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> [Note to Hollywood: can we please have a Culture movie?]

The only one I can think of where they might be able to stay more or less true to the source is Consider Phlebas, wherein the 'hero' fights for a monotheistic alien race against a bunch of godless communists.

Plus I would dearly love to see the Clear Air Turbulence's escape from the depths of that GSV rendered on the big screen.
Arthur C. Clarke: 2001

Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama

Pierce Anthony and Robert E. Margroff: The Ring

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes: The Legacy of Heorot

Stanislaw Lem: The Invincible

Isaac Asimov: The Foundation Trilogy
I enjoy The Queendom of Sol series, by Wil McCarthy.

Also, A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky.
I posted this link after having read the author's comment to a one star review on Amazon:

"Kyle Simpson8 months ago Report Abuse
I can assure you, my goal of splitting up the content into a book series had ZERO to do with making more money. It's actually quite the opposite. One of the things I hate the most about tech books is that I spend $35-50 on a big book of which there's only a few chapters I actually care about. I almost never read a whole book.

I decided when I wrote this content that I'd make each logical chunk of content available separately, which means that you can buy only the stuff that you actually care about. This COULD quite likely mean that I make a lot less money in the overall picture, because there will be plenty of people who don't buy all the books, or even not enough of them that would have generated the same income as a single book would have.

This places you, the reader, more in control, not only of what you buy and own, but more deeply of what you spend your money on compared to the content you get. Rather than being about me greedily making more money, it rather downgrades my ability to make bigger chunks of money per copy for the majority of people who (like me) only want/need part of the content.

With regards to this content being "pointless", that seems quite a spurious and unsubstantiated claim. Pointless to you? Perhaps. But I feel quite certain there's a lot of content in there (like block scoping, etc) that most developers (and perhaps even you) aren't fully aware of. If you're already a JS expert (even on all the new ES6 stuff coming), then you probably do know JS and I'm not sure why you bought the book.

The spirit of the whole series (given the title) is to get us all (myself included) to admit how we don't fully know JS and how we need to dig deeper than we have before. If that's lost on you, I'm sorry.

One last comment: these books are all available fully for free to read here: http://YouDontKnowJS.com In addition, Amazon's site makes preview snippets of the book available to read for free so you can get an idea of what you're buying. It's a shame you apparently didn't read the content/previews before buying, you could have saved your $5-7 (at least it wasn't $35-50)."
Poul Anderson's "Technic" stories, e.g. "The Trouble Twisters". Must re-read some.

Somewhat more recent: pretty-much anything by David Brin.

For my taste, a lot of recent sci-fi seems to be a little too focused on politics and society vs. the exhileration of a good technical solution. But do enjoy Charles Stross and John Scalzi.
Is there content in the book that isn't on Github?
Everything from John Scalzi,
start with Old Man's War
and then read through everything else.
Bah, another example of bad science reporting. Here's the Guardian version of this:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2015...

> The Mail on Sunday has shouted that ‘cannabis TRIPLES psychosis risk’ and that skunk is to blame for ‘1 in 4 of all new serious mental disorders’. Is this what the study they cite shows? Well, no, but it’s really interesting research which could advance our understanding of the relationship between cannabis and psychosis.

> However, the authors clearly point out that they cannot be sure the association seen in their study is causal.

Edit: Hilariously, here's a later Guardian article:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/16/skunk-cannabi...

> Sir Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric research at King’s College London, said there was now clear evidence for a causal link between smoking strong cannabis and the risk of mental illness.

Great to see some consistent messages here. Wtf @ Guardian.
The top suggestion on this list was heavily criticized in 2011 for logging the activities of users to the extent that they were instrumental in a court case against a Lulzsec member. If you're using a VPN for torrents, you probably don't want a VPN that is known to maintain user activity logs, and if you're using a VPN to circumvent censorship in a country that might have serious consequences for it, you definitely don't want that. If you just want to get around regional content restrictions online, there are free browser extensions that do that for a lot less hassle.

Also, this smells like blog spam -- the other content on crdlabs.com is mostly "Top N things" lists or tech tips sorts of things, except for the review of privatoria, which is the domain for the majority of Miner_anonym's submissions and #3 on the list of VPNs in this article.
I was also looking for a new laptop, and bought my first mac a week ago. It's a bit more expensive (bought apple care too), but I hope it'll be worth the price.

I picked the MBP because of the screen / resolution, batterij, and the hinges. Wobbly screens make me go bananas.

A comparable laptop makes you choose between either screen or battery, for about the same price.
I ran a file sharing site for a while (it started out as a way to get around email file attachment limits). Sure enough the child pornographers found out about it and started using it but close collaboration between the dutch child porn taskforce and myself meant that using the service for child pornography was a huge risk to the uploaders and downloaders alike.

The police never cared about any potential copyright infringement (which I'm fairly certain must have occurred as well simply because we could not possibly monitor all the uploads manually).

Eventually I clued in to a way to really close the door on the childporn if we could collaborate even more tightly but before this could get off the ground my main contact at the dutch police force died and his replacement did not show much interest (there was a huge flap with child porn made in daycare centers here at the time so I can see why he would have been too busy).

Absent the collaboration I shut the service down, but in principle I think file sharing services have many good aspects, they are just tools and can be used for good and bad alike.
I thought the same thing the first time I read Consider Phlebas. Having now read it over 20 times, it's safe to say I changed my mind.

My key to the novel: it's all about the nature of identity. The very first line is something of deep personal significance, but he's forgotten why. He steals identities. It ends with the mind taking his name.

It's a keeper.
That's definitely retroactive, my old copy says no such thing.

Neverness is a fabulous book though. RfHS also worthwhile, but does sprawl a bit for my taste.
> Uh, oh. Lets hope that programmers at Google and Dropbox don't find themselves in prison for knowingly developing web applications that people are using for infringing content. This is ridiculous.

Neither Google nor Dropbox was set up with the intent of aiding copyright infringement. Neither Google nor Dropbox based their business model on aiding copyright infringement. The comparison is invalid.

> As a developer this worries me. If my employer is committing illegal acts I don't know about like copyright infringement or fraud, does that mean I'll be sent to jail even if I legitimately didn't know? We should all be concerned with this judgement.

He was the head of software development for Megaupload. It is hard to imagine that he did not have full knowledge of what they were doing and was not involved in planning it.
Even off the run Treasuries are fairly illiquid now, and the on the runs spiked (up) late last year one day without a decent market. The situation is pretty dire, as the OP mentions there are innumerable attempts to deal with this, although I disagree on their success. Good luck with the vested interests and the old-fashionedness of the market...
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War.

Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat & Behold the Man.
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Looking to buy a laptop to dual boot windows and Linux (probably Kali) and was hoping for some recent suggestions. I'm currently torn between a MacBook pro and a Lenovo. Ignoring price (I will save up if I need to) anything you would recommend? I have a quite powerful desktop just looking for something to use when on the go. I'm really open to any specs including screen size. I'm mainly looking 15" and under but can't decide what a good size really is. Obviously when going smaller screen size I'm sacrificing power. Thanks again!!
That's nice, but you shouldn't require people to unplug any speaker cables before opening a web site.
Is it air bnb with less privacy?
I have considered lately the equivalent of the "engineer's notebook" but I am not aware of such files in most notable software projects. It is supposed to record and communicate project challenges, dead-ends, attempts etc. to other contributors (probably like HISTORY?)

Does it make any sense to do that in a project?
The Algebraist is my favourite Iain M. Banks book too - the breadth of imagination in it is amazing

I think Surface Detail is my favourite Culture novel. Many Iain Banks books (regular fiction as well as sci-fi) are really just wish-fulfillment stories, but they're so stylish and fun to read that I love them (plus there's usually at least one very insightful rant by a minor character to be found in nearly every book)
Many of the already mentionned books.
Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity, in the hard science genre.

As a kid I was absolutely stunned by The Tripods. I highly recommend these books (trilogy) for your kids (10-13 yo).
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
> The paper you referenced from early 2014 isn't really considered very relevant anymore.

Andrew's proof of stake paper was vetted by many core developers and people with a great deal of experience in bitcoin-like consensus systems. To my knowledge nothing in the paper has been refuted to date. It would be nice if you would be so kind as to provide a reference.
I'm not too worried about ownership structure. Just usage (which isn't going away)
I couldn't agree more. "The Player of Games" also only improved for me with time and depth of context provided by the subsequent Culture novels.
Everything from Asimov.

The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

The Culture books from Iain Banks.

The Rama series from Clarke although it got tiresome after a while.

The Sparrow and Children of God from Mary Doria Russell.

Contact by Sagan which by the way is one of the very few sci-fi books that were successfully depicted in movies.

Brave new world from Huxley. Old one but still highly relevant.

The first ones from Gibson.

The Enter series by Orson Scott Card.

Bradbury's Farhenheit 451. This one is a classic.

Revelation Space from Alaistair Reynolds who writes the most hardcore sci-fi I've ever come across.
The programmers of the largest copyright infringing company on the planet (Google) are hopefully exempt from idiocy like this. Youtube contains massive amounts of copyright infringing videos, Google books brought it to a whole new level and the Google cache infringes on a very significant portion of the web.
You might try Mordant's Need by Stephen Donaldson for a fantasy-skinned, scifi-like approach. The magic in the books is based around mirrors, and a large part of the book is spent researching how the mirrors actually are working, what are their limitations and possibilities.
Really surprised to see no mention of H. G. Wells here, so I'm just going to add it :

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

You can get it at project Gutemberg, so no excuse not to read it.

Any book by French author Barjavel are also worth reading in my opinion, especially "La Nuit des Temps" / "The Ice People" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_%28Barjavel_nov... ) and "Ravage" / "Ashes, Ashes" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravage_%28novel%29 )
""You don't know x." titles considered harmful."
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Having read it, I found the point Schlosser made to be that, while working with nuclear weapons (and more specifically with large liquid-fueled rockets) is a profession relatively rich in personal danger for those who pursue it, the danger of accidental nuclear detonation per se is mitigated practically unto negligibility by the measures put in place to prevent it -- otherwise, at least one of the accidents he relates in such loving detail would've had a yield measurable in kilotons.
If anyone is writing Clojure, you can use Clygments [1], a bridge to Pygments I wrote a year ago

[1]: https://github.com/bfontaine/clygments#clygments
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PS : DO NOT read the Wikipedia articles if you plan on reading the Barjavel books because they contain spoilers that may ruin the experience for you...
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You can get an 8086 for $1.49 from Unicorn Electronics.

http://www.unicornelectronics.com/IC/8000.html
Those are my favourite two Ursula Le Guin novels too :) Very well thought-through effects of technology on culture.
> the parent's suggestion that anyone who criticizes Unix obviously isn't smart enough to understand it

That wasn't what I was saying at all. But thanks for playing.
I wish more countries had the balls to tell the US to fuck off. I wish MY country did; then we wouldn't have had the Pirate Bay Gate, where Swedish constitution was stepped all over.
They aren't particularly easy to take apart, but with todays hardware packing I'm not sure any of them are. But the MBP Retina I'm typing this on certainly has an HDMI connection.
Remarkable consensus regarding Iain M. Banks and Vinge being top choices. Vinge I would have expected due to his background in Computer Science, but M. Banks is a very positive surprise.
Care to write a better summary ? I'm sure many would be interested and upvote.
Synology nas. I have a ds2411 here that I'm pretty happy with.

And as for whether or not it is expensive: the data is expensive, the nas is dirt cheap.
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He was Megaupload's head of software development, which is a bit more than just "a random programmer that touched thing".
I use it as LESSPIPE and it's very nice. The only problem is it is slow, so you can't view longer files immediately as in regular less.
I remember a math professor I had relating a discussion he had with another professor about whether to make the students memorize trigonometry rules. The proponent had no comeback for: "Should students be taught to make their own lightbulb before they do their homework at night?"
IMHO sci-fi = set assumptions, follow them consistently to conclusion, telling an interesting story as a byproduct.

I don't think all science must be true (otherways old books would lose sci-fi status as we discover things contradicting them), but it must be consistent with the assumptions, and the assumptions should be "elegant".

And if you have technology, that can trivialy be abused for infinite power after 5 minutes of thinking - people in the story should be abusing it too, or there should be reasonable explanation why it doesn't happen.
Old news :).

#! is back (sort of).
http://crunchbangplusplus.org/
I'll try to interpret the code ...
You have an array of string values.
You use the .map function to iterate through all the strings.
For each string you change the string to whatever is returned from $(x).val()

(basically just juggling data, you should make a real world example.)

I have seen Jquery before so I know $ returns a document element. And if you pass # into it, it will return getElementById().
And .val() returns .value

So my guess is that you want to get the values of hp, mp, gp, whatever that is. I don't understand why you want them in an array though!? Wouldn't it be better to store them in an associative array? So that you don't have to remember what position in the array points to what value.

Try this instead:

var signupForm = getFormData("signupForm");
alert( "Your name is " + signupForm["name"] );

Or without the abstraction:

var name = document.getElementById("name").value;

A little more characters to type, but you don't have to learn a framework to know what it does. A trick here is to use keyboard macros to do the boilerplate. Don't var PI = Math.PI because of laziness.
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Doubtless there'll be lots of strong opinions, and (hopefully, usefully) lots of duplicates that you can then tote up to get a bit of a consensus.

Iain M. Banks - all his Culture books are fantastic, but I'll single out 'Excession' since you seek titles.

Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem'

Stephen Donaldson (most famous for the Thomas Covenant tri-trilogy) wrote a 5-book 'Gap Series'. I have very fond memories of it, though it's been two decades since I read it.

Philip K. Dick wrote a tonne of good stuff (and a bit of meh) but my two favourite are Clans of the Alphane Moon (the first Dick I read), and Valis (a bit more conventional to have on the favourite list)

Ursula Le Guin also has a huge body of excellent work - Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed are my favourites.

I really loved Roger Zelazny's Lord Of Light, though I understand it's not conventionally considered his best work.
Why would a country need several hundred (or even thousand) nukes, surely a handful would be enough?
Availability of 8086's is not an issue when building something like this. It's everything else.
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Absolutely. That's why the companies like Cloudways will become game changers. Simplifying and providing value on top of these proprietary cloud service providers is the key.
You might try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legacy_of_Heorot - unlike most of the books down by Niven and Purnell, this one tries to keep the science realistic (possibly due to them having a third author for this book - Barnes), and has one of the better descriptions of an alien ecology that I have read. Another Liven and Purnell novel, Footfall, does probably the best job of describing a realistic militaristic exploitation of space that I have read.
Purchased.

It occurs to me that the opposite category is also quite interesting. Books like Hammerfall and Snow Queen by Joan Vinge are fantasy with scifi elements that are hard to dismiss.
R.A. Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers blends fantasy and science fiction, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/roboman/www/sigma/review/90...

"I can point to two writers who stand outside, who aren't like anyone before them, and whom nobody has really tried to write like since: Cordwainer Smith and R.A. Lafferty. And of the two, Lafferty is the more sui generis ... Lafferty's approach to the universe was somewhat skewed and very much his own. He looked at things in a new, fresh way, and caused his readers to do the same (and often walk away scratching their heads)."

Related writers: http://www.ralafferty.org/related/
In this case, they were billed by the hour anyway, so no.
Read it. It's an awesome piece.
Anything by Alastair Reynolds - his Revelation Space series is great, and House of Suns is a fantastic one-off. He's probably the closest to Ian Banks in creating galaxy-spanning civilisations across eons of time.

Ian MacDonald is another good one. My favourite of his is The Dervish House, but his others are definitely worth reading.

Charles Stross is good. Didn't get on with Accelerando, but his Laundry books are a fun mix of HP Lovecraft/Len Deighton/IT Crowd. Halting State and Rule 34 are good explorations of pervasive augmented reality and intelligent algorithms. Also Glasshouse as an exploration of post-singularity society. Never managed to finish a Cory Doctorow book though.

I found William Gibson's Bigend trilogy a slog, but I really enjoyed The Peripheral - it's a fun read.

Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card are fantastic, but the remaining books suffer from diminishing returns (with the possible exception of Ender's Shadow). There are a lot of books in the series, but basically, the series finishes wherever you get bored reading it.

Anything by China Mieville is well worth your time.

Oh, I also really enjoyed Elizabeth Bear's Jacobs Ladder trilogy, set on a generation ship where the inhabitants have forgotten who they are and where they're going.

For some older stuff:

The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester – I was surprised at how good it is and how well it stands up. I couldn't believe it was written nearly 50 years ago.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein - possibly my favourite of his. I want to start a lunar revolution with a sentient mainframe...

I'm currently working my way through all the Hugo Award winners, from 1953 up, and there's some real gems there.
Its been mentioned a lot recently via mashable,bbc etc. Article highlights problems and provides solutions, including a product that makes it easier. Ive been using the screen protector and i feel less tired and wake up looking fresher.
The Apple Watch-the first Apple device with a design history older than its founder, or its designer-was conceived "Close to Steve's death," Ive said.

That presumably means the Watch is going to be the last Apple product Steve had any significant influence on. Where they go from here will be interesting to watch (no pun intended).
tl;dr: "tl;dr" in SO answer is correct.
Wow. Such Doge Serialized Object Notation
Outside of Manuel himself, no single person has put as much time and effort into m0n0wall as Chris Buechler has. Chris wrote most of what's on doc.m0n0.ch, and has by far the highest post count to the m0n0wall list. Chris also had a source commit bit. We host doc.m0n0.ch to this day.

Chris is honestly baffled by what Manuel wrote. It feels like a slap in the face.
Accelerando is not hard SF.
Actually, I always wanted to see Luc Besson (Fifth Element) direct a movie of Consider Phlebas.

Edit: On the subject of Banks movies - one scene I would love to see (in addition to the CAT escaping from The Ends of Invention) is the scene with the Ethnarch and Zakalwe in UoW, might make a splendid cold open.

"I," said the man, "am called Cheradine Zakalwe." He leveled the gun at Ethnarch's nose. "You are called dead."

I just realised how carefully worded that is...
I wouldn't just based on the title and a summary. Having read it I would have, but how could you know it was such high quality prior to reading it?
Oh please. I type on a MBP 10 hours a day at least, and it's no problem whatsoever. There's a lot of personal preference in keyboards, because it's all about how you use them. The position of your arms and wrists and hands makes or breaks the design of the keyboard.

Personally, I always found "ergonomic" keyboarsd to be unusable and uncomfortable, especially the Microsoft split style. But lots of people swear by those.
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I'll be honest I couldn't finish this article. I am so sick of writers fawning over Steve Jobs in every single article about Apple. Jobs has been gone for over 3 years now. It's time that he was only mentioned in passing in an article about Apple's future.
You realize not a single person has mentioned a female author? Let's fix that:

The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Among Others by Jo Walton

Feed by Mira Grant

The Hunger Games!

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Grass by Sheri S Tepper

Gate of Ivrael and Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh

And the fabulous space opera:

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie