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The only thing "better" about a digital camera is ease of use/convenience - it is perfect for the "I want it now" generation. There is no digital equivalent to medium or large format film cameras.

Your final analogy might be better if it was stated as the difference between bbq over real coals/wood vs a gas grill with propane tank. Yeah they both cook the food. The gas grill is move convenient. But it ain't better.
"FBI conducts search by disrupting Internet service, posing as repairmen"
Right right right. Shockwave Rider (as the wiki page notes) describes a world of ubiquitous networked computers -- its publication date, 1975, was also the year that Darpanet went operational -- and introduced the idea of a self-propagating program called a "worm".
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Why has digital life removed substance?

Because you can't view digital content without a computer. At a fundamental level, your interaction with it must be mediated with the aid of a third party. Nobody thinks digital lacks utility but it is inherently ephemeral.

If I give you an old photograph to look at, then all you need to look at it are your eyes and whatever light happens to be about. If I hand you an SD card, you need to go and find some sort of computer to stick it into, as well as a source of power for said computer, although I think that latter consideration might cease to matter in a couple of decades.
France (and others) should start an education campaign to explain what the Internet and WWW are and how they work.
Earl Grey is not even the default option in Britain...
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> Well, I've only been programming for two years and I'm new to advanced concepts like compiling etc.

What exactly have you been doing for two years if you think compiling is an "advanced concept"?

By the way, your functions go in the .c file, not in the .h file.
>Have you ever played an online game or seen a 40 minute old throwaway account used to attack someone? Fake email addresses to send hate mail.

Not sure how forcing a legal name is involved with online games, but the others can be solved by simply ignoring the troll.

> Twilio numbers used to call and harass people.

And if this creeps into legal harassment, I'm sure the person receiving the calls can work with Twilio and law enforcement.

> If someone feels like they can deliver abuse anonymously then they're certainly more likely to do so.

This is a conclusion provided without evidence. I can easily send someone a bunch of anonymous hate mail using a number of services, but I don't.

> What I bet you haven't seen is a verified Twitter account used to torture poor souls.

I beg your pardon. Ted Cruz has a verified Twitter account, and I find every word he says to be torture.
Your username is so appropriate for this :)
How would you like the students you mentor to add value to the relationship?
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Yes. NetApp products tend to be really great but dealing with their sales guys directly sucks.

Next time contact an VAR like Vandis who will size it, sell it, and help (or just do) set it up.
Pretty cool: describes a way of creating a 3D figure with the same properties as a torus, but avoiding a certain stretching/distorting you get with plain tori (simplification for one sentence summary...). Their approach seems related to the idea that if you have a closed curve bounded by another curve (a square, let's say), as you make the inner curve more wrinkly it gets correspondingly longer--though it remains bounded by the same square. Here, the three dimensional embedding is more 'wrinkly' along the axes that need to be extended in order for the emedding to be isometric.

I wonder if you only need infinite layering of corrugations if the 'stretching factor' is irrational. Probably not that simple :)

Edit: added a summary to the beginning.
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I'll bet many of those nimble customers go back to netapp.
Interesting; I had no idea that difference existed. Thank you for correcting me.
Made LightPaper, Octohub, and SpyGlass apps [1]; all side projects. Some of these even made to the front page of HN. Also, first one from my family from a third world country to go to college and get a degree (in Computer Science).

[1]: http://www.ashokgelal.com
Not bad, not bad... And I like the domain name too. Also, reminds me of my own idea years back when domain name POOMA NEWS.com was available...

POOMA of course meant "Pulled Out Of", and I could not help with some double-"O" animated logo ideas either... Realized that constantly being funny is such a strain on your creativity, decided to use that towards solving serious problems :)
"I have a football team, therefore I exist."

I'm sure Descartes would rephrase his famous though to something like the above, had he been contemporaneous of us (and tweet it as well).

These Liberlandeers need to create a proper national football team first to be recognized. Being between Croatia and Serbia, they should have no problem in getting good players.

Almost all of these European micro-states have national football teams which compete. Even Gibraltar has a team now (their home games are in Portugal). Vaticano doesn't have a team though, and I don't remember seeing Monaco as well.
That's a pretty substantial oversimplification. Amazon did that, and like I said, they were at best marginally successful.
This is such a slippery slope it makes me sad anyone would even suggest breaking up a company based off their 'importance to society.' If the founders don't have the right to decide which direction the company should go, who gets to decide and what gives them more of a right than the founders? I don't know who would decide what the threshold is whereby your company is now too beneficial to society and you must relinquish control. And to what fields to we extend this policy? If Khan Academy is found to be ubiquitous with homeschooling and providing an immense benefit to students, should we strip the leadership of powers lest they teach something we don't think is correct? It's such a slippery slope.

As others have commented, if Google had been shown to be malicious with regards to their search results, then I'd say some regulation is in order. But to espouse that we should take control of the direction of their company due to the quality of their product (and the adoption of it, as a result) is, in my opinion, incredibly asinine.

Likewise, if we do break up the company, how would you propose to do that? Because what I think you're going to argue in favor of is treating some of the new pieces as a public utility and leaving other pieces as private corporations.
Sure.

Well, that's just it though; They appear to be a major causal factor. They might be. But is there any reason for us to believe so, other than the observed correlation of some stressor with the onset of an episode?
And even then: do they cause or trigger the illness?

Or maybe that's what you mean - that a life event triggers the episode, not that the traumatic event is the genesis of the illness?
SpaceX will achieve reusability in multiple steps, first recovering the first stage, then the second stage and so on. The cost will go down, but probably not very soon and not so fast.
Why is this behavior "silly"? It seems to me like it's the correct behavior under the described conditions. (I'm not a networking expert though.)

If the server is incapable of handling the amount of data that the client is sending, shouldn't the buffers get smaller and smaller until they reach a size the server can handle reliably? (Assuming other variables like the latency of the connection or server load aren't changing.) If the server really can only handle a byte of data in the time it takes for a round-trip message, then it seems correct for the client to only send it one byte at a time...?
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Pivit is making some interesting strides in this market, it's been years since VC dollars have gone into to trying to dislodge the space. Derivative impacts of having a highly liquid prediction market are incredible.
It is interesting the number of things that sharpen when there is risk on the line. We've already discussed how narrow streets without signs are safer for pedestrians, but its true for a lot of things. The trick is to make it really painful but not fatal.
Is it legal for them to intentionally disrupt internet service like that?

It doesn't sound right they can just stop you from getting a service you're paying for whenever they want.
I think you should take a look at nimble, especially at the slide for exchange efficiency, it is on a microsoft page btw. Disclaimer I wrote the plugin to backup exchange at nimble.
I used the term physical as a quote from the author, who also used in quotes (hence the python style quotes in my post).

But "physical" somewhat captures the medical view on depression, as something distinct from the ordinary spectrum of "healthy" emotions, and with causes that are primarily internal not external (although, as you say, all thoughts and emotions are ultimately mediated through physical processes in the brain).

So my point wasn't that sadness is non-physical, but rather all experiences are physical, and most experiences belong to the spectrum of human emotions, which are influenced by external and social events, thought not always in the most obvious way (hence my opposition to the "just get over it" strawman, since "just get over it" might be a bad response to mere sadness too).

I also don't have a strong opinion on chemical intervention, except that I would hold them to a higher standard of evidence since I have a stronger prior on the root cause being social and emotional, rather than a congenital inbalance in brain chemistry. It's plausible that they work, and if they work, they should be used.
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(Oh I just realized that there are more pages to the article - the "next article" button caused me to overlook the "next page" button. Perhaps they explain what the problem is on subsequent pages.)
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It was a personal anecdote followed by an extremely common bitcoin service. Anyone who's been in Bitcoin knows of localbitcoin or knows meeting in person is a common activity.

I've seen much worse astro turfing throwing off large discussions by unused accounts hundreds of days old, and no response from mods. Mod policy is arbitrary and cultish.
I know you're being facetious, but you're already not compelled to feed a child, you can just drop him/her off at a police station or hospital.

Not that I don't think that article is full of crap. If we're going to apply property-based libertarian principles to the letter, then we need to talk about the months of imprisonment in a dark and confined area that the mother imposes on the child :P
How does this not get all FBI testimony thrown out by judges? If there is an organisation who pays its employees to lie in court, and they are known to suffer no ill consequences for lying, all of those employees' testimony should be considered worthless.
It looks like Sam made a (very) small update today; I'm assuming this prompted OP to post it.
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I hadn't heard about seamlessrdp before. That sounds nice, except for, "Please note that Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not supported." I usually use XP in VMs when possible, but that becomes less and less possible...

What about performance, though? And compatibility, like with XP guests? I used QEMU a long time ago, but when VirtualBox became available, it was a big step forward in performance and usability. KVM happened since then, but last I heard it still lagged behind VB (but I probably haven't kept up).
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Or for the Harry Potter fanfic version - http://hpmor.com/chapter/28 . In it, Harry tries to figure out why it's not possible to transfigure part of an object using magic.

> Human beings modeled the world using stratified levels of organization, they had separate thoughts about how countries worked, how people worked, how organs worked, how cells worked, how molecules worked, how quarks worked. ...

> But that was all in the mind. ... The implicit belief that Harry's brain had in the eraser as a single object wasn't just wrong, it was a map-territory confusion, the eraser only existed as a separate concept in Harry's multi-level model of the world, not as a separate element of single-level reality. ...

> There were no particles, there were just clouds of amplitude in a multiparticle configuration space and what his brain fondly imagined to be an eraser was nothing except a gigantic factor in a wavefunction that happened to factorize, it didn't have a separate existence any more than there was a particular solid factor of 3 hidden inside the number 6, if his wand was capable of altering factors in an approximately factorizable wavefunction then it should damn well be able to alter the slightly smaller factor that Harry's brain visualized as a patch of material on the eraser - ...

> And he held out a small pink rectangle, a rubber eraser with a bright metal patch on it. ...

> "Quantum mechanics wasn't enough," Harry said. "I had to go all the way down to timeless physics before it took. Had to see the wand as enforcing a relation between separate past and future realities, instead of changing anything over time - but I did it, Hermione, I saw past the illusion of objects, and I bet there's not a single other wizard in the world who could have. Even if some Muggleborn knew about timeless formulations of quantum mechanics, it would just be a weird belief about strange distant quantum stuff, they wouldn't see that it was reality, accept that the world they knew was just a hallucination. I Transfigured part of the eraser without changing the whole thing."
I guess you can never definitively prove it. However, given what we know about how the stress system works, how long-term high cortisol affects the brain, etc., it's pretty well established that long-term stress has certain measurable effects on structure of the brain. Also, there have been studies showing similar changes in brain chemistry in animals
to that seen in depressed patients, when put into socially stressful situations.

I'm not entirely sure what your differentiation is between "trigger" and "genesis" in this case. Can you explain?
Good.

This is an unpopular view, but Google is simply too powerful. Anything that acts against the Google monopoly on search can only be a good thing.
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Interesting. A while back on HN there was discussion of some actor (Tom Cruise??) using satellites to free child soldiers or something.. and conspiciously absent of pointing out the wars in the middle east
I wish I could delegate my vote to a committee of my choosing, composed of people I respect, trust, and admire for their intelligence, integrity, and values. I would expect such a group to debate issues openly, and invite commentary from the voters. Something like a jury, but for a parliament.
Then you need a new sales rep. Nimble markets themselves as being a cheaper alternative but they absolutely are not. I've priced both and the 2500 is consistently cheaper per TB. Pure isn't even close and doesn't claim to be unless you're comparing $/IOP instead of $/GB, and even then if you find the right NetApp rep they'll at least make you decide on product features instead of price.
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I'm curious, given the stated figures (total thrust, rocket dimensions, payload to certain orbits), is it possible to calculate the specific impulse of this new engine (with the atmo nozzles, I suppose)? I couldn't find it on their page, and I'm not quite well-enough versed in rocketry to even know if there's sufficient information to figure it out.
One minor algorithm change can (and has) wiped out the fortunes of thousands of companies.

For every winner, there's a loser. While you rally behind websites that are penalized (often with good reasons), you forget about the economic surplus that favors other businesses and regular users. It's hard to measure if an algorithmic tweak is good for users, but Google has no incentives to do otherwise.
To be fair, I remember back in 2005'ish Microsoft reaching out to open source developer communities to help provide support for open source projects running on Windows. That was when I first remember thinking that it was interesting hearing from them at the time. I think it's not so much waiting until Ballmer was gone, but rather, it just took a while for everyone to take note of the changes. And, of course, that changing a big company like Microsoft would take some time.
>Sanctions under competition law do require proof of abuse of market power.

And I'm not promoting sanctions. The only thing I've proposed is some kind of transparency, like 3rd party auditing.

>If you feel that Google's results aren't relevant, give a competitor a try. Nothing stops you.

That won't do a thing to mitigate the harm I'm talking about. If 1 company controls every news organization in the country except for a few college newspapers, would you tell me that me personally reading the college newspaper would help the situation?

>The mere possibility of abuse doesn't justify tight regulation.

Publicly traded companies and financial institutions deal with plenty of tight regulation because of the possibility of abuse. We already force publicly traded companies to require independent financial auditing, why not require the gateway to the internet to undergo independent search auditing.
It's an asymmetric information thing. They get to know what you are paid, so what you are likely looking for. While you don't get to ask them their pay scale for your position.

The same with salary negotiation. If they ask "what's your salary range?", and you answer, then they have more information.

Salaries should be public information.
XNA was so amazing. At my university we used it to work with another university in Argentina to develop an XBox 360 game. It was amazing how quickly we could get things up and running.

I miss XNA so much.
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It does have one. But the situation has to be very bad for enough people to be willing invoke it.
Weird, most programmers I know consider compilers to be at least somewhat advanced. To answer your question, two years ago I knew nothing about programming, I was poor, living in China, with no marketable skills. I had to teach myself everything in my spare time. In that time I mostly studied frameworks, algorithms, data structures, the quirks of JS etc. I managed to do well enough that I'm now working 9-5 in silicon valley making UI for medical software. Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to learn about compilers or database internals.
On the other hand, people tell me that writing a Lisp is one of the easier language endeavors.
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This isn't exactly what you had in mind, but if you follow enough of the links...

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Your assessment fails to understand Bitcoin's core value proposition, which is that it's highly resistant to centralized control and thus is guaranteed to remain a permissionless (open) network and a fungible currency. If a centralized Bitcoin did somehow manage to gain worldwide adoption, it would be indistinguishable from the current international banking system. In practice, a distributed blockchain that is centrally controlled is no different than a centralized data center like those that run VisaNet. It would have all of the same shortcomings and vulnerabilities, owing to its centralization.

What you propose is totally impractical in any case. For example, who's going to regulate Kenyans' use of Bitcoin? Every country has its own regulatory regime and no country is going to embrace regulations imposed by a different jurisdiction.
XNA isn't in their interests any more. The niche that it aimed to fill was superseded by universal apps and the rise in popularity of cheap, fully-featured engines such as Unity.

Meanwhile, Win2D, by the creator of XNA, is on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/Win2D
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I read through the entire affidavit when it originally came out as I have an interest in online gambling... but I couldn't figure out what exactly the FBI was after these asian gamblers for... the only thing it said was that they had multiple tvs and internet connections going into one suite and when the FBI saw what they were doing, it looked like they were only betting on World Cup matches over the internet.

There has to be more to it... I know online gambling is illegal in the USA, but why get the FBI involved because some foreigners are betting big online?
Note that they specifically say not to use the goconvey DSL, ie. just use *testing.T. goconvey without it's DSL is just an automated FS watcher and test runner with coverage reports.
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I think traditionally it worked like this... The students did a bunch of work for the mentor, for very little or no wages and they were taught a trade.

The students were much like your property, you could beat them, treat them basically how you liked, even sodomize them if the mood took I'm guessing.... (sorry to be graphic, but I think that's how it likely went down). You did however, have to provide for their basic needs and you couldn't kill or severely maim them, or it was bad for business. After X number of years, the student could go out on their own, and the process repeated.

So this system has some obvious flaws and has slowly been done away with. It might be good if it were to make a comeback in a modern form (without the beating and sodomy of course). Then again, maybe it's not so good. Still, we get lots of people wanting "mentors". What do they have to give back, particularly at first?

My opinion? Want a good mentor? Look in the mirror.
This is pretty exciting stuff.
People come up with all kinds of "odd choices" when they haven't been indoctrinated with existing dogma (I don't necessarily mean that in a negative way, despite the connotations). Sometimes that's how new breakthroughs happen, by bringing fresh eyes to bear on an old problem.

Whether sharing this particular example here was brave or stupid is up for grabs though... ;) (No offense to the OP intended. I think it's an interesting example of thinking outside the box, and I'm sure you're learning a lot more than you would going through a bunch of online tutorials!)
>Lifes are at stake there. That's another good justification for regulation.

Banks, and publicly traded companies are also heavily regulated.

90% of people will only ever use Google search. To them Google is the internet. Google has just as much power to harm just as many people as a bank does. We regulate the bank to avoid potential financial harm, why can't we regulate Google?

>As long as there is no indication of abuse concerning Google's algorithm, which is what we were talking about, I believe said algorithm isn't any government's business.

That's the point, without any way to audit Google, there is no way to know they aren't abusing their position in ways that are difficult to detect.

When a company has amassed as much power as Google has, I think it's perfectly acceptable to shift the burden of proof to them instead of taking them at their word--force a bit of transparency (without requiring them to release trade secrets to their competitors.)