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I did, they were active before Facebook had games, then when cell phone Apps dominated the market it all changed. Microsoft has similar services, if they still do. Microsoft shifted their focus completely towards developers recently and they will benefit from it, not sure what I would do if I were Yahoo other than close down anything not worth it's dollar.
Should I ask myself, "Do I love this rabbit hole?"?

Edit: The answer is YES.
This is news? We have been devaluing education for decades as we pay teachers less than a poverty level wage (unless you are in that unnecessary branch-administration). Witness the populist appeal of Trump. Anyone with common sense (which our school system has been so effective in extinguishing) would recognize a demagogue even without the prior example of Hitler.

Solution: Khan academy. let them issue diplomas.
Wasn't part of the tail end found almost a year ago? It was such a convincing report and the odds that the part came off MH370 were very high. But then it got quiet and fell into the abyss. I don't want to dive into conspiracy theories here but something just doesn't seem right with this crash. Either there are plenty of hoaxers out there or something bigger is happening.
After 20 Years, It’s Harder to Ignore the Digital Economy’s Dark Side
Considering I write exactly 0 lines of any sort of web based code on my median day it hasn't altered my life at all.
> comparing this incident to Chernobyl is inane.

Absolutely. I would even suspect intent to deceive, as is so common with anti-nuclear propaganda. People have not been harmed to an alarming extent by this event, as they certainly were with Chernobyl. The reactor is a completely different passive-safe design. In all probability long-term damage will be limited to some hard-to-attribute secondary effects (changes to the land use patterns in the region will confound statistical analysis), and of course, massive psychological devastation due to all the panic and misinformation. Sadly this is by far the greatest threat posed by modern nuclear power (or rather the cultural context in which it is placed).

If the Japanese government would legally allow me to live next to the reactor I would take them up on it tomorrow.
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I don't think you're being dismissive at all - if anything I think you've added some much relevant context to the discussion. I appreciate you mentioning this relationship between development and monetization.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space."
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
It was fun but pointless. I would have been more impressed if the solutions were unique and dictionary words rather than trying to make silly regexs like 'not working'. Is LinkedIn even hiring with their current stock plummet and rumors of layoffs?
I think Facebook was to blame for it's loss in popularity, then it became cell phone Apps. Those who didn't adapt their web based games into the mobile market missed out. Flappy Bird got really popular, but there was always that flash game about the helicopter that was more or less very similar.
Different strokes, different folks. Personally, I like that people in my town know me. Gossip goes around, sure, people know more about me than I might be comfortable with but in general that establishes in the long run a familiarity that works for me. It feels like a very large family, and I like that.
Is there a readable version of the web site that doesn't have obnoxious scrolling? Someone needs to tell their designers about the Principle of Least Surprise. I'll look at this after they fix this so it doesn't give me a headache.
I'm prototyping an IoT system that will use RFID tags to track inventory as it moves around an area. The system will provide live updates on location. Imagine knowing exactly where things are at all times through a simple dashboard. Nothing super amazing, but not boring. :)
Actually looking at that key any cheap pick set or a couple of bobby pins and in a matter of seconds I could open and reclose the lock (without having ever seen the key). Surely any self respecting terrorist could figure that out too. If a cheap little lock is all that protects us from terrorism the danger level hasn't changed too much.
I guess I should have used some explicit means of conveying sarcasm.
Or imagine if the USA had sophisticated military aircraft that could just drop a bomb on his office!
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Space is big, but low earth orbit isn't as roomy.
I don't see one can't see that it's not meant to be a rebuttal -- especially since it starts with "Yeah", which implies it agrees in principle.

In any case, not all responses are or are meant to be "rebuttals" (valid or not). This one was meant to add some more context: that even if all government are bullies, not all bullies are equally bad.
If you make it an arms race, you will never be done racing. You should be honored that people want to use your site, not angry because you feel entitled to creep on them just because they made a GET request.
WoW is basically an amusement park

It's part amusement park and part resort casino. A lot of what they do is put up pretty visuals while they massage your brain with variable schedule of reward.
This fad has got to stop.
I usually have a dongle for my wireless mouse anyway, so it doesn't bother me as much. I use the same dongle on my desktop (since it has no WiFi card). For some a WiFi dongle isn't too bad an alternative, as long as it's cost effective. $12 dongle vs $60 or whatever WiFi card.
Remember this thought, because in two or three years, the government will try this again, and they will continue to try until they succeed.

America is ruled by an unaccountable and corrupt elite.
Sure. I work in a large university building and can power up/down various systems from my desk for the same reason. But it doesn't require a full tablet computer in each room. These are simple network addressable devices on their own VLAN that allow me to (for example) create an interface that sends a string of commands like a remote control, provided I give proper auth. If you're a regular person in any of the rooms in the building, you can't easily gain access to the VLAN, much less connect to any of the networked controllers in the rooms.

As a result, I can shut things down from my office or set up schedules to do the same. I can monitor usage and save resources (lamp hours on projectors and lighting, etc)

The idea of using a full-on tablet computer is just silly and sounds more like something I'd do while tinkering at home and was looking for a use for some old phone or tablet sitting in a drawer. It's not something I'd put in any enterprise or commercial space.
With adequate precautions (to name a few examples - shielding, crew dosimeters, crew rotation if more than one trip needed), I imagine it'd be a pretty safe cargo to take. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually safer than hauling something like oil.
Don't brow beat me too much for this but I don't understand why the Government doesn't get one of their defense contractors to hire away an Apple engineer or three who helped write this code and just do it themselves. I know the timeline wouldn't be as short but then they wouldn't need to go to Apple.
I believe science as method would be included with philosophy, given the direct relationship between the two. I imagine in a proper school, there would be a "philosophy of science" course of some sort, but it wouldn't look like the science courses we have today. Instead, it would be focused on allowing students to pursue research projects, letting them learn a baseline of information on a topic, propose a project, and then do their own research and analysis. The problem is that today, they are given textbooks and told to memorize data they won't use and that they can find on Google in five minutes. It isn't teaching them science the process or asking them to engage in questioning the validity of one study over another, which is the true-to-life test of a person's understanding of science.

How great would it be for a kid to ask "why does rain slide off of leaves?" rather than be told all the different leaf shapes and tree types? How excellent would it be to have a kid spend time documenting all the different types of clouds and offer a hypothesis on their purposes rather than just telling them the formal names and descriptions? Teach them the process, don't make them memorize. No one ever said, "wow, I really am glad they taught me the difference between cumulus and cirrus clouds in middle school science."
I've been in many hotels that required the key card to enable power to the room. Some hotels used a simple switch activated by presence of an object in the slot. Many could detect if the NFC tag key was present, but not read the value. Only a few I have seen actually verified that the key was the right key.
> but there are key phrases here: readily achievable, reasonable accommodation.

In other words, the cost/benefit has to be reasonable.

> There are a lot of things that are required that are quite expensive, and the burden for providing those is entirely on the facility, service, employer, etc.

Suppose you have something like a wheelchair ramp, which might cost $2000. A particular store has maybe 10 customers who need it, the customers each spend ~$200/month in the store, the store's margin is ~10%, so the store pays for the ramp in less than a year. A rational owner of that store is going to build the ramp regardless of whether the law requires it.

Now consider private homes. The people who need ramps would have installed them regardless and everywhere else they would rarely if ever be used. But it would still cost the same per home as it would for a store with a lot of profitable business. So the law [in most places] doesn't require ramps in private homes.

Here's the problem with the law. Very small shops are in the same boat as private residences. The cost of the ramp is fixed but the value depends on how many people go there and need it. For very small shops that number is often zero. And the cost of the ramp is nothing to Walmart because they do a lot of business, but the same cost is real money to a tiny shop owner. It's the sort of thing that, repeated a few of times in similar contexts, will put the tiny shop out of business. So there is a real case to be made that very small shops shouldn't be required to build ramps.

Because it's all cost/benefit. There is no use building a ramp to a shuttered shop.

> That's not the point. The point is that you're aware there are users different from yourself, so you take them into consideration. Empathy, not market share. That's what accessibility is all about.

Inefficiency is not empathy. Doing the thing that results in the least waste leaves more resources that can be used to improve peoples' lives. Imagine the inefficiently-spent money was instead put toward medical research to cure the people affected. Or do any other thing that benefits them with a higher cost/benefit ratio than the more wasteful thing. How is that not more empathetic than wasting resources that could have been better used to help people?

> Going back and re-evaluating your accessibility from scratch is a complete waste of time and resources

Only if you already know you'll have to. If you're today's Facebook, you know that. If you're a small startup, you don't. You're probably going to fail and then it isn't going to matter.

It can be more efficient to not spend resources doing it right the first time when there is a high probability of failure, because the high cost of doing it over is only paid if you succeed, and in that case you can afford it.
> Money was a liability like now. It's just that the associated promise was different.

Is there any promise associated with money now (except "you don't go to jail if you pay enough taxes in government's money")? If not, then I can't see money as a liability, only as an investment (i.e. the government prints money, sells it for other assets (FX, bonds, stocks, etc.).
Amazing how thorough the Math curriculum is in the UK! I got a minor at my undergrad just by doing stats, linear algebra and calc through multivariate. I think I was just 2-3 courses shy of a BA in the subject.

I'm curious how many people have met self-trained mathematicians in real life. I know there are storied examples, but is it feasible? (Compared to say - self-trained programmers or writers)
Reminds me of ebay back in the day - item price 1c delivery charge 10 bucks
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> isn't runaway freight train profit creation

But YC is in the business of hopping aboard every rocket ship it can find. Sam & Co do not want to invest in small business. They want massive payouts. It's the only way the VC game works.

If you're dedicated to getting funding, you have to keep knocking on tons of doors until you find an investor that matches your particular payout goals.

The West Coast / SV venture capital scene makes a ton of noise about massive successes to entice many otherwise-profitable small business ideas to try and become huge. When they don't reach a hyperbolic trajectory, it's a VC failure, but the same business could have easily done well for the founders and early employees as a lifestyle business. A stable orbit if you will, but not going to the Moon.

Find investors who want reasonable returns from your business at your scale. Don't think that the SV VC approach is the only way to get your business idea funded.
Well, naturally. Their job is not to use tech. It's to build something, or run something, etc.

I can sympathize, and I bet you can too. My dishwasher, my car, my garage door... I just want these things to do their job and let me get on with my actual work. I don't want the latest garage door or vacuum.
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Depending on how pressed I am for time, I can (and have) do either.

And not only I'm not unique in that regard, but I can also be totally un-humble/un-helpful (if that's what the anecdote meant to imply) at other times, despite having shown someone around some offices.
There is no such thing as "harmony" in nature. Species come and go, some destroy their own habit, others drive their competitors to extinction. We do need to be careful about how we use natural resources and that we don't change our environment in a way that is detrimental to us. But understand that change is the status quo for nature, that's especially easy to miss when it happens on timescales longer than a human life, but happen it does.
My understanding is that they could easily create their modified iOS, but they can't install it on an iPhone without getting it signed by Apple's signing key.
Probably, as those who oppose the corrupt use of power are feckless and would essentially do little besides complain while American continues to establish a police state.
I think this is only true if you're building outside your GOPATH. In my case, build -v, build -v -i, and install all have very similar compile times and only show an edited file being compiled when executed from inside my GOPATH.

Each of those averaged 3.5s in my codebase, for example, on a freshly changed file. go install's second run is 250ms, but I assume that's because it knows the file hasn't changed.

go build -a shows roughly 60 packages and takes 16s, so I would notice if build or install were accidentally recompiling all of them.
Good post. Congrats to Cruise for the acquisition and to YC for generating a return on their investment. There are definitely opportunities in AI-narrow applications using machine learning-and biotechnology right now.
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<sarcasm>Right, because Apple is going to protect their signing key by shooting federal agents.</sarcasm>
Nashville's weird at the moment, hotel rooms are sky-high some weekends. You're less likely to have living circumstances that allow a single room to be rented out in the burbs as well. In town, it's a lot more common for a loft or extra room to be available. Could be all the AirBnb Hoteliers around as well. Hope you had a good weekend.
The monopoly aspect of the diamond market is a pretty outdated claim. It is not currently possible to synthesize large, flawless clear diamonds. The supply side (mining/cutting/selling) is largely constrained by the ability to unearth the rarest high-quality gemstones.

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2013/04/09/diamonds-driven-m...
I'm curious - is the harder part of learning Scala the language itself, or getting one's mind around functional programming itself? (Does having a Scheme/LISP background help?)
> Functionally, it's almost a short on currency.

Every currency (except the one you have to pay taxes/debts in) is a "short on currency" - all FX crosses are long one currency and short the other.
But isn't it?

I mean low earth orbit is at least as much space as we have on the surface, which is already pretty damn big.

Yeah, speeds and orbits and stuff change the game a bit, but i can't imagine even a few thousands of satellites cramping a space that large.
Yeah, the only thing stopping the FBI just going ahead and forcing Apple to do this illegally is some citizens with guns. /s

The reason you have second amendment is people genuinely believe crap like that.
They are this incompetent to realize the catch 22 of resetting the iCloud account? Rhetorical question.

I was curious about you points regarding obtaining key information from taps and existing iCloud backups. How would the NSA get taps on someone manually keying in a PIN code?

Also it sounds like the iPhones PIN code is included iCloud backups is that correct? I wonder why they include that rather than requiring resetting your pin on a restore?

Does using the encrypted backups option via iCloud not make a difference here? I would hope selecting this option(its iTunes) would enable the backup to be protected by AES 128. Can anyone speak to these?
Yes, "View Source".
This misses the point entirely. It theory it should be impossible for any child to be stuck at a "bad school" because if the school was bad they could simply be sent somewhere else.

It's the total lack of school choice that keeps people stuck in bad schools in the first place.
Understood. Leaf looks interesting. Will be keeping an eye on it. Having just recently focused on machine learning I still haven't settled on a stack. I find your rational behind using Rust quite helpful. What kind of timeframe are we looking at for when this is production ready?
`Pearls of Algorithmic Design` by Bird - Beautiful little book. It's a series of problems that are solved by first writing the naive program and then transforming it rigorously to make it more efficient.

`Algebra of Programming` by Bird and De Moor - This a treatment of the theory that is implicit in the methods of the previous book.
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According to another piece I saw on this [0], the reaction products are ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. Both of those are useful industrial chemicals, though not things you'd want to eat yourself.

ETA: The Gizmag article characterizes these chemicals as "environmentally harmless", which might be a slight exaggeration. I wouldn't be surprised if terephthalic acid turned out to be an endocrine disruptor, given its benzene ring. But neither chemical is acutely toxic.

[0] http://www.gizmag.com/pet-enzyme-plastic-waste/42262/
What I've been wondering about this case is if there is a low tech solution. Out of all the video tapes we have, is there not one shot of him unlocking his phone at work or anywhere else he would have been recorded? Or are those tapes long destroyed. I can't tell you how many times I've sat next to someone on a bus / coffee shop and watched them put their pin code in where I could see it.
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PART 2

So, ROVs.

We probably aren't going to use a ROV for our solution as it doesn't suit and they're a pain in the arse quite frankly.

To start, I'll address the issue with the 'wires' failing. An American company built a ROV that was heavily shielded and was driven via an umbilical. Wireless is hard to use and autonomy is too hard to use as the reactor conditions are unknown. The ROV was a good design and could survive the radiation for a reasonable amount of time, however for whatever reason they used PVC wire sheathes that break down under heavy radiation, and as a result the wires touched and shorted the electronics out, rendering the ROV useless and 'dead'.

In terms of why it takes so long and why we can't use an off the shelf version, basically radiation is a bitch. At the base of the reactor vessel, just above the corium, the radiation output is estimated to be around 3000 microsieverts per hour, that translates roughly to a human life expectancy of around 6 seconds, give or take. This amount of radiation causes electronics to fail (transistors commonly), and materials to break down. The breaking down of materials caused the American ROV to die, and another example would be that it can causes greases to harden, which stops motors working.

Reactors aren't big spacious areas either, so it's not like we can just deploy a lead (lead weighs a metric shit'tonne) shielded tank to have a look, it's just too big and cumbersome. We decided against using a ROV as it had to be 30kg or less, which is absolutely nothing once you bring in drilling packages and the likes.

Also quite often you will be deploying through a hole between the size of your fist up to just smaller than the diameter of your head, so that restricts you hugely as well.

You also have material compatability. If you get something stuck you have to be sure that it won't react and cause the reactor to become critical again, which could happen in one of the reactors (can't go into more detail sorry).

One last major consideration as too why it takes so long to build and test a ROV to suit. The reactors are under immense thermal stress, and metal likes to bend and warp when it's heating/cooling. You have to build your solution around the worst case scenario. An example would be we went into a boiler tube trying to plug a 1 inch hole from 18m above it using a manipulator arm. That's already hard on its own, but then we discovered the originally 7mm gap we were aiming for was actually now as small as 3.5mm. Trying to develop ROVs and remote solutions is really not easy, the best way I can put it is that this line of work is an art, not a science. That's why it will probably take the best part of a century I reckon to fix this problem.
Smart move in the near term, but at the end of day this is a race to the bottom for everyone invovled in the car ecosystem. Cars and ride sharing will become a commodity in 10-15 years just like online storage is today.

Tesla is best position overall. They're building the best battery tech (for any use) and charging stations all over the world.
You don't have to get a Titan X to get to work. People were doing good GPU work prior to 2015 and Titan's didn't even exist then.

You can get the 980 Ti w/ 6GB of ram for $600 and some change. And if that's too much, the 970 w/ 4GB can be found for under $400.

And if even that is too high, you can troll gamer forums for used cards and cut that cost in 1/2.
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The ones at the Panera I used to work at weren't writable (I know this because I saw people trying more than once). How long ago was this?
You've pretty much described the secure enclave already included in newer iPhone models.
This sometimes has more to do with the day of the week and the time of day in which a piece is posted, as well as the "competition" at the given time from other viable stories.