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> Yes, you should be free to modify your car, to the bare metal. No you should not be free to drive your modified car on the road next to the rest of us.

This type of cryptofascism is quite odd to me. You are not tolerant of modifications, so why bother pretending to be? Invoking some ambiguous authoritative "us" is ridiculous in light of actual reality.

People are driving all sorts of modified cars, on the road, right now. People modifying things necessarily know about them in depth and are likely to do better maintenance and care than someone who expects a car to "just work" if they bring it to the stealership on the service schedule (and otherwise have no idea what a weird sound means or even how to react in the event their Toyota "suddenly accelerates").

> All our cars pass yearly tests assuring us they meet minimum engineering standards

Lol. Vehicle inspections (I'm familiar with MA) cover the bare minimum of safety/signaling, plus emissions. You can technically be rejected for some types of aftermarket parts that don't meet FMVSS from when the car was manufactured, but only some shops check a couple specific things (say, headlight dispersion).

If your comment had any basis in reality, we wouldn't nearly have as many idiots driving around with "HID retrofits" that blind oncoming drivers. Do you realize that in the US, most auto parts actually aren't tested or certified by the government, but merely "self certified" by the manufacturer as conforming?

Sorry if I'm bursting your bubble here.

> These are things I question why you should be able to do more than verify the binary

You can currently take apart apart and modify any of these mechanical systems, yet people have a strong incentive to make sure they work before driving anywhere. Where exactly is this a priori worry and FUD coming from just because those systems are becoming software? Open software aligns incentives properly - it enables inspection, maintenance, repair, and design fixes long after the manufacturer has lost interest - just like standardized wrenches and threads. Our computerized devices should not be black boxes that we can only worship or discard.
There are better things than this hack on top of IP. It won't work. It cannot work because the basic underlying protocols mean that the overhead of routing and other meta-traffic will rapidly overwhelm the scale required for it to work. Can we please stop talking about IPFS as if it could actually work???

Check out Content Centric Networking (ccnx.org) from Parc for something that actually has a chance at being a real solution.
If you ask an American "what is the purpose of the corporation" they will answer as you claim to be universally true.

If you ask in Japan, the answer will typically be "to supply jobs"

The purpose of a corporation is a social and legal construct and there is no reason it couldn't be something else.

A good one in my opinion is "supply long term monetary stability".
Absolutely. And once the leading vendor cuts the price, it becomes a race to the bottom.
It's easier to answer in reverse: businesses escape fierce competition (the normal state in a competitive marketplace) if they have -

1)Trade secrets, such as aluminum casting (if I recall correctly) for Musk and SpaceX, and Intel's tempering of memory chips in the early days.

2)Patents - when others can reverse engineer what you've done, you don't have the option of 1). Copyrights, somewhat similar and can be a part of tech products in the US (code, etc.)

3)Network effect/high cost of entry. (Most likely when monopoly and competition laws are poorly enforced, as is often true in new fields.) But disruption is a possibility.

4)Law/corruption. More common than thought. The EU thinks the US is simply ignoring antitrust laws re its large companies such as Google (anything free can count as bundling), for example. Interoperability isn't even on Facebook's radar. This can take a fairly soft form EU laws forbid wines from outside a given region being called by the famous name (such as "Champagne") and may soon forbid overseas data storage or passage too. Security laws in China, re tech products, will likely restrict foreign competition there in the long run. Amazon is being allowed to in effect enforce ebook prices of at least $3 with no action from the justice department, leveraging that policy to gain exclusive access to large numbers of books (if they want any free days.) Strictly illegal, but it's just not in the US interest to go after their own Hegemonic corporations. So ebook distribution, the most obvious of commodity services... turns out not to be a commodity at all, somehow given Justice department inaction.

There are other temporary causes, such as a shortage of workers with particular knowledge or skills (coders just now.) Well, here's hoping that's temporary.

Refusing to participate in a race to the bottom (in quality say, and taking a hit for a while) can also leave a company without obvious competition for a time.

I've left out cornered markets on minerals, not too likely at the moment.

One could also add patent pooling, which US automotive companies used both to save on research and raise the cost of entry, in the short run in order to create an oligopoly.
One milestone for IPFS: get past the point of the primary informational site about it (ipfs.io) being categorically blocked by corporate content filters as "blocked: peer-to-peer". It's hard to convey the vision within your corporation when you can't even share the primary informational site.
Stockton mayor forced to relinquish electronics and passwords to agents at SFO
Cryptography in OpenBSD: Another Overview
>Doesn't matter what you or I think GPLv3 says.

I have read the license. I'm like that.

And it still doesn't matter.

It's what the lawyers think. And they say it's verboten.
The whole specimen is a mess. I get what he's aiming for, but a specimen should be clear and concise. This one isn't, and makes figuring out what you're looking at a lot more jarring than it should be.
It isn't about excusing anything, but about avoiding tedious tirades. Articles that are interesting enough to be on HN deserve discussion about what they actually say. Being charitable involves stopping and reflecting rather than spewing a prepared statement, which most of us are all too ready to do, especially when given a shot of anger. HN is about seeking to understand, which is not compatible with reciting pre-existing judgments. (Edit: I'm not referring to you here, but to a tendency we all have, which consequently tends to build up in HN threads.)

Brennan's piece struck me as a pretty good example both of seeking to understand and of being charitable without excusing bad behavior. If anyone has reason not to do those things it's her, so I don't see why we can't too.
It hasn't been without significant abuse to the original vision of TCP/IP that the internet has grown to its present size. For example, where we needed IPv6, we got NAT.

That said, there's no doubt that TCP/IP has been a runaway success, and I'm sure the credit largely belongs to some early visionary (who I should probably know about, but no name comes to mind).

Edit: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
Theres a company doing this, I think its..... virtualpowersystems.com
Since cars in motion take up strictly more room than cars at rest, you could accommodate all cars via dynamic street parking. At night, 6 lane thoroughfares could become 2 lane streets with the other 4 lanes devoted to parking.
In Praise of Boredom – Maria Konnikova (Strata Video)
The content conundrum: how to tackle tech’s silent problem
Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mass murder?
Instead of the oft-discussed political and sociological solutions, how can we as engineers use technology to minimize the damage of mass murders or prevent their occurrence, in a way that respects individual freedoms?

Edit: Remember that guns aren't the only medium through which these acts are carried out.
Security is hard, even for people who know what they are doing.
That is excellent news for road safety! I remember working with companies on lane departure detection systems back in 2007. We have come a long way...
Next steps will include to have vehicle convoys where vehicles sync together to drive at same speed.
I didn't read thoroughly, so I may have missed this, but it doesn't look like there's any effort to control for the fact that some of the pieces are meant to be artistic rather than an actual depiction.

For example, do memorial statues of horses have physics as their highest priority? It seems like they're just supposed to look pretty, even if they are less accurate in depicting the gait.
Looks good, I'd like to see the UX of viewing form content. Also, the demo code should use https right? The demo code should also be text (use a pre tag) instead of an image screenshot.
(IPFS dev here) wow, that sucks. is this blocked in your corp firewall? Any chance of talking to the sysadmins? Blocking IPFS is like blocking HTTP :/ :/ :/

We may have to move our gateway back off our main domain, and have a "recommended blocker", so that people don't jump on this.

Anyway, one piece of good news: despite everyone's belief about UDP transports never going through corp firewalls, QUIC now handles MOST (>60%, close to 80% i believe) of "Google Chrome<-->Google sites" traffic across the world.

So, temp setbacks may be annoying, but in the end, once users install IPFS -- and once we have browser implementations, we can make all the traffic look like HTTP TLS flows, so blocking it will be very hard without also blocking regular HTTP TLS traffic.
Idiomatic expressions (like "come in handy") have to be learned as complete pieces, because they're, well, idiomatic -- they can't be predicted from simple rules. I remember studying Spanish idiomatic expressions in Spanish classes I took years ago. Chunks, as described in this article, seem to be perhaps somehow more general than idioms; evidently, chunks seem to span across different languages and capture a broader range of constructs. However, most of the examples given could be considered examples of idioms. Thus it's not clear to me exactly how the two concepts differ in practice.
I really enjoy Adam's blog. Very plain english explanations for everything. This and Clojure for Brave and True make the language much more approachable.
Astronomer Update #8
Start Programming iOS apps with this article
Sorry. "measure or control"
This is the beginning of a new stage of fierce competition. It makes business sense, but I can see growing lack of inter-operability between systems and devices. Bad for consumers.
Or rather, if we work out a way for users to spend their money on content instead of the ad traffic, we can ditch the ad-funding model. This shows that viewer-pays web content is economically feasible, we just need some technology to get the money from the user to the content provider.
>The Google lawsuit has brought the contradictions out in the open. Java is controlled by a single corporate entity, in much the same way that .NET is. Yes, you can make a GPL clone of JDK 6 that runs on desktops and servers. That's nice. But if you want to run Java on tablets, smartphones, or embedded devices, you'll pay. If you want to use a version of Java that is not “substantially derived from OpenJDK Code”, you'll have to negotiate a TCK license, which Oracle may or may not grant. https://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2010/09/0...

Also, since all Oracle has left is the SSO claim of 37 Java API's, what do you think that's worth? And do you really support the copyright of API SSO?
from the article:

Indeed, the likely reasons for users to choose i386 over amd64 today
are to reduce memory consumption or to run i386 binaries for which the
source is not available - not because they're using 32-bit processors.
Yeah, I think this is a good example of consumer versus hacker mindset. Much of the attraction of Chinese frames is that, at least in Europe, frames can cost as much as an assembled bike. So these cheap frames enable people to build bikes from parts without it being horribly expensive. As far as I know some frames are copied, but generally doesn't have copyright protection anyway (somewhat depending on country).

"When it says 'email for color/graphics', it likely means the seller has omitted those details to evade brand security"

Or, like you point out, it actually means you get a choice.

What's the link to your site?
The comments by the parents to their children made me cringe.

It's hard to read this and come away from it feeling that the problem is anything more than willfully ignorant parents (healthy eating information isn't hard to come by), indolently wallowing in their lack of self-awareness and inconsistencies.

In other words, normal people.
Yes. This isn't the all about Steve Jobs thread, it's the memoir excerpt by Chrisann Brennan thread. By making the discussion more generic you make it less interesting. Please stick to the content.
They'd just file for bankruptcy unless you prohibited that as well. Actually, bankruptcy is still an option for VW if things get too far out of control.
I thought it was fighting the reverse: content creators/publishers pay to have priority access to consumers. Or is it fighting both directions?
I'm not really blaming the neuro scientist for standing his ground, I'm more blaming the psychologists for not standing theirs.

Or maybe they did, but the consensus was to believe a "real" scientist.
Technically states are turing complete because of the command module but in practice it's as if it weren't.

It's a hell of a lot cleaner than other DSLs, especially puppet's ruby-turing-complete one.
No it hasn't. According to TIOBE it was down to 13.5% in Oct 2014.
Portuguese here. Speed cameras are definitely legal, although it's mandatory to have a sign indicating their presence x meters beforehand (if I'm not mistaken). Also mobile police units with speed cameras in very discreet places is a common thing. What happened in Lisbon some time ago though was that most of the radars ended up dying due to lack of maintenance (due to lack of funds/attention/whatever). A lot were recently reactivated I heard.

But yeah these speed sensitive red lights are common and I agree that they work pretty well. Social pressure is good for behavioral nudging. Reminds me of those led signs that show a sad face if you go over the limit on certain residential areas for example.

However I must say that nothing beats Belgium in speed radars. Especially in Flanders, there are so many of these damn Gatso speed traps... What really makes the whole thing work though is a very good system behind it. Here in Belgium, if you're caught by a speed camera, you'll get the fine within 2 weeks tops. In Portugal however you might not even get it because the pile of fines to process is too big and the system isn't prepared for it.

I can confirm the roundabout obsession too :) those can be really annoying but they sure slow people down.
Intel chips could have powered first iPhone, CEO Otellini says (2013)
Really helpful. Thanks for the detailed response. Going to dev, do a few experiments with this. Good luck.
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/the-dark-side-of-nobel-prizew....
Exactly! The whole point of CSR is to make money by making the company look good. In modern capitalism, corporations exist solely to maximize profits. By that principle, you can figure out why a corporation does anything by simply following the money. This is just another example of that.
That's fair. I'm guessing one of the following happened:

1. The editor rewrote the headline (this happens often) without considering the content of the article

2. Newspaper people are so used to their standards for headlines that they don't think of their style as bad grammar
Ok... so how was it a hatchet job and what was the truth that never came out?
(IPFS author here)

It turns out that:

- (a) IPFS already works

- (b) IPFS layers over CCN extremely well AND generates demand FOR CCN. (i'm a big fan of CCN actually, and want to see it in more and more systems. But CCN has huge adoption problems. Look, we don't even have IPv6 fully deployed yet! So if all IPFS does is generate enough demand for CCN to be fully deployed, we've done a good job.)

- (c) all the routing problems are very real, but can be solved just fine. If you haven't looked deeper at how IPFS actually works instead of short summaries, you'll realize that the IPFS specs define the routing layer as entirely pluggable for this reason: we need to evolve to better and better schemes over time.

Instead of blindly saying "this cannot work", read more first. Understand the systems _goals_, decisions, and roadmap. Ask questions if you're unsure how something could possibly work. Lots of very smart people are working on IPFS and we're doing it because we see that it can indeed (and does) work. Blind negativity does not help CCN, and does not help anyone make better things.
This reply was meant for mig39, its a bit late sorry.
It'd be helpful for ~nxb to be specific about which country cultures have this problem. But of all the people you know who don't think this way, how many are representative examples of a (non-US) national culture? (And if you know them well enough to judge this, are they perhaps outliers who left another culture?)

The US – and perhaps especially (your home) Texas or more generally the US west – is relatively open to the idea of excellence coming from anyone and in arbitrary combinations, compared to many other more fatalistic/hierarchical/caste-oriented cultures.
Marathon 0.11 released – More powerful ui and debugging
I recently learned about MAID SAFE-- http://maidsafe.net -- but I haven't researched it much. I would be interested if someone could compare and contrast the two.
+1 Yeah, exactly! It's an exciting time to be working on all of this.
The spaghettios and burritos comment rang true, however. Particularly for families with both parents working.

I get how some people derive great pleasure from making a meal from scratch, but for people in a great hurry, it's one of many checkboxes. And time spent stirring a pot or slicing vegetables is hardly quality family time.
Ok, we changed the title from '“We're leaving the idea of independently deployable services and not looking back”' and added a 2014. It's not entirely off limits to link to an interesting comment rather than the root article, but in this case perhaps it doesn't add enough over the article itself.

There's certainly nothing wrong with an article being a year old if it's good.
> It's hard to read this and come away from it feeling that the problem is anything more than willfully ignorant parents (healthy eating information isn't hard to come by), indolently wallowing in their lack of self-awareness and inconsistencies.

> In other words, normal people.

As much as this looks like a rude thing to say, (and it kind of is), it's really quite true and I've experienced similar things with various parents I've seen (thankfully not mine).
You are asking for precrime. Is ripe for abuse, and will be badly abused. Less technology (as in "weapons", the availability of lethal ones and the culture about having/using them) is more probable that have an impact.
I love instagram and their meteoric rise.
It's one of those "oh why didn't I think of it" ideas that has executed well.
But this article by the Guardian feels a bit like a PR piece.
I'll get hammered for this, but as a young man, I remember Al Gore talking about the Internet. Yes, there were people before him, but he had the stage, and the audience. He started people--people with money, and connections to look into this crazy university tool. He made the mistake of say he invented the Internet. It's was a bad, egotistical statement, but he got us talking about it.

Actually, I don't even think we would be talking about global warming if it wasen't for Al Gore. I didn't like the man when I was younger for horrid reasons; like I thought he was a spoiled, rich politician who really didn't care, and was using these topics to gain political points.

I was completely wrong! I wish he would run for office again. I know I would give him a vote.
Which is totally irrelevant -- not to mention re-inforcing my argument that Android is not what made Java #1 language.

Java has been #1 from at least 2002 (and even before, long before Android) until now according to TIOBE -- the fact that it had a dip to #2 in 2014 doesn't change anything substancial to what I said, which was: "Java has been #1 nearly a whole decade before Android even appeared."

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Thanks for the followup!

> In Haskell, the lack of side effects is by the fact IO is provided by the platform. There is no fundamental difference between Haskell's `getLine` and the DOM's `fetch`, both return a boxed value.

In his talk about "effects"[1], Chris Armstrong also talked about making testing easier in Haskell, though I paid less attention to that part, to be honest.

`fetch` returns a promise, but calling fetch causes the side effect to occur immediately. I don't know if that's how `getLine` works in Haskell. If I want to test code that calls `fetch` without an HTTP request actually hitting the network, I need to put in a mock `fetch`.[2]

Or, if there was another return type that put the side effect in a box that the platform handles later (or not at all, in the case of a test), that seems like a win.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D37dc9EoFus

[2]: another option, pointed out on Twitter, is that a promise (either from the fetch or from the test) could be passed in to the code under test. That seems less pleasant but requires no new machinery.
This ecosystem worldwide is already being mixed up through different channels. I would think the US regulations not to bring foreign living systems, fruits or seeds applies also to eBay. It seems eBay or the users are breaking the law.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.""
>Or Google could have complied with the open-source license, as they did with Linux. But there was no way Google was ever going to let that happen.

How exactly did Google not comply? Are you suggesting that if Google released the Android bits under the GPL license and not the Apache they would be been compliant and Oracle would have not sued? I highly doubt that.

>Android hardly accounts for a few percentage points.

Java would be in a constant annual decline had it not been for Google and Android. Just as Objective-C has sunk dramatically in the TIOBE index we'll see the same result when Google switches to Go, Dart or perhaps even Python.
I see the goals and I've seen these exact problems attempting to be fixed in similar ways many times. I think the goals and roadmap are great, but overly idealized. I also think it's important to be skeptical of claims of this sort.

That being said, I hope you're right.
From MathBox2 Part 2: http://acko.net/blog/mathbox2-pt2/
Sure, the `then`s could be pure functions but the whole point of my blog post is that I'd like to be able to test code that calls `fetch`. That would be possible if the actual side effecting operation is deferred to later, and not just the result.
Completely anecdotal, but I suspect some part of this comes from modern Americans' desire to have a meal that has a specific name and must be made with an oddly specific recipe that uses the exact ingredients. Apparently "thing of tomatoes and eggplant with some bread" is not acceptable – but when some chef puts the same recipe in a magazine and labels it "rustic Mediterranean bruschetta", people are all over it.