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"young people just get technology in a way that older generations don't"

This is not true! The more you're accustomed to a technology the less you understand it. Teens have no f-ing clue how the internet works, how computers work. They don't spend weekends putting together a computer from scratch, and setting up a LAN at one of their friends house.

This is not a criticism, that's just how it is. I remember vividly getting my first VCR. When it was broken my dad and I were able to open it and somehow fix it up (to a point :), now who can do that?

The whole "they were born with it, they just get it" is a myth and totally backward, the more you take a technology for granted the less you understand it.
Well you need a way to bring food on the table.

I too could make the most amazing software if I could by open sourcing it. Without resources nor the organization, nothing will happen.
"Apple doesn't abuse its power" only allows a Firefox content blocker in safari
The legal system perpetually baffles me.
For the airfare-pricing bit, see "Computational
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de Marcken of ITA Software:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.itasoftware.c...
Some more detail & discussion on the platform from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314867
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I would think they'd block any IP that wasn't from a known VPN or Tor exit as a noob filter.
Which is clearly written in the article as you may have read along:

> Now, according to GMP, buying a 7kWh Powerwall outright will cost $6,500, including the inverter and the installation fee.
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This just reminded me that my first PC was an AT&T 6300. I hadn't thought about that machine in years.
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...and yet if the content blockers ran in all apps, people would definitely be complaining that Apple was abusing its power. They can't win!
Thank you for your remarks!

Have you experienced people reporting bugs that don't actually use the software? I think validating if a user is in fact a customer is not worth the effort.

In order to get a proper bug report with version number, we will just provide a simple template to fill in.

I understand that customers that care enough to report a bug are more likely to keep using the product. Wouldn't that be an argument for letting them post anonymous, because it makes it easier for them?
Coal is probably a lost cause for plain pollution, but stuff like natural gas and petroleum should be burnable pretty much arbitrarily cleanly if you put in the effort. They're already extremely clean in the context of power plants.

The ideal combustion cycle with a hydrocarbon produces pure carbon dioxide and water. You'll never get all the way there, but you can approach it pretty closely. A world concerned only with pollution would likely converge on a lot of natural gas power plants and clean-burning oil-powered cars. A world concerned with climate change would converge on nuclear, solar, wind, and such.

Don't underestimate people's ability to deny the effects of pollution, too. Go look at the comments in the recent thread about Beijing's smog alert. There are a ton of people in there calling into doubt the health effects of chronic high-concentration particulate pollution, even from people who have experienced it first-hand, and this is the sort of stuff that makes your eyes and nose burn with a few minutes' exposure.

Lots of pollution is silent and long-term, too. Smog is very visible, but how about long-term contamination of groundwater or the oceans?

All in all, I just don't see much difference in membership in the set of climate change deniers and the set of people who think pollution controls are a bad idea.
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Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality. A lot of concepts from CS are used, but it spans across a wide variety of intellectually stimulating topics.
I can not find it in the Colombian appstore, is it available worldwide?
it will, in the longer term yield dividends in ways that we probably can not even think of today

Like what? Trade routes on earth have predictable results - if they found a place to trade or a route to somewhere already existing, that's only to be expected.

There's nothing to trade with in space; there's no way we're having a colony on Mars making plastic trinkets and rocketing them back to Earth for sale, or buying Coca Cola rocketed from Earth.

I grant that you can't think of "dividends which we can't think of today", but what categories are you even speculating about? What even might there be?
Huh? The question is what happens when you move from an expensive place to a cheap place. If your bills go down, should your pay go down?
I dyed my hair for Halloween. I specifically looked for a brand that wouldn't be permanent. When I was finished, I looked at the box again. It said "permanent" in fairly large letters in two different places, and I'd failed to notice both of them.

From the outside, this might look like "failing basic reading comprehension". But I don't think that's what's going on.
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We found the same thing with Angular. Ironic and annoying.
> Have doctors ever even apologized for bloodletting? E.g. they killed George Washington

Who's left to apologize and to whom would they apologize? It's not like "doctor" is a hereditary title or anything. Doctors today have little to do with what happened then, other than being able to view what happened and observe the consequences to learn from it.
I'm interested to see if sports' cultural cache experiences more of a perceptible fall. For a long time, sports fandom provided a uniquely immersive experience - a world of interesting play styles, strategies, stats, and exciting shared experiences in the big games.

My sense is that the hardcore fans are still there, but a lot of casual followers are slowly being peeled away into other immersive experiences - well written TV, social media communities, deeper and deeper gameplay experiences. Additionally, gathering a bunch of people into a room to watch something isn't as much of a draw with the constant connectivity of smartphones. My girlfriend is a

When you add the dinosaur economic model controlling the medium and the rising sensitivity to the brain damage that football causes, I wouldn't be too surprised to see a more perceptible downturn.
Yeah, on multiple occasions I use Google to find the website of a piece of software only for the top ad result to be a link to the website I wanted anyway.
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If Nick is really the one who wrote that piece, it's sad that the Vice President of Firefox doesn't know about image resizing and optimization.
Do you have any studies supporting this variability in the Sun's output?
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"Security is the degree of resistance to, or protection from, harm."

"Privacy: a secret matter."

"Privacy: freedom from unauthorized intrusion."

"Privacy: the quality or state of being apart from company or observation."

So you see, privacy IS security.
It's not clear whether companies will be willing to take hundreds or thousands of small investments. Each one adds a non-negligible amount of overhead in investor communications, and at a certain threshold of investors, you trigger the same regulatory requirements as if you were actually a public company (issuing quarterly and annual financials).
The TV bubble has popped. For sports and all entertainment. But to use that evidence that all of "sports" is about to pop is a stretch.

I suspect we will see much more direct interaction with teams & athletes, off-season live events, AR & gaming tie-ins, etc. We will move from passive, centralized TV consumption to more distributed, interactive interaction.

Sports, as entertainment, is still very healthy, even if the mediums and peripherals are changing.
That's the beauty of this. The utility has no capital expenditure - the people paying for the battery are doing that for them. The utility pays the rebate out of their operating costs, and there's likely a clause in the agreement that the rebate amount is subject to change.
The market value is set by the board of directors, not CEOs.

Furthermore, supposing there were some sort of absentee owner effect (boards of directors are comprised of other CEOs, and they conspire to raise each other's pay), you'd expect to see a different market value in closely held corporations. Strangely, the price of a CEO for a closely held corporation closely tracks the price of a CEO for absentee shareholders.

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

The obvious way to fix this is with increased shareholder activism (ala Gordon Gekko), and reducing regulations on hostile takeovers. Possibly also regulating things like poison pills, staggered board elections, etc. Do you favor such rule changes? If not, why not?
I just found out Scott Weiland died by searching "focus by firefox".
Yes they can: by allowing app developers to opt-in.
Thanks, that is fascinating. I'll have to read more about this.
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Did you read the article? The original court found in favor of Cariou, Price appealed, and won the appeal. Second Circuit Court found it fair use.
One interesting comparison I didn't see in there was tube porn sites.

You can get the highlights of pretty much any event with a simple search, so why pay to watch the whole thing? Sure, now and again a Champions League match could be good, but if people are like me, they'll mostly just have a look at the highlights. And I'm guessing there's a lot more marginal consumers than massive fans.
At some point your operations have to get atomistic. A mult requires O(n^2) transistors for n bits, so having each machine word carry its own mult unit seems silly. I suppose one could have a single bit with an xor(add), and(carry/mult).... But isn't that just an FPGA?
is it doing its own ad blocking or is it doing ad blocking as a safari ad block extension? There is a very specific high-performant ad block mechanism in iOS now.
We are getting there. I'm eager to be able to use IPv6 in 2050.
Normal people don't buy computers because they anticipate the returns will help fund their retirements.
> it blocks ads just fine.

In Safari? Working as intended. In Chrome or Firefox? Unexpected (according to their link).
The comparison with MTV is insightful. But what do you see as the equivalent of "dozens of access/consumption points" in sports? (I'm not following any organized sports)
That is an interesting article in many ways:

1. Elon Musk announces the PowerWall in April with delivery end of 2015 (still on the site).

2. SunEdision announces end of September to deliver the first PowerWalls in Australia by November: http://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/22/sunedison-australia-taki...

3. SunEdision will partner with LGChem to deliver a competing product: http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/14040502-tom-collins/44245...

4. Vermont utility announces to be the first with 10 PowerWall beginning January 2016.

So, why there are no PowerWalls available? Seems that there are production issues.
I don't understand. The "model" isn't the creation of venture capitalists; it's just mathematical reality. Whether you're shooting for 2x or 10x returns, the odds-on bet is that your company will fail. That's what new companies do. It's true of tech companies, barber shops, and restaurants. In a cohort of failing companies, the returns from successes must be higher to subsidize the losers.
That was settled out of court, although, apparently "A judge urged a settlement, stating that AP would win the case."

I'm unclear on whether that was before or after it was revealed that Fairey had fabricated evidence.
> It might be good for time shifting expensive electrical rates but where in America is that going to happen?

This happens every day, all across America, it just doesn't get made visible to consumers. That's why the utility is asking to be allowed to interact with this battery, it's just a subtle variation on the smart grid demand management stuff that's been going on for the last decade or so, that allows utilities to avoid paying peak rates for electricity generation.

(This is also why solar is worth so much in places where the peak load for air-con roughly matches the solar profile)
I just found out that Scott Weiland died by reading this comment.
So Bill Gates owes Microsoft $500 mil?
I'm so confused here - I thought Apple added the ability to create content blockers to reduce revenue on the web so that more content providers resort to ADs and they get a bigger slice of the pie.

Why would Mozilla help them in their goal? Wouldn't it mean less reliance on the web and less Firefox in the long run?

What am I missing here?
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Something I really enjoy about DCSS is the community aspect that goes on in ##crawl on freenode. First, lots of help from smart players. Second, the bots announce milestones like unique mob deaths, entering branches, wins, deaths, etc. You can query the bots for help, too, useful for things like querying a monster's stats, and a million other things.

Essentially what you can get from: https://lookupdb.guy.ht/#term/death%20yak

Here's the query syntax for Sequell (a bot): https://github.com/crawl/sequell/blob/master/docs/listgame.m...

And just to add to the link dump, here's a list of user defined commands for the bots: https://loom.shalott.org/userdef.html

They have a tournament a few times a year, with every release. You build teams (or play on a team by yourself) and accumulate points a variety of ways. Banners are earned, and it is all logged.

http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.17/overview.html
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Anyone with knowledge care to compare and contrast this with Antelope [0]?

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/antelope-free-adblocker/id10...
99% of all grid storage is Hydro Power because it's cheap, efficient, and relativity high density. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Running the numbers we could build several days worth of 100% electric storage for fairly minimal costs. (10TWh = 1 day's storage.) The problem is having a back to your backup costs money and someone needs to cover the costs for a facility that effectively never gets used.

Another approach is to simply over build, renewables are rapidly becoming the cheapest option so simply over building say 10% can drastically reduce the need for grid storage.
Can someone rationalize this statement for me:

> Meanwhile, Microsoft’s first venture capitalist, Dave Marquardt, grumbled that it didn’t make sense for Microsoft to keep operating as a private partnership, with Gates owning 64% and Allen holding the other 36%.

How does Microsoft have a venture captialist if Bill and Paul own the entire company? I thought this might be pre investment but then the article says:

> Before long, Ballmer and Marquardt presented Microsoft’s founders with a proposed new capital structure. Gates and Allen would keep 84% of the company. Ballmer would get about 8%, in return for canceling his profit-sharing clause. All other employees would split the final 8%.

SO they reorg so 3 people hold 92% of the company and the rest of the employees get 8% of the company. What was the venture capitalist buying here?
To be fair, I would be incredibly surprised if creating a built-in Android content blocker is something Google would even consider, let alone implement.

It is disappointing that they aren't making that API public, but just having that be a core feature of their operating system is pretty huge. Hopefully they have plans to make it public or Firefox will just implement their own ad-blocker into IOS firefox.
Get that kid a uBlock Origin for Christmas (or whichever holiday is appropriate) ;-).
i might be a very odd ball, but i find it strange that in 21st century, people in the west pay relatively huge amounts for passively watching sports while sitting on the couch (to make picture complete, imagine some junk food lying just in front of them).

popular sports became filthy moral dump where elite tries to outsmart doctors in doping tests, cares primarily about PR and chasing sponsors, and the sport itself sits somewhere out there, like a necessary, but not that important part if it all. honest, pure sportsman doesn't stand a chance in such a crowd.

I choose not to support these "sports" anyway, ignore them and couldn't be happier. I focus on activities where athletes are doing it without massive cash incentives, because they love it.

And since my sports include climbing, alpinism, ski touring etc. which at any point hold small risk of major injury or death, fear is semi-constant part of whole experience and overcoming your fear is necessary for any success at all... these sports discussed look very "meh" compared to it.

Some real-people example - this Lebron James guy mentioned here today vs say Ueli Steck, or Alex Honnold.
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My bad team that's not near me are the Avs, so I hate you out of necessity. I'm sure you understand. :)

Not that it's a great replacement, but I've really grown attached to listening to the audio-only streams through the NHL app. I'm pretty sure those aren't blacked out anywhere, and radio is still very entertaining. I especially love the crew in Ottawa and the crazy old man in Pittsburgh.

Of course, there's the whole weird, questionable business model world of hockeystreams.com -- which puts really high quality streams of all sorta of hockey games up live (not just NHL, but I believe AHL and others too), probably proxied in from other places that don't have all of the silly restrictions. Their site isn't much right now, they limit subscriptions and during the season it's all "use" mode and no "sell."
> The worry, voiced by many, is that the pool of startups using equity crowdfunding will consist mostly of lower-quality companies that couldn’t get funding by other means.

Yes, of course. When you can't get the "smart" money, you try to go public or raise money from someone who won't or can't be involved with the actual business, right? The highest quality funding comes with expertise and guidance and is more than just a check.
So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are?

This is not a website you're going to visit regularly, or probably even more than once (except to show all your friends how badly optimised this image is).

Based on this logic, I probably shouldn't have bought the car I have now, because the brochure was printed on really thick paper.
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"When ESPN was adding subscribers, the $6.50 per-month-per-subscriber it charges to every cable operator meant $78 of additional annual profit for each new subscriber. This is a wonderful thing until a network starts losing customers, at which point all the revenue from every lost subscriber is chopped right out of that same network’s net profits."

This sounds like a "collapse of complex societies" in which the Roman Empire can expand as long as there are increasing returns to complexification, but collapses when the yields of complexification plateau and there is instead declining marginal productivity. http://www.historytoday.com/christopher-chippindale/collapse...
Just to close the loop, we did release the code.

See the post at: http://unikernel.org/blog/2015/contain-your-unikernels/
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Given that today hardware is cheap and fast, why are we still using compiled languages?

Plus using languages that requires source code at runtime help lower the barrier for newcomers.
“The nature of these companies is what’s changed.”

Jaron Lanier calls this nature "sirenic." Shrinking markets is the business of Siren Servers.

We mostly notice how these companies seem to do more with less (with automation) but Lanier argues that the shrinking of markets is more closely associated with incomplete accounting of value (and its origination).

Think about all the users of "fake free" systems contributing value without formal compensation.

It's not simply that automation is obviating human effort but rather humans are contributing value (e.g. by being monitored and tallied or uploading creative work) and absorbing most of the risk of the venture.
They're now favoring Firefox branding over Mozilla branding?
Business guys look at line graphs and think that trends continue forever. The reality is, everything has a limit. No technology can improve indefinitely as technology is bounded by the limits of the physical world (see Moore's law). Only an industry scientist has the perspective to make an accurate prediction. Will solar technology improve to a point where it can beat the energy density of fossil fueles? Or is it physically impossible? Any qualified people willing to supply an opinion?

Personally my intuition says that we will go to solar, but at great cost. We will be forced to switch due to rising oil costs and even after the switch the energy supply will be so diminished that we will no longer be treating energy as frivolously as we do today.
Where's the logical error? If ESPN switches to an MTV type model to survive as you assert, then they're going to stop paying tens of billions of dollars each year to the leagues. The leagues and sports will survive, of course, but the transition will be very painful.
Why scramble to shut them down? Isn't this a valuable source of information? Wouldn't we want to know what they are saying, who is engaging with them, etc.? Why push them further underground?

Hell, why not just make a social network JUST for terrorists with no threat of shutting anybody down and then just tap into that info?
Pardon me as I don't understand this blocking analytics or ads thing yet. Wouldn't a small web business which relies on Ad money be killed with this move ? Wouldn't someone who wants to provide content for ad money eventually have to pay Apple some cut for displaying ads on app. Wouldn't it drive the prices of ad as a result which would hurt small business who looks at internet advertising for their growth strategy ?