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I enjoy seeing these introspective posts and hope they become prevalent among technical people all over the world. What technical people need to understand is that the system that we operate in is just as important, if not more so, than our own aspirations and potential contributions.

Politics, economics and culture are usually taken for granted by technologists and scientists. Some are informed pessimists, and some are apathetically uninformed. The truth is that these systems serve as the silicon upon which we must build. We often try to abstract our way out of it, but if we want real change, we have to go right down to the hardware and begin making changes.

The OP correctly identifies the cognitive dissonance in SV, as well as some aspects of classical capitalism. The reality is that we are running a society based upon assumptions made hundreds of years ago as to what a society constitutes and how it should work. These factors are all changing rapidly, and it’s becoming clear that our systems aren't keeping up.

In the USA, we face an unprecedented technological tidal wave in a winner-take-all capitalist society. This has massive upsides for the winners (entrepreneurs, VCs, hedge funds, banks, etc.) and devastating consequences for the losers (unskilled labor, outdated/sidelined skilled labor, the sick, poor, unemployed, etc.). Furthermore, this type of laissez-faire economy incentivizes short term investments at the cost of long term projects (Apollo, Human Genome, etc.). As the role of government and its spending becomes increasingly demonized, we will undoubtedly see these trends strengthen, leading to more emphasis on the present at the expense of the future. Projects that don’t have immediate benefits will be cancelled, and long term research will grind to a halt. We are already seeing this with the plateau and decline of government research institutions, soon to be followed by the demise of publicly funded research in academia.

What we really have to ask ourselves is this: what is the most optimal contribution we can make during these times? Is it better to dedicate some time to rethink these foundations, or do we just push forward on our own high level projects in hopes of making small positive contributions? When do we start treating government and politics like an engineered system, which can be planned and optimized for certain outcomes? And finally, when do we start talking about which outcomes we want to see in the long term?

I am cautiously hopeful, but it is going to take a lot of individual introspection by the technical community to reach the critical mass required to enact long-term positive change.
There are several alternatives to paying expensive lawyers for what should be a very simple deal. The best two in my (non-lawyer) opinion:

* Techstars has free documents to use - http://www.techstars.com/docs/

* Fenwick and West (Prominent SV law firm) have posted their version of startup docs on GitHub - http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/06/fenwick-west-github/

Just get your investors to agree to a standard, simple deal and everyone will be better off.
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>Well this was a sneaky bug: There's an extra space at the end of the date in JSONData's last 2 elements(in the example and in the real code). This is why the last two were generating garbage value.

Thanks for that - my d3 understanding is tenuous, and I thought that it might have been even worse than I thought:)

>Regarding the CSS, I believe all the graphs behave the same way. Could you verify?

Not actually the css, but

circles.enter()
.append("svg:circle")
.attr("style", "cursor: pointer;")
.on("click", function(d) {d3.select("#demoAddRandom .value").text("Date: " + d.created_at + " amount: " + d.amount)

All the graphs do behave the same way, but that code isn't introduced in the examples until the first time you refactor refreshGraph. It's always there in the actual code of the graphs.
Yes. 4chan is ten years old, and does not have to raise money or please their executive board to survive.

Grassroots communities are by nature more durable than ones artificially built by millions in venture money. One potential exception to that rule is Reddit; it'll be interesting to see what becomes of it.
I'm not really sure if you're referring to 4chan or tumblr with your 15 year old comment - 4chan is a diverse place, and means a lot of things to different people. I could see self-serve ads working better for them than for reddit.
re: the brogrammer thing, that's little more than a sign of the breadth of their insidious reach...
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>I'm not sure who actually thought that "smoothing the wave" did make you actually go faster though,

Probably all the people that passed around the critiqued link and suggested that it gives a way to improve traffic flow?
There is very little that is transparent about Samsung and their relatively recent history is pretty seedy. High level corruption, bribery etc. That the culture of deception flows down the company into actual products doesn't surprise me.
Founded in 1995, bought by Google in early 2008 for $3b. Not a startup any more.
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Nice visualisation, thanks for sharing.

Perhaps add the option to reset the view, as currently have to rerun the search.
This is a great idea especially if you can monetize it successfully. I would buy it just go support it.
My post was about government and its structure. How the three branches balance each other and why Congress votes on the budget. The way the system works, I was trying to point it out. That's all.

And this thread is about how intelligence agencies will be impacted. I posted on that under the main thread.
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The half-blank pages you're seeing is a feature that's recently been enabled. This is a case of latency improvement that visually appears to be worse.

When rendering can't keep up with your rate of scrolling, Chrome will display the part that has been rendered so far and display a checkerboard pattern for the not yet rendered part. Previously, Chrome would just flip the display buffers less often if rendering can't keep up.
The end result of this inquiry is kind of interesting, but I found the process quite creepy. I'm not familiar with this journalist, but is his practice to find anonymous people on the internet and then stalk them, digging until he finds their real identity?

Sure, most journalists think it’s fun to turn over every stone in their research and so do I, however when I’m about to trace footprints online I choose to hunt a, say an af Praat rather than a Svensson any day. Less time spent on dead ends means more time for the exciting ones. That’s why I was happy that she called herself TheIneffableSwede.
The problem is that you need to think about this when you unlock your phone. With TouchID you always unlock your phone with your finger.
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You don't technically need a lawyer, but I would advise you to retain one.

Even if raising money with a convertible note, and using the community documents, you'll still need someone to file your Form D, prepare your board consent, and ensure all i's are dotted and t's crossed. You don't want to run afoul of the SEC.

Is your corporation established? Are you authorized to sell shares?

If you bring your own paperwork, you should be able to get away with <= $5k via a negotiated fixed price or cap on the legal work.

Some firms are also willing to defer payment up to a certain amount and/or until you raise additional funds down the line.
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That's a bit odd...I know my Lumia picked up the date and time immediately upon finding a cell signal.
Topographical sort is actually what I use, storing the results of the sort in a run list as you describe. The tricky part was dealing with cycles in the graph.
I suspect that a critical mass of self-driving cars will improve traffic flow for everyone.

I don't have a clue what the percentage to achieve critical mass is, but my wild-ass guess would be 20-50%.
Vastly prefer this mechanism for viewing and exploring a user's videos. Signal to noise is much higher and it seems to be more compatible with Safari minus Flash.
> I know you hold anti psychology views, but some forms of talking therapy are evidence based ...

I said that talk therapy doesn't work. You say it's evidence-based. Both are true -- the evidence shows that talk therapy doesn't work.

> ... and are as effective as medication for some mental illnesses.

Yes, that's also true. Talk therapy doesn't work, and it's as effective as the available medications, which also don't work. Here's just one example:

"New Study: SSRI Antidepressants ‘Clinically Insignificant’ For Most People" http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/new-study-ssri-antidepressa...

On that basis, I think we're in agreement. Talk therapy is evidence based, and it is just as effective as many of the available medications.

> They are quick and achieve good rates of recovery ...

Yes, and in controlled studies, so does taking no action, sending the client home untreated, or the application of placebos -- all equally effective.

> I'd agree if you'd used the terms "counselling" and "counsellors".

It's well-established that counsellors, fortunetellers, bartenders, and psychologists have the same effectiveness rates in settings where one of the choices isn't unfairly stigmatized.
Agreed. Couple Xamarin with something like MVVMCross [1] and it's pretty easy to develop cross platform relatively quickly.

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None of it comes from 4chan. I dialed into bbs that were that awful in the 80s. A generation of computer dudes who grew up listening to Howard Stern dominated the internet in the 90s. It's baked right into the culture, it's baked right into the real world culture that makes the people who made the old internet culture.

I'm glad people are working to get rid of it now so more people can play. It's good that they're making a lot of noise and shaking up the video games industry, because 40% of their customers are women. It's a shame how little a dent that will make in tech at large.
That is (a) not really the same kind of thing and (b) one of the least sufferable defenses of classical education I've seen in many years.
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some feedback (most of it minor):

- the text cursor seems oddly tall to me...

- shift-tab should dedent, not indent

- the searching google thing.. is weird. I don't get it.

- not having bullets is =(

- not having indents maintained on newlines is =(

( notes are often hierarchical)

- doesn't work offline (can keep typing, but nothing saved). check out localstorage and appcache.
Oh wow, that was never suppose to be a part of the code I was showing. My apologies.

Wordpress is a real mess when dealing with code & text. Everything is part of the same big textarea and because there's no code highlighting, I have to read everything again and again and again.

Should be fixed now. Thanks!
No, sadly not even messenger would have or could have saved them. The youth in the UK flocked to BB as it was a cheap platform. Nowadays they can get cheap(er) Android handsets that run more apps, and do a lot more. Also, the networks (in the UK at least) started chucking lots of text, voice and data allowances for increasingly lower costs, so even the previous bundled aspect was no longer an appealing factor of the BB as a platform.

I had a Z10 - I tried to like it, it did have some innovative ideas. But, it got far too warm. The battery life was a disaster, far far worse than any previous phone I have ever had. The updates were not really fixing any of the major bugs, and in the end, it became harder to justify keeping it.

The worry now is like Nokia, BB most likely has a large warchest of patents, and what happens to them?
I don't know why, but I've determined that Scribd is evil where Amazon is not. This is an intuitive conclusion based on lots of observation. I think that intuition is based on the fact that Amazon made DRM on Kindle to satisfy their publishing customers so those customers were more willing to distribute to a wider audience where Scribd made DRM to empower themselves and restrict distribution of re-appropriated content. Also, mandatory Facebook integration..
you can downvote my "whatever" until the cows come home,
but -- in the end -- that's what it'll all boil down to.

seriously, ya'll have already accumulated 57 comments on
a piece that says "be brief", with a hidden qualifier of
"to the greatest extent possible without losing the plot."

how many comments will it take you before you realize that
you've been sent on a wild goose chase, chasing your tail?

and now i too have over-explained. and wasted _my_ time.

and undoubtedly will be docked a few more "karma" points,
because some people don't wanna hear they've wasted time.

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Hitting this link on a mobile device redirects you to the home page of their mobile site, not the mobile version of this story. Ugh. When will web masters stop doing this?
The thread test is janky. Most multithreaded allocators optimize for the (common) case that objects are freed by the same thread that creates them. When objects are freed by different threads than the ones that allocated them, typically some sort of slow-path is invoked.

Older allocators with per-thread caches used to behave very badly with cross-thread frees, accumulating tons of freed objects in threads that didn't necessarily allocate a lot of objects. Tcmalloc uses a garbage collection process to move those objects back to the central free list.

The test in the article, where one thread does all the allocations and another does all the frees, basically subverts the thread-caching in tcmalloc, and just tests how quickly the garbage collection process can move freed objects from the free()-thread's cache back to the central heap where they can be reused by the malloc()-thread.
Under the assumption that the sandbox works, no.
Is the location filter busted? I keep ending up lost at sea when entering queries like "Europe" and "United States".

Really love the philosophy of the project, though.
Well, I've never heard anywhere that Apple was sharing the fingerprints with the NSA. As far as I know, nobody said that... It's just the obvious* default assumption.

And the matter of default assumptions is that you need evidence that they are false. Apple denying it is no evidence. But yeah, the point about the microphone and camera stands.

* And it is obvious, no point is arguing against that. When everybody makes the same assumptin the first time they have a new piece of data, the assumption is obvious.
Samsung again caught rigging benchmark scores on Galaxy Note 3
I switched. Chrome is still significantly faster in Linux though (startup and rendering and general browser responsiveness [switching tabs, etc]) And yes, I test regularly with Aurora and Nightly.
I have a Python script that runs on my home computer. It runs on a 1 minute chron job and randomly sends a text message (via Verizon's phonenumber@vzwtext.com address) to my phone to check what I'm working on. The difficulty is that this system (on Verizon's end) seems a bit unreliable. I've been thinking about putting together an iOS app to send random push notifications to check what I'm working on. Would there be interest from others in this?

I also have it set up so when I reply to the text message it logs it into a spreadsheet. My plan was to do some machine learning on my productivity. Haven't gotten around to that part yet though.
This is fine as long as each driver migrates back to the right as soon as feasible.
Have you considered Mozilla Persona instead of passwords? demo: http://123done.org docs: http://developer.mozilla.org/persona
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I talked about government structure. What I should've said is I don't want to talk abut partisanship. That's a no win situation and gets to religious levels of debate, if you want to call it that.
Android and iPhone own (and will continue to own) consumers, BB's best chance was to own the enterprise and they blew it.
I thought cameras would be the death of paranormal, but then we have photoshop and facebook to convert a whole new wave of believers.

I do like the thought process though - if it's supposedly this common but still unproven, it's less likely to be true. Do we put ghosts in the same category?
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> they'd have a few attempts to unlock it with a fake fingerprint, and then they'd have to enter my code. And if they fail to enter my code 10 times, the phone is wiped.

I don't use it, but it seems there's a fallback password after __ failed attemps.