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The split doesn't actually make a difference. What makes a difference is the stock they issue after the split. They want to create this new class specifically so that issuing new stock will not dilute their control (even though it will dilute everyone's ownership).

Basically, they found that the current dual-class structure isn't sufficient to guarantee control if they keep diluting when they issue grants to employees or pay for acquisitions with new stock. So how do you fix that? Well, you could buy up stock equal to the new stock you issue, but that costs cash. Instead you could just stop issuing stock that come with voting rights, which is what they're doing. Keep issuing stock, but just don't grant voting rights with it. If the new stock works, that will be most or even all of what they issue going forward, guaranteeing that they will maintain majority control so long as they don't sell (too much).
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This kind of thing has happened before (ref: Manhattan Project) But I think it requires some great underlying shared purpose/motivation for thousands of brilliant minds to come together and accomplish something.
http://lorempixel.com/ is what I use.
this makes Asia a safer place to live by neutralizing the forces. India follows 'no first use' policy.

so India is helping make a safer place.
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How does this makes to #1 news on HN?
Interesting, I find it hard to believe that they updated their UI inside of 2 hours in response to a random comment on HN but I can guarantee that that was not there when I made my original post.
if they do, they should call it mondrian
Having a clear, ethical goal helps; things always get muddy in the implementation.

Example: I want to cure cancer.
In order to cure cancer, I have to hire the right people to develop the IP.
In order to hire the right people, I need to obtain the financial resources, either through a big-company budgeting process, a political process, talking to investors, etc.

At bottom, it's all about power: who has it, how to get it, and how to wield the tools of influence. It's hard to accomplish anything involving other people without understanding how to wield this toolset effectively.
We've had the capability to nuke Pakistan into oblivion for a long time now! This development does not affect them at all. Also, the AGNI V is just a missile - the warhead need not be nuclear.
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Missiles/Nukes are like Software Patents. Most reasonable people will agree that they are bad but will still continue on filling patents for counter suing and deterrence.
Read Seymor Papert "mindstorms"
The point is not that women adopting their husband's names is misogynistic but rather that the need to excuse women who don't is misogynistic.
I am not particularly fond of GC either, but at least it is semantically opaque to the programmer (at least in theory).

Optimizing compilers run large numbers of algorithmically complex optimizations that are equally opaque. The abstraction is actually abstract.

If you're going to understand why the compiler rejected the program, you have to understand the reasoning process of the compiler. Understanding the constraints on the result is not enough - simply because the programmer, to be sure his or her program will work, has to follow the same algorithm as the compiler, or at least some equivalent calculation, in his or her own dumb head. This statement is not specific to Haskell, but true for all languages everywhere.

That for many individuals this is doable, with or without a formal understanding of PL theory, is true. Even for these individuals, I assert that it remains a heavy cognitive load. And many, probably most, are simply unable to lift it.

My general sense of the conventional wisdom is that Haskell has the reputation of being mathematically deep and difficult. It matters not at all whether this is a true or accurate perception, so long as it is indeed perceived. And indeed, I see plenty of references to this conventional perception on this very same thread.

The difficulty is that you can hardly ever get people to talk publicly about being intimidated by Haskell - because they feel like it's equivalent to admitting that they're stupid. Worse yet, that hypothesis is by no means precluded.

In the real practical world, you simply can't get things done without relying extensively on your poor fellow human beings who happen through no fault of their own to have been born with IQs of 0x7f or less. My theory predicts that Haskell usability among this demographic should be effectively nil. I believe the broadly perceived reality backs me up, and I welcome alternative interpretations of said reality.
On the other hand, there are plenty of reasons that NASA could still be important moving forward. Commercial launch vehicles might be the way to go, but commercially funded space telescopes sound less likely. I don't see any organizations better suited to work on space research, and Tyson would be pretty disappointed if we stopped it.
so this is the real crux of the question - should someone who come up with an idea be protected (with the goal of encouraging people to come up with more/better ideas).
"We've had the capability to nuke Pakistan into oblivion for a long time now!" Is that something to be proud of?
That's why I said special - I wanted to be sure I got the right answer.
I don't think so. It adds another variable into the mix. So now each actor has to keep track of one more actor.

Kind of like in the movies where people aim guns at each other. If two people are aiming at each other there's a stalemate. With three it's sill a stalemate, if you have guns in both hands. When you have four aiming at each other it becomes more chaotic and less predictable, I think, specially if one of the four, or five etc. is more disliked than the rest. It's a different scenario and the analogy isn't perfect, but it may illustrate how I see the danger increasing.
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It's 10 pm in SV and 10:30 am in India...
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It's tempting to say no, but unfortunately for our sanity, it looks like mutually-assured destruction and the concept of the nuclear deterrent actually work. As evidence I cite the fact that both the USA and Russia exist today and neither got nuked by the other, despite some scares.

As long as Pakistan and India continue their pissing contest they're probably both going to need nukes just to keep things cordial.
The lesson I learned from reading that article is don't name your game "Draw My Thing". Hilarious.
We did :) Thanks for your feedback rurounijones, we're listening.
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"There are no programs that I can run on my computer...."

Major generation gap and sophistication gap here. This is why the issue of data ownership took so long to get traction. For most people, data is invisible and using it is magic. The only difference people noticed when they lost control of their data was that they could suddenly access it everywhere!

The difference between owning your data and not owning it is like the difference between living in a country with civil liberties and legal protections versus living in a country without civil liberties and effective legal protections. The difference is abstract and meaningless until it becomes a matter of life and death, when you end up in a situation that you only thought existed in paranoid fantasies.

The invisible change from owning your data to being owned by Facebook and Google happened to correspond to a very noticeable improvement in convenience for users. As in more dramatic examples from history, an authoritarian regime has delivered in a way that its predecessor could not, and as a result, people have embraced it. It doesn't mean that people accept its ideology. The way we think about Facebook, the way anybody thinks about Facebook who engages in these conversations about web industry economics, and therefore how Facebook thinks about itself, is much darker and more sinister than the aspect of Facebook that users embrace. Users embrace the effect that Facebook has had on their lives, which is overwhelmingly positive. The side we see is not something they embrace; it is something they have barely begun to consider. I have faith that they will react to it as we do.

We are not more sensitive to freedom than they are; we are merely face to face with the problem because we like to imagine ourselves in Facebook's shoes :-) We imagine what it's like to have that power; we are able to think in a predatory, profit-oriented mindset; we understand the temptation. We don't have to be evil to see the temptations that Facebook faces. And we understand that a person can withstand temptation, but a corporation cannot. A corporation cannot withstand the temptation to make money. Only as long as its profits exceed the wildest demands, anyway. When profits flag, a corporation will collapse to the moral lowest common denominator, because the people who resist immoral profits will be replaced.

Like I said, we don't have to worry that the average Facebook user is okay with the dire scenario of Facebook fully and amorally exploiting its power. It's completely imaginary at the moment. Those who worry about it worry alone, but only because we are uniquely positioned to imagine it. We can make other people understand. Right now Facebook's major sin has been to appropriate a dangerous and therefore immoral amount of power. They haven't abused it yet, not the way they could. I think with the right kind of education, users will revolt and demand rights and control before Facebook breaks down and really abuses the terrifying power it has amassed.

Am I too optimistic?
Sidenote motivated by "If you need to upgrade your account to add a private repository, you can now do that inside of the new repository screen." : You'd be really shocked how valuable paying attention to thirty seconds of the user experience can be when they're the thirty seconds separating an established software company from tens of thousands of credit cards.
I would think it beats the capability of being nuked into oblivion by Pakistan. Ask 10 Indians and see which option they'd prefer.
Going up is costly, coming down isn't (as much). I'm no rocket scientist, but I guess it would still be possible to have large heat-resistant/disposable wrappers around a large gunk of asteroid rock and send it crashing into the ocean, or land by a simple parachute.
Yes. A deterrent is a means to peace.
Intuitive understanding gained by practice enough for you. If Haskell didn't exist, you could probably invent it. The result might even be better.

Neighbor, how much code is there in the world? And how many coders as good as you? Divide these numbers, and you'll see why the world can't possibly adopt Haskell.

Some people can climb Half Dome with their fingernails. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be a fixed rope, too - that is, if your goal is to maximize the climbers of Half Dome. (If its goal is to separate the men from the boys, Haskell is already doing just fine and shouldn't change a thing.)
This is disruption in true sense. Hope others follow the footsteps.
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It would be cool if all your personal data was stored in some central repository. You can designate certain chunks of that data as publicly accessible, and you can grant permission to different sites for reading and writing data to other sections. That way all sites can contribute to one data set, kind of like a personal Wikipedia. Everybody wins.

It would have a set of standards that make it easy to request commonly used pieces of information: name, primary-email, avatar, etc. You could even store passwords in it, or more likely just sidestep the need for passwords all together, since it could essentially be a global login. You would never have to fill out forms for registrations, credit card info, etc.

For sites that you don't want to give your personal information to, you just give access to a secondary set of data instead, with values for your internet nickname and persona.

Of course, there'd be big security challenges, but I think that would be a neat solution to issues with online identity and personal data.
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this shouldn't have been passed over; I'll repost with a slightly different URL
Here's how I want air travel to work. I'm in the Seattle area. Suppose I need to go to San Francisco for a couple days.

1. I go online, and book my flight and my hotel.

2. The night before my flight, I set out all the items I wish to take with me.

3. I take a sleeping pill and go to sleep.

4. People from the airline come and transport me (still sleeping!) to the airport. They also take the stuff I set out.

5. I and all the other passengers are packed onto the flight. The only non-sleeping people are the flight crew, and medical technicians who monitor us, and make sure we are kept sleeping.

6. At the destination, passengers are delivered to their hotels, put into bed, their luggage is unpacked, and they are administered something to counteract the sleeping drugs.

So, from my point of view, I go to sleep in my bed in the Seattle area, the night before I need to be in San Francisco, and I then wake up the next morning in bed in my hotel in San Francisco. It would be like my bed has become a magical teleporter.

No security hassle. No airport to traffic to deal with. For those who fear flying, less to fear.

Yes, I know this isn't practical.
Considering that most of the technology on a missile is general use (the rockets, fuel, electronics) and not only for weapons, yes I am indeed proud that my country has the capability to R&D and create such equipment without outside help.

As for the military might, Pakistan's past actions speak for themselves. Indians sleep better knowing that Pakistan has a lot to lose should they try anything.
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I think the 4th point may turn out to be the most important one, in the end. Electronics are now an essential part of modern life, and China is the only country that mines it (Interestingly, I believe that rare-earths exist in US as well, but are not being mined as it is curently uneconomical to do so)
Most of the information is technically available to the public. Some is already online, some is available for the asking. Some is probably classified (I'd be surprised if SpaceX was given much if any of this), and a lot of it almost certainly is under legal restrictions regarding transfer to non-US entities, but that is a limited barrier to an American company that, of necessity, would have hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.
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Why does the script need to be in Python? Isn't Fake S3 just a server that you run and connect to from any codebase? I'm curious because Python is the language I use most, but I could easily see myself writing a Fake S3 in golang or clojure or even C.
The reported range of even the MRBM-class Agni II can reach most of China from eastern India. The Agni III and Agni IV IRBMs were easily sufficient for holding China at risk.
I'll pledge $20 to his legal defense fund.
"Interstellar" travel will likely never happen. The distances involved are so vast as to boggle the mind. Private ventures offer the promise of opening up space, but they won't break physics.

Like it or not, we as a species are stuck here, likely forever.
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There seem to be ways to open a bank account as a non-US resident. Services related to this might be an opportunity, like middleman shipping services. I've been told you can open a Bank of America account online/over the phone without a SSN if you can use someone's US address.

I read, but haven't verified, that one can open an ING US account if you have an ING account in your country.
The reality is that if someone detects an ICBM launch, they have to assume that it is nuclear and respond accordingly.
Congratulations to the techies and engineers who worked on this project, however no donuts for those who sponsored it. Here is why:

1. The objective to make a destructive missile is probably not a priority for a country with a billion bare-footed men. Apart from ego-massage you get nothing out of it.

2. The missile doesn't add any value to safety of the country, because - believe it or not - wars are always suicidal. It doesn't matter who is more powerful. Damage is equal on both the sides. Death is equally sad on both the sides of war. Loss is only public, while media and stupid politicians make meat out of it.

3. The most important reason why this missile is a complete waste of tax payers money is that India should focus on widespread poverty, education and corruption at this hour. Not some retard idea to be able to attack the world.

Otherwise, engineers like many out there working under stupid management, you've done a great job!
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This dragonfly? https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly

It's kind of hard to google for "dragonfly".
These designs look great, however I thought there was an actual CSS/HTML attached with it. Unfortunately it seems like it's only a simple PSD file.
I can't find a license for this free content anywhere? There is some stuff about the service itself in the Terms of Use Agreement:

"Creative Market Service. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, freely revocable license to use the Service for your personal, noncommercial use only and as permitted by the features of the Service."

It is unclear if this pertains to the service itself, or to the content I download. Perhaps it is more clear in normal cases when you pay for the content?
You could, but setting up Eucalyptus is a lot of work, compared to Fake S3, a Ruby tool.
dotCloud has a comparable system called custom services. In addition to a custom build script you can also allocate arbitrary custom network ports (tcp/udp/http/websockets), as well as custom system packages.

I definitely agree with other comments in this thread that paas and orchestrated-iaas are on a collision course. Exciting times!
No, he uses launching to LEO to make money to pay for a mission to Mars.
No WIFI, but you can get a version with a good old 10/100MBPS ethernet (Model B).
My mistake. I believe you are right.

AGNI missile range : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agni_missile_range.png
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Even if I grant all of your points theoretically, there are no real-world examples to back them up.

Libertarian (by way of Austrian) economics failed in this recession. Period. That's not to say that they don't lead to greater growth in the good times, but when the chips are down you want Keynes. You want large government intervention. Every successful recovery has rested on this principle, and every policy in opposition to it looks set to fail.

A rational government would apply the appropriate models in the correct situations; we are, unfortunately, stuck with self-serving idiots.
I agree "dead tree" is a little bit derogatory, and unjustifiably so. Until e-books are strictly superior, until they are as good as physical books in every important way, we should respect what we've got.

I think my primary motivation for putting down dead tree books is that the e-books I've bought and haven't read are invisible. They don't sit on my bookshelves openly shaming me for not reading them :-O
I had no difficulty at all opening an account with Harris Bank. It's possible that it helped that I'm Canadian and they're owned by a Canadian bank, though.
India test fires Agni-5, joins elite club
Thanks a lot for the site...As an indie iOS dev I find it very userful!
This only works for north-south flights with no timezone changes.
This is what I found too. Yeah, there's a free tier, but if you want an app runner, database and cache it doesn't fit below $99.
"There are lots of things that I can no longer run on the latest version of OSX. This happens every time the OS upgrades."

This is what i hate about osx - they freaking change the OS drastically, and my apps break. Sure, there might be a new version, but when i compare mac OSX to windows, windows kicks ass because you know what? i can _still_ run crap that i used to run in win95!
Where are you from? I've been thinking about setting up a third-party service to do just that in fact, but given my involvement in other investments the liability issue is concerning--mainly fraud and tax. I would seriously consider running through the numbers and viability of certain projects if I was made an executive partner and held a permanent accountant/consultant position for the life of the project and negotiate the terms and fees for my service accordingly.

But then I guess the allure of 'staying indie' that KS affords goes out the window, doesn't?

Tell you what, pitch the idea on HN update this thread with the links and gauge the Market; lets keep in touch. (I have an account and an open non-tech project on KS in the popular section under Design as we speak.)

No promises made, of course, and the matter is strictly discretionary on my end (I'm not going to even consider working with the relative of an alleged lost Nigerian monarch); but I'm intrigued enough to see what an idea I had in the back of mind may look like in practice.

Just as a side note: there are also further rules on KS that you aren't made aware of until you submit your project and it has been approved for the second time prior to launching. I could discuss them with you if you do the leg work mentioned above.
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Why is he trying so hard to convince us there's no bubble? It just makes me more inclined to think we're in one.
Government doesn't create the principles of nuclear physics that allow fission and fusion to occur.

We can't get rid of the nuclear threat as long as the knowledge of nuclear physics exists and someone somewhere wants to conquer the world (or merely a continent in some cases).

Software patents are a legal construct. Get rid of that, and writing up software patents accomplishes nothing.
The prospect of a major Indian/Chinese land war was already quite remote. A rather large, high mountain range separates the two, and neither has the the ability to fight an extended war at the end of supply lines running over that mountain range.
Well, if the inventor does not want to be bought out, and does not want to give up the agreement, the patent cannot be used offensively. This reduces the value of the patent as a weapon. This is exactly what this agreement is meant to achieve.
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