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He had me convinced until the last paragraph: it’s time we step in in our role as governments... to create the regulatory environments that protect us vassals (and the lords as well). Otherwise, we really are just serfs.
We won't be serfs if Big Government is running the show?

Edit: With regards to his choice of words: The Road to Serfdom, a Comic by Hayek: http://mises.org/books/TRTS/
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It's a branch as mathematicians think of branches, not as laymen do.

It isn't a new algebra, calculus, or geometry. Not to minimize the accomplishment at all, but it happens a handful of times a generation.
I suspect it's not, as mine is universal. If you had mine on it, they'd both have the same icon. Also, you can go to the app store from the link above and if it says "Open" it means you have it on the device.
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Could you elaborate on how you see Ruby as a modern Smalltalk?
How to get your child to love the dentist
While I applaud clothing the homeless, this kinda struck me as in poor taste (mainly the rival school part).. but in saying that I never went through the US college system so maybe I'm missing some vital context.

It seems tacky, tbh: but if it puts jackets on backs then I'm all for it.
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You're right, unless you would somehow ensure that of the 3 kids every mother has, 2.5 are female ;-)

Anyway, looking at the worlds' population right now, I don't think we have to be afraid mankind will go extinct anytime soon because not enough children are born.
Idiomatic churn is rather high over there, isn't it? I guess at some point you run out of unique sound combinations.
Kids are fun. I'm getting my fifth one (including one adopted) and it never gets old. Think about the most challenging complex corporate information systems project you ever owned and pulled off, or think about the best work of art you ever produced... Only ten times more fun and ten times more challenging. Other personal projects definitely suffer, but that personal project dwarfs them all.

There are many ways to contribute to shaping the world into something you believe being the right direction. Kids are one of them. Not having them is rational too but, if you believe in yourself, you may want to pass some of that on to the next generations directly. Making an impact by other means is good too, but nothing quite equals the primal satisfaction of leading your own clan into the future. And before anyone mentions, I'm an atheist - so there are no religious motives here.

In France, having kids may not be the communal project it once was, but nowadays with crazy good medical support, day care, kindergarten, schools and all sorts of benefits, I cannot possibly claim that our ancestors had it any easier. It does take an awful lot of time, but with the right organization it is the most rewarding thing you'll ever do. Just don't overdo it and you'll be a happy parent.
I've heard about that, even own the book but didn't read very far yet. I remain skeptic. Maybe it holds for "standard parenting techniques", but I am more interested in for example the approach of László Polgár http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

He raised 3 kids to become chess grandmasters - and he announced he would do that before they were born. I don't think he was abusive either.

Somehow nobody really wants to talk about that, it is weird. Perhaps it scares people to think that they might be responsible for not making their kids brilliant. And the elite might have an interest in not letting the secret out - somebody has to do the slavery jobs in society, after all. Yeah it is a bit paranoid, but I have become a bit cynical about the setup of our society. Actually it doesn't even have to be an elite trying to hold us down, I think research has shown that people are most happy if other people are not better off than they are, so people are always trying to hold each other down.

Of course I wouldn't condone methods like the tiger mum (I think she is basically a criminal), but I don't think Polgar was abusive, for example.

I guess if you can influence if your kid is Lutheran or Catholic, there are also other things that might have a bigger impact (even Catholic vs Lutheran might make a big difference, I don't really know? What with different work ethics?). Lutheran vs Catholic or "technical vs liberal arts" and so on?

Edit: I discovered Polgar through the book "Bounce" which also talks about other cases for deliberately creating gifted kids http://www.amazon.de/Bounce-myth-talent-power-practice/dp/00...
I like it. I like it a lot, very stylish work.
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The main feudal lords map to the Four internet giants - Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Each has a dislocated jaw and a growing appetite to consume entire industries.

As they grow, our implicit trust in our Feudal lords, without any kind of Transparency in return is a dangerous thing.
Facebook has made hiring safer. And probably dating, too.
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Also I hear that JavaScript thing is catching on...
It's less frowned upon in wealthy societies in general. Here in London the average age for first time mothers is deep into their 30s. It is about time when you've had your long travels around the world, and years of parties. I don't think the expectation here exists that young people are going to look after old people, unlike the developing world.
"The JVM is a big black box and I think its veryhard to see whats happening inside."

Good software engineering is very much about standing on the shoulders of giants.

"have someone tried to write a patch for the JVM? no? then try!"

How often do people need to do this in everyday development on the JVM?
...but only you live in the USA
Lots of words for a simple thing: they were young, inexperienced and likely got screwed, I highly doubt that will happen again.

I'm pretty suspicious of accounts that are made with the express goal of damning other participants here with faint praise.
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Having a kid is like changing the difficulty level of life from "Normal" to "Hardcore". Unlike video games, there is no switching back.

So be sure you are committed and finished with playing on the "Normal" setting. You'll probably want to have high stats in Maturity, Communication and Patience. Oh, and your relationship is going to lose HP.
In the meantime, for SSL on team projects which are not yet released-to-the-public, there is a web-of-trust certificate issuer called CAcert.org which can be installed on relevant machines and used. At one point they were trying to pass an audit and get into Firefox, so perhaps someday they can become a default for web browsers. If they cannot, then perhaps a sufficiently motivated group could set up a similar authority.

Ideally, the flow would be much simpler than even CACert has made it; you ask for a certificate for drostie.org, the CA does a WHOIS for the administrative contact for that domain; the CA sends an email to that domain name containing a link to confirm the request; if you visit the link then you can upload a public key and perhaps even generate a private key (via client-side javascript, of course -- you don't want to send such things to the server).

I don't know whether you could make it pass a security audit and get into major browsers -- but I like the idea that this could be much more user-friendly than it is.
To say that a computer program can not, in principle, do what the mind does is not to say that the mind can not exist on a substrate other than the familiar biological one. In your thought experiment the "software" would not be a computer program as we understand it; it would not be a set of algorithms. Also, it is problematic to separate "hardware" and "software", and to define what a "scan" of the brain might be.
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Well, actually:

"For instance, there are two different un- prefixes in English: one meaning 'not, opposite of', the other meaning 'reverse action, deprive of, release from'. The first prefix un- 'not' is attached to adjective and participle bases while the second prefix un- 'reverse action' is attached to either verb or noun bases." (From wikipedia)

Since we're talking about an adjective base here, "not happy" === "unhappy".
Very easy to use! I would love an upload-to-soundcloud function as well as non-destructive dubbing (and the ability to remove and redo bad dubs).

Some sort of visual representation of the soundwave, like the soundcloud-app does, is also incredibly useful to get a general idea of what you just recorded.
> ...so what's the policy on using investment money to pay back loans?

It's a no-no unless you negotiate that up front. And likely you'll get a bunch of rejections as a result unless you can come up with a really good reason for that (I can think of a few).
Seriously?

Ruby block syntax is straight up lifted from Smalltalk, not to mention much of the semantics and standard library. Ruby seems like what Smalltalk would be if it was built as a scripting language with file-based structure... and then dragged through the mud of Perl syntax. ;-)
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Say what you will about Windows 8 / MSFT, but this is a damn fine-looking theme.
This is off topic, but I'm just curious. If you've been together for 17 years now, why are you not married?

Many reasons ;-)

* We're both atheists - so we don't think any god(s) are going to be annoyed

* We live in the UK so, at this point, living together without being married isn't frowned upon socially - not by anybody we care about anyway. There's also the slightly weird thing that at this point people just assume we are married unless the topic is brought up specifically.

* Neither of us are particular fans of getting up in front of large groups of people so the whole "wedding day" concept isn't much of an attraction. Quite the opposite if anything.

* No kids (by choice) so don't need to factor in that as an issue.

* The whole needing state/peer approval for a relationship seems slightly weird to both of us. Our commitment is personal and private and doesn't need any external validation thank-you-very-much.

* Personally we see staying together without marriage as a more positive statement about the state of our relationship. We're together because we want to be together - not because a divorce is too much effort.

The only hassles have been around stuff related to medical care for relatives and each other (a few idiots are a little too strict about the definitions of family and need paperwork), along with a mild tax hit since we don't get the married couples allowance. At some point soonish we'll have to sort out some of the legal stuff around investments/wills, etc. - but most of that's already been dealt with with.

If the UK's Civil Partnership arrangement was available to straight couples we might have gone for that - just to make the legal stuff simpler, but is isn't so we didn't.

TL;DR - Why should we? ;-)
Not sure I agree completely. We're looking at a pretty tight niche here, but I think that humanity is, on the whole, is undergoing a shift where projects that appear insurmountable will become commonplace.

Have you seen the automated quad-rotor flying machines that can assemble structures with rudimentary components?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/09/grasp-lab-quadrocopters-l...

This is in early research, but the development of automation systems like this are tightly linked to microprocessor and software advances. Automation technology has been on a steady march of improvement.

Simple tasks like moving dirt, stacking blocks, and pouring concrete are a large part of the construction of flood protection projects. These tasks are perfect targets for automation.

Even without the help of quadrocopters, a firm in China has embarked upon the task of building world's tallest building in 90 days. If they pull it off, and if the building stands, it will change a lot of expectations.
Wow. That's so bizarre. Guy is complaining that three other people that happen to be his kids don't live to his expectations and (oh God!) they don't ask his or their mother's advice. Oh. And he is ashamed when his friends brag about lives of their kids that he can't outbrag them.
I have a strong association of a desire to have children with good times. Plenty. Safety. Relief. An aversion to children is a sign of bad times. Turmoil. War.

It's part of our stories and our mythologies. The heros return from war bringing safety and bounty. Pair up and rase children. I suspect this is part of our biology.

How much of this has always been. How much of it is a result of our present world.
Because the program that does it would itself be an algorithm with its own finite set of axioms. There would be undecidable propositions unreachable by the program.
Have you tried writing a patch for one of the large C compilers? and getting it into mainline? not trivial either.

For the JVM there are choices. IBM, Azul, Oracle, OpenJDK and many other more academic ones. With different tradeoffs and costs. I have switched massive code bases from one to the other with minimal effort.

Switching C compiler is more invasive than switching JVM providers. And many other languages only have a single sanctioned runtime.

Sure the JVM eco system is far from perfect. But it is dependable!
I've done the opposite: Launch a Canadian subsidiary from Europe, then employ myself at the subsidiary. That worked but it is a pretty roundabout way.

If you can qualify under some program that is less difficult then I would definitely not advise this route.
Is it just me, or do elements of it remind anyone of the latest gmail / google groups etc. interface?
The radio is on the internet now. There are probably a couple of dozen iApps for it.
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It would be nice if anyone speculating on Kickstarter's legal obligations laid out their own credentials.

Because just maybe Kickstarter has already considered the legal, logistic and ethical aspects of their own business, and possibly even consulted with lawyers and other experts.
They're probably not going to try to sue you until you're making enough to be able to defend yourself.
Well I fell for it. I thought the smARtDUINO was from the official team.
Ahem. You'd be surprised how many white straight males are indeed interested in that. We've been pleasantly surprised by the popularity of Violet & Rye's straight-couple pegging #realworldsex video on https://makelovenotporn.tv/....:)
Actually, it also works like a charm for Debian/Ubuntu with a preseed file and we've also tested the same process on openstack, cloudstack and rackspace.
Better government than corporation, I choose the lesser evil.
I guess I didn't really mean that. What I should have said was that in any system of axioms (or within any algorithmic structure) there will exist undecidable propositions (unreachable by the algorithm). The mind can determine the truth value of some of these, so the mind can not be encompassed or modeled by an algorithm.
Ask HN: When does it make sense to develop your product as open source?
I'm in the process of starting a company that's developing a PaaS product to help developers deploy and roll back releases across development, QA and production environments. This is a venture that will, at some point, require seed funding to take it past the MVP stage.

The model we're leaning towards currently is to release the software as open source, to encourage a more rapid adoption, while the company sells ongoing support contracts, custom integration, training and consultancy. Because of the nature of the project, it doesn't make sense for it to be offered as a hosted service.

When does it make sense to do this, and when is it more likely to cause failure? Is it something that would immediately put investors off, or would they still see value in it? Is it a model suitable only for bootstrapped companies?
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Ask HN: what do you use for shared PW storage?
What does your team/startup use for secure+encrypted, shared secret info (like PW) storage? I'm looking for something that is role based or has the ability to explicitly give user X access to asset Y. Example I have a pingdom.com l/p that I 3 of my co-workers to be able to use.

I don't mind hosting the tool. I've found https://www.passpack.com/online/ but am hesitant to trust someone else with my sensitive data.
Sorry about the url. The falkvinge.net address in my feed is a product of the HTTPSEverywhere plugin. @Falkvinge tweeted me to find out how I got the url. He is still testing:

'I thought I'd have time to check and roll it out slowly - now, a lot of stuff is still hard-http-linked even on https.'
It's interesting to see that the creators of BigTable and the early proponents of eventual consistency have invested the last 4.5 years building a system that adds back strong consistency guarantees.

If the Spanner paper is as important as BigTable, ACID may become the new goal for those building distributed systems.

Full disclosure: I'm with FoundationDB, which is a distributed NoSQL database with high performance cross-node ACID transactions. http://www.foundationdb.com
I wonder, if this is just an other version of a little Smalltalk. For those who want Smalltalk in JVM, look at:

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/SmallWorld/ReadMe.html
> Ebay is the most merchant-hostile pack of morons I've ever had the displeasure of doing business with, on par with PayPal.

PayPal is owned by ebay. So at least they are consistent :)
30 years ago the internet definitely existed.

If the best we've gotten out of the 30 years of technological advances in the automotive space is power locks, I think my point is well made. I never said that no advances would occur.

30 years ago jet engines were certainly less efficient and less safe, but not by as much as you'd think.

And 25+ years ago I actually used a cell phone. My mother worked for Bell Labs.

I'd say that technological progress in integrated circuit manufacturing over the last 30 years has been amazing, and that's driven a bunch of other development but (1) most fields don't progress anywhere near as fast and (2) that burst of progress is not normal even in ICs and is now slowing down.
Whoops. Dexen got it. I mean, if you take the same set of criteria as before, less the requirement that they be a successful entrepreneur, what percentage of that larger group is married and with children? Without knowing that figure, the statement "60% of successful entrepreneurs are married and have kids" does not tell the story this (misleading, in my opinion) headline wants to tell you.

I do not mean "what percentage of the population is around 40, educated, and married with children?"
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In this world there are big fish and little fish. The only way little fish can protect themselves is by acting together. "Big Government" is one way to do that. Or you could create some other organization that's stronger than the big fish.
Well, you have this enormous amount of energy in the form of college rivalries going towards (in my opinion) a relatively silly ball game. Our hypothesis is that if you could tap just 1% of that energy, you could accomplish something great. This is our first foray into tapping that intensity.
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Absolutely. You might find this piece from HuffPoUK on gender differences in marketing sex toys which I was interviewed for, interesting: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/20/sex-toys-sexist-r...
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Because

http://xkcd.com/927/

One of the greatest things about computing is that everyone has a chance to prove that their idea is better than everyone else. One of the worst things about computing is that everyone thinks their idea is better than everyone else's.
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It's not. It's a new implementation that compiles from smalltalk source directly to jvm bytecode.
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>Here is the thing, someone has gone ahead and spent time and effort to create and sell something,

That's a capital investment. Putting resources into a designing and manufacturing a product before you've got anything to sell is a risky proposition, but it's how the vast majority of all economic activity takes place. Investors bear the risk that people won't be willing to pay for the finished product, and understand that there's a chance that they will lose money instead of making it.

Simply putting effort into creating and selling something doesn't entitle you to a positive return; you have to make something that customers are willing to buy, and people who make their own copies of intangible, non-rival goods are just another category of people who aren't willing to pay. Indeed, in practical terms, they're the last segment of your potential market you'd want to pursue; much better to focus on people who aren't buying your product for other reasons entirely.

> someone then has gone on out of their way and attempted to steal it.

But no one is stealing the work that was created. "Stealing" implies depriving someone of something they own, but this is impossible with respect to creative work. No one can remove the pattern of ideas that defines the work from the creator's mind.

What's happening here is that people are making their own replicas of the creator's original work. This isn't "stealing" anymore than someone is stealing your house by building their own house using a design based on yours.

Making a copy doesn't deprive the original author of anything; all it does is alter the external market conditions under which that author might seek to obtain revenue from selling copies of that original work. But he never had any right to a positive market return in the first place; his profit is inherently contingent on the willingness of others to pay him, and people who aren't willing to pay him because they made their own copies of the work are no different than people who aren't willing to pay him for any other reason, unless you assume that he already had the exclusive right to make those copies.

Do you see the paradox here? You can only posit that the creator has an inherent right to restrict others' copying if you assume that he has an inherent right to a positive ROI when marketing the work, but you can only assume an right to a positive ROI in a scenario where people making their own copies is already legally censured, because otherwise, there's no legal distinction between people who didn't pay him because they copied the work, and people who didn't pay him because they just didn't want the work at all.
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I would suggest to debug the gas and electric installations. That means monitor if there is any abnormal consumptions or leaks.

Changing light bulbs types is like a blind hit.

My brother installed solar panels and could thus monitor consumption. He noticed abnormal consumptions and with his kids search the origin. They found a useless heater left on in some basement room. Problem solved. The nice thing is that it turned out as a game for the small kids and at the the same time they became more careful about devices consuming electricity for nothing.
Business law resources for start-ups
Business law resources for start-ups

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