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You and I are starting from different assumptions. I want to throw out the DOM. It is an application-specific component that should be implemented in "user land". Currently we're heading toward C inside JS inside Rust, with plugins written in C++ running outside any sandboxes. This is never going to be secure. You have to design a VM that everything can sit in. There's no reason why a browser can't sit inside a simple VM except that it builds in huge amounts of complexity regardless of how its used.

We don't need a VM to run JS "well". Nothing going on in the browser is even CPU intensive if not for the huge gobs of complexity going on. People are making simple things harder and harder to do, and complex things easier and easier. If you just write everything for a simple typed VM you don't have to bend over backward to make things run fast. There's nothing going on in the client side of say, GMail, that I couldn't do (faster!) on the computer I was using in 1997.
"The option of being unfailingly polite really doesn't exist. Nobody will trust somebody who is so clearly hiding his true character."

What if you don't know your "true character" How are you supposed to behave then?
I'm pretty sure "hat tip" means "we appreciate this simple link, but we can't put as many ads around those", and "via" means "here's precedent, we're not the first to make this into blogspam. if you'd like to see the original, enjoy clicking through five pages"
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Thanks for the response, I have read little of libertarian philosophies so it is nice to get overview from nirvana and yourself.

If don't mind answering another question, if georgism is the left-libertarian answer what is the right-libertarian answer?
And the environment might not recover eventually; it might go into runaway heating and boil off the atmosphere.

Runaway heating strikes me as highly unlikely. As temperature increases, blackbody radiation increases. Since solar input is very roughly constant, eventually a new equilibrium will be found where energy lost to space once again equals energy received from the sun.
As for the effect this has on other start-ups, I think there are two interconnected issues here, one on the buyer side and one on the seller side.

On the seller side, VC investments are to blame, I think, because of their ROI expectations. We are missing a good investment model for successful tech/web businesses that aren't the huge windfalls VCs want, like most businesses in other fields. You could say that angel investment is that model - the problem is that VCs want to invest in many companies, and it's sometimes hard to reject their offer. Once you do take their money, it's hard justifying slow growth and good though less-than-stellar success, and in that case, both the company and its users are "doomed".

And why do VCs want to invest in so many companies? This has to do with the buyer side (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3546629 for an interesting discussion about acquihires from the buyer's perspective). I think they have to invest because they have so much money, they can't accurately identify the stellar companies (well, obviously), and acquisitions give them a good enough ROI to continue doing what they're doing.
With polygonal mirrors you have to wait for the perfect moment to pulse the laser.

I think these are just galvanometers. Seems like they have to 'predict' the motion of the mirrors for accuracy and speed.
Can't wait for the opportunity to lose my entire savings in a two-minutes backstreet incident.

Better use this only for the equivalent of todays's purse with as much cash as you feel you need for the next few days.

See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551397 for how to mitigate such risks.
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For that kind of problem the solution seems to be forcing a fast arbitrage system.
No reason why should not be solar powered. Around here all the parking meters are solar powered, just for cost of installation reasons. Wiring electricity in to 50bn devices would be a pain, unless they are electric anyway.
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So, if it takes ~ 90s to fabricate a 300x130um element that is 100um thick then how long to do a 1cmx1cmx100um thick element?

Scale factor is 10000/300*10000/130 = 2564, so it takes ~ 64 hr.

i.e. it takes a long time ...

I will stick to CNC machining and photolithography for now. ;-)

If they speed it up then perhaps 3D elements could be added to microfluidic networks with it.
But it does alter the principle of price. Air is one of the most valuable things on the planet (you would live only 3 or so minutes without it), but it's free, because it's not scarce.
"Today" a year and a half ago?
To apply the NAP to property in good faith, one would need to have an unbroken chain of rightful lockean property acqusition - through free trade or by mixing one's labour with unclaimed land - since time immemorial. Clearly, this is not the case.

More reading: http://mutualist.org/id4.html
I find it's not the frequency of these words, but the volume and inflection that's the problem. There are a series of computer science lectures on youtube, and also some courses I had at university where the lecturer says UMMMMM at a substantially higher volume than the rest of their speech, and drags it out for a second or more.

The resultant sound is like a cow mooing, or someone doing an offensive impersonation of a downs syndrome patient at the top of their voice. The effect is totally unbearable and I have no idea how people sit through hours of this stuff.
I'm not sure if sub-minimum wage wandering appliance is that job.
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Ask HN: Does your job contract prevent you working for yourself?
It can be difficult considering launching a startup when you have to quit your job to do it, especially when you have other financial obligations. How common is it for permanent contracts to prevent us from working for ourselves in the tech industry?
Maybe the shift is that you don't make such expensive movies.
Or create an experience that is impossible to reproduce via digital distribution.
In #3, SQLAlchemy loses because it's "complex" while JSON is "simple". In #4, SQLAlchemy loses because this time it's "complicated", whereas inlining SQL create table statements is merely "complex".

Conclusion: for Hunter Blanks, SQLAlchemy can never win.
> edit: what if they were being paid $20 a day for being tables, or coatracks? Would it be exploitative yet?

How about this:

In Poland we have people called colloquially "strzałkowi" ('arrow people'), who are working by literally sitting for a whole day holding a big arrow-shaped sign that directs to a bookstore/Subway (restaurant)/whatever. They are just sitting there, whole day, with an arrow, earning laughtable money, most likely as a way for companies to place signs where they usually would not be allowed to. Oh, and they are not even homeless, they're usually students who can't find any better job, because the job market for unqualified labor is kind of saturated. And suddenly, nobody complains about demeaning jobs and exploiting people.

I'd rather walk around with a wireless transmitter any day. Those wi-fi homeless people are at least providing some value to society.
Right and in any event it's ridiculous to talk about a "post scarcity" world when there is oodles of scarcity surrounding the creation of information goods like movies.
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Not to mention that 3.x breaks many things about strings and unicode that were perfectly fine under 2.x. Things like forcing separate codecs for str/unicode (double the work!) and the elimination of basestr (what? why?). Armin did a great article on this a while back.
Well, the links you pointed to are for fairly old versions of Windows, and they are on a pirate site, rather than any old site that chooses to host them in the US. Is Mac OS there in its entirety? How about Oracle? DB2 from IBM?
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> less financially motivated content.

'Financially motivated' means: it pays the bills, puts food on the table, and gives me a place to live. If someone can't do that as a producer of information goods, they'll have to do something else, and therefore produce less, leaving consumers worse off.
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This is silly.

> Usually, high religious observance and low income go along with high birthrates

No, usually what goes along with high birthrates is an agrarian peasant society that has to maintain high birthrates because 50%+ of children die before the age of 5, and if you want to have several kids of working age around to help in the fields, you need to aim for 8 or 12 newborns. Agrarian peasant societies happen to be poor and religious, but those are effects, not causes. Other contributing factors: women without independent income and therefore beholden to their husbands, no access to contraceptives, lack of basic literacy and education especially among girls.

Then what happens when places get improved sanitation and healthcare, pretty consistently everywhere we look at the data, is that there’s a demographic bubble when a generation has mothers survive all their pregnancies and all their 8-12 kids survive to adulthood. Then in the next generation or two, that falls to 4-6 kids on average because, hey, 50% aren’t dying anymore. Then by 2-3 generations after that, it’s down to 2-3 kids on average, or in some places even below replacement levels. Other contributing factors: migration to cities, access to contraceptives, and education especially of girls.

If you work in a factory or an office or a store, and live in a city, it’s just not convenient to start having kids at age 16 or to end up with 8 kids running around, even if you’re poor or religious. Already, 50% of the world population is urban, and within another generation that will be 60%.

> The speed of the change is breathtaking

The same demographic changes everywhere else in the world happened or are happening roughly at the same speed. There’s an incredible drop in fertility rate within 2-3 generations every time. For example, you see precisely the same pattern happening within the last few decades in rural Mexico, and if you look back several generations, the same pattern sweeping across Europe.

That Brooks thinks the changes in Oman &c. are surprising says more about Brooks than about the changes here.
ADHD is a load of crap, and diagnosis of it is a purely western endeavour with very little actual merit.
ARM Cortex M0+ processor specs:

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-m0plu...

Advantages over 8-bit and 16-bit processors for embedded solutions, according to ARM:

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-m0plu...
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I suggest trying your hand at Python. It's pretty much all there.
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Exactly. In my country nobody complains about students working by sitting for a whole day on the street, holding an arrow pointing to Subway or whatever.
Personally, I think all ism-proponents are missing the point. De facto, lots of systems work and have worked.

My own ideal system would be some kind of wacky mix of libertarianism, scandinavian-style safety nets, green politics, minimum guaranteed income, heavy state support for startups, etc. But I don't pretend that this is The Way.

I'm much more interested in what you might call a taoist approach. To change the macrocosm, first change the microcosm. The key to everything is personal development.

I think we as hackers can make a difference by influencing personal development on a wide scale. Case in point: e-learning sites like Khan Academy.
I don't see why the irresponsible maintainership of PIL should reflect badly on Python 3. Pillow is a fork of PIL which was created to address some of these problems:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow#why-a-fork
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> I think there's an argument to be made that the well could dry up, but I don't think it's a well substantiated one.

There may not be proof either way, but if people do not have to pay for information goods, it only stands to reason that there will be less of them produced. Certainly, they won't go away entirely, but why would anyone produce a movie like Avatar if there is no legal way they can get paid for it?
There is no idea of copyright distinct from copyright. o_O.
Previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203101
>I find it interesting that I was downvoted to the negatives, then you posted this reply, and then I got upvoted to the top. I wonder what the causation is there.

Take this as a sign that HN is going the way of Digg and Reddit, may they rest in peace.

As for the mechanism of action, I think it has to do with people having the need to feel special. The crowd does A, a lonely voice suggests B and people jump on the bandwagon to be different. In other words, it's a mild and misplaced rebellion against the status quo. I've seen this happen countless times on social news sites and it seems to be one of the glitches of the human brain. Follow the white rabbit...
you have to expect it to peak a lot higher though.. The requests are probably not going to be distributed evenly over 24 hours..

(edit: but yeah, you only need 100 servers if you're running something with "enterprise" in the name ;)
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You've convinced me. I'm going to pay a few homeless people $2 an hour to be my coffee grinders and charge hipsters $20/lb to get their beans ground by a real live failure of the social safety net. And I'm never going to reflect on that, and I'm going to get enraged at people who ask me to.

You're really assuming that you know a lot about person C without ever meeting him/her. It's really easy to do that when you're just making it up.
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Improvements in "Ultracapacitors" will help with solar-powering devices.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_double-layer_capacitor)
If it were up to total strangers, our kids would have been medicated into zombie-mode already. No thanks!
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Well thank goodness someone finally read the article to you.
> conclusively

I don't think it's honest to say anything "conclusive" either way in this debate. It's complex and there are a great deal of unknowns.

With regards to downloading movies, many people don't do it because it's seen as being wrong, and also illegal, and that does matter to many people.

As for the artists going out of their way, you could make an argument that they would not receive so much attention (and thus money) in a world where everyone had to behave like what they're experimenting with. Right now they stand out from the crowd, but eventually a new equilibrium would be reached where there would be nothing novel in what they do, and perhaps at that point, they'd make significantly less money, to the point where some of them would have to find other jobs to support themselves, and thus produce less.
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I thought I was missing something. I sure feel better about myself now.
As a single data point to counter your own: I donate monthly and even physically take part in helping feeding of the needy and this makes me feel a little uncomfortable. I can kind of understand your position but I don't share it.
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Has some of the making of in this vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&...
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It has been done before, at least according to the article, it appears that there already is competition in this market:

Arizona-headquartered Microchip Technology designs and builds a rival range of 32-bit "Pic" microcontroller, while California-based Atmel offers 32-bit "Avr" products.

But doing a bit of fact-checking, it might not be so simple.

The Microchip website gives 404 errors when I try to read their press release http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/press-release/mic... - not really a good sign, hard to verify any claims.

The Atmel TinyAVR devices are small (2mmx2mm) but appear only to be 8-bit and aren't really comparable to the Arm offering.
"I don't think we are conquering global inequality. I think it's getting worse."

I'm sure you think that, but the numbers are clear, and not really under any dispute. Global inequality has been falling steadily and rapidly since 1980; it's the biggest reduction in absolute poverty the world has ever seen. You can interpret those numbers however you like, but those are the numbers.

"And the environment might not recover eventually; it might go into runaway heating and boil off the atmosphere."

Not according to the IPCC and the "scientific consensus". :)
Seems like a fairly straightforward evolution, they are claiming 11.2uW/MHz vs. 16 for the non-plus M0. Sounds like the instruction set is the same. I'm curious whether the M0 has been getting significant design wins over the established low-power microcontrollers like PIC, MSP430, etc.
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Even if we accept that Paypal has no place in protecting people from fraud, it's hard to accept that paypal should not try to protect themselves from fraud.

Consider that criminal gangs are huge multi-million dollar businesses that run complex scams and money routing tricks that can confuse governments[1] it's not surprising that PayPal wants to try to protect itself.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5204422.stm)
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In addition, integer division now produces floating point numbers for non-integer results.

Grr.
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"The alternative is to live without Facebook, which is to live without all the benefits that social networking has given humanity. This is not a real alternative at all."

seems silly to imagine anyone believes this.

I don't use FB and my life is perfectly bearable.
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If it actually took off, the person(s) running it could take the sort of fee that shops/etc would normally take (probably much less) to cover time, and then "Dear Record Label, I have a cheque for $$$$$ broken down for the following artists: do you want it?"

I think the biggest problem would be convincing people to do it - right now you can get it free (or a slight fee from some download services) illegally or paid legally... how many people are going to chose the brand new third option of paid yet still illegal?

edit:

Perhaps a more viable idea would be to do the same thing, but rather than having the aim as trying to win over the likes of the RIAA/etc. just try and win over artists. The Louis CK is now pretty well known, but he had to make that decision before finding out its success. What if anybody who downloaded anything could go through a service that would give money to the artists, without legally admitting to any wrongdoing?

For example, I download a Justin Bieber album, or a Ricky Gervais stand-up DVD, go onto this site and say "here's £5 because I think the DVD/album/whatever is cool", and that money then goes directly to the artist - without me ever having to say that I actually downloaded it illegally, that's just left as an assumed fact.

Of course this becomes harder on the administration side, and much harder when it's something like a big film where you pretty much have to go through the studio or you'd never be able to split money between everyone involved. And, thinking about it, I guess even for individual singers/standups/etc, there's still the issue that not everybody who makes money from a CD without being the artist falls into the moneygrabbing category. Do sound mixers, studio techs, etc etc etc etc not deserve a cut?

Anyway, just babbling on... would love to see someone give this a real shot, but really no idea if it could have even the tiniest chance of success.
> Don't know if it should be a method or an attribute? Python has properties now, the user doesn't have to care.

Python didn't have properties when the len protocol was implemented. What exactly will be gained if Python replaces len(a) with a.length(where a.length translates to a.__len__())? If properties were there from the beginning, that would have been the implementation; but since they weren't, len(a) is just fine and I don't see any reason for it to be changed.

> The 'special meaning' section that follows seems a bit confused as well. Why is it so special to get the length of a collection?

Personally I would have preferred __len__ to be just length, because length of a sequence is part of it's public interface, as opposed to other special methods viz. __getattr__, __getitem__. Apart from that, his 'special meaning' section is just saying that following a weird naming convention for the special methods permits programttacily differentiating between public interface and special methods.

> I can feel it working within me too, I'm more and more on the fence about explicit self.

The main reason it is that way is decorators.

http://neopythonic.blogspot.in/2008/10/why-explicit-self-has...

> However this is complete and utter bullshit.

This isn't an appropriate response to a well thought out article.
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> I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been done before.

It kind of has been. This is not the first tiny low-power microprocessor out there -- it's just that ARM keeps pushing the envelope. The last "most power-efficient tiny 32-bit cpu" was Cortex-M0, of which this one is an evolutionary improvement.

Most of the embedded industry is still using really simple 8 or 16 bit microcontrollers. The business stragegy of ARM in the space is to push more advanced and complex cpus down to the space and grab marketshare by providing chips that are easier to program. It also helps that the size of the chip itself is a complete non-issue (the article referred to 1mm², while in reality the area for the core itself is actually less than 0.01mm² on a 40G process), and ARM can sell code density because they have more powerful instructions than the typical microcontroller, so while their cpu is bigger, the memory it needs is smaller.
I would act like furniture for a muliple of my current salary. I bet you would too and I bet the homeless people did the same math (his alternatives are probably less attractive). I feel you are the one who fails to see the larger principle.
That's easy, Tyler Cowen with "marginal revolution" :-)

Not everyone enjoys the Zed Shaw style spit-flecked rant, some of us enjoy reading thoughtful commentators who are not %150 sure of themselves.