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> would classify it as terrorism

It is terrorism. By definition: the use of violence and/or intimidation for political goals.

Perhaps you could argue that terrorism is a constitutional right?
The article is hosted on the same site that cooperates with terrorists, regardless how you feel about Snowden, pro or con: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/al-jazeera-still-promoting-gun...
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The notion of data-as-contraband is outrageous. It amounts to making certain numbers illegal.
I'll just note that coding is actually more a collaborative activity than a solitary one, so the 'socially challenged' are not very likely to be 'good coders'.
I'm just replying to your comment agumonkey as it has some key points that I want to address. Nothing personal.

I work as an assistant teacher every now and then and it is mostly small group teaching and going over the homework exercises. What I have seen is that the first couple of sessions are totally worthless subject wise. But they are extremely critical. During those sessions the students learn to know each other and me. When everyone is comfortable attending the sessions can the actually learning begin.

From this perspective I think MOOCs would need the following. Firstly, you need to create small enough groups of people that are comfortable discussing the subject with each other. Encouraging local study groups is a one way of doing this. The other thing is to encourage discussion through anonymity with forums or IRC. And you need to acknowledge that you don't reach all of your students with these methods and not rely on them too much.

> I personally like to learn in isolation, I have a tendency to quickly ~plagiarize ideas of others thinking I understand, so learning alone in my room is better.

There's nothing wrong with self-study per se, but it has a one great flaw. It is easy do the kind of plagiarization I think you are talking about without knowing. This can be remedied by getting feedback from an instructor, or going through the material with someone else and then cross checking how you understood the ideas.
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The Haskell equivalent of cons would probably be the 2-tuple constructor, (,), which has the type a -> b -> (a,b). You probably wouldn't use it to make data structures like you would in Lisp though.
I'm sure there are subtle ways to make this threat without making this threat. Like spread a rumor that it already happened and let people see the results.
It might also be a subtle hint to read up on history.

In the specific case of Hoover, the public did react. When Hoover died, ending decades of quiet terror, his 3rd in command was passed over for promotion to the top job. In retaliation he started leaking a lot of dirty laundry to the press, which caused a huge reaction that ultimately ended with the resignation of the president, huge shakeups of all spy agencies, and a giant crack in faith from which we've yet to recover.

One disgruntled spook with a fistful of secrets paralyzed all "four" branches of the government of the most powerful country in the world for over a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
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It sounds like you've never tried using React. It has built in solutions for the issues you mentioned.
I have seen "frappuccinno" drinks offered for sale at more than a few local non-starbucks coffee shops over the years.
The main reason for that is that software very rarely is properly sandboxed by default.
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That's great. But w.r.t. going to the moon, the ground work has clearly been laid now. They did go there, after all. So, the task is not "getting them to do it again" but "doing it ourselves, better and at lower cost".
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"an hashing algorithm" is also valid as a way to say "one hashing algorithm".

I find myself adding a "n" to "a" quite a bit since a lot of times it seems to flow better than using "a".
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Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 35 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

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I think it's fairly difficult for a US-based company to (legally) operate out of a mainland China data centre. So it looks like they are doing the next best thing: multiple Asian data centres which are "near" to China.
So knocking Gizmodo — who chose to profit from the receipt of an ill-gotten prototype — off the list of invitees is somehow just as bad as buying journalists outright?
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We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.

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There seems to be quite a bit of negativity in the thread about the Brewery's action. Some adorable holding up of the idea that it's unfair or unethical to violate Starbuck's trademark and then flip the reaction to one's advantage.

I think that's complete bullshit. I also think the fact that people have been conditioned to think that way is a big part of the reason why there's such an enormous and growing wealth and power divide in the world today.

There aren't ethics in a vacuum, and (despite some pretty interesting legal decisions here in the US lately) Starbucks isn't a person. It isn't even a bunch of people. It's an emergent super-organism that coldly evaluates actions and their consequences against a consumer market.

I promise you that if the consequence-computer told them they could name a coffee after some small brewery and turn a profit from the reaction (regardless of the law), they would do it. Of course they would!

There are no ethics in a vacuum. Applying an ethical framework when dealing with an organization this large is silly and puts you at a disadvantage. There are laws and consequences. In this case, the C&D is a very affordable consequence and the small business owner leveraged the entire situation to his advantage. Good for him.
You can fill as drive with random numbers. That would be immune to any file system's and/or device's optimizations.
Some people still have cameras but I suspect they will be off the shelves by the end of 2014.
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I think we know some of the basics at least as shown by the results achieved by deep learning(decent computer vision, voice understanding and better natural languege understanding) , and it would be very useful to have optimized hardware to continue research and create products.
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I've been reading hacker news, daily, for years and this is my first time noticing it. Thanks for posting!
Code in the question is a bad test example. As the answer shows, different compilers can optimize the code in different ways to make the outer loop almost meaningless. A better test would have 100000 different arrays to test.

Did you enable optimizations in C++ and disable adaptive optimization in java?
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No, he hasn't done all those things. That's kind of the point here: this is about going back to the moon i.e. doing things that have already been done. The point now is to do them in such a way that you can generate wealth while doing it. So, when private companies go to the moon, they will do it better, at a fraction of the cost, and generate wealth while doing it.
In one sense it's irrelevant how the brain actually works as long as the tech does what we require. Current methods appear to be good enough to drop them down to silicon.
2FA is pretty useless if you have a good password and simply mind the https lock and domain when logging in. Also I wouldn't share anything with Google that is sensitive enough that it needs 2FA at all.
We can indeed.

This appears to be more a political issue than a scientific one.
No worries. I never had this setup in college. How large are your study groups ? 30 ? 10 ? I had classes of 30, we don't really get comfy, we couldn't spend much time discussing, and often it was dull and lifeless as people did want to open up and speak out loud.

That sais I think my paragraph about copying others idea came out wrong. When I'm with people, learning by osmosis often lead to superficial repetitions of some of their findings, something that is not deep learning. I like to reach the enlightening phase, ability to find solutions from blank slate, hence being alone helps avoiding this to an extent.
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I'm an engineer with experience working for startups doing web development. Currently I'm one of the Community TAs for the Startup Engineering class and for the Machine Learning class at Coursera (Stanford).

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Why Planning is More Important Than Timing When Marketing Your App
Google Webfonts makes use of user-agent sniffing to determine your OS, and depending on your OS they optimize the font served to the font-renderer in your system.
This. You can't wait for the risks to dissolve and then put the guy who made it happen in a severely weakened negotiation position. I mean, you can, but it's unethical.
The struggle session notion is a little too on the nose, given the Marxist influence in SJW circles.