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"By way of background, hypothecation is when a borrower pledges collateral to secure a debt. The borrower retains ownership of the collateral but is “hypothetically” controlled by the creditor, who has a right to seize possession if the borrower defaults."

OK, sounds logical

"In the U.S., this legal right takes the form of a lien and in the UK generally in the form of a legal charge. A simple example of a hypothecation is a mortgage, in which a borrower legally owns the home, but the bank holds a right to take possession of the property if the borrower should default."

Right, I'm with you...

"In investment banking, assets deposited with a broker will be hypothecated such that a broker may sell securities if an investor fails to keep up credit payments or if the securities drop in value and the investor fails to respond to a margin call (a request for more capital)."

analogy is holding, makes perfect sense...

"Re-hypothecation occurs when a bank or broker re-uses collateral posted by clients, such as hedge funds, to back the broker’s own trades and borrowings. The practice of re-hypothecation runs into the trillions of dollars and is perfectly legal. It is justified by brokers on the basis that it is a capital efficient way of financing their operations much to the chagrin of hedge funds."

WTF. So you can use MY collateral, something I own, as collateral for YOUR leveraged borrowing to make YOUR trade. AND this happens over and over again, building up a tower of debt teetering on a scrap of actual assets underpinning them? And if someone in that chain of leverage above me loses, my money is just gone? And this is the part of Wall St. that is legal?

It makes me sad that we are so afraid of this complex finance bomb strapped to our head that we choose to stand paralyzed in fear and wait, for years, for it to finally and conclusively explode on its own rather than at least attempting to disarm it.
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Hey, I have to say that as much as I don't like about your presentation, I admire your willingness to engage and your openness to criticism.

If you'd like any specific help, like notes on how your site and writing looks from my side of things, please don't hesitate to let me know. And I'm always open to feedback on my own site and writing (though you might not be my target audience, but, then again, I don't really know who is). Maybe we can even come to a mutually beneficial transaction.
Got it.

"While following the Model View Controller approach has made your code cleaner, and following conventions have reduced the need for documentation, there’s still plenty of room for improvement and too much time needed to instruct new developers."

That made me think that the goal was writing less documentation.
How has no one mentioned EC2 in this whole thread?

Automation, centralization, capacity planning, many of the problems are the same.

Now IF that analogy is correct I propose:

1. A few large entities will dominate the automated car business while enthusiasts and finicky users will happily continue to buy their own.

2. Manufacturers will see demand explode for a small set of highly efficient commodity vehicles.

3. Excess capacity will be resold for new businesses.

- Package delivery
- Mobile Advertising
- Portable infrastructure. (Need wifi coverage at an outdoor event? I'll send over a half dozen networked cars)
- Portable storage (Think of those delivered storage pods, but that only were there when you called)
- Entertainment (Rent a dozen cars and have them do some sweet driving)

Also, though this doesn't fit into the Amazon analogy, talk about a captive audience! Imagine, you're puttering along on a family trip to Yellowstone in your rental, it's around lunchtime, and the car suggests stopping at Burger King .. out loud ... with your kids listening. Can you imagine what BK would pay for that privilege?
I have a feeling it might be the routing to the hss/pcrf that could have been the isue. Almost every carrier has redundancy for these products and they are often in geographically distinct areas. Perhaps the routing from the eNodeBs/edge network to the core network was handled by another division within Verizon or even leased from a third party and could have caused all of this

Or a disgruntled employee left a cron job on all the key systems to rm -rf :-)
So, here's the problem with this whole normal law / alternate law situation:

If a pilot believes he is in normal law, and wants to ascend above the storm, he'll probably just pull all the way back on the stick, thinking "this will cause the computer to ascend as quickly as it can without stalling".

AAAARGGHH!!!! This maddening concept of normal law is turning the above insanity into the EXPECTED OUTCOME! Having a computer partially ignore your control will always lead to people railing the controls all the way in the direction they want. That's just human nature.

This is just like having someone who was raised on cars with traction control drive on ice for the first time. They'll notice the car isnt accelerating as fast as it normally would, and their natural reaction will be to push the gas pedal down EVEN FURTHER! Bingo - your control system just extracted the exact opposite of rational human behavior. If they didn't have traction control, they would have heard the engine rev and the tires spinning, and they would have backed off of the gas.

If the pilot weren't under the mistaken impression that the computer would limit his input, he would have NEVER pulled the stick all the way back and held it there - he instead would have been very careful to pull the stick back only just enough to ascend safely.

The airline industry may think normal law is a feature. I consider it an abomination

You either give the human full control, or cut their control entirely. You DO NOT give them partially limited control. That only encourages exaggerated inputs.
Planes are extra expensive because only coorporations buy them. There isn't infrastructure to sell them to individuals. That raises the price and difficulty of buying them, and also makes it a more sound political strategy to make stricter laws requiring airplane safety, which further makes it inconvenient to operate your own plane.

Some very rich people still own private jets, but it's rarer than it would be if more people were rich.
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The fact that the heating element was not effective enough was a known fact. Since similar incident of lost of air speed had already happened. Pitot were being replaced with beefier heating elements. It was just not considered a high priority.
Is (assuming it's what it stands for) Object Oriented Programming really considered a "skill"?
Um. Seriously?

You've got an established brand, established channels for publicity, all the backend stuff covered, a completed API and all of the specifications worked out for you? And you'd not be happy to collect half the proceeds in perpetuity? I'd be thrilled with a quarter of that action. 50% is generous.

That sounds like an awesome deal to me. This guy has already built the business. It's turn-key. Hell, if I were an Android developer, I would start tonight.
I was a 3gs owner that switched to Android and will never go back. I prefer app switching, flash (if you don't know the right sites to go for streaming content you're missing out), i know people will find this hard to believe but my battery life is better and is easier to control when I know I'll have heavy usage and won't be near an outlet, it feels faster running cm rom, and this is on a phone thats actually older than the 3gs (cheaper carrier, but poor selection of phones). Overall just more control of the phone, applications and processes.
Interesting. Maybe I'll rewrite that bit. Thanks for pointing that out.
Whether urban legend or not, supposedly there's a mercedes "million miles" club. They did famously buy back a mercedes that had over 2 million miles on the clock that's in their museum now

It's not isolated to Mercedes either

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity
That's the point of his offer. He doesn't believe that developing Instapaper for Android will be worth it, but if someone does, he's welcome to give it a try.
He has a habit of deleting almost all of the posts on his tumblr. When he started the account, he actually said he was only going to have one or two posts up at any one time. It's kind of surprising the number he's got up now (although they're almost all photos). The Jobs tribute post could have been deleted out of spite, but he's deleted some other really cool stuff too, so I kinda doubt it.
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>Not on my servers.

Sorry but "your servers" do not set the specifications for what is and what is not a valid email address. It always amazes me why people waste time with regular expressions to try and determine if an email address is valid or not before sending an email.

The best and by far easiest way to determine if an email address is valid is to just send an email to it. Your regular expression matches invalid email addresses (like anything@____.com) and misses things like "This is valid"@example.com.
Most if not all projects in use written in ruby use rdoc, rocco or some form of inline documentation. I would be very surprised if a well used gem didn't have documentation.
Good post.. Though am curious i found a Readingo app for Instapaper on Android. Is your point to make it as good as the app for iOS?
- Am new to Instapaper and non-apple user so forgive if there's a obvious huge difference...
No problem - I definitely recommend reading the linked Mozilla docs on them.
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That sounds like something that might happen in the farther future, but I expect there will be a lot of general-purpose auto-driving cars made before companies start making super-specialized models like that.
Well, that's why we have hardware monitoring. You only really need the low latency stuff for recording software synthesizers / samplers or if you have a virtual amp, etc.
I think it's like saying "listen, you've learned enough as a programmer, that one additional technique won't change too much in your career".

Sure - there is a limit of healthy news consumption, but if you stop reading altogether (or limit yourself only to "worthy" content) you may wake up in a couple of years and discover that you're an ignorant fool.
Things are usually not properly tested, you have to deal with a lot of interoperability issues from different vendors which only get played out on carrier network, logic fails by employees/integrators such as assigning an ip addresss in one corner of the nation and re-using it elsewhere inadvertently due to poor IP address managment, errors flooding a system which cause it to self-reboot which then signals to other systems to also self-reboot or simply a core central node such as hlr/hss has failed and proper geo-redundancy was not implemented
How Chinese Zyngas are worse? Their games can be down right unplayable unless you pony up real money to purchase virtual goods like coins and potions and whatnot and they come up with new ways to nickle and dime their existent users every day, they strip away what was free or available through in game farming or change game mechanics to make you need more coins or whatever until they leeches you dry.

How Chinese Groupons are worse? They get merchants to sign up under false assumptions to do outrageous deals which can get business owners seriously in debt, they also conspire with some business to commit false advertisement, and they delay payment, they deflect refund, they lie to both deal hunters and business owners, they burn money like crazy and their accounting books respectable firms won't touch with a 10 feet pole.
I wonder if in a couple of decades we'll look back at pitot tubes and wonder what the hell we were thinking using such a fragile solution.

(Of course, in a couple of decades we'll probably have a much more accurate external method of finding out speed/airspeed.)
why wouldn't the computer have emergency functions to negate strange situations like this?

I think there are two main reasons. First, one is dealing with a situation where the autopilot has disengaged because it is receiving contradictory input from its sensors. How is the computer to know that a second sensor has not failed, and that its notion of what is normal is not? Failures may tend to cluster. The current technological presumption is that in the event of something unexpected, trust the human over the computer. At the current level of technology, this is still often a good bet.

Second, I think the legal situation encourages having a human be the final point of control. Presume that computer overrode the human, and that due to some low-probability unexpected combination of failures this caused the plane to crash despite the pilot doing "the right thing" as proven by the flight recorder. Then picture the size of the lawsuit against the everyone involved in the building and licensing of the plane. Contrast this with the same situation, but with the pilot responsible and dead in the crash. One may find that there isn't much desire from the manufacturer to change the system to take that final responsibility.
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This is a bit of a tangent, butI have a droid x2 I bought less than 6 months ago, and I have absolutely no idea if 4.0 will ever come to my phone or when if it does.

This is one of the many problems with android, and I doubt I'll buy another android phone primarily for this reason.
Ok so you're the author but this statement is pretty cryptic can you expand up on how DCI would make things better than the tried and tested test -> programming -> factoring out path most programmers take? Even rails takes this model.
"Is GM causing massive gridlock to save Chevy owners a few pennies? Story at 11"

Bad press for all involved.
Here's a story about a guy (a friend of my brother) who put a million miles on a Honda accord:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=20021117&...

He took extremely good care of it.
Useful background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_Context,_and_Interaction

http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html

It also reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-responsibility-collaborat...
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We've got 160 instances affected, which is obviously going to require a pretty massive amount of work. I'd estimate we'll be spending about 30 hours on this project over the next week. Yes it sucks, but asking you to reboot your servers once a year isn't exactly a huge hardship.

It's easy to forget that the cloud is powered by real physical infrastructure, and that cloud vendors have maintenance needs too. AWS gave us a fair amount of notice about the reboots, and they've been understanding and helpful along the way. I'm willing to be understanding toward them too.
Great companies survive -- both Borland and Netscape encountered pressure from Microsoft but that alone wasn't enough to kill them. You can't blame Microsoft for terrible business plans, bad marketing, and poor products.
apparently putting text between * s will make the text italic. Learn something everyday.
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Should not one pilot say "I Got Her" and tell other pilot that you do nothing, I will take care of it.
Marco, if you're reading this: don't do it. Even with a 50/50 split, you're going to be leaving a tonne of money on the table.

IMHO, you should contract someone you respect to do the V1, buy the code from them and own all the rights, and start maintaining it along side your iOS version.

Launching on Android will double your revenue.
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> It always amazes me why people waste time with regular expressions to try and determine if an email address is valid or not before sending an email

Some of us want to check if a newly entered email address appears valid while we still have the user on our site, so if there is an obvious problem we can get it fixed.

How do you address that with the "just send an email" approach? If the mail bounces, how do I contact the user to tell them to come back to the site and try again?
There's already an equivalent product on Android called ReadItLater. Moving along to other things...
There are two recordings - the 'black box' which records all the control inputs, readings, etc. Then there is the cockpit voice recorder, which is a separate recording of the pilots voices (and radio traffic, IIRC).

I don't know if the two separate items are in the same 'box' or if they are physically separate, but there are definitely two different things being recorded.
Looks like a rather good deal to me. Being backed by Instapaper automatically gets you a lot of users. What would be the chances for any indie developer to get half of those users without Instapaper's support ?
Re-posting a comment to the blog to get HN reaction:

Since this article doesn't obviously have an intended audience, you seem to be saying that everyone, everywhere should stop reading all articles once they posses the ability to read English well enough to comprehend this article. It is an interesting idea, but I suspect that this would lead to very uneducated people, so that people who ignore your advice are going to be better educated. If a senior citizen is told, "You've probably read enough" then, yes, maybe they will agree and proceed to purchase a plane ticket to the Bahamas. But if a teenager reads this article, the reaction will probably be, "sure, and by the same token, can you tell my teachers to stop assigning me homework?"

In any case, the core of the point is that by ignoring your advice, your readers can be better educated. Now, I am a Christian, but stupid priests who proclaim the creation myth until their vocal chords give way share something with you: if you ignore THEIR advice, you will be better educated, at least in science.

But really, you're right. The human race has reached the end of knowledge. There really isn't anything more anyone could possibly learn, so why try?
Bright Automotive is doing fleet vehicles, not a huge step away.

http://www.brightautomotive.com/
I'd happily pay $2.99 (or $4.99 or maybe even more) for a great Android Instapaper app over using "save pages for viewing later offline". The reason being that Instapaper deals with multi-device sync properly for me. For me, the real "magic" of Instapaper is being able to bookmark interesting looking articles on my laptop before I leave home in the morning, read some of them on the iPad at a cafe on the way to work, read/bookmark some more in gaps at work on my work machine, and skim through articles on my phone while in the queue at the bank or post office... As a mobile developer, I alternate between a few phones, and I really miss the Instapaper iPhone client when I'm carrying an Android device...
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For a while I wished for a decent Instapaper client for Android, either paid or free. But eventually I gave up and switched to Read It Later, which is perfectly adequate for my needs. I don't see what all the fuss is about over Instapaper in particular when there are competing services that work just fine and that care enough to develop an Android app themselves.
I've raised this issue one year ago

http://codemonkeyism.com/scala-unfit-development/

There are two forces at play here:

a.) Binary fragility of Scala

b.) A community that upgrades libraries (your dependencies) to every new RC candidate - even when only fixing bugs. So if you have a show stopper bug you need to upgrade to the newest RC breaking all your other dependencies.

Either a. and b. would be no major problem, combined it throws you into a dependency hell for days hunting for dependencies that work.

Hope they resolve this issue. People promised a solution in the blog comments, then promised a solution a year later as the issue surfaced again on the #typesafe blog.
IANAL; Can you legally threat them for integrating closed source with your GNU GPL?

Might also be a good idea to warn people via your download page. No one knows where else to get it.
The general definition of preferred shares is that they are treated preferentially to common shares. In the most typical case, they get their money back before the remaining funds, if any, are disbursed.

So no. There's nothing sleazy about a preferred shareholder being treated preferentially, necessarily.
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Up to this point, the situation was playing out in a sadly too common case of pilot error, pilot inexperience, which makes up a huge portion of aviation accidents.

When I read about the dual input averaging, I literally exclaimed "what?!". I can't believe that, for all the strict standards that flight control software must meet, nobody called this out as a dangerous idea?
With a self driving car, it would be like a taxi. It would come to your driveway when you need it.
I think poor IDE support is pretty unilateral because git is supposed to used from a command line. It is great to work with a tool where the UI is an after thought because the UI will always be cumbersome with something as complex as source control.

msysgit works great, has for years. The install is simple enough a non-technical person can do it. I've used git on projects with non-technical people checking in from the command line. It is pretty surprising to see a PM have an easier time than a dev only because they don't have years of UI driven source control working against them. Using source control from the command line... well that is the trick. Though I haven't met many great developers who cannot.

Also, git extensions is pretty good (better than tortoise). I usually install it because viewing the history from the IDE is a nice way to keep your flow going. You can do some creative things searching through the logs as well.
Has nobody written an installer for windows apps that runs from java web start?
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Sure you can validate emails by regex! :D http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
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It's hard to measure how fast you're going through the air without being able to sample the air. Pitot tubes are just the tubes that bring the air to the inside of the plane to be sampled; nothing more.
You might be thinking of his book "Outliers", which dedicates a large segment to plane crashes.
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