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Learning to produce food takes more time and energy than people realize. Every piece of land has a different mix of nutrients in the soil, water, sun, wind, insects, you name it. It takes most new folks a few years of work just to figure out how to use their own soil properly, and you often need to build up the proper nutrients to make it work, via composting, growing some cover crops to replenish nitrogen, or good old animal poo.

As far as fruit trees go, how they were planted has a lot to do with their success, as a poor root system will create a poor tree. Likewise, a few years of bad trimming will create a tree that spends more energy on wood production and not fruit production.

Frankly, I could type a lot of random stuff that needs to be thought about, but the truth is that growing food takes research, learning, and practice. We have spent years learning about gardening and homesteading, finding the right land and home for ourselves, and working it to start producing for our family. Years. And we still feel like raw beginners. It is not as simple as just throwing a few seeds in a garden box and watering them, although that is a good start.

To bring this back to startups, one very helpful product may simply be a training program to help people through the learning process and guide them on how to figure things out for their own land.
Aside from the physical takedowns, expect a financial crackdown. Tor project assets would be seized, Paypal accounts locked, and CC services withdrawn.
Quantum mechanics is not simple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle too complex to compute.
>Except we don't even know if we are living in "actual reality". We could already be living in a reality simulation.

No, we know damn well that our current reality works based on fixed physical laws. You can't change something's color in reality by altering its texture-map, and you know that everything in reality which looks like an object is an object, while everything that looks like a person is a person.

>When the virtual reality is equivalent to the physical world, is this connection to physical reality necessary?

... Yes. In the exact same way that it is sometimes necessary to unplug your laptop, leave your cubicle, and go outdoors. For one thing, however much you might like your cubicle (read: "virtual reality"), it is ontologically dependent on outdoors (read: real life).

Or you could be walking along in virtual reality one day, enjoying the nice simulated weather from your upgraded Navier-Stokes package, when you neatly wink out of existence because a squirrel back in real life chewed the wrong cable.
Well, the logarithm is all but linear. If there was such an A you'd have

<x|A(|Psi> + |Chi>) = log(<x|(|Psi> + |Chi>))
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Read the paper more closely. I do not know if they use it, but they do have access through the Kaesong industrial region.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region), Hyundai built it, so they know of its existence.

Actually, unification might make this less attractive, as wages likely would rise in the North, changing the economics of doing this kind of stuff (I guess a bit in the way the abolition of slavery changed economies)
That's a great point. I guess I didn't realize the incredible level of sensitivity to trace amounts gluten that comes with Celiac. Is sounds like it's almost to the level of peanut allergy (although a different kind of reaction).

It's too bad the 'Food Allergen Labeling Consumer Protection Act of 2004' didn't cover medication. Sounds like a worthy congressional lobbying cause. Proper labeling really isn't too much to ask.
"not "amateur-hour web designers"

Perhaps you're confused. Most people who refer to themselves as "web designers" aren't meant to be or and aren't trying to be computer scientists or engineers. Many of them have a graphics design education, or taken inspiration from that tradition. Some of the more technically-minded of them can do basic coding, but most of them stop at HTML and CSS. But they're better than I am at UI/UX, and visual design, because that's what they do. They're not meant to be computer scientists.

If you mean web-application developers, however, I'd urge you to take a look at some of the stuff that is being done on the front-end these days. (not to mention the fact that this blog post was written by a Javascript expert)

Yes, there are some people who have drifted into their jobs and are little more than cargo cultists, although some of the more talented and curious of them do make the upgrade to serious professionals. But by far, most of the people I've worked with recently on front-end jobs have had a rigorous computer science education, with an excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software engineering, and computer architecture. The fact that they're working on the front-end, in Javascript, is incidental. In their spare time, and if they're lucky, on some in-house stuff, they might prefer working in Haskell, or maybe Clojure. But much like C in past decades, the web is ubiquitous, and any serious developer of this era must know how to work in it. We don't all have the privilege of getting paid to write Scheme.

But I do share your opinion that there are certain foundational concepts and knowledge that all professional programmers should have in common, including some of the papers referenced.
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Recently a left wing, female politician in the UK had her career destroyed by an ill-advised tweet (as in, revealing her true thoughts about the working class voters who elected her). You would this that would have educated these people that what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, but there's no sign it has.
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I've learnt from various sources, but none of them were papers. There is no one-size-fits-all teaching or learning method. And rudeness and insults are going to make people less likely to learn, not more.
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Those were not shutdown for "enabling" criminal activity. They were shut down for actually doing criminal activity. With megaupload it was failure to abide by the DMCA, with silk road it was handling money for/from drug dealers. I cannot see how Tor has actually done anything criminal beyond what a thousand other transitory service providers do every day.
Link here: https://github.com/bevacqua/hget
Looks like you need to sign up for Google Voice to get/choose the number:

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Agree with everything about your comment, except I wouldn't characterize the FDA as "overwhelmed". Read the expose 'Dirty Medicine' on Forbes and you might choose a different adjective. :-/
Lost me. The Big Lebowski (how could I forget). http://coub.com/view/rvf8
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in most of Europe, the role of prosecutor is split in 2 since the introduction of the "code Napoleon".

(I went to look for the English names of these roles, but only found the name for 1 of them: "Examining magistrate".
It seems there is no English speaking country that also has a legal system based on the code napoleon ? )
I had a dream about one of these papers tonight (seriously), so I come to HN and find this post. Pretty amazing coincidence. :)
Humanity is working towards a system* that doesn't rely on a large corporation to carry out basic needs like phone calls. Until that happens, this behavior should be expected (if history is any guide, nothing will change in the telecom business soon.)

*e.g. mesh networks, which are technically feasible and highly desirable for end users, so I posit that over time we will drive towards them and get there one way or another.
Ah, I see. Your argument makes a lot of sense.

I'm sorry you had to spell it out for me. I suppose I wasn't thinking clearly at the time. Apologies.

And I apologize for my general tone in my response. I made the mistake of writing it before attending to something, and my response ended up sounding much too forceful. It wasn't my intent, and I should have given your reply the attention it deserved.
Unfortunately your otherwise correct and very healthy mentality on work/pay ethics is only fashionable in US + Canada + Australia + parts of Europe. The whole rest of the world (that happens to include more than 60% of the planet's population btw...) has very different views on things. And considering that return on capital grows much faster than return on labor, things are not improving worldwide, actually the reverse...

And keep in the mind that software industry tends to be on the "fair" side of the fence regarding work/pay ethics everywhere in the world... all other professions are much worse.

And sticking to the subject: lots of programmers I know would unfortunately choose the unpaid overtime instead of the working with legacy code, and, unfortunately, I've even witnessed discussions where the programmers were more or less directly offering to put in the unpaid/unclocked overtime just to convince the management to let them do the fucking rewrite from scratch!

...the world in general is much crazier than you think, and you "crazy talk" can very easily turn into "they way we usually do things down here", unfortunately.
Not sure yet. The plan is that Neonto's business would be more about selling valuable add-ons (cloud services, plugins etc.) rather than the actual app itself.

So if that happens, the price of the app itself will be as low as possible.
That was a thoughtful offer from the folks over at 2600. I had this little internal dialog beginning, "what a conundrum would Sony find itself in had it it instead been a threat?" I thought it was a silly thought, but then, I really started to wonder what the Sony response would be. It would have a group threatening them--supposedly--if they do release the film, and another threatening the same consequence if they don't. To whom do you yield, Sony?
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Not sure what is this trying to say.

"if you want to put it online, you can put it on our website full of anti-governmental rants"

Ummm... All right. If Sony wants to put it online, they will find other ways.
Sony CEO Michael Lynton says Sony still wants The Interview to be seen and is considering their options. Those include DVD and Blu-ray home video, YouTube, VOD, and other digital platforms but “there has not been one major VOD distributor, one major e-commerce site that has stepped forward and said they are willing to distribute this movie for us.” [1]

Hackers to Sony: We'll stand down if you never release the movie.... "Now we want you never let the movie released, distributed or leaked in any form of, for instance, DVD or piracy. And we want everything related to the movie, including its trailers, as well as its full version down from any website hosting them immediately." [They] warn the studio executives that, "we still have your private and sensitive data" and claims that they will "ensure the security of your data unless you make additional trouble." [2]

Imagine Sony putting it on BitTorrent with a pre-roll asking viewers to donate money to a charity of their choice through a micro-site they setup to track how much has been given. Or something.... This is actually a moment in history where Sony could truly shine.

But back in reality, whatever is in those held-back stolen docs, they probably need time to prepare for the fallout. If they can stall the remaining doc release by stalling the movie release, they can buy themselves some time. In the meantime, the audience for the film is growing daily, but I think will peak and fall if they wait too long.

[1] - http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-president-obama-the-intervi...

[2] - http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/media/insde-sony-hack-interv...
Perhaps the comment came out wrong, let me try to be a little clearer.

I'm not trying to create separate categories between front-end, back-end, desktop, CLI, and systems engineers. The distinction I am trying to make though is that yes, while Computing has become a vast field, there simply are some basic fundamental skills that are absolutely required if we want to go beyond our current level of achievement.

These are things that you have mentioned: deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, software engineering, computer architecture, etc. This is absolutely the MINIMUM requirement Without understanding these things, we will stay at this present level of software engineering forever. Sure we will have mastered the tools, and the current programming-paradigms that these tools teach us, but we will not be able to advance.

Whether one programs in JavaScript, Forth, Common Lisp, or even BASIC isn't the issue. The point that Fogus's post is trying to get across, or at least what I have taken away from it, is that most "serious" programmers are incredibly lacking in what is considered basic foundational knowledge. What field one specializes in is irrelevant, there is just some stuff that everyone has to understand, not necessarily in the way that a specialist in the field does, but at least have more than passing, cursory knowledge of it.
it uses sugared dom for template. while it's fast on mobile web kit, it's shower than inner html on Firefox mobile. and if you are serious about mobile you know that's the future.
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I heard a Sony executive on NPR today say "If and when this movie is released... Let me stop, when this movie is released..." Sony Pictures clearly intends for the film to be seen, but they need a distribution partner.
You can, and that's a great way to try it out.

Tails recommends against using it in a VM for serious purposes though, since at that point it's only as secure as your host OS. If your host was comprised then Tails in a VM might not protect your communications.
htop does not keep historical data as far as I know.
"The people that designed SQL knew all about the advantages and tradeoffs of "NoSQL" key-value stores"

I think they could not possibly imagine fitting the whole working set into server's RAM. Which changes quite a lot.
Well, it seems strange to me. The article you link seems to suggest "huh" might be a universal word, but in the details, they show that it's pronounced differently all over the place. For example, it tends to be closer to "ah?" in Mandarin.
If Sony can't find a distributor they should start taking Visa on their site and offer direct downloads, watch the dollars start rolling in, and get their first exposure to a business model they should have been pioneering 10 years ago.
Too much condescending tone in this "proposal"...

I think people just want to see the film. I certainly want to see the film. It might have a crappy plot or a second-rate screenplay or subpar acting, but with this sort of publicity none of that matters. Just watching it will be an event, perhaps an even bigger event than watching The Last Temptation of Christ was way-back-when...

Anyway, Sony seems to be in a defiant stance. It doesn't seem like Sony is going to yield; it seems like they are going to just find an alternative distribution path: "No thanks, 2600. We got this. After all, this is the sort of hype that we'd... uhh... kill for.... uh..."
Obviously you can find tons of examples of words that are different in different languages. I probably confused the situation by bringing Japanese in. My son is Japanese so we talk in Japanese to a baby. I wasn't trying to compare languages. I was trying to talk about baby words.

Yeah it falls apart at any level of complexity.

I just think there are certain cases in often used words and words that babies say or hear a lot at first. Like the mama/haha/papa/baba words. I'm talking about a 'language' in the same way the article talks about an animal language.
Like a few often used words linked to emotional states.

I don't mind if you disagree I just happen to believe oishii may be one of these words.
I predict within 30 years, it will be popular to own a backyard swarm of small robots that will tend a garden during the growing season. Pesticides will not be needed because the robots will hunt the bugs. Big backyards will become an important feature when buying a house. It will be cheaper AND more convenient than going to the store to buy your produce. Big ag and silicon valley will be bummed because the best home farming software will be open source and free.
I made a mistake by bringing Japanese into it - see my other comment. It's the language we speak at home so the one I use to talk to our son. The emphasis was supposed to be on baby-talk not foreign languages.
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I wonder if this applies to movies and other medias in the same way as well.
Downsides; filtering sucks compared to gmail, keybindings aren't gmail
"Now we want you never let the movie released, distributed or leaked in any form of, for instance, DVD or piracy. And we want everything related to the movie, including its trailers, as well as its full version down from any website hosting them immediately."

If only we had passed SOPA and CISPA, we'd be so much safer right now.
web2py is not comparable to rails.
wow, a bunch of tangentially relevant people telling a major corporation to do some shit theyll never do so that maybe they'll link a piratebay mirror that might spring up in the next week or whatever, this is some seriously relevant shit hits a massive bowl of cum
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>Why is it 'incredibly dangerous' to do so?

Most of human beings are "belief oriented” which is the result of hundreds of thousands of years’ evolution. It’s the cause of most conflicts in the world. The widely supported Iraq war is an example. That’s why it is dangerous to do so.

In hacker news community, there are more “evidence oriented” post-modern people. This makes a difference.
I explicitly asked for sources that are not on the far-right. The thing about the far-right versus academia is that I've got a fairly decent prior on the far-right rationalizing its ideological views, and a fairly decent prior on academia publishing things based on epistemic rigor rather than ideology.

And no, the Frankfurt School are not "cultural Marxists". This is a term nobody has ever applied to himself.
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You're getting downvotes for the unconstructive snark, but I feel there is a salient point in there.

Unsolicited email = spam; simple as that. And by that association, anything and everything being sold by those emails is suspect. After all, if you had a product or service that people actually wanted to use, why would you resort to spamming?
Who in their right mind would give their VISA to Sony at this point?
I've never understood why so many here ignore the CONTENT of the releases from the GOP. It's so clearly NK or an NK sympathizer. I don't see that kind of regional outrage and anger typically being used to frame someone else.
It absolutely doesn't, which is why I put in that disclaimer. But focusing on one company will just make people say "well Apple products are made with slave labor, so I'll buy a Samsung instead" when the Samsung stuff is made in the same factory with the same raw materials, and it solves nothing.
If anything I think this shows how poorly the US Gov is prepared for cyber-warfare. The last decade was no cake walk, but the next decade will truly be eye opening.

The FBI told Sony they didn't know if the theaters were safe. Seriously, WTF are we paying them for if they can't tell us, with absolute certainty, that our theaters are safe from terrorist attacks on Christmas. That's not very comforting...

So what I'm hearing is, we have no confidence in our national defense, and no ability to prevent, mitigate, or even simply deter these increasingly brutal cyber-attacks... Yeah, actually the last thing I'm worried about right now is CISPA. Like it or not, network defense just became a national security prerogative.

OK, so that's the counter-argument right? So this has been very well played and I don't see how you derail it now.
in case of megaupload it was totally ILLEGAL, using bogus charges
ROTFL! Okay, so yeah about giving Sony your credit card info ATM. Maybe they can take paypal ;)
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great tl;dr
I'm pretty sure that was the primary reason, especially for the sum they paid, which was pretty unheard of at the time for such a young company. YouTube's market share was an added bonus, but it was definitely not something Google couldn't beat given some time and the money they had.

But the fact that YouTube was the obvious target for all the litigations that were certain to come -- and outcome of which would also affect Google Videos and all other video streaming companies -- was a pretty big incentive for Google to get involved and make sure that they have a say in the control over the legal game.
Doesn't the assumption that the movie release even matters assume North Korean culpability in the attack (debated in other threads?)

If NK is not responsible, it really doesn't matter whether the movie is released. In this scenario, the hackers could easily leak the movie themselves under someone else's guise, providing an excellent excuse to continue their campaign of pure damage toward Sony Pictures. (Assuming they even bother.)
I have experienced this personally in a couple of companies I worked for - Just like mentioned in the article, they had high staff turnover. What happens is that nobody truly understands the codebase and it requires many more employees to maintain. To make matters worse, it's also a self-perpetuating cycle. It's more a management issue than an engineering issue.
Does hydroponics simplify this process?
I still have a hard time believing NK did this without any definitive evidence.

Wasn't it last December that NK was sending fax messages to communicate with SK? Now they can download Terabytes from Sony without anyone noticing?
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Can't read tptacek's mind, but I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that javascript cryptography running in the browser cannot provide the guarantees necessary for a reliable cryptosystem. You can't tell whether the browser has been compromised or is malicious. Although strictly; speaking there may be other good reasons to use this standard and plenty of non-browser contexts for javascript execution do exist and aren't necessarily as vulnerable.
Side note: I love the analogy of a credit card to describe technical debt and its one I've used with clients before and they really respond to it.

People (in the UK at least), understand that the interest on a credit card can kill you, while a regular loan assumes that you're paying off the principal month to month. Posing the question, are you paying off that technical debt month to month or is it just sitting there really gets people thinking.
Sony owns several digital release platforms.

If they want this movie out, they could make it happen tomorrow.

This is just PR speak. They might cave and release anyway, but Lynton's statement is deliberately weak and duplicitous, once again attempting to deflect all blame from themselves rather than admit to any mistake on their part.
I guess you could say they're protecting the memories? :-)