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If we've sped up the extinction, why can't we speed up the regrowth?
This is similar to something I read a couple years ago, where overactive/hyper children could actually be a result of lack of sleep, since tired children do not act "tired" like adults do.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8016531.stm
Wait, so simply by using Tor the government will install malware on your computer. How is that legal?
It certainly is making it cheaper for the user, because the publisher is more inclined to make it available cheaply if there is a time limit. But more than that, neither you nor anyone else has yet made an actual argument for why DRM is unethical per se, in all cases.
It's important to note this is from 2007 and thus things have probably changed immensely since then.

Edit: Nevermind, it says it's sourced from a 2007 file but dated 2012.
>I hate this false dichotomy.

No it isn't. By and large there is actually a trade off.

>we simply need to do an analysis of the costs and benefits to figure out if a particular liberty is worth giving up to give us a particular level of safety.

The fact that there may be some worth in trading some liberty for some security, doesn't negate the fact that a trade did indeed happen. Apart from that, this is an incredibly naive statement. Humans aren't perfectly rational beings. Political decisions are emotional and driven by pressures from wide variety of stakeholders (who themselves are driven by self-interest, ideology, bias, religion etc.)
A better chance than one would think from that phrasing, as there are a lot of highly motivated and intelligent people working on privacy tech.
Competency-Based Education Goes Mainstream in Wisconsin
Does Harp have livereload support? Kill all the refresh buttons (for dev)! That would be my only must have for using a different dev server than grunt based for JS app dev
I don't know, what is the definition of a database? I'd be surprised if it mandated joins.
It depends on the person, and that's what makes management (and life!) tricky. For one employee, a nice raise is all that really counts. For another, they'll certainly welcome a nice raise, but really public praise is going to be very meaningful. For a third, that public recognition might be mortifying, but a well-written 'thank you' letter will go far. Et cetera, et cetera. You can't say, "It's not about X, it's about..." without overgeneralizing.
Sure, but investors in this round would _lose_ almost 20% if MongoDB got bought for $1B. Now, if it was EMC, CRM, Red Hat, and Intel making small investments in order to have some influence of the strategic direction of the company, that would make sense. But Sequoia? They must have a case for this making better than market returns over a multi-year window. I am skeptical, but I guess I'll have to revaluate...
As I said, in case of digital goods this inclination has no valid basis.

I already explained multiple times why DRM is unethical per se. In short - it's overreaching preemptive policing, that's why it's unethical. DRM in digital sphere is akin to making a police state to prevent crime. Sure, some desire such stuff, but I find it unethical. That's why massive surveillance and DRM issues always converge.
Loom now stores RAW images for fast access on mobile devices
I'm a Mongo customer. Their customer service is probably the best I've had from an Enterprise vendor in terms of response time and general quality.

Unfortunately, the product itself is so poor I am forced to get the support, and even then I've managed to stump their senior engineers quite a bit with my "impossible" problems.
Tor enabled them to filter down Internet traffic to a subset, and then they simply violated the security premise behind real-world Tor usage (that the rest of the stack was secure) to pierce the veil completely.

I'm not indicting Tor. The opposite. But in Iran, China, or Belarus, you don't get to call a foul ball when your libtech stack breaks somewhere you weren't working on.

And again, my concern isn't Tor, but the (far more amateurish) things people come up with as new Tor alternatives to e.g. "circumvent the great firewall".

The principle I'm trying to communicate is that there's a degree of chauvinism implicit in amateur libtech --- that despite the billions of dollars any real country can leverage against Internet privacy, indie developers have a fighting chance against Iran, because after all they're just a tinpot dictatorship.

The other more general principle I try to communicate is that it doesn't matter how nice, or even how necessary, any given bit of security technology is. What matters is the engineering: will it work as deployed. Not having a better answer doesn't change the engineering fact of whether the best current solution is viable.
I'm confused about your distinction.. the market is the sum of the participants.

The market price of the wrong stock increased dramatically, that's 'the market' being idiotic. Obviously the participants drove the price up, but in this specific case, the market has failed.
There is currently a study being conducted at the Woolcock Institute in Sydney in its effectiveness to treat delayed sleep phase disorder among other circadian rhythm disorders.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-24/new-hope-to-treat-misd...
Is that a quote or are you yelling at your monitor?
This is really cool of OP to do. Given how shitty the terms of furlough are I'm really pretty proud of DC (used to live there) doing some cool stuff to help out the folks who were furloughed. Between Unfurlough and the heavy food/drink discounts (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dc-businesses-offer-helping-h...) I hope that furlough doesn't completely suck.
Actually, if you speak to them, they do claim that. Then they backtrack when you call them on it, but I've heard guys from 10gen as they were known then claim their product was a drop-in replacement for Oracle.
If you really want to use HTTP Verbs correctly, follow this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/whhD1.png
Melatonin is prescription only in Germany. Bad luck, I guess.
I believe Apple fanboys are those who always have the latest Apple products, as hunterwalk describes he has. Seems to me he is just a closet fanboy. Apparently he doesn't actually care if Apple opens up at all, he'll stick with them and support them regardless.
Yeah, I was wondering if a virtual machine is safe from malicious attacks, though. Can anyone comment on the feasibility of this method as fail-safe?
"The last time Mail.app corrupted my inbox was probably on Snow Leopard, everything's been good since."

That's great for you. It hasn't been my experience. Seems like every few days I find a message here and there in my archive that's been corrupted.

I'm using Mountain Lion but my mail server is OS X Lion ... maybe that's the issue.
You don't need a designer before you write a single line of code.
PDFs of the leaked documents:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8014...

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/801434/doc2.pdf

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/801435/doc3.pdf
Maybe in some rhetorical sense, but not in any measurable way. Silk Road was enormous for what it was, but it's nowhere near even a tiny fraction of the global drug market. It's probably still tiny compared to the drug market in any large city.
I have no idea, it's what he claims. Based on his terrible philosophy skills, I didn't think there would be any other reason to pay attention to him.
There are a lot of people who, even if they are highly technically competent, are not as comfortable taking independent action outside of what they've been directly told to do. Or worse, don't consider it to be part of their job at all.

If you want to promote any kind of sense of ownership or pride, find something they did that you didn't ask them to do and tell them that you think it's awesome. (Assuming you actually think it's awesome.) That's it.

I'm completely against patronizing, but to not signal to your employees that you value their judgement, independence and skill is... just foolish.
That's entirely not the point. Even with 1000x the amount of funding, TOR would still be theoretically proven to be insecure. Only physicially secure hardware (including cables and routers) stands a chance against side-channel traffic analysis.
Because violence exists.
while google loves android, they live off traffic, if it comes from android, ios, windows, etc they don't care they built google apps for all those platforms
This dont look like a icloud alternative, only a photostream alternative.

It only does photos and videos, not documents, data and mail/calendar/contacts.
Use common sense, and if necessary, put it on your annual ethics form.
Test(ing) Kitchen: Assembling the Ingredients for Your Next Usability Test
Geographic variation in the prevalence of ADHD (Circadian and sleep aspects)
Planet Money just did a special on cable channel bundling, focusing on ESPN's early days and rise to prominence, and it really made me think we're about to witness that same path with twitch. It's perfectly positioned to be the ESPN for the internet generation.
One heartening aspect of the Snowden revelations as a whole is that they have pretty much just confirmed that the things we thought were strong (public crypto research, tor) are in fact strong and the things that we thought were iffy are in fact iffy(Certificate Authorities, Unvetted Crypto, Cloud Services, The Wires, Implementations). This bodes well for the prospect of navigating out of this whole mess successfully since on the whole we seem to have good instincts about what is trustworthy and what is untrustworthy. I think that it actually has tended to clarify thinking about security so that fewer and fewer engineers are able to delude themselves into trusting something that they know deep down is really untrustworthy.
Google has shown that people run flu-related queries when they are affected by flu symptoms so that is a good method for tracking flu outbreaks in time and space.

I'd be a little afraid of volunteer science in this case because I think you might attract a population of hypochondriacs. (At my food co-op it seems 50% of people think they are allergic to wheat and rather than eating rice or beans or skipping the carbs, they buy triple-priced gluten free "breads")

I think something like this would be prone to witch hunts like the guys on Reddit who were looking for boston bombing suspects.
Is what I am doing wrong?
I feel like I am doing something bad whenever I scrape websites. Is this guilt unfounded? Is what I am doing okay?

For example, I am learning Rails right now, and decided to memorize all the code listings in the Rails tutorial (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/). If I wanted to, I could get all the code listings in that book within the next 5 minutes by using a scraper. Something that would take an hour (if I were disciplined enough to withstand the tedium of copying and pasting for an hour without breaks) would take just 5 minutes.

I love writing scrapers, it's one of the most fun things I know I can do with a computer. But after everything is said and done, with the data that I want on my hard drive, I can't help but feel guilty for doing it. I feel like I'm cheating something out of somebody. Especially in this case because I know how helpful Mr. Hartl has been to the Ruby community with his book. Mr. Hartl has probably jumpstarted thousands of careers with that book.

So anyway, is what I am doing wrong?

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By the way, just in case someone is curious, when I say "memorize", I don't mean word-for-word memorization. And I am doing this because I usually start off by rote learning whenever I try to acquire new skills.
I love this. Another great example of being told "that can't be done", and getting to prove those naysayers wrong.
What fantasy world are you living in where he/she said that non-DRM HTML 5 video was the status quo for paid content?

What was said was that it is there, and services are choosing not to use it, even accepting that using it would be suicide for their business. It's not the responsibility of http to preserve the business models of those companies rather than a free and open internet, though it's understandable that those businesses are fighting for it.
This looks like a lot of effort has gone into it and I eagerly await support for ssh & https.

We have an internal instance of GitLab set up here at work and I'd love to see something that was easier to upgrade take its place.

Edit: I just tried to import a large code base with a pretty lengthy history and managed to bring the entire service down.

Problem accessing [snip]. Reason:

Timeout trying to lock table "ACCOUNT"; SQL statement:

select x2."USER_NAME", x2."MAIL_ADDRESS", x2."PASSWORD", x2."ADMINISTRATOR", x2."URL", x2."REGISTERED_DATE", x2."UPDATED_DATE", x2."LAST_LOGIN_DATE", x2."IMAGE", x2."GROUP_ACCOUNT" from "ACCOUNT" x2 where x2."USER_NAME" = ?

Edit2: Seems someone already reported it https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket/issues/112

Edit3: Repository is corrupt. :(

Edit4: No it isn't - hurray git :)
Pick any company in the Fortune 500, then pick any technology you like and I bet it's in there somewhere. That's simply the nature of organizations with 100,000 employees in a dozen countries.
I was on the Windows team for a few years. I have seen the source code. There is cruft as there will be with any project of its age, but it's not nearly as bad as people say, especially if you can navigate it well. There are some good ideas underneath. COM is generally a good idea. The mental model of message pumps and window procs doesn't really have deep flaws, and lots of UI frameworks on other platforms have the same ideas under the hood. You mention ntdll, it's a shame more of that isn't public, because those APIs are often cleaner than their public equivalents.
Branding Bad
I always want to agree with the viewpoint that digital copies cost nothing, and thus should be free.

I just can't though. You're not paying for a copy, you are contributing towards it's creation.

Creation of content, digital or not, costs money. Sometimes it's an excessive amount (e.g. Blockbuster movies) and sometimes a sane amount (e.g. "regular" and indie moves).

Continuing with the movie examples... Most cameras these days record digitally. Do you expect that, since copying a digital file is free, that the movies should be free? It's entirely digital after all.

I'm hoping you don't, because otherwise you place zero value on the time and effort spent by the crew producing the film and that would be bordering(?) on unethical.
> Salesforce is a frigging CRM tool

Not really, they do a whole lot more than that, especially in the SDK land, I hear they even have their own IDE for coding the Salesforce way.

> SAP is a frigging ERP system

Another one of those companies that has its hand in a lot of cookie jars, for example, they sell HANA (http://www.saphana.com/welcome), which is a very fast in-memory analytical database (SQL).

> Oracle is a frigging database

Oracle database is actually just a small part of Oracle these days, look at their Sun aquisition. I mean, Oracle even has their own flavor of RHEL now.
Most of us that will argue with libertarians until we're both (all?) red/blue in the face believe that government is useful, necessary and generally a good thing (TM) for a variety of reasons.

But do no wrong? That's a massive exaggeration. YOu can believe it does a hell of a lot wrong, in fact nearly everything, without believing we'd be better off without any government at all.
I'm not a gay supporter, but my "discomfort" is not the reason I'm this shocked. Certainly my morality influences how I view things. But I'd likewise be sickened by seduction of an innocent person of the same sex.

What disturbs me in this story is the described hypnotism. The snake almost manipulated the guy who is clear as day about having not one bit of interest in the same sex. To make him strip is brain washing. Had the marine been attracted to the same sex, I would be less disturbed.

Now consider the following. Perhaps it is not me who is intolerant, but perhaps you lack perspective. Bear with me, I bore with you: Imagine that the story was of a sadistic straight rapist. The almost-victim must be completely uninterested in sex; if you cannot imagine such a level of purity, imagine a lesbian. Now imagine that someone comments on the survival story of this kind that she wrote using words like "wonderful". Is that a normal reaction? And then someone asks the almost-victim if the experience has made the victim less willing to have sex with men. Now you're coming from the same place I'm coming from. (cue people calling you a bigot)
Not really - look at Nicira, which was bought by VMware for a cool $1B. There's a lot of innovative work happening in the network virtualization space at the moment.
From the one look of the internals (1:50 in the video), there does not appear to be room to rotate the flywheel axis. That said, I would expect that is where they're headed when they can figure out how to use some of the space more efficiently.
What's the absolute root of the DOM?
Can we please stop posting Forbes contributor articles?
The "devastating socially" is itself, a mask. That particular reaction relates to fears of rejection. Fears of rejection are internal experiences.

Being smarter makes this effect worse, usually because someone who is smart (or likes to see themselves as smart) and likes to argue, are typically disconnected with their emotions, not because they put argue themselves into a corner. They seek social acceptance by being right, often because they lack emotional skills to work with acceptance and rejection.

It's not really about being dumb or smart. It's really having attachments to self-image. There's this maxim: if you have no pride, then you have no shame. Without attachment, you let your self image go, and the shame goes along with it. You laugh at your folly and have a good time :-)

I will note, the methods the sociopath used on the Marine is pretty much the same kind of methods pick up artists use for seducing women, even down to the "you have to get them away from their friends."
I understand the intent, and I don't want to undermine your point, I just find it offensive, but that would certainly put me in the minority.
Interesting! Any idea how they get around the legal issue?
Renting of digital data is a stupid idea to begin with.

I think that the millions of happy Netflix customers, including me, are going to respectfully disagree with you on that one. I don't illegally download media, but I don't want to have to commit to purchasing every single show or movie that I watch.
Yeah, this is just a proof-of-concept that our intern made. It can definitely be extended to cover any & all hotel reviews that are publicly accessible.

As for the staff issue - the classification goes by semantic chunk, rather than by sentence, since sentences can cover different semantic topics e.g. "The staff were great, but the beds were too hard." But I agree, sometimes it looks a bit ... off.

Your weighting idea is also a good one too. Maybe introduce some sort of decay factor and weight the scores accordingly. In fact, that might be good feedback for the hotel to see how their ratings have changed over time.

Thanks for the feedback.
>An objective function and it's unintended consequences may be hard to understand for the average voter but the results of policy are even harder to understand.
Reverse that statement and you've got my position. It's very difficult for an average voter to figure out where the cash for his tax cut is coming from, but it's crystal clear approximately how much disposable income they will personally benefit from it even if the indirect consequences are pretty hazy. It's up to the government to figure out how to pay for it, and to balance that out against the desires of people that are really far more concerned about murder rates, welfare cuts or national debt rises.

By contrast this system asks voters to become technocrats and carefully predict the set of variable weightings that will allow the investors to pass legislation that reduces their taxes; that is if Big Capital doesn't decide to bet on a policy proposal that uses the freed-up budget to reduce their taxes instead. Frankly, if an average voter can't determine if they want the candidate that offers them lower taxes instead of the one that offers them better policing, they're certainly not capable of choosing between the two candidates' proposed set of HDI weightings and calculation methodologies. Nor does anything in the proposed mechanism stop policy proponents sneakily attaching undesirable policies to desirable ones: in this case if you offered the banking system bailouts they'd probably bet big enough on the bill to allow it to pass even if it had subsidiary clauses mandating the execution of firefighters' firstborn. It would be trivially easy to use this process to enact laws whose consequences were essentially non-statistical, like most civil liberties...
I didn't say they should be free for anyone who didn't pay for them yet. I said they cost nothing to duplicate, therefore there is no need to resort to renting for those who are already paying.
He's right - this is definitely where the network needs to go. When we can manipulate network topology as easily as we can provision cloud-based servers today, we'll unimaginably more flexible than we are today.
Rails.. and.. Javascript.

Good interviews will be focused on things you've actually done with the tech along with common knowledge items that show you've used them.

Past that lots of places like to talk general programming questions for the technical bits, so be prepared for stuff that might be a bit outside your normal day to day work like data structures/algorithms you don't have to think about in lots of langs.

Personally for an interview I just prepare myself to think clearly under pressure. The best interviews involve actually doing something, whether it be whiteboarding your thought process through an algorithm or actually writing some code. Just relax and focus.
The Perfect Hoody
Google is releasing iOS apps because they make money from traffic. Android has served its purpose -- preventing Google from getting frozen out of mobile computing traffic. Chrome is the future brand for Google in the human software world.
You need to learn Clojure. I would bet since you've been a developer for 23 years you've probably tried Clojure already - especially since it's popular among the Java/JVM crowd. Here's why, in the context of your post, I think you would like it:

1) Is dynamic like JavaScript, the learning curve for a seasoned developer such as you would be low and you'd get velocity quickly

2) Allows you to focus on the problem solving at hand rather than spending a bunch of time just build base classes to model your solution

3) Refactoring is easier as Clojure puts you on the road to pure functional programming, and your solution is not complected (or at least has low complection)

4) Has a nice interactive environment for prototyping/developing, much like some of the JavaScript tools out there

5) Can emit JavaScript for the browser using ClojureScript
Do you realize you basically just said "If you know where to look, you'll find it"?

Thanks MOTO. Any links?