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> only a guilty person would desire a jury, because unlike a judge, it could be misled by appeals to emotion and faulty legal arguments.

This can also be turned around to the benefit of the prosecutor. Prosecutors may pursue legally bogus charges if they are dealing with an unsympathetic defendant. Either way, juries are more susceptible to emotional appeals than legal experts--a bad thing when the law is just, but a good thing when the law is wrong.
> He fooled a lot of people, but most people never heard of him and most of those who did believed it was a hoax.

Implying John Titor wasn't real! :P
I like seeing the faces of users - makes the feedback seem more real.

You need more sample projects though, to get a sense of what it can do.
How about Mac App Store vs Windows Store revenue?
You are talking about something else.

> If they allowed OpenGL to flourish, it would ultimately be controlled by either Nvidia, ATI, PowerVR or someone else in the interest group to suit their hardware.

As opposed to DirectX, which is not implementable on other systems without large reverse-engineering efforts, because the technology depends on proprietary and encumbered middle-ware. Does a former specification for DirectX even exist (aside the documentation for Microsoft's implementation of the API)? Or it is one and the same, is it not? Where is the DirectX equivalent of MESA?

W3C, Bluetooth etc. have nothing to do with PC gaming. Why are you bringing this up? But since you mentioned W3C, what would you prefer - proprietary technology controlled by a single entity, such as Adobe Flash, or an open standard, such as HTML5?

An open platform allows free choice of technologies to use it with. A closed platform restricts those choices. A monopoly in control of a closed platform has even more freedom to restrict freedom of choice, and push forward with platform lock-in.
Have you used Bazaar? I wouldn't blame you if you haven't.

This is not about the server being slow, it's that Bazaar is really astonishingly inefficient and badly designed. Look at the guy in the replies who says "it's not that bad, I can clone a bzr repo in under 2 minutes". That is what you get used to when you use Bazaar.
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The other day I stumbled upon a website where you can input a name and it will spit out possible domains that spell your name. I've looked through my history and googled furiously; but no luck. Has anyone seen it?
Hate to be cynical about it, but ...

Sorry. That's so 20th century. The USA used to openly meddle there all the time. E.g. Panama wouldn't even exist without our help.

Then we decided to be a little more subtle. Well, that didn't work so well. Quite the thing about 30 years ago was Iran-Contra[1], where we were trying to fight the communists in Nicaragua. But I guess that was the wrong kind of help. A real domestic political shitstorm ensued. The crap was all over the airwaves for literally years. And, lo and behold, Daniel Ortega is now back in charge.

No matter what the USA could do in Venezuela, there would be plenty of anti-American wailing, gnashing of teeth, and propaganda that would immediately erupt. Domestically, from all the banana republics in Central and South America, and from countless countries all over the world.

Not worth it for the USA. Very little upside.

And it really, really sucks for all the people who are literally starving in Venezuela right now.

And, besides, how are Iraq and Afghanistan working out, lately? Anybody know? There should be some really stable democracies there by now, considering the billions, nay trillions of dollars, we've spent there recently in "nation building".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
http://liliputing.com/2013/07/ubuntu-edge-canonical-wants-to...

Crazy that Ubuntu needed $32m, while this kickstarter has only asked $50k.
Some of the comments here try to justify their love for either species by arguing that the other is inferior in some way. I find this very silly. Why can't you just like cats, or dogs or both? There doesn't have to be any objective reasoning behind it other than simple personal preference.
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Interesting idea.

Please don't autoplay videos. Automatic close.

Also, don't make me login to view your content. At least have some samples that we can view.
And with Heroku's beta support for Docker deployments, it's even easier.
>I don't really NEED the cat and the cat doesn't really NEED me

That is no different to a dog.

If we left the doors open a dog could easily kill and eat something as well. A dog isn't totally dependent on humans. We just don't allow that because it would be dangerous for children or other dogs who might be killed by a feral dog.

If a stray cat was large enough and capable of killing a child, then I bet our society would be much more serious about keeping cats locked up like we do dogs.
> That said, tablets didn't work so well when Microsoft tried them out 15 years ago

Or when Eo/GO tried it 10 years before that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EO_Personal_Communicator
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It looks a little nicer if you say

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

But the code already looked pretty good to me.
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Patience! :) The author briefly rebuts that viewpoint immediately after your quote ends. He is not actually making that argument.
Very sad that Kickstarter has earned such a reputation.
I'm beginning to think that build scripts should be written in the language they are building, or a more expressive language. So many seem to go in the other direction.
Is the $100,000 just the telescope or does it include software, the expertise to setup and maintain, and all the other peripherals I imagine it'd need?
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An epic win for cross platform compatibility ;)
Your points are totally valid. But you wouldn't need to make sharp 120 turns. You could just have very slight waves with a frequency of 1 mile.

http://i.imgur.com/vJq0Q3i.png

Of course, driving on roads like these would be annoying.
Quick, 1998 is calling.
I agree with you, but I also think asking leading question sucks. Just say what you mean!

Open Standards are the MOST CRITICAL thing we can be considering right now. If we can agree on standards that can adapt to other standards, using AI most likely, then we can get on with being able to trust each other again.

In order to trust each other, we have to be honest about our intent. Personally, I think the use case of games on insecure hardware is probably fine. To a point.
We use ProductPlan here, at Notion (http://usenotion.com) too, and we're really happy with it. We wrote a bit about it, and the ProductPlan team put it on their blog: https://www.productplan.com/data-driven-roadmap/. At my last company, it was a mix of spreadsheets and Confluence.
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I personally like the diversity of expressive thought myself, and you should embrace it too, probably as it is, today's youth might laugh at your use of "just sayin'" and prefer you simply communicate using emojis. It would be pretty damn boring if we all spoke the same.
I don't remember what the scientific requirements were that necessitated the $100,000 lens (which isn't really scientific --- it's mostly sold to professional photographers), but given how limited funding is I'm sure that if they could have gotten away with a cheaper lens they would have. (Thinking back, the lens may have been closer to $60,000. It wasn't my project so I can't really remember.)
> Why fight this losing trend when you could easily dual boot or even have a dedicated gaming rig?

Because I don't want to pay Microsoft. Because I don't want Microsoft to collect my data. Because I care about my freedom. What better reason is there?
Gotcha. Very interesting. Thanks for the information. I didn't expect that a compromise of RSA would have such a (relatively speaking) small impact.
But the government can and should have the right to inspect a tomato (not necessarily a specific tomato) if all the tomatoes in that field are slated to go direct to consumers, right?

Similarly, what about testing for drug quality? You could even extrapolate it out to the SEC's right to examine a private financial transaction in order to determine legality. Or the IRS's right to inspect one's taxes to determine compliance.

Point is (IMO) there is a need put on government by society to bypass some of our "Inalienable" rights. In most cases this societal decision is necessary and makes sense, and I'm arguing that code inspection of life-critical systems is a reasonable example of such a case.
> Medical device software is subject to a level of rigor in development process that little else is.

How do you know this?
Considering the amount of outright scams on sites like this they should be happy that this is the reputation.
True, but sadly he's right. I still get emails from projects I funded YEARS ago that have still yet to ship a single product and they're still trying to make promises.

I'd argue that these platforms create a perverse incentive for people to exaggerate their experience and/or product to appeal to the clueless masses but I guess that's the same with most kinds of marketing ...
But not very surprising. Projects promising the impossible raise impossibly large sums of money and attention, attracting more people trying to do the same. Since these are the projects that get most of the attention, they end up driving the reputation of the platform. Projects trying to accomplish reasonable things for a reasonable amount of money can barely raise enough money and when they do they fly under the radar.
There are opioid antagonists that reduce cravings and drug and alcohol use. That combined with CBT or other therapies can help people move from a state of suffering as part of the disease towards remission.
It was a rhetorical question :) I don't think anyone in their mind would say that we should pursue lock-in rather than open standards. Except crooked monopolists.
The same perverse incentive underlies all marketing. If you tell the truth and make sane claims you lose to flash, grandiosity, and viral gimmicks. Over time the whole system runs over a cliff. It's sort of a game theory meltdown thing.

It is eventually self correcting, but that usually involves a market crash and a Game of Thrones style winter where the junk is purged.
Interesting. The movie is great, and the true story very sad.

Let's hope at least Boston Globe has a backup of the spreadsheets and other original research documents. I wonder why a former journalist and current research scientist has no proper personal backup strategy.
How big is a show, sent compressed? A gigabyte an episode? I guess the range is more relevant, say plus or minus ten megs to be conservative. I don't know how big packets are, maybe 4k is too small? 10M/4k=2.5k, not bad, but not great if you want to avoid birthday collisions, you'd only get maybe 60 uniques if they're uniformly distributed.

CBR does kill it, though, and "uniformly distributed" is too big an ask.

Off topic, but an interesting thought: you know the HBO intro? With the static? That static is the hardest thing in the world to compress, and also the thing that viewers care the least about having compressed accurately. That's weird, I wonder how true it is across the board -- certainly artifacts can be jarring in flat shaded cartoons...
It came back with a vengeance in windows 10.
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I would say that Motorola was simply ahead of it's time. The cpu on my Atrix was honestly just a bit too slow to smoothly browse the web and do stuff. Motorola should be acknowledged for their innovation & proof-of-concept.
I don't think so, I would probably just try to make a lot of money from it, as unimaginative as that may be. Telling would almost certainly invite a large amount of unwanted attention.

Oh, and maybe keep using it to factor the keys of whoever I really don't like, and publish them, just to make their life a little more difficult.
What's it like to date / be married to another programmer? I've always wondered if this would help or hinder the relationship.
That's not an apt comparison.

- IE6 is strictly, inherently an obsolete platform, running on obsolete OSes and superseded by later versions of the same browser

- No one's talking about making the games work only on Linux.
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The sad part is that the companies will use this security by obscurity argument against open sourcing.
> what patient need do you believe open source would meet that is not being met by the current closed-source development process?

The need to know, and be able to control if necessary, what a device that affects your life and health is doing.

I'll give an example from my own experience. I have sleep apnea and have to use a CPAP machine. There is a nice little SD card in the machine that records detailed data from every use--which means it records how long I sleep, how soundly I sleep, how many (if any) apnea episodes I have, etc. This would be very useful information to me, but I have no way of getting it, because the software and data inside the device is proprietary. The only way for me to have anyone look at this data is to pull the SD card out and take it to a sleep therapy doctor, and even then I won't see the actual raw data; the best I'll get is some proprietary analysis report designed by the device manufacturer.

Furthermore, the ostensible use for the data is to be able to adjust the pressure the CPAP machine is set at in order to improve the therapy. If I had access to the data and the settings inside the machine, I could easily do this myself. Instead, if I want any adjustment made, again, I have to go see a sleep therapy doctor--which means I need to make an appointment, which usually means waiting weeks or months, and I need to take off from work to go to the appointment, etc., etc.

It should be obvious how open source would greatly improve this situation.
> since the success of the application layer drives further speculation

Define "success" and you describe the use case for a blockchain. I need a record of performance, plus efficient algorithms to summarize those records later after the trust cost of storing that data drops.
No thats not it... Lets say if the project was called 'project' it would spit out ways to get project like pro.ject or proj.ect, whatever is valid
Wouldn't calling your company "Andromium" infringe on two trademarks simultaneously?
> it is unusual that you classify Greece as socialist

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/01/greek-disaster-is-all-about-s...

In fact, up until the debt crisis, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) was Greece's largest political party. Naturally, it has fallen out of favor since then.
> Hayek is one of the reasons we're in this mess

Why? Here in Europe he's bandied around as our saviour, so curious why he's also responsible.
I back all my Gmail, Google Drive, contacts, etc. to S3 each year. Essentially I've got a yearly snapshot of each year's data, encrypted with GPG, in a rather redundant form of extremely cheap storage. Knowing this, deleting old years' emails from Gmail doesn't bother me.
Nominal price changes do not necessarily reflect changes in demand. I.e. when the value or supply of money changes.
Motorola did it for a specific phone. The Superbook works on any android 5.0+ phone.
David Brooks himself wrote as much in 1986:

I still remember the jolt I felt in 1958 when I first heard a friend talk about building a program, as opposed to writing one. In a flash he broadened my whole view of the software process. The metaphor shift was powerful, and accurate. Today we understand how like other building processes the construction of software is, and we freely use other elements of the metaphor, such as specifications, assembly of components, and scaffolding.

The building metaphor has outlived its usefulness. It is time to change again. If, as I believe, the conceptual structures we construct today are too complicated to be specified accurately in advance, and too complex to be built faultlessly, then we must take a radically different approach.

Let us turn nature and study complexity in living things, instead of just the dead works of man. Here we find constructs whose complexities thrill us with awe. The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and selfrenewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.
I disagree. The worst problems I see with build scripts are that they are trying to do too much, create branches/tags of themselves, be environmentally aware, etc.

Limited build tools are a good thing.
> The main objection to juries is that judges spend decades developing expertise in the law, but we reduce them to the role of referee and let 12 non-experts make very important and difficult legal decisions.

In the jury system, juries are charged with answering questions as to the facts, and judges are charged with answering questions as to the law. It makes full use of the judge's expertise in the law as well as a small sample of society's expertise in human nature and the human experience.

> Another common objection, often brought up in countries without juries, is that only a guilty person would desire a jury, because unlike a judge, it could be misled by appeals to emotion and faulty legal arguments.

Or put another way, someone who is technically guilty, but under circumstances where conviction of the technical violation would be unconscionable.

> Juries also seem to be unnecessary, because there are plenty of countries that don't use juries and have more just and equitable legal systems than countries that do.

Without getting into the merits of the obviously subjective argument here, it's not clear that the conclusion follows even if we grant the assumption. The superior justice system of a non-jury country might be perfected yet further by introducing juries.
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A fun read, but to me it ultimately speaks to why blockchains are best suited to internal use by large enterprises (not consumer, small businesses, etc).

The web flourished due to its lightweight, comparatively easy-to-implement protocols. Applications could be built cheaply and easily on top of it. VCs and many entrepreneurs profited handsomely. Much of the past 20 years in tech has been pushing this concept to literally every person on earth.

Compare to the 'fat protocol': The protocols are tough to write, and tough to implement. The value is captured at the protocol level, not the app level, so there's little incentive to create inventive apps.

Few apps will be created on such systems, so few successful consumer applications will created with them. Seems like the winner here is in business-facing systems. For USV, it strikes me as peculiar to favor the 'fat protocol' and back other types of businesses (e.g. consumer).
Shouldn't - to be infringing it has to be in the same industry (check), and substantially similar in sound, graphic design or spelling to the point that it would confuse the proverbial "average person". Is "Andromium" and more confusing than "Andromeda" to someone who wants to buy an Android phone?

It does reminds me of the el-cheapo Panashiba stereo I had as a student, though.
Andromium OS, the App that detects the connection to the Superbook, gives you a Cursor, a file system, a window manager, task bar, etc.
I sometimes wonder how much my life would be different if I never got into this. Programming is such a big part of my life now. I frequently consider how much of my brain power goes to programming; and I have to say it's about 20%. If there were five of me, one of them would basically be a computer.

I wonder what that fifth of my brain would have been thinking about for the past 10 years, if not programming. Maybe it would have been dancing, or painting, or soccer. Instead of context switching into thinking like a computer, it'd be how to move my body around or how to meld colors together. I feel like that would lead to a much more fulfilling life.

I used to program for fun in middle school. It was probably halfway through high school when I stopped programming for fun. It was always that little nagging voice in the back of my head: Play it safe. Programming is an in-demand field! You're good at it! Look at all of that awesome shit you made.

At this point, the only "hobby" I have is programming. I don't even know what else I like anymore.
Because Linux was supposed to become a great thing, but instead it remained a paradise for geeks to do what they think is best. Software built to make money, on the other hand, was built to improve things like ease of use, aesthetics, and buyer's happiness, because that's what buyers were looking for. The open-source people never really cared about the dumb people and lay folks, the ignoramuses that didn't care to learn how to compose commands and figure out regular expressions. And that Linux was supposed to be the shining example of open-source software, one that so many people installed and tried, only to find out it blows and is effectively unusable for their needs.
There are a lot more video cameras now than there were 15 years ago.
This product is best for people who have something like the OnePlus 3 but a laptop with only 2 gigs of ram.

If you have a MBP 16gb or a Surface Pro 4 (or.. next year.. a SP5?) then this probably isn't going to be your every-day-carry.
I was part of a jury earlier this year and my problem was that the defense and the prosecution made several mistakes and didn't explain things well. As jury you are supposed to only take into account what has been presented during the trial. You can't for example ask a lawyer to clarify an issue. This makes the system very vulnerable to bad representation. If a lawyer is obviously bad the jury can't do anything but sit and listen.
There have been some crappy kickstarters, but I must say I've gotten some great deals on Kickstarter and they were delivered. Some projects do fail, and some projects rock.
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How many of those languages were developed in the bazaar style? All the ones I can think of came from a single person designing things from first principles and taking inspiration from other cathedrals around them. Lisp, Scala, Ruby, Smalltalk, Prolog, Typescript, etc. are cathedrals. The one bazaar IDE I can think of is Eclipse and it's terrible. Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code on the other hand are much more sensible and again it's because they're cathedrals.
"the ruins of the beautiful cathedral of Unix, deservedly famous for its simplicity of design, its economy of features, and its elegance of execution"

unix is the bazaar enabler. An OS that is so simple as to be mostly useless without third party additions but also without enough of an overall design to give the third parties much of a guide on how things should fit together.
The mess that unix enabled is also the reason we can't get away from it and move on to better architectured systems.
> 100GW class microwave emitters

Those exist, but they just aren't commercially available yet? Dude, pics! That's like an Akira class orbital ion cannon, no?
> Your standard here is that it must achieve perfection or we don't use it at all.

Quite the opposite actually. It was just a hyperbolic response to "why implement if you don't have proven specification" - which you explained why it's silly as well.

I completely agree - if you have time, resources and proper setting for it - go for proofs and verification. Most software as we use it today cannot afford and doesn't need this. The bugs are either acceptable or not, but they're never "purposefully [left] in your system" as the OP claimed. (which was the phrase that really annoyed me / caused the response)

I'm quite excited about the progress in software verification. But outside of very special cases today, I don't think it's worth it.