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yeah you know what I would do if I read that? Open the damn tomb - I don't care about ancient superstitions.

instead of those statements, a few simple scientific demonstrations should be more than sufficient.

it should simply show large photographs of what happens with radiation exposure, as well as enough scientific equipment that even a simpleton can realize that this isn't some superstitious gobledegook.

seriously. what do you think the egyptians would have said about their tombs?

Best left undisturbed, right? Or Ra will come smite your ass.

Show, don't tell.
I can't use marijuana because it would have incredibly bad effects on my life, but I support legalization.

I tend to be bored easily. Normally boredom inspires me to get out of the house, do something productive, write some code, etc. Marijuana is a boredom cure. After using it, I could stare at a wall for five hours and be deeply fascinated and content. I cannot afford to waste time staring at walls. I need to be productive. Therefore marijuana is a bad idea for me, but I don't believe the state should make that decision for everybody.
I bet there is a tremendous amount of "news searching".
I side with curtis here[0]. If you burry this stuff deep enough in sealed containers, using best tech available, then (barring any massive geological changes) the only way for someone to stumble over it is if they have technological capabilities comparable to ours.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8091034
Can you name some names?
I just tried it. The UX is truly amazing.
The problem with the comic strip drawing is that it could be interpreted as meaning things associated with the trefoil take away sickness and sadness if you read the pictures in the wrong order. I don't think a growing tree is strong enough to convey the correct order of the drawings. Inhabitants of the future could just assume the trefoil-material has some negative effect on trees as it heals the sick.
Your personal alternate realities are not historical precedent.
Upvoted for CL.
Agreed, mainly because the period is so alien to many sub-40s Americans today. Also resonant: Islam, race, ugly American politics. It's an easy read, written by Alex Haley, who also wrote Roots. (Don't read the book (Roots) if you can find the more culturally significant mini-series. LeVar Burton was an icon in the US in the late 70s, well before he boarded the Enterprise.) The Spike Lee movie on Maclolm X is interesting, but a significantly different experience than reading the book.
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> it should simply show large photographs of what happens with radiation exposure, as well as enough scientific equipment that even a simpleton can realize that this isn't some superstitious gobledegook

Well, we don't know how to build required scientific equipment that will remain operational for more than few decades. Actually, the genetically-modified glowcats mentioned in the article is the closest thing I can imagine that could work over the timespan of many millenia.

Also, I don't see how future archaeologist would not assume anything they find is a "superstitious gobledegook" in need of verifying, if today we do exactly that.
DEF CON 18 - Schuyler Towne & datagram - Attack the Key, Own the Lock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ctWJAdeHPU
This article has some beautiful views of the structure:

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/10/30/hovenring-first-suspend...
This caught my eye, from the "How we do it at ArsDigita" list:

> 6. dragging people out to writing retreats; most programmers say that they can't write but experience shows that peoples' writing skills improve dramatically if they will only practice writing. At ArsDigita, we have beach and ski houses near our larger offices and drag people out for long weekends to finish writing projects with help from other programmers who are completing writing projects.
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Communication (and writing in particular) skills are crucial -- programmers who are articulate and concise are so much more valuable then others with equivalent coding skills, but whose grammar & spelling leaves you wondering what they meant to say, who can't jump to the meat of an issue (or consider their audience) when discussing it, or worse.

I consider it strongly when we're hiring; it's a neat idea to actively improve writing skills for the programmers already on board.
Is there a fixed limit to the size of the local GMail cache?
Knowingly, and presumably without the consent of the receiving party.

I haven't read those laws, but I can only assume that it is not illegal to have and STD and have sex with somebody if they are fully informed and accept the risk. Those laws are almost certainly more about consent than limiting the spread of disease.
I think this very much oversimplifies the costs. From a hardware standpoint this is probably mostly correct, but the problem is the sheer amount of research and talent behind it is not remotely inexpensive. I recall Carmack saying, about a year after he joined Oculus, that he thought getting the latency down would be straightforward (sorry - I can't find a source), but it turned out to be a much harder problem than he expected. And, when Carmack is stuck, I cannot but believe there are intricacies that I could not hope to understand at play. The fact that they have been unable to ship a consumer version after all this time, I think, corroborates that this is a much more difficult problem than just throwing some hardware together and calling it a day.
because it's buried a mile underground in the middle of a desert
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>however... isn't it too late to think about that, in the US?

Is it too late to undergo chemotherapy to remove cancer?

It's too important not to try.
> It's a subtle thing, but there's a perception, to me not unfounded, that some sectors of Spanish society just don't look outward much, which is the reason they get these crazy ideas that wouldn't even be considered for a second anywhere else.

Does not that contradicts the fact that, for example, Spain has one of the largest high-speed train networks in the world, that the electricity they produce is >50% from renewable sources, that big civil engineering companies are involved with building major infrastructure around the world (including airport terminals at Heathrow, Sydney), that their medical service is within the top ten in the world, that same-sex marriage has been completely legal (including adoption) for almost a decade now, etc. These facts do not seem to fit your perception of a backwards-looking country.
I'm sorry to hear that. Certainly there are bad churches in the world. But there are many many more churches that are helping meet needs (physical, mental, spiritual) in their communities. I hate that you've only seen negative affects of religion when there is so much good in spirituality and community you didn't see. :-(
The code I write between 9 and 5 on weekdays is also way higher quality than the stuff I write the rest of the time.
This might be a good starting point: http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPort...

It seems like it's possible to prepay VAT if you're shipping from Hong Kong, but not if you're shipping directly from China.
> "Its not until your late 20's and really 30's that you start to find out about and see people you've known in the past that were intelligent, productive people who's lives have been completely destroyed due to their drug addictions."

I wish I was unaware of addiction, particularly alcoholism, while growing up.... It sounds like you had a nice sheltered childhood.

Nevertheless, my experiences have not rendered me a prohibitionist.
We may eventually need to burry something nasty and difficult to destroy, but I would assume that long before nuclear waste storage becomes a cultural problem, we will have figured out how to build an MSR that can burn most of that stuff. And, when that happens, whatever's left can be safely kept for a much shorter time.

Instead of thinking about the interesting problem of keeping the next civilization safe, could we direct some more effort to the boring problem of spent fuel reprocessing?
> It's a crime to not pay taxes, or to not send your children to school, and the government punishes you if you commit those crimes.

In the US (and a few other countries), homeschooling is legal. In addition, if you don't pay your taxes, the IRS might take your stuff or paycheck (as others here have said), not necessarily throw you in jail.
I didn't interpret those trees as growing myself. It looked to me like the trees were far in the background and he moved towards them before collapsing.

What about numbering each panel in unary? While our current number systems didn't exist 10,000 years ago, humans could presumably count and will retain that capability in the future.
I'm working on building a sharing/exchange network with built-in reputation and points given to people who work for the good of the community. In other words, the bank generates currency only for those that create value in the local economy. It's called the Jack of all trades Universe or JoatU for short and you can read more at http://joatu.com and check our github (it is open source of course): http://github.com/joatuapp

Ask me anything.
> "edit: There's actually one difference that I've noticed between my pot smoking and non pot smoking friends - the smokers tend to be small business owners, contractors and freelancers more often than the non-smokers, who are more wage-laborers. I don't have a theory about it, but I've noticed."

My guess is that simply reflects a difference between those who are in a position to drug test, and those who are in a position to be drug tested. That would be interesting to study though.
Here's an interesting report on these big-pharma funded groups:

http://thenation.com/article/180493-anti-pot-lobbys-big-bank...
In one example you pipe a list through some functions, does every function parse the list from a string or is there some protocolly side channel action going on for the typing?

You said you had read about powershell, would be interesting to know if you plan on doing something with datastructures as well as that is its power feature :)
History is not always an accurate means of predicting the future.

If you have questions about my 'personal alternate realities' please feel free to ask them.
Who, you will note, did NOT get in trouble for his public stuff according to michaelochurch's posts.
I think when you're just starting that first race condition or memory management issue are exciting. After a while it's not that exciting any more. I got asked that question and the first thing that popped to my mind was a very unexciting bug I was chasing in legacy code I was maintaining. I don't think the interviewer liked that answer because it was mostly grunt work and not some some amazing feat of engineering.

I don't think it's a particularly good open ended question for more experienced developers and an interview is not a camp fire circle... It could be part of an investigation in some past project, e.g. what problems did you have and how did you solve them...
Thousands of phones sounds like a massive cell phone bill, even with the cheaper plans overseas referred to in the article. 10 snapshots a day adds up if you're charged a few pennies per mms. Would be great to see some some further elaboration on this point.
Yes, but michaelochurch's point was about why.
I've had this question asked of me before, and it seems valuable for the same reason as the question on the article: It's an opportunity to show passion/enthusiasm for programming work. I think even novice programmers who love to code will have that one bug that got them. Even if the story is anticlimactic ("I missed a semicolon"). iMo, explaining how they got to that conclusion in a logical, positive way, didn't give up or just copy/paste the answer, and ultimately moved on in the project with a new lesson in syntax is the real "passing answer."
Not to open up a whole other can of worms here, but I've heard people blame Reddit for an influx of downvote brigade types.

Regardless of where they're coming from, I know what you mean. I wish at the very least we'd see more questions or rebuttals or whatever being replied to the posters.
> One of my favorite questions is, "Tell me about the best bug you've ever found."

I've started an initial push at Continuum to open source our interview questions... and this is the first question :-)

https://github.com/ContinuumIO/interview-questions
What, no Omicron Persei 8 or Lrrr jokes?
It's a hobby. It seems you are falling into the trap of vanity metrics when paying attention to number of followers.

Let's say you had 10000 followers who each listen for 2 hours per day, how would you make money?

By the way, I still pay for http://www.di.fm and have been listening for many years. I pay them $7 per month. I can stop, but I like their playlists and know that whenever I want to code with good background I can trust their music selection to be productive.

Internet radio is bandwidth intensive, which tends to eat profits. I would work on something else where you are more likely to make money in the near term.

You can always run this as a hobby to recharge your mind while taking a break from coding your other projects.
Worked for Genghis Khan.
> I wonder if this is also due to new major iOS versions being released at the same time as new iPhones, and these updates add more intensive features (e.g. apps open in the background) and are designed more with the most modern devices in mind.

So you wonder if it's the same theory posited in the article itself..?
Yep. And this is why I have an easy way to separate my car keys from the rest of my keys. I don't hand anyone my house keys, ever.
What if more articles were published in a particular year? I mean I assume the data would be skewed if more words existed in a particular year. I figured they'd measure how the language of say a random bunch of 5000 words as changed over the course of the life of NYT.
The thing that is the most striking about the graph of those searches is that it is time locked to releases and NOT to announcements. Seems strange. If people are upgrading the OS then there is a very simple explanation.
This is not insignificant

Well, today we already have those costs, plus the even larger costs of law enforcement. The choice is not between "pot is illegal and nobody uses it" and "pot is legal and it causes social problems".
This thinking is ridiculous, and doesn't really appear in any other industry. Do you care whether your accountant's idea of an enjoyable Friday night is sitting at home making more spreadsheets? Would you demand that your eye doctor go home and craft her own lenses in her garage for fun?

The comparisons you've made are with non-creative fields. For those I know that work in other creative industries (graphic design, photography, music, theatre, copywriting), they almost always spend a good deal of their free time exploring their passion. If you love doing something, you probably won't be satisfied if the only time you get to do it is under the strict direction of another.

In any case, if there are enough candidates to select from, and you have no better way of determining which are the better candidates, why not choose the ones that code for fun in their free time over the ones that don't? Those candidates almost certainly have a passion for programming while the others it will be harder to tell. Plus those candidates will be constantly learning new skills that I as the employer will benefit from.
Lots of marijuana activists claim that driving while high does not impair your driving ability. Anyone who's ever been extremely stoned knows that even basic tasks like walking or talking are difficult, let alone driving.

I don't really mind a nearly-zero-tolerance policy for driving while on any kind of drug. Some people are way more tolerant to weed than others, and may be nearly sober even with a THC concentration that makes someone else couchlocked, but I think it's better to err on the side of caution.
There's a minor inconsistency with car keys.

In contrast to "stupid" ordinary house locks, which are not powered, car keys these days incorporate RFID chips so that the key at least cannot be used to steal the car. Granted, you can still empty it, but at least better than losing the car altogether.
This could be an interesting use case for Common Lisp reader macros.
It was noticed, but tested across a number of platforms did not show errors except for Android < v3.

The issue is with a weird Mac OS X chain issue that causes a chain to be downloaded to the login keystore in Keychain. Mac forces it to be used when validating the certificate chain. Most users have removed the cert and everything is working as it should.

Tracking down how and why that happens on Mac OS X is tough. Reaching Apple engineers has not been extremely successful. Not Apple's fault. Usually SSL Root Chain groups are distributed with organizations so it's not always clear who to go to.
For a full explanation on the legacy intermediate explanation and affected users see DigiCert's post:

https://blog.digicert.com/expired-intermediate-certificate/
The good news is that there's a pretty good capacity to move massive amounts of goods with very little human interaction.

The bad news is that there's a hell of a lot of human movement, and you'd have to shut down much of that, as well as isolate carriers and exposed individuals as quickly as possible. Often in places (such as the present African outbreak) in which infrastructure, governance, and resources are exceptionally limited. The task of effectively controling all vectors would be a very high challenge.

I'd say it would be an ugly time, all told.
You need to determine the cost per User. Different Users might represent different Usage Patterns, so I'd be looking for averages. If the Product is already in production and you have an existing user-base, this is how I'd do it; Correlate your user-base statistics (number of Users) in relation to your hosting costs at different milestones and/or points in time. This metric will give you some insight into how much it costs per User at different stages of growth. This could include the growth of the user-base as well as the growth of your Product (in terms of features and/or infrastructure changes). You would want to identify any trends and/or variations with the resulting averages over time. This will give you some data to work with in terms of making projections.
The websites themselves are what get slower and use more memory over time, not the browser. Try using Tumblr on your phone someday and check the data usage after - it doesn't compress those multi-MB gifs for mobile at all.
Do languages that don't use () as a function call still have to use the same syntax? Or is () just a stand-in for a function call?
Yes it is. I'm sorry. Poor english. Thank you for your constructive comment.
> Thousands of phones sounds like a massive cell phone bill,
> even with the cheaper plans overseas referred to in the
> article. 10 snapshots a day adds up if you're charged a few
> pennies per mms. Would be great to see some some further
> elaboration on this point.

Very good question/assertion.

This is Topher, from the article. In our experience so far (Indonesia & Africa), it's been shocking how affordably we're able to operate the system, though there are caveats when it comes to having to work around local standards (to be explained in a moment).

In Indonesia, in our first pilot test in 2013, we were actually able to get SIM cards with unlimited data in retail outlets the equivalent of $2.89/month. You can see a tweet from around that time in which we're quite pleasantly surprised:
https://twitter.com/RainforestCx/status/342834137163505664

The caveat in this case was that these plans are pay-as-you-go, which means that credits must be purchased each month, and applied to the number through SMS. Thus, while in the field, we had to extend our API to keep track of credits, interact with the telecom over SMS, and translate keywords in Bahasa Indonesian SMS's that were returned. When an account was running low, another device in the forest was instructed to use a top-up code from (provided by the API) to "top-up" the phone with the low-balance. This is obviously a hack to emulate what people do for each other—namely purchase credits and top up each others' accounts.

Going forward, Rainforest Connection will be looking for semi-affordable monthly plans where available, and only performing work-arounds like the one described above when absolutely necessary.

It's also worth mentioning that each phone is able to hear chainsaw noises up to a kilometer in the distance, meaning that one single phone can "protect" almost 3 square kilometers (one square mile or 300 hectares) of forest. That means that 100 square kilometers can be protected with only 30 devices, which at nearly any GSM data price point is a good value.

I'd be happy to elaborate more if you have more questions. Thanks!
-Topher
Sure, it's illegal because Bible, but my take is, it's wrong in the Bible for rational reasons. The only thing is, they were rational for the time and place they were created in. Many of the rules various religions teach seem nonsensical, backward and barbaric to us today, but if you look at them through the lens of the context in which they were written, there's often a kernel of reason in them.

Case in point, sodomy and fornication may have been considered wrong because they spread of diseases. Many of the diseases we can treat easily today were probably debilitating and fatal back then, and they imposed a cost that society then could not bear.

Another example, adultery: most of the animal kingdom has no concept of marriage, but a desperately poor society may not be able to tolerate any bad blood brewed by adultery. When your primary resources are the productive youth of your society, you'd prefer them to be united in their toils (be it farming hunting of wars) rather than killing each other over petty jealousies.

Some parts of Islam seem overly brutal to us, but (AFAIK) it was forged in a society that mostly lived an unbelievably harsh tribal life in the desert. Consider theft in that context. Even a minor theft could cause somebody to lose their life, and hence thievery in general was deterred with very harsh punishment.

Sure, some rules were made purely for the benefit of a select few, but that doesn't affect the point that many others were reasonable for their time.

The problem with religion is that people still assume these rules as God's (with a capital 'G') own truth when they no longer make any sense in the modern day.
Minor nitpick: The author indicated that custom styled and mailed keys were 3d printed, and the kiosks cut the keys from a blank. (end of 4th paragraph)

Otherwise an accurate and brief summary. The article is relatively short and worth the read, though.
If CO2 was a visible gas
skull and crossbones would have been a terrible idea, if i came accross such a thing i would have thought i found black beard's treasure, or something
Seems like a lot of this speculation could be replaced by a few benchmarks to see whether the phone actually got slower... but I guess that would take more time than looking at a Google trends graph.
"Parking valets suddenly require a ludicrous level of trust"

They always have. It was always possible to take a blank key and just copy it with a file. You could use a softer material to expedite the process and then copy it again later...

Which is why, most cars come with a valet parking key that only turns the ignition, and doesn't open your trunk. You're not supposed to hand the valet your entire keyring. That's ludicrous (although a lot of people do this)

Though with the availability of this app we're going to see a lot more crime committed this way.