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I generally become aware that I should leave a comment whenever I write something that is less than trivial (but exactly less than trivial) to write/understand. Longish list comprehension? Summarize what it does. Nested function calls? Summarize why. Etc.
> In programming language terms, I seem to be doing some kind of just-in-time compilation

Seems a lot more like abstract interpretation to me ! Would be a lot more logical too :)
Just keep the laptop elevated(may be place a book beneath it) so that its air vents are clear and it will be mostly fine.
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The problem is in my opinion, that the "conspiracy" websphere is a quite a closed circle. They either go full blown "bow to our UFO overlords", or nothing. I wish there were a few in-between media outlets that had a decent level of sanity and look & feel more linkable for "non believers".
I guess the EFF would offer help if they're asked for it?

Other than that, i don't think Facebook has much legal ground if the facts presented in the blog post are everything to the story...

IANAL, of course
Or the best option: buy from a company that explicitly supports Linux, such as System76 or Zareason. Vote with your wallet!
What VM are you using, if you don't mind me asking? I got severe performance problems with a 2008 macbook pro with 8GB of memory, running VirtualBox or vmware fusion.
Couldn't agree more and we actually have a similar piece on our company blog, http://www.cubeia.com/?p=1084
> so my suggestion is to put the computer inside the refridgerator whilst installing.

laptop CPU/GPU gets hot
fan kicks in
cold air gets sucked in
cold meets hot
condensation and drama ensues
Anyone who is "shocked" already saw this film via torrent years ago.

Anyone who didn't know V before won't care anyway.

it's a meh exaggerated by social media.
Easy on the drama, please.

Monopoly means that there is only a single seller of a given commodity.

Windows was a monopoly in the 1990s and until I guess around when OS X came out - these alternative applications you mention didn't exist yet. Today I wouldn't say Windows is a monopoly, partly because good-enough alternative applications exists, partly because many (most) new, fancy applications are web-based and not limited to IE (as they once were). Today, really, there is really only one reason to run Windows, and it's Office - and that's going away fast, especially as users dawn on the fact that they can communicate without e-mailing Word documents around.

Another important component of Windows monopoly is exclusivity. Today I can trivially run Windows in a VM for that fraction of my workflow that isn't properly supported on Mac or Linux - 10 years ago, the best you could do was dual booting, which was painful and tricky for non-technical users.

Which brings me to Facebook: No, you can't port your social network lock, stock and barrel to a competing service. But you can trivially, with very little friction, maintain your presence on multiple networks - all you need is another tab in your browser, or a client app that supports each. You can even use the APIs of the respective services to integrate them with each other - you can automatically post Tweets to Facebook and vise versa. Plenty of people I know use both Facebook and Twitter in parallel with various degrees of automated integration. That's not the face of a monopoly.

The fact that other people don't want to stop using Facebook does not make Facebook a monopoly. They have strong network effects, yes, but that's not the same.
Yes, it does. There was a study of how well people could remember positions of chess pieces on a board. The general public did equally badly for both random arrangements and those that could actually appear in a game, but skilled chess players did well remembering arrangements that could appear in a game, but were no better than the general public on random configurations.
I find it difficult to get a general understanding of Philosophy as this discipline tends to be so big that it is difficult to get a good overview.

What I would suggest is asking yourself what kind of questions you find interesting.
Do you like Politics and have arguments with libertarians, nationalists etc? Maybe you want to read more about that, reading both contemporary authors as well as classic ones such as Rousseau or Mill.
Are you more interested in questions that are linked to science? Go read about authors such as Daniel Dennett, Searle or David Chalmers to find out more about questions e.g. "what is consciousness? How does this relate to AI?" and many other topics.

After a while you will know more names of authors and you will increase your network immensely.
I concur. I played through Skyrim originally on PS3, then got a powerful PC and tried it on there.

I thought the game looked uglier. Now I realize that it might be that the FPS is too high.
Not about V for Vendetta, but my when my wife saw Animal Farm for the first time a couple of weeks ago she thought it was pretty accurate.

V can be interpreted any way you want depending on who you think the bad guys are. The Chinese government was established by revolutionaries after all.
I switched to using Ubuntu for all my web development work about a year ago. I even ran Ubuntu on a £200 desktop with 8GB RAM until I upgraded to Win 8.

But all my work is done in a VM using Virtual Box. I switch between two desktops and a laptop regularly and run multiple VMs. I don't waste time reinstalling my base OS, I just import my VM image and get working.

My 2008 MacBook Pro is struggling a little, but not just with the VM and it's limited to 4GB RAM. Having at least 8GB RAM makes it all work much, much better. I get the joy of Linux, Windows and OSX with surprisingly very little headache. And I use Git to synchronise all my work.
That first pie chart (2012 - Race to HTML5) looks damn healthy and just where we want to be. I.e. No outright monopoly by any player.
$1Bn was not material enough for FB bod to even be briefed on instagram. this is 1/2 that for scale. Furthermore, after tax shields, this is only $250 out of pocket. Spending $250 to protect a $10-50bn asset base is actually good math. Same as instagram purchase logic. BTW, $250m is also the amount that evaporated from the instagram deal for instagram shareholders during the 6m it took to close the deal (FB stock portion decreased in value). At the scale of FB, these numbers are not so impressively generous, in other words.

While I don't think its a one sided discussion, its certainly open for debate if you are looking at the maths.
If only Dell's Project Sputnik[1] wasn't so expensive and the resolution wasn't so terrible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847720
Movie censorship is pretty strong in china -- even movies that have "bad" endings need to be revised before they can be shown there. Although I'm not a native, I do know that hordes of people take trips down to Hong Kong all the time, merely for the purposes of watching movies. All the stories of China remind me of Orwell's 1984.
Taleb's emphasis in his latest book is on avoiding the naive attempt to predict the unpredictable. Instead, focus on identifying and making things "Antifragile" so that they are resistant to (or even benefit from) events that would otherwise be destructive. With that in mind, risk management becomes much less about guessing about the future. Instead, the focus is to identify the fragile (that which is highly susceptible to disruption) and take steps to make it antifragile.

http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Gain-Disorder/...

It is an enjoyable read so far...
A very insightful reply. Thanks.
Academia is not like that. You don't have much immediate job risk, because jobs have defined lengths of time (2-year postdocs, 6-year tenure race, indefinite tenure) but the career risk is intolerable. Academia has a terrible job market; it has sold out a generation and a half and I don't see it being able to unwind that.

Academia has almost no financial upside but a lot of downside.
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One browser should not dominate if the market is to stay healthly. I wish Opera would grow some in share, perhaps even Safari. But that blue needs to be GONE.
Three banking models:

1. There is not much in the way of market pressure in the "Great Moderation" banking system (weak regulation, deposit guarantees) to drive out risky banks - they are a net gain for investors (ignoring the agency effect of bankers screwing their shareholders through bonuses), since bank failures represent a form of subsidy to the financial system. Some shareholders get some of the stock wiped out, but it is all limited liability; others profit magnificently.

2. The libertarian banking system that we saw in C19th (little regulation, no systematic deposit guarantees) does seem to have the right market pressure, but it seems to be yet more unstable since we saw it face regular bank runs followed by grand-scale financial collapse - the 19th century was more economically unstable than the 20th century for this reason, with the UK (then dominant in finance) having 5 major financial crises; one of which (the 1873 panic) led to a depression lasting 2 years longer than the Great Depression. So your frequency's "low enough levels" seems to be around every 20 to 25 years.

3. So deposit guarantees of institutions in exchange for effective regulation that avoids the dangerous effects of excessive leverage, so outlawing your risky bank, seems to be the way forward. Unfortunately it is in the interests of these financial institutions to subvert regulation, so designing such regulation is hard ("who could have forseen that the banks accounts could have mispriced risky assets and moved gigantic liabilities off balance sheet yet again?")

This isn't really a Black Swan issue, it's an agency issue where neither depositors nor regulators understand what banks are doing. But Black Swans do tend to crowd around important, hard to figure out areas of endeavour.
64-bit Ubuntu works fine, too. The ball disappears in some frames, but it's no thing.
People who grow up without guns get so freaked out about them. My dad grew up in a time and place in the American West where lots of the kids and teachers brought guns to school as their parents and grandparents had. Walking home from school, they'd shoot potatoes for fun. In the entire history of the town, nobody ever shot anybody, in anger or by accident. Guns were just tools like knives, trucks, or farm machinery. You learned to use them carefully, and you used them all the time.

I agree that arming an untrained hothead like this professor would be a mistake. He would probably laugh at a fuzzy studies colleague who noticed a radiation warning on some chemical in his closet and freaked out about RADIATION! RADIATION! Yet he's just as superstitious about his gun taboo. Letting him near students at all is probably a mistake.

But allowing some people to go through reasonable training and, if certified and background checked, be allowed to carry a weapon would probably be fine. I suspect it just wouldn't make any difference. On rare occasion, an armed staff member would save or rescue somebody. On other rare occasions, somebody would grab a teacher's gun, just playing around or seriously, and hurt somebody. Statistically, it would probably be a wash.
Ion engines have been tested at effective exhaust velocities of 90 km/s [0], which allows delta-v's up to 500 km/s or so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Power_Electric_Propulsion
For my next computer, I would like to buy a linux laptop, because I do not want to give my money to people who hurt me (Microsoft). Are there any laptop where linux works well (every peripheral work perfectly and power management is as good as windows) ? I am not a gamer, I do not tweak much my system (I do not touch unless it is broken). The applications I use frequently are Chrome, Eclipse, virtualbox, XMBC, LibreOffice and Wine (for photoshop and home made old utilities). Any advice to not burn ?
TFA mentions that "Xi Jinping assumed office as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China on November 15th and he may have brought a more liberal attitude with him"...

Time will tell, I guess.
I really wish this person, in the course of an otherwise sane argument (one that I feel for tremendously, as I have spent the last five years of my life organizing a community of people who do nothing but modify other peoples' software products, one that I always have felt has numerous analogies to what people do with GreaseMonkey scripts and browser extensions), didn't feel the need to play the "they don't own the letters FB" card... that is a ludicrous way of looking at trademark law (which involves a large dose of context sensitivity: if you are using FB for a coffee shop that is very different than an app that changes how people use a product that is often abbreviated FB). To then further claim that it stands for Fluff Busting and doesn't have anything to do with Facebook is just trying to play the audience for a fool: it doesn't matter what it "stands for", those letters would not have been chosen in this context had the name of the website been different.
I think that this comes down not so much to the arrogance of "Our idea is so good, we must stop people copying it!", but more the ignorance of "I read a lot about NDAs, they seem like something that might make people take us more seriously as businesspeople".
Just take your own glasses to the movies that have same polariser in both eyes.
Did you try contacting the owner of the domain? The "shady domain protection service" will usually forward emails to the owner.

Probably contacting them without disclosing your existing affiliations and without coming across as aggressive you might end up with the domain for a few hundred $ instead of spending month/years feeding lawyers across the globe.

Also: Just because the domain is set to expire at a certain date doesn't mean that it is really going to expire. Self written scripts usually loose out to professional drop services ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_drop_catching ).
After I saw The Hobbit at 48fps, I'm having a hard time watching 24fps movies. Yesterday I watched The Shining by Kubrik. It was jittery, and that's a slow film. HFR is superior to 24fps in every conceivable way. I suppose color and sound were not considered "cinematic" back in the day just like HFR now.

3D on the other hand... I wish it would die. You have to converge at a distance and focus at another, and that's really hard for some people. There are a huge number of cues[1] that are important in depth perception, but 3D movies make use only of parallax confusing the brain. The depth of field is usually shallow, and that's great for 2D, but catastrophic for 3D. In real life, objects that I make an explicit effort to focus to are not blurry, but in 3D they are.

Another annoying aspect of 3D movies is that they artificially augment the parallax to make the 3D effect more extreme. That's equivalent to objects being really close. Apart from strain on the eyes, that's really annoying for wide outdoor shots, where things should effectively be at infinity. It's like you are looking at a miniature, not at a vast valley.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
I'm a little suspicious of this. It might be true but something doesn't sit quite right. Where's the full text? Or a scan of the letter. How do we know that this is done by Facebook's legal team? Why only this product and not others like SocialFixer?

Surely the legal team would present a legal response, like a cease and desist?
I have a rule of thumb these days. Anything crazy that I hear the military, NSA or FBI are doing - I take it as being true, rather than a "conspiracy theory".

I think I have a much higher chance of being right than not, in most cases. So I'd rather think like that by default, especially with many former "crazy conspiracy theories" being confirmed as true by more recent leaks and whistleblowers.

I think most people still think the opposite, though, so even if something big gets uncovered, they won't really believe it to be true "in their hearts".
You're not concurring. A jittery framerate is bad, but JC isn't saying that a consistently higher framerate will look worse. He's saying that developers will try to push as much content and single-frame fidelity in there as possible while staying above 30 fps.

The whole argument really only applies to consoles.
You are of course right about 1 of the 3 methods of finding planets around distant stars but I feel droithomme was more commenting on the total disconnect between the post title and the actual discovery which is nothing like 'earth-like planet discovered around a star 12 light years away'.

Apologies for being a pedant
> Legal documents are easy to misinterpret.

Actually the reason legal documents are written in a quirky funny dialect is to make them less ambiguous, not more so. If they are, whoever's written them is doing it wrong.

In today's social environment, the way people are made to feel like customers/users, only to later be sold as product, with little regard to privacy and/or control over their data and profile, isn't it funny how people are starting to assume the worst?

In all fairness, except for that bad start, later on you write the confusing language was your mistake, so you probably meant to say "Legal documents are hard to write, especially when people actually read them".

> Ownership Rights Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos.

Um, yeah. What's "Ownership Rights"? It's not a legal term. Yet you capitalized and bolded the term. I'm sure you didn't mean to say "Copyrights" because you know what those are very well and take great care to not mention them. Also you can't have meant "Personality Rights" because they're generally non-transferable.

On the other hand, at least you acknowledged the public's reaction. And rather quickly, at that. That's good.

You also say you're listening and will improve the wording of the TOS. How that will turn out remains to be seen, when it happens. If so, I hope you'll excuse my skepticism.
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The market itself grew enormously in the same time.
I also had severe performance problems with VirtualBox on Windows but they were magically fixed by increasing the number of virtual CPUs from 1 to 2. I am talking 10-20 times performance boost just by doing that and nothing else. Maybe the same will help you. I blogged about it here: http://thoughtflow.dk/2012/12/07/prevent-slow-linux-performa...
Same story, multiple sources, few comments, few upvotes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937520 (thelocal.se)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937806 (thelocal.se)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937879 (theverge.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940644 (foreignpolicy.com)
Unfortunately, it already happened.
It's the censorship lift that shocks (as in 'surprises', not 'offends') people, not the film itself.
> If the overarching plot is to kill a dragon, there are some difficulties when trying to stretch it out into 9 hours of films.

From what I've gathered the dragon will be dealt with in the second movie (hence the name), while the third movie will deal with the aftermath, as well as being padded with content from the LOTR appendix. Personally I think the first movie will make more sense in light of the sequels, though that of course doesn't really defend the somewhat lackluster nature of it.
Why sound Makes Film Less Magical?
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In my opinion this will happens all the time new technology will be use in Films.
The peoples just need time to accept it.
I hope that future Films (especially 3D) will be made in with 60 FPS !
Exactly. Given they made this mistake, this reaction was exactly the best they could do, short of immediately releasing a new and improved TOS, "better like this?"

It remains to be seen how well they've really listened when they put up their next attempt at writing "easy to misinterpret legal documents".

And after that, the next TOS change, and the next one after that ...
Such a statement should immediately attract a contrarian HN commenter who would say "how dare you not call this sexism!", and here, interesting discussion is highjacked by yet another irrelevant women versus tech debate.

Ugh, I've just contributed some more. The only winning move is not to play.
They don't care about the legal standing. They know that they can use the lawsuit threat as a weapon to force others into compliance. It's due to the cost of funding a lawsuit which is how corporations get their way whether they have strong legal case or not.

Yes there are cases of the "small man" being able to fight back and win. I doubt its par for the course and it's one of the severe drawbacks of our legal system in the US
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Somehow I doubt this. Only a few days ago when the news of school shooting broke out, China had a similar incident a day later where a man stabbed/injured 22 children. However, that story was quickly snuffed and the only place you could find out about it was on China's twitter (weibo). I doubt one man could easily hand over the reigns of the media.
> Personally, I can't see how anything that replicates reality better can be intrinsically bad.

It's not intrinsically bad, it's just harder to use.

If people liked realistic Instagram would be dead.
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Relevant SMBC:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2628
I think it boils down to economics: Why give away your chance to become a poster child and the money that goes with it? Taking your photos elsewhere will kill that chance, and the accompanying unfairness.

I wonder why instagram didn't opt for the revenue sharing model with its users.
Thanks for writing on this topic.

Two questions I relevance:

1.) What was the order you watched the different [quality of] films in?
2.) Is it possible that the 48fps version (with its inclusion of elements that do not directly add to the story) was shot in such a manner specifically for the substantial number of psychedelic-using filmgoers?
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How do you know it actually happened and that it was not just a false rumor spread on social media?
"However, whenever I used to install Linux along with Windows, it'd always mess up my Windows installation a few days later. Last time, fiddling with Linux made me lose my Master File Table. I had all the files, but just didn't know where they begun and ended."

I've been running linux on various devices for 16 years, and as a primary OS for about 7 or 8. I have never had this happen.

What does this guy do to his machines?

Laptop support can be a bit variable, but I've not really had problems there other than the odd SD reader not being supported.
He means that if you keep spending all of your investment's returns, you'll end up with a fixed income of $30K (1% of $3M) that, due to inflation, will have less purchasing power as the years go by.
Screw that bs. What, no one can use any NASDAQ stock name as a prefix, suffix or in the name at all? I can't publish a book or record a scene with 'google that' because Google wants to protect their brand?

Are nations going to publish a list of 'good' words that we can't get sued for using, and name it 'neotalk'?
I don't think the order would be "everybody is free to broadcast everything they want from now on", these things take time. An actual incident is an actual incident, a fantasy film is just that: a fantasy. Also, reactions to live events are much more "automatic" than broadcasting a film released years ago and that has, likely, cleared a number of censorship checks at high levels.
Like the Chinese housing bubble?
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