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Clickbait headline for the guy at The Guardian who specializes in little else: Oliver Burkeman. The article actually just says your world view is likely off if you think life is fair.

Another one of his clickbait headlines: "No, I won't watch that cringe-inducing viral video. I'm a better person than you"
By 'aluminum' do you mean 'duralumin' or just aluminum? My uncle had a few tiles of duralumin in garage, and I remember it was definitely a lot harder than plain aluminum.
Exchange compatibility is a bit hit and miss right now though: the full suite of Activesync policies is not available, meaning that a lot of nifty functionality that I tended to rely on back in the day (SMS sync to email inbox is one...) don't work anymore. I'm hoping WP10 brings that stuff back.

As a sidenote, this is the first time I have ever seen the solution to anything be "switch to WP8". Neat!
Sounds like a cool concept. I would want to know how you address the obvious conflict of interest issue since many of these experts presumably would be hiring (or have friends who are hiring) as well.
It's not that they're decoded by a seperate unit but that they're executed by it. Still, the values of the two operands aren't going to be available anywhere except that FPU. If the entire design team was in on it you could probably run a signal back from the FPU to the decoder to issue an instruction to do privilege escalation. As for the idea of looking at the value of multiple registers, well, modern OoO CPUs don't have registers in the sense that the author imagines they do and having a floating point uOp look at more than two operands would have humungous implications for the architecture. Like, Intel no longer being able to beat AMD implications.

But if you imagine emulating x86 in software everything the author writes makes perfect sense. It would be just a tiny bit of code to do all the checks the author mentions and it would be really easy to hide it. So I'm guessing the author is a software person without too much detailed familiarity with how modern CPUs work under the hood. And that's ok, since exploits like this are still possible, it's just that reality is really complicated and this is just an example of why it can be so hard to make up stuff convincingly[1].

If I were trying to do something like this I'd do it in the decoder. x86 has a lot of weird prefixes you can throw together and large constants can be included in the instruction stream. By using in invalid value as a floating point constant I can decrease the odds of someone accidentally discovering the problem. The extra fanout in the decoder will mean a bit more power and latency but x86 decode is already super complicated so probably nobody will notice. And once you know you've gotten a valid trigger I expect you should be able to issue uOps by the normal path that will do what you want. Only a few people will ever need to know.

[1]http://lesswrong.com/lw/uw/entangled_truths_contagious_lies/
> If the general, constitutionally-enshrined idea is to increase the public domain, then don't we have an implied obligation to figure out what term actually does increase the public domain?

But that's not the idea in the Constitution. Instead, the Constitutional purpose of Copyright to "promote progress in science and the useful arts". The only thing in the Constitution that implicitly touches on increasing the public domain is the limitation on means to protection of exclusive rights with limited terms.
Primitives in Generics, part 1
As someone who has recently obtained a Masters degree in Computing science and who has few friends doing PhDs in big data analysis - I don't see that trend. All the latest research techniques that I see being used currently concentrate at throwing more hardware at the problem if it allows the researches to express their ideas easier - I have a friend who writes algorithms for processing 300GB graphs in Java. And basically the idea is that it really doesn't matter if the algorithm takes 40 hours because 90% of the time is spent garbage collecting. This is still preferable to writing much faster program in C, and spending weeks trying to do memory optimizations and playing around with pointer logic. If there is a need, then Uni will gladly pay for any requested capacity on an Amazon cluster, it's part of the Russel group so they have nearly unlimited budget for research. I am sure that's not the case everywhere, but in my experience researchers gladly trade raw performance for ease of use.
Interested in solar energy data?
> I think most professional programmers could write a relational database in under 1000 lines. Arthur did SQL92 in 20:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20060505221834/http://kx.com/q/e/....

I can make any program only 1 line long if I remove all the newlines. I don't care if a program fits on one screen if it is unreadable. The example you cite is a poor example of a valuable program as it is on purpose made to be difficult to reason about.
> Most people don't bother any more, which has lead to a much smaller number of PE-Engineers many of whom are relegated to being mere license-holders who sign drawings for others, who do the actual engineering.

To some extent this happens in Australia as well, although there is a movement both to require things to be signed off by a PE (or CPEng here), and to have those engineers provide documented supervision of the work they sign off on.

> As far as that goes, I've met a number of pedigreed folks who can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag.

No argument there, certification is never proof positive of competence. I've met very good engineers who aren't Engineers with a capital E, and very bad Engineers who knew enough to fool a test board, but not much more.

The existence of these licensing schemes is far from perfect, but better than nothing IMO. Applying the concept to general purpose software is another discussion entirely!
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Lawrence Lessig tried to argue the "limited times" element of that clause in his case to the Supreme Court (Eldred v. Ashcroft). He lost.

He's since commented that he should have tried the promotion clause instead. That post-creation copyright extension fails that test.

Until someone tries that, we won't know.
The amygdala doesn't have a direct connection to the visual cortex, as this article suggests. The amygdala receives stimuli from the thalamus, just as the neocortex does, and (iirc) the amygdala's outputs can affect the neocortex, but that's not how the neocortex gets its signals. The signals go to both the amygdala and neocortex independently, like a fiber optic splitter.

Because it takes so long to think, and probably because the amygdala is so small and simple compared to the neocortex, the visual senses we receive hit the amygdala well before they hit the visual cortex. We experience pain and pleasure memory response from senses before we even know what those senses are.

You may have two memories of a horse, one just a plain-old horse, and one a horse while you were getting shocked. Since the amygdala senses the horse first, the emotional memory is returned first, which is why any attempt to bring up "horse" will dig up one of the emotional memory horse records. You then have to wait for the neocortex to catch up and say, hold on a second, this is just a regular horse. When your neocortex is completely swamped by the amygdala it is called "amygdala hijack".

The quoted paper is basically saying "the hippocampus and amygdala can affect each other", which is basically true: usually one does not rule the other, and they work in concert to give you a full picture of things. And just like the amygdala can provide an emotional veneer over logical memories, the hippocampus can temper the emotional response, for example with mindfulness practice.
Growth hacking too early doesn’t work
>And, they took out one of the neatest features: facial recognition.

Care to clarify who "they" is here? Last I heard, the local governments were going to pass legislation banning this feature. Google was more or less strong-armed by the state.

Yeah, its fun to give an overly-negative review of 1st gen dev platforms, but the reality is that a lot of whats happened with glass was more or less planned to happen. It was a test platform and part of google's largest wearables initiative. Glass may not even pan out, especially considering what MS is doing right now with AR, but it helped laid the groundwork for making wearables socially acceptable and helped make tech reviwers understand that wearables are going to be big. Glass opened the door for my Moto360. The Moto360 is opening the door for a million other things. I see Glass like owning a Vic-20; a largely unimpressive computer. The Macintosh was released a short three years later. Lets not piss on early adopters and test platforms too much. Glass was never going to be a consumer product.

>$1500

Then don't buy into the program. Its not a consumer product its a test/dev platform. It blows my mind people think they were paying for some hot new product. No, you were paying to be part of a dev program.

Also "google quality" is pleasant enough. I paid next to nothing, compared to other smartphones, for my N4 and N5. Those are fine phones.
> Assange is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault.

If this was the only neccessity, why not do said questioning over video link? This is possible – at least, in England, there is even a company that specializes in it (http://www.eyenetwork.com/specialist-expertise/video-confere...)
Please remember that with, say, a macbook, one can easily monitor traffic between your access points and authorized clients of your wireless network.

From that, is simple to extract the mac address of an authorized client, configure your macbook wireless card with that mac address and join your unencrypted network.

This is why mac filtering is useless on wifi networks.
Actually, for New Zealand, there are huge benefits in terms of market access for their primary industries (milk and meat).

Add to that the indirect benefits that the movie industry brings to the tourism industry (yep, they measured it), and you have an agreement that is beneficial to the top two industries.

New Zealand wants to sell Americans milk and lamb. Then they're going to want to come over and teach Americans how to grow your _own_ milk and lamb.
Yes, there is an arrest warrant for Assange in Sweden.

Assange is mechanically harder to extradite to the US from Sweden. Extradition from the UK requires only the approval of the UK. Extradition from Sweden would at this point require the approval of both Sweden and the UK. Both Sweden and the UK are bound by the ECHR.
In gaming, the concept is called a "replay", where instead of recording the pixels on the screen in every frame, they instead record all inputs processed on every frame, and just replay them thru the same engine. The action is technically idempotent in the game world.

Where this breaks down is when features get updated between revisions. If your game patched the "jump" function to increase upward momentum from 1.1 m/s to 1.13 m/s, the Replay would be incorrect. You would be jumping onto platforms you couldn't get up to before, moving faster, maybe even dodging enemy attacks that hit you when you played that match.

The human neuroprocessor is always changing and growing, always revising itself. Thus memories replay incorrectly. You apply old feelings to new mental patterns, and sometimes they lead to weird places. Or sometimes you mistake something easy for being difficult, because your memory data is out-of-date for your current processes.
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7 days of traction
From the horses mouth or so to speak:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003519

https://clusterhq.com/blog/series-a-funding/
Lawyers cost money. The carriers are clearly going to sue. There is opportunity cost in persuing the lawsuits. You are going to see these lawsuits happening right now, and you are going to not see projects behind the scenes for each carrier which don't get funded because they are investing in lawsuits.

These investments
arguments are not bunk.
In my experience jobs outside of London have a much lower earning potential. I went to university in Devon, and there are a fair few tech jobs around there, but even as a senior developer with 10 years experience I wouldn't get much more than £40k. Instead I moved to London, and was getting more than that two years after I graduated.

Sure London is more expensive, but if you don't mind commuting you can live further out of the city for not much more than the UK average - I'd imagine rents between Bristol and Reading are pretty similar, but Reading is easily commutable to London (Bristol isn't bad either, but I wouldn't like to do it every day).

There is also the question of technologies too, if you aren't happy working with legacy Java or .NET systems then you'll have a much harder time getting a job outside of London.

Also where exactly is Central Scotland (I'm a southerner)?
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The guy standing between Facebook and its next privacy disaster
Never paid much for domains, but the biggest loss was exgfs.com

I registered it in 2005ish before that whole niche in porn took off, some dude offered me $100 3 days later, being young and naive I took it thinking it was a great flip. Year later I watched him sell it for $100,000. I learned my lesson that day.
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I sold a four-letter .org for $5000 once, original offer was $500 which I didn't think was enough. Whatever the buyer wanted to launch on it never got off the ground, and a few years later I was able to grab it back when it lapsed.
On the multiple ways, I was sure I read a post that documented them all and had me nodding along but can't find it, this one seems good though [1].

[1]
http://ceronman.com/2012/09/17/coffeescript-less-typing-bad-...
Open source? The LP engine is, but the site probably has a bit of code stink in it @ the moment. Once I get some time to clean it up, I might open source it. Benefits to open sourcing?

Not super familiar with MyFitnessPal, but MathFood allows you to say "I want waffles, eggs, and bacon for breakfast but I want to keep to my super strict diet ratios. How do I build this meal to hit those ratios?".
Thanks for the advice. Can you give some specific steps on how to "monitor your child's SSN for activity"? How would I go about doing this?
I own growthhack.how
How much do you think it would fetch?
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I got the book last weekend. Chris has done a wonderful job!

For me, metaprogramming is one of the things that was a deciding factor with Elixir, in addition to all the other functional programming aspects that are part of the language. I'm most definitely not an amazing polyglot with a wide degree of experience with every single functional language out there, but this feature pushed me to invest time to learn Elixir. Metaprogramming has saved me immense time in numerous applications in Ruby. So, I consider it a critical thing to learn.

Of course, after investing time in Elixir you very quickly learn the power of the Erlang VM. Elixir is like a gateway drug! I now have a consistent mix of Erlang and Elixir syntax in the stuff I'm playing around with. One of the chief complaints for people with Erlang is the syntax. Elixir makes the entire proposition of learning Erlang far more appealing...and then you really it is all actually Erlang under the hood!

And, one of the big things that Elixir adds on top of the Erlang VM is metaprogramming. There aren't a lot of great sources out there on the subject. Chris's book is a great addition to the slowly growing Elixir library.
Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
What we're talking about is a system in which individuals and small startups are at a disadvantage by design. The closer you are to missing your rent, the easier it will be for me to take your work.

I agree that IP law is harmful. But I don't think the solution is to penalize innovation while further tilting the playing field toward large corporations.
Official gov statement, only states that:

"IP address urgent needs caused by natural question of how to introduce IPv6, although other new industry solutions IPv9 IP addresses, etc. are also emerging, but IPv6 is still by far the most practical, the most sophisticated methods" [1]

Very distinct than the "chinatechnews.com" statement [2]. Just plain poor journalism.

[1] http://www.miit.gov.cn/n11293472/n11293877/n13434815/n136009...

Translated by google translate :)

[2] http://www.chinatechnews.com/2004/07/07/1352-chinas-new-gene...
Are we saying here that having a cap on 10,000,000£ for on-going spending in criminal cases that carries a maximum of 4 years in prison, would result in an unwanted precedence?

I would be happy to read a historical list of such cases. It would not surprise me if the case of Julian Assange is the single most expensive criminal case ever conducted where the maximum punishment is 4 years or less. Instead of asking how many teachers could get paid from that, maybe we should ask how many criminals got away scotch free because there was no money left to investigate.

How many violent rapes (i.e. not those of lesser degree) has been overlooked because a lack of funds? Police funding, which this 10,000,000£ is drawn from, has a real impact on peoples lives. Any unwanted precedence should be balanced to that cost, and those in charge should be ready to defend how they chose to spend it.
I just googled "download skype for mac" without the quotes and an ad for the mentioned site was the first result. Another non-skype site's ad was second, and the first real result was the expected download page on skype's website. I could see a lot of people falling for that.
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(I'm Australian)

But this is a bubble and it is unsustainable.

So many people say this, presumably because "it must be true".

I just don't see why that is necessarily so - at least in the medium (20-30 years) term. Australian demand is propped up by Chinese flight-to-safety money, and housing demand (especially in Sydney and Melbourne) remains very high.

In the short term, yeah, it would be good to see lower growth in housing prices, or even a drop. I'm quite sympathetic to the idea of negative gearing reform.

A 5% drop in real terms is possible, or even likely at some point, and markets like Perth and Darwin will always be more volatile.

But that's very different to the 30-50% drops that "bubble bursting" implies.
When I woke up this morning they had sent me and my spouse an email overnight with the same letter that's posted on the anthemfacts.com site. Maybe they don't have your email address?
It's technologically possible, but not legally.

Shall we rehash all the facts again?
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You're right. This is absurd pricing, both from the perspective of what expertise at this level costs, and the value the service intends to generate. A 1-hour interview in this service is ~0.08% of first year salary. A recruiter takes 15-25%.

It's hard to take this seriously. It's one of those things where, if it worked, you'd have to assume the owners would be using it to print infinite money. At these prices, there's a positive ROI to having their panel of experts interview random people off the street.

It's also not clear what the price tiers mean. "Junior/Senior/Management" --- is that the skill level of the interviewer?
I'd laugh my ass off if Assange came out of the embassy eventually, was extradited to Sweden, and after a short interview they'd let him go.
I agree with you so much. I find myself digging into Erlang docs more and more.

That being said, I think there needs to be a communal effort to improve Erlang documentation. It is very terse. One of the points brought up in Garret Smiths talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MvKLOecT1I
Fair enough. My real point though is that the Constitution says that the justification of copyright is to promote the useful arts and sciences.
Almost everything we used was plain old 6061 aluminum - the "standard" alloy everyone uses for everything. If a little more strength was needed, 7075 would usually do the trick.
one Euro an fifty Cents
Exactly - accountants count cents (or maybe mils), they do not measure/approximate them. If I buy 2 apples at 3 for a dollar, the cost gets normalized to cents before further adding up on the bill.

Self promotion: I've written about this topic before, and there is an aspect of trying to use fractions with relatively prime denominators that comes into play - http://roboprogs.com/devel/2010.02.html
You are right regarding Delphi, I just omitted the part where Borland tools used to get out of sync with Windows SDK.

I stopped at Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5, because by Delphi 1.0 time-frame I was at the university and wanted something UNIX friendly so went C++.

I knew C and C++ still from MS-DOS, never liked C in regard to what Turbo Pascal could offer, hence C++.

Also I got eventually fed up of writing Pascal wrappers for all WIndows APIs not provided by Borland.
Sure, what if no-one had any rights over Mickey Mouse? Everyone would be free to use him however they liked. (There are specific issues when you do that with land, but as far as I can tell none of them apply to copyright.)
Microcopy: The Voice of your Product
Pretty much all the services that we are releasing will have some adaptation capabilities - allowing you to provide your own data, create your own models, etc - at some point. Stay posted.
Governments have the means to escalate situations to Moby Dick levels of megalomania, especially when it's other people's money funding it. Until we have the power to withdraw funding from crap like this -- much more powerful than voting -- the insanity will continue.
This quote resonates with me

> I am old enough to have been taught, in my teenage years, to write computer code in physical addresses, that is, sequences of zeroes and ones, each sequence referring to a particular memory cell in the computer. My colleague, an IT expert, told me recently that he and people who work for him passed in their lives through 6 changes of paradigms of computer programming. In many walks of life, to have a happy and satisfying professional career, one has to be future-proof by being able to re-learn the craft, to change his/her way of thinking. How can this skill of changing one’s way of thinking be acquired and nurtured? At school level—mostly by learning mathematics.
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Its basically transferring wealth for those who don't own to those who do.

What is? Banking deregulation? Or the features of the tax system like negative gearing?

They are very different things, and talking about them both as they are the same thing or have the same effect is just plain wrong.
In support of this, in high school I didn't quite find math interesting. Once I got into the higher level courses in college I became enthralled in linear algebra and probability theory. Unfortunately it took until my senior year before this occurred (graduated bs in cs). This article helps provide a basis for greater variety of math courses in high school IMO.

p.s.

j2kun your blog is awesome! Your introduction to the math behind PageRank introduced me to the world of linear algebra and I have truly enjoyed the adventure it has set me on. Thank you!
There does seem to be a need for an "Internet fund". Pick 100 of the core free technologies that everyone relies on and pay people to maintain them.
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