812/13512624147/presi...

[2]: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/white-house-pic...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein

[4]: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585

[5]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-o...
I'm not in a position to advise people on what they should or shouldn't do, I am ignorant of a great many things. Until I wrap my head around the following, I won't be writing C++ unless I have to:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/except_spec

The fact this is deprecated in c++11 is my personal pet peeve.

I can't reason about what the impact is without putting it in to practice, but given that exception safe C++ can be hard to write and it's deprecated does that mean it's going away in C++14 and what are the implications of that?

The throw() specifier (counter intuitively meaning 'should not throw anything') is everywhere! If it turns out that all the advocacy for using exceptions has resulted in written code that uses deprecated conventions and requires maintenance and re-understanding, then I will be very very disappointed.
Do you think that Chinese companies offering web services don't share their user information with the Chinese government upon request?

If you look at my comment history, you'll see that I'm highly critical of US companies' attitude toward privacy, but it's naive to think that the same thing isn't happening in China.
Again, if not for government programs Bob could not afford the groceries he buys. Shouldn't you be demanding that every grocery store that accepts food stamps lower their prices because they're being "subsidized"?

And if Walmart is relying on under-paying what its employees are worth, why don't those employees find jobs elsewhere? At worst, it's the government's fault for incentivizing them not to with benefits that drop off faster than their earnings grow.
Spam filters are long overdue on phones. Thankfully where I live now someone has made an app that automatically filters out telemarketers.

It uses a crowdsourced list. Firs I set it to only warn my when of thus telemarketers called, but it worked so well that I now just block them automatically. Haven’t had to talk to a telemarketer in 4 month :)
Had the Duke administered the 1% HR personality test it would surely weed out this Da Vinci guy.
Yes, I cannot reproduce the crash on OS X 10.8.4 and iTerm2 1.0.0.20130624. Maybe Apple has fixed it in the latest OS patch.

UPDATE: It does kill Chrome 31 (individual tab) and Safari 6.0.5 (the whole browser!).
For simple stuff I've been doing `nohub ./go-binary &`
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>> During Ludum Dare, I remained tightly interfaced with Flash. I was continually in the midst of the edit -> compile -> test -> edit loop.
>> This was one of the largest reasons for the high pace of production.

I discovered this when I started building game ideas in Javascript instead of Xcode. I'd have a skeleton pounded out in an hour or two, and I'd add features in minutes instead of hours. I took a list of things that I though would take me the weekend, and I completed them in an evening.
Chinese developer here. I've just graduated from university and worked at a startup company a year ago.

The thing is that the startup situation here (at least in Shanghai) is actually really good. College students are encouraged to go for their own companies. There're many policies to give benefit for this, like cheap office rent, lower tax rate and many thing else. Investment are relatively easy to get, according to my knowledge. The startup scene (can't find a word to describe this) is also very active. People have these and that kinds of meetups. Many chances of exposure are also available and really accessible, like "Starup Competition" (basically people go there and introduce their products and then most people get a medal), magazine/video exposures are also there. Personally I think it is quite good. The focus starts to move to mobile gaming and mobile apps and such.

I just want to say that the environment is quite good. It's not what most people imaging that government and large companies come and harass you everyday. It's just a successful startup is equally hard, as anywhere in the world.
I've not ignored your comment, I've actually been thinking about it quite a lot for the past few days. Can you give me a concrete example of the kind of thing you're thinking about?
Coincidentally, I was just reading through the wiki pages on Fourier transforms the other evening, and having a fantastically hard time wrapping my head around some parts of it. Maybe the wrong place to ask, but if anyone had on hand some good intuitive (potentially directed more towards the programmer than the data scientist) description of the Fourier transform?
The headline still seems incorrect and unnecessarily inflammatory.
People interested in this might also like his self-promoting letter to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, a little later in life: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/22/leonardos...

Best link I could find at short notice, unfortunately, the letter excerpt is two paragraphs in.
It's not what it means, but it is something they are capable of. They can be charming, and they can be horrible. They decide what they are going to be like, to fit into an overall selfish strategy. If being shy is an advantage, they will become that. If being confident is advantage, they will become that. They can gain your trust, then flip when it is an advantage to do so.

In these tests, they know what to say, what to do, to give a certain impression. These tests can't catch them, because they are not honest, and lack integrity(No consistent values, only ones that benefit them).
So lying on your CV was not unheard back then.
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Yeah. What a joke.
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My name is Rayhan and our start-up product is an app to list property from a phone. http://wigwamm.com

I have domain experience (13 years overseeing a property rental and management business), however, it seemed paramount to get out and speak to potential customers.

Below are the results of an afternoon of walking into customers' offices cold, asking a few questions.

What I want to ask of you all are thoughts on the feedback vs product.

10 out of 13 agents visited in Stoke Newington gave me time for a solid Q&A:

Q1. How long after client instructs till property advertised online: 2x 3-6; 5x within 24 hours; 4x more than 24 hours

Q2. (after detailing app creates descriptions automatically, and uploads instantly to property portals with photos) Would Listing App impress client: 5x yes; 2x no; 3x speed not an issue

Q3. Who (in their office) goes to see new clients: 7x Manager; 3x all negotiators

Q4. What phone do they use: 2x Blackberry; 1x Android; 7x iPhone

Q5. Will a client sign terms immediately (at client visit in property): 3x always; 3x often; 2x sometimes; 2x never and always wait before marketing.

Other observations:

- All used signed T&Cs - none took instructions on verbal agreement or handshake

- Current process: 50/50 between copy and paste descriptions and freestyle descriptions.

- half had property management desktop software: Eurolink, PBS, Resource Technologies, EstatesIT

- other half just copy and pasted into Rightmove and Zoopla's online CMS

- of 13 agents visited: 11x stayed seated; 2x stood up to greet and chat to me.

- of those who were interested, they valued two things: quick/instant and quality of photos.

- only two were concerned that iPhone photos would not be good enough, but without prompting stated they would like to use the iPhone instead of DSLR
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http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

I am bad at video game.
There are some interesting tools mentioned here. But, remember that conversion to a customer is much more important than popularity. Conversion isn't something that can be looked at too well from the outside.

Your best content is always going to be on topics that exist on the customer's pathway from the discovery of a need or problem to the selection of a solution. That type of content will almost always win out over what is popular.

Example: "Differences between Contractor and Employees" -> "Salary for X position" -> "Payroll Taxes" -> "Payroll Software" -> Conversion to Customer of a Payroll Software Company
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"The functional principle of a microwave oven is not related to the resonance frequencies of water, and microwave ovens can therefore operate at many different frequencies. The resonance frequencies of water are about 20 GHz, which would be much too large to penetrate common foodstuffs. Microwave ovens work on the principle of dielectric heating.[88]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#...

From Hacker News a couple weeks back.
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If you're like me and make golang apps with private packages on GitHub, you're going to have a bad time deploying to Heroku.

This is because the heroku buildpack for go has to `go get github.com/user/private-repo` the necessary packages. Public repos work fine for this, but private repos need credentials. There's a few reasons this isn't easy on Heroku.

I ended up working around it[1] but am still not happy with the security implications.

[1] https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go/issues/17#issuecom...
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Deployment via Dropbox? That's a first.
And where before it was public, now it's only viewable when logged into an AdWords account. I used to refer clients to it for keyword inspiration when writing content for SEO purposes, but this is no longer an option.
If it's a medical review board looking at deaths caused by software failures, then yes, I'd expect at least one technology expert on there. And to the credit of the medical community, that's usually the case.

This review board is supposedly trying to establish how bad the NSA surveillance -- clearly a technologically-sophisticated system -- is. If you have people on there who don't even understand how the Internet works (i.e., most politicians), then how in the hell are they going to audit an Internet surveillance system?

But yeah, I agree with you in that it doesn't matter in the long run. This is a rubber-stamp review.
Because a good part of the optimizations are language-independent. And you need to understand these optimizations before going further.

The computations which are redundant and can be done once and stored afterwards don't change depending on whether you're coding in Python of Fortran. The symmetries that you can exploit to compute less stuff don't either. The math behind is always the same.

Once you have done that (and gained two or three order of magnitude in computation time), and you're still not fast enough, then okay, it's time to drop to C/Fortran and start playing bookkeeper with your memory allocations. But not before.
My thoughts precisely. It's a good model for any job applicant aiming for any non-mindless job. The thing to keep in mind is: don't just make a list of your skills unless it's obvious how they relate to the job you want. It's always best if you show you've put some thought into what your target company really needs and where it's pain points are.

As an employee you're still an entrepreneur in a sense, selling your services, and your prospective employer is your potential client.
Hey, that's really neat.

Also I checked out your http://www.goodfilmsproject.org site, I love the design. I'll try to use it next time I'm looking for a movie to watch. The first world challenges we have nowadays - unlimited movies on amazon instant video and netflix, yet finding something to watch seems so incredibly difficult.
I hope I never end up working at a firm where those situations are the norm. As they say, knowing is half the battle.
You're missing the word "enough" before profits. Employers are like any other investor. If returns on hiring more labor are less than buying new equipment or just forgoing expanding and investing back in the market, then they won't be hiring.
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mmmm.., I can see a new format for my resume...

Most illustrious lord, seen and considering the experiments of all those who pose as masters in the art of inventing instruments of technology..

1. I can construct delivery systems that are as beautiful as functional, with which to pursue your business while being assured they'll equally resist the largest loads or the relentless attacks from malicious characters from cyberspace.

2. I can show you how to improve the craft..

And if any of the aforesaid things should seem to anyone impossible or impracticable, I offer myself as ready to make trial of them in your park or in whatever place shall please your Excellency, to whom I commend myself with all possible humility.
Oh come on. Both Dave Burke and Hugo Barra are hugely talented people and great to work with.
It's like a rabbit hole, constructed out my errors.
Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel?

Because they might ask sane questions of course.
To your first point, that depends on your target architecture. On a Symbolics (and TI Explorer, LMI, Xerox D-machine, etc), there is no Unix-ish "asm layer" communicating that last inch to the bare metal. The "assembly language" of these was Lisp primitives and once the microcode loaded, it was all lisp from there. In fact, on the Xerox D-machines you loaded one microcode and got a Lisp machine, a different microcode and got a Smalltalk machine, or a Mesa/Cedar machine. Nifty stuff, from The Before Time, when we were still fundamentally innovating hardware architectures and not figuring out how to make x86 go faster.

Definitely with you on the second point.
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Dang! great minds think alike :)
What are the alternative? We couldn't have all been so complacent that there aren't any good keyword tool alternative is there? Perhaps, it's time for a google scrapper? If google won't give you the data, maybe it can be inferred?
They can't send your credentials electronically or they will be intercepted. No guarantee snail mail wasn't as well.
The post means matrix-vector multiplication, which is O(n^2). You're thinking of matrix-matrix multiplication, for which the naive algorithm is O(n^3).

He writes

X⃗ = M⋅x⃗

and here only M is a matrix. x⃗ is a vector and X⃗ is the discrete fourier transform of it, also a vector.
I, for one, do Not believe this study. Decline of serial killers!? What would they say next? That Dexter is not real?
Perfectly said, thanks for posting
This has to be worrying to Google investors that one of the main decision makers is sleeping with someone who is a manager of one of Google's specific products.

What if this was a few years ago and she was on Google Wave or any other one of Google's now discontinued products?
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I would just write the code here, but I'd rather you visit the wonderful site ;)

Edit: Do a search for RamNode.
Bush and Cheney and their administration sure were satisfied.
Concurrent != parallel != multi-threaded

Threads are WorseIsBetter concurrency which break pretty-much everything they touch. Elisp would be best without them, and use a sane concurrency mechanism like asynchronous events (like Node/Erlang). This would require private variables (ie. lexical scope), and that the interpreter be aware of what is accessed from each scope, so that concurrent code can be run in parallel. Switching to Scheme (Guile) would be the first step.

What I'd really like to see is an editor with an FRP interface. That won't happen with Emacs though, since it's too big a leap in philosophy.
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It depends on the match type. All the queries I have tried recently are bigger in volume for exact match. (Same country and language)
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Sadly. I also liked this option. I wonder how much it will affect people dealing with SEO.
Fixed in Mavericks and iOS7 apparently. So a fix is probably coming soon.
And people get scared of "giant solar death rays" from beaming solutions for power transmission. Anti-matter batteries sound terrifying.
Nice article, I've been struggling with writing copy for a new side project, and keep writing down the big-businness speak, then removing it 'cause it just feels so fake.
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Problems may arise when you send out a direct link to an article. When friends go directly to that article from the URL you provided, that could possible be setting off triggers. Better to just have people search for the post string or just direct to the "New" submissions and scroll down to article. This is only my suspicion, but it seems to be the case based on observations with submission behavior and article ranking.
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Yep, sorry for the repost.

I figured that enough time had passed since the last time since it's such an excellent article. ;-)
Thank you for your input. Do you have any suggestions about UX?
Brad Pitt doesn't make a movie 10x faster either, and he certainly doesn't do 10x the work. But he's paid 10x what many other actors are paid.

Is it reasonable? There's a lot of money to be made by the studio that can prove it's not by making consistent blockbusters without stars. But nobody has figured out how to do that yet, so Pitt keeps getting paid. Outcomes are what matter, not hard work.

EDIT: I realized there is a studio that makes consistent blockbusters without stars: Pixar. In a way, they're like the movie studio equivalent of Costco, since they figured out a way to make hit movies with far, far fewer (but much higher paid) laborers. But like Costco vs. Walmart, Pixar can't make all the movies that the other studios can make, so they'll likely always have to settle for a small chunk of total box office receipts.
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Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
One of the Sunday papers in the UK did a test comparing aldi and three other supermarkets for steak. Aldi was at the bottom buy a long way.
Your project looks interesting, I love the fact it's open source with premium hosting - the ideal way to do it if you ask me.
I'd be surprised if most didn't think of this at some point when reading the original article, let alone when talking about concentrating huge energies from space in general.

That said, perhaps people don't consider it feasible, as in, "not in MY world". Sounds dystopian sci-fi and so on.
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I wish they always included landing time. It's often missing, especially on a tear off boarding pass

and sometimes it's missed too..
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Jeff Moser's blog is awesome.
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