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Slavery lasted over thousand years as an economic system. Feudalism lasted just as long. Your argument back then would have been "if capitalist firms were better, I would expect some. People in the feudalist world would use that system".

As a matter of fact, there are thousands or such flat firms. Just as during feudalism there were thousands of capitalist firms that would fail.

Failure is does not mean it won't work in 10, 50 or 100 years.

There will be a time when we think of managers the same way we think of kings now.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442826
Innerhoden is a none-word. It doesn't exist. There is an Inerrhoden (double r) in Switzerlandl,,,,,
Why is it unreasonable for a marketplace to take active steps to ensure they are selling legal products?
I unfortunately don't have one of the rtl-sdr.com dongles (wish I did) but the spec says there's a 2 PPM initial error plus 1 PPM temperature drift, which is fairly reasonable for a cheap TCXO. My current dongle is a cheap one from AliExpress with slightly over 100 PPM of offset, and finding a calibration procedure that actually worked was... interesting.
If the error is proportional to the measurement - can't you just take the log to make it additive again?
Yeah but certain characteristic functions popping up in seemingly unrelated places is a BIG deal.
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>in principle it's kind of scary that the easiest way to get data from your car is to query a www server

Not entirely unexpected though. I mean...Engineer X is being evaluated on 50 performance criteria...none of which includes "will HN approve of the coms". In that case vanilla www queries are certainly a viable option.
I've noticed this as well in rodents. Take 2 consecutive drops and the readings can be as much as 60 mg/dl off. It's not a problem for us because we take duplicate measures, and if they are too far off, we can remeasure. An individual with one meter and only one drop must be relying very heavily on a pretty inaccurate measurement.
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I'm surprised that car is so inefficient. The quoted kWh/mile is worse than a Model S, for a much smaller car. That is going to influence the conclusion a ton, no doubt.
Sending a proper army, with the requisite supplies, across the world would have been a massive undertaking. Had the first expeditions had been annihilated, it might have been quite awhile before Europeans mustered up the necessary combination of interest and will to engage in that undertaking.
I'm not 100% familiar with the internals, but I think it's safe to say that the persistence part is asynchronous in order to reach the low latency goals of the system.
Is there someone else who consistently reads 'Elliptic Curve Cryptography' and is disappointed by the subject of the article?
What steps?
Looking to see if another company's watermark is on it would be a good start.
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The thing is sometimes you wouldn't want people influenced, you'd want them to be excluded and all this brings with it.
I'm sure plenty of "it's us or them" people justify it on the basis that the other group thinks "it's us or them."

In any case, I'm not criticizing the author. This sort of thing is a fundamental paradox of tolerance. It's hard to tolerate those who would not tolerate you.
What people may wish for and what needs to be done seem, to me, to be completely different things.

Take Germans and their nuclear power plants. Despite the plants in Japan failing because of conjunction of shoddy construction, earthquake and tsunami, of which only 1 could even be a case in Germany - Germans closed their nuke plants in response.

I don't see how wise decisions would result from aggregation. We've not been shaped by evolution to be rational or realistic, but to have an inflated opinion of self and of our chances - because that was advantageous.

I really doubt that is the case when it comes to running countries.
HAHA! I got myself into a wrong course and Udemy haven't refunded me till now. They say you can try it before you buy, But they don't give the money back once they have it. Nobody even answers your queries seemed very shady. Not surprised to see this now.
It's happening often enough that they could at least do a cursory search at the most common places. They're not a charity; they are profiting off of this, and it's reasonable to assume they could use some of that profit on due diligence.
The philosopher Karl Popper wrote about this and called it the Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Thanks. I am enlightened.
Thank you for pointing that out. I guess I'll delete mine after you delete yours. I hope it works that way.
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OK so now they ban all videos with water marks of companies what does that solve, people will just start cropping videos.
OK, then in that case I managed to receive the signal from a satellite 800km above but passing over the other side of the planet. How's that explained?
The issue isn't the entire port breaking, it's the relatively fragile plastic center part inside the port that breaks most often. Breaking that renders the port unusable.
I don't want to derail this with a personal story but this might be useful.

I wrote a JavaScript course that I was contracted by someone on Elance to do for very little ( relative to the amount of time I put into it ), he then sold it to another company, that company then put it on Udemy. For a small amount of time it was at the top of the list of beginner JavaScript courses and had over 10,000 students enrolled. I'm grateful my name wasn't on it as it was my first shot at a full on multi hour long course and there were some problems with it...

but.....

Lesson: If you create courses and sell them to people have stipulations regarding resale.

:/

My story wasn't theft so it's not the same, but I figure it might have some utility to someone on hacker news.
I certainly hope not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
It's possible that flat organizations are the future, but it is not true that all organizations were lord-serf in feudal times or that slave labor was the only sort of labor in its time (, in fact slavery still exists). Please show some examples of flat firms, which are not the highly centralized sort described in the OP, I am interested in reading about them. As far as I have seen, all so-called flat organizations are actually very centralized for all important decisions.
I do not see any evidence to suggest they are profiting from it, wouldn't they be legally obligated to refund the users who bought the content once its taken down, since they would lose access?

So in theory wouldn't udemy be losing money?

+ Total Amount Recvd
- Payment fees
- Money paid to fraudster
- Refunds
Do you mean the frequency? I googled NOAA 18 and Wikipedia told me ~130Mhz.
They're in a pissing match with DOD on this kind of thing, apparently...
A few bit flips in an image are unlikely to be noticeable (it depends on the format though; uncompressed is obviously the most resilient, JPEG should be reasonably resistant too.

Also, I don't think images stay for too long in RAM. Your HDD definitively has ECC.
Allegiance takes a stab: http://www.freeallegiance.org. A Microsoft project that failed commercially, but the community eventually convinced them to release the source code for.

It's an RTS/space-sim hybrid. Each team has a commander that mostly stays in starbase and leads from top-down perspective. Boring jobs, like mining and construction are handled by AI, but all the other ships have real players flying them. I don't think I have played a game that emphasizes teamwork more.
Since this project doesn't seem to have had any attention on HN yet, we changed the url from http://www.hammerlab.org/2015/11/27/ketrew-industries-two-hu..., which is a new version announcement that points to this.
They're not going to see this spec, but if this gets implemented and awareness seeps out, at some point this should become standard practice as a way to mitigate unknown vulnerabilities without investing heavily in security.

Companies love bandaids they can add on top without changing their code.
Your GPU doesn't have ECC so the point is moot

Yes, there is a risk, but maybe not enough to jeopardize the test.
Am I understanding this correctly? The car is constantly communicating with BMW's servers?
A bit off-topic, but do you mind sharing that awesome list?
I'm pretty sure this is already being done en mass.

Are you familar with Khan Academy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy

There's been tons of work on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology#Practic...

etc...
I presume most of the corruption I've experienced is because I stored my data a single hard drive that I used until it completely failed. Of course, that's how most consumers use their systems so it's probably a common experience.

Though, I usually only notice it years after the fact. I have a lot of photos and a lot of videos and only view a few old ones on occasion.

> "Some could be.." is computing by coincidence

That second paragraph of mine is mostly superfluous, and you seem to have read more into it than I intended. Whoops. I should have been more clear. I was not trying to make any sort of claim as to how to do computing. I was only trying to show that there are other possibilities that you would need to investigate and reject before going from your premises to that particular conclusion.
There's no way to win here. If the government outright abolished the NSA at noon, there would be dozens of hn comments at 12:01 saying "Yeah, but did they really abolish it?" or "But what about all the bad things they did when they existed? or "They'll just do something even worse next".

It seems like distrust of authority is just a part of some people's personality. Perceived wrong doing by the government in the past has caused them to distrust the government into perpetuity, even if that same government does exactly what those people demand. So why should the authorities listen at all? It's like a convicted felon who can no longer get a job or be part of society. Why not just go back to a life of crime? You're damned if you and damned if you don't.
> I've never had a photo or video occasionally corrupted on any computer I've ever owned

How do you know? Just the other day I pushed a TS video stream through the script that accidentally modified some bytes (I didn't even bother to analyze the exact changes). There were occasional artifacts observable, but the stream played nevertheless. Which is how the players are being made: to be able to resynchronize even on bigger errors. Somebody who programs these things can surely tell you much more about that.

I was able to notice that because I played the stream in mplayer while watching the console output. So I saw the "debug messages" detecting "something" wrong, and stopped seeing them once I've corrected the script. It was the messages, not the "watching" that made me sure.
It's the only western app that has basic chat capabilities while remaining somewhat not intrusive. In Messenger you need a FB account, for Whatsapp you need a #, for Snapchat ppl can see your Story...but for Kik, all you have to do is add a username to chat, and that's what made it successful
If they were iterable, then they couldn't be weak, because you've effectively given an API to reach references unconditionally, thus meaning they are always reachable, thus meaning none of them can ever be GC'ed.

for (x of myWeakSet) <-- no object in myWeakSet is ever safe to GC

Now, if you were to say "well, make them weak and make iteration only happen on the items that have no External references", you've now created a really tricky situation where iteration essentially forces a GC pass because it needs to know whats reachable and what isn't at iteration time.
Pascal once ran on IBM nainframes for an easy to learn, read, and compile solution. Go is latest in Wirth philosophy of languages. Good it's going on mainframe, too.

Even better is that it's often used for I/O intensive (eg networking) applications. Mainframes' Channel I/O blows traditional server architecture away in throughput. Should give a boost.
But there's a shim: https://github.com/anselmh/object-fit
GPS satellites do not control things.
Can you trust Obama and the NSA to do what they say they are going to do?
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No they won't.
Yes, and its a pain in the butt error to track down. I was helping a friend with an old postfix / cyrus server with some custom software and case sensitivity was the final cause of bad mail delivery. Gotta love the combo of a bad config and an old mainframe app sending in all uppercase.
New messaging apps will not change the world. Finding new ways to sell wares to people is not solving big problems. Why do so many entrepreneurs act like they are working on the cure to cancer?
After reading the blog post and the comments here, I'm wondering what are the affected parties waiting for? they should organise a class action lawsuit and sue Udemy's ass...
File for copyright? how do you mean: Copyright is implicit, unlike patents, upon creation of a work.
I am working on a modernized feedly alternative and thought about this. But my real Problem for this feature would be to automate face/feature detection. Thumbor claims to be able to do this. But I am not convinced that this would work good enough at scale and also be fast enough. And even Flipboard has cut of faces, so maybe nobody cares?

https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/wiki/Detection-algorithms
Its an authenticated query. Why is it scary - is there a problem with the authentication?

If the authentication is sound it is actually quite cool.
It was usually applied to at least 1,000 cores in the past plus ability of app to use them. First one was Thinking Machines CM line with 64,000+ simple CPU's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
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“Microsoft built an operating system for all the desks in the world,” he
tells me as we walk together on a windy day in October. The always-on nature
of mobile computing, he argues, offers a chance to rebuild our relationship
with software. And as he sees it, only Facebook and Kik are competing to do
that in North America. “This is a race to build an operating system for the
world, period.”

This is the kind of computing pop culture emanating with glurge that we're dealing with, I suppose. He just might succeed.
Why worry about it if you don't even notice the corruption ?
Not quite. The car has a 3G modem which is always on. When the app makes a request to BMW's servers, they forward the request to the car, which then responds.

I assume that it probably pushes some days regularly.

If the car is out of coverage, the app doesn't get any data back - as far as I can tell.
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You can file a registration for copyright, which gives you certain presumptions and advantages in court (e.g. it serves as a presumption of ownership, which would be important in these kinds of cases). It also might serve as "notice" for potential infringers so that you can get higher damages.
The refresh_token is so you can grab another access_token without logging in again. It's part of OAuth2 spec.
all work you create is copyrighted. you own the content you produce

this is why, I believe, it's actually against copyright law to use an open source project that doesn't include a license.
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Some jackass posts this shit:

Show HN: Derp.js

Wow, Derp.js is so fucking exciting, I almost wet myself.

I post this shit, grinding out JS for three years of my miserable life because I actually fucking care about technology: https://linuxontheweb.appspot.com/

And nobody gives a shit. Thank you very much, fucking assholes.
If he is, he's generally right. You get 1.5, maybe 3 drops out before it seals back up. Finger lancets are very tiny needles, even smaller than those used for insulin injections.
Internet companies are the new media companies. They're in the business of communicating information, so they're extremely good at communicating how awesome they are to the general public. Eventually it creates a self-worth feedback loop.
For your own videos that nobody ever even wants to watch again, you surely don't have. For the servers for your business...

Well... I can imagine there are enough people who won't care too.

Note that the chance for corruptions increases as long as the data remain in RAM unsaved and only much later get to be saved. We are lucky that, at least in private use, we typically copy the data to the medium without keeping it too long only in the RAM (order of seconds or less). So that also reduces the chances of our pictures being saved with the wrong bits.
Most entrepreneurs have a reality distortion field that they sometimes fall victim to, otherwise they wouldn't be doing something as risky (and irrational) as starting a business.
> use an open source project that doesn't include a license.

It's not open source if it doesn't include a license stating that it is.
Not out of one - well not easily or consistently.
Wow, I don't know that I've seen such a perfect example of Battered Woman Syndrome outside of a rerun of Cops. By "Perceived wrong doing", you mean clear and well documented violations of the law - right? Portraying people who don't immediately prostrate themselves before the throne of state power as having some sort of personality defect is pretty funny as well.
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Yes, I did. As did Troy. No reponse (now as then).

You entirely miss the point of the article - it's not about piracy, it's about a marketplace for pirated goods. That's what Udemy does. Sorry if I'm not nice about it.
For what its worth, your web application is really quite something. Any intention of open sourcing the libraries behind it?
A somewhat inaccurate headline. As Marcy Wheeler writes:

"Just a tiny corner of the phone dragnet will shut down, and the government will continue to collect “telephony metadata records in bulk … including records of both U.S. and non-U.S. persons” under EO 12333. Hypothetically, for every single international call that had been picked up under the Section 215 dragnet and more (at a minimum, because NSA collects phone records overseas with location information), a matching record has been and will continue to be collected overseas, under EO 12333."

https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/11/27/the-government-wants-y...
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I posted this submission. The rollout is not being extended to Gaza. Moreover, pending a final settlement, this is a perfectly adequate way to refer to them seeing as even by the most pro-PLO lights they would be a successor state of Mandatory Palestine.
Can you elaborate? The article discusses something that actually is dangerous to children, so suggesting considering protecting children from it is not necessarily a "think of the children" appeal to emotion fallacy.
I don't think anyone has really wet themselves over this library. Your app is cool, but it doesn't solve anything for me. This library aims to solve a problem some developers have easily.
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It's current version is "0 A.D. Alpha 19 Syllepsis". Is it done and playable? Maybe it's better to wait for some "real" release?

By the way, it seems to me that open source games don't have visible milestones. So one cannot notice when there's a good moment to download and play bug free game. Do you have same impression?
Even as a kid I'd be too shy to draw attention to myself like that.
I would expect this data to be available only by banging on k- or d-bus, not that it is being uploaded to BMW.

I'm getting old...
Aha! I completely missed that. Will update on the morning. Thanks
Sounds like you should create another and send it straight to Udemy or one of their competitors.
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Fair enough, I apologize.
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since when is the mainframe not cool?
I did this on my 2015 3 series which provides access to a lot of cool APIs as well but performance data is accessible only for the i3. The best use I could find for the API was an iOS extension to easily send Maps locations directly to my car for use with the built-in navigation system.
Our school had one, nobody really used it for that reason. Maybe the times have changed?

Also not sure why this was posted, it's not particularly interesting or mind blowing.
I wonder how many people who wrote courses that are now being pirated on Udemy ever torrented music or movies illegally, used someone else's Netflix account, DRM stripped Kindle books etc. I don't agree with Udemy, but it's always crappier when it happens to you.
If you describe anyone with a college education as a nerd then the word loses almost all meaning, as it'd describe a huge number of people.
He sounds so mad. Writing something while angry is not wise. Still, I knew Udemy was bad but not THAT bad.
Have you open sourced any of this, by chance? Was just thinking of attempting this on my BMW.
The other famous American skyscraper with a design flaw was John Hancock Tower in Boston:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/arts/architecture-view-a-n...

Situated directly adjacent to H. H. Richardson's Trinity Chruch, it was a failure of urban design as well.
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Didn't this ever happen with RC planes and helicopters? I doubt this is the first time it happens. It might be the first time it happens after RC toys were renamed as drones.
> If they were iterable, then they couldn't be weak

Of course they can be both weak and iterable. Java's WeakMap does it.

> because you've effectively given an API to reach references unconditionally

How so? The iteration would only return objects that hadn't been collected.

> you've now created a really tricky situation where iteration essentially forces a GC pass because it needs to know whats reachable and what isn't at iteration time

Why would it need to check what is reachable or not before iteration? WeakSet doesn't guarantee that it only contains otherwise live objects does it? The Mozilla documentation just says that the references in a WeakMap or WeakSet 'do not prevent garbage collection'. It doesn't say a WeakMap 'only contains otherwise live objects'. It makes no guarantees like that at all.

However I'll answer my own question as I found some more documentation - it's apparently to reduce non-determinism, so that you can't observe the operation of the GC.
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