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I've found that the ease with which someone answers "I don't know" has a positive correlation with their wisdom in general. (Of course, if they answer "I don't know" to everything, they probably just don't care, and that's a separate problem.)
You might find Rebmu interesting, its a Rebol dialect designed for code golfing - https://github.com/hostilefork/rebmu

Here's a fun(!) presentation of Rebmu given by Dr. Rebmuthalamonious Golfstanipetrovitch (!!) given at the recent Rebol/Red conference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDKaz1iB9wQ

Enjoy! :)
I laughed at this, but to be fair, property is cheaper where it's noisier, so some people may not feel they have the choice.
While you can't improove your IQ overall (in controlled tests), it's completely possible do get better at logical games, thus increasing you score at IQ tests.

I know it because I have trained a bit for some IQ tests and the results improve the more you train for it. That's something everyone should be capable of.
Why does a language have a word for such a thing? Is it common? I haven't even thought about the possibility of the existence of such a thing till now.
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You have to manually install a proper operating system following dozens of steps.

The automated scripts that ease the task were created by individuals that don't work for Google.

This is hardly proper support.

If this was a desired way of using Chromebooks, options would be available to select it in a user friendly way.
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This type of dictionary attack is largely mitigated by salting your hashes, is it not?
Surely you'd prefer to encode video much faster than real time.
But then the original point stands. Such a system doesn't fully allow you to express legitimate feeling that you don't know. If majority expresses "I don't know", it doesn't suddenly mean "I don't trust old guard" vote. That's misinterpretation of the voting result.

Also, you can express "I don't trust old guard" in the non-mandatory voting system as well. Just vote for the new candidate. So it's actually simpler system than yours and more expressive.
Yeah. He should have lammed it as soon as the feds first talked to him. Really he should have run much sooner. At that point, the only option for him would have been life as a fugitive on the FBIs most wanted list. It was too late.

The key question for me is still: how did the FBI locate the Silk Road hidden service servers? They never disclose how that was accomplished. If they had an assist from the NSA in breaking Tor, I would like to know. It has been shown that Tor hidden services are not anywhere near as secure as they are thought to be... but has anyone done a practical attack in the wild? Enquiring minds want to know!

Edit: looks like he did move after the feds showed up. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/10/09/living-with-r...
Touch-screens in cars feels like an impressively obvious idea.
I'm aware of the controversy, but it comes from a very vocal but small minority. That alternet article you linked to is a great example of the absurd bias and political agenda the minority has. Their main gripe is political, not factual - the article is about how many of the prizes go to "theories that concentrated wealth among the top 1%".

I called it a de facto prize, but it's also really a de jure prize: the winner is determined in the same way as the others, the prize is presented at the same ceremony as the others, and it's listed along the other nobel prizes on official lists. The prize carries at least as much prestige as the other prizes to both experts in the field and to the public.

Also, I don't see how family members of Nobel have any authority on the matter (they don't), and I think the prize is far more meaningful and free of bias than something like the peace prize.
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Gwern, this whole subject is sloppy. It is trivially simple to improve IQ scores by practicing the types of questions IQ tests make. There is no reliable way to measure IQ, therefore it's not clear that IQ is measuring anything reliably. What, exactly, are you talking about then?
What's clever about that code is that the conditional will always fail. The assignment expression setting the uid to 0 will itself evaluate to 0, which will cause the conjunction to evaluate to "false." On first glance, the code makes you believe that the body of the conditional is necessary, when it's in fact dead code. That's nice camouflage.
There's a project, zero.rs, that lets you have no runtime in rust. It's been shown that it's possible to make a simple kernel with it without too much pain. The disadvantage, of course, is that libraries will use garbage collection, and as soon as it's used, you get the runtime, so you can only use certain libraries designed for zero.rs, which causes fragmentation.

All this would happen if gc was in the std library anyway though.
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Seems like this is more of an autocomplete for git commands than what I was hoping for - for instance in Jetbrains IDEs (pycharm, rubymine, intellij) the killer feature IMO is the ability to see inline highlights of diffs when I have work in progress, and to be able to do a project wide branch diff (e.g develop vs master) with a really nice multi-file diff explorer. It's the one feature keeping me using jetbrains over sublime text for large projects.
I got it on my second try, once I found out I was supposed to use arch_chroot instead of chroot or something like that.
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One thing is talking seriously, like the guy referred by this article did, another is just making some light genre humour.
The latter happens in every job/field, in both directions, and there's nothing wrong about it, if played nice. If that's what we are talking about, it could even serve as a way of socializing.

Now one thing is speaking a sexist and argumented thought on why woman should not invade a male territory like engineering (that's that guy's words), another one is just naming a project with a funny name, which is just that a name.

If for example a programmer girl named one of her libraries "dick-shortener" I wouldn't make it such a big affair.

But still it's true that we currently live in a sexist society against women, so a bit of over-triggered-alarmism for this subject might be well tolerated (helps keeping alive the cause). But please understand the extent of this, don't just go around picking and blogging on every little word said trying to transform it in a serious well-formed insult toward women.
Sometime a little word-play is just that, a little word-play.
Even so... only about 3% decided to answer with underwear. I imagine it may have crossed an even larger percentage of user's minds, but they didn't want to answer with that.
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Essentially you just said:

> Supplementation could hypothetically improve the cognitive ability of dogs. But it could never make them as smart as humans.

> The same goes for humans. Supplementation could never improve their cognitive abilities.

I suppose maybe this shoddy little syllogism would be forgivable if you haven't had your coffee yet this morning.
I think it would be interesting to see a followup to this about when they make their first $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 etc...

Getting free users is not the hardest thing in the world. People like free things. Getting them to pay you is a different thing altogether.
All types of buildings have different building codes.

Apartment buildings may have different codes depending on their height (you can't build a 10 story wooden building for instance), there's codes which regulate exits, access, max occupancy, etc... Single family homes have different code to follow because the expectation is that only 1 family will be living in it, versus an office tower or hotel with thousands...

A relevant example - not every basement is suitable as a living suite, but many are rented out anyway, which is against the law (there are certain codes which much be followed to ensure a rental suite is legal). This would apply to AirBnB as well. Traditional bed and breakfast places have rules to follow as well, business regulations, building code, etc...
Another day, another gwern.net post.
Because before it was tracked by git, it was in bitkeeper, and it was likely in some other system before that.
Is there something broken with make 3.81?
Let me expand. From a manufacturing and design standpoint, it would be fairly easy to build some standardized components for touchscreens that different car companies can implement. They can then differentiate based on software (taking a leaf out of the mobile playbook).
It does complicate detecting your outgoing communications, but traffic analysis could probably seperate your communications from other peoples comm.
The author is talking down and assumes too many people just learned C yesterday. An assignment of a variable called uid to 0 inside of an error check is waaaay too transparent. It's impressive that it made it into the cvs server with no history but the actual weakness relies heavily on nobody ever looking at the code. It would be spotted right away by anyone remotely competent who glanced over it.
I think this is the only way to go about getting change. If you just comply from square one, officials preceive no problem.

If you want change, you need to make people realize that there is a problem with the current system... and ignoring the laws, and then working to get them changed after the problem has been realized (a la Uber) seems to be a lot more effective.

You can't get people excited to change something they don't know/care about!
Ah, but look at the marketing.

"Cares for your family as much as you do."

Appeal to parental guilt is a pretty powerful marketing tool.
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I don't see any warnings when compiling "if (1 && (i = 2)) {...}", but there is an warning when compiling "if (i = 2) {...}". This is using gcc 4.7.2 with -Wall.
Hm, thinking about it, maybe I was wrong. Maybe you can actually express "I don't care" vote in the mandatory voting system as well, by voting for a randomly selected candidate (and these contribution will average out to same votes for all candidates). But it's rather impractical compared to simple non-mandatory voting.
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Honestly, having used both the old installer and the new procedure dozens of times each, I really do prefer the wiki page. It's just a lot more flexible and comfortable to a shell user. It also exposes a number of config files that as an arch user, you should be aware of. In that way, I find it to conform to the "Arch Way[1]" than the system it replaced.

Not to say that it doesn't have it's downsides, like scaring off new users.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
Hotels are a tough business, running one isn't easy (actually very difficult), and they're considered to be pretty essential to our society.

There's much more money in the tech industry.

It's about protecting consumers...
The problem with your logic is that improving a humans intelligence by as much as the difference between a dog and a human is a HUGE leap in intelligence. There are far smaller jumps in intelligence that are still meaningful that fit into the span of dog to human intelligence.
I've been thinking about doing this. What's a good way to find / select people? I used rentacoder.com a few years ago, but I'm not sure that's around anymore / the best way.
No, but it could either return it or pocket it, rather than letting them play.
This is the exact way in which metadata, in the age of computer analysis, is just as important as the data itself. With a computer looking for patterns, it's possible to sift through billions of pieces of data to single out someone trying to hide in the noise.
Actually, I'd rather try and help fix the USA. It's a pretty nice place and a lot of really good people live here.

Those people deserve a lot better from their elected government. Maybe the right answer is to have more people that care run for office. I'd love to help get some makers into congress and start fixing the problem.
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I think it is too, but you get financials to change then we'll be talking.
Does studying count as "artificially improving a person's intelligence"? Because that works, and it seems quite artificial.
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I'm from Salford and use pants/trousers interchangeably, have done since I was young. Perhaps this is also due to watching films too, which are mostly from the US over here. I haven't watched that many US programmes in my life time. I don't watch much TV at all really!

As a side note, I saw undies in the original too!
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I don't think you can know that. What if the drug turns on genes responsible for building more "brain structures"?

Or what if the human brain is currently artificially limited say to conserve energy and a drug could remove that limitation.
The reason Uber can work with the government is that they are taking on the taxi cartel on behalf of city residents. They are therefore aligned with voters, who the pols care about.

AirBnB otoh is aligned with a small minority of owners against the larger number of renters pissed off that their already high rents are exploding. The pols are taking these actions because voters are upset. AirBnB are on the wrong side of the divide. This may thus end badly for them in NY. Other cities will copy NY, and so this is a fundamental challenge to their core value prop.
> I have long suspected this to be true. That's my argument against mandatory voting, because if people can choose not to vote, they can express they don't know and hopefully leave the result on people who feel they do know.

Mandatory voting can include "I don't know" (and, in fact, it naturally falls out in a simple way from any use of preference ballots with a tallying system that accounts for ties and treats all unranked candidates as tied for the position immediately below all explicitly-ranked candidates.)

EDIT: Further, such a system would naturally handle the more common case where people do have known preferences, but they aren't accurately represented either as a forced preference ranking of all candidates (as with preference ballots that reject ties), or a unique most-preferred status for one candidate (as is the case with the "bullet" ballots typically used in FPTP elections.)
Fair enough. I just have to cross my fingers and hope the GC won't catch on then! :)
Tx for the links, seem interesting, saved them for a later read.

Yeah, you are absolutely right, but still I wouldn't compare lulzsec to the orgs you mentioned or mobsters. Lets get this straight - no hacktivist or cracker was found hanging on the cell bars or shot in the woods, that's just not a comparable environment to serious organized crime. If nobody is afraid even of getting their knees broken, not to mention ditched in a hole, is there anything stopping them from snitching the minute le shows up at the door? Snitching is punishable for a reason, and there is a reason that ruleset goes all the way down to street level crime or even minor offences (that last one actually differs among places for cultural and political reasons).
I had an insightful manager once who told me 'you'd be surprised how hard it is to sell something for free.' The point being, getting their attention and usage is in fact pretty difficult.
SKUs of Haswell with the GT3e graphics configuration include 128mb of on package DRAM, which is intended to give more memory bandwidth to the GPU, but it also acts as a cache for the CPU.

Based on what you're saying, it seems as though AVX-512 and future models with larger, faster embedded DRAM might play very nicely together.
I'm solidly American, but I know that definition of "floater" also. I don't know where I learned it. It just kind of seemed like common knowledge.
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Retroshare already do that.
Looks interesting, but I'm turned off by 'sign up for free' when there's nothing on the page indicating the cost, if any, of using the product.

If it's free, 'sign up for free' suggests otherwise. If there's a cost, please be up front about it. If you haven't decided what or whether to charge, just say so ;)
A few year ago I worked for a company that offered a similar service, but was more focused on labels than individual artists. Even though iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and Play may be there big ones there are 100s of music stores, plus ring tones, call back tones, lyrics sites, user generated content sites (youtube, vimeo etc) etc that need to get the latest content, either the music or just the metadata. There are new sites springing up and dying regularly.

When a site starts up, they don't need to go cut individual deals and setup the transfer technology with every label and artist. They can approach a few companies like the one I worked for, write a plugin and get a huge amount of content right away. The labels don't want to monitor every site that starts up and send content and handle royalties. They could set usage rules and the content would be sent to the appropriate sites.

Once sites get huge like iTunes, they cut their own deals with the major labels. But without services like this there is no way small artists and music sites could ever survive, it would be far too time consuming.
I have to take issue with your inclusion of "Modern C++ Design" in a reading list about learning C++. If you're new to C++, that is exactly the sort of thing you _shouldn't_ be reading.

"Modern C++ Design" is really intended for advanced C++ programmers only. I don't feel it gives a very good impression of the language to new developers - there are so many awful hacks in that book.

It's the sort of thing that you should hold off on until you have the experience with the language necessary to be wise about when such techniques are appropriate.
I wonder how the dynamics of the Valley would've changed had Dorsey moved to Facebook? ;)
Rust libraries rarely use GC. The standard library goes out of its way to avoid it wherever possible, while remaining safe.
Completely agree.

What's the difference between $340 million and over $1 billion? Bigger boat. Bigger plane. Other than that, nothing.
I get so sick of explaining 'its not that kind of hacking' that I just quit using the term to non-techies lol. http://www.radiumcrm.com
Yea I'm not sure why they got rid of the menu-driven installer and zsh sucks imo. I can still live with the installation process though, it boils down to: partitioning your disk, setup filesystems, /mnt and /mnt/boot (for my desktop), use pacstrap for base system, install bootloader. After one installation with the manual process you can still install Arch in 30 minutes, plus you can thank it for somewhat forcing you to understand how you are setting up your system.

Pacman is really the best. I had to be reminded of that recently when I had the luxury of dealing with a Ubuntu system. Granted I don't have to deal with that system everyday but having to use apt, aptitude, dpkg to accomplish different things? What a fucking mess.
GC is being removed from the core language and will migrate to a library before 1.0.
> I hardly get much deep sleep due to anatomical issues essentially blocking my airways. I can't afford the surgery (even though I have insurance)

I have snore-caused sleep apnea, are you referring to that? If so, a CPAP device could help you. It's a small cube you put on your nightdesk with a tube and a face (or nose) mask attached to it that allows you clear breathing, but increases pressure in your respiratory system so you won't snore as easily. I live in germany and my insurance covered it, but even if yours doesn't, 1k$ isn't too much for such a thing:

http://www.thecpapshop.com/resmed-s9-autoset-cpap-machine-wi...
This sounds more like bad management then bad corporate culture. I mean, perhaps some corporate culture, but really sounds like the managers need manager training.
This guy has been doing some work on getting a raspberry Pi to boot fast: https://github.com/gamaral/rpi-buildroot

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fjfqz6FxC8 It seems to be 3 to 4 seconds.

It is however for a specific use and I don't know how polyvalent it is.
One of the main issues is that cellular analysis in the basement is nearly impossible. I could actually see this coming to life if hardware was in the hands of the correct person.
Without encouragement, candidates answer with "I don't know" during a job interview easily stands out. If we are interviewing for a position, aren't we searching for just ONE outstanding specific individual? Should we really explicitly encourage?
It's definitely this, they barely laugh at my Jurassic Park / Jeff Goldblum jokes anymore.
There's more structured material for MIPS than AVR. Plus the AVR has some funky memory maps and modes.
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I totally agree! Getting 1000 people to stay is hard, which is part of the point here. We want to focus on engagement.

Getting 1000 people to pay if they stick around is much easier than if they don't.
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I suspect it's because I use FileVault, but I use full-disk encryption via LUKS on Arch as well.
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Is there a way to edit entries after they've been entered? I have a tendency to make typos (which I made on my entry) and don't see any way to edit the description.

One feature you could add (maybe premium) is the ability for the entry creator to see if domain names are available for suggested names. I had one name suggestion for my entry and this is the first thing I did.

Wish you the best luck and success with this!
I second this notion.
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Have you talked to a doctor about that? Specifically an expert in respiratory issues might be able to help.
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I improved my IQ by 20 pts in an year's time. It was pretty simple: study SAT/GRE words, and do a lot of arithmetic exercises.

I know that it increased by 20 pts. because I underwent an IQ test conducted by a licensed psychologist twice.
So it is supposed to be ironic. How am I missing the point?
I don't understand why you'd do it, but sure, if you're determined to avoid pipes even in situations where they'd be really well suited to the problem, a scheme using files on a RAM-based filesystem and roll-your-own signaling/blocking/buffering could conceivably be made approximately equivalent, performance-wise, to a pipe.

Out of curiosity, is there some good reason you'd do this instead of just using a mechanism that's specifically made to solve this problem?
The adversary, Hezbollah, used access to the telephone company logs (they have those), and searched for atypical mobile phone usage patterns:

Word to the wise, for people contemplating picking a nation state as the adversary for their circumvention tool programming project: see the amount of sophistication and technology involved here? Many countries routinely direct substantially more resources at, and I mean this entirely literally, killing mosquitoes.