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We are animals. We are not robots or vegetables.

If a robot becomes sufficiently sentient, possesses emotions and needs, has empathy and reproductive capacity, and other such animal traits, then I see no reason not to extend similar rights to it too. If we develop the ability to create such a creature (for that is what it will be), and choose to create such a creature, then we must face the responsibilities that our actions bring and the rights that that creature will have.

It is unlikely carrots will evolve to a similar level any time soon, so we've a while to think about vegetable ethics. In the meantime, brussels sprout genocide is fine by me.
Sorry, but this is BS. First of all I'm European and my wife is Japanese. Asked her - same answer.

Second of all - just try some mind trick where you go outside yourself and try to observe something objectively, say as an 'Alien' who visits Earth for the first time. Which of the listed characteristics of a hen vs. a cow is important to you?
However Canada has done what neither Democrats or Republicans are willing to do here, fix the budget. An article recently posted at the Washington Post; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/canadas-fiscal-succes...

So while you take issue with your PM at least Canada is in a much better situation financially because all their sides worked together.
So what do you say when the government doesn't decide to support your start up, but instead picks your competitor and runs you out of business because they happen to be related to a senator ? The ends don't always justify the means.
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That's "easy" for development. Suggesting that it's something all end users of Steam should do is absurd.
Thank you so much for the info. Happy to be a part of it all. I've spent the last couple of weeks reading just about everything I can get my hands on by Paul Graham and it's all great and inspiring.
Leaving aside the silliness of deciding macroeconomic policy on hypothetical edge cases for a moment... How often does that happen? The US government is utterly paranoid about nepotism, to the extent that we waste a huge amount of money in the bidding process for government contracts because we don't want to seem as if we're favoring anyone, even if that favor is the result of something like having done good work in the past. It's an imagined problem.
Tesla refers to short term costs associated with the production ramp.

Their statement is available at: http://ir.teslamotors.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-...

"The third quarter was a fundamental turning point for Tesla as we successfully transitioned to a mass production car company, growing from manufacturing 5 cars per week at the beginning of the quarter to 100 cars per week by the end. That rate has doubled since last month and is now at over 200 cars per week or 10,000 cars per year, which is at the critical threshold needed for Tesla to generate positive operating cash flow. One month from now, we expect Tesla to double production again and achieve the target rate of 400 cars per week or 20,000 per year. Despite many short term costs associated with the ramp, Tesla nonetheless expects to get approximately halfway to the 25% gross margin target by end of year."

edit: until they are not producing at least 200 cars / week, the operating cost of their manufacturing line is actually larger than the money they make from those cars produced. So, based on that logic Tesla should be losing money but less than in the past. However, in this quarter they went from manufacturing 5 cars/week to 100, which is something you can probably only do by revamping your operations (e.g. acquire new machinery, hire new people, etc.) Therefore, you have to incur a cost now in order to get the benefits in the future.
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This is a great write up - thanks for posting. I'm slowly beginning to understand how the internet works day by day due to posts like this.
Well it was up almost 9% yesterday. Today's down is probably just a calming down of the large increase yesterday (but I don't know, I'm just making that up).
Ask HN: I'm a designer, who else is?
Just curious. I think the current method in which designers and developers work together is horribly inefficient and generally broken. I'd like to change that. A designer and developer think differently but I think the first evolutionary step is for each to understand the other and eventually start to think like the other. What do you guys think?
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What? Why? If Steam releases touch games then just throw the steam icon on your desktop and launch it. If you don't have touch games then you wouldn't be playing without a keyboard and mouse.
Kind of like the racist "jokes" at Kixeye? Oh, no. Actually this is all about Randi Zuckeberg's lack of popularity. Which seems to have nothing to do with humour. And everything to do with her lack of actually making something (useful).[1]

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[1] Except a reality TV show.
The site seems to have gone down at the time of this writing. I am looking for a backup alternative to Time Machine because it seems to have a memory leak. The fraction of available memory just shrinks, even if I quit everything. I've turned Time Machine backups off in System Preferences and rigged launched to back up only 3 times a day, and now I'm no longer having to reboot every other day.

A shame, because TM seemed to work perfectly in Snow Leopard.
Yes, but you'd have to con a lot of big players into trusting your BGP routes first. And the effect would only last as long as it took to change some configurations and write you back out of the internet.
Microsoft is just doing what is profitable. I cannot blame them for this. Apple has already proven that this model works quite well. I HIGHLY doubt Microsoft will completely abandon the desktop experience in Windows 9. I also doubt that Apple will force everybody to only use the MAC app store in future OSX releases.

I do believe the gaming landscape is changing and maybe that means Linux is the winner for the next generation of awesome computer gaming titles.

Nevertheless, Microsoft is a company that is in the business in making money, and they are making a huge push for their new platform which is mimicking the most successful company in the world... Seems like they are making good decisions.
That's an interesting thought actually. Maybe hackers are those who 'kept their child inside'?
I like the old-school definition. When I hear somebody calling himself a hacker, it looks to me like when a teenager powder its face and call himself a vampire. Kid, you are not a vampire. Vampires are horrible creatures that sucks blood.
Developers are not hackers, hackers enter your computer to steal stuff from you, and love it. (that said, I'm posting in a site calling "hacker news" heh)
Quite well actually. There's a space MMO project called Infinity, by Flavien Brebion that has demoed it for years but has released little material lately.

http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=c...
Actually the US had a surplus during the time period (1995-98) mentioned in that article. Then the US elected a party determined to shrink government small enough to drown it in a bathtub. Canada is behind on that, but catching up fast.
One of the cool things you can do with their code is build it all in Flash, using existing tools, then convert it to Bonsai. Not so good for real web heads, but great for Flash people
related: http://mledoze.github.com/countries/
Just stop. There are so many layers of security that use obscurity. Most basic example is not exposing valid account usernames during failed logins.
Nvidia heralds Steam for Linux debut with 'double-speed' drivers
Maybe you can't read the data in the packets, but HTTPS doesn't do a thing about SIGINT (signals intelligence) which, on such a large scale, could give you a lot of valuable information.
The OP quotes storing a terabyte a month as costing $10 on Glacier. I haven't done mass backup to S3...but I was almost expecting this to be the cost for a TB on S3, not on Glacier.

You can currently get a 3TB, USB 3.0 TB drive for as little as $120. At $10 a month to store 1TB on Glacier, you'll surpass that cost in a year.

I know Glacier data is likely more safe than moving your files to an external HD and then putting it in your safe deposit box...but the HD ends up being cheaper in the medium-term and far more flexible and faster. It's unlikely your house will burn down and all of your available backups...it's even less likely that that situation will happen and that this last-resort external HD will somehow also be lost, right?
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Not unless you manage to forge a certificate at the same time. It has been done before, as SSL is based on more or less the same level of trust as BGP.
As a Canadian living in Canada, it seems to me that you're a bit out of touch.

For starters, Canada has a neo-con government. Yes, they're somewhat to the left of the Republicans, but they've only just gotten a majority, so give them time.

I'd say that our government is somewhat to the left of the US Democratic party. Sure, there's the occasional nutty MP who wants to limit abortion rights, bring back the death penalty, or abolish gay marriage, but there's always going to be a few of those, and they're in no way representative of government policy.
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...we will _not_ pick winners in a market, and we will _not_ protect failing businesses.

Then let's start by getting rid of chapter 11, which allows businesses to go bankrupt, then go back into existence again. Most countries do not have anything like it, and its existence has been horrible for some sectors, for instance the airline industry.
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If only a president sounded like this
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What do you say when Apple does the same thing? "Well, crap," I imagine.
Only specific routers that you trust (or are trusted by routers you trust) can break your internet. You can fix your internet by un-trusting those routers.
They're going to ship a lot more cars.
I think everyone should read Cialdini's work defensively. I'm not sure how I feel about applying it to influence other people. It basically boils down to hacking at someone's identity to get them to do with you want, and I'm just not sure how the ethical calculus works out on that.
I agree about Canada's current government, but we have a legacy of progressive policies that have given us, among other things, a working health-care system.

Having lived in the 'states as well, beer is an odd mention. It's not that Canada has bad beer, but California has great beer. I'd kill (well, figuratively) to get Moonlight Brewing's Death and Taxes up here. And as good as poutine is, I miss the Mission Burrito even more.

I prefer Canada's seasons to the SF peninsula's flatline. Comparing fall temperatures for one day in the fall avoids the fact that you'll still be wearing long sleeves some days in July.

And I think the VC industry has changed since you left, but the absence of VC money has bred some resilient, profitable companies like Freshbooks and Shopify rather than hundreds of Instagram clones.
The plug part is http://duckduckhack.com/ -- that is, these are open source components that plug into the system via this glue. This one in particular is at https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/blob/maste... and https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/blob/maste...

The in part is they get submitted and we try hard to make them all useful and thus "in" DDG by default. However, ultimately you could a) consume them in your own applications (off DDG); and b) choose to turn some off or on more of the time.
But I think that really invalidates this whole premise that there is no such thing as 'A' players and that they are primarily a product of the tooling and environment.

Teams with shit code and poor unproductive environments, pretty much by definition, don't have 'A' players and the ones they do have don't stay long. Someone once told me "it's easy to retain mediocrity in a company, it's the talented people that are hard to keep." This is a chicken-and-egg problem, but in my mind it is the lack of quality team members and managers that leads to a poor environment all around.

That being said I've worked in environments like this, where tooling was poor, the build chain almost non-existant and there was a legacy of extremely poor architecture. I was still able to make improvements, bring in better code, architectures and dev practices (albeit slowly). For that matter, so was every other 'A' player I know that worked there. The main thing is none of us stayed there more than a year.
Some people literally actually don't have a mouse. It gets that good.
Thanks for the feedback -- we're discussing it right now :)
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Wouldn't the term "Statistical Arbitrage" be a more apt description of what you were doing?

If you are relying on a broker-supplied pricefeed over the internet you are far outside the real of what is traditionally understood as "High Frequency Trading".
If you were from India, you could also face jail. Why you insult the mafia by comparing these politicians (Indian). Mafia also have limit for earning money but if you just read the amount of fraud / corruption in last 5-6 yrs of ruling Congress party, no one can even imaging, India is a poor & developing county.
Been waiting for this for weeks! So excited to have a cheaper AWS bill. I back up to Time Machine locally and use Arq for offsite in case my Time Machine goes up in flames.
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Just anecdata, but most purpose-built racing dashboards use a linear tachometer (vastly more critical in a racing situation than a speedometer) instead of a circular tachometer. It may just be a packaging thing, though.
I get Bluehost's "The website you were trying to reach is temporarily unavailable."
The next phase of being polyglot programmer is actually using multiple languages in the same project. This can result is astounding examples of using the right tool for the right job. ROS.org is an excellent framework for message passing between C++, Python, Java and lisp (and in my current project we also have custom bindings to a Prolog interpreter).
In our project we use Prolog for classical reasoning, C++ for signal processing, and Python for a dynamic architecture. With an applied polygot programming style you get the execution speed of C++, the agility of python and domain specific features WHEN YOU NEED THEM
Where are you getting $13/month for Crashplan? Their site has it at $3/month for unlimited, or $6/month for up to 10 computers.
That is indeed what I meant. Sorry for the mixup.
At the moment we are far from swamped with Bootstrap themes. They are fairly relevant to my interests at the moment and I'm happy to see at least a few more before I start complaining.

I'd be happy to see a few less U.S. startup culture-related posts but I never vote them up so I suggest you do the same in cases like this.
EU regulators to accept Apple, publishers e-book offer
That seems to happen a lot to stocks after a large daily increase or decrease (it reverts somewhat the next day)

Has anyone investigated that as an investing strategy?
These restrictions are already in place on Windows RT like the MS Surface, right? You can't install apps that use the desktop, and you can't sideload any Metro apps.
I've used Assistly (for about an year) for this, and they are extremely good for all that you have mentioned. I've never used them for live chat (do they even have that function?) so I can't say anything. I loved the UI; it's extremely easy to use.

From the outside, Freshdesk and Zendesk look good too.
It's not about losing the drive: hard drives break all the time. Externally cased ones especially as they are subject to many more shocks on average. Drives that haven't been spun up in a long time are even more likely to fail upon spinup.
A much more useful thing to do than take out a big site is use BGP to create your own "section of the internet" to do your malicious deeds from, then afterwards remove the BGP routes and your addresses will no longer exist on the internet. So it will be as if you sent packets from a phantom network.
He/she is wanting a GUI tool for creating HTML5/JavaScript graphics and animations. I think his best bet right now is following Adobe's efforts with Edge, as someone else mentioned.
Note that all of the above policies are considered mainstream in the United States.
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Looking at your first chart there, is there a reason (other than market conditions) you were making significantly more at the end of '09 than mid '10?
Ah, indeed. As stated by Plato, "Those with the ability to get themselves elected, are the least fit to lead."

Platos The Republic, (and especially his "five regimes") is interesting stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republic_%28Plato%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes
Great news Katherine.
Are you planning to provide a fulfillment service at any point?

Also - Do you have anything on the roadmap that will aid the seller's exposure of their goods?
I ask that because many existing sellers are able to take advantage of the huge customer base on places like Amazon and eBay which gives them a huge advantage.

Either way, wish you the best of luck with ShopLocket ;-)
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Great the see the product evolve. Keep it up!
You are neglecting the value of your time here. If you have photos, videos, or other information that accumulates often, going to the bank on a regular basis to sync your drive to your computer sounds like WAAAAY more hassle than just paying $10 a month on Glacier. Assuming it takes 1 hour a month to back up your info, in order for it to be worth it, you would have to value your time at less than $10/hour, completely discounting the cost of the drive.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=opera...
I don't have enough karma to create polls on HN.

Edit: Oh wait. I just noticed I have that.

Edit2 : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748808
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honeypot entry to ensure that crawlers are complying with robots.txt?
Do you know of any resources/books to learn trading/HFT in general?
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You can't compare an external HD in a safe deposity box to an online archival solution. It is just apples and oranges.
My blog went down after this started to spread... hmmm.

"Error establishing a database connection"
Page is down. Google Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?pws=0&q=cac...
Personally, I never did like things abstracting the iteration for me. In Javascript, I tend to favor explicit loops over huge chains of method calls, or visually confusing abstracting like the Raphael example. Just looking at that Raphael example, I'd have to actually think about the code to understand what it does right off the bat (shocker, I know, but I think you get my point). I actually think that the Bonsai example there is the most straight forward and flexible. Of course, this is all just opinion.
Even when there's no "reply" link next to the poster's name, I think you can usually reply if you click the "link" link in the same area.
When and how do you find out that your private method doesn't handle an edge case?

It seems like out of a matter of practicality that sometimes it would be best to have a unit test for a private method- dogma be damned.

Personally, if it's tricky code or something I worry about, I test it. If you change it, write your own damn test :-)
This exactly thing happened a few years ago. China rerouted about 10% of internet traffic, presumably by accident. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/china_bgp_interweb_s...
Google's market share 'dips below 90%' in UK
I don't get it. The link points to www.amazon.com/robots.txt.
I agree. I wish you could filter startup porn (and job ads) out of HN.

But bootstrap is great for hackers who don't have design help so it really is "Hacker News".
> hacking at someone's identity to get them to do with you want

Hrm, but how is this different from every marketing strategy ever created?
If this thing will actually be released, I hope it won't be locked down so that only Xbox LIVE certified developers can publish games on it. That's currently one of the major turn offs as an indie dev on Windows 8: the lack of a more meritocratic game listing system (all because of MS's need to push the Xbox LIVE platform).

I always wondered why Windows 8 has two ways for people to access games in the Windows Store: there's the 'Games' tile, which only includes Xbox LIVE games, and then there's Store->Games, which lists all games. I expect that many people only bother with the first option, since it's more obvious. Maybe the Xbox Surface will have the Games tile as the only way to access the Windows Store.
Saying BGP runs on top of IP is true but doesn't tell you what BGP does or how Global scale IP doesn't work without BGP.

BGP is the protocol Internet Routers (i.e. not your home router) use to figure out how to route IP addresses to particular routers.

So your home router connects to an internet router at comcast (or your ISP). The Comcast router announces to the rest of the world "Dear world, if you want to connect to any of the IP addresses at X.X.X.X sent those packets to me and I'll deal with them."
This goes directly against the advice I responded to though - that if you don't vote for the lesser of two evils you are directly responsible for the greater of the two getting in.

I disagree with that stance. It appears you do as well.
If you're in to Java, perhaps take a look at griffon - essentially groovy/swing/mvc combo. http://griffon.codehaus.org/
I have one question:

Why doesn't every hacker do this to make extra money? Is it within the grasp of anybody who can program to automate trading like this?

EDIT: Sounds like it's not really for everybody. You have to own or rent a server with access to direct lines to the exchanges, or else your lag will be such that profiting from HFT is impossible. How much do these cost?
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Be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater here...
It wasn't anything over the internet. I had a server rented at my broker who were situated close to the exchanges in Chicago and had direct lines. For sure I was not the fastest but only behind by a couple milliseconds perhaps.
Poll: What are your primary motivations for doing side projects?
To earn some side income
To try out new technologies
To learn something new
To scratch my own itch(solve a problem I have)
To test my startup ideas
To have some projects in my portfolio
I want to play safe and call my startup a side project
Just for sake of doing something