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"if EFF is on the same side, they'd inform T-Mobile more quietly that they're actually throttling data"

T-Mobile knows it's throttling data.

All the EFF did was tell everyone else the results of testing. John's basically saying "who the fuck are you for telling everyone".
There is nothing even remotely "primitive" about Windows as a development platform. You let the air out of your own argument when you say things like that.
It probably is cheaper, being a knockoff. My point was more that the Onewheel device looks like something I'd slap together in my workshop out of spare metal brackets and plywood, not something I'd bring to mass market.

All that said, I wouldn't ride either one. At my age bones don't heal as fast as they used to.
The real article (that this was ripped from):
https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...
The largest surprise to me here is that a small startup could get the judicial system to act in a matter of days to order the execution of a raid! That is impressive.
Yes. In many cases individuals are allowed to invoke the power of the state. By calling that power "violence" are you arguing that the state should not be able to take action to protect people?
You mean what if they don't fit into our status-quo middle class concept of society? Well then we ostracize them... and parade the ones of that do fit the fantastical ideal as unappreciated genius.
Well if congress is really that cheap, perhaps someone should make a kickstarter to buy back our government.
It takes a long time to get a patent from application to publication.

If you look closer at the patent, what will be considered the priority date for that patent is the date the provisional patent application was filed -- May 6, 2013.
Your usecase doesnt seem like HDF5 would be a good fit.

Yes, I do know about docx and zip.

I'm happy with what matlab has done. People send me .mat files and I happily process them in python. And my plots usually look much nicer also. :)
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The more baffling thing is they went as far as to prevent you from blacklisting the telemetry servers via hosts file. The data SO important to them they put that amount of effort into obtaining it.

The only reason I can think of that doesn't resort to tin foil hat theories is to prevent a rise of "windows 10 privacy enhancement" software.
I agree, however the first date Changzhou could have seen the patent application was its actual date of publication.

I am skeptical Changzhou could have gone from reading this application, which is about ideas and not specific implementation and design, to engineering a manifestation of that patent, setting up a production line, testing, marketing, boxing, and selling these products between November and January.

I would say that Changzhou has obviously been working on a similar design in parallel. When they started is not clear though.

Both are also clearly derivative from, and in violation of, Kamen's patents.

There's already several products from other companies that are one wheeled unicycle kamen devices. The hoverboards are mini Segways without the needed handle for stabilization. The more sensible front to back skateboard concept has been discussed in various places. It's not unreasonable to expect that many people were working on the design in parallel.

The facts are though that the Chinese company failed to secure a US patent. That is their downfall in the US market.

To say they stole the design is premature.
> Technically the black hole doesn't offer anything beyond what a sun of comparable output would offer.

Low temperature (lower than cosmic background).
I was hoping they were being raided for gross abuse of the term "hoverboard," but alas, that isn't the case.
The arguments for information control are similar to those for anything else -- less [x] floating around, less potential for abuse.
This is always the case. The concern here is that the people who profit from being able to dispense harmful doses are also the ones that are responsible for monitoring its safety.
About the sdk point I completely agree. Unless you want somewhat shallow os
There is no way for Android sdk to compete with real world desktop os.

By shallow I mean something which don't have much functionality. This is not absolutely bad thing.yes most of powey users will not use that ,but for people who want to chat, browse, and use Skype this is not a bad this.but the point is these kind of users already leaving desktop after tablets/phone revolution.
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This is a different kind of hoverboard. One single wheel in the middle, ridden sideways, not wheels on each end ridden forward.
Fantastic, except what you get is an arms race, and then someone pulls out a conceptual superweapon[0][1], and the whole topic becomes an irradiated, barren wasteland that won't be able to provide any value for a couple of few years.

[0] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html

[1] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
In a perfect world.
All laws are enforced through violence. By your definition I'm not sure you can be "truly non-violent" and also believe in law.
Maybe you have become inured.

But when you get officers removing stuff, you'd better have some solid case. According to the article "By 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Onewheel filed a request with a judge to stop the Trotters from being displayed on the show floor."

So how much time was put into making sure there is a solid case?

(Legal rights are always relative)
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Maybe I was a bit harsh with the "almost no tests". They have some tests.

Someone name fmarch asked on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831601 about verification against the ISA model.

It possibly can be done via a torture tester apparently, https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-torture , but taking a quick look I don't think it handles loops, interrupts, floating point instructions etc.
Why are these being called hoverboards?
I'm going to guess that the reason he's saying it's not throttling is because that's the explanation he's been given by his engineering team. Or he said "let's optimize video in a way that isn't throttling."

He's calling it semantics because of Dunning-Kruger. Because he doesn't really know how any of this works, but his ego is so big Superman couldn't lift it, he inflates his surface understanding to expert level.

Tmo should publish a spec that allows any provider to meet their definition of optimized video and therefore qualify for binge on. I'm totally fine with it as long as they don't get to choose who gets unlimited streaming.

As it is, and as a current tmo customer, this is eye opening. Tmo had always seemed to be the voice of reason in American wireless. What they did with contracts was a massive step in the right direction.

But this makes it look like they don't actually get it. They just happened to accidentally get a few things right.
Perhaps Yahoo should have been split into smaller companies sooner. With better management, Flickr could have been Instagram.
The only way you can enforce a patent is by having armed law enforcement do so (as they did in this case), or relying on the perception that armed law enforcement could do so.

That said, this argument would essentially hold that to live in civilized society (at least, as we understand civilization), to take advantage of tax-funded things like roads, to make use of government-enforced currencies, etc. is also violence. Which might be technically true, but is not useful, and certainly not useful for the goal of getting the rest of the world to be less violent; I know very few people whose brand of non-violence does not involve attempting to stop other people's violence. Indeed, a serious application of this argument would require one not to use the Internet, which was government-funded (i.e., funded by tax dollars, i.e., funded by money taken at implicit threat-of-gunpoint from citizens) out of military budgets (violence incarnate) and is still a bit government-run, and it would certainly require one not to use Hacker News, given how much Y Combinator firmly requires a strong conception of private property.

So I think our pal Sonic the Hedgehog's famous quote applies, although the context is slightly different: http://i.imgur.com/wi1QIgG.jpg
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> and let the new owner take care of it...

That was likely part of a carefully planned PR move. Microsoft was in a position to be able to weather a massive layoff, especially if it was spun as reducing duplication after picking up a new division. Nokia, on the other hand, would have looked far worse selling off half the company after a huge layoff.
It's because they DO look through people's files for their own purposes. Example:

https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/

> a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.

I'm pretty certain they didn't get permission to look at their users movie collections or DVR recordings, they were just flagged for high usage and they went right in to see what those users were storing. For any form of data collection they do, it's a guarantee they're analyzing the outliers... in fact they're practically bragging about the fact they do.
You're either the job creator or the job filler.

Please explain to me which one of those labels best applies to the executive team at Yahoo.
I don't think anybody aspires to that. That's why our main focus would be to get funded so that everybody can get a salary as soon as possible.
Rob Bilott is indeed a hero.

But damn, "PFOA was only one of more than 60,000 synthetic chemicals that companies produced and released into the world without regulatory oversight".

Consider breast cancer. One of the risk factors is nulliparity (having borne no children). There's also an inverse association between breast cancer risk and parity (number of children). One of the mechanisms for that, it seems, is that lipophilic organic pollutants are mobilized from womens' fat during pregnancy and lactation. People are born with ~20% of typical lifetime doses of such pollutants.

Human breast milk cannot be sold commercially. One reason is that it's too contaminated with organic pollutants. Life is funny.
You could just as well say that the cent that buys you a soda has a bigger marginal utility than the previous one. Sure, maybe in the context of that one transaction, but not in any general way.
Using Wayback Machine at least on their website nothing was listed as of August 2015. [1]

[1] http://wayback.co/www.cztrotter.com
> Global illumination creates brilliant results when your eye perceive it as "real" illumination
so VR with Occulus should work wonder, correct ?
make str_t an opaque type. First char is always length.

1. If string is 0-15 chars long, str_t is a small string, aka char[16]. First byte is length, payload starts in 2nd byte, tail is always zeroed. Empty string is all zeros always.

2. If string is 16-248, str_t is a half string. The whole payload exist in a single contiguous buffer. First bytes is length. A pointer to the rest of the payload exist within the remaining 15 bytes, starting at the first alligned address. This way you can cast half string as small string when passing as value without knowing the size at compile time (and stil recover the rest of the payload). Gap between the length and the pointer is reserved and always zeroed.

3. For lengths 249 and higher. Each value 249-255 is not the lenght, but an encoded way to represent one or more styles of bigger strings. Not need to hold the payload in a single contiguous buffer. Remaining 15 bytes will hold a pointer to the data structure in the same fashion as half string. Reserved bytes are used to represent length if possible. If not, length is required to exist at a fixed position in the first buffer accesible when dereferencing the pointer.
The author makes a good point about re-examining our approach to treating mental illness. I think the viewpoint that "Big Pharma" has psychiatrists in their hands is a bit too conspiracy-ist for me. What's really happening is mental healthcare is being excessively quantized and dehumanized. We're too concerned with the symptoms and we have studies that lump a variety of people under the ridiculously general label: 'depression'.

We're going too fast, the brain and human spirit is hopelessly complex, and it takes a holistic, humanistic treatment that doesn't reduce the patient to a set of symptoms to make a change. A book I recommend concerning this is "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" by neurologist Oliver Sacks.
If you could create jobs and had the right motivation and ability to do so, you wouldn't be filling a job.

Haha...

I'm happy you believe this. No sarcasm; it just made me wish that I still did.

In this world, merit is judged by more than ability. Motive, if not aimed perfectly, is a burden that will decrease your chances, not increase them.

Background is so important. My family was totally broken, like one hundred percent shattered. There is no chance I'll be a job creator, no matter how driven.

Why can't I meet the right people? Because of what I say when given an initial opportunity. And why am I not able to say the right things? Because of the background and context I grew up in.

And I'm not talking about appealing to some rich person and asking for an opportunity. I'm talking about meeting peers, or building a team, or any of the things that really matter.

One could argue that this situation is mutable, and that it's mostly my fault for what I say. Obviously, yes, it's my fault for the things I say.

But when your whole life has been spent being trained in a certain way, by being in the river of society that pushes us all along, the slipstream that you end up in as a child pretty much makes or breaks your ability to learn how to do anything close to what you're suggesting. To play that game you mention.

Enjoy being a job creator. It's an opportunity that you should make the most of, in the stead of all the people who can't.
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How do you think about pure mathematics research then? Or fundamental physics? Or art/literature/history's place in publicly funded universities? There's so much more to all of this than pushing forward in industry.
A sad loss, so many people made so many silent sacrifices for Engima.

Worth mentioning the other pretty unsung sacrifices made by crew members of HMS Petard; which can be read in the book "Fighting Destroyer".
I have no idea what you are trying to say. I don't know what kind of people you mean. I don't know what you think I know what works in practice.
I'd highly suggest you follow the NANOG BCOP. There's a site for it: http://nabcop.org/index.php/IPv6_Subnetting

Here's where I got the idea of using fe80::1 everywhere for the link-local gateway: https://www.edge-cloud.net/2013/08/ipv6-link-local-addresses...
> The parent is advocating for the Slackware approach—just take whatever's in the upstreams and slam it together—but installed into a container (so all that slamming doesn't conflict with anything), and distributed as a container image.

Have you heard of Nix and NixOS? It doesn't use containers for this, but each package's tree is kept isolated from the others'.

https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html
It's not about the ads for many; it's the tracking and data-sucking.
I agree and disagree with your point. It's incredibly hard to determine how much good a new CEO has done, and how much is inertia. I think that's a strong argument against the incredibly high CEO pay in contemporary companies, it dramatically underestimates the importance of the work of the rank and file.

That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else have done better? And of the set of people who could have done better, how many would take an offer to fix yahoo contingent on performance? I think the answer is probably zero.

The whole system is rigged, companies feel like they have to pick someone out of a relatively narrow talent pool, and since they are (wrongly) in such demand, they can all command extremely high salaries.
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I didn't say anything about God. They aren't like other people. It can be distinctly useful. They just need to be respected. Maybe that would have been a better term than revere. The respect does two things. It helps them exist; They need it and we ought to help them. In doing so we learn useful things about ourselves. They're exaggerations of a part of us. I think this is the point of the GP. A society fit for a shaman is a better society for everyone else. This is congruent with your idea that they're just wackos. They have no idea how they're being helpful.
I thought GPU techniques do something like accumulate the secondary rays and use really fast GPU sorting algorithms on them before continuing, to bring back coherence.
The point is that patents don't appear to contribute to the sum total knowledge that academics build on top of. They're by and large intellectual dead ends, if profitable ones.
> Please explain to me which one of those labels best applies to the executive team at Yahoo

Clearly the former. In 2012 Yahoo had 11,700 employees, and by 2014 they had 12,500 employees.[1] The 10% layoff is going to be around the difference there (so net zero), but I don't think any reasonable person could argue not cutting jobs in this situation would result in a net gain for Yahoo.

It's a company in trouble, and it's a reasonable course of action.

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/260291/number-of-full-tim...
> Lynzey Donahue, a U.S. Marshals official, said marshals served a court order at CES.

If there's a court order, this seems to be a lot less sensational than the comment thread makes it appear to be.
Indeed, the choice seems to be give Disney a perpetual money machine, vs. give Disney a perpetual money machine AND wreck the public domain.
Or more positively, "dilution is the solution"
I really liked the comment on the linked nymag article.

> Alan Turing demonstrated (discovered?) that information processing (computation) is necessarily universal. That is, no matter the physical configuration of the computational medium—DNA, brain, software, etc.—the underlying principles of its operation must be identical. This, it turns out, follows from the laws of physics; if it were not the case, sentient life could not have evolved from inorganic materials and processes. The implications a inordinately far-ranging, but one of them surely is that all learning must ultimately conform to the basic laws of information processing. In the end, to "know" something amounts to the same thing for everybody. Physical skills are an obvious example: no matter what "style" we think we discern, throwing a ball works only one way, and there is only one way to learn how to do it (practice). The same goes for reading and, yes, math.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/12/one-reason-the-learning...
Because everyone wants to be like McFly from Back To The Future? Even though they all have wheels.

I think there was one company that had a bigger board and had fans (or propellers) but it didn't look ready to sell yet.
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Here's a very similar design created by Jamison Go and his team at Georgia Tech back in 2011: http://thevariableconstant.blogspot.com/2011/02/survey-self-...
I am very ignorant about all this stuff. But am I correct that until recently, the Chinese government was actively devaluating the yaun to support their export industries? But now they've had to do an about-face and start trying to push it up?
Well, when you're running a company or are an executive, obviously you will be time-poor and money-rich. But in general, having more assets means you'll have more free time. And arguably, the time a company owner spends may be be being spent exactly how they want to spend it, in which case they aren't time-poor at all.
> If that's true, then why does Disney care whether the copyright expires?

Disney spends millions a year promoting the Mickey Mouse brand. If anyone could use the brand then they would be freely benefiting from that.
There are many counter examples to your anecdote. Larry Ellison comes to mind, but there are others (in fact, most of our most successful people come from very broken backgrounds).

It's what you do with that drive/anger/passion/frustration/motivation/defiance that counts.

It takes a lot of risk, and guts to strike out and create jobs - and more often than not it doesn't work out... but that's all part of the game.

It's one thing to be really good at what you do... to even be the best. It's another thing entirely to convince other really good and sometimes the best people to work for you, your company, and your ideas.
I'd rather see the web evolve even further and make "apps" irrelevant and have a desktop OS on my phone, that respect my privacy, rather than the other way around... And FOSS!
IMHO everyone should be getting raided by the feds. Segway's patent from 2001 covers their 'inventions' handily.

[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US6302230
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> Personally, I really do believe the throttling here is not intended behavior of Binge On. I honestly do.

Could you elaborate on this? I wasn't aware about Binge On before, but going just off this incident it appeared to me like deceptive behavior on T-Mobile's part. I feel like I don't have enough information to make a fair judgement though.