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Ignoring the crop subsidies for a moment, there was a similar issue in the US for many years. In the little farming town where I grew up, there was a giant mountain of grain dumped outside of town where excess grain was left to rot (and like the article stated, it reeks).

People often wonder why excess grain is dumped instead of shipped off as aid to people that can't afford it. The reason is simple but complex in its implications: the grain is worth less than the cost to move it somewhere else. In addition to the loss of underutilized grain, someone has to pay even more money to move it that in the net is not a cost efficient way to get food to the people that need it relative to not using dumped grain. So the grain is dumped.

One way to improve the situation is to invest in infrastructure to reduce the logistical cost, allowing the grain to compete across a wider range of market prices. However, that investment in infrastructure has to be offset by return on the grain production it effectively allows and has to account for the unpredictability of a global market that the subsidies are crudely trying to mitigate. There is a diminishing return.

One of the big issues in the global market is that grain trade tends to be highly protectionist, in part for food security reasons. While some countries (like the US) produce grain in vast quantities at low cost, most governments do not want to be dependent on foreign countries for their food. At the same time, these policies increase the price and restrict flow of food in these countries in times when the global market is a much more efficient producer. Subsidies and protectionism tend to be very blunt instruments.
Whats the natural resources curse?

-- all right, ive read it
I think the final paragraph gets it right: gov pending was at an all time high in that decade. And it sounds like, most of the supposed risks no longer apply, because of the Euro.

But you are correct in that Holland isnt the best place for a startup.
I suspect the problem is more that they haven't found the way to make it that big a business, not that it can't be.

Oh well, if they don't, someone else will down the line.
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More important than reading them, I think, is the question of whether they have staff that understands computing well enough to discern whether something is novel or not.
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The sketches and cleaner wireframes have already been created. In fact, the developer has them and is already implementing them. But like you said, I think networking will likely be my next step. Thanks for the advice
That's when doing it the Enterprisey way bites you in the ass..
What if I have no real web-app experience other than what I've taught myself but I do have experience with binary analysis, embedded and kernel in MV? I had a few phone interviews a few months ago and I get the idea that's why I didn't get in, though.

Maybe I'll try again real soon, though! :)
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I think it might be reasonable argument.

Suppose you have an upper class neighborhood that tends to collect a lot of noise complaints on the weekend. In theory sending a cop there might make an algorithm that's trying to minimize response times happy, but the reason cops tend to be stationed else-ware is to better respond to serious crimes because the station is 2 minutes away in case of a serious issues so there are better places to send cops to cover a full county. Sort of how a lot of algorithms made bad risk assessments because they had a poor understanding of what happens during a significant downturn in the housing market.
You could offer it as an easy to use app. The would-be criminal sees an opportunity, pops out the cellphone and gets an accurate estimate of how likely it is that a cop will be around for the next couple minutes. Premium subscribers will also get advice on which possible crimes would be more profitable and likely to suceed with present police force deployment anneighborhood demographics.

The sad part: someone will eventually do it.
Historically, Europe was the center; it went from Rome to Paris to London to the US, at least for the past 2000 years.

Center of population is somewhere near Afghanistan I think, but that's kind of a silly measure (like "the average person is 50% male").

US manufacturing production was #1 from 1895-2010. China is #1 now, but the US numbers are far more certain than China. If you look at total industrial base, the US is far above China (wealth vs. income, basically). I think Japan and a bunch of European nations actually would beat China on that metric.
Great article. It reminded me of the Mexican Fisherman story: http://www.protolink.com/MexicanFisherman.html
SIMD instructions are used to explicitly execute vector operations in parallel. The patent is about rearranging a stream of instructions across a loop at runtime to turn code that was not written with SIMD in mind into parallel code.

The across the loop part is the vaguely new part of it. To simplify it greatly, this can already be made parallel at runtime:

float a = 5.0;
float b = 10.0;

//The next two lines are executed in one clock tick
a*=2;
b*=2;

This patent deals with a method to turn this into parallel code:

float[] vals = { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 }

for ( int i = 0; i < vals.length; i++ ) {

vals[ i ] *= 2;

}

Obviously it has to detect any data dependencies at runtime, which isn't trivial. This can't be rewritten, for instance, because i depends on i - 1:

float[] vals = { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 }

for ( int i = 1; i < vals.length; i++ ) {

vals[ i ] *= vals[ i - 1 ];

}

Now, this is cool. I'd love to be working on stuff like this. But it's an extremely obvious step, once you've cleared the low hanging fruit. It's just that the extra complexity hasn't been worth it until now, because easier and simpler things to do have given enough speed up. That someone would do this was inevitable, which is why I say the patent is ridiculous.

Imagine history turning out completely differently. IBM is the largest CPU design firm in the world, after Shockley Semiconductor and HP who fab chips for the latest Commodore machine. Apple and Dell never existed. Every single person working on CPU design today for whatever reason ended up in another field.

We would still be seeing this technique first being used at the 1 billion transistor mark for CPUs. It's just a consequence of the nature of computation.
To a large extent we did. US law has its roots in British law, although the two have diverged considerably since 1776.
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Traveling on your own planet (which is easy and cheap) and traveling to an unknown planet in space which costs trillions of dollars and takes a minimum of 20,000 years are two very different things. Lets keep things in perspective now.

Traveling a few hundred miles to see a creature you can stand a few feet away from, touch, and study /AND/ traveling for millions of years, never seeing the fruit of your labor so that your great X 1,000 grandchildren might be able to reach a planet they can walk around on in an air tight suit for the rest of their lives, then send a signal back to earth which will take 20 years to reach. That's a whole new "field trip".
Not to question your story, but was that grain actually discarded or was it outside storage by the grain elevator. It is pretty standard procedure for grain elevators to have outside piles to store excess grain until shipment. You lose a little and you have to watch moisture when you mix it, but for elevators, it is definitely not a loss.
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Allowing different treatment of individuals for any reason beyond actual reasonable doubt is a dangerously slippery slope. Simply putting law enforcement in an area that has higher crime statistics in an effort to prevent crime is a good idea. Allowing those same officers to harass people in the area that haven't committed a crime is unacceptable.

My only concern is this: if the long term effects of this project will indeed reduce crime, do we have a society that's evolved to be less criminal or so we simply lack the data (because we've actively changed it) to continue to be effective at preventing crime?
It repeat itself. Feels like vigilantes on hacker news.
You're right about the parallelization aspect, but even so this patent is still ridiculous. MPI (i.e. high-performance computing) developers who have worked with Intel's Math Kernel Library will recognize this feature as part of Intel's MPI C compiler. It's been around since at least 2009, I'd wager. I am sure that Apple did not invent this idea.
Totally agree on ATL being the worst and will never again fly through that city. They easily have the most unpleasant ICE employees I've ever dealt with. I usually try to fly into SFO or SJC, but I've always been pretty happy with DFW, which is a common port of entry for those coming from Brazil.

It'd be nice if someone put together a site in every language that rates ICE at each port of entry so people can avoid the airports where ICE is most unpleasant. At the end of the day, airports are businesses and if they see revenue dropping because nobody wants to travel through them then there may be some change.
As I see it from the outside, USA's greatest strength it its culture of ambition: the belief that an individual can achieve great things through good ideas, skills, and hard work. Whereas in Europe Gates or Jobs might have finished college and become a cog in the system, in the USA they dropped out and had a huge impact.

FYI, homosexuality is not genetic. Although genes play a large role, they are generally thought to explain the variance in sexual orientation for less than 50%.
Everyone's skeptic meter should be triggered at the line, "...launched America’s first-ever campaign to attract visitors from overseas."

30 seconds on youtube and you'll find this UK targeted ad than was uploaded 4 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkcYTVfXn74

I'm sure there have been hundreds of ad campaigns in hundreds of countries.
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Powershell is retarded. Microsoft uses it for their "web services" too which defeats the entire fucking point of it being a web service.
I'd add Poke the Box by Seth Godin.
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What's interesting is to spend time living in an even younger culture, but with deeper roots, like in the Andes, or in Indonesia....

One thing I noticed in Ecuador was the level of visceral patriotism I had never seen and yet the lack of sense of "we're number 1" that is equated with this in the US. It was as if Ecuadorians said "We love our country. Let's make it number 1."

In Indonesia, it's different. The Chinese-Indonesians are afraid to get involved in politics, and the religious politics makes the Christian Right look pretty tame. Malaysia is different still, in weird and disorienting ways.
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This something that I've been grappling with because it's tremendously difficult to discuss on the policy side of the police system. It's really difficult to make the argument that justice is attained more frequently when there are inefficiencies within the police system, especially when local, state, and federal governments are looking to cut costs.
Just one more way that ms produces developers that cant do anything on their own, or outside visual studio.

Just my experience, but most ms developers have been crippled by their tooling. Powershell is no exception.
If you felt alone, would you risk your life savings, and life to go visit a chimpanzee in a war torn, unstable, volatile 3rd world country whose jungle contains malaria carrying mosquitoes, has a life expectancy of 23 years, and gives you a high chance of being raped, killed, or infected with incurable disease?
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The United States of American has a space program, a nuclear program, own a lot and 1 in 5 children are living in poverty.

You can say the same about almost any country.

The state of poverty and despair in western countries is far more mind boggling to me than in developing countries.
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And just knowing they exist would be incredibly exciting, even if there was zero chance that we could directly contact them in the span of our entire existence.
It was about a half mile from the grain elevators but no one ever retrieved it. They only dumped it there in the years when the market was excessively soft; there were more convenient places to buy cheap grain. In years when the market was good nothing ever ended up at the grain dump.

That whole region had ridiculous yields for years after Mt. St. Helens blew (it was in the ash plume -- great fertilizer) but they had difficulty moving that volume economically during years when the rest of the country had high yields. Or at least that is my recollection as a kid. Once they started dumping grain, the pile only got bigger.
I am not a big fan of the sensationalist and misleadingly terse headlines that sometimes accompany posts like this, but this one is pretty serious. Apple is claiming domain over a very fundamental operation here - one that is at the core of human thought and consciousness if not performant software.
Your assessment almost exactly mirrors what I thought when I saw this. Same book too, though that's not surprising I suppose since H&P is a good, common text.

To be fair to the original poster, the HN title is not "needlessly linkbaity". It is verbatim what the title of the patent is - "Method and apparatus for executing program code". Not terribly informative, but a hn link title is short as well. Can't fault the OP for copying the title.
With a telehash style distributed messaging bus you'd need to have clients opt in to centralized reporting and analytics providers, like the library of congress, internet archive, even commercial firehose companies like gnip, etc.
Indeed. I remember recently when Asatru was recognized as a legitimate religion in Denmark. I remember thinking "Wow, religions need government approval in Denmark?"
The problem is not lack of food production but distribution. There is a need for a lot of investment in infrastructure.
One specific example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Basically, once you discover natural resources (in the case of NL, natural gas), it crowds out all other activity. You can earn a great return from exploiting the resource, so the best people, best capital, etc. goes into that.

With floating exchange rates, you get currency inflation, but you can have the same problems even with fixed exchange rates or common currency.

A bigger problem is the general "resource curse".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

I remember talking to people who said "at least we (Afghans) don't have oil, then we'd really be screwed."
You also have to consider that there is a possible correlation between being poor and being religious. As bad as that may sound, religion brings hope to a lot of people who do not have many other sources of it.
Is there decent CoAP implementations? That's unfortunately one of the big stumbling blocks with universal p2p transport yet :/
I'd like to point out that this technology really isn't new; it began with CompStat back in 1993. (See this issue of "Police Chief Magazine")[http://policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction...]
Maybe they wouldn't be interested in us. Certainly there are some people here on this Earth that I wouldn't want to meet (for instance some of my relatives).
This is just a giant distraction from the fact that Facebook illegally disclosed select data about results to insider investors the week before the offering.
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True but AFAIK no other countries are spending their tax money providing food aid to the USA?

I agree our own poverty situation is awful, but honestly that's another reason to not be spending tax money the US International Food Aid Program. What if we spent that ~1.2 billion each year on feeding our hungry children, trying to reduce the number of families in poverty etc..?
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Yeah, I did (about the 'under God' in the pledge to disassociate ourselves from communists, not about the 'In God We Trust' on coinage actually) thanks to my father really, but that's an excellent point to bring up. Especially when you consider that most people /do not/ know that, and would be shocked or disbelieving if you told it to them.

As to the Founders, whether or not they were religious, the abuse of their legends has gotten old many times already. Many political factions (though the Tea Party are the worst culprits) have misinterpreted, misrepresented, and straight up lied (or worse, not actually known) about their history and beliefs, and used this confusion as a platform for their opinions. It's disgusting.
That people starve while food rots isn't rare. We've known about the effect for decades. If you aren't familiar with Amartya Sen, he won a Nobel Prize in part for his research into famines, pointing out their causes not only in food shortages but distribution. Quoting Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen (sorry so long a quote but his work is fascinating and I'm interested to read other thoughts from this community )--

In 1981, Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food. Sen also argued that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up.[17] However, this argument has recently been undermined by evidence suggesting significant decline in food availability in the Bengal Famine.[18] This implies the curious irony that Sen had bought into precisely the excuse used by the War Cabinet to refuse aid to Bengal -- that hoarding, not a lack of food, was the famine's cause.

Sen's interest in famine stemmed from personal experience. As a nine-year-old boy, he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943, in which three million people perished. This staggering loss of life was unnecessary, Sen later concluded. He presents data that there was an adequate food supply in Bengal at the time, but particular groups of people including rural landless labourers and urban service providers like haircutters did not have the monetary means to acquire food as its price rose rapidly due to factors that include British military acquisition, panic buying, hoarding, and price gouging, all connected to the war in the region. In Poverty and Famines, Sen revealed that in many cases of famine, food supplies were not significantly reduced. In Bengal, for example, food production, while down on the previous year, was higher than in previous non-famine years. Thus, Sen points to a number of social and economic factors, such as declining wages, unemployment, rising food prices, and poor food-distribution systems. These issues led to starvation among certain groups in society. His capabilities approach focuses on positive freedom, a person's actual ability to be or do something, rather than on negative freedom approaches, which are common in economics and simply focuses on non-interference. In the Bengal famine, rural laborers' negative freedom to buy food was not affected. However, they still starved because they were not positively free to do anything, they did not have the functioning of nourishment, nor the capability to escape morbidity.
I'm not confusing them. It's more than just latency and bandwidth..it's about peering and routes. By the time I hit US East from Asia, I'm doing typical ADSL speeds...same (or worse) with Europe.

Also, citation needed for your last point. Most sites? I'd be surprised if it was 1%.
Thanks for clarifying. That's exactly what I meant.
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> (past the initial, incomprehensible-unless-you're-a-patent-lawyer "Claims" section)

On the contrary, the claims are meant to be understandable to any reasonably technical person (anyone "highly skilled in the art"). On the other hand, your average non-technical lawyer would be completely unable to read them.

This doesn't mean it won't take time to fully digest a patent's claims, as they tend to be written with a very high degree of precision.
The definition of poverty in the US and India is a little different, in the USA it means a family income of less than $43,512 a year - in India it means dying of starvation.

Not wishing to belittle the struggle of so many US families - but this isn't quite the same thing.
They are forced to take some of the economic costs of being public, but the managers have much more flexibility when the company is private. For example, Facebook's acquisition of Instagram would not fly if FB were public when that happened.

You can argue that the paperwork is onerous, but its paperwork. The headaches involved with public companies go far beyond a few paltry reports.
Are we talking plain vanilla HTML/JS or HTML/JS+Metro extensions? Also, I guess those apps don't have to be cross-browser.
> Pylons and Pyramid aren't that great.

interesting! what don't you like about Pyramid? you're aware it is not a continuation of the Pylons codebase, right?
Very nice. Almost painless upgrade here; had to make one change to my custom create_url_adapter to adjust for the possibility of request being None, but that was a minor change and documented to boot. Flask rocks.
I think they have cracked some parts of https. If you make a prior to a non blocked page in https and then go to a block page sometimes it works. If you make your first https connection to a block page it is blocked. Maybe this is due to the way https works. I haven't looked into it.

Google uses https and they still managed to monitor all the traffic and block keywords.

There is a good reason why it is stated change your passwords before you come to China and after you leave.
In your social circles, at least.
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Assuming we end-up with reasonably efficient fusion power and an even mildly space based economy we are eventually going to start mining the ort cloud. Which set's up a natural path to vary slowly expand into the stars.

Basically, if it's profitable you get exponential growth till it's not and even slow exponential growth ends up with ridiculous growth numbers fairly quickly on a geological timescale let alone a galactic one.
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You're probably right about the slippery slope argument. There is a risk. Still, NYC (and maybe soon SF) has implemented stop and frisk, without a slippery slope, (afaik) and data seem to point to a reduction in crime.

Some people have found stop-and-frisk unacceptable, yet others find it acceptable.

I don't think measuring decrease in crime is that difficult. One can find out statistically or by way of anthropological study at the other end of the spectrum. One of the easiest ways is probably to ask the residents. do they feel that crime has risen or fallen? Ask Real Estate agents --they have a good pulse on a neighborhood.

Now, something unrelated and this is just a hunch, but I guess that neighborhoods with high home ownership would have better reception for this than neighborhoods with low ownership --not because the population prefer crime, but because a reduction in crime would have the side effect of having a positive (higher) impact on rents and that's a negative for most renters.