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Here's my take on this as a programmer. I hate saying I'm a Rails programmer, Django programmer, Python programmer, C# programmer, or in general X programmer. First of all because anyone who says they're an X programmer is usually terrible and second because it is not an accurate description.

Programmers solve problems with computers and computing devices. The language or framework that is used is completely irrelevant. Well, it's not completely irrelevant but it is damn near close. If you're not a good problem solver then no framework or programming language can save you. So really companies should be hiring generalist problem solvers and then teaching them to program if necessary. The problem is that most people don't hold this viewpoint and instead look for programmers that have been doing .NET or Enterprise Java programming for X years and then looking around and wondering why they can't find anyone. That and most of the things mentioned in the article.
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Nice advertorial we have here. No content whatsoever but plastered with plugs for his own startup. Nice miniscule blurred image of a spreadsheet which supposedly contains startup ideas.

A golden recipe to the frontpage of HN.
I'm not quite sure how valid such a complaint is, coming from a page that tracks via:

- Google Analytics
- Google+
- Twitter
- whatever else my URL blocker preemptively neutered

Linkedin seems to do the same as GA, and only differs from G+ and Twitter in that it shows the hit counts.
Ideas are like aholes, everyone has (at least) one ;)
Like ObviousScience said, there are hundreds of torrent aggregators (both public and private), and that's not to mention thousands of sites (e.g. forums) where torrent files and magnet links are distributed between users.

How can you measure and transact in BTCUSD without going to BitStamp?

By going to BTC-e, OKCoin, Bitfinex, Coinbase, localbitcoins, or Craigslist?

I'm not suggesting we couldn't get by on decentralised systems, but rather that such concepts are largely the domain of the geeky.

Geeks didn't pass anti-trust law.
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This problem was solved a couple hundred years ago. Single button input can be rapidly and efficiently done using morse code. With two buttons, one can be dit and the other dah.

One extra nice thing about morse is it isn't necessary to look at what you're inputting.
> How often do entities like universities or a Paul Allen type company sue for patent royalties? (This isn't to discount your comment in any way. I'm just genuinely curious whether such entities derive substantial revenue from enforcing patent rights, and whether trolls account for >95% of the revenue from patents.)

Part of the reason revenue is skewed toward patent trolls is the way they litigate. In most legitimate negotiations the inventor shows the patented invention to the prospective licensee who then decides whether the amount required to license the patent is worth it for including that feature in their product. If the patent holder is asking too much then the prospective licensee can walk away and pay nothing by just not adding that feature to their product. In this situation there is hardly ever any need for litigation since it would only occur if the company consciously chose to use the technology without licensing it.

By contrast, patent trolls almost always knock on the doors of companies that are already allegedly infringing their alleged patents. In that case the practicing entity has no option to walk away because they can be sued for past infringement even if they change their product immediately and will incur significant legal expenses even if they win in court. Furthermore, juries have the unfortunate tendency to vastly overestimate the market value of many patents, and now the defendant has to negotiate against a possible jury award rather than the actual market value of not being able to use the technology.

This all adds up to mean that the trolling behavior of filing a lawsuit against someone already allegedly infringing has a much larger revenue potential than the honest behavior of offering to license a new technology to a company that isn't already using it. It also means that the trolls make up a disproportionately large percentage of actual litigation.
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Simpler probably, but unless you can buy stake from anyone (like you can with hardware), it lacks the same decentralized advantages.
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This would be a good second programming interview test after FizzBuzz. A decent programmer should be able to handle it in 50-100 lines of any modern language, it's easy and quick enough to explain, it doesn't require any deep mathematical knowledge, the algorithm is pretty simple and obvious, and there are lots of little potential bugs waiting for you if you're not careful.
Love that video, I may have shared it with more people than I did the original rick roll video lol
Yes, I know I was being rather fuzzy there. I was intending to give a general impression of where the differences lie.
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Isn't email transferred in plain text? This is not very secure in my mind. Granted, nowadays a lot of service lets you reset your password through email, but that is only a one time thing. Now the whole system is dependent on someone not introspecting the packets flowing in the Internet.
Oh, well, Denmark and sugar beets then :)

The paper shows a practical use of secret sharing and secure multiparty computation to discover the market price of a commodity. Not sure how secure it is, but it's interesting.

It's not the same thing as securing consensus of a blockchain ledger. In the paper they have over a thousand participants and 3 (or some small number of) servers. In the blockchain problem, each participant runs his own server. The fault tolerance model is different, and also the blockchain requires continuous consensus.
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It still writes icmp_seq, which increases by one for each subsequent packet sent - based on this you can spot any missing responses. Indeed not as visible as in Windows though.
I use "use strict" on JavaScript that runs over IE8/9 and I don't get errors from it.
how can a troll make money ?
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Yes it is, Gavin. And thanks for the great job you're doing with Ceylon!
You may want to reread how Bitcoin actually works, especially about transactions and the proof-of-work concept.

The "wasted CPU time" is Bitcoin is not about mining, but about signing transactions. Sure, it makes it constantly harder for miners, but it also makes it constantly harder for attackers to insert fake transactions (that could make real transactions appear to have never happened, opening the possibility for all types of fraud).

This is what this whole "wasted" CPU power is all about. Increasing the "efficiency" of Bitcoin would destroy this security mechanism, making it almost trivial for attackers to game the system.
This is a distinct possibility, and I did run into one or two of these situations already. In my case, digging slightly into Angular's internals for workarounds was relatively successful.

An example is Angular's treatment of HTML forms and input elements, w.r.t. things that you'd expect, such as name / id interpolation (namely: Angular doesn't interpolate dynamic form names as you'd expect - [1] and [2]). In cases like this, digging into the internals to resolve the initial surprise and later solve the problem was slightly frustrating.

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1404

[2] http://jsfiddle.net/Thinkscape/23RPt/
> Why do people keep saying it's fairly difficult to win the lottery, when a random person won it, even on their first time playing.

You can't take one anecdote and extrapolate from that.
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If what you're talking about is starting from an audio mix and estimating the complete set of notes that produced it, you could try Silvet (http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/silvet), a (C++) implementation of a polyphonic note estimator from audio.

It's realised as a Vamp plugin which you can run in a host like Sonic Visualiser to review the results, play them back, and export as MIDI. (I'm involved with both projects.)

The general shape of this method, and of many related methods, is:

* convert audio to a time-frequency representation using some variation on the short-time Fourier transform

* match each time step of the time-frequency grid against a set of templates extracted from frequency profiles of various instruments, using some statistical approximation technique

* take the resulting pitch probability distributions and estimate what note objects they might correspond to, using simple thresholding (as in Silvet) or a Markov model for note transitions etc

Silvet is a useful and interesting implementation, but if you try it, you'll also learn the limitations of current methods when used against complete musical mixes. (Some of this is intrinsic to the problem -- the information might not be there, and humans can't always transcribe it either.)
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https://www.cereproc.com/ was the company. Their text to speech capability is pretty awesome
I have heard that it has trouble working in a complex build/development environment, e.g. when watching live file changes* with gulp/browserify.

*) https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-watchify/
The real constraint is the optics, a visual spectrum ccd type imaging device needed some funky optics to fit in some of the svelte spy says that have become sufficiently public knowledge that we know how they did it.

If it's taking instantaneous pictures of an area on the surface of the earth it's hard to avoid certain limits and I Remain convinced the X-37B is definitely not a traditional optical photographic intelligence gathering platform.

If anything I'd hazard it's doing something like running experimental hardware they think could be used for *LINT of some kind but needs space testing to see if it's worth building a dedicated satellite or two for the stuff.
Python doesn't have pattern matching but the code is basically the same. I guess better cases for showing off the feature are ones where the patterns aren't just True/False tuples.

for i in range (1, 101):
fbsign = (i % 3 == 0, i % 5 == 0)
if fbsign == (1, 1): print("Fizzbuzz")
elif fbsign == (1, 0): print("Fizz")
elif fbsign == (0, 1): print("Buzz")
else: print(i)
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I have to agree with you given your point.
"People think of YouTube as a West Coast company..."

I hope I'm not alone in thinking of it as an internet company. I've never wondered where it was located in the physical world, nor do I care.
I'm not - I think :-)

There is no particular reason a mesh network needs to be low power and low throughout - I think one of the most potent mesh network opportunities is (slowly?) replacing in home routers with (firmware?) to communicate amongst a neighbourhood. With that a small and growing group of people will be able to exchange local data and video and voice.

I perhaps naively think that physical proximity will become a major deciding point in bandwidth between two nodes (which makes sense) and this will encourage an explosion of useful local perhaps democratic applications - think of it as garden fence protocol. Sharing not just pirated films but kids calling their neighbours to just chat, parents arranging bar eques etc
“It’s the model made before catalytic converters, so it’ll run good on regular gas. Whaddaya say, is it the new bluesmobile or what?”

— Elwood Blues, 1980, The Blues Brothers
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> I don't know about you but if there was some other
> network for professionals to showcase profiles I would
> jump on that immediately

XING?
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Aren't there a lot of required packages to build a webapp? I would recommend against using any of those at least in the beginning. Maybe gorilla/mux, but even that can be avoided.

Don't just add deps you will never use, it's going to make your life painful.
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I recently got access to a LinkedIn recruiter-level account, and it's frightening how much information recruiters have about someone. Not only can they look at anyone's linkedin profile, there are additional services (not affiliated with linkedin... I think) that keep a copy of everyone's linkedin profile, even if you delete it. They cross reference your linkedin profile with meetup, facebook, etc, to get an ultimate cyberstalking profile about almost anyone they want. I think it was called talentbin.com, but there are other sites as well.

Very, very creepy and this isn't even the NSA we're talking about, this is a recruiter.
I'm not _totally_ sure, but I do know when I tried to reference HM in the docs I got yelled at... and now I'm pretty sure we do http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/07/09/an-e...
"You can't just claim one sick person's actions are the fault of some other group of people.

Actually I can. That group of people acts as an enabling environment, making the behaviour seem less extreme to those associated in that group.

Do you seriously not have any moral qualms about lying about millions of people and claiming they target and intimidate people?

I don't see these "millions of people" actively working to make sure the person making those threats is found and brought to justice.

I'll condemn that behaviour all day (behind the safety of my throwaway account)"

The actions of a few do not invalidate an entire group of people.

Take a step back, and realize that you are literally using the same exact argument as islamophobes.

And no, I'm not saying this behind the safety of a throwaway account because I'm not afraid of you, or random internet trolls willing to call me names.
I viewed the video to a half and found enough difference with what I know that I cannot agree with her conclusions. It is more complicated than performance/longevity. Especially when we going to humans from animals.

For example, reaction speed correlates with longevity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16079205 Reaction speed needs muscle power and neural signal power, both are supported by IGF-1.

Arm grip in midlife is stronger for centenarians: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541735

Thus, while entertaining, the video of your wife is too quick to jump to conclusions.
There's ChucK http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ and also for Python there's Pyo http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/
One difference is that this won't do exhaustiveness checks, where the pattern match will.
Couldn't help posting this (uses a Sony global shutter sensor):

http://scolton.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/grasshopper3-mobile-se...

If it were possible to get this in a consumer grade video product I would be very happy. Unfortunately these sensors are $1295.
That's just a matter of bribing linkedin.

"With Premium, you can see who's viewed your profile over the last 90 days, not just the last 5 viewers free members see."
With due respect to yourself (and jfb) the first paragraph is what I am talking about. I can just about guess you mean produce a sinewave, chop it into time slices and output those in some audio format.

I think I will give it a go shortly - close your ears :-)
The nurse, who had all the protective gear, and still got
the Ebola virus really caught my attention. I don't think
we can afford to debate, or wiki the problem. I think it's
time to restrict travel--at least to the United States. I
gringe when I hear Americans flying back and forth to Sierra
Leone in order to mine gold and diamonds. I don't have any
great solutions, but if we start restricting travel to these
affected countries--the ruling class who have money, and power might take more of an interest in stopping this spread? I know these countries are poor, but in the mist
of the horrid poverty--there always seems like there's certain areas that politicians, and the wealthy end up living. Tell them(the haves) "no travel", and they might just find the money to educate and feed to poor if quarantined? (I wondered why Liberia was so mad at Eric Duncan for coming to America. I didn't feel the president
of Liberia really cared about our welfare. He didn't want
the U.S. to restrict travel?) Down vote me! I'm tired of trying to be so politically correct.
>Yii 2.0 helps you to write more secure code. It has built-in support to prevent SQL injections, XSS attacks, CSRF attacks, cookie tampering, etc. Security experts Tom Worster and Anthony Ferrara even helped us review and rewrite some of the security-related code.

+1 for opinionated security at the framework/platform level rather at the programmer level, such that security features can be evolved, refined, debugged over time and pushed back upstream, rather than reimplemented from scratch each new project.
Haskell -

fizzbuzz x = case (x `mod` 3, x `mod` 5) of
(0, 0) -> "FizzBuzz"
(0, _) -> "Fizz"
(_, 0) -> "Buzz"
_ -> show i

mapM_ (putStrLn . fizzbuzz) [1..100]
Okay, substitute crazed survivors for the second of the three plagues, and famine for the third. Assume that both of these kill 90% of the people at the time.

That still leaves 7 million humans on the planet, and the ones most likely to be left at the end of that are also those most likely to have already dealt with basic security and food.

My point wasn't that it would be a good thing, just that killing ALL humans is a much harder task than it sounds.
"... of Anglo-american ..."
Isn't there still a clear tendency towards centralization though with a handful of mining pools dominating the market.

It also has a problem of transparency in this respect because you cannot know whether two miners are actually just one miner manning two machines.
Neat. Why is it limited to Germany?
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1. So when Facebook raises or lifts those limits you're dead.

2. So when Facebook pushes this feature a little bit more you're dead.

Sounds awfully risky to me, without a big upside.
Manual text input per se may not be the most important interaction with wearables. But getting this to work may be an important first step toward building, for example, a gesture-based method to interact in general with wearable devices that are resource-constraint (eg, small screen, limited voice/camera capabilities, etc).

Seems like you have some thoughts on other methods to input text when you say "we need to think of different ways to input text".
> So a little advice - if you prefer privacy don't forget to sign out of your Linkedin account before browsing the Web.

... and, of course, also sign out of Google and any other online service you are logged in!
There is the repository here also : https://github.com/enjalot/algovis
So what?

My point wasn't that lots of people wouldn't die, it's that it's remarkably hard to kill all humans. Even if 90% of people died to a disease, people fighting killed 90% of the ebola survivors, and famine killed 90% of the fighting survivors, we'd still have 7 million humans left on Earth.

Nothing you've outlined even pushes us out of the millions of people alive range - not by a longshot, considering none of those things mentioned above would actually be 90% deadly. My point was entirely that it's not an existential threat to humanity, and the only things that can actually pose such a threat are environmental (eg, the planet enters a new ice age, but even this might not be existential) or astronomical scale (meteors, gamma ray bursts, etc).

Ed:

Using slightly more reasonable numbers of disease killing 60%, fighting after killing 60% of the disease survivors, and famine killing 60% of the fighting survivors, over one billion people would be left on the planet. A catastrophe bigger than anything we've faced before, for sure, but not an existential threat to the species.
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I went down this rabbit hole myself, it's great fun. On our camera we noticed The RGB sensor data lined up well moving right-to-left, but misaligned when scanning left-to-right, creating a subtle rainbow effect.

http://topologo.com/animations/scan.html
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This is great advice :} on the train now
Patches 28-30 fixed underlying bugs, but 27 closed the loophole that made them accessible from the outside. So if you have 27 but not the later ones, you are safe from any currently known attack method from "outside" bash; you can still trigger unexpected code execution from the command line or a shell script, but this cannot be done remotely anymore. Theoretically, these bugs could be used as part of another attack, so it's wise but not urgent to patch them anyway.
In Go its pretty difficult to build an application with unused dependencies - the compiler complains
It's usually around this time I plug Self Destructing Cookies (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... ); it simply nukes any cookies that aren't whitelisted.

Edit: For Firefox
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It's not that embarrassing if they get it to work well, write several patents on it, and then get Google, Samsung, et al to pay royalties for licensing them. On the other hand, MS could build their own wearable devices and use the technology.
Thanks for this caution, will keep this in my head.
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On the train now, will try and listen to this! this looks pretty awesome to listen to!
You mean the guy who decided to own up to his mistakes, and pledged to offer full disclosure?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/221129/Prominent_YouTuber...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KclXm0fDo0

Yes, it's him.
There's a typo in the title, somebody please s/extenstion/extension/. Thanks.
Cool project.

The echonest remix API has similar capabilities, and can quantize into granularities of measures, beats, tatums.

http://echonest.github.io/remix/
In Laravel Version 5 (due in a month or two), escaping will be on by default.
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This is not the same problem. The problem here is to come up with an input method that anyone can use, because anyone can have a watch. With morse only some people had access to equipment and those people spent time training. Everyone else just used handwriting to give the morse engineer a message to translate. Basically a large percentage of the work that computers are used for is to automate the encoding and decoding of messages - automate the morse engineers job.
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Cool!

It reminds me of the slitscan special effects technique that was used to create the stargate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/slit-scan-recreating-the-star...
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I'm struggling to see how Adam Baldwin's tweet is linked to an anti-feminist movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51PfwI3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKmy5OKg6lo&list=UUWB0dvorHv...

Those are the two videos he links to. There's nothing anti-feminist about them.
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