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If I owned a railway I would like to use shipping containers to provide a night train service.

The shipping containers would be self contained and appointed to budget hotel chain standards - clean, smart and to the point functional. Each would contain a small kitchen, toilet and shower. The beds would be bunks but with a bit more space as there would not be a shared walkway as happens on existing rolling stock. You would also be able to stow bicycles and other bulky luggage items without blocking up the train walkway if you were willing to go without much kitchen area.

During the day the mini-hotel shipping containers would sit at the docks, out of the way, whilst the train went about its business delivering normal shipping containers to wherever is needed. Then, early evening, the mini-hotel shipping containers would be loaded up and the train would head off to London/Glasgow/Plymouth to pick up customers. The train would trundle at a nice sedate pace through the night with minimal stops and starts to arrive at a sensible time at the other end (5.30 a.m. is too early, 7 is good). Thereafter, back to the docks, unload and regular freight service for the train.

To cope with seasonal demand and different passenger service levels (1st, 2nd class), the train could be loaded up with a mixed load of regular shipping containers and their mini-hotel variants.

Modern IT niceties such as wifi, 'swipe' door locks and mobile telephony would make sure that everyone had a nice and secure journey. With 'aerogel' style materials and double glazing the inside of the mini hotel would be insulated from the noise of the train and the weather.

Current night trains in the UK do not provide a good night's sleep, you also expect your belongings to be potentially stolen. With 'containerisation' problem solved.

Would there be any takers? It all depends on price, however, if you are expected to be in two places at once or work on a North Sea oil rig then a decent night train would be quite tempting. If the business did not work out then a buyer could be found for the deluxe shipping containers, they could be transported by road to somewhere where a temporary workforce was needed or even used as a hotel.
For perspective - let's make them pay it all back, retroactively, from the year 2000 as the article suggest. Now we will have (roughly due to compounding) tackled 0.0058% of the current US deficit leaving us with $17,133,947,996,837 or 99.994%.

For those who prefer a visual perspective - http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.htm...

I'm not convinced focusing on these tiny (relatively) loopholes on the "world's richest", should be the focus of trying to fix the problem.
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As an anecdote I gave up antiperspirant and deodorants after suffering rashes and pain in my under arms. I sweat more, but I was surprised to find I actually smell better. Or rather I'm told I smell better. Additionally I discovered that the stains in the underarms of my clothing went away, apparently it's caused by the deodorants. Diet may indeed play a factor, I am vegan. YMMV.
Option D - Get merc'd when the rest of us have had enough.

Option E - Realize that we have enough food and resources so that noone should have to do without, and create a society that reflects that.

Funny how these last two options contain the one option that will solve this problem permanently, and the one option that humanity always ends up at.
I admire your decision to separate yourself from the user experience angle of this and focus on it from a business perspective.

Nevertheless, I hope that this little decision will be enough to put a lot of people off of Facebook because I'd rather see something like this fail than for an application I used to use as an example of pretty good UX and model of simplicity succeed with ad advertising technique normally lumped together with pop-up ads and fake buttons on download sites.

In short, to use a simple, easy to understand phrase: auto-play video ads are lame.

That said, I'm willing to be proven wrong. Maybe they'll come up with some way to make it unintrusive, but that isn't really the point, is it?
It may be that people recover normally with some sleep, however if you don't get that sleep you will die (after you start to hallucinate and then that progresses to dementia). Fatal familial insomnia, is named Fatal for a reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia#Treatme...
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Why do you assume the author is a man?
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To be complete, if all goes well flex-wrap will be in Firefox 28 (unprefixed). It is in Nightly and Aurora.

CSS Grid implementation will start in 2014. A dev has been assigned to it, but I don't know where it stands in its work pile (quite high though). But plans can be changed, so beware...
Well, yeah. The article says "so as to not use the users' data plans", so this seems like it's a mobile feature.
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> Accuracy is not what is required, given our extremely poor and fuzzy knowledge of the human body, diagnosis and treatment is more like a tradeoff between different possibilities based on partial symptoms (not all symptoms will be obvious or noticed by the patient), tests which are not always accurate and sometimes harmful, and treatments which are not always effective and have some bad side effects.

I don't understand. That scenario is a perfect example of something an expert system would excel at.
ah, come on. If someone comes up with "Microsoft has backdoors", you can always counter with "the NSA developed SELinux". Still, how many articles, strike that, theories did you read, that SELinux might not be as SE as "they" say?
Just because someone points out a flaw, he is not (necessarily) an employee who wants to discredit the argument.
That is the beauty of our democratic system! I believe that 5-10 million is enough, so I can vote for a candidate that believes that 5-10 million is enough. Hopefully, I can get enough people who believe that 5-10 million is enough and we can get that candidate elected.
My one experience of a sleeper (London-Scotland) was horrid. Farts, sick, snoring, alcohol noises and smells all night.

I hope things are better on the mainland. If not, I'd rather take a plane.

I flew back from Glasgow to Stansted for a small fortune to avoid the experience.
This is already the case in Haskell. Look up functor
Thanks, we updated our post to reflect that.
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"no tree can ever compare performance-wise to a well designed hash table"

This is not always true...if you have to hash strings when executing queries, data structures like TRIEs or naive 256-ary trees may be faster (where the O(strlen) time it takes to hash the string is instead used to walk the tree).
While reading advice like those in the article, they seem to always leave out the most central aspect of security - the threat model. Doing some guessing, the following threats are mitigated by the article:

• An attacker has access to zero-day vulnerabilities to the software running on your device¹.

• You are storing non-Tor files on your device that can be used to build a profile against you. That or you are running OSX².

• That Flash and Java are horrible messes of software, and will break your security³.

• That Online tracking of your anonymous activities can later be used to connect your real identity with an anonymous session of tor usage. Deanonymization is a big research area but with rather little known results in the real world. Search data, social network profiles and large written texts have all been subject of deanonymization research.

• That Correlation attacks are practical if an attacker knows the entry node traffic and the exit node traffic. This is also a hot research subject, and the threat model can be created by for example reading the linked research on the tor blog⁴.

• Mixing you real identity with anonymous identity can cause harm.

• If you rent time at virtual hardware, the real hardware owners can see everything you do.

• An attack, presented in a 2013 research paper⁵, to verify if a hidden service is using a guard node owned by the attacker. It then assumes that a hidden service will randomly pick at least one of of 23 tor nodes with a probability of 90% if run under a period of 8 months for the cost of 60 USD per node per month.

I could not guess a threat model for "Your workstation must be a laptop". As a last line of defense, my workstation hard drive is equally easy to destroy with a hammer as my laptop. The cell phone advice is also quite bad - see SamReidHughes comment.

1: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/40072/could-some...

2: https://research.torproject.org/techreports/tbb-forensic-ana...

3: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#UseTorWithJava and https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBFlash

4: https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/entry-guards

5: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf
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I'm not saying that there isn't a person out there who can revolutionize my marketing in 20 minutes. I'm saying that I have no way of evaluating someone's marketing skill in just 20 minutes. That's why it's expensive and time-consuming.

If a web site charged $500 and was very easy to implement, I could do it as an experiment and not lose much if it failed. If it succeeded, that web site could charge me again and again to keep doing it, and I would be happy to pay.

But if I have to spend $8000 and several weeks up front, I'm going to be very cautious. It doesn't matter if that money and time are spent hiring someone or purchasing and installing an automated tool.
The dollar went from gold to denim off-cuts. Makes you think what a dollar is worth.

Edit: No discourse on Bretton Woods, quantitative easing etc. intended!

Sometimes it can be fun and helpful to look at things for what they are rather than what they represent. For instance, 'That sounds like a lot of recycled denim!' is a more light hearted way of saying 'you're ripping me off!'
How does one measure resource contention on Virtualized Systems?
Sorry, where's the sensibility handbook? I assume from your comment that there's a standard that needs to be adhered to?
"where everyone is actually equal"

The point of the article was making fun of a small subgroup of humanity who like meatspace networking events in a format similar to cosmo-style psuedo-risque dating advice. And some folks don't like his use of an analogy of exhibitionistic-ish women. The problem is if you stick to a dating advice theme, what analogy would you prefer? White men can't jump would be much more politically correct because they're a politically safe target, but doesn't fit the theme at all. Also the theme of "lets make fun of suboptimal behavior of a subgroup" is completely incompatible with your proposed "lets pretend we're equal" theme, so the article not fitting your criteria is the opposite of a fail, under the defined theme and purpose of this individual article, however good it might be as general life advice.

So either its a great analogy for this specific text, or its a horrible text so the specifics of the analogies and other details don't matter. But it can't be both at the same time such as a bad analogy.
Google Zeitgeist 2013: black box.

The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correct picture of Google's current stance on browser compatibility.
Anyone else thinks that the silent conversion tactics are slowly becoming more obvious?
That's a big part of the frustration. The doctor's conclusion was essentially that it was nothing.
Perhaps, and I am being totally serious here, Rasmus did not know about xor.
At most of my jobs, I'd have been happier if I didn't know my co-workers.
Most road are paid for with taxes and no additional fee from the drivers is necessary? (while train operators need to pay the fee for using the rails).
So, we have a choice! We need to be asleep or anaesthetised.
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I think it's important to remember that just because someone can do something doesn't mean that it's healthy or optimal to do so. I could and did eat fast food every day, but despite being thin and feeling fine, had a poor lipid panel.

Similarly, I suspect that deviating from the norm (evolutionarily) has consequences that may not be immediately realized. After all, humans are 99.9% similar genetically.
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And you're saying that retroactive taxation is the only way to legally "remove" people? With the recent news, I'm not quite convinced...
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Adblock Plus takes care of the ads already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also spares me the video ads.
As I see it, the authors must retain all their copyrights, because any valid transfer of copyright would entail valuable consideration from Elsevier to the author. The authors pay Elsevier to coordinate peer review and publish using their brand names. This necessarily includes granting a license to Elsevier to copy and distribute the author's work.

Now, there may be other contract terms that are not obvious. One such term may be that the author not publish the work himself. The worst that could happen here is breach of contract. Since the only up-front consideration was from the author, this just means that Elsevier doesn't need to do what the author paid them to do, while still keeping the consideration of cash plus copyright license. It's sole remedy is to not coordinate peer review and not publish. Since it ALSO charges fees on that end, it has no reason to do that.

There must be a quid pro quo in a lawful contract. You can't bind someone to its terms unless you give them some valuable thing in return. Elsevier gives NOTHING to the author except the promise of publication and distribution. You can never prevent the author from making his own copies, ever. Your sole remedy is to write a penalty for doing so into the contract, but then you would have to PAY the author something to enforce it.

Elsevier does not give the authors anything, therefore they cannot demand performance under the contract. The only thing they can do is use one of those restrictive terms to weasel out of their own obligations under the contract while still keeping what the author gave them. They are absolutely in the wrong by demanding people take down their own work.

(I am not a lawyer.)
Brazil's foreign diplomacy has a history (recent) of going against the US, albeit arguably on smaller things
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"it's popular and therefore must be good"

Feels strawman-ish, I've never heard anyone say that. "It's popular therefore it is a legitimate language choice", sure.
Is your language "English (US)"? I think that was necessary for Graph Search.
I actually liked the title, because my initial guess was that no one wanted to pull banknotes from the pockets and everyone switched in droves to plastic. It turned out to be wrong but it was interesting trivia nevertheless.
So your options are to -

1. Murder them out of spite.

2. Make them shelter and feed the poor of the world, so the poor multiplies/reproduces geometrically, and requires geometrically more resources to shelter and feed.
Yes, but not yet. He plans to announce the reward in a week. No encrypted traffic published yet.
That's the point.

There's no way that Sony can accidentally whoops-obliterate my old PS1 games retroactively. My Steam library, by comparison, could be gone tomorrow with one minor accident at Valve.
Snowden is #97 for me. I suspect that the results are localized (Germany for me).
Facebook is more robust and convenient than email (huge amounts of videos, pictures, "statuses" in one place, plus messaging and a way to search for profiles. Email doesn't have those). Phone calls aren't asynchronous, you both have to find the same block of time to talk. I wish I could just grab a coffee with my friends on the other side of the country.

Facebook is actually a pretty great tool for communicating.
>"1. don't use windows"...I realize how unpopular it is to question the groupthink on this site but this strikes me as simplistic. The public takedowns related to tor have been more about firefox than windows. But I get that Linux fans like to think that this is their sole bailiwick.

The OS provides a number of security mechanisms which make exploitation harder, Windows' reputation for security (or lack thereof) is somewhat well-deserved, ask anyone who has done exploit R&D.

Even if you have an FF 0day, you still need to be able to weaponize it, bypass ASLR/DEP/etc and this may be more or less difficult depending on the target OS
I see your point. The thing is, nobody trusts the government to spend their money well, or at least not as that person thinks it should be spent. Therefore everyone avoids taxes to the extent they can. I take every deduction I can, I bet you do too.

Even the rich folks that aren't trying to pass on a huge inheritance, such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, still aren't giving it to the government. They're giving it all to charity, which is undoubtedly generous of them but also lets them direct their wealth themselves rather than giving it to the tax man.
>> Yes but this is already happening right?

Not to the extent it would under "Fair Tax", no.

>> Isn't it far easier for them to keep lobbying for new tax loopholes as older ones get closed, than it is to avoid a flat tax? Am I missing something?

It makes it far easier for far more people at the higher end of the income scale to pay a lot less tax and codifies regressive taxation as the intent of law.

Make no mistake, the people who came up with the scheme would not be supporting it if they didn't stand to benefit from it, significantly. It puts their 'loophole' way out front and legitimises it.

>> I've never heard about this. Can you give more details?

Fundamental to the scheme is that the poor would get some sort of tax credit, possibly an annual payment, in order to offset the new sales tax, where previously they would have paid little to no income tax. This is not the part of the scheme I object to. The re-balancing of burden onto the middle classes, and in a way that affects those with lower incomes more than higher incomes, is why I think the scheme is a failure from its very conception.

You may have the kind of economic ethics that support a tax that declines as a percentage of income as income rises, or even argue that all people should pay the same lump sum in tax, that's up to you. Personally I can't get behind that.
A boss of mine used to talk about how organizations need both axe sharpeners (people to think about and refine ideas) and wood choppers (people to bring those ideas to life and "do the work"). Problem is, for things to get done, the wood choppers need to far exceed the axe sharpeners, and everyone wants to be an axe sharpener.

As we often discuss when it comes to (software and technology) patents, there are oceans separating conceiving an idea and turning that idea into something real.
I've done lots of trips since the first coach lines started... and yes, the WiFi quality tends to suck (but so does your cellphone internet).
No, fmap is still an explicit operation.
It also costs close to 5000 euros per year. That's a little more than you'd lose to depreciation if you owned a luxury car.
If you have to travel that much inside Germany to make that card worthwhile for you, then you have a problem.
Either you need to relocate or inject some telecommuting into your existing work habits. I'm going to go out on a limb here & suggest that many people travel for travel's sake as a way to give themselves an inflated sense of their own importance...or just find some glamour in being on the road all the time.
I'm confused -- does Elsevier let you post your own articles on your own website (university-sponsored or otherwise)? If it does, then Elsevier isn't exactly suppressing the free dissemination of research.

The answer probably lies in the meaning of the third checkmarked item on http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-re..., which says the following is allowed:

Sharing individual articles with colleagues for their research use (also known as 'scholarly sharing')
Why not skip all the hashing stuff? Why not just have Sec-Key: 'secret' and expect a reply with Sec-Accept: 'secret'. (where secret is hardcoded constant)
I imagine this is a variant of a Latent Dirichlet Allocation[0]. Informally, this will identify words "most associated" with 2013, which is not the same thing as the most searched words in 2013.

Put another way, unless there's a huge spike of interest in the weather in 2013 compared to other years, "weather" won't be included.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_dirichlet_allocation
The source of our WiFi is increasingly being capped as well so I'm not so sure this is even an acceptable approach. Just because I have WiFi single doesn't meet I have an unlimited amount of bandwidth to load your crappy video.

Detecting WiFi is a clever hack that works for right now, but for those using cell wifi routers, cell hot spots or with crappy ISPs that have a low cap it won't matter.
That assumption is unsupported, though.
The difference between us and chimps is that we have a choice in the matter.
Consider yourself fortunate you can't watch the video.

It's exactly the kind of maudlin crap we have come to expect from politically correct tech companies.
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I'd be more worried about someone taking a known sequence like modified HN51 or smallpox as the payload. Next, combining it with effective malware that targets FASTA files. One of those "incautious scientists" thinks they are synthesizing something benign, not taking precautions, and a highly infectious disease pops out.
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Same experience here.

Although I could live happier without "problems in course of operations". :)
This was online as of an hour ago, but I had to run an errand and it's now down the memory hole! If anyone has a mirror, please post.

TED talks should be taken at face value. They don't necessarily represent the greatest thing in the world. People attach that themselves and should be blamed themselves. We ought to be grateful for the forum. Yes, it's not perfect and 80% is crap, but it doesn't preclude anyone else from communicating in other forums, either!
Simple defense: "Your honor, the NSA simply doesn't know what we're doing."

Senator: "You're saying noone knows what the NSA is doing?"

NSA: "Correct"

Senator "Good, I'd been hearing something about some Snowden guy"
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mirror, please?
But some segments of DNA are effectively unchanging and you can place the message in those segments "junk" sub-segments.
It's true that both hashing a string of k bits and a lexicographically compare over k bits is O(k), but the chances are, if you're about to look something up, you've recently read it from somewhere and it's going to be hot in the cache.

Memoizing a hash code for a string is pretty cheap also, especially if you only dynamically allocate on the heap for long strings.
Hey, this is awesome! Got a demo site maybe?
Steel or aluminum elevators block the signal. So oftentimes, I can't use my phone for anything but super hexagon.
You can hack your way passed the autoparsers, just by copying the advert text into your CV on a blank page in a tiny white font :-)