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You know dial up deserved a better fate. For me, I realized it was dead for real about 7 years ago. I setup a US based dial up account as a backup for a vacation that included some remote places. It did work in a cabin in a cell signal blocking valley, but not in a hotel - where of course PBXs are all now VOIP. Irony indeed. Worst of all is that a "real" POTS line cost more than a cell phone.

Related question: is it still true that if you are willing to pay (was like $100+/month) local telcos must sell you a ISDN BRI line? Anyone out there in oh say, the Nevada desert with such a connection? Satellite then? Or are you just on AOL?
>It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about.

One of the things that's most jarring about the Internet age is that a minority group that previously would be blacklisted from newspapers, ignored by local administrators, etc., can actually broadcast its grievances to the world as a whole without any mediation. The decline of money going to journalism as the print medium dies means that instead of an actual journalist working on a story for weeks at a time, a "journalist" is a SEO grayhat with a click quota, and pulling "stories" from twitter is easy.

Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest?

>It would seem, if anything, South Park just tries to round things out to free speech. You can call that nihilism, I guess, in a sort of perfunctory way.

I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech?
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I don't know. This was just a website I found that seemed to have a fairly complete listing, such as someone being repeatedly beaten with a portuguese man-o-war [1]. Some of these are rather ridiculous, but it is well categorized and thorough ridiculousness. Either that, or someone /has/ been beaten with a rather deadly critter, which sounds more like the plot element of a comedy horror film than anything.

[1] http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/T51-T65/T63/T...
Funny, I just advised for that in a HN thread.

I guess the writing was on the wall of course -- but in case they just heard me and decided to stop it: please guys prioritize a native-UI on all platforms, servo based release for 2016.
Many governments are interested in finding Satoshi. They need a scapegoat to pin this bitcoin thing on. They still believe finding him/her might be effective method of getting rid of bitcoin. It's like trump wanting to go ask bill gates about locking up the internet.
When astronomers decide to build a telescope they do an extensive site selection study to figure out where the best place to build the telescope is. The most important factors are things you would expect: how cloudy the site is, the elevation of the site, latitude, light pollution, etc. But they also consider the political feasibility of building the telescope. [1] Although Mauna Kea is a better site on purely scientific grounds than the Chile site where GMT is going to be built, Mauna Kea has always been dinged in these site selection reviews for the political problems of getting the telescope built. TMT decided to risk the political difficulties for the better site. It seems that the political objections to the TMT were stronger than they anticipated.

There are actually some excellent sites in various parts of the world that don't yet have telescopes on them because the infrastructure isn't there yet to support them. If my memory serves right, there is a site in Nairobi that is one of the best in the world scientifically, but it's unfeasible economically and politically to build a large telescope there. There was also a site in Morocco that made the short list as a site for the E-ELT. As economies improve, though, these sites will eventually be developed. In the past 15 years the infrastructure in India has gotten to the point that it was possible to build the Indian Astronomical Observatory on a very good site in the Himalayas. I think China is now building (or at least considering) another observatory somewhere in the Himalayas as well.

[1]: For a list of some of the factors considered, see this paper, especially Table 1: http://authors.library.caltech.edu/19568/1/Schoeck2007p8596W...
I got a Surface 4 Pro. The problem I have with it is it's not a very good laptop in your laptop. Like putting on your lap and using it is very awkward for me. The kickstand barely bits on my legs. Everything else I liked but since I can't easily use the laptop on my lap...I returned it.
What does this mean? I would hope that best case would be:

a) something like http://www.puredarwin.org/ could be updated

b) something like https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross could drop the step of grabbing files from xcode
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I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, articles like this seem to indicate that Sony has become incredibly developer-friendly... but on the other hand, the recent Xperia phones wipe a DRM partition if you unlock the bootloader, irretrievably destroying keys that allow a bunch of things not work, such as some software that makes the camera actually good.

So we're stuck either not unlocking and rooting at all, or waiting for an (unlikely?) root exploit to be found that allows a custom recovery to be installed. And even then, running a custom kernel still requires unlocking the bootloader, so you can't run AOSP or CM, or any of the other mods. (Fortunately, with a root exploit, you can back up the DRM partition and restore it later, but still, it's not ideal.)
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"people want a good product AND privacy AND security. Not fucking OR."

That's true. The problem is: what is a good product? Good is relative to what the insecure garbage on the market is offering. You can move fast, drastically add complexity, keep it extra cheap, and so on if quality or security aren't on the table. So, a good product that meets one's needs can look like a bad one if it's secure and makes right tradeoffs vs the "good product" that sells its users out.

One simple example is how several companies did high assurance VPN's whose trusted computing base was very difficult to hack. Yet, to get there, they had to eliminate most features competition was adding to their all-in-one appliances. I pointed out one could just chain them together with the high assurance solution being the interface to untrusted network. Rest of functionality can be in next device. Even such a simple scenario was almost always rejected as it was cheaper or simpler to have one do-it-all(-like-crap) device.

Apply such logic throughout entire industry and we have whole, insecure stacks that can't be made better without sacrifice. Nonetheless, companies keep trying with medium-assurance, full-featured appliances that are easy to configure. They sell very few and most go out of business. Enough said.
Yes, that's precisely my point. Griggs (and some later ruling and legislation along the same lines) established when an employer can use a test to evaluate applicants that indirectly discriminates against a protected class. From the article:

> The Supreme Court ruled that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, if such tests disparately impact ethnic minority groups, businesses must demonstrate that such tests are "reasonably related" to the job for which the test is required.

For programmers (as well as many other jobs), IQ (within a certain range) could be borne out as being reasonably related. GP was claiming that it is illegal to administer IQ tests during interviews in the US, which is not true.
Maybe full version for a week, month or X usages, then restrict to some kinda distance/amount of items or add ads.

Or just keep it as it is, it might yield more with less downsides for you.
Are you familiar with the science case for these three telescopes? Because you wouldn't want to make a statement like that without a passing knowledge of:

[TMT science] http://www.tmt.org/science-case, http://www.tmt.org/sites/default/files/documents/application...

[GMT science] http://www.gmto.org/Resources/GMT-SCI-REF-00482_2_GMT_Scienc...

[E-ELT science] https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/science/

All of this science background is understood in relation to the National Academies Astrophysics decadal study, which was written in 2010 and is being revised at a series of meetings that concludes next month. (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/SSB_1...)

Remember that the $1B is in relation to space missions (Hubble, JWST, etc.) costing much more.
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I at first thought the other comment of yours was an unkind "parody" of "millennials"

"millennials" is barely even a useful term except for that other people treat it as one, imo?

But, yeah, I don't think your generalization over a "generation" is called for? (I am not part of the generation referred to)
Serious question for you and your parent:

Why would a pastebin site need auth/login/userids ?

All I can think of is editing pastes, but isn't it easier to just create a new (anonymous) paste instead of editing ?
I think part of the effect is that they create a texture from photos - today's top games don't do this, they scan and model the face, so it looks higher-fidelity but less realistic (while this is very low fidelity). Mafia 1 used a similar technique to achieve really nice results, given how low-poly the models were back then.
OK, but in a general sense, the number of computing devices being purchased continues to grow.

Apple keeps setting iPhone sales records. Your examples, I would argue, are a good thing. People buy only when they absolutely need these goods, not because they are afraid they need to buy in excess now because their savings is going to lose value relative to the cost of these goods. They get full use out of the goods they purchase. Less wasteful spending, and wasteful use of resources needed to produce them. Moore's law illustrates that the cost of computing power has continually fallen. The industry has certainly not suffered because of this, would you agree?

So without putting to fine a point on it: The tech industry is as healthy as any in the entire economy. And yet, prices fall faster than just about any other. Consumers unambiguously benefit from these falling prices. Keep this in mind when economists or politicians sing the praises of "mild" inflation. This would certainly benefit governments who want to run a deficit and spend money they have to borrow. But I'd argue this does not benefit the consumer.

Thought experiment: will you plan on spending more on discretionary items (entertainment, vacation, home remodeling, investments, whatever...) if you anticipate / observe rising prices on staples such as food, healthcare, rent/mortgage, gas, utilities, etc?

Or, will you spend more on discretionary items if you anticipate / observe falling prices on those same items? Your available budget will be greater and of course your spending will increase in these areas if you have more money to spend. So the utility, or benefit you receive as a result is clearly higher.

Debtors benefit from rising prices because they can pay off debt with cheaper currency. So, as previously mentioned government, the biggest debtor, promotes inflationary policy.
I agree sometimes it takes someone with weight to throw around, but are you saying that person needs to be a Mozilla employee? Because I wouldn't agree with that.
auto is bad? Auto helps to reduce the amount of typing on repeating the type declaration for the left hand side of an assignment, that can't be bad. Assignment to left hand side declared with auto doesn't do anything wicked like implicit type conversion - so its ok in my book.
I believe the GP is talking about the fact that most of the jihadi foot solders are unemployed/under-employed with poor job prospects, and many are unmarried with poor marriage prospects. For instance, Saudi Arabia for a time had a program where they took convicted jihadis, gave them job training and loans/grants for dowries (and maybe ran some kind of matchmaking service... I forget the details) and saw significantly lowered re-arrest rates for jihadis who got jobs and wives shortly after leaving prison.

Improving economic outlook reduces the pool of recruits, but the GP is questioning the long-term macroeconomic outlook in the region, and in turn questions the long-term viability of harming extremist recruiting by improving job prospects for young unmarried men.
Huh, it's a shame there isn't more transparency (or consistency) in pricing.
The study relies on isochronously spoken words!

Inside joke: I recently published a network protocol that relies on sending words isochronously between switches.

I'll take this as validation that I'm on to something :-)
Has it changed since you read it? The title says one was inadvertently disclosed, and the first line says the one was that for *.xboxlive.com.
Yes, the astronomers I know have been fearing this shoe would drop for several years now as the protests have gained strength. Chile is looking pretty good.
Totally agree with this.

Many candidates I see that have a "strong interest" in machine learning have no idea wtf machine learning really entails; they are listing it as an interest because it is a buzzword and "sounds hard". Most of them have just used scikit-learn once or twice, and have no idea about statistics.

(also not at a YC company)
Headline is utterly false.
Australian police raid Sydney home of reported Bitcoin creator
I think you're referring to Gresham's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law ); but it doesn't talk of coins and bills.
Not really. Let's say he was under investigation by the ATO for a host of different matters and let's say that the ATO suspected/was hoping there was interesting evidence at his house and while they would like to get their hands on it they were waiting until the right opportunity to do so, without hindering/alerting the subject of the investigation.

Then these new claims are made in the media and they risk not only Wright himself moving the evidence, but also hordes of potential 'treasure hunters' breaking in and stealing things like hard drives in the hope of finding bitcoin - hard drives that also contain things the ATO might want to look at.

And so a pre-emptive raid to take the evidence, before it gets taken by others.
> No wonder, then, that many leading astronomers in the 1980s and early
> 1990s had written off Nelson’s scheme. A 1993 Los Angeles Times
> profile of Nelson, for instance, quotes an anonymous source it
> describes as “one of the nation’s top telescope designers.” The
> anonymous source rated Nelson an “arrogant fool” and predicted that
> the W.M. Keck Observatory’s $200 million price tag would ultimately
> just be money down the drain.

> Yet when in 1992 the Keck telescope—followed by its cousin Keck II in
> 1996—instead delivered on its designers’ promise of ushering in a new
> era of 10-meter class astronomy, other observatories around the world
> were caught by surprise.

I think it should also be noted that Keck was "competing" with a similar-sized telescope which ended up being known as the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). LBT had a huge number of issues, both with engineering and funding, that lead to almost 20 years of delay. Part of the problem was that LBT is more technically challenging than Keck, since it has two large mirrors on a common mount (like a pair of binoculars). But like Keck, LBT also had difficulties with protesters, but the objections were more environmental than cultural (Mt. Graham is the home to an endangered species of squirrel). All of this is to say that it wasn't unreasonable for the astronomical community to be skeptical of Keck since a project similar in scale ended up far behind schedule and over budget.
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As someone who is a fan of the generative grammar tradition, that's pretty cool!

Going to have to read the full study later, but it sounds like they have some decent results from that press release (though not total evidence for the thesis).

Hopefully this finding can contribute toward pushing studies in neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics further.

Has some implications for a computational theory of mind too.
gwern is responding on this /r/bitcoin thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3vzgnd/bitcoins_cr...
Why would the user care about "ethical" manner (especially since it still allows ads) over crude, remove all ads, manner?
Many server appliances or hardened distros did exactly what their counterparts could but with much less risk. Either went nowhere or made small amounts of money. Meanwhile, insecure garbage and spyware prevails at multi-billion dollar amounts. I think people have made their preferences clear in practice even if in theory they want it more private.
My brother and I talked about this when Go was first announced. If we were kids and this stuff was released, we'd be playing it non-stop probably. It brings the imaginative stuff even more to life than before.
I talked to the author about this - apparently Kevin Spacey's lawyers asked them to change it.
The one thing that appears to contradict my claim is a 10^8 speedup. That's a ridiculously huge speed-up that even custom hardware won't achieve. I'm not sure if it's an error or not, though. If it was right, then they either have a groundbreaking algorithm with acceleration or a quantum annealing machine.
Your autocorrect is funny today.
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Most of those aren't even mututally exclusive.
Whatever happened to putting liquid rotating mirror telescopes on the moon? Here's an article explaining the idea:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/09...
> But if he's Satoshi, he can take the moral high ground and wage a media campaign to shame the ATO into dropping the case and maybe finally correctly treating Bitcoin as money.

How does this help? If they treat it that way, wouldn't Wright have a huge income tax debt?
Stopped reading at 'rock star developers'.
Valve calls this "beaten wife syndrome" and apparently it often goes away after a while (if not, they fire the new hire).
> control SN = control BTC

It's a decentralized, open-source protocol. SN couldn't do anything to it if he wanted to.
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If you're really concerned and want to change that, I had great success with one of those books of practice interview questions. It sounds cheesy, but (obvious in retrospect) simply practicing the reasoning patterns tested in that kind of interview helped me do well in them.
You don't have to pay taxes on capital gains until you sell the asset. Satoshi hasn't sold his hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, they're just sitting there on the blockchain where they were mined.
I'm in Salt Lake City, where they announced they've been building a long time ago, and we ain't seen sh*t yet.
Thought nethack went rogue but apparently not.
> wouldn't Wright have a huge income tax debt?

Yes, but presumably he can pay it out of his Bitcoin fortune. He has to deal with that at some point anyway, and by going public now, he gains additional leverage on his VAT or tax credit or whatever the ATO has decided to get him for this time.
I agree with this perspective but why doesn't he ask for additional research to be done. If he's belief is valid based on what he sees, then maybe six is too small a sample size.
Because capitalism you get to play with nice computers - socialism was never good at that. You also get to buy things that customers want, not stuff that some detached bureaucrat thinks that you should buy.

However you do have a point - they do have to sell toys and a ten year old will probably not buy a big bird doll. This requirement causes them to invent more addictive characters, so as to spin off dolls that younger kids will wish to own. On the other side they may have tried to push Ernie and Bert dolls to teenagers, this might have created a more diverse offering.

Another point is that the principle that work with consumer markets are not very good when applied to education: the target audience here still has a limited ability to evaluate your effort as an educator...
How would mt. gox's missing coins be connected? The reason people know how much satoshi has is because those coins haven't moved from their original address.
It is always weird reading anything Schmidt writes because it feels like he's using his own definitions of things that he never clarifies. He says he's against censorship, but then says that we need to act quick to remove certain videos. How does he define censorship?
He could sell off his massive holdings of BTC and cause another crash.
Micro-loans have always been on par with loan sharks, the interest rates are similar. (Loan sharks don't pay tax, don't have to pay foreign wages)

So, I can see why there is no real reason they will work. Most people can access loan sharks.

Places that run micro-loans might be nicer but they are not introducing an amazing new opportunity.
With the explosion of 3d printing I would love to see what Lego does to capture this market. I can already print lego clone pieces. My niece doesn't really know about intellectual property, she know about mashing plastic together.

They can be the leader, but the window that they can take advantage of this is closing quickly. A 300 dollar printer id not that big of an investment and once you have it you can print a big item for about a dollar in plastic.
The desire of the Democrats I ran into was control over how the money was spent since you couldn't trust the people to spend it wisely without a program or law. It really soured me towards them, particularly the corruption and death that followed not allowing tribes in ND to pay their members (the casino owners) direct dividends because they didn't trust the members to spend it properly.
A more accurate title would be something like: "Percentiles are great, but you may not be calculating them correctly."
Now if only Pokemon and other Nintendo properties were available for Android and iOS. But I guess they have determined that this is not in their best interests... :/
"He said that for years, his response to claims like Duflo’s was to say he didn’t need data when he could see the effect firsthand."

Why would people give their charity money to someone who is so clearly blinkered?
That "Half Life 3" of Pokemon has always been a 3D Pokemon MMO. Not a Augmented Reality game: an actual MMO.

That still won't ever happen.
I feel not as many people would of played still. Sure they would of made a ton of money, but I don't see it being as big. Many games that follow today's tactics may make millions but Pokemon is a legacy all of it's own that other games could only dream of matching. Everything from movies, a tv show, toys, tournaments, etc I would argue Pokemon may of not have made half as much as it has the way it was made... I could be wrong though, but it's easier to get hooked on a game you can buy for cheap and play however many times you want...