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I'm weary of diagnosing behaviour that used to be considered within the norm, though maybe at the edge, as a medical condition.

Asperger's has no clear measurable part to diagnose, it is not treatable per se, and its symptoms are all within the normal spectrum of human behaviour.

There's nothing wrong with saying that a particular kid might need more support, but I wonder where it leads society if all not entirely within the norm behaviours start to be classified and handled as medical problems.
Why not use Primecoin or Riecoin algorithms? Those won't work on GPUs/ASICS either and produce some actual scientific value.
It may be time to add a TrueCrypt volume to Dropbox...
What executives say it does...

"Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."

What it actually does... (that will be left to the reader.)

"Big Data" is often sold as one thing by Enterprise software folks. But what value the data, or processing of it actually has is usually much more dependent on the user and his context (like FB!) and usually doesn't fit as nicely onto a PPT slide.

Articles like this usually confuse the PR definition and the analyst definition.
Exactly. Note that opposing patents on certain inventions doesn't mean you think the inventors don't deserve to get insanely rich by commercially exploiting them; it just means you don't think they deserve a government-backed protection to do so.

So, what inventions should deserve such protection? For example, ideas which by their nature must be disclosed after a large investment in their development, but before having a chance to be placed in the market. Regulated industries like drugs come to mind. Even then, the extent of the protection should be limited to a (short) period to prepare and launch commercial exploitation of the idea. Therefore, the patent should include proof and plan for such commercialization of the idea.
As someone who is currently residing in the year 2055 and has a neuro-prosthetic, I believe corporations and governments need access to our brain machine interfaces so that when we copy a patented or copy-righted idea to our memory they can safely delete it. How could people make money in my time if I can just remember their data? Support the Data Control Agency!
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If you had a home subscription to an online scholarly journal archive, and I snuck in through an open window, found your LAN equipment, and tampered with it until I was able to use your credentials, would you chalk that up to me being the voice of reason and a proponent of open and free information, or would you call it burglary?
The turkish people already know the government is corrupt so the cat is out of the bag in that sense (they didn't need these recordings to know that).

But twitter etc allow much easier spreading of information and organising protests than do email, memory sticks etc
How would you measure the size of the difference between the source code in the patent an the source code in an alleged patent-violating piece of code?

If you were to require that the patent code and the alleged patent-violating source code were defined functionally and represented the exact same function (prove f(x) = g(x)), that would cut down the space of potential patent violations, but patent holders would scream that such a limitation is unfair. There would still be plenty of silly patents that would be patentable, and the same problems would exist as with the existing system: if you read patents to see whether your code violates one of them, you're on the hook for more damages. In any case where exact behavior is not critical, someone might be able to get around patents simply by changing the mechanism/computation slightly. I'm thinking of things like mpeg patents, where encoding and decoding techniques are constantly being tweaked, improved, and getting new settings. Would allowing an additional input to a function f(a, b, c, ..., m), i.e. f(a, b, c, ..., m, n) render it immune to a patent that hardcodes n as "5" in the function?
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At first I thought so too. But it's actually easy to come up with cases where N != all. As a radical example, Facebook preserves the accounts of dead users.
But in that case the patent would probably offer little more protection than what copyright already provide?

Why do we need software patents in the first place?
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It's asperger's. You'll know if you meet someone with full-blown autism. They would never get into employment.
Is the source of limitation browser implementation of OpenGL? Or is it a combo of the browser + OS? Or Browser + OS + graphics drivers?
Oops, my mistake.

But my point that Atmel is much smaller than Microchip still stands.
Here's a hacking opportunity - obfuscate files prior to Dropbox sync so they fail at their duplicate detection.
I haven't heard any explanation why this would be so

Ok, this explains a little bit about X11 http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/21bely/have_...

But whatever a GPU can do, a properly designed ASIC can do as well

It seems they're counting on implementation time for new ASICs for this algorithm.
The developer doesn't have a public facing repository and instead just dumps the source code for each new version - making it really difficult to see what has actually changed.

You can see the commit activity for KeePassX, which would make it more obvious if a bug or malicious snippet might get inserted into it.
And therefore, Oculus Rift has "sold out".

We are now looking for more legitimate competitors, and are pissed off at the Oculus.
Yeah that's the only thing I found about it, but who created this, where is the specifications, tests, etc.

This looks like someone took many different hash functions and for some reason thinks it's "anti-ASIC"...
I read somewhere Silicon Valley has the highest Autism rate, it's likely high IQ gene made a difference too?
Speaking from experience, early intervention is extremely effective.
I think Hadley Wickham has a decent description of big data in terms of the analytical process... to expand slightly on his description:

On normal data you can iteratively explore and visualise it hitting return and seeing plots or model results instantaneously or at most a few seconds.

When you have time to grab a coffee after hitting return then you have bigger data.

If you carefully think through what you are about to ask the computer to do before pressing return then maybe you have big data.

I actually think this is a better description than just size of files or data distributed across many computers as an algorithm that just streams over a massive dataset maybe in parallel can be less challenging than one that has to hold a much smaller e.g many Gb dataset fully in memory.
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Even if you have the full population in question and thereby avoid sampling issues, you still have a lot of pitfalls. For example if you just start correlating every variable against every other one and picking out ones that hit some test of statistical significances as "findings", you run into a range of familiar problems generally grouped under the pejorative term "data dredging".
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Thank you. I spent a few days digging into the Node world and came to the same conclusion.

I'm actually a bit surprised how long it took me to figure out that's actually the best practice -- I dug around a bunch of rails-like frameworks and was wondering why they didn't seem to be more widely adopted (Sails, Compound, etc) until it finally made sense that "The Node Way" is to add bits and pieces (usually on top of Express) to build a stack that's specific to needs.
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What's the point of having a second factor auth if both are stored on the same device ? If the phone is compromised electronically or physically then everything is lost.
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>>I don't know what's the X11 protocol, but to think a protocol can be "ASIC resistant" looks naive.

Maybe you shouldn't claim something to be naive when you don't know anything about it?
I don't see what the point of this is? ASICs are actually good; they perform the necessary proof of work while using a lot less power. Running all those GPUs is a needless waste.

It sounds like this is just some GPU owners wanting to turn back time to protect their assets.
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I came here to post this as well, and to say it sounds incompetent that they required no credentials and no authorization to let someone use their systems - yet claim it was a a crime. They did not even look for the person for 2 months (according to the article).

What's worse is he basically broke the terms and conditions on JSTOR's site, and the MIT networking terms, and got charged with 30+ years of felonies (!). Possibly because he was a critic of the government as noted in the article (!).

Be careful what crap you agree to when you agree to a network or sites terms and conditions!
There's a quicker method of identifying "survival mode": just ask your accounting/finance officer about your cash flow for the last quarter and the projection for the next.

If your company isn't able to cover its burn rate and keep some cash for these two things:

1. Setting up a growth plan (more revenue), or
2. Continuing pivoting until you find something that allows you to do 1 ...

... you're in survival mode.

In survival mode, the only move is to lower your metabolic rate or burn rate. Much like a body would shut down non-critical functions just to "survive" so too will the company need to eliminate non-critical expenses. All this simply to buy more time for a eureka moment that will answer your growth question.

Tough as hell.
Autism is the new ADHD. If 1 and 70 kids have a disorder that wasn't a thing 20 years ago, something is wrong.

I had some speech issues when I was a kid that led to shyness and difficulty making friends until I got a bit older. I'm sure that I would have been classified in the spectrum on today's standards. It's a hot diagnosis.
I usually follow DevOps Borat's definition [1]:

"Big Data is any thing which is crash Excel."

Many a true word spoken in jest.

[1] https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/288698056470315008
Well said, describes where I'm at now. Many people associate these signs exclusively with "burnout" but my problem with that term and thought is that it feels "terminal"-- meaning there is no fixing it apart from quitting and taking time off, finding a new idea/company you are passionate about and trying again.

I think it's common to be in this state without being what I'd call "burned out." If your management doesn't understand or support your team, and have undue expectations, that could easily put you in "survival mode."
Or you know... Sony. The maker of PlayStation Home and the Oculus competitor "Morpheus". Or Valve, the creator of Steam... one of the largest online video game social networks.

Or Second Life, who has a very agreeable model of virtual space and virtual goods.
Of course, it's always easier to bury dissenting views - it makes it look like there's a "consensus".
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no need for obfuscation.

Respect Dropbox TOS and your files will not be deleted.

Share some copyrighted material and deal with the consequences.

By the way you can encrypt files before sending them to the cloud, but in order to share them with a third party you'd have to give your keys, which makes little sense.
> there are no eyelashes

So that's what was making me try to figure out why there was something not quite right about the face! It seems we tend to notice little details like this more unconsciously; it's probably a huge contributor to the uncanny valley effect.
* Apparently the Auroracoin thing was actually a planned fork.

* This Litecoin thing appears to be some random person with no authority trying to make stuff happen.

* Bitcoin price is falling because news is claiming banks in China must close all accounts related to bitcoin-businesses by April 15th. I don't know if it's true or not, but I'm not panic-selling my coins.
That doesn't contradict what I wrote, though. As far as I know, Blowfish hasn't been broken, and while it's theoretically less secure than its successors, it's still a valid choice if you want to use Vim's built-in encryption, which only supports pkzip and blowfish.
Who said anything about thinking, and how do you know it's hard?

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted, but your statement is incredibly vague and I believe wrong. "Big Data" might be overused as a buzzword, but it's not a "nonsense concept". "Thinking is hard", I assume you are talking about strong AI, and it's not related to this at all. Saying it's "hard" adds nothing of value, and we don't even know if it's true (in the sense that when someone does figure it out, it might seem simple and obvious in retrospect.)
When you are constrained to O(n) methods, you have big data.
Given the number of people confused by it, I think perhaps it needs a different name ... my mind is blank when I attempt to come up with a better one, though.
Oh boy. My fear is how anti-vaxxers will use this news.
ASIC inevitability is a falsehood. Software can be modified very quickly, whereas hardware requires much longer development cycles. Software can always outpace hardware, if the community is willing to commit to ASIC resistance by changing the software.
We wrote a blog post that shows how you can authenticate your users and get temporary security credentials from AWS based on the user tokens to avoid putting your keys on the client (both JavaScript apps in the browser or native apps). This technique is using Auth0 so you don't have to deploy a TVM and it works with all the APIs (S3, EC2, SQS, SES, etc.). Behind the scenes what we do is generating a SAML Token based on the user JSON Web Token and exchange that for AWS Temp Credentials using AssumeRoleWithSAML AWS API.

http://blog.auth0.com/2014/03/25/consume-aws-apis-from-the-b...
You might be better of pointing to the pastebin or an open site. I was actually going to complain in the comments about the paywall which is why I saw the pastebin.
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:-)

Hang in there! We are in the same boat too. Our problem is that we thought we had a growth problem until recently, only it turned out that we have more of a strategy problem. What are we selling? To whom are we selling? Do they even want "it"!??
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I'm against software patents, but if we must have them, can't we at least make them shorter? The software world moves too fast for these kinds of patents to have the term lengths that they do.
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Some people are constrained to O(WTF) methods and have no idea about O. So everything is Big Data.
"Disorder" was the technical term in the DSM-IV-TR, which dates back to 2000. (I believe it dates even further than that but I'm not a psychiatrist.)

It really depends on the severity of the symptoms, and whether the individual has developed effective coping strategies.
Really? You get a page like this and you complain that you have to download and run the code yourself? Why bother learning anything - someone else will do it for you and save you the bother.

Edit: OK, I've just re-read that and realized how snarky it is. I'm going to let it stand, but I guess I need to go away and interact with real people in the real world for a bit. Maybe for a lot.
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Do you know what an ASIC is?

Please tell me what computation can be done in a GPU that can't be done in a specifically designed ASIC.
I think, what you are saying is, "It's not an ad if somebody signed up to see it". It takes a lot of imagination to distinguish between "company content" and "ads" on a platform whose purpose is PR and promotion.
I'm not sure I need 82 people to tell me how important an exact match domain name is.
Autism spectrum disorder diagnosed using a standardized "observation" (the ADOS) and/or a highly structured parental interview (the ADI-R). There are peer-reviewed papers which report on the validity and reliability of these instruments.
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Indeed. They seem to be switching out and tunable unpredictable memory access (i.e. have to spend a lot of money building an ASIC with a lot of die area -- see the scrypt paper to understand why: https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf) for a faster but more "obfuscated" construction. The circuit needed to implement this will be more complex, but it will be much cheaper to mass-produce.

In short, this is what happens when people who know nothing about cryptography try to sell their unexamined constructions.
I guess the idea is to let a regular Joe to mine some coins too, so that he doesn't have to invest a few grands.
Having seen a lot of children, including my own, (10 years old and unable to speak), I think you should do a little more research on the entire spectrum the disorder covers.

This is one of the major problems with the autism community and the diagnosis. Someone who doesn't make eye contact and perhaps fixates on certain topics (maybe comp Sci) has the same diagnosis as my child who will require lifelong care and never live independently.

We need the public to understand both sides. To some autism is considered a 'gift', and this study suggested 46% of their numbers were at or above average IQ. What they didn't highlight is that 31% have low IQ and are the ones (as I mentioned earlier) that will require lifelong care and put an unimaginable burden on families.

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What made you share this only now, chad? :)
There's not a lot of debate about whether abstract ideas deserve patents. The consensus is that they don't. The debate is about how to figure out what is an abstract idea and what isn't. On one side, you have an abstract idea like "hedging settlement risk by using shadow accounts" (the patent at issue in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp). Almost everyone on the Fed. Cir. thought this shouldn't be patentable. On the other side, you have something like whatever algorithm is the subject of the gbatteries patent: http://www.gbatteries.com/technology/ ("Our patent-pending process maintains the lithium ion diffusion at optimal levels and eliminates concentration polarization and thus allows the Li-ions to be more uniformly extracted from or reinserted into the cathode materials."). That probably should be patentable, because while the charging algorithm might be simple to describe and could easily be reimplemented, it probably took a lot of R&D to design it in the first place.

The question is, how do you draw the line between the two?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730
links? As I remember it, most of the issues were around the fixed frame rates that were an attempt to unify PC development with console development. Perhaps I am confusing Doom 3 for another game though.
Ah, indeed they are, so this "jump" predates the introduction of the DSM-V. My mistake.

(wozniacki links to the original report in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496264)
the energy usage of bitcoin and the altcoins is, in my opinion, one of the few things that could threaten its viability long term. people aren't going to be able to understand the reasoning that this is the cost of decentralization - it's going to look like a phenomenal waste of energy, even if low-powered ASICs are doing most of the work. not that the average consumer has a problem with that, but govts might.

i wonder if there is a solution to the byzantine general's problem with that is resistant to 50% malicious nodes but doesn't require so much energy overhead. even proof-of-stake coins still require energy wasting.
The numbers are from children born in a specific year, as the CDC has done with the last few studies, and have increased in each of the studies by a significant margin.
That is a very ungenerous/unkind position that many folks take when they don't know WTF they are talking about.
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Would a 100 calorie quantity of bread not be better than a 100 calorie quantity of sugar cereal?

Assuming of course that you don't buy bread with sugar in it.

"Although the Glycemic Index provides some insights into the relative diabetic risk within specific food groups, it contains many counter-intuitive ratings. These include suggestions that bread generally has a higher glycemic ranking than sugar and that some potatoes are more glycemic than glucose." - Wikipedia
Re-read it as a reminder to myself and thought it would be good for people to read on Sunday before starting the work week. :)
I'm really excited about this. One of my frustrations with MEAP type books is that I typically can't just directly make pull requests against the transcript. I have to resort to sending issue reports and hoping that the author will eventually translate those to fixes I could directly contribute.

I really hope that this catches on as a viable method for creating and maintaining tech books. In many ways, it's applying the open source model to the book itself. I think this can take load and risk off the original author, especially when it comes to editing. It can also give continuous life to books that might otherwise become out of date as their authors move their primary focus to other projects. For instance, the authors of 2 Scoops of Django have already said that they plan for the latest edition to be the last. In an open source model, the book could continue to improve and evolve.

And regarding the book itself, I have a lot of excitement. ES6 really has the opportunity to bring some long awaited modernity to JS.
What makes you think higher average IQ is associated with autism? (Rain Man doesn't count.)

The state with the highest reported rate of autism spectrum disorder is Utah, followed by New Jersey. The states with the lowest reported rates are in the Deep South (which is probably more about access to healthcare than actual prevalence).

Edit: added "average"
Why? Are you here for discussion or for karma score? Isn't it enough that downvoted comments become gray?

With displayed score you end up with digg/reddit where people just post short memes and try to get a high score displayed in the easiest way imaginable.
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That's why FPGAs exist

And I'm sure existing ASICS can be adapted to new algorithms, they're developed in VHDL/Verilog, surely, not as easily as changing an FPGA, still, it won't be a work from scratch.