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Sometimes nerd opinions about the law are worth paying attention to. Sometimes they aren't.

Part of what put me on my recent CISPA jihad is that CISPA is a case where I think nerds actually had a chance of collecting the context required for informed debate; unfortunately, the CISPA debate got hijacked by militant activism.

But there are cases where nerds clearly have little to offer. Look at the old Reiser threads if you want to groan about very smart people looking dumb talking about the law. "There's no such thing as circumstantial evidence! If you can't find a body, you have to acquit!" Similarly, in most cases revolving around computer hacking and unauthorized access, nerd mentality does more harm than good; nerds tend to fall back to arguments like "if it's common knowledge how to bypass some control, then bypassing that control can't reasonably constitute unauthorized access".
3. Bank transactions (web banking) for bill pay, instant wires and archived bank statements, etc.

We used to put these things called checks into little paper envelops. We then put an inexpensive stamp onto them an deposited them in mailboxes. About 3 days later our bills were magically paid.

In all honesty does anyone actually have hard numbers on the number of people that actually use online bill pay? I'll willing to bet that a larger number of people still pay via a mailed check.
I thought NaCl couldn't open raw (tcp) sockets? I thought it was limited to WebSockets.
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Inflation need not be just seen in the country with monitory supply. It can be felt around the world. The flood of money is being felt in developing countries and commodity markets where gold and oil seem to have just taken flying lessons.
Yeah, the Internet is the saving grace for many of these Gnu/Linux distributions for finding bug fixes. The OS should be Gnu/Linux/Internet as it would be a cripple without it.
the university's

EDIT: here's an example: http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2011/01/w...
Regarding your last point: You're not the only one to make this observation.
The Fed has tools like interest on reserves, reverse repos and term deposit facilities to make sure that all of the excess reserves on bank balance sheets don't turn into actual price increases.

Austrian economists conflate increases in the money supply and price inflation, but it's not necessarily true. In fact, mainstream New Keynesians (that includes conservatives like Greg Mankiw) have predicted for years that increasing the Fed's balance sheet wouldn't increase inflation. They have been right.
Google: [law color bit copyright]. First hit. :)
what a racket...
The Apple Marketing Philosophy
Can you link to your previous comment?
Yes, that's the difference between a Sales Tax and a Value Added Tax. The Australian GST (and the Canadian GST, but unlike most Canadian provincial sales taxes) is a VAT.

It doesn't solve the "not profitable to hire someone to produce stuff" problem unless you count employee wages as inputs though.
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> I'd put money on a self driving car from someone before 2020 but 2015 seems a bit early

2 Weeks ago, I would have agreed with you entirely. It seems unimaginable that GM could even have a working prototype in 3 years.

But last week I found out there's companies working on mining astroids for real.... so now i'm just going to sit back with a healthy skepticism, i have no idea what's possible in terms of years any more.
Looks like they got over some of the difficulties

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I'm not shooting the messenger, but if that is indeed the case, Universities are in quite a sad state =(
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So you did not read the article which actually addresses people who make this argument?
5 NYC startups that you should know (and how they can help you)
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True, antibiotics are not useful for treating flu, but they do clear up related infections - crucial for the frail or elderly.
Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?
I don't have a lot of data points, but I've lived in both the U.S. (non-public healthcare) and Denmark (public healthcare) and the quality and convenience of the latter is quite good in comparison, imo. The amount of sheer bureaucracy is much lower in Denmark as well; I don't have to file reimbursement forms for a half-dozen different doctors, worry about copay rules or what precisely constitutes a "preexisting condition", or spend time on the phone with insurance agents to figure out why a bill was rejected. It just works: you go to the doctor, you never receive a bill, the end. Outcomes seem on par or better than in the U.S. as well.

However I would be open to a voucher-type system where the actual providers are private, competing for customers who pay into a common risk pool. It's the tying of the risk pool to employers that's most problematic to me, and which imo severely weakens other parts of the free market, by reducing labor mobility. That might actually improve some free-market elements of healthcare, since the actual customers would choose providers, rather than their employers doing it for them.
Control your technology, don't let your technology control you.

Or the lack of it.
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But not the whole story - the UK has jury nullification[0], last tested in the aftermath of the Falklands War. The "few" cases include laws in contravention of the Human Rights Act, which has been used to get judicial review (not necessarily successfully) of issues such as "do prisoners have a right to hardcore pornography", "does a university fee of more than £3000/year act as a barrier to education", and "what is the legal right to privacy"--i.e. a fairly large surface area.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification#England
Also just to manage some expectations.. the rocket will not fly.

This is just a firing of the engines I believe.
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> I do think there's legitimate value to the idea-- I'd bet most people would be a lot happier without electricity or indoor plumbing than we'd imagine.

I think only someone who has grown up with both of those advances would be able to make this comment with a straight face.

Ask anyone who has nearly frozen to death in the winter because they couldn't afford their electricity bill what they think of that statement.

Or anyone who nearly died from cholera because of drinking from the nearest river due to no water utilities what they think of that statement.

I'm not writing this to be hostile. It is simply a statement that the "good ol' days" were not really so good afterall.
Hulu Puts Gun To Own Head: May Require Proof of TV Subscription
The workable solution is for content producers to take a long hard look at their business models to see if maybe they can profit without criminalizing a large percentage of the population.
Eh.

I have a measely 150 rep on stackoverflow, have a long-dormant github account, and I don't know what Quora is. But I've worked on some interesting R&D projects over the years, and have written some fundamental code that will stay at my organization (an R&D lab) for a long time. In short, I think I'm a valuable person that is in no way reflected in my github/stackexchange accounts.
Oh absolutely.

My parents moved to city that they had never been to at about that time. My mom had to call the directory to ask for realtor so they could find some place to live.

It was back when people actually used the phonebook to look up phone-numbers. It is that long ago.

Today almost none of the tech in available. Payphones still exist, but you have to know where they are -- and they are not exactly cheap.

Heck he can't even buy stuff at a supermarket, since those computers are almost certainly wired to send the purchase information back to be mined for data.
And that wasn't unheard of back then. Today? Do they even have a directory anymore?
Consciousness could be some kind of emergent phenomenon, so where the conditions are right it can spontaneously occur.

The brain is an environment where this happens quite commonly, but there are occasions where that breaks down and it fails, sometimes shattering into multiple independent sub-consciousnesses or failing entirely and falling into a vegetative state.

We may not need to discover anything, but instead let the machinery re-organize and evolve to discover itself.
Sure ...

One particular user submitted the same site repeatedly, and usually submitted the same page multiple times in a short time span with small changes designed to thwart the HN duplicate detector. Some of the pages were of marginal interest, but after seeing so many of them I and a few others got a bit fed up of wht was clearly just blog spam. the articles aren't exactly of "deep interest," nor are they particularly aimed at hackers.

So I started to flag the ones that were especially simplistic. Clearly a few others felt the same as I did and also flagged them, because they started to disappear.

Since then every few days a new username is registered and submits a page from the same blog. Sometimes it's a page that's been submitted before, sometimes it's new. Sometimes it's a link, sometimes it a text submission, and then a link as a reply, but it's following exactly the same pattern.

It's not deep, it's not hacker news, it's not new, and it is blog spam.

As a simple matter of course now, every time I see it turn up I check the link, then flag the post.

And that's the context. Here's a search to show you the submissions:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mathema-tri...

If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. If you think I'm behaving unreasonably then I'd be happy to hear your reasoning.

Added in edit: I forgot to say that the pages also frequently had errors. While I agree that these sorts of techniques are actually useful in some contexts, I got really tired of the poor presentation, mistakes, and constant spamming.

Added in further edit: I have upvoted you, as it was a question worth asking - thank you.
Apps may have fewer security restrictions than pages.
I really hope I live to see the day that "robot rights" is a legitimate political issue.
Because then employees would have the freedom to leave one employer for another to get better money/conditions/etc

This would cost employers money.

who do you think pays for congressmen?
I don't think BitBucket is a disadvantage. It also shouldn't bother if you link to your own hosted public repository when it's easily browsable and readable.
not one won, Viddy is also busy raising another round (http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/viddy-is-raising-30m-at-a-3...). Both of them seem to skyrocket. Photo sharing is a done deal after the Instagram acquisition. Seems like all eyes are now on video sharing as the field where the next $1 billion exit will occur
I think that though this is indeed one aspect of it, there's also the law of inertia (also known as habit/tradition/dogma). Most people are not mindful enough to adapt to their environment readily and end up lagging behind the reality they are faced with. Just look at the music and movie industries - they're not evil, just too stupid to adapt.

So it is with society and the bigger picture of economics and survival. We have all this crazy technology to automate everything from growing crops to wiping your ass yet we still work the same hours. We know that cooperation is superior to competition when it comes to survival yet we still run an outdated economic model. We know that keeping things like medical knowledge open and accessible benefits everyone yet we still grant corporations monopolies on it.

It's like Tupac said, this isn't idealistic, it's just real.
Does it work in the latest (hexxeh) ChromeOS release?
Is Medicare a monopoly?

They're just the payer. There's still an entire ecosystem of value-add private entities. Clinics, hospitals, specialists, pharmaceuticals, equipment mfg, labs, etc.

I understand everyone's reservations about bureaucratic inefficiency. The key is in the incentives.

Single payer enables the capitation model of service, where people are rewarded for staying healthy. Versus the current model where everyone profits from disease. That's why single payer is (generally) cheaper per capita with better results.
On my keyboard at least, yeah.
You're sort of correct, in that inflation and the money supply can often be related, but generally one would not use the term "inflation" to refer to an increase in the money supply.

In simple terms though, as the money supply increases, the value of the currency decreases, causing prices to rise (inflation) - but there are too many other factors to count that affect prices and its not always as simple as supply goes up -> prices go up.

Where I think there may some disagreement is around how prices are recorded and tracked - the methodology behind the calculation of whichever price index is being referenced. The number used to determine real inflation excludes the prices of fuel (oil) and food since both numbers depend heavily on speculation and a number of other factors outside of "inflation".
Man, I love this thing. I've already found a bunch of interesting links on path tracing. Bookmark'd.
It's not that simple either. Shareholders are often also stupid and prone to mob mentality.

Moreover, if your primary shareholders are, say, hedge funds, the motivations for all parties have become so removed that in that case increased shareholder rights would almost always be a bad thing, especially if your metric is over worker happiness.
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htop breaks it, too -- but it actually does a pretty good job considering how complex the output is.
List of reasons is so short...

For example since 9.1 Postgres support foreign data tables - other data sources is available for user as regular table; there are many drivers: MySQL, Oracle, external pg server, and even plain files.

Since 9.0 there is support for per-column triggers.
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Is it just me, or are the results fairly congruent with standard results from a search engine?
THANK YOU. I seriously do not get this app. Yes, they may have done a great job, but i don't get why i would want to use it. I can't use it on someone else's desktop because i'd have to install crap in their Chrome. I wouldn't use it on my desktop because I've already got a good terminal app that I've tweaked to be just the way I like it.

Nevermind "killer" app... why is there ANY need for this?

I feel like I'm missing something very obvious.
The fact that they're 1-2 in the app store probably has more to do with the Instagram sale than any pent up demand for video sharing. It makes sense that they're both raising money--they've got to fund their massive UA campaigns.
Why iOS Apps Look Better Than Android Apps
The main different between aniracetam and piracetam is the metabolization rate. Aniracetam is argued to be much more effective and fat soluble but has a shorter life span in the body. Piracetam is known to be less effective but is water soluble and has a longer - about 4 hours - effective time.
Yup - in theory the two can be related, but in the real world its a lot more complicated than that.
They REALLY need to say that on the page. This has the opportunity to spread virally and the crowd doesn't manage expectations very well :)
The sad part is that this isn't Journalism 1.0. Journalism 1.0 was pennysheets. Remember those?
Really, it's all in the black box.

Old person hits gas instead of break, crashes into robot car. What would a human do differently? teenager runs red light, gets tboned by robot car. What would a human do differently? Child runs in front of car. What would a human do differently?

It might take a few years, but thousands of hours of video of humans making avoidable mistakes will probably change people's minds.
There's a YouTube video up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQfdA2tXbc
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We can call it Search Engine Pessimization!
I am not a musician, but I used to hang out occasionally with a large circle of traditional Irish fiddlers around Boston. I have never heard anyone talk about money more outside the financial sector. They talk about it they way a man dying of thirst might talk about water.
I thought that the current mainstream economic view was that inflation, rather than lagging the quantity of money, actually reacted to people's expectation of how much the money supply would increase in the future. That was certainly the case a little while ago when the Swiss central bank announced they wouldn't allow any more appreciation in the Frank, and that they would print more Franks until they had reached the peg they wanted. The exchange rate hit their target within 15 minutes of the announcement.

EDIT: Wikipedia has a very good article on inflation, and I think that it would do most people a lot of good to read it and understand the various reasons people care about inflation, and where different schools of economics differ on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
It's a specious argument - we have no testable definition of "consciousness" or even any evidence that such a phenomenon exists. Slavery was often justified with the argument that black people didn't have souls. It's just as baseless as arguing that computers are unlikely to have "consciousness".

Without evidence that there is some fundamental difference between a biological and artificial mind, we must assume that a self-aware AI is entitled to the same rights as any other self-aware being.
5in5NYC is a new, positive outlet for NYC startups. We feature 5 startups each week, and give them a chance to share what they're building, answer questions, and interact with each other.

The theme that emerged during this episode was that each of these startups provide help. Favorly helps you find people who want to help out with your projects. Huntsy helps you stay organized when finding a job. InsideDigs helps you find your next apartment (and help others by listing your own). KoPoint helps you make sense of the news by provide a real, human-focused discussion around it. MuckRack helps you connect with journalists in a real way so when you have news to share you're not just another press release.

Every startup seeks to 'solve a problem' but it's fantastic to see so many NYC startups being built from the founder's desire to make things better.
Wouldn't this be similar to the concept behind The Matrix? You're virtually plugged in; you feel like yourself, but the steak you're eating has been graphically programmed inside this "MMO" world to trigger the appropriate stimulation in your brain to make the entire experience "real."

One thing remains inconsistent though. I understand that we remove our legs, arms, organs, torso, head, etc. in pursuit of becoming immortal via a virtual life, but... isn't the brain itself also within the same classification as the aforementioned body parts? It's biodegradable.

Say we find a way to preserve the brain eternally, wouldn't it then become irrelevant to live through a virtual life? For if we can preserve the brain, the same method can be applied to preserve the rest of the body that we earlier considered ridding ourselves from.

The mind is a metaphysical repository. The brain is not the cause of the mind; it is only a channel that allows us to associate with--and add to--it. If we were to say that the brain is the cause of the mind, then--by necessity--upon physical death, the mind would have to vaporize, vanish, cease to exist. Now.. our identity IS our mind. We generally don't identify who we are through our bodies. Our memories, habits, traits, tendencies, affinities, aversions, and reactions all emanate from our mind. And if we subscribe to the latter notion--that our minds continue to exist even after we end our mortal lives--then that postulates that there must exist another world, an accentuated world, devoid of time and space, that allows an endless progression of fulfillment and enlightenment and an infinite array of things to do, only without an aging body to drag us around as we attempt to do them.
Government run monopolies are a big problem.

I have to pay for police and yet I don't even get a say in what color cars they have, the same with firemen. And don't get me started on the way the navy never asked me what to call their new aircraft carrier.

Big business gets to choose which congressmen to buy - why shouldn't I get a choice as well?
"don't necessarily have the skills or desire to become experts in publishing and distribution,"

They don't have to be experts, they just have to be good enough. If the decision is 100% of profits goto a label or 30% go to Apple if I just learn how to use iTunes, I think they'll choose iTunes...

Publishing means to make public and that isn't anything special any more, it's been commoditized.
Can we get one thing clear - a photo with (dubiously humorous) words on it is not a meme, even (generally speaking) in the unlikely event it has "gone viral".

The act of putting words on a photo in an attempt to be funny on the other hand is an example of a meme.
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One use case would be ssh over http. Corporate proxies often disallow ssh traffic.
They are to a degree. We just remove remove the top million most popular sites. So, searching for "social network" would normally yield Facebook.com, but with MillionShort you discover a social network that that didn't make it past the noise.
I wasn't suggesting that you were, but rather that the valuation bubble has meant the exits of companies you've invested in have been higher than they otherwise would be. It costs you more to invest now, but that's offset by the increased income from companies you invested in pre-bubble.
Sweet. Glad to have helped.
The reason they're at the top of the app store is because they built a great product that millions of people love. Video is a core technology on mobile devices and until now it's been really hard to record and post a video to Facebook/Twitter.
A lot of university coding assignments are based on starter code provided by an instructor, often with step-by-step instructions for how to proceed. For example, the Pac-Man projects used in Berkeley's AI class (http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/pacman/pacman.html) consist of a lot of pre-written scaffolding to set up a GUI, handle user input, etc., and even the AI portions are broken down in a well-thought-out way into just a few well-specified methods that students have to implement. This is an extreme example but the general pattern is common; my undergrad classes in compilers, OS, architecture, and networks all had project specifications provided by the instructor, sometimes with significant starter code.

I don't know how this works legally -- whether the code written belongs to the student or is considered a derivative work of the course materials -- but if you're trying to evaluate someone's abilities to design and build interesting programs, code written in this fashion is certainly less valuable than a project done entirely independently.
Searching for 'python global interpreter lock' yields some interest blog articles describing the problems, also some related articles about approaches to the C10k problem with python (preforking, worker processes, etc.)

A++ would search again.
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I don't see the confusion.

They really do value your contribution, at $x, and if they can get you to do more contributing for the same $x then they will be much happier.

If they didn't value your contribution they wouldn't want you to do more of it!