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There are a couple thousand accredited universities in the US alone. Thousands of philanthropists who donate to academic causes. Hundreds of corporations looking for good PR.

If the academic community were to rally around open access, and then fail to find (even a lot more than) $500k/year, I'd have to say good riddance. That would take a very special kind of incompetence.
So I was the design guy. My partner Ben did all the coding. For the graphics, I didn't necessarily start from scratch. A lot of it was stock, but heavily modified to the point that you probably wouldn't recognize some of it.
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Sort of related is this plan to use quadrotors for small item delivery in remote areas. It could work well in developed areas too, I think.

http://matternet.net/
Agree, there is nothing like taking initiative and starting something local
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Note: The writer of this article had his startup featured in Techcrunch a month ago. He 'Got that coverage'.
+oo.

(That's the best infinity symbol I can make.)
Thank you -- fixed.
I can't imagine how I would even handle that much stress and pressure.

I meant my comment to be more along the lines -- 'if you think crying and diaper changing is difficult, wait till you have to start worrying about them crashing your car, getting a call from the police when they are out with friends at night, or getting someone pregnant'.
This is 17" inches though, correct?

The Vaio Z has an option to get 1920x1200 (or is it 1920x1080?) last time I looked and it is only 13" I believe. It does come at cost though and does not run Mac OS X. However, the option is there. I think the default is even 1600x900 which is still better than 1280x800. Which is what I'm stuck with since I currently have the 13" Macbook Pro.

I wish Apple would increase the resolution also, I've been holding off upgrading as well. I'm tempted to even go as far as getting the 17" with the higher resolution next time. Then again, I would have to buy all new laptop bags since none of mine would fit and I'm kind of a bag fiend, I go for those nice Waterfield Designs bag and currently love my Muzetto. Buying another, larger version would not be cheap.
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I suspect this varies from child to child. My older son would really dig this, as he often sketches something out then attempts to build it (whether it is with legos, blocks, wood, found items in the cellar, etc).
You should add support for SRV records. I know i personally couldn't use this unless you did.
Whenever I read these types of speculative predictions from the past, I always get the urge to chuckle at the things they inevitably missed, or the sillier predictions - but tempered by the ways we have failed to live up to their dreams.

(As an aside: 'strawberries as large as apples' - but how would they taste?)
yes the author is real physicist but it should be noted that he is a professor of biophysics. So cosmology is not exactly in his field of specialty.
Probably a government tactic to deface assange?
I would quit too. I love Apple products but they come at a huge human cost. One of my best friends works there and he's always extremely stressed out. He works like 15 hour days, 6 days a week. He's constantly bailing on his obligations because Apple decides to run a conference call at a ridiculous hour of the night, or right before we go into a theater to watch a movie. Nevermind the China trips that get dragged out for weeks. I've heard from him on several occasions that there are few people who have worked at Apple longer than a few years because of the burnout.
--Angels mainly through angel investing myself, which I realize most people cannot do.

--Entrepreneurs who have been funded before from going to events and getting intros through other people over the years.

--I really didn't know many VCs. I met a few through entrepreneurship events in Philly. One through an angel friend a while back. And one I worked for 10 years ago.
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In what way did one guy leaving WL to setup his own leaking system remove their ability to accept new leaks?
Unfortunately, no time for that. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/215614
"Real" users? What does that even mean?
Interestingly enough, the only big thing they really missed was the rise of the personal computer and the Internet.
Read again. He never said he loved the first one but not the others. I'm paraphrasing: "the first one is wonderful, the others not so much".
> Whether it will work or not is unknowable for now, and even if it does work it will likely be a thing with a very significant impact on the lives of Amit and those near him.

This alludes to my original comment. I hope he continues promoting this kind of thing if it helps him, but for other people, given that he has such a broad reach and lack of modesty. Is that so wrong to say? I know it is unpopular to say, but is it wrong to hope for?

I have no problem with what is being done, just how it is being done. I don't wish Amit dies. I don't even know him. It is a tragedy that he has leukemia. But given the platform and reach he so clearly has, is he grateful and humbled for his ability to seek help on such a massive scale, that many dying people will never have? Doesn't sound like it.

He wants life, but it doesn't sound like he has much respect for it. It sounds like he wants to live, but sounds like he only tangentially gives a damn about the cause which will save him (bone marrow transplants). It's very "me me me."

As for my community and my employer, don't bring them into it. I'm my own person, with my own opinions, and those are whose opinions I express.
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The most objectionable and frustrating aspect of Austrian economics, to me, is the almost complete abandonment of formal mathematical models in their analyses.

To be clear, I am an empiricist and believe that the study of systems can only come about through careful experimentation, modeling, and formal mathematics. Mathematics, in my opinion, is the only objective measure by which we can analyse systems and trends.

I would concede that many of the macroeconomic models and experimentation in mainstream economics are weak and misused. However, I think any mainstream economist would agree with you and say that they are working hard to deal with the explosion of mathematical complexity in these kinds of analyses. They don't present their results as gospel, but they do formally state the models, meaning that they also formally state the assumptions being made.

Austrian economics, meanwhile, seems whole unscientific. Almost all Austrian economic systems eschew formal mathematics in favor of cute rhetorical devices. This book is a perfect example -- where are the mathematical models and formal reasoning? Formalism is good. Formalism is how we know what we are actually discussing and what we are trying to deduce. An example of how formalism is essential is Turing's PhD thesis. Without getting into details, Turing was trying to find the answer to a certain intuitive mathematical relation. What Turing found, however, was that there was no answer -- the statement itself could not be well-defined in a formal sense, meaning that it was not a good question.

This small example simply represents the large class of problems which can't be analyzed without formal breakdowns, simply because what seems interesting in rhetoric may be wholly untrue in a strict sense.

Rothbard, especially, seems guilty of my criticism. In a number of works he stated that he believed that historical analysis and modeling could never apply to economics and that all of economics could be explained by a priori relations. The troubling thing is that Rothbard should have known from physics and chemistry (and now somewhat formalized by statements about Turing machines and automata) that there can be underlying principles in mathematical systems and that can still be absolutely useless in analyzing the results of those systems. The three body problem, for instance, operates on very simple principles, but those principles are of almost no use in predicting the results of such a system.

So, in conclusion, I'm not saying that Austrian economics has no useful ideas, but what I am saying is that an underlying philosophy of many of Austrian economics' most celebrated evangelists is directly in conflict with my own. I don't believe that the right way to do economic or systems analysis is through rhetorical flourish or logical argument. These things are convincing on Internet boards but are not scientific and not well-defined. We should be trying to bring more science and formalism to economics, not less.
You wouldn’t have to pay extra if the extra resolution were default. (You would, but I guess you know what I’m talking about.)

That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Apple can’t just increase the resolution for everyone and that’s what they would like to do. To be able to do that they need resolution independence.
Also impresses me by how many posts here believe the media coverage of Assange. Just goes to show, Americans are the most naive consumers of commercial news on the planet, by a considerable margin.

All I want to know is where I can send a check.

Long live government transparency.
I didn't say, but it was 3M.

As for August, I did get meetings before, it just caused trouble because some meetings I couldn't get before, or there would be large period between meetings, which hurts momentum. And that all adds up to it being harder to align the time-line across multiple firms.
Agreed, thanks for pointing them out.

I know the Tech.li team (and founder Ed Domain) very well and they are a prime example of the type of publication I'm referring to.
I agree with you. I have no idea what's involved and because of my own ignorance all I know is that it could be a lot of pain and somewhat time consuming.

That being said, I just signed up. I had started reading the book "The Emperor of All Maladies" and then seeing Amit's post pushed me over the edge to go ahead and sign up.

Even in my ignorance I figure someone's life stands in the balance and my pain and time is more than worth it to potentially save a life. That being said if my # gets called I'm sure I'll be nervous as hell!
"Dark energy" isn't that contrived. When Einstein formulated GR, he showed that when you set up the theory, there is an additional free parameter. People assumed that it was zero, but there was really no empirical reason for this. But it's just as much part of the equations of GR as matter-energy is.

If a dark energy had been not been allowed by GR and still been observed, then the hand-waving would have started.
If it's totally free, how will you make money? Where's the business?
Now I'm merely trying to raise awareness, not offer an argument, but there are alternate gravitational theories for galaxy rotation (that I believe are more elegant, but at the expense of breaking more things than it fixes) such as MOND.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_Dynamics

Dark matter being less elegant in the galaxy rotation problem being a) it hasn't been detected and b) if it does exist, why does it fall into the same halo distribution pattern in different galaxies to account for the same rotational observation of these aforementioned spiral galaxies.

But as I said before, MOND seems to break more physics than it solves, but much smarter people that actually work in physics are trying to put those pieces together which makes it legitimate enough for me to take seriously.

Edit: Actually reading who's responding to what, I learned you're more than well aware of this :) I like to believe that galaxy rotation is solved with a single theory and not a significant combination of explanations (Occam's Razor). In any event I'll leave this comment here as an awareness booster for younger dabbling cosmologists.
Your statement "Given that there is little evidence of a clean room reverse engineering approach by Google when it comes to Android, it is unsurprising that big players suspect patent infringement..." is a non sequitur.

Clean room reverse engineering is a technique to avoid copyright and trade secret infringements. Patents cannot be avoided by clean room reverse engineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Honestly, does it really matter? Someone shouldn't need to be famous, well known, or have notable accomplishments for you to donate and save their life.
I am always extremely impressed by Gabriel Weinberg's honesty and transparency. He's literally not "selling anything" here. This is just a gift to his fellow entrepreneurs.
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i was holding out hope for the same thing, based on rumours flying around this summer that the next MBP update would essentially merge the air and pro lines. with todays refresh, it looks like that probably isn't happening.

the first company to release a 15" 1080p "ultrabook", whether it's apple or one of the windows manufacturers, will get my money.
Here's one: You need to tell us why we should expect EntryDNS to exist in six months.

With no apparent revenue source, I have to assume EntryDNS will drop off the face of the earth at any moment, never to be seen again. That's not something I'm prepared to spend time putting a critical piece of infrastructure into.
"if you want a blog that covers detroit start ups, start one"

Exactly! This sort of action is what is going to (and what is currently) change the way this is all covered and highlighted.
Absolutely agreed. We are working on it at the moment. Give us a few days and we'll implement this.
It's definitely dependent on the LCD monitor. I have a TN monitor, which works with the demo page, but on my IPS monitor, the text never really disappears from any angle.
It's certainly ironic that they haven't released such information, considering their alleged function & goals.
Not sure why you think we haven't.

Lots of us have gotten friends and friends of friends to swab and shouted from the rooftops to try and get people to contribute to the pool. Many are also creating drives for people to register. There isn't a lack of action - but there can always be more and we will continue to push.
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Usually the "something better than e-mail" turns out to be worse than e-mail in some important respect.

For example, if senders have to be whitelisted by the recipient, then shops can't send confirmation e-mails.
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Mine is up. The major ones I have checked are still up. Report any noticed downs in the Wikileaks IRC.
Was about to post price comparisons but YEESH Apple is selling 256GB SSDs [0] for $200 more than Crucial SSDs on NewEgg. [1]

[0] http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD318LL/A?select=select&...

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...
Found the link: http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
Neat. "ixoth" is a pretty unique name, pronunciation-wise. Anybody know if there have been studies done exploring the sound-space of voice recognition? E.g. if you could map typical sounds of (english) speech to some sort of dimensional space, which areas are dense and which are sparse?
"Castro, and Mandela"

Mandela and Castro are murderers. Why are they even included on your list?
We'll be working on some premium features which will be charged a lot lower than competition. Most core features will be free tough! So we're going towards a freemium model.
> It turns out that in practice, parallel arrays are often significantly faster, because more often than not you _do_ access a lot of (memory consecutive) records, and you _don't_ access all the fields.

This doesn't hold if you're doing random access (which it sounds like they are, given that they're passing around lists of indices). In the random-access scenario, parallel arrays will require roughly O(M) times as many trips to main memory as the struct array, where M is the number of fields accessed.
Having grown up on a farm, working hard is what you do. Not just physically, but mentally too. When equipment breaks, you have to figure out how to fix it. When a unique problem arises, you have to engineer a solution. You have to learn a lot and you have to learn how to learn on the spot. And you're doing all of that before you even enter high school.

I understand that kids growing up in the city are most often not afforded the same opportunities. I personally did not find much benefit to college, but based on your comment, it seems I already received my "college education" when I was a kid. Has college become a substitute for the learning that most children are missing out on as a result of modern societal forces?
... and there's a self-reinforcing process in which your debt rises in relationship to your income.

I haven't had my coffee yet and the world is still looking fuzzy to me, so I'm probably just being dense.

But does this not make sense to anyone else? Why would my income to debt ratio change because I've spent my borrowed money somewhere?

I must be misunderstanding this argument, is he saying that as people spend more we all end up making more, and then we all end up borrowing more on what we've made? That would make sense (though in reality what happens is that most people's incomes stay level and the proceeds are funneled to investors - this is largely the reason that the top 5% fall into a more top-heavy Pareto distribution of wealth whereas everyone else is exponentially distributed, but I digress...), but that still shouldn't increase proportional debt, unless I'm missing a key part of this argument.
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I'm thinking exactly the same thing and wouldn't use this service for anything except testing. I'm assuming that your business model is freemium but even so you need to write a couple of reassuring words about the mium part of your business to reassure concerned potential customers.
I thought about this... There should be a way of adding to the whitelist efficiently.

ie "Hacker News is trying to communicate with you; do you want to add them to your whitelist? Your ISP has authenticated them using..." Replace ISP by trust ring or any other third party you trust. (You may not trust your ISP of course...)
The most influetial 20th century improvement that they missed was the rise of the airplane, in particular the jet airplane. It obviated the need for "fast electric boats" from New York to London, as well as a transcontinental high-speed railroad. Without planes, we probably would have a 150mph train connecting New York to San Francisco.
What is the distinction between struct and a class with all public members?
The bias in both these comments is so thick I could cut it with a knife. One can barely ride a bicycle; one wishes he didn't own a car.
May depend on which role or which products. I had a friend who did tech support at Apple for 10+ years and loved it, and another friend who works as a web dev and loves it as well.

I don't think either of my friends were in roles that had to fear Apple's goon squad... imagine things are different if you work on something iPhone/iPad/iOS related.
In one example they have blurred the financial details on the screen from anyone viewing from the side.

I wonder if that could be iterated further such that all of the screen is blurred from the sides (presumably by dynamically altering the "overlay" to cancel out each color of each pixel).

This would then make a great alternative to a privacy screen for use on planes, etc.
The author meant copy and paste:

> Think about that ctrl-C, ctrl-V sequence next time you are about to use it.

Many people use "cut and paste" as a generic term that refers to either copy and paste or cut and paste. You have to figure out which they really mean from the context.
They missed air travel too, even dismissing it.
I have registered for the test kit. I really appreciate the way amit and friends have set up the campaign. This gives maximum chance for him to survive and also helps other victims as well, since they might contact you if some one else needs help. Good luck Amit, I hope you will pull through it.
This ones a lot easier to read: http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.ht...
GEN-2 is the final lurking place for all your long-lived data..., checking GEN-2 is a “stop the world” event – it (usually briefly) pauses your code, and does what it needs to. Now imagine you have a huge set of objects which will never be available to collect

For many years now, some Smalltalk VMs have had "permspace." You just send a message to a long lived object, and it's moved to a different part of memory considered permanent, and the GC never looks at it. No structs. Just call a function on the permanent objects. Since it's in a different space, this is also very efficient for the VM, since identifying a permanent object is just a comparison of addresses.
Here's their bitcoin address: 1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v
You need to read it again. It's definitely not a rant about techcrunch.
Pretty interesting how many he got right or close....
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SPF too.
This times 1000. While the article emphasizes the narrowly-won balance between love vs pain, this is a lot more realistic IMHO.

My wife and I have an 8-month old, and she's a reasonably 'easy baby'. But even so, from a coding perspective, the non-maskable interrupt thing is an absolute brain killer. And it's more difficult to get in the groove because of the sleep deprivation.

From what I see above, there's a lot of encouragement here that the instant love/bonding thing will make the whole experience worthwhile. That may be true. But there's also a lot of self-censorship (or even explicit censorship : search for the word 'disgusting') about how draining the whole thing can be. And that having a baby is not a choice that suits everyone : Think long and hard about whether you really want to give up two thirds of your usable free time...
The same answer I gave to eroded: we'll be going towards a freemium model - keeping core features free, and for advanced "enterprise" needs, go for fees lower than other services. We plan to stick around for a lot of time to come.
Thinking Forth -- old but very relevant dev book
Or simple contraposition :-P

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if the relevant part of the article is "I do not have insurance, so it is important that I maintain my health", then the contraposition would be "It is not important that I maintain my health, so it follows that I have insurance." What you are suggesting as the contraposition is "I have insurance, so it is not important that I maintain my health", which is the inverse of the statement (and equivalent to the converse "If it is important that I maintain my health, then I do not have insurance."
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I see we have some extreme leftists in the house. Pol pot, mao, and stalin should be on your list too.
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I've seen what you're talking about with easy vs. hard. We were lucky enough to have an easy baby. Yet I found the first few weeks very tough as I have higher than normal sleep requirements. By the end of week one I had trouble staying awake during the day, and was not able to return to normal functioning until a grandma came to help out for a couple weeks.

My son will be 7 in a few months. This age is way easier than the first few weeks . . . not hard at all really and filled with lots of fun times.
Can we just stop using FAT already?
Don't ATMs do something like this, or are they just built to have the shittiest viewing angles ever (which is obviously advantageous for this scenario)?