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This had nothing to do with the Supreme Court being corporatist.

The problem here is simple:
Congress passed a law making mandatory individual arbitration clauses/etc clauses in contracts legal.
The supreme court simply said "yeah, they can do that".

Your real problem here is with Congress passing dumb laws, not a "corporatist" Supreme Court.

I'll also point out that the Supreme Court were the ones who created/imported representative litigation into the US in the first place, and the ones who started to interpret the federal rules of civil procedure in a manner that allowed representative litigation like class actions.
That it's the current unavoidable state of things doesn't make it any better.

I can't count on my fingers the number of services I considered adopting (and vouching for) that were shot down mid-flight in the past year and half. It's getting to hard to trust any business for more than short-term commitment, not just unproven ones.
As mentioned above, class action lawsuits are a useful tool to penalize the company for wrongdoing that is diffused over a large set of people. Let's say AT&T overcharges 5 million people a dollar each, on purpose. I could take them to court to try to get my dollar back, but that would cost me far more than it is worth. There need to be some mechanism by which I can defray that cost among others like me and we can as one unit seek renumeration, otherwise AT&T has no real reason to stay honest because they will almost certainly come out ahead.
Because if the cases were easy, you wouldn't need a final arbitrator?
Everyone can make the easy decisions.
This is actually something I think will go away once we manage to overcome sexism in society. There is really no reason for it at all.

My subjective impression of you and your "anti-sexism" is that you are an ideological fanatic. Fortunately, it's not likely that you and your kind will ever "overcome sexism in society" and it's likely that public restrooms will remain segregated by gender.

Your understanding of the differences between the sexes seems based more on ideological, abstract categories than practical, biologically based considerations, which is often the case with ideological and religious fanaticism.

In my opinion, your "anti-sexism" is just rehashed, 20th century cultural Marxism that is fortunately becoming less popular. I hope we can all progress beyond such failed, politically and religiously motivated trends.
I see what you're saying, but the target audience here is the game development community. The animation was clearly designed to show various capabilities: indoor lighting, outdoor lighting, outdoor scenes, interiors with various materials, fluids, etc. etc. As with movies, it's still up to the team to use the tool to create a worthwhile experience.
Hate to be that guy but citation needed?
This seems to me like a variant of "do not trust the client." Good info though. I have learned a lot more about how hash algorythms work. I do wonder though if fixed-param hashes are relatively safe due to the inability to add suffixes.
To elaborate: Only about a decade ago, 3D game lights were almost uniformly "additive spheres" supplemented with some ambient or directional light. They didn't bounce or diffuse properly. Environments and characters each had separate lighting treatments, making the characters look like "cut outs" in most circumstances. Reflective surfaces were a special case feature, and most details could only be represented with a cleverly painted texture. Everything was faked, and as such, the art of a lot of these games had to hew closely to tech limitations.

Between then and now we've gradually gained enough GPU power to move towards a unified, real-time lighting model with most of the desired real-world properties. Although limits still exist, we can finally start addressing lighting primarily from the designer's perspective.
The article's claim the non-bitcoin money/economic system is fundamentally "based on" debt is just silly.

Think about it: governments create money "by fiat" and then pay people with it and collect it from people. FIat money is not debt. My having dollars doesn't mean I am in debt, nor does it mean anyone is in debt to me.

Credit and debt are fundemantal to economics, and will exist in any economy. (As they should - without loans and other forms of debt, people would not be able to get the capital they need to do things they need to do to get more capital. They are basically good things.)

By the way, there are alreay people lending bitcoins and thus there are already people who owe debts expressed in bitcoins. There are already bitcoin banks, bonds, options, stocks, and insurance (and probably other things). As a bitcoin user, I've seen this firsthand.
No, we aren't taking differeent lessons from stat. mech. - your understanding of thermodyanmics is flawed (there are no two views here - this is physics).

S = k ln W is an entropy model for an ideal gas with uncorrelated particle motions and inelastic collisions. It doesn't explain the "entropy" of a real system.

There is no precise way to measure S for any real fluid whatsoever. S, at a microscopic level, isn't even well defined (disorder? - but that's just an interpretation for S, not a definiton). Phase diagrams only allow you to measure changes in S - and that's only because (assuming reversibility), delta(S) can be explained with change in pressure and temperatures (both are aggregate variables). And when a process is irreversible (which most real-world processes are),the only thing you can say is that the change in S would be greater than what you can compute using T, P, heat transferred and work done.

Raw data to calculate C, I, G and Y are freely available for public use at : http://www.nber.org/data/ . The accounting framework on which the above measurements are based is described here: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/docs/SNA2008.pdf
(individual nations implement their accounting frameworks, as the NBER does for the US, according to the guidelines above).
Remember though that there are two sides to every transaction. Given a consistently deflationary currency buyers become increasingly unlikely to be willing to offer said currency as payment to sellers. Thus the liquidity of the currency will tend to dry up, especially when it is does not have legal tender status. In a single currency market this is disastrous, in a free currency market you just start using something else.

Of course, the value of the now illiquid currency will eventually become highly volatile likely ending in a crash. Hopefully after this happens several times most people would get the idea that investment in such things is not a good plan.
It's true that work from a skilled employee is a rival resource, what you pay me to do only benefits you and not the rest of the industry (unless it's open source). But it doesn't seem excludable—if I train employees, there's no mechanism I can use to prevent you from hiring them later if you didn't contribute to the training costs.

Here's where I confess I don't understand why nonrivalry is built into the definition of a public good, since it's nonexcludability that gives rise to the free rider problem.
The contract forces mandatory, individual, arbitration.
Congress passed a law that allows contracts to force this.
This law has been around quite a while. Wikipedia says 1925, and i'm too lazy to look up if that's correct, but I know there are cases on it dating back to at least 1984.

It was only recently (~5 years ago) that they started to use it to ban class action lawsuits (instead forcing individual arbitration). The act neither explicitly allows or precludes this.
Before you say that should make the answer obvious, realize class action lawsuits are entirely a judicial creation. There is no law that was ever passed to create the idea of a class action lawsuit, it was created entirely from whole cloth (well, imported is a better description) by judges.

Somewhat ironically, the supreme court that folks are yelling about is also the same court that basically created the notion of representative in the US.
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Yes. I tried some Vim plugin for Chrome. It sucked. Pentadectyle is very robust and full-featured. Difference is considerable as compared to its Chrome counterpart. Completely transforms your FF experience.
By the way, if someone wants to explain the author's perspective on the current economy being fundamentally based on debt, I'd like to hear that. I don't really understand his perspective.
Narco-subs are designed more for stealth than recreational diving (poor viewports, lots of cargo, old narco subs were just semi-submersible). Anyways, they cost about $2 million to build according to wiki, so they are sort of out of our price range. But you might be able to get a used one on the cheap from your coke dealer...

For recreation, I think this wouldn't really beat just plain old snorkeling, or even scuba for the more involved. Its more like a rich-guy toy.
Vsync doesn't convert anything in the range of 31..59 FPS to 30 FPS. Vsync prevents fractional frame updates. You can still have any integer number of frames per second with vsync enabled. Anything less than 60FPS will just look like a dropped frame.

(Double-buffering isn't particularly relevant to FPS that I can see. It just prevents you seeing the frame while it's being drawn, in practice it's mostly useful for reducing flicker from overdraw.)
Security by obscurity is the only kind that exists.
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Agreed. However I would add one huge caveat.

The power of vast, organic, ecological systems like markets and large open source communities, is that we can work on all problems simultaneously. This is immensely powerful and it also allows network effects of problem solving, such as those side effects mentioned in the article. If nobody was working on the things that required big parallel clusters, then the advancements in GPU technologies would matter not a bit to solving these problems.

I don't think we need to worry about how important the problems we are trying to solve are. I think the best approach is to work on solving the problems that inspire us. I think, as the Spartan prince once said (according to Plutarch), "People raise positions, not the other way around."
Oh, I got it. My brain wasn't working then.

Don't worry, I use per-user salts for all my web projects following all security best practices that I know.
Part of the point of Keyczar (note the name) is to make the right decisions about key management in advance and abstract them away from developers.
I have always wondered about this. In San Francisco (aka "The City"), a driver typically pays $200+ for a 12-hour shift on weekends. Then they go around in a mad dash, trying to pick up as many lucrative passengers as possible; sometimes resulting in deaths[1]

There are 2 rent-seekers in this system. One is the City, which uses these taxis as a revenue stream. Why? We are all paying taxes anyways; why should we pay the City for the privilege to ride a car? And then there's the medallion owners. In the old days, the politically connected got these medallions for peanuts, and are just sitting on them, collecting rent (corruption, anyone?). And surrounding this system is a parasitic bureaucracy for "managing" everything: medallion rentals, credit card transactions, etc. (and we, the taxpayers, pay for this bureaucracy again).

A better solution, IMHO, is the following. Auction off 20% of the medallions every year, using a Dutch Auction. The participants in the auction must be licensed drivers with N years of experience, and must pass a test about familiarity with the City. A driver can get only 1 medallion. The City, as a favor to drivers, can bring banks to the table, who can finance drivers. Each medallion is for 5 years; after that period, the medallion goes up for auction again.

[1] There was a case recently where the driver was headed to the airport with passengers. He was speeding so he could get back there as quickly as possible (there's a weird rule that if a cab leaves the airport but comes back within 30(?) minutes, it can come back to the front of the line). He had a mechanical malfunction, and the cab caught fire. He survived, but his 2 passengers burnt to death.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_fran...
Reminds me of that Incantor wand controller

http://incantor.com/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moveablecode/incantor-ma...

Maybe you'd want a difference in heftiness of the controller, but a similar swinging/waving api?
I was one seeing an olympic fencing event on TV. The duels were incredibly short.
Definitely. I hope someone figures out an unintrusive way to monetize IM services so we can see a variety of inspired IM clients/platforms instead of the same dingy things repeated.
Did you have those discussions outside of the movie theater while people were walking in?
Nothing saying that they can't have bought Meebo for both the team and the bar.
> I find revision control redundant, since it takes extra steps to set up

Such as typing "git init"?
Rune! Was awesome. The way you could make your sword move with the mouse was amazing. Accuracy is what it is about. If this game could capture that feeling I am aboard.
I looked up "brogrammer."

"A popular, cool, or otherwise normal person who has become intrigued by the fun of programming. Usually unliked by the nerdy programmers for getting all of the friends and the girls, while creating cool and useful applications."

Was that meant to be an insult?

One has to wonder if "male feminists" and "nice guys" share the same delusion that "white knighting" females will increase their sexual success, and advocating "more women in tech" is an excuse to have potential mates in closer proximity, and has nothing to do with any moral crusade or actual benefit for the tech industry itself?

One wonders if "male feminists" are simply trying to compensate for their personal deficiencies?
For recreation, I think this wouldn't really beat just plain old snorkeling, or even scuba for the more involved.

No. Though it does enable you to say things like "So I went out in my submarine last weekend" and "I have a submarine" and "Hey, want to see my submarine?" And if that's not worth fifty thousand dollars I don't know what is.
I'm a skeptic, so I'm inclined to agree. At the same time I'd like to say that we should give it a bit and see where they go with it. Google hasn't been one to remove value that I'm aware of.
DOMContentLoaded does not block to wait for CSS in Firefox.
Can I cite an economics professor whose name I've forgotten?

He discussed how rent controls prevent both raising prices and selling the controlled property, so the owners can't make money from the property in any way.

Thus, many of these buildings stand abandoned and unsafe for decades.
> As for downloading CSS -- it won't prevent your JS from
> executing,

It most surely will, in at least Gecko and WebKit. Too many pages have JS that depends on all preceding stylesheets having been loaded.
Check out Khan's lectures on banking. they're very illuminating.
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I have a plugin for Cinema 4D called "HDRI Studio Kit" that is basically a set of predefined studio lights and lighting setups. Makes it very simple to light objects using traditional photographic methods. You have various tent setups, soft-boxes, umbrella lights, etc...
I think you're right. I was assuming you'd need to conduct a transaction with the new hash to "prove" ownership, but that doesn't seem necessary. If the flaw involved faking private keys, that'd be different.
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> All that began to change in 1979. That year, New York’s
Taxi and Limousine Commission changed its rules to allow
medallions to be leased out for 12-hour shifts.

The implication here is that the transferability of the medallions caused this big mess. We need a discussion of why medallions--which he says started simply as licenses--are being limited. This is the obvious question that is not addressed. After all, normal drivers' licenses and normal cars are not limited by the government in US.
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Who said it was stupid?

I say it is stupid, because I think it is stupid. And it doesn't matter if there are loads of people out there who believe in it, or if their numbers are growing, I still think it is stupid. The available quantity of cult followers doesn't really faze me on this, that just means there's an unfortunately large volume of stupid, and it might need keeping an eye on, in case it overflows and makes a horrible mess.
In this case, at least, these drones only carry recon/surveillance payloads - I believe the article said "non-weaponized" or something to that effect.
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See my comment on this very thread explaining the Fed's action to counter inflation/deflation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4087941
Perhaps it's not worth mentioning, but it's not the first time I've seen a reporter made this same kind of math "error" because it helped make his case:

> taxi drivers have asked for a 20 percent hike in fares.
How much would the MTBT like to increase lease rates?
Why, it thinks 20 percent is only fair.

The author leaves the false impression that the poor drivers won't make any more money at all -- that all the extra revenue will be grabbed by the medallion owners. But if previously the driver made $100 a day and paid $50 for the lease, then after the fare increase he'll make $120 a day (assuming demand doesn't fall) and pay $60 for the lease. So his profit goes from $50 to $60.
The only thing I dislike about Vimium is it doesn't work on the "New Tab" window.
It's a legitimate request, but quoting stats for something that is illegal and widely occurring yet rarely enforced would seem to be difficult.

From personal interactions with NYC residents, I feel pretty confident that asking any of them about rent controlled apartments would elicit rants against the system for the reasons specified.
I see that philosophy and math aren't the only fields where someone's work is more praiseworthy for being less practical!
Any examples you could show us?
> I mean it's 2012 and there is still no refactoring support.

This is a complete lie.
This has most certainly not been the rule of open source, its almost the opposite of the 'rules' of open source.

The author may not be interested in managing contributions or using source control, that is their prerogative, but as long as the license permits it if people want to work on the source code and collaborate with others, it is completely fine (and encouraged) for them to fork it
I can't see computer displays reaching 200 DPI in "a few years".
>where they will certainly start surfacing Google +

They are now. A random website with the Meebo bar: http://www.gossipcop.com/tim-poe-americas-got-talent-stutter...
I think you show your own bias by even making this comment. Defensive much? This is why politics suck on hacker news.

I typically skim through every headline posted on HN to see what I may be interested in reading. I can't say I've ever seen a "conservative x is lying" type of post. Perhaps I'm just oblivious, but I've certainly never seen it.

Granted, I wish we'd just avoid the subject of politics, especially when there is no tech reason for it, on hacker news.
Scribd has done this for every PDF page I've tried to access through their site. http://www.scribd.com/word/access_denied/96535114#full

The linked PDF downloads quickly.

(what's strange is the rest of Scribd, including their fruit bot race, renders great.)
It's worth pointing out that Boaler's work is fairly controversial. There's a review by Bishop, Milgram, and Clopton that refutes many of her claims. Her work is interesting, but it seems that much of its appeal is that it confirms people's suspicions that the way they learned math was wrong.

To be fair, I don't know what the right way is. A lot of very different approaches have produced successful mathematicians. How to teach math is a recurring controversy in mathematics, and a scan of the Bulletins of the AMS will convince one that mathematicians are working on the same gut level that everyone else is, unfortunately.
If it's ok for them to use an algorithm to grade essays then it would be ok for students to use an algorithm to write the papers no? How is it different from using a calculator? it's a tool right? mathematics used to only be only pen and paper. (I know it says it would still be graded by people, I'm making a point)

Writing is an artform and as such should be treated and graded as one. Sometimes you need to use language that is grammatically incorrect to get a point across and software is not nuanced enough to pick up on this. I can see this helping to turn out students that are good grammaticians but terrible writers - optimizing for the wrong outcome.
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More ambitious idea: Make the controller a grip on the end of a robot arm.
Giving students close access to a program that evaluates essays many times would be the worst possible thing to do. People are generally very good at adapting to systems, and the algorithm would break down pretty quickly as people find out which factors it favors and which ones it penalises (while human graders are arguably less strict in their criteria and can hence recognize these attempts at writing to the letter).
>Why is "stone" the "most obvious move"?

Since the starting position (closed fist) is very similar to Rock, most people will be lazy and play Rock instead of Paper or Scissors, at least the first round?
How much Facebook is paying to its employees?
The evaluations are on "how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards could predict the scores assigned by human graders." As long as some humans are always included as a control, this shouldn't be too big of a problem.
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Please return to Slashdot with the rest of the Apple-hating "hackers". Corny fear-mongering ruined that site as well.
Something tells me you wouldn't touch it anyway, for other reasons. I also get the feeling she's not going to miss your (lack of) contribution.

I take irreverence seriously, if it's partnered with competence. Your comment expresses the exact opposite attitude of irreverance, whatever that is called. This is not an attitude that inspires any sense of breaking new ground.
Yeah, this would not have the stamina to be a narco-sub. As in, it goes too slowly and runs out of air too quickly. (I say this based on its apparent similarity to scuba technology, not out of narco experience.)

In fact, if it works like I think it does, you should be able to go down farther for longer periods of time with scuba equipment (esp. if you use something like nitrox). I could be wrong though... this is out of my 20,000 leagues. (oh ho!)
Less manly sounds stupid. Saying that other people are performing a status play intended to raise their status at your expense conveys the same information without making anyone sound like an idiot.
The printer usually comes with less ink per cartridge than the refills. So buying a new printer every time you run out of ink is not cheaper than buying the refills.

Nor practical.