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See the responses from (modern) teens here:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mg9DxvfZE

It's a fun juxtaposition.
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It has nothing to do with Apple's policy. The GPL is what's getting in the way: it says you can't impose restrictions on the redistribution of a GPLed application, and the App Store doesn't have any means to even permit redistribution of apps once they're installed.
> I still miss native software.

The lack of native client for Google Music is the main reason why I'm still using Spotify.

A native client for music is a must have, an HTML5 tab just can't compete for a bunch of reasons:

- Painful to locate the window among 50+ browser tabs

- No native key support (pause/play/next) which I use all day long whenever I need to talk to a coworker or to step away from the computer

- Ease of use because of full integration with the OS
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as you can see there are also people dedicated to spreading misinformation about the project.
like some guy who designed a similar logo to the Tox logo and made it his mission to complain and spread as many lies about it as possible.
4chan is being swarmed right now with people claiming your ip address must be kept secret and therefor Tox (P2P) is insecure. endless variations off
"This thread should have been deleted just for being a security risk to 4chan users, as Tox will give your IP address to anybody you add as a friend, even if you posted your public key on 4chan.

There's no telling how many people on 4chan have given out their IP addresses without knowing it."

clearly purposely misleading.
most of the points made above will be sorted, are exaggerated non-issues, false or very bias/misleading.
I think people are taking this point too literally. One could still do math exercises at the abstract level which don't involve any arithmetic.
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> I would be horrified to find people down voting because they disagreed with a statement of position or opinion.

Eh, I'm not bothered if people downvote to disagree. I'd rather they did that than bickered at me.
Google's actions were legal. The problem is, we, as a country, have still not come to an agreement on what 'privacy' should entail in this brave new world. Given that Google was not breaking the law in reporting this person, I would argue it would have been immoral for them to have sat on this information.
There's an excellent response to be made regarding the "silliness" of weighing cool research vs the ethics of the body doing the research, but making it explicitly would invoke Godwin's Law.
It's completely different to BitMessage. As far as I can tell this is not a personal messaging protocol, but an IP replacement.
This. > "STOP WASTING MY LIFE WITH THIS POINTLESS NONSENSE".

I work in datacenter solutions sales, and the majority of my customers know what they want in terms of vendor/product series. However, they need our help for specific performance and capacity sizing, as well as adjusting to fit a budget. This probably it true for about 95% of customers.

However, there is another 5%, that simply want a good solution for their needs. They don't care how, and if they're smart, they have some specific business requirements to share. These ones are EASY to upset as displayed in the comment above if we 'waste' their time asking detailed option questions they really don't care about.

To be successful in this, you have to triage early and set the customer engagement on the proper path!
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He linked to DragonBox Elements which I had not heard of. It looks really amazing. This one is for geometry, similar to how the previous DragonBox was for algebra. Awesome find!
Probably the same meaning as the Big 5 trait of "conscientiousness": a high dopamine level. These kind of studies basically find that groups with a lot of people in them with undiagnosed ADD/ADHD function poorly.
This is great until it sells out to Amazon like IMDB or Goodreads. The problem isn't the interface. The problem is our relationship with our own data. It's no longer ours.
Google won't be breaking the law either when they ask them to report some other stuff that might make a target out of you. I say it's moral for them to report on you when the time comes. You've got nothing to hide, amirite?
There's a difference between the training you need to be a world-class mathematician and what the rest of the world thinks of as "mathematics."

One of the key differences (being a mathematician myself) is that the big leaps of progress often come at the high level, often talking with others, and ignoring computations. Then when you have three hours to sit down and calculate, you go back and make sure your high-level ideas pan out. And you worry that you're making mistakes the whole time :)

The point is that you don't just sit and compute for its own sake, nor is there a time crunch, nor is there even a single "right" way to get your computations to go through. Often you can choose one of many routes to bound some quantity, or many different proof techniques that involve very different computations.
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have been reported as having a list of image hashes which they very strongly do not want you sending through their systems. If you attempt to do so, that won't work out well for you.

One writeup of many: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2009/dec09/12-1...
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As the former opposite of the freetard and greybeard, a mere corporate VB peon, you are 100% spot on.

Most of the commercial software dev stuff is like regularly salting and sandpapering your genitals. And I'm not talking about fine grit paper either. Even relatively popular fields like .Net are painful on a daily basis.

I really like to see inside the black boxes when they inevitably go wrong. Hell getting a backtrace out of a dump file on windows from commercial software is an art in itself for example.

I had the fortune of inheriting a Sun SparcStation 20 in 1999 that was being thrown out. That and NetBSD literally drove a spike through my mind and entirely destroyed my conception of proprietary closed source software. I really wouldn't touch it now but the money sorting out all the shitty little problems is pretty good, even if it tries to stab you in the face 5 times a day. There's lots of work as well unlike my preferred field of Unix and C.

So I agree with you but I'm a slut for cash and unreliable black boxes of software is good money even if it does feel like I'm the IT equivalent of a STD ridden stripper.
Most Math Problems Do Not Have a Unique Right Answer

The title is both right and wrong. You are actually comparing school or college math with math applied in real world. School or college math works with few variables, for instance, and we consider most others remaining constant. Rarely have I seen school or college level students working with, say, derivatives of more than three variables. School or college math is an exercise to establish the rule, the rigour and in most cases to create an appreciation of what math can achieve.

In real world, variables are plenty. If you take a handful to solve a problem considering other important ones to be constants, you will end up with one set of answers as against others if you had taken a different set of variables. Real world applied math is contextual. You remove context from the problem and real world math looks like school or college math. As demonstrated by the engine-armour-plate example, without the context of the airplanes returning after taking hits, the mathematicians would probably have gone with a statistical answer and would have been proven wrong!

However, I do agree that most math problems may not have unique right answer. Of course, we are not talking of,say, square-root-of-two having two different answers. However, take an instance where the problem is:"Find a number that is a sum of two infinitesomely large numbers one ocurring at an infinitely large interval of time from the other. Does it essentially fall on the numberline?" Well the first reaction to this question is: well, yes. Because if we are sure to find those two numbers then we are more likely to find their sum which has to fall on the numberline. Now, a more discerning reader might pause and ask: can you define infinitely large number and infinitely large interval. Hence, a question like this may not have a unique right answer. If you allow philosophers in, you will definitely not have a unique answer :)

Coming to a more basic argument: With math we are striving to arrive at a single agreeable solution. Whether it is statistics or calculus, we are interested in modelling the world to arrive at a set of recognizable pattern or a set of patterns. We apply the templates we learnt in school and college. For instance in arithmetic, numerals -- which are nothing but symbols -- help us reduce our problems into an expression which we can solve. The operations allow us to take these symbols through a set of processes that helps us model the problem.

But thanks to the author, what is clear is that applied math is contextual and answer may vary with the change in context. While school math is merely an exercise in familairising ourselves with a template.
Agreed, the culture is much more open in trading and people are very clear about how much money they are bringing to the table (arguably it is also easier to quantify value added, as well).
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That makes more sense, the article makes it sound like Google engineers were browsing through people's private photos, at least that's what every non-technical person who reads it will take away. It seems obvious to me that it must have been some kind of automated process that flagged the images.
Note that if you're generating wallets/private keys on the "Key Lime Pi" you also need to trust the random number generators aren't backdoored.
The graph from this report and the DragonFly report are a bit different in their shapes (and the number used to produce them). For example, look at the dropoff in TPS from 10 threads to 15 threads for the "stock" kernel in both reports -- the dropoff in this report is much more significant. My guess is that it's because DFly's report used a 20-core machine running 40 threads, versus this report which used a 40-core machine running 40 threads; however, their machine is using Ivy Bridge processors vs. the Westmere processors in the FreeBSD machine.
You're serious.
PhotoDNA[0], for the ones interested in knowing a little bit more

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The encrypted e-mail address has to be read somehow, so it's just as likely that an attacker gets the decryption key as the database itself (unless you use e.g. a hardware security module). That's probably good enough for e-mail addresses, but as you likely know, not acceptable for passwords.
I used a rPi for a project that involved a ton of writing and it died every few days.
Sorry to be "that guy," but this should be "Affects" and not "Effects."
I do have one question. What if it wasn't child porn? Would it be right for them to go looking through your email for evidence of tax fraud? How about smoking weed? Where do you draw the line? The question isn't "do the ends justify the means?" the question should be "What if they're mistaken?"

EDIT: While I stand by my questions I acknowledge the use of PhotoDNA as opposed to simply rifling through someone's inbox.
Here is a very simple overview of how it works: http://www.microsoft.com/global/en-us/news/publishingimages/...
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I think you really hit on something with the "regress at some point" idea. Our youngest daughter has severe (low functioning) autism. Starting around 1 year old, her behavior and language seemed to start regressing (she was talking in 3 word "sentences" prior to that). At first, we had a "diagnosis" of Pervasive Development Disability - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) before officially getting one of actual Autism. It has taken years of therapy (ABA), and many doctor visits (I assume MIND institute refers to UC Davis Med Center MIND..., which we've certainly been to) to get her at 10 years old to function at roughly the level of a 3 year old.

That regression seems to divide the Aspergers from the hard-core Autistics. Our son has Aspergers, as well, but is quite intelligent. Getting him to shut up about his own little world can be a challenge, though. He is learning to cope, and dealing with his issues is far preferable to low functioning autism. (unless of course one likes having ones house tore up most of the time, "potty breaks" in random spots around the house, and trying to keep a child from running out of the house who may or may not be dressed...)
He's not gaming it.
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How can Google and Microsoft comply with these requests and still claim that the emails they data held in Ireland is exempt?

Moving on, what if blasphemy is illegal in another country and they (Google, Microsoft) spots someone who sent a a private message to someone else where they are making jokes about the prophet of Islam? What about countries ass-bent like India where you can't say anything bad about politicians? Will Google volunteer data about people who make bad jokes about politicians in private?

I know it sounds ridiculous but you're right. Where does the slippery slope end?

Problem is that on the other end... if they don't do this then they will have a PR nightmare. If people can spin their services as a safe haven for pedophiles, they will have a hard time.
Yeah, the plan is definitely to expand beyond Facebook in the medium term. It was just the fastest (though an imperfect) way of getting started and getting stellars into the hands of as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. See also https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_....
If we randomly choose a matrix A of NxN coefficients, we are quite likely to end up with a linear independence, meaning that Ax' = 0 where x' is the vector [x^(n-1) x^(n-1) ... x 1] is a system of equations with a unique solution.

This is an example in which most problems derived from some real data in fact have a unique solution.

In case the above isn't clear what I simply mean is that, for instance, if we randomly choose the coefficients for a system of three equations in three unknowns, we are in fact statistically unlikely to end up with an under-determined system (multiple solutions). Two or more of the vectors in the matrix would have to point in the same direction, which is unlikely for randomly chosen 3-vectors.
The article doesn't distinguish between freedom to choose, and getting a ridiculous amount of trivial choice blasted at you in order to sell things. The latter is unnatural and psychologically abusive, and could easily cause stress.

But even supposed political freedom may be overrated. A demarchy might very well be better-performing, more representative, and less corruptible than an elected government. After all, term limits, devolution to more local government, and other "reforms" are just an approximation of demarchy. We sure don't get representation from our current system, but we do give authoritarians a veneer of legitimacy by voting. That's pretty stressful.

This is relevant to the Internet because the value and effectiveness of ads are an ongoing controversy, while at the same time funding much of what we use.
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A non-technical person will not consider that any different. After all, said automated process was created and deployed by Google engineers, so it's still Google engineers browsing through people's private photos.

Just because I use a tool doesn't mean I'm no longer responsible for my actions.

It's exactly this complete dissociation of responsibility for the consequences why we will be facing an increasing anti-techie backlash.

It's time we stopped hiding behind semi-autistic semantics. Google engineers went through people's private photos. Period. What tools they used to do it is utterly irrelevant.
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Did not know about those laws in India. That is mind-blowing! Not good.

I personally agree with this line of logic. I'm working on a personal solution for moving my data off the cloud. But, that isn't a substitute for having this discussion as a country. Until we draw lines that slippery slope exists and these things are legal.

EDIT: Regarding the safe-haven issue, I think that is a major issue with services like SpiderOak. They play up the ability to hide data. I personally believe we should be aiming for a solution that is closer to the locks on the doors of our homes. I feel secure at night, but I also know the police can knock it down by force if given a warrant. SpiderOak and other such services try to be more of a Fort Knox than a dead bolt. This is the cloud after all. Not a thumb drive in my safe in my home office.
Didn't know about the OCC, thanks for the link.

I'm not surprised by the result. Judging solely from my choral background, of course conductors are needed. We're trained from day one to follow maestro's direction, but to listen to our neighbors and blend in. Working with a good conductor and a poor one is night-and-day. If you are just up there to wave your arms and keep time, you're not doing the job. Good conductors emote, use a variety of gestures, know their music very well, are unafraid to take charge, and correct-correct-correct. We performers are there to do what we are told; we know that we cannot hear all the sections as well as the conductor can, and that the conductor's interpretation of the music takes precedence over our own. Not all the dynamics in a performance - by a long shot - are explicitly scored.
It's too bad most of the discussion here is centering around the title, rather than the post
Doctors and Lawyers are allowed and even obligated to break confidentiality in some special cases. We'll probably come up with a collection of special protections and special exceptions for remote storage of our data.

Although, it's pretty scary that some random person could send an email that would then send me to jail. I would hope the standard for possession is higher than "WTF is this? [delete]"
I'm a bit surprised by this. Most mathematicians know Newton's method. And square roots are trivial to calculate using Newton's method:

(1) Goal: compute square root of x.

(2) Make a guess, g.

(3) Compute an updated guess, g' = (g + x/g) / 2.

(4) Repeat step (3) until you achieve the desired accuracy.

It's not incredibly quick, but it works and it's easy (though tedious) to carry out.

Lots of other fun approaches here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roo...
Yes, I always assumed that was part of the motivation for "chunky" operations like forward/delete word, paragraph, etc. On a slow connection it made a big difference to be able to jump ahead by words, paragraphs, or "balanced expressions" rather than character-by-character. And VT100 terminals didn't have a mouse so there was no way to do something like click-drag to select a block of text.
Then how did he come across 300+ individuals willing to sell him their entire account so quickly?
I've probably been too emotional about this interview, sorry about that. You are right, he can be interpreted differently.

I have people that I know on both sides of Ukraine and everything that is going on creeps me out completely.
Careful there. If you require one to be able to express a problem via some finite string (and via some universally fixed method for encoding problems as strings), then there are only countably many problems.
Imdb already has this, it's called advanced search
You have a better shot at partnership at even a mega-firm than getting significant equity with a significant vote in a corporation without coming in as an early employee.
It is funny to compare today to the old days, say the 1980s, when public investors made fortunes investing in companies like AAPL and MSFT. These were startups that became "old companies".

Compare that to FB, we have to wait another 20-30 years to really know, but it's hard to see FB growing the way AAPL and MSFT did.
Seems like the App Store's problem.
I'm much more quant than programmer, but even programmers at trading companies get paid at least as well as they do at Google/Facebook (and obviously much better than they'd be paid at a startup) to start with. Not to mention that programmers at SV companies are second class to product managers, so the relative status situation isn't that different.

I don't know where you get the more hours/more rigid attitude from. 9hrs is very typical, weekends are very rare, and the only time you ever exceed that is when you are releasing very new strategies -- strategies which you get a direct cut of the PnL, so you have a very direct incentive to want to get that out there and trading as soon as you can.

Is everyone equal in finance? No. But compared to working in the valley? It's worlds apart. Let's look at a simple example, for Google and Goldman, take a look at average revenue per employee (~1.2m for both) vs. average compensation per employee (600k for GS, ~150-200k for Google). In what way are Google employees not getting screwed over? Prop trading firms have even flatter structures than Goldman.
A non-technical person will not consider that any different.

That's not my experience at all. I stopped using Gmail in part due to privacy concerns, and when I explain it to non-techies, they're OK with it specifically because it's software and not people looking at the photos.

People, in my experience, aren't worried about potential false positives or abuses of power. They just don't like the idea of other persons looking at their private pictures.
So why this when there's Hangouts?
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