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Will be fascinating on how China's government responds to this. With any luck these findings will postpone this terrible idea... Or at least get some competent(security focused) people writing this application.
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This is amusingly serendipitous with today's XKCD.
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I think her moderation is fabulous.
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How to promote my Freelance works site. How people promote their startup.
I suspect you would probably make the same argument about being a Tor endpoint.

Given that Tor has been available for a while, are there examples of maintainers of Tor end nodes being held accountable for the traffic they pass on behalf of others?

This seems bred the same philosophy as holding an ISP accountable for the traffic of its customers, or holding the administrator of 4chan accountable for what is posted on there. It seems tenuous.

Maybe I'm missing something. How many jurisdictions are there now where an unknowing facilitator can be held accountable for the criminal acts of those he is facilitating?

Either way, I'm not fond of this philosophy of scaring everyone into the clear simply to avoid gruesome labeling.
TOR exit node owners get into trouble for exactly that all over the place. I guess that they won't be able to convict you unless you have something on your PC during the FBI search..
Its a bad deal for him... What if his company takes off and you don't transfer the domain at the end of the year.. huge risk for him..
Good point. There is definitely a distinction of intent that is reflected in the tenor of the two sites.
So python guys are still looking for the One True Way to do this? How unpythonic.
(Posting anonymously.)

LSD is not the kind of drug you take to have a good time. It is possible that a trip will be a lot of fun, but it is also possible that the trip will put you in a state of mind that will take you weeks or even months of very hard work to recover from. I speak from personal experience.
There was an example of one guy having the police come to his house and seize his computers, before eventually returning them. Needless to say, he was shit-scared that his neighbours would find out that he was suspected of child pornography (though of course he was not guilty). His account was posted here some 6 months ago or so.

I think it's a matter of numbers, though. If TOR (or equivalent) was as popular as BT, even the police would realise it is pointless.
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Clojure moving to github?
Or, alternatively, let yourself be found. Some of those people are just as entrepreneurial as you are, and desperate to find a competent hacker to work with. You are probably already friends with some such people. Ask around.
I think there are likely more women on Etsy for the reason that 9 of the most common 10 first names among customers of Bingo Card Creator are female and the last one is ambiguous: women and men like different things.

This does not strike me as demonstrating men's superior skill in finding renumerative activities. It is highly likely that 95%+ of the startups here are started by men. Most, like I suspect most Etsy sellers, will never have a single customer.

Incidentally, by any quantitative measure selling software works better than selling handicrafts, but of people who start a sideline in either field the overwhelming majority will not see amazing things. I also think it is quite unlikely that most people are in it with a serious plan to replace their day job -- mostly true here and, e.g., the Business of Software boards as well.
I like that feature a lot, but I'm sometimes tempted to do CTR-A, just to see what others have "censored". Must...resist...
It seems this is just an ratio-enforced version of TOR, with the added downside of having a single point of failure (the ratio tracking company).

"it will also be possible to buy ‘upload credit’ to use BitBlinder"
The thing is they're considering Etsy as their only sales channel in this article. Anyone that does handmade goods knows that you sell a lot at fairs, conventions and events. And if you want to stick it out online, there's also Craigslist and Ebay. But it's not like Etsy is the only way to sell your goods.

If I sold cars, I'm not going to do it exclusively through autotrader.com (or one of my friends, easyautosales.com ;) ). It's as simple as not putting all your eggs in one basket.
I saw that ad last week, and of the 4 or so randomly selected friends, I was incredulous that one of them had a score of less than 130, and that another had a score as high as 130.

Ordinarily I would be tempted to waste time competing with my friends, but it was too obvious a scam.

And yes, I did feel a bit guilty that I obviously judge people I know as bright or not-so.
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That also works for marketing static typing - now with added syntax errors!
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Please add more details, like:

* What kind of freelance work?
* What have you tried already?
* How well have those things worked?
* What differentiates your site from sites like elance.com or guru.com?

Also, give us a link. :-)
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It's hard to define speciation though. If two groups refuse to mate with each other, but they could in a lab, are they speciated? What if artificial semination works but naturally doesn't? Etc.
Thanks for that link. Nothing really new, but really well crystalized and named.

I can't get more than 25/2 here. :(
The guys behind this are from the Winter/Spring 2009 AlphaLab batch (as Innomi.net):

http://www.alphalab.org/meet_our_companies.aspx

Informative: http://startuppittsburgh.com/2009/05/innominet-interview-abo...
The "symmetrical" is the killer part. It makes peer to peer backup of large files (HD videos) bearable.
It's free to use, but not "GPL". Here's the actual license:

http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/LICENSE.t...
There's been research that has shown quite reliably that sub-recreational doses of LSD and Mescaline (not combined) can induce incredibly vivid visions that can help a person visualize a problem they've been trying to solve, and in the end, make the problem solving easier if not trivial.

The experiment was done to see if the effects of psychedelics were merely "right-brained" and creativity enhancing, or if they could improve harder more technical cognition as well. It turns out they do improve technical cognition quite drastically.
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While it's true that the potency of LSD is ridiculous (normal doses being a thousandth of what other drugs usually require), the effects are not limited to LSD. Mescaline and other psychedelics produce similar improvements in cognition, and have higher dosage requirements. Mescaline, for instance, requires around 100mg for a light dose, while for LSD it's over 1000 times smaller at about 20-70ug. So if you're concerned that LSD is just too easy to fuck up, in terms of dosage, try Mescaline instead.
In case you decide to compile MzScheme 372 from sources on a Fedora 10 box that has SELinux in enforcing mode, you need to take a few (simple) additional steps:

http://aadnyavali.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/making-arc-3-play...

I'm still downloading Fedora 11, but suspect that the same exercise will be needed for that as well.
Like topic maps?

Or more like Ted Nelson's idea, "Embedded Markup Considered Harmful"?

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.nelson.html
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It's a good article though I'd go so far as to say the piece it responds to isn't worthy of a response. Take this quote...

"Nothing that comes from Microsoft can be for our good and benefit. They are dedicated to our destruction and downfall.

Mono has infected Gnome. Ubuntu uses Gnome. I switched to Kubuntu and am happy with it. Now Moonlight is infecting Linux."

There are two parts to the Linux community. One part sees Linux as a legitimate tool they can use to bring down costs while maintaining stability. The other sees this as some kind of holy war and is really just using Linux to act like drama queens.

The link here is a good defense of Mono but the people he's trying to defend it to are never going to listen.
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All this needs to make it perfect is a bot that occasionally replies to the troll.

Something like:

Troll - M$ is teh suxxor

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I've seen more about that. It turns out that the third quartile (50-75%) is the most accurate in self-evaluations.

Interested readers might try browsing lesswrong.com and overcomingbias.com; especially older OB posts.
This poses some pretty interesting questions.

1. Is it mandatory to install such filter software on Linux boxes also?
2. How do they handle the case where the filter software is chroot'ed in a jail, so that the individual is complying with the letter of the law by installing and running the software, but managing to avoid the ill-effects?

I'm not speaking about censorship etc., just plain curious.
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Joshua.

Mostly west coast...
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Sending null to /dev/null
It isn't enough by itself, but the best aid I have read to this is PG's essay on keeping your identity small (http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html). The fewer things you self-identify as, the less dissonance new information is likely to cause.
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Mono has such a bad reputation. If they want to get market, they will probably have to pull a Bing, i.e. rebrand it.

Unfortunately, they don't have $100m to pour into marketing.
Misleading title -- the article talks about ANIMATIONS in presentations ... and frankly neither the study methodology nor the results are given in enough detail to make any conclusions.

Lectures can be poorly designed in any medium.
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Setting standards too early can be worse. I remember reading that some countries set an analog HDTV standard in the 90s and ended up changing over again to digital at great public expense.

Also France's Minitel fiasco in the 80s and 90s.
This is a great story of Josh's career and worth watching. Especially the first 15 minutes which are stories I'd never heard before (and I live in Philadelphia).

I second his comments that Philadelphia is a fantastic place to live/work as an entrepreneur. The tech/startup community is humble, helpful, and extremely tight. This community combined with the art, history, and diversity of Philadelphia make it an awesome place to live.
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He did reach the Ballmer Peak : http://xkcd.com/323/
Just s/alcohol/LSD/g (may be the peak is higher, then)
To be fair, the base language of PLT never claimed to support any relevant standard. Instead implementations of standards are built as libraries on top of the base language. So PLT does provide both R5RS and R6RS, both with mutable pairs.

It is when you want to use PLT-specific non-RnRS libraries from RnRS code, you run into pair incompatibilities.
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Don't forget that local area monopolies on cable haven't helped any either.
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I think you miss the point. They already have market. Most Corporate Networks run on Windows Servers. What Mono does is allow those Windows shops with their .Net experienced developers to start experimenting with and hopefully integrating Linux. Without having to change the language and framework they've standardized on.

In that way it gives Linux an inroad it didn't have before Mono.
Does the font on the site look squished for you too?

I tried with both webkit-gtk and firefox...
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I always thought that it was a bit of a marketing blunder naming it the same as the slang term for glandular fever.
China has a court system and there are rights for the accused. Now, if your up against someone that has lots of power, its well understood the legal process can be bought to a certain extent. That said, there are quite a few cases in China where the "little guy" prevails in the courts.

The real issue is simply that this new system is not safe for many reasons, without regard to the situation suggested by the parent post.
Peer review only helps when the peers have a clue. By the articles own admissions, no one has any real idea of how to do macroeconomics that predicts the real world. Without the discipline of reality, peer review becomes group-think. In macro they develop all sorts of claims and mathematics that have no connection to what actually happens. But with so many different approaches and claims some actually seem to predict what happens, just as some stock pickers seem to predict stock prices, though it is mostly random.
They've provided very little evidence for their conclusion.

For a far better criticism of powerpoint check out Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
Yes and no. I think that, given all the money and hard work poured into it, Mono is, relative to other languages and things out there, not as popular as it "ought" to be. Here we have a first-rate JIT compiled language that's completely free (no Java ambiguity), with a team of smart hackers behind it, and yet not that many people use it. I don't, nor do I know anyone who does, besides one of the core developers who lives here in Padova.
Null is an element of any given set. So it's natural enough. Maybe the way we human use it in implementations is wrong. But after all Null is defined by human anyway.

"...And you, as a consumer of that method, need to check every time if the return value is Null. If you don’t – you (usually) get a Null pointer exception and your program crashes."

Can't this be handled by the language itself, by default?
I wonder what kind of result is more interesting. Creating something that can be defined as life that is how it happened naturally or something that can be defined as life isn't how we did it.
I'm not in love with MS powerpoint but,

"It's not the tool. It's the people who use it"

And here's the original research document. http://isedj.org/7/82/Mahar.j.txt

And one more thing. The article provides very poor referencing. I couldn't find the real source by following the link they have given as the source. In contrast following article is better IMHO.

http://www.hg2s.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-danger-of-gratuitous...
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"9 of the most common 10 first names among customers of Bingo Card Creator are female"

That would be because they are teachers, and most teachers are women?
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I find it difficult to imagine making a living with handmade things is possible in any way? Unless you can sell each item for $1000 upwards, how can it ever pay off enough?

Also I was surprised by this line: "It’s become satisfying again to sew, cook, and garden." So far honestly I had a strong dislike of handmade things because they symbolize something like slavery to me. Maybe if women truly enjoy those tasks, I can change my mind.
To be fair to the government, unless you're selling or holding a significant amount, you wouldn't go to jail. You most certainly wouldn't be put in jail for taking a few micrograms of LSD in the comfort of your own home (or office).
here is a case where we actually need DRM. the girl should have been able to secure the content and allow access to only those people she wished to grant it to - there is both nothing legally or morally wrong with that.

there is a tech angle to this story - and its about how we need solutions to stop unauthorized propagation of private content. DRM systems as already built into Windows and other systems would work perfect - it just needs to be standardized and rolled out across mobile and web platforms (most of it is based on open protocols)

It's a shame because we have the technology, it is just currently being applied in the wrong places
always-on, turnkey.. is there an online dictionary for this sort of thing?
"Can't this be handled by the language itself, by default?" - yes - languages do that check, but it's done at runtime and if it fails - you get an exception.
That's more or less a given, though they will be just one drop in an ocean. But still, how would they affect her? Because other then some really childish "have you seen her pic nacked from when she was 16?!" among a couple of coworkers, I honestly cannot think of anything.
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I remember this approach when it was called Active-X..
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The kind of animation described here imposes a process on the learners brain. If it's too demanding, it leaves less room for the learning process. The art of teaching is not to force a process in the learners brain but to motivate and support it.
It is a shame that so many of these drugs are illegal and have been demonized, because they do have benefits for people at smaller doses as discussed. Some of the greatest work and innovation in the world has been created by people under the influence of one substance or another (from Picasso and his wormwood/absinthe to Steve Jobs and LSD).

In my own experience, I have used small doses of either amphetamines (both prescription and not), cocaine or various other narcotics (usually just dropped into a coffee) to take me through some big, demanding and complex projects. I know that this is not the 'correct' thing to say, but with self-control and knowledge about dosage, I can't think of a single downside to them being used in such a manner.

I can imagine that daily small doses would add up to a dependency which has its own ill effects.

Obligatory Bill Hicks quote:

“See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal fkin high on drugs.”
Well as the head of an IT department that does use Windows servers I can tell you you're right but the reason has little to do with Mono itself.

Here's the thing you have to understand about corporate IT: Support is king. Unlike startups which are filled with technical people company's have only a few IT people and usually only one whose knowledge is at a high enough level to even think of editing the source of an open source project. So you need to have a support option in place.

Now Microsoft has support contracts but even if you don't purchase one you can get support for $245 per incident on any Windows Server issue. Our agency of 200 computers uses this option once, maybe twice per year. Novell on the other hand offers support for Mono but it's sold in packs of 25 incidents and costs $13,000. So no matter how much Linux and Mono can save your company the outrageous support costs make it virtually unjustifiable.
"The other sees this as some kind of holy war and is really just using Linux to act like drama queens."

No need to deride an entire class of your peers simply because their ideals are different than yours.
Labwork is supposedly, at least within your major, training for doing original research. Without the rich complexity and messiness of the real world you are not going to learn what potential problems (and especially, unexpected details) to watch for. For those going through the motions for "breadth" courses, VR (once it's good enough) would be fine.
Startup idea: yournudeapplicant.com which automatically matches your job applicants with porn sites. Might help with hiring decisions to get a look "under the hood".
It's not their ideals it's that they express them in a way that's counterproductive and designed to draw attention to themselves and not participate in a discussion.

Let me give you another example of this type of behavior. I personally disagreed with many of the decisions the Bush Administration made in the U.S. I have had many thoughtful discussions with people who thought differently and have, in some cases, changed their minds ever so slightly. The guy down the road from me shares my ideals but he expressed it by hanging a life sized doll of George Bush by a noose outside his garage and then eventually lighting it on fire. I assure you he convinced no one who didn't already agree with him and his actions were really just a thinly veiled cry for attention.
Except that Google is really good at finding drops in the Ocean.

What if there had been nude pics of Obama on the internet, would they have hurt his chances for becoming president?

I think it depends on the job - not all women become secretaries.
I have plenty of ideas as well. @arongrinshtein
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While I agree, wouldn't "distribute naked pictures of someone" be a different matter than "distributing child pornography"?