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There is an interesting point in this review...
Seems like industry has get good enough to make hardware
-Microsoft and the beautiful magnesium surface pro
-Apple and the aluminum design (the possible saphire
screen and the new aluminum alloy)
-Android several devices...

But we are lacking on the software, and you see it everywhere

-Microsoft and the tablet/desktop os which haven't get
that much hate lately
-ios and let's fix everything we break with the ios7
and newer (e.g. small tiny buttons for music controls on
the lock screen of the ipad....)
-android and... oh well you have the above review.

Interestingly some of the things that have been fixed and make the os nice have been done by apple, ad filter, the future screen color shifting a.k.a. "fluxing".
It's kind of frustrating as a person wanting a decentralised payments system having to work with people who want the most anonymous payments system possible.

Enabling anonymous financial actions _is the very definition_ of money laundering. Though the protocol could be freely distributed, any form of business built on it will have a lot of trouble existing in any useful form. Starting from that point is going to make your life so much harder.

And of course, the irony in trying to use Bitcoin as a basis for anonymous transactions is solved with Zerocoin. But I don't know how a law-abiding business can have reasonable knowledge of the parties in the transactions (a requirement to not be money laundering) without meeting the wishes of the fanbase.
If you need enterprisey features like record versioning, auditing, optimistic concurrency, good authn/authz then use .NET over Node.js

Personally I'd go with a universal React.js on Express (snappy SPA for users, crawlable server-generated html for googlebot, with one codebase) talking to a .NET REST API.

Then later you can use React Native for mobile and the same REST API. Or an Electron.js desktop app talking to same API.

PostgreSQL matches MS SQL Server in most regards, but MS SQL Server kills it for text search, but PostgreSQL does row security, and is, you know, free.
Politicians are so predictable, a robot can literally write their speeches
I see your point, however...

1) It's worth reiterating that there was a huge housing bubble and a massive devaluation. You say 4% losses is terrible for AAA rated securities (which is true), but you could also say it's pretty amazing for subprime mortgages during a massive housing bubble popping. It's like building a levee that's meant to stand up to all but the most massive floods, and then having a massive flood; the fact that the levee failed it not itself proof that it wasn't engineered correctly.

2) The point I was originally trying to make and got sidetracked from is that if (and seems likely to me) there was an extremely widespread systematic belief that there was no housing bubble and that a coordinated, nationwide drop in housing prices was effectively impossible, then you would see the exact outcomes we saw without the corruption or "corrosion" you posit.

In short, you're suggesting that people knew the loans were going to go bad, and put high grades on it knowing there was a real risk of default. I would put it to you that actually no one inside the system believed the loans were going to go bad, and the high grades were put on it in the incorrect belief that there was no real risk of default.

There's been a lot of research on this subject, but to me the most compelling is research showing that "insiders" did not diversify away from the crap they were selling. See facts 9 and 10 from this paper[1] for example, which notes that Lehman, for example, was using internal models which estimated the odds of a bursting bubble at 5%, whereas they assigned 30% odds to scenarios that assumed absolutely impossible and historically unprecedented house price growth. Bear Stearns executives invested heavily in their own bank's funds which in turn were invested in MBS. Similarly, many loan originators got into trouble not because they bundled the loans up and sold them on (as their risk models required them to do), but because they kept too many of them, thinking they were great investments. If Lehman and Bear Stearns and Bank of America were the suckers, who was doing the exploiting? (And the biggest winners were people like John Paulson, who had no clue how the mortgage market worked, and had never traded mortgages before.)

From where I stand, there is a compelling, coherent story of people being idiots, but the cynical, blatant corruption seems missing. If your model says there's a 5% chance of housing prices dropping, then your model is wrong, but your conclusion about the risk of impairment of AAA tranches makes a lot of sense. So the next question is, well, did you really believe that there was a 5% chance of housing prices dropping? And the people involved bet their careers and personal fortunes on that, so...apparently they did?

Edit: I highly recommend the entire paper, and in particular you may find "fact 12" of interest, as it gets into the weeds on how the ratings were actually calculated, why the ratings on MBSs ended up being mostly accurate, why the ratings on CDOs ended up being completely wrong, and why there was a difference.

[1]: https://www.bostonfed.org/economic/ppdp/2012/ppdp1202.pdf
Restricted immigration that allows the top talent of various countries is not the same as mass immigration that replaces the host population and culture. Your dream of an open-borders utopia is incompatible with a successful country.

Israel has had a strict immigration policy, far more restrictive than the post-1965 US policy. They don't seem perturbed by your claimed economic requirement of not "exclud[ing] everyone who wasn't smart enough to be born there" (while you've already shown you really mean open borders).

The US prospered with very restricted immigration for decades.

> Keep them out, and they'll concentrate in other places.

Let them concentrate, especially those from the Third World, so their countries have a chance to benefit from their talent and develop. I don't understand why you are against their home countries prospering.

Xenophobia-at-a-distance has no place in modern civilization.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967578
How China's Plans to Launch Its Own Currency Might Affect Bitcoin
I did upvote, don't think the downvotes are deserved.

Sent my ticket number via the contact form on the website from your profile. I see that you spearheaded the SOPA membership surge - it's what got me to join in the first place.
I've been on Soundcloud for a looong time and unlike Spotify , it never was a radio but some paid cloud hosting for mp3 with social features. So sound cloud relied on paid customers who uploaded their music on the platform for promotion purposes. I don't think they ever had any opportunity to turn into a Spotify competitor. That's not how people use Soundcloud.

I think however Beatport is trying to be the Spotify for IDM. not sure how it is working for them.

Beatport was "the shit" back then and made a LOT of money. The problem with Beatport is that it works as long as djs are compelled to renew their catalogue.

it became big thanks to "Electro", then Minimal techno , then it made Deadmau5 big, after Deadmau5 nothing really happened in the IDM world, so Beatport success kinda went down.

Neither Dubstep nor HipHop ever were best selling genres on Beatport. And today, MP3 sells don't bring much revenue even for big names. I'd be surprised if TOP 10 beatport artists sell more than a 1000 units per best selling track today.

It used to be different.
Pretty egotistical to frame it that way of Asimov.
There are at least two plausible reasons Norwegians might not be a good indicator of how cold affects Tesla performance.

1. Almost 20% of the population of Norway is in the Oslo urban area. There could be a fairly large number of people who could get by reasonably without ever having to drive outside that area, and so would be OK with it if their car's range was reduced by cold.

2. The next half dozen or so largest population centers in Norway are also in the southern part of the country, as is Oslo. It looks like the Supercharger coverage is sufficient that any trip between the top several urban areas would have access to one every 70-100 miles. This could make reduced range due to cold acceptable for many people.
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Oracle release 2, there was no R1
This is Microsoft's iPhone Keyboard
How does this compare with numerous other similar things (LLVM, libJIT, Lightning, etc.)?
There is a theory that the common motif of a bear associated with the constellation Ursa Major may have been brought to the New World from Siberia during the Ice Age over 13,000 years ago.

http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol31/berezkin.pdf

This theory goes back over a 100 years:

"Its stars seem to have been called the Bear over nearly the whole of our continent when the first Europeans, of whom we have knowledge, arrived. They were known as far north as Point Barrow, as far east as Nova Scotia, as far west as the Pacific Coast, and as far south as the Pueblos."

- Stansbury Hagar, “The Celestial Bear”, The Journal of American Folklore (JAF), Apr.-Jun., 1900

"Occasional local names notwithstanding, the possibility of the bear as Ursa Major having originated independently is inconceivable. Classical Old World mythology is replete with the bear in its role as Ursa Major. Ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic all contain references to this motif."

- William B. Gibbon, “Asiatic Parallels in North American Star Lore: Ursa Major”, JAF, Jul.-Sep., 1964.
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How much money does it take to get a US agency to issue a blog post in support of a TV series?

Granted, those in charge of the CIA blog are probably the right age to be die hard Xfiles fans, but after the StarWars promotion at the white house I'm seeing lobbyists everywhere.
>... at Area 51 (their airfield for testing experimental aircraft)

I'm Canadian but that reminded of some relatives who sent a video of a birthday party. They were outside and a big booming noise could be heard and they all looked to see what it was.

I didn't think much of it since it was hard to hear other than a sort of jet sound but they lived there and seemed to think it was different or unusual in some way.

They lived in Apple Valley in the "high desert" (I didn't know what that meant) years later I found out Area 51 is pretty close.

I don't beleive in aliens but it was interesting to know the video had a mysterious aircraft and Area 51 in it.
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> I can't imagine who deserves a black bar if Minsky doesn't

Have you chance to elaborate why this guy deserved this? Did he build first neural network, lisp machine, ALICE chatbot, break image net. I always considered him as some kind of celebrity from science, while other guys, which names nobody remembers, actually pushed AI movement by doing real things, while working on Google Brain, Watson, cyc, trying to catch spam, terrorists and fraudsters.
Funnily enough, his argument is that it doesn't mean much for the whole economy for there to be more immigrants. It sure as hell means a lot for individual communities! He seems to approach the economy as a race to the bottom / free market fiasco that has ended up concentrating all the profit in those who already own the land and capital.

It is good for a laborer when there is more available work than there is labor - they can command better rates and generally have a better quality of life (see: almost everyone in the tech industry right now). It is good for someone with lots of capital to have as much excess labor as possible (assuming there's still people that can afford to buy that person's products). When a person with capital can make cheaper products because the labor is cheap, it doesn't necessarily mean that all products become cheaper. You end up with the walmart economy where you have the people who own and manage in their mansions and everyone else unable to generate any meaningful wealth.
I doubt the CIA were gaming Google in the 60s. It's also beyond ridiculous to think that a superpower like the USSR couldn't completely evaluate any material that came their way. The fake aircraft seems more reasonable though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50#Development

> The first two Ka-50 prototypes had false windows painted on them.[19] The "windows" evidently worked, as the first western reports of the aircraft were wildly inaccurate, to the point of some analysts even concluding its primary mission was as an air superiority aircraft for hunting and killing NATO attack helicopters.
Does OpenStreetMap properly display this data?
I sincerely hope that you are never put into a similar position, and I really appreciate your compassion.
On one hand, I find that Rails often has security issues. On the other hand, perhaps it is just indicative of its popularity and interest. When a framework has no security issues, is it because there are none or is it just that no one can be bothered to look for some?
I am none too convinced by the evidence of the Australian aborigines stories. They are so vague they could just be made up.

To give you an idea how unlikely a story would survive being passed down for 10,000 years is, the Tasmanian aborigines lost the ability to fish and and even start fire [1]. Given the critical nature of this information to survival how likely is it that a random story with no survival value would last 10,000 years?

1. http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/08/why-did-the-tas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Conferences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
Lots of coal and steel industries so who knows I thought there may be a link since it's similar in a region near me where coal and steel were common.
This comic is shockingly spot on for me and my group. We all know the basics, but only at a "type this to get this result" level. The moment something ridiculous needs to be done like a rebase, I get called, and without fail need to have a few stack overflow tabs open to figure it out.

Git's a phenomenal system, but sometimes part of me thinks it does require a PhD to fully grok.
Versioning makes all the difference in the world when you're trying to do microservices.

This is what makes microservices hard, and this is the unforeseen friction that kicks people in the ass.
Calling Humans the “Weakest Link” in Computer Security
Argo (2012) also did this.
Google broke the letter F
One of my earliest exposures to CS was his Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines.

"Communication with Alien Intelligence" is another favorite of mine. The idea of enumerating all possible Turing Machines and looking for ones that do something meaningful is brilliant.
Communication with Alien Intelligence
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>Try incorporating some java code in a ruby project, however. No possible way that is going to fly.

I don't think this example is convincing. There are too many languages to expect arbitrary pairings to combine well. (Not to mention the fact that googling "java ruby" returns JRuby, which apparently lets you do just what you describe.)

I do agree with your last point: Even when we look at similar languages, like Python and Ruby, we don't declare one a winner, generally.
This is a post from a friend and collaborator, Jack Hurley - probably one of the most Australian people who you have ever met. He lives on the borderline of the outback, his garage is filled with inventions and hacks, and he has recently opened up an outback entrepreneurial community - the Possumworks.

For those of you who don't know cricket - one of the ways to get your opponent out is to knock off the bails (two pieces of wood) from the three wooden "stumps" that they are balancing on.

Cue Jack's rendition of cricket in the outback!

And for those of you who don't know possums...
Odd thing. I just watched the new X-Files last night and this kind of news is on HN frontpage the next morning.
First off: screw Silicon Valley. Using this as a label for the whole tech scene really has to stop.

Second off: I really like the patronage idea. It feels horribly unfair if you are NOT included, which is why it can't last in many places, but back around 2006 or so I joined Red Hat and we had the "Emerging Technologies Group" (now defunct).

Basically, our group was told to go make systems management applications that made people's life easier. No plan on commercailing, and we barely conferred with each other but every 6 months or so. It was pretty amazing.

Cobbler and Func came out of that, and eventually I was able to get more involved with OSS than most people do, and that led to a lot of other things later on down the line (like Ansible).

I think it's a really cool idea to just find some smart people, vaguely wave at a problem, say, "go make these users really happy" with very few parameters and see what happens.

I also believe in companies with a really strong vision of what they want to build, but what we miss is that some of our best designers are also the builders, and when we get one person designing and hundreds of people building, we can possibly get bloat and a bunch of untapped creative potential.

The theory of the 80/20 time, that I hear seems to be a myth, is a step in the right direction.
The "Atlas of Beauty" really is an awesome project with beautiful photographs. Highly recommended for fans of portrait photography.
>> they would leave big airplane-shaped objects on the tarmac to create cold spots for Soviets' spy satellites to photograph in infrared, corresponding to planes that didn't exist.

You're referring to project OXCART which preceded the Blackbird program. The documentary you're referring to was called "Area 51 Declassified" which was on National Geographic channel:

https://youtu.be/fE8xqTO6hXk

It's a fascinating documentary
I wish they had included India in their study - after watching a panel debate on NDTV (a major news channel there) I'm not so sure this turn taking short gap would be considered 'universal'. I hope no one finds this offensive but it is perplexing how anyone can understand what is being said when everyone is talking at the same time. I wish it was universal, and I am guessing it is true in most places.
Do you show your face in your courses or just have regular video with text and audio? I do think they should have notified you in advance without taking the course down or even send you the notification without disabling the course.
You could, and you could also make it just as fast. Increasing the speed in the drilled approach or in the gripper approach ultimately comes down to how much power you can throw at the problem (the energy required to accelerate and then decelerate the moving parts would be the limiting factor).

Its fun to imagine a situation where the level of power had been taken to such an extreme that even a slight hitch of the cube's parts would result in an explosion of tiny bits of plastic showering the room :)
I think your reasoning falls squarely into the GP's description.
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This issue is mentioned in a small sub-comment and has drawn no replies but it seems to me like the Heffalump In the Room:

"For its first four years online, a portion of every mined Zcash coin will go directly to Wilcox’s Zcash company and a smaller portion to a non-profit he’s creating to oversee the Zcash code and community longterm. Wilcox says that he plans for 1 percent of Zcash’s currency to ultimately go towards that non-profit, and 10 percent to be paid to the for-profit startup."

Who is going to want to engage in commerce in a system that creams off a 10 percent vigorish on every transaction? Credit card companies are hated by small merchants for taking a third that much.
Interesting. I don't think that's really for me, because I'm a bit of a control freak in terms of design.
Oh dear. You're right, sorry. Shouldn't have commented before actually reading the article...
Happy Dropcam/Nest owner here; y'all are doing a fine job.

If people based their product's features on product/market fit research from Hacker News threads, nothing would ever sell.
What different genres of music “look” like
You can actually buy speed cubes which the center squares can be pulled off so that you can adjust the tension on the cube with a screw driver. It'd be pretty easy to modify the machine turn the cube with the center caps pulled off without having to actually modify the cube itself. I personally still feel like that is cheating.

I think this comes down to this; either you think the act of solving the cube is impressive, or you think the ability to turn the cube quickly is impressive. As someone who can solve the cube in 40-45 seconds (and I'm admittedly pretty slow), the part that really bogs me down is I'm not good at finger tricks or turning the cube quickly. If I had a device (other than my fingers) which would let me turn the cube more quickly, I'm sure I could probably cut my solve times down dramatically. Solving the cube itself isn't all that interesting.
Please be careful: `positive externalities' are not the same thing as a `non-zero sum game'.
Yup - and very grateful for those.

To me, recently, the linked graphic represents pretty well what I'm faced with on a daily basis. People seem to think that because a hammer exists, it's easy to build a house.
Guessing you're a fan of the white man's burden by kipling?
Good points. So, some people say, "hey, let's use a declarative language like XML." Problem is that you still need to decide what, when and how to display your model. So, we end up with tags or otherwise that are merely attempts to hide logic. <foreach>. Yeah, right.

You can go the other way...just put the logic in the controller to format data and otherwise build the model in a way that is cognizant of the view. But, then you've just "polluted" the controller with the view.

One approach at solving this is frameworks like Wicket, which (in spite of shortcomings) encourages the use of view components in a way that allows them to render a more organic model. Yes, you may write some Java to render specialized components, but you're at least using the same language and being specific about writing rendering code that is also reusable.
You are not Isaac Asimov. Therefore you cannot know his mind. So maybe he wasn't boasting at all.
I haven't read the Zcash paper, but my understanding of its predecessor could be simplified to:

* To "create" zcash, you put a random number into a box that can't be opened and a proof that you spent bitcoin to a special kind of bitcoin address.

* To "spend" zcash, you reveal the random number that you put in the box (to prevent double spending), and you prove that one of the boxes contains that number (without revealing which box it is). Then you can take the same amount of bitcoin from any of the special addresses above.
Hope I didn't sound like I was arguing for a totally open government. That would obviously never work. I'm arguing for a "well-enough" informed electorate. Informed enough to strategically make choices about choosing representatives.

Abusing mentally ill citizens, performing experiments on the poor and destitute, gathering records on citizenry forever -- these are things that an informed electorate would shut down if given the chance. These are things that the constitution would forbid if it were foreseen.

Nobody's arguing that secrets can't be had. The argument is that those employed by the voters are actively acting long-term in ways neither the voters nor the constitution would approve of. Short term bend any kind of rules you think the system will allow. Long-term? This has got to stop. (Perhaps you do that by a constitutional amendment sunsetting any secrecy classification after 20 years or some such)
Scala has inline XML support.

Not a good thing, IMO, since it makes the syntax way more complicated, but there you have it.
I'm sure all of your code is bug free, right?