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> the tablet itself has additional capacitive sensors.

Inductive, actually, which is why the stylus doesn't need to have a big fat tip.

Wacom also make a stylus for the iPad, which obviously has to be capacitive rather than inductive. I think it has batteries in it and sends tip pressure information to the iPad over Bluetooth.

(How the inductive sensing works: You have some conductive loops behind the display, and in the pen there is a ferrite rod with a conductive coil around it together with a capacitor to make a resonant circuit. You pass an alternating current at approximately the resonant frequency through some of the loops; it couples to the pen circuit by electromagnetic induction, the pen circuit resonates, and for a short time it produces, by induction again, a signal in all the other conducting coils behind the display. How much signal depends on the position and angle of the coil in the pen. If you have enough loops behind the display you can work out where the pen tip is accurately enough to draw with it. The capacitor in the resonant circuit is variable and adjusted by the tip pressure, and small changes in the resonant frequency produce phase changes in the signal that comes back, so you can measure the tip pressure too. Similar technology is used in some interactive whiteboards.)
Another important aspect is whether or not the belief in these theories is justified, regardless of whether or not they turn out to be true. This kind of relates to the Gettier problem in epistemology, where one may "know" something completely by accident, and we wouldn't really consider that "knowledge."

Were conspiracy theorists justified in believing their theories prior to the NSA leaks? Maybe, maybe not. But we should probably consider that independently of whether or not their theories turned out to be right. After all, we can never be 100% sure of our knowledge; the best we can do is seek the most reliable methods of inquiry. If a conspiracy theorist makes 50 predictions and 45 of them turn out to be correct, then we might have a reason to adopt their thought patterns; if someone has one big suspicion and that suspicion turns out to be true, I'm not sure how much we can conclude from that.

(Sorry, I know this discussion is getting off-topic... I just have a mild fascination with conspiracy theories and epistemology.)
Too bad they didn't bother to upgrade bash. Bash 4 is nice to have on tap.
There's a reason people pay much, much more for E5s than E3s, and it's not for clock speed. You can't get more than 32 GB of RAM in an E3 server, for example, while E5 servers can handle 256 per processor. E5s can coordinate between processors for multi processor machines, too.
Attempting to use java directs you to here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...
I recently wrote a game from scratch in one week over at my blog (http://jonbho.net). In C, and the source code is available. Still pending to revamp the design and publish it, hope to do so in the next few weeks.
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It doesn't matter at all for the hobbyist sector. If you can afford to push a paid-for consumer product, you can probably afford the license.

V-USB for AVR gives you 2 VID/PID pairs for 500 Euro. http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/license.html

There's also a 10EUR hobby package which gives you a pair for personal use only.

FUP applies, but if you're breaking it then really you should go legit and pay the USB feds their protection money.

How are these guys getting round it?
I wonder if the reporter has not mixed up lines of code with database records. Perhaps the database has a record for each and every American and 5 million of those records have incorrect data and need to be fixed up so that those people can use the website?
cocos2d-x has been available for quite some time. http://www.cocos2d-x.org/
The GDDR5 FirePros start at more like $450, and that's with less VRAM
That's certainly the case. It makes sense in terms of allocation pattern, but there are other distinctions to be preserved.
> 2. An airline is going to single you out [if they know you have a good reason to travel]? I will believe it when I see it.

That's what first-class seats are.
I doubt patents have anything to do with this.

Patents restrict use, copyright restricts copies. AFAIK, he didn't actually run the 'stolen' software, only copied it.
lol, torrenting free app from piratebay. Downloading it now
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I tried buying bitcoins by going through Liberty Reserve. They got shut down the week after I transferred the money there, with the couple thousand I deposited still in the account since I wanted to wait for a good opportunity. It was some awful timing, I lost a hefty amount in transaction fees and now need to wait years for the LR court case to finish before having any chance of recovering my money.
And given that it was widely made fun of, would it really be surprising that he was joking?
Same goes for obdev in Austria.

http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/license.html
I definitely agree that it seems like an awful lot. Any idea what a standard hourly bill-rate is for DC? In Arizona, the agency I work for bills at $125/hour.

However, not knowing the exact requirements for the project, we can only speculate as to what the true complexity is. Perhaps the insurance companies in each state did not provide well-documented REST APIs and you had hundreds of custom screen-scrapers pulling the data. Or, perhaps $30 million went to paying all of those insurance companies to build the required APIs? I cannot imagine how difficult and frustrating it would be to interface with those systems. Plus, all of the privacy and data safeguarding practices, and then arranging hosting, etc, etc, etc. Was there waste? Most likely. Was there waste to the tune of tens of millions? Couldn't say. However, to dismiss it as a simple CRUD app might be belying the complexity underneath.
Link to where Elon enters the Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQb94EF1UY#t=1000
All projects that were definitely not under GDS' management, more likely Crapita.
If all the changes were only his idea, this may be a reasonable assertion, but at large firms like goldman, the modifications he was making to code very, very likely came from insight from other team members.

If he incorporated other's insight in to his open source code by adding more code, I would view his actions in an extremely negative light.
imagine a republican seeing more republican friendly results and a democrat seeing democratic results.
Now, this would make Google really look unreliable at some point of time !
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Now you can create a document on an iPad, edit it on a Mac, and even share it with a friend who’s stuck on a PC.

Yeah, cause google docs has completely destroyed Office.
Sounds like an opportunity. Find all the add-on items that there are no 3rd party sellers for, and sell them as a 3rd party seller.
$249 was Google's closeout price and inventory disappeared. A new Nexus 4 seems to go for $360+. eBay has used ones in various conditions and they seem to be $260+.

Maybe when the Nexus 5 ships, the resellers will lower their prices. Or just sell in countries with inflated retail prices.
This is one of the primary features of the company I'm with now, Patients Know Best. (Online communication with your doctor -- though not via email, because that cannot be secured properly). We're not free to hospitals/doctors, which means we don't have a business model pushing us to pull tricks like this.

We encrypt each patient's record separately, and would not be able to make any of this patient/professional communication public even if we wanted to. If the patient makes a mistake, they risk sending a message to the wrong one of their own doctors... but there's no chance of public exposure.

It's disheartening (but I'm afraid not very surprising) to see this kind of casual but disastrous breach of privacy -- this is the Facebook model of privacy handling, with vaguely positive goals papering over decisions that are unexpected and can be disastrous for some of the users.

The painful difference here is that Facebook made its worst missteps around handling mostly trivial communications between college kids. It's always been obvious on Facebook that some things are seen by lots of people, and it's not always clear who sees what. Compare that with Practice Fusion, who builds a website that medical institutions give to their patients -- many of whom will not be web-savvy teenagers by a long shot -- as a way to communicate with them (one would assume, privately). THEN they have one particular place on that website that seems to be for sending feedback to the doctor, where (if you don't read the tiny italicized print) you will unexpectedly be providing content for a completely public database of reviews.

Even if it had a large-print warning, most patients will not know this website is not paid for by their doctor; they will probably assume it was created by the practice itself, and they would assume its motivation for existing was to help them communicate with their doctor... so why even bother to read the fine print?
I'm really surprised they didn't announce a 4K Cinema Display, honestly. I guess the price is still too high.
The Michael Lewis article, which is more or less required reading on this: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...
Obamacare hasn't kicked in yet.

The Republican party is already fighting to repeal it with everything they've got.

So, yeah, this could cause real problems for some people.
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Are they rewriting the entire linux kernel from scratch? There's no way that much code has to be re-written.

Who built this website? What stack is it running on?
"I always find it amusing when I write something that spends a bunch of work making sure everything is freed before it exits."

Yeah, just exit! That's the kind of cool thing about these small, short lived Unix programs like grep and cat - chew memory (stack or heap, up to you!) and bail out - let the OS clean it up. It is essentially the same argument as "prefer large mallocs to small" - the process itself is a 'large malloc'.
I agreed with your comment and further elaborated why "I don't think anyone thinks such behavior would be morally alarming".
PhpEd worked well over Wine when I used it, but only tried that on Linux. Worth a try on OSX though.
quick note about vimeo's html5 video player: It's amazing, it runs on almost all videos.

it's lightyears ahead in terms of scope (number of videos' that will play using it) and style compared to the youtube html5 trial.
According to the original article, Goldman was actually violating the license terms of the open source software it had modified by not releasing it. Further, while you and I may have our opinions, a judge found Goldman's actions to be so egregious that he ordered them to pay the defense costs for someone accused of stealing from them. That is exceedingly rare, and wouldn't have happened if there were any doubts about either Goldman's conduct or the intentions of the programmer.
Ah, it's not willful, though. They apparently assumed that every single patient would read and understand the tiny, italicized grey print warning to not include personal information.
Homebrew is giving me warnings about XCode 5.0 being out of date, but the developer site isn't specifying 5.0.1 as Homebrew is asking for and I don't have an available update in the App Store.

I don't usually use sudo to install virtualenv, you can use the method here and it will work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4324558/

I had some trouble reloading an existing vagrant box and virtualbox, seems to have resolved itself after using each providers uninstall tool bundled with the latest versions of Vagrant and Vbox and installing fresh versions after.
Ex. You have a test that detects cancer with 99% certainty, and a prevalence of cancer of 1 in 1 million people. In a sample size of 100 million people:

People with cancer correctly identified: 99%*100=99 people

People with cancer not identified: 1%*100=1 person

People without cancer falsely identified= 1%*99,999,900 = 999,999 people

People without cancer correctly identified:99%*99,999,900=98,999,901 people

Even with 99% accuracy you have nearly a million people falsely identified, but only identify 99 people with cancer. Now extend this to terrorism, 800 million riders for 12 years, and a prevalence of 2? possible terrorists (shoe, underwear) in the last 12 years. Also keep in mind that since both of these guys made it on the plane, the accuracy of the the terrorist screening process may not be too high.
Coming from a 6+ year stint in a defense contracting, I can safely say that the issue with this approach happens well before the testing. The problem more often than not occurs at the requirements level.
unfortunately you can't run it on case-sensitive filesystems (which is how I like my filesystems)
That doesn't seem to be the problem with healthcare.gov, or at least not in the way you suspect it might be.

The government, that is, HSS's CMS, took on the role of integrator, including integration testing (perhaps "Prime Contractor" as mentioned elsewhere). They aren't known for expertise in this (the Pentagon can do this with medium sized weapons projects, which are a rather different field anyway), and ... really screwed up:

They and those above were late with specifications and requirements, kept changing them (7 major ones in the last 10 months per the NYT), were making changes in the week before launch, and when they did a simulation test of 200 simultaneous logins just before launch the modules locked up. As did the site shortly after its midnight launch.

Oh, yeah, three days after the launch CMS panicked and proposed to fire Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI, a unit of United Health Group) and punt their identity backend system (based on an Oracle package that's known to work), but eventually decided that would take longer than QSSI getting it to work. Who knows, but that's another sign of CMS as the integrator failing hard while distracting both QSSI and CGI Federal.

Now, maybe it ended up being too many cooks because CMS didn't provide strong oversight and coordination, but....
This is a semantic distinction, between cost and opportunity cost. And the sentence is really just your imagination. The market is driven by quite sophisticated investors these days. You have to remember that hedge funds (as one example) are not mutual funds. They are in all kinds of illiquid complex stuff. There is plenty of depth for strategy that makes sense, and has longer term payouts. Again, the issue is more that Nobody appears to actually understand what that is. Or at least, nobody is talking about it. Wondering what that really is, again, is not short term thinking. Its more like sanity checking. That's why its worth playing devils advocate, occasionally. I'm actually sort of more curious to understand it myself after having looked at it a bit more today.
The "no-name Chinese copies" are in many cases really good. I have a Star B92m, which is roughly a Galaxy S III copy. It is slower, and slightly different port layout (which is annoying, as otherwise it is perfect dimensions to fit all cases etc.). Apart from that the only problem is that the GPS antenna is way too short, so if GPS matters to you you pretty much need to open the phone and mod it. Other than that it's an excellent phone.

The B92m is last years model, and I bought it for about $240 at the time. This year you can get quad core full hd (1920x1080) phones for the same price.

Basically it is down to reading reviews in advance to ensure the features you care about works as they should.

Safety is really not a concern when it comes to the phone itself - if you're worried, throw away the charger and pick up any USB charger you trust more.

Overall keep in mind that most of these "copies" are only copies or imitations of better known brands on the surface - if you open them up what you tend to see is boards that are closely following the same reference boards for either MTK (Taiwanese fab-less manufacturer; one of the worlds largest semiconductor companies), Rockchip or AllWinner (Cinese mainland) CPUs.

You can pick up devices from dozens of different manufacturers and find boards that are close to (or totally) identical in most of the ones using the same SOCs. In the case of AllWinner at least, chances are the devices are designed by close partners of AllWinner - I'm assuming the same is the case for MTK and Rockchip.

The upside of this is that it's not like some random little outfit have actually designed most of the internals of most of these phones - they're largely well tested designs from well established large engineering companies. Most of them are also very simple, relying on MTK, AllWinner or Rockchip SOCs that embed most of the functionality in a single package, so the boards often just break out ports and have minor supporting circuitry which is presumably a big reason why they're so popular with this market segment.
I didn't have this problem, but removing external monitors during the install screwed up the installers view, I could tell it was still running, but not refreshing. Eventually it finished and view started working again.
I thought one of the crushing quotes would be able how much more magical the ipad is when compared to a surface device.
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Ridiculous. Why would the Chinese want to destabilize their biggest debtor?
'Honestly I'm not sure what a good solution would look like, but I don't think it's as simple as "trust us."'

This might be a good starting point:

http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Outliers-Enabling-Society-Thrive...
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> You call an entire profession slippery and dishonest

Academic economics isn't a profession.

> You call an entire profession slippery and dishonest.

I didn't call all economists slippery and dishonest. So, this is a bizarre and blatantly false accusation.

I don't even think all economists who accept the jargon and go with it are dishonest. It would be hard to do anything else. But I think certain jargon is inherently biased. Somebody originated that jargon.

> in a fashion that IS intellectually dishonest

How so? I think it's pretty fair to criticize my point of view, but I don't think you can support the accusation that I'm intentionally misleading people. That's a pretty high bar to reach. I'm not going around intentionally inventing confusing terminology.

Re: astroturfing, I regret bringing that up. But the guy I was talking to didn't seem to be interested in discussing the issues, he seemed to be playing language games to "win" an argument. But that is just my perception, I'm not even sure I'm right about that.
Bingo. The government, which took the role of integrator, kept making requirements changes, right through the week before launch. They also did integration testing ... and of course ignored that that failed hard.

I can't see any way CGI Federal et. al. could have won.
The 5/5s have 1GB, I would expect the new iPads to come in at the same.
> if you're doing nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide.

How is this a mentality that people sincerely still hold? It has been so thoroughly refuted and mocked so many times, I honestly though that was sarcasm and had to reread your comment to figure out why you were downvoted.
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I don't know details of this case but it's very unlikely GS was violating any FOSS license for just modifying code (assuming internal use only).
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"But it's clear that the pendulum has swung too far."

While I think that's likely, I'm a little bit hesitant to claim things are clear when we can't observe the alternative.
Exactly.

If we can find a way to use the "ipython kernel" with other languages to generate a generic notebook that can access multiple language runtimes, it'll be unstoppable (just as unstoppable as org-mode is)
I'm considering stopping my day job to work as a contractor. My goal isn't to avoid stupid grunt work--I just hope that being entirely responsible for my upkeep and well-being will make the stupid grunt work seem more urgent and important. When I see posts like this (especially when, as in this case, the author claims to like his situation), something about them seems a bit condescending. It sounds like he's saying that if you don't like having a boss you're not cut out for running a business. When I look at successful small business people, though, they all seem like the ones who don't like being bossed around. They work crazy hard for their clients, yes, they make big sacrifices, yes, but they're not motivated by the kind of petty dread that the pointy-haired boss types engender.
The comparison isn't germane anyway. Apple charges $20-30 for something Microsoft calls a "service pack", which they've always given away for free. I just downloaded Windows 8.1 -- no cost. Amazing how these guys spin stuff and people just eat it up.
>Well, to be fair, it's more a comment on Intel's progress than Apple's.

>Can you? The CPU alone is unbelievably expensive. Two high-end GPUs are not cheap either.

In the context of this thread topic of, "wow 7 teraflops used to cost millions and now you can put it on your desktop with a mac pro" yes, you can get those same numbers with even less money. A computer with two 7970s is 7 teraflops and those particular cards retail for 300.

A quad 780 GPU configuration would cost 4 or 5 k and get you even more impressive stats, at 16+ teraflops it crushes those cray numbers.
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I think I used home-brew to get it.
but, if you want it, it's trivial to get installed nicely

> # brew install bash
Are you disputing "amazing"-ness of 3 displays, or number of horizontal lines of resolution? Because I calculate your collection of displays at 7.08k, and 3 * 4k ~ 12k, or a 70% increase over your current count.

;)
This type of story underscores my Icarus-inspired philosophy in business: fly high but not so high that you become an obvious target or otherwise risk getting burned.

I learned relatively early that above some level (that's not even all that high), you'll find that you're dealing primarily with people whose sole purpose in life seems to be to serve their love of money and quest for validation. They are like insects drawn to a light and about as thoughtful.

Suffice to say that when you find that you have to play harder and harder to make up for the stress of your daily work life, it's time to take a look at what you really want and why you're doing what you're doing.
I'm still holding out some small glimmer of hope that it might come (at a high price) when the Pro is actually launched. They keep making mention of 4K...
In my environment less and less people use Office and more and more people use Google Docs. Not because Google Docs are better than Office (they’re worse) but because for a lot of people it just feels like a lot less hassle to create and share documents using Google Docs. If I was Microsoft I would be worried, thing like this tend to get amplified over time.
so you actually see your workstation computer? I always had mine in another room to block out noise.
The word boss has a pretty specific connotation and your clients and customers aren't that. Yes, if you work for yourself you're responsible for delivering work to your customers and they have some control over you due to that but it's incredibly different from the relationship between a salaried employee and his singular supervisor.
Aleynikov has lived in the US for twenty years and owns a house in Chicago. It sounds to me like he is an American programmer, not a Russian programmer. I don't see why his ancestry is relevant.
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