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Direct public funding is a horrible idea.

First off, it would greatly misallocate research funding. The people who'd get the most funding interest would be those who can pitch their research to the public the best, to the expense of those who'd struggle to communicate their research. You'd see AI get good funding while things like compiler or parallelization research would be rather poor, for example--even though the latter would conceivably have more immediate impact on peoples' lives.

The other problem is that there is a loud crowd of people who aren't interested in objective research, but want researchers to prove their facts. The anti-vaxxers or anti-GMO people would fund study after study until they found one that "proved" their claims. They already do this today, but trying to move to a purely crowdfunded research model would reduce the research that provides counterexamples to avoid the implied p-hacking.

Research today has many problems. That most journals are pay-to-access, in my opinion, is actually among the least important. Let's face it: very few people who aren't researchers are going to care to actually try reading 10+ pages of dense scientific text as opposed to a journalist's lay summary; there's also very few disciplines were amateurs without access to research infrastructure are capable of doing publishable research (admittedly, CS and math are disciplines where an amateur can do it just about anywhere, and I suspect most commenters here are most interested in these disciplines as opposed to agronomy or microbiology).

Bigger problems are underreporting of negative results (e.g., we found arsenic-based life! Actually, now it looks like those results were wrong...), the desiccation of research funding, the lack of interest in "fundamental" research, reputational bias in grant funding and even research paper acceptance (it's generally possible to guess which group is publishing a paper, even if it's a blinded submission), etc. None of these are helped by crowdfunding, and, generally, they'd actually make them even worse.
So, the equivalent of over half a century of the DARPA budget ($3 billion/yr) five times over, or two National Science Foundations ($7 billion/year), or half of another National Institutes of Health ($30 billion/year).

The NSF alone is responsible for over 20% of public nonmedical basic research in the United States so for the price of one boondoggle we can increase that total pool of funding by 50%. For over half a century.

Or we could nearly double NASA's budget and give it an economy of scale it hasn't had since the Apollo program to carry out even more basic research into astrophysics, climate change and metrology, geophysics, flight, material science, and countless other technologies that actually trickle down into the public market
So five thousand liters/hr

OK then as a crude engineering estimate to one sig fig it takes one kilowatt-hour to boil away a liter of water (Am I mis-remembering? That seems extremely low), and the sun is up half the time, and one kilowatt for one hour is exactly one kilowatt-hour. Also we'll assume lawns are 100% thermodynamic black bodies turning all sunlight into heat (LOL). At noon, to one sig fig, you get a hundred watts of solar energy per sq foot. One acre is about fifty thousand square feet to one sig fig. Finally we'll assume the yard is not slowly sinking underneath a freshwater lake... over any give 24 hour period every liter must evaporate or the inhabitants will have to learn to swim.

So the lawn (or whatever) is turning ten thousand kilowatts of solar energy into water vapor.

To get ten thousand kilowatts at noon would take about about a hundred thousand square feet, or about two acres. At noon.

I only live on a one acre suburban lot, at that continuous flow rate, assuming no runoff, the water level would rise rather rapidly over a couple weeks.

It seems believable on a five acre lot but from time to time its going to get rather swampy. Honestly I'd look for a ten acre lot.

This is assuming no runoff (unlikely) and no electrical heat (like a Jacuzzi heated by natgas boiling away water continuously). This is also assuming no wind beyond blowing steam away.

A "two or so acre" artificial lake would be a quite believable evaporation rate. Put another way, were you to find a depression in the dirt, and turn on a hose at that flow rate, the surface area of the puddle would stop growing somewhere around a couple acres.

The numbers are "engineering believable".
Just got back from Brazil this morning.

Didn't see any 'K' or 'I'
>But I'd suspect either he or his estate willingly donated them.

Agreed. That was what I thought after my post.
If you're serious, start by writing headline for at about 50 posts you would write.

One you do that, I think you'll have a good idea if you want to continue, what you're blog is really about, and who your audience might be.

If you're going to be casual about it, just start posting.
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a temperature sensor was actually my first use of it (and i will continue to build a couple as remote sensors) - basically, i've been adding more and more sensors just to see how much it could take.

now, i'm having to build out PCB's to support everything (including the voltage regulators to 3.3v and 5v), as i've outgrown breadboards.
Except totally not because GA doesn't give you the name and work history of your visitors.
Original HN announcement/discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8974024]. CFLAGS additions produce smaller binaries. HelloWorld in 608 bytes (i386) and 792 bytes (x86_64). An example of sbrk/brk provided in the test folder.
Or James Joyce's correspondence of similar nature. Or Mozarts..
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> but at least the price label in the supermarket is the final price you pay, no nasty surprises at checkout

Er, that's how nearly everywhere does it. And is irrelevant to whether VAT or income tax should be the main way to raise money
I know he was somewhat rakish before he married his third wife, but in what manner was he terrible to women? It takes two to tango, so his rakishness doesn't seem to imply sexism.
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Just because it's in a rich area doesn't mean it couldn't be a typical leak.

I have had two properties I rented have a leak in the watering system for the lawn. The first one was spotted right away because of the increase in water usage, by the actual water supplier. Although this was in Vegas so they were pretty quick to identify problems like this. The other was a single family home and I spotted the telltale sign of a leak by a circle of grass growing greener and faster than the rest of the yard. I informed the owners of the likelihood of a leak and they had no idea. The leak was probably there for months if not over a year's time because they had never bothered to check for such things when their elderly mom lived in the house.

Now, imagine a rather large yard of a wealthy family who doesn't watch their water bill, nor care about it, and the watering system develops a leak or three over time.
It's non-polarized two pin type A as in US, used for everything which does not need a ground pin.
The question is its own answer.
Nice in theory. In practice how many really poor people have address, or bank accounts which they can use to lodge it?
No, it doesn't, it was just an example of a multiplier system, rather than a multi tiered system.
Plugs in hotel rooms probably aren't in the best shape anyway.

This was in Las Vegas and the cheap- and flimsy-looking plug sockets just struck me as a funny counterpoint to the unhinged level of excess that was on display everywhere else.
Companie often put in enourmas amount of effort into "only paying it's required taxes" with a vast network of otherwise economically pointelss subsidiary companies that money is shuttled through to take advantage of locally negotiated tax deals to reduce tax liability in third party jurisdictions.

The breadth of complexity and the depth of thought that goes into these corporate structures transcends and notion of "simply doing business"
Legendary Guillaumet's quote :"Ce que j'ai fait, aucune bête ne l'aurait fait".
Interesting. I'd like something similar but more compact, like a lightning/usbc port, can be inserted in either direction.
Well... there's pressure
How do you do that? What's the limit? Is it all or nothing, or a sliding scale? How is each and every shop suppose to know and keep track of if someone is in this category or not?
Er, you press harder? A long touch is already a recognised gesture(1).

(1) https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
> a person that was so important to you won't be there

As I understand it, we die two deaths. Once when your last breath leaves your body and next when those who remember you say your name for the last time.

By continuing to tell their stories, continuing to read their words, continuing to live, cherishing and remembering, loving, they also live... Life extends through our bodies and beyond.
I think this idea is intoxicating however the problem is we don't currently live in a post-scarcity society (and I don't see that changing very soon). Inequality is still rampant and something like this could do more harm than good by preventing the pressure and change needed to to get past it.
Outstanding. Tax competition is a good thing.
I think he means invasive as in it would affect companies' bottom lines more. Imagine something that primarily runs on a razor thin margin and makes up in volume and has $100M revenue and $5M profit, versus a company that has high margin and has $50M revenue and $5M profit. The first would be taxed much higher even though they have the same amount of profit.

Of course, because of the way companies can be structured, [Hollywood Accounting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting) is significant.
I have to disagree with that kind of absolutist statement.

I become interested in mathematics at a young age. While puzzles and such have sort-of interested me, the truly amazing part of math has always been it's ability to open up more abstract ways of thinking - new and exciting ways to unify ideas. (I read Gardner as a kid and got rather little of him. His puzzles go so quickly from simple games to really hard math that it's easy to get lost. I honestly would see him as a terrible introduction to math for kids since a kid reading him will hit quickly "why can't I solve this even slightly" moments, which isn't a way to encourage someone).

A lot of puzzles to my mind seem to have "trick" solutions. They're nice for increasing one's ability to manipulate symbols but they aren't really introducing new worlds into one's thinking.

I enjoy abstract algebra, functional analysis and differential geometry more than number theory, which is the branch of math closest to ordinary puzzle solving. On the other hand, category theory seems more like accounting to me but clearly category theory has yielded results that have advanced many parts of math and computer science.

I can certainly acknowledge that others might have different tastes and the development of math has certainly has come through different people developing their particular interests rather than there being a simple "fun"/"not-fun" division.
Where do you get them for $2?
(Source: The Letters of Note book - reproduced with permission of Richard Feynman's Estate.)
So the idea is to punish corporates into submission instead of making it so cheap to do business in the USA they don't wanna go elsewhere?
Most people like me feel hopeless. They feel it is pointless. They don't see that there will be a payoff. It takes a long time to see a payoff and most of the social messages around them only reinforce the idea that it is hopeless, there isn't really a solution. The American mindset currently is that poor people need basic income or welfare or to win the lottery.

I am angry and frustrated and I feel it is taking too long and I don't really want to do this anymore. I spend a lot of time cussing at the sky about how hard it is, how unfair it is, how I deserve better and so on.

But I also know what my fate was "supposed to be." I am supposed to be getting about $100k in medical care annually while I steadily deteriorate. My ability to be productive is supposed to be declining, not improving. I am supposed to be either dead or dying a slow gruesome death from problems that doctors do not know how to fix.

You might consider checking out my websites and possibly forwarding selected links to the people you are concerned about. I have a homeless blog. I have a food blog where I talk about using food as my medicine. Those might be the most immediately relevant to your concerns.

There are things disabled people can do to exercise agency and get small gains in the short term that can be gradually leveraged for larger gains down the road. But they have lost hope. So do not talk to them about big gains down the road and do not talk to them about the scope of their challenges. It only makes them depressed. Instead, if you find an article with concrete small, doable solutions that can benefit them in the here and now, share that in a non pushy way. Then be patient. It may be months before you see evidence of results. But if you get into the habit of forwarding them useful bits periodically, it can slowly change.

I apologize if I am overstepping my bounds. I woke up with a fierce headache. Trying to be helpful is a longstanding habit and it is sometimes the wrong thing to do.

Have a good day.
Having graduated from Cal a year ago, his description is on point. The education there is not great for undergrads
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Yeah, that's definitely true. My brother is an applied linguistics grad student, so I've heard this before.

I've had instructors who had accents but could still speak English very well, and many people just dismissed them outright as unintelligible without even trying.

But I've also had instructors who just weren't fluent in English (mostly grad student instructors). When VanillaSwirls said they didn't speak English well, that's what I was thinking of.
The Dunning Kruger one was so on point, this is amazing.
You'll have to ask bradleybuda for that.
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I can be completely wrong but I suspect this is a reference to close.io founders?
+1 to Pierre Hadot. I actually prefer the Inner Citadel to reading the Meditations. A good intro is also William Irvine's a Guide to the Good Life
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I'm curious how others think this will impact Spring framework, since Pivotal (sponsors of Spring) is mostly owned by EMC / VMware. What is Dell's OSS record and how does that fit into Dell's business?
@javawizard, thank you.
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What's really the big deal? Folks have been living like this for much of mankind and million of folks still do around the world. First world amusement if you ask me.
Clojure rationale:

"Customers and stakeholders have substantial investments in, and are comfortable with the performance, security and stability of, industry-standard platforms like the JVM. While Java developers may envy the succinctness, flexibility and productivity of dynamic languages, they have concerns about running on customer-approved infrastructure, access to their existing code base and libraries, and performance. In addition, they face ongoing problems dealing with concurrency using native threads and locking. Clojure is an effort in pragmatic dynamic language design in this context. It endeavors to be a general-purpose language suitable in those areas where Java is suitable. It reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.

Clojure meets its goals by: embracing an industry-standard, open platform - the JVM; modernizing a venerable language - Lisp; fostering functional programming with immutable persistent data structures; and providing built-in concurrency support via software transactional memory and asynchronous agents. The result is robust, practical, and fast."

via http://clojure.org/rationale
Words of experience.
Christopher Columbus was awful
This is a legitimate question. (I suspect you're being down-voted for emotional reasons.)

Feynman began work on the bomb when he was 21.
He did not marry his first wife until he was 23.
Imagine it this way. Pretend all the water is being sold, no water rights, and the government is free to do whatever it wants within reason.

The government needs a certain amount of money to keep up infrastructure and maybe to subsidize households. It sells this guy 1300 gallons an hour at a high price, and uses that money to not sell a farm 8000 gallons an hour of discount water.

Now you have less water being used, and you send the rich purchaser a thank you letter.

If you charge for externalities, then buying more is not a bad thing. If you overcharge for externalities, it can even be a good thing.

So the question is not "is he using a lot of water", the question is what he's paying for, and whether externalities are being offset.

The price in California is probably too low today, but that could easily be changed.
It's more likely that the cuts were to remove umms, ahhs, and digressions.
Elliot seem to be on board : http://www.marketwatch.com/story/elliott-management-comments...
Neither

puzzles = the most fun part of math

nor

puzzles = the best, most significant part of math.

is always true. Sometimes, sure but the entire math terrain is complex and shouldn't be reduced to pure puzzles, pure progressions of abstraction or any other simplistic view.
Material includes the characteristics that the given shape/configuration provides. For example, denim and gingham are both made of woven cotton. However, they're different materials due to their differences in properties -- gingham's light and airy and loosely woven, while denim is rugged and more tightly woven. Composition is just half of what makes a material a material.
I'm curious. Is this that all that is needed to be prosecuted for a public crime such as this is for someone to accuse you? Whether they are connected to the alleged crime or not? Whether there is a victim or not? For that matter, how can one be prosecuted with no charges?

I think I may be misunderstanding the context of the terms.
So why are we trying to differentiate lisps, given that they're excellent?

Are they each better for some reason?

Why innovate on perfection? Or, why not improve the existing lisps rather than create new ones?

I understand what you meant, but I don't know the answer to these questions--before or after reading the article.

(I have given clojure a shot, though, and I enjoyed myself!)
The link times out but based on the title, I like what they are saying.
> It is completely over the top to become suicidally depressed because

Holy shit, are you a robot? Are you really just going to trivialize his depression? Just think about the kind of person you are for a second. To me, you have absolutely no credibility if you can't conjure up an ounce of sympathy for the guy.

But I guess that lines up with the fact that you support the Mathematics department here. Having gone to Berkeley and experienced the mediocrity of STEM education there, I have no idea how you can be on their side.
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Google famously banned face recognition on Glass after I and some other developers made demo apps and APIs for using it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aeMJY1AO0

Even now that Glass has been canceled for all but commercial use, it's still in the guidelines that you aren't allowed to use face recognition:
> https://developers.google.com/glass/policies?hl=en
"
Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifying anyone other than the user, including use cases such as facial recognition and voice print. Glassware that do this will not be approved at this time.
"

Amusingly, my nursing notes demo was me trying to be politically correct. People were more interested in things like cross referencing most wanted lists and sexual offender lists.
parallels with 'The Little Prince':

draw me a system ~ draw me a sheep

proud senior engineer ~ the king

rails -> nodejs -> meteor guy ~ the accountant counting stars

anyone have more?
There's a PDF version on S3, if that helps: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ferd-ca/printf.pdf
They can even get a bit cleverer: http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MGRL2B/A/apple-5w-usb-p...
What does "multiplier system" mean? If you're multiplying by gallons, then you're measuring water use squared. If you're multiplying by fixed numbers, that's just a complicated way of doing tiers.
The Little Prince, by Antione de Saint Exupery is a classic tale and this is a rework of it.
I use the dot property conversion, not the overloading in general use. I also have such reservations about using overloading for casting in production. What I do use, is the series of extensions for single letter dot property conversions, the extensions without the protocol extending, that I also used in Swift 1.2. Sorry if that was unclear...
So maybe the answer isn't to get rid of star wars - maybe it's to get girls to stop being so judgemental about each others' hobbies?
No one is advocating punching anyone in the face. The journalist is essentially advocating public shaming, i.e. "Hey, look at this asshole who dumped the whole complimentary bowl of lollipops in their bag."

I find the Hacker news response to this pretty interesting. I think you'll find that many/most programmer/engineer types will think about this from a "does it follow the rules of the system" perspective: He's following the law as it exists, so if there's a problem, the issue is with the system. Many/most other people, however, will approach this from a social expectations perspective: This person is acting in a socially unacceptable way, so they deserved to be shamed.

I'm not saying which way is better or right, but as someone firmly in the programmer/engineer camp, it's been important for me to understand how so many people approach the "rules" of the world from a very different perspective.
They would say that though wouldn't they.
Don't dividends get taxed at the residence of the person being paid the dividend?

The problem is that corporations use the infrastructure and resources of countries they operate in. So you would still have a situation of a multinational company using the resources of country X without necessarily paying any tax for using the resources of country X.

This is not sustainable.
Founder of AISLER here: we want to provide a search engine to improve finding examples for parts online without the need to look for a datasheet. We would be very interested in feedback.
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