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Feynman's life is well-chronicled -- in its totality -- in Jim Gleick's biography "Genius." Feynman had a somewhat messy personal life, and Gleick covers the key points briefly but clearly.

For example (p. 277) "Bethe worried that Feynman was growing restless after four years at Cornell. There were entanglements with women: Feynman pursued them and then dropped them, or tried to, with increasingly public frustration -- so it seemed even to undergraduates, who knew him as the least professorial of professors."

If you get to p. 290, there's a quite astonishing section on Feynman's effort to work out the rules of flirting in a bar. You can still admire his science after reading the book. You'll be both charmed and troubled by his over-sized personality. But, hey, he was a complicated guy.
In this context, "use" means something like "remove from the predictable supply".

So if you don't have any rainfall, you have to remove 25 gallons from your source to grow the rice.

Groundwater replenishment and rainfall would already be counted as part of your predictable supply.
Maybe your scroll wheel is worn out - fine for me?
This whole interview and admonition is odd, and well to be completely frank idiotic.

Lets break it down:

Option 1: This isn't true at all, at best some people leak some stuff pretending to be members of the Intelligence community of C3/4I organisations.

Option 2: This is an NSA/GCHQ op designed to push them further from the real exploits they use e.g. every time they feel they get close they throw them a bone to distract them

Option 3: This is an NSA/GCHQ op designed to infiltrate the TOR community by allowing people to gain the respect and trust of TOR's inner circle in order to gain additional information about this project.

Option 4: These are real NSA/GCHQ employees/contractors in which case he just might have triggered another internal witch hunt which puts his sources at risk and puts TOR and it's members under even more scrutiny by the Intelligence and LEO communities.

None of these scenarios have a positive outcome on neither the project or the personal lives of the people involved and any one with a shred of common sense would have kept their mouths shut about this.

But hey expecting common sense from these guys is not something these people seem to be capable off lately.
TOR is a great tool which is sadly used by most of it's users for illegitimate and in many cases illegal activities.
Any one who spent some time on TOR knows that for the most part the vast majority of the traffic although "harmless" does not originates from reporters which working on some huge story or some people trying to bring out news out of N. Korea.
Heck TOR for the most part is unusable in countries which monitor and sensor internet traffic since even with all the improvement made to it is still very easy to tell when some one uses TOR and if you do it in say Iran or N. Korea at best you should expect a prison sentence.
And this is why TOR has probably several orders of magnitude more traffic originating from some bored dutch script kiddies who are running SQLmap on some p0rn site than from people who should actually be protected by a system like this.
If the TOR Project and the IFF would actually accept the fact that it's not used or it's not usable for the intended purpose and actually work on tools which will allow people from countries that implement wide internet control and censorship(like the UK!) to actually use them in a way that would not only be "unprovable" but completely undetectable since lets face it proof or not if N.K. things you did something wrong it's the same thing as you did something wrong.
So yes while TOR might be used by "activists" anyone who thinks that the majority of it's traffic is not generated by script kiddies, criminal organisations and worse is just fooling them selves. And while it's not an excuse to ban or kill the project just like the fact that majority of BitTorrent traffic is compromised of material which violates copyright laws is not an excuse to shut it down. However the fact that TOR fails to protect and serve the users that needs it the MOST should be something that these vanguards of "freedom and privacy" better start looking into...
This might be somewhat controversial, but Bertrand Russell has a good introduction to Western philosophy. For something a little lighter, AC Grayling is good.
You may not alias incompatible types. In the example every type passed in the function is the same. Float. Those types are compatible( every type is to itself ) and may alias. Therefore the need to use restrict.
Nice to hear from you @twic. I can assure you I am not a satire (at least consciously) [smile].
OTOH, the time when Lisp (1958), Smalltalk (1969), and ML (1973 is what Wikipedia has for "first appeared in", but unlike Lisp and and Smalltalk I can't find information on definition vs. release) were first defined all (except the last, which is on the cusp) precede the 1973 recession, and the preceding period actually was an economic boom time.
Rain is good. No matter how smart you are, you can still be an idiot sometimes:

"Von Neumann knew that it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union became a nuclear power. He predicted that were Russia allowed to build a nuclear arsenal, a war against the U.S. would be inevitable. He therefore recommended that the U.S. launch a nuclear strike at Moscow, destroying its enemy and becoming a dominant world power, so as to avoid a more destructive nuclear war later on."

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects...
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Fail and fail often
Fair cop on the headline, I was mostly just excited to share the story of Max who I think is incredible. He really did contribute to our code and is better than at least half the developers I interview, so we plan to have him back regularly to continue coding with us.
> 52 minutes ago

No updates? :(

Cause I was interested in real-world experiences, not just programmers testing the programming learning tool.
or a more generic title would be: How to approach a Fermi problem.
If you work at valve you don't have a boss.
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Except they're not unrelated. Von Neumann needed more computing power than he had available, for studying bomb blasts. Not only did he and colleagues largely create digital computers, but he marshaled the resources of the US government and academia to get it done.

Dyson's Turing's Cathedral is a fascinating account of the development of digital computers. The early ones were amazingly physical, using wave propagation delays in liquid mercury, and repeatedly painting rows of oscilloscope screens, as storage.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turing%27s%20cathedral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

EDIT: s/Turning/Turing/
Ask HN: What actually is the reason Elon Musk has such a diverse career?
How to actually build one too
Sure, go ahead, it's free as in beer. I would really appreciate if you could provide feedback on the results you are getting - it would help us make the necessary improvements.
Here's the trend for the last ten years - it's flat:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/last:120/plot/ha...

The trend has been flat enough for long enough to falsify all the model predictions that assumed CO2 was the primary driver and nothing else really mattered. Those predictions looked GREAT in the late 1990s but don't work now, so the hunt is on for new explanatory factors. Everybody's got their favorites.

The main thing to consider with regard to new years being dubbed "the hottest on record" is selection bias: When a new year looks like it MIGHT be "the hottest on record", that makes for big scary newspaper headlines. Then when it (often) turns out that it actually WASN'T the hottest on record, that's not considered newsworthy. Nor is it newsworthy when the following year is only the 6th or 10th or 12th hottest. If you only see headlines about it when there's been a record or somebody has predicted that there WILL be a record, due to availability bias you are left with the impression that records are happening constantly.

(And even when the whole year isn't the hottest, the same dynamic applies to hottest summer, hottest winter, hottest in the northern hemisphere, etc.)

Another thing to consider is that although the current trend is essentially flat (and has been for over a dozen years), it's flat at a relatively high level. Since the temperature plateaued but hasn't yet significantly decreased, people can still claim it's a hot decade or invent silly "X of the last Y years" constructions to make it seem like the warming trend hasn't stopped.
Lots of countries are filthy rich when you consider the fact that a select few get to spend all the money. Ghaddafi, for example, had over $200 billion because he "owned" everything in Libya.
Neat trick; it shouldn't be hard to make the Option method return a closure that reverses all the options, not just the last one.
> How far does it go at the moment?

Not very far, I completed it in a few minutes. I think the hardest was:

function hello(a) {
return a * a;
}

hello(4) + 3;
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Wow, I've been looking for something of this caliber for a long while. Thanks for sharing.
And von Neumann lived mostly though war and 30's financial crisis. I honestly think it's more a question of (lack of) will/confidence from part of academia. I bet if had really good ideas about new languages and really wanted to dig deep on that he would be able to do so without starving.

Maryam Mirzakhani (this year's female fields Medalist) commented that she's quite a slow thinker, and left a clear impression that it's more a matter of asking important questions and actually trying to solve them with perseverence. It's just far more secure to chase the low-hanging fruits.

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-...

" Another notable and enviable trait of von Neumann's was his mathematical courage. If, in the middle of a search for a counterexample, an infinite series came up, with a lot of exponentials that had quadratic exponents, many mathematicians would start with a clean sheet of paper and look for another counterexample. Not Johnny! When that happened to him, he cheerfully said: "Oh, yes, a thetafunction...", and plowed ahead with the mountainous computations. He wasn't afraid of anything."

That's an inspiration!
What's unusable about it? Scroll down or click the arrows.
How can we make the 'hard stuff' cool again?
Every story is an opportunity to snark. You should ban the account that made the comment not suppress the controversial information. The information that FinFisher supports/profits/enables oppressive governments should not be hidden just because you don't like the comments.
GCHQ Launches Cyber Security Challenge to Find Hacking Superheroes
What about connecting over an local area network? I know the game Spaceteam did this quite well. I wonder how they managed this technological feat.
The actual corpus that is worth using is the book corpus. While Google can't provide public access to all of the books it has scanned there is no restriction on them using the data in the books to feed this project. Given the amount of information they have scanned from libraries and elsewhere that is a much better source.
A subset of the knowledge graph is available via freebase RDF dumps: https://developers.google.com/freebase/data

I don't believe this is what the article is talking about (knowledge vault) though. This is just the human and lightly machine curated graph (knowledge graph).
Writable `/etc/hosts`, `/etc/resolv.conf` is huge - no more local dns hacks.
Netflix? That is categorized next to health bills? :)
If I knew how to become a billionaire while starting a lot of innovative companies and having a lot of success, I'd do it instead of hanging around to tell you. That's not being selfish, that's how I imagine it would be (since I don't actually know that secret and doubt there is one). Besides, only so many people can be successful in a society before a certain status is not considered successful anymore.
> ...on the couch I get my best sleep...
> ...boring movie...

Does this imply sitting on the couch? Or other posture that is more vertical than your bed?

If so (and especially if your wife says you snore), you may want to investigate the possibility of obstructive sleep apnea. Changes in position can affect how you breath when fully relaxed (asleep), and sleeping horizontally can be much worse than sitting/reclining. If this is producing a significant change in sleep quality, getting a sleep study is easy and would be very informative.

This is just a guess, of course. Kids are notorious for making sleep-deprived parents.

//my sleep studies where AHI=148 and AHI=150
//for me, sleeping in a reclining position helped that more than CPAP or surgery
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Just to avoid confusion - Max was with us entirely voluntarily and with his parents' blessing. Our purpose was to help him to learn and to realise his ambition to be a coder. As it happens, he's extremely bright and already knows emacs, git, and some python - so he was actually able to make a real contribution and get a feature live for customers, which was icing on the cake for all of us.
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>> "Behind the scenes, Google doesn't only have public data," says Suchanek. It can also pull in information from Gmail, Google+ and Youtube."You and I are stored in the Knowledge Vault in the same way as Elvis Presley," Suchanek says.

Ugh... that's a bit much... because now any employee at google could potentially get access to random facts about me gleaned from my personal and business emails? Good luck keeping different levels of confidential information segregated correctly. That's awesome.
Nietzsche has interesting things about our need to tear down people who have great, unique accomplishments over common weaknesses - calling this the "slave morality". The weak need to feel superior to the great, so we redefine greatness to mean other things.
“Never show engineers the customer research”
As I scroll through them, the audio from the first section keeps playing until it's done... so if I scroll down to the 2010's its like it's playing 5 layers of audio and I can't even tell what's going on.
Yeah that one was super-high on the request list, there were 3 competing patches before we finally got it right.
Would dual GPUs help the problem?

You could have one low-resolution GPU (such as an onboard Intel HD) and another focusing solely on rendering the foevated patch.

5ms per 320x240 section might not be implausible?
Does it honestly surprise anyone that Pakistan is a customer of FinFisher, given the history of their ISI service?

I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm seriously.

State actors were a target customer for FinFisher, and it isn't that hard to figure out probably customers. Saudi Arabia tried to get Moxie to help them spy on its citizens, so I imagine they are a good bet too.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
I imagine both are. At TIM Group I regularly hired grey beards and they made a huge contribution - but it was definitely bucking a trend.
Calling the current Chinese government "evil" for what happened during the late 1950s is arguably less reasonable than blaming the Obama administration for the Jim Crow laws and McCarthyism that existed during the same period, especially given the relatively sweeping systemic changes that have happened in China since then. There are no shortage of living victims of various US administrations' foreign policy errors either. The present Chinese government might have many flaws, including a reluctance to acknowledge past misdeeds even happened, but starving the population to death through intervention in agriculture is not one of them.
The one thing that is still hard is doing the radiosity. The way that I spot CG stuff that can be rendered real time is that there simply are not enough rad bounces and objects without direct lighting in the scene end up being too dark. Baking lightmaps takes a long time, and realtime radiosity methods are still CPU bound.
The user who receives it can: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

I don't think they do too much storing of email details, they know that it's a sensitive area and that an employee will eventually blow the whistle and it will hurt user trust, which is a big part of their business.
your comments reminds me of this, which was posted here on HN some time ago when it first came out. "The Last Days of the Polymath"

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days...
"I wonder though, without anonymity, what would have happened?"

Actually, had there been full anonymity they wouldn't have had the email address, no contact would've been made and the help wouldn't have been possible.
I bet Palantir also has Pakistan as a client.
It's like how box office numbers are reported... "This movie was the biggest opener ever!... on the Tuesday after Labor Day"
Simply read Plato's dialogues. Everything after that is just a footnote.
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I didn't ask about how to be a billionaire or on how to start innovative companies, I am asking to to actually use different careers altogether to make it more useful. Elon Musk has in-depth knowledge in physics, economics, computers, coding and obviously business, a few were a degree course too
Oh, then indeed I'm wrong here.
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True, however many other lisps were developed in the 1970s (i.e.: Maclisp), including Scheme which came in 1975.
Always awesome to see an outlier, and one removed from our busy lives. I can't help but romanticize living far from others (though, in a cabin- for some good eyecandy, see the 'cabin porn' tumblr.) But, having read this a second time, the part that I definitely didn't appreciate is the burglaries. There are plenty of people who homestead (low-cost, off the grid) just fine without instilling fear into their communities (IMO, despite being a hermit, he did have a community by definition of pillaging them to survive.)

Many people escape the busy life and it works for them. Plenty of them blog about it. Martha from Canada: "I fondly remember an old friend saying that he would never live in a place that had a traffic report." Her latest blog posts are a selection process for which chickens get put on the chopping block. Others write about getting new wood stoves, or photographing piles of wood they chopped for the winter. No one blogs about burglarizing cabins.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/
You guys are doing a fantastic job, anything that can give you a bit more of a breather between releases and increase quality is something I'm certain the community will embrace.
I created an account just to tell you how wonderful your rambling is. When I think about similar issues, my mind wonders towards evolution. If you believe that our brains evolved to solve problems we faced way back when, you must accept the unlikelihood that they are capable of understanding cosmic truths (not sure what the real phrase should be for that, but you get it).
This seems to be the real 1.0 release...
I can only get the text to display if I scroll down and then back up, and I'm not getting any audio. I disabled uBlock and Disconnect.me and I'm not running any noscript-esque extension. Chrome 36 on Windows Vista.
I half-agree with you, but isn't there an ethical line past which it's wrong to call someone a hero?
Can't stress this enough. Every indie developer who has graciously taken time to chat with me gave me this advice.

The problem with starting a game "from scratch" is that you have to invent the entire universe. While this can be fun and is less of a hurdle once you've made game #1001; it's tedious and error prone. You could get frustrated long before you even get to programming your game.

If nothing using Unity, or other tools like it, you will save yourself time prototyping by avoiding a slew of typical game boilerplate.
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We can argue all day about the use of scroll for navigation, but that would be sad because this is seriously cool.
No, Javascript will concatenate two strings that contain integers if you add them.

"1"+"1" //=> "11"
This is a pretty small and mostly importantly, relatively static database. Why not cache it locally rather than access as a web service.

That being said, zip+4 is a bigger DB. Although, I have heard those last four digits are meaningless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_%28Seinfeld%29
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It doesn't work correctly more than half of the time in Firefox and IE 11 (scrolling, clicking, cursor keys). There is also a transparent red area layering above half of the screen (maybe it's intended and fits the "Beats" headphone, the last picture?). The "1990s" are missing too, with the Sony disc man (portable audio CD player), its ear plugs and the later MP3 CD player.
I think you're missing the point. Like any other forum, Startups Anonymous is a place of likeminded people. It just so happens that this forum doesn't require you to pretend you're somebody that you're not, or that your company is "killing it" , when your struggling to figure it out like everyone else.

If the answer to solving issues was to change careers, nobody would be employed.
They are calling the main attack UI state
inference attack (looking at shared memory for window manager state changes) from which they begin an Activity hijacking attack (phishing). The camera attack is merely taking a picture right after a secured app (e.g. Banking app) has taken a picture.

The paper is linked in the article. Here are demos linked from their paper: https://sites.google.com/site/uistateinferenceattack/demos
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I think what might be the case is often so many system calls result in blocking events (I/O, IPC, etc.), its safe to assume a system call will block.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148120.
What about performance aspect? What kinds of games Unity is suited for? I heard that Unity has some troubles keeping up with smooth 60 fps when the number of objects is quite large. Don't want to sound ignorant. Just wondering.
Why JavaScript cryptography is very useful and safer than SSL
> I was wasting a bunch of time learning CoreOS

I'm pretty sure CoreOS and Docker are different solutions to different problems. So... one is not really inter-changeable with another, and thus you were not "wasting" your time.

So, perhaps you didn't understand the problem you were trying to solve? Docker is about application environment isolation/portability (not! virtualization! -- there is no security provided here), where CoreOS is about scaling and HA.
What happened to learning to code by reading K&R or some other book that explains how the machine works?
Doesn't work in my browser.

Safari - Version 7.0.6 (9537.78.2) on OS X 10.9.4
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention his language abilities.

Since the age of six, von Neumann was fluent in Latin and ancient Greek. He also read (and remembered completely) all the major works of antiquity.

As someone who's been struggling with Latin and Greek for over 10 years it completely breaks my spirit to know that for someone else it was so effortless.
See iOS app "DragonBox".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upu0gwGi4FE
Interestingly enough zip codes don't cover the entire US. Not even the entire continental US. Lat/Long 40, -110 (in NE Utah) is a good test case to make sure your code handles that circumstance.
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