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Freelance developer based in Brighton in the UK. I work a lot with Python and JavaScript (Node.JS and browser) to build rich client browser based and mobile apps. I also do hardware based projects, I have experience with coding in Assembly and C on various micro controllers and Arduino development.

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- An iPad app for a medical company for quick lookup of drug interactions. This was built with HTML5 and made use of Angular.JS. I can show you more of this one on request.

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http://thisisdrum.com and see also a talk I have on some of the tech[1]

I can show you more of these on request

Some stuff I've made:

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- I recently added Generator support to the CoffeeScript compiler: http://almostobsolete.net/coffeescript-generators.html

- A location based app: http://head2.me

- An open source JavaScript library I wrote: https://github.com/dharmafly/jsonpatch.js

- The Amazon Glacier support I contributed to Boto (popular Python library): https://github.com/almost/boto/tree/glacier/boto/glacier

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[1] http://asyncjs.com/hypermedia/
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For those who don't know French (approximate):

Candide asked the Turk, "Do you have a vast and magnificent estate?" "I only have twenty acres," the Turk replied. "I cultivate them with my children; The work wards off three great evils: boredom, vice, and want."

- From Voltaire's "Candide" - one of the more fun (and short!) 'Great Books'.
My friend here in Santa Cruz started this toy company so I'm posting in case there might be interest. Backstory:

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_24625897/toy-k...
Someone recently mentioned horses as a good analogy. Cars replaced horses; now horses are mostly not allowed on roads, and most people do not own horses. However, horse enthusiasts are still able to own horses and ride them, albeit in certain areas. As someone who enjoys driving, I can definitely see this same sort of thing happening with cars. Fortunately, it gives me hope that manually-driven cars won't become completely extinct.
I'm a student so please don't think I'm trying to be above you here, but could you clarify this a bit? Maybe I'm getting suckered into the academia way, but I find it hard to believe most programmers will never need trees, graphs or queues?
My biggest issue with bitcoin is that it should be redeemable for something tangible other than $USD. The first virtual currency that addresses this and is directly convertible to watts or calories will be the currency to beat.
You are ignoring basic complexity theory.
And yet mortality rates worse and there was actually very little leisure time ... funny that ...
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I was a grad. student for three years. I am not sure it is a "take the work of graduate students and make it closed" kind of deal. It is more like you are an employee of the University and your work belongs to your employer. Also, at least at UT, the grant system was designed to be protective of the rights of the Grad. student/researcher so that his/her work could be monetized later if need be.
All in all, it is peanuts, and still puts the UK amongst the safest countries in the world (certainly still far better than the US when it comes to people being detained and having stuff confiscated at airports) for people opposed to the current government.

The point is the article tried to paint this as if the Guardian was under imminent threat, when the government has been whining for months, and that is the worst they've been able to actually do.
Your comment reads like one of those ideological loaded questions that pop up on Upworthy when you try and follow a link there.
I have one of those sitting on my desk. It still feels a bit like early adaptor stuff, the edge router line is quite new, but looks very promising.

I really like vyatta, but now that vyatta is basically dead, I'm happy that it lives on in edgeos.

Don't be fooled by the GUI though, it's very incomplete, but the full feature set of vyatta/edgeos is there accessible in the CLI.
1. The point on suitors and relationships was meant as a joke but is a relatively easier example to use when explaining a concept to the layman.

2. Big cap vs Small Cap != Necessarily More Relevant (its relevant to the principle of volatility, but requires more complex understanding. This understanding is absent for the OP of comment thread I replied to - to explain further the presence of market makers, prop desks/professional traders, institutional block trades, quant. systems, availability to borrow shares to short, short sqeezes etc. that are present in large cap equities/futures/opts markets reduce volatility and skew the data towards the hypothesis that more owners reduces volatility. A number of these influencer's make the topic relatively more complex to understand for a layman and the people who feed them information aka news media).
Another (better in my opinion) way of phrasing this question is:

Do you agree/disagree that the government should give more money to universities, so all research can be free (as in freedom).

I agree with your principle, but tgere is no free lunch. This will lead to either higher taxes, or less publicly funded research.
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I wonder if an isolation tanks decibels are in the minus? You can build one yourself for a few thousand dollars.
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Cities with high auto use tend to have lower commutes, cities with high metro use tend to have longer commutes. Of course in this case more than any other causation =/= correlation, but just anecdotally you'll find loads of people in Manhattan and Queens with 45+min subway+foot commutes to go a few miles.

NY, the most subway-centric city, has the longest commutes in the US. LA, "the most car centric city" (probably not literally true) tends to have amongst the shortest.

Decommission those NYC subways and replace with private shuttles and busses. Bet you'll see dramatic drops in commute times for NYC. And it'll save incredible, incredible amounts of money.

Edit: Citation: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-yorkers-havelongest-...
because of the huge demand

You mean liquidity?
I'll second that article. I bought the Asus RT-N16 on the back of that recommendation.

Funnily enough, I never bothered installing any firmware, I found the default to be excellent (despite the reviews on amazon trashing the Asus firmware). I found it fine for me.
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> Sure, bitcoin has several terrible characteristics that have been exposed over the past few weeks (volatility, tons of speculation, new users don't understand wallet security, etc.)

Is there any sort of solution to that ? Seems like in order to become a currency, volatility at least will need to be reined in ? All the rest is like meh, no worse than cash and regular transaction on internet. But you can't use a currency seriously (one that does not have a country economy backing it) if its perceived value change that much.
I have three of these -- they've all experienced range or stability failures.
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There's some preliminary research software for this :

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...
Have you seen professional acrobats? They look 15 years younger than they are.
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People genuinely enjoy doing lots of things, and perhaps there will be tracks and courses where they may continue to do so, but allowing members of the public to operate massive vehicles on public streets leads to thousands of deaths and injuries and millions of dollars in property damage. Driving will become like smoking: you're still allowed to do it, but only in isolated places where you can't harm nonconsenting people.
Let them eat cake, right?
It only works until 51% of the population is unemployed and in the streets cold and hungry.

The pitchfork business is going to boom at that point.
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Didn't do any testing on mobile. But thanks for the feedback will look into it.
Except it isn't a false dichotomy like many of those questions. Either you agree that it should be free software or you don't. Privately funded institutions can do whatever they want in my opinion, but I don't think public funds should be used to produce closed software. Do you agree?

Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying everything they do should be released, but that whenever possible, any substantial technology should be designed so that it could be useful to other people or researchers and released with either some kind of free license or into the public domain.
It is easy to do that. You just need a trusted third party, and you can set up a BTC contract.
This was written before pg's comment.
Even in Europe the cost is ludicrous relative to the gain.

Additionally, any convenience gained by the user - relative to flight - is almost entirely due to security differentials. Harmonize security and those travel times fall in line right quick.

Apply a tiny fraction of HSR costs to speed up air travel security instead, and you'll see far greater rider convenience increases and save incredible amounts of money.
I'm not a Soviet apologist, but the state of eastern europe has roots that predate the 20th century. Bear in mind that even before communism, much of it had been part of Tsarist Russia in the 19th century or earlier.

It's inaccurate to think of pre-soviet europe as composed of western european style states.
The problem is also a sample bias I think. He clearly hand picked low probability words as evidence.

In other words, the probability that there exists a subset of words in a pair of papers that are "globally rare" among cryptography papers is likely high.

So to answer P(Nick|Evidence) we can't use ~P(selected subset|crypto), we better use ~P(all words|crypto) and compare that to all other plausible sources.

As a clarifying anecdote, remember low probability events happen all the time if the sample space is simply large. Throw a dice ~8 times in a row an the probability of that event is lower than winning the lottery or getting hit by lightning, yet it happens every time. If you pick every word from the source paper and multiply their relative frequencies out, you will get a number astronomically low, and that happens for any paper.
If Nick is Satoshi then its brilliant idea. Because it removes any heat from him while having shit load of BitCoins ^_^
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The app is a file browser and the API is already running. The API has been proven to work with the iOS mobile client we just built. We need to make the same with Android. It's somewhat different, but you can think of it like a dropbox-like client.

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I used to put C/C++ in my curriculum until I realized that my C++ code was getting a lot less "C-like" each year. Now I put it separatedly, which also allows for a nice explanation whenever I'm asked about it in a job interview.
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Well I would argue that there are several countries more socialist than NK (for example Denmark where I come from).

Socialism will properly not work in its pure form, but then again pure capitalism without any restraints would very likely evolve into a nasty place (for example if there was no anti thrust laws there is a big risk that the free market would cease to exist).
Market solves a different task - it's calculating prices at the given moment of time. The central planning has to produce a function that will give the price for every moment of the plan's duration (the USSR had 5 year planning term). If communists really knew how to do the later they could have used that knowledge to peacefully take over every capitalist country in the world.
> Do you agree/disagree that the government should give more money to universities, so all research can be free (as in freedom).

This phrasing I agree with (conditionally). I think as a taxpayer if more money can let research be free with patents acting more like a way of enforcing that downstream work done based on that patent is also not patentable.

To give you guys some more context. I don't necessarily think that the interests of the public are the same as the interests of a corporation. E.g. if I do research on finding a new way of curing AIDS and Big Pharma 101 takes that research and changes one tiny molecule, patents the resulting product and sells it for exorbitant costs, I should have a way to either make them pay or force to not sell it for such a cost. Considering that it is leveraged on my research.
Why should anyone feel compelled to follow or invest in bitcoin? The time to buy bitcoins is when you need them to get something you want (as it should be for any currency).
Nowadays I code. I romanticize my job by equating it to writing love poems to an inanimate object

This is a great line.
I've done pretty extensive comparisons between one of the old Airport Extreme Dual Band units that look like a white Mac Mini and run some flavor of NetBSD and it performs slightly (~10%) better than both my old WRT54G and superior-specced WNDR3700 running DD-WRT builds. I still use the WNDR3700, not for performance, but for features and configurability. The APE basically just sits and serves a network disk.
After all the insane articles that claim things like "Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme" or "Bitcoin is anonymous", it is quite nice to read a well-informed and sane article.
Salon: home of liberals who enjoy mocking and fat-shaming "people of Walmart," but will lecture you on class, morality and "climate change."
Great suggestions. I'll probably structure the course in the stats/ml vein--that corresponds to what I already had in mind.

Do you have any recommendations for big data components? Would it be worth teaching how to use a Hadoop cluster, or is a small toy cluster too far abstract from what using a large cluster requires?
You can also criticize any essay by arguing that the examples used to support the thesis are "unrelated vignettes". That's how essays work -- you make a thesis, cite several diverse examples to support the thesis, then summarize the argument.

Good essays -- the ones most worth reading -- take examples that initially seem unrelated, and tie them together via a thread that the reader may not have considered before. For example, "thoughtless disruption" might be such a thread.
Why is BTC-e greater risk?
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I am running OpenWRT on a Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H without any issues. This model has an integrated ADSL modem and has a few USB ports. I have a USB hard disk attached and I use it as a media and bittorrent server. Over LAN it can stream an HD movie from the disk, but over wifi it seems too slow for that.
Someone already beat you. They're called Zipcar and Uber.
As they should - it'd be idiotic to take the risk, just in case.

After all, maybe Cameron suddenly decides he dares to try execute on all his authoritarian fantasies after all. It's likely an exceedingly small risk, but it is exactly if that threat becomes real an organization like The Guardian would be the most invaluable.

They are also not just facing legal attempts by the UK government, but the real risk of rogue attempts by the agencies they're exposing.

But I think the chance the UK government would risk uniting the press against themselves by taking steps to actually prevent a known media organization from functioning is tiny.

Even less likely that they'd be able to find a British judge that wouldn't take personal affront to the idea of a government trampling all over the press - you can say a lot about British judges, but they do tend to take great pleasure in restraining the government from taking actions they see as power grabs.
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I see a parallel that I don't believe was mentioned in the article: that the "young men" can be compared to "undergraduate degree holders." It's a crude comparison, and I feel guilty making it, but if you have a BS in Biology, your options can feel limited, and it may be mentally easier to apply to graduate school than to figure out what you'd like to do with your life. And once you join graduate school, you've got at least 5 more years to make a decision (in the US, in the biomedical sciences).
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