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It's not that strange, competition breeds ambition and innovation. It's in humans' fundamental nature to compete by out-innovating, which is one of the strongest arguments for free markets. Since the fall of the USSR, more competition has been inward focusing, between companies. Most companies tend to compete at a lower level than nation-states, which is why you don't see as many of these huge projects. I think if the US became openly competitive with China, you'd start to see some very large projects again.
Completely wrong:

The 80-percent increase predicted by 2050 translates to a total global energy consumption of 900 exajoules (EJ) per year (in other words 9 x 10^20 joules)—65 times the annual energy consumption of the US in 2009.

2008 primary energy consumption was about 100 quads [a] [1] in the US (~100 EJ), compared to 500 quads [1] for the world (or, ~20%). 900 EJ/year would be around 9 times the current US energy intensity.

I'm pretty sure about the etiology of this error: (1/65th) of 900 EJ/year is the US electricity intensity, about 4,000 TWh(elec.)/year [2]. They're mixing different energy statistics (apples & oranges). Primary energy measures the heat energy of the fuel input in power generation, not the output (e.g. 3 joules coal => 1 joule electricity; primary energy is the 3 J). It also measures non-electricity energy uses (like oil for fuel or natural gas for heat), which put together are even bigger than power generation [3].

[a] (a "quad" is short for "quadrillion btu [british thermal unit]", which coincidentally is about the same as 1 exajoule)

[1] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/world.cfm

[2] http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm...

[3] https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/
It's inspired by a similar tool called `pyp`, which I considered extending but ended up going my own route instead. Here's some more information on why: http://gfxmonk.net/2012/03/28/why-piep.html
His superhero work is limited to doing good deeds, part of a maturation process in his own life. In his earlier years, he acknowledges that he sometimes displayed an unsuperhero-like temper and got into occasional trouble with the law for fights and other confrontations. Putting on the Batman uniform changes and steadies him.

This is a sentence in the article that resonated very much with me, and I think touches something extremely important. I feel the exact same way when I'm teaching kids and teenagers— I have many, many shortcomings but when I am put in a position of role models for kids, I go beyond them.

I think everyone has something that makes them feel that way when they do it— may it be art, teaching, etc.— and finding it is one of the most important things in life.
I thought that the title was a typo, and I was imagining a Prius navigating straight on through the glass windows of a strip mall restaurant. The reality is safer, but less hilarious.
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There's quite a bit of footage of the self driving car making its way through congested areas with people and obstacles. It was more competent than many of the minivan drivers in my neck of the woods. :)
So after being a long time lurker on HN, wrote my first comment and got downvoted, but don't know why I was downvoted, there were no comments. I prefer replying during disagreement and downvoting when a comment/post doesn't make sense or gets stretched in a different direction.
I think that was always the natural order for it.
Only some special commercial/marketing projects called for Flash. You ended up with menus made in Flash at some point for no other reason than an actionscript coder got the job... it happens. Web-browsing and rich content got mixed back there... let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Just chiming in to say that Yehuda Katz has given away so many work hours to Ruby, Rails and JavaScript projects - Thor being one of my favorites. If he decides to raise $25K to work on some open source project, he's more than earned the right to do so.

Another point worth making is this: let the market decide. If the market will bear $25K (one-time payment) for a Rails.app, then so be it. Your opinion doesn't matter, frankly neither does mine.

I don't really see this affecting open source projects either. You've always been able to make money from free (as in beer) open source projects (directly or indirectly), even for projects that are not widely used.
The Outer Space Treaty specifically says that no country can claim sovereignty over outer space or celestial objects, that countries retain ownership of anything they launch into space, and that they are liable for damage they cause to any other countries space objects (or people on them). The treaty has been signed and ratified by all major space faring nations, including the US, Russia, China, and all major European countries.
Context which I never see addressed: http://donath.org/Photos/TempChange.PNG
I meant that if we lived in the environment of 1900(most people living in villages in the u.s.?) and use current health and sanitation technologies , we would live even longer.
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Your phrasing reads with a sarcastic tone to me, intentional or not.

But I'd also love to see a source, the claim alone does not convince me.

I'm actually not even sure what the claim is, actually -- are we talking about the top 5%? The top 1%? And are we talking about distribution within the entire world or within some specific nations?

I believe at least when you get to talking about the single richest person compared to their nation of residence, the richest person for the past few decades has controlled a smaller percentage of the wealth than in the early to mid 1900s or late 1800s -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_f... -- but beyond that I have no idea how the distribution has changed either worldwide within nations.
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I'd rather they spend time on this instead of substantive issues, because they don't seem to be doing all that well on substance.

Give 'em something to play with, and maybe they'll stop bothering us.
I can't help but wonder how these developers that are struggling to install rails on OSX will go when it comes to setting up rails in a production environment.
Arg! I hate to say this but "I came here to post this."

This is not the sort of thing Anonymous does, they've been careful not to aggravate the public and make clear it is the elite and not the common man that is their nemesis.

We also know for a fact that US intelligence agencies have infiltrated and have been in control of many Anonymous operations.

Not too hard to see that this will be a test run of whether intelligence agencies can shut down the internet.
Yes, he says something like you burnout when you effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.
Don't forget the PC games market and Xbox. It's a significant enough market to disprove the second part of your hypothesis, I believe.
> the myth that working stupid hours and abusing yourself (and others)

From re-reading the article, it sounds like there's only one of those factors in play - working stupid hours. It sounds like the management at Google are appreciative and actively looking out for people.

Which gels with my experience - for most people that I know and have read of who have burned out, it's been a combination of long hours, feeling unappreciated/exploited and being trapped somehow, due to obligation, financial commitment or "We've got to finish this damn game!". (This guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3768219 seems to have burnout-proofed himself by being willing to quit when things get rough and aren't getting better)

If you had the most awesome job that you could think of, with perks and people appreciating what you do, it might be possible to work 100 hour weeks for years and not go crazy.
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A few notes why this project is interesting

* There are NO restrictions to manufacture and sell these boards for your own use or resale

* Open source and simple enough modify the hardware by most hardware hackers

* Affordable components even in small quantities

* Easy to hand assemble with a soldering iron or hot air gun

* Arduino shield compatible

* Runs Linux

It doesn't have the capabilities as the Beaglebone or Raspberry Pie, but that is not the point. It is for people that need an embedded Linux computer that they can modify and incorporate into their own project.

Links:

Yahoo groups: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/olinuxino/

Blog: http://olimex.wordpress.com/
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"Anonymous" is just anyone with a mask. If this kind of trolls manage to get this point over, I'm all for it.
At least they don't ask for passwords like facebook does (which somewhere always prompts me for my email account password - the nerve!).
A few random thoughts for you.

I used to have huge ethical issues with spam. Not so much anymore, since the anti-spammers have gotten such a clear upper hand in the arms race, making spam only a minor annoyance for anyone who cares about it at all.

But that means that spam-based marketing is stupid. You know it. I know it. Your client doesn't. You want to convince him. Is that going to happen? Someone who has already decided to spend thousands of dollars to do something that he thinks is an industry-standard practice, is hardly going to be easy to dissuade. Yes, you could look for those statistics. You'd almost certainly find them. But would it help?

That said, here are some questions that I feel like I might be asking myself, if I were you:

- Is your client asking you to open yourself up to a lawsuit? Is this a problem for you?

- Is your client asking you to help him damage your reputation?

- You seem to be interested in keeping a good long-term relationship with your client. However, you have seen that he is clueless about how to obtain new customers (= sources of revenue, which is where he gets the money to pay you). Does this affect the value you place on your relationship with him?
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In support: James Cameron's Challenger Deep dive (only the US Navy had before); and "only four entities have put a capsule
into orbit and recovered it - US, China, Russia and Elon Musk."
Also, the CLR has had the ability to dynamic invoke delegates for years. Also dynamic compilation and assembly unloading.
I opted in, and it claims that I've only sent one email. http://o7.no/GYSChU
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Seriously, amazing ridiculous work. Kudos.
The US has been calling China out on hacking as early as 2008, but insinuating that the Chinese gov't was involved in incidents back to the mid-2000's. 2008 Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/12/hacking-on-h...

I think the real news is that China isn't publicly denying these incidents anymore. Though, it seems like nothing has really changed.
$35 for four rolls. Kinda steep, but then, it's the thought that counts.

Note that you are not restricted to using just your own tweets.
If I understand your original point correctly, it's this: it is human nature to attribute most things to user error, ergo, my assertion that Wikipedia's blaming its users was a "head-scratcher" was off the mark. Our evolved inclination, which predates the discipline of even considering UX as a tangible -- and, more important, a controllable -- concept, is first to start with the hypothesis that the user is in error. (And, furthermore, that such a hypothesis is not necessarily unjustified by historical frequency).

I actually agree with you here, but I think this point and mine are not so much at odds, as they are orthogonal. My point is that, human nature or not, Wikipedia came about in the modern era. Even if our cognitive bias/inclination is toward blaming the user, we have tools and analytic frameworks at our disposal which exist precisely to allow a necessary check against our brains' heuristics. Those checks should have been run by the Wikimedia elite. While I'll admit that "head-scratcher" is an unfair description, rendered mostly for rhetorical effect, I believe my point still stands. We have modern tools at our disposal, precisely because we are now -- uniquely, in our history -- aware of our brains' strengths and weaknesses in pattern recognition and situational assessment.

If this is not an accurate summation of your position, then I'll freely admit that I'm missing your point.
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Color me disappointed. At this stage, I'd hope Ycomb would have the economic freedom (and desire) to fund socially significant startups beyond yet-more-coupon refactors and facebook-for-cats projects.
Typing "google is" brought up "google is evil", "google is watching you" and "google is racist" ... among "google is awesome" and "google Israel".
"...it is no longer a universal platform."
Was it ever ?
Media diffusion is not something anyone should disregard depending on brand. Present penetration numbers are still impressive unless you have other data. That creates a blind spot in the rear view mirror for someone wanting to isolate social gaming in a area where only one technology is enough, sometimes even the only one that is "acceptable".

Let us see how people like Mr Doob push javascript and the progress that comes in adopting easier render pipelines, it is promissing at this point. maybe everyone is going to want to have the next V8. Maybe webkit, html5 and canvas3D are going to have to get along in the end because social gaming is not part of a area but it exists in a place with some irregular border lines. Maybe some big engine comes and saves the day.
I wrote most of UploadWizard. It defaults to Creative Commons licenses, usually.

There is a way to use the GPL but you need to specify that you want a custom license, and enter it using wikitext. In this case the community's standard practice is to use the incantation "{{Free screenshot|GPL}}".

Unfortunately even UploadWizard doesn't help the problem here, because it doesn't help with image edits and what Wiki culture calls a "reupload". (This was a deliberate choice.)

For what it's worth, I care about the issues you raise. The real solutions require a total rethink about how Wikipedia keeps track of image metadata, though.

The community has different priorities at the moment, largely because they have inadequate tools to police the wikis, and this is why they get a bit trigger-happy on the revert button and written a lot of bots to complain about less-than-ideal edits. Most of them value encyclopedia quality far more than abstract niceties like "openness". I see it as a matter of not having the right tools to do both, though.
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Patronage is a model that has existed as long as artists. You wouldn't be able to go see Michaelangelo's work without this model. But people have, and do, paint for free, too.

I don't see why it's a bad thing that in modern times, skilled and famous artists continue to do work for hire. The fact that Yehuda is asking for crowd funding instead of funding from an individual is just in the details.
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Git is the first version control system I've ever really used, and I'm starting to like it a lot. However, I agree that the interface is horrible. It is offensive how bad the CLI is.
Here's the full deal:

If you store your screenshot on English Wikipedia, non-free imagery is allowed when there's a rationale, which in this case would be "fair use". That's the decision of that community. I think you could store that screenshot as is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fair_use_screenshots

If you use Wikimedia Commons (a common media backend for all the Wikipedias and other projects), there are no exceptions; it's all free, all the time. Fair use is NOT allowed. The guidelines are here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Screenshots

On Commons, in theory, title bars and other OS windowing widgetry are okay if and only if it's a fully open source operating system.

In practice, most Commons volunteers are not insane, and don't care. I don't know of any case where Microsoft has sued someone for a screenshot that included a title bar, where there was no intent to deceive people or otherwise misuse their work.

But, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons tend to attract and enable a kind of person that values extreme consistency and rule-following over all other considerations. Someone who makes it their mission to eliminate all screenshots with titlebars probably won't be reined in.
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They are using a bad dataset. Some of the discontinuities you see are administrative boundaries between National Weather Service forecast offices.

http://nixweb.com/dust/ is my version, for the SF Bay Area only. It was 15 years ago so pardon my Java applet.
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It probably does. In Quebec, wine can only be imported and sold in state-controlled liquor stores.

As a loophole, dehydrated wine is imported, rehydrated, bottled, and sold in corner stores ("depanneurs"). It tastes rank.
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I think that installing and configuring a database like Postgres or MySQL would be useful since it's often a non-trivial step in getting a production app ready (e.g. for Heroku).
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As you pointed out, your problem and the problem he is trying to solve here are completely different. Your problem definitely exists, and lots of people are working hard on solving it, whether that means those working on improving chef and puppet themselves, or on other less flashy configuration management systems, or on new projects that are attempting to improve on the existing solutions in a more fundamental way. Presumably Yehuda is simply less interested in contributing to that work than in trying to solve this other unrelated problem. You may argue that this problem does not exist, but the many articles decrying how hard rails has become and the competing projects that are also working on this suggest that you are wrong.

Also, it's way more than 5 shell commands and even if it were only 5 it would be worthwhile to make it easier.
Now there's an idea! An appliance you load with regular TP which has a button you press to get a pre-configured number of one- or two-ply 4.5"x3.7" sheets, printed with very latest tweets. Connected via WiFi. Configured via an internal web server. What kind of hardware do you need to print on TP?
In principle, I agree wholly. In practice, I think hours often gets used as a substitute metric for amount of work done or value brought. It's this substitution and the (possibly unconscious) merit given to extra hours over extra efficiency.
I'm genuinely interested in the following question: why would anybody think that spam based advertising works?

I'm not in the business of marketing so I have no idea whether this is common practice in the business, but just looking at the way I (and the people I know) interact with their email clients, it seems to me that unsolicited mail ads achieve nothing. They may even be harmful to the business: I don't receive much of these thanks to gmail's excellent filter, but I know that it would really annoy me to receive unwanted ads..
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I know I say this a lot, but... a Mars mission would be a wealthy man's playtime, too.
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Wow, great story! I especially like the fact that Lenny realizes how lucky he is to have healthy children and be financially stable. There are so many people who are smart and work hard, but to become rich beyond necessity always takes a healthy dose of luck. It's great to see him acknowledge that and do nice things for other people. Too many wealthy people think they're solely responsible for their success and are misers to a fault.
I'll just leave this: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/17/2136...
Are you really saying that many cyclists who switch to driving in the winter are characteristically terrible drivers? This is just really at odds with my cycling experience - A biker always needs to be on the defensive just based on the fact that the average driver is likely to not even perceive a smaller vehicle. Even though I haven't seriously biked in several years, I'm still generally aware of what most cars are going to do before they actually do it. (Then again, I guess I've also seen my share of moronic bikers - the kind that think they don't really need to think about what they're doing as long as they're doing it slowly). The first snow is indeed always a mess of bad drivers, but I blame that on people forgetting how slippery snow really is.
This is such an intriguing comment. I thought you were standing on reasonably logical ground (even if I disagree) until this part:

< I see it [and contribute to it] for large-scale art projects

...What in the world is the difference?

If anything it makes more sense to fund work that is actually useful than work that is simply beautiful or interesting.
We shouldn't stop following the guidelines just because you don't like the subject. This was clearly a social hack.
OR you could just link here: http://www.dailydot.com/ethics-policy/
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