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Not really, you missed the point which was the government can create new dollars at will. Nobody can create new Bitcoins on a whim.
Sorry to be pedantic but these are wrong examples:

just-testing-this ---> just_testing_this

JustTestingThis ---> justTestingThis

The second one is less dramatic but the first one would in most languages subtract testing and this from just.
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When the temp went down, the calculated available miles went down also -- and almost accurately, that is, the car went dead about when the miles-left display went to zero.

Showing that the range is zero when the battery is dead is not hard. The problem is when the displayed range drops faster than you're traveling, and if that wasn't the problem, he wouldn't have been stranded. If it was adjusting its display for temperature, it wouldn't have been wrong.

Or, they could provide what a lot of east-coast cars have, a built in engine-block heater that you plug in to a 110V extension cord overnight.

Had he plugged the car into a 110V outlet overnight, the battery would have been charged in the morning.
I'll go straight out and say it: if there is intelligence elsewhere in the universe, we have no guarantees to say that that form of cognition would in anyway resemble our own since the only models we have presume terran conditions.
What like... http://steep.it/2minutes50seconds ?
So you agree, then, that this is just a business situation and has nothing to do with Stallmanesque ideology or Swartz-ish liberation of information, despite the superficial similarity to the latter (universities and journals are involved). You may not agree with the boycotters' perceptions of the situation, but that doesn't change the fact that they are acting in their own perceived self-interest.

Your comment that opened the thread is therefore off the mark. (For the record, I agree with your replies to 'clicks. I just don't think the argument you're having with him/her is relevant to this boycott.)
That's the link to the full FIRST Edition (2001).

The News here (as reflected in the original title of this submission) is that the individual chapters of the SECOND edition (now four years old) are available online.
btw, advice to anyone who experiences it, if you think your retina is detaching, SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION IMMEDIATELY. (If that wasn't obvious from the article.)
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In the past I've been told by various people that YC explicitly avoids applications that have anything to do with games, regardless of the other aspects of the app, just because the games industry tends to be a money pit. Is this true (or still true, if it once was)?
That's amazing.

Finally such a thing has been invented. That's the future. I'm looking forward for other incredible nanomaterials.
People copy frustration from each other [1] - that is why public speaking and writing needs to be careful. In general people know the rules and they used to speak and write differently depending on the audience and they used to put a lot of work into public speaking/writing to avoid provoking the 'monkey dances'. The internet somehow blurs the distinction, there is so much public writing that we don't have time to put that extra effort, and also it feels like it is private writing - that is why we have flamewars (http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/online-conflict-in-the-light-o...).

It was a mistake that his rant addressed to his friends was posted publicly, but I am also sure that with some effort it could be made less flamebaiting.

1. See the mimetic theory by Rene Girard - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard
I don't have the data to definitively suggest that the epidemics could have been eradicated by methods other than vaccine. Its entirely possible that they could.

But while we're talking about vaccines and personal freedoms and all that yap, do lets remember that some of those other methods they were using to combat these epidemics back then were forced quarantines on pain of arrest, interstate travel restrictions, and the closing of public buildings like pools, libraries and schools.
As you acknowledge, the branding is almost nothing to do with the publisher itself though. Nobody cares a jot that journal X is from publisher Y (I don't even know who publishes most of the big econ journals I read papers in).

The 'branding' (and I think most academics would prefer the term reputation) is developed over many years by good decisions on the part of editors and reviewers — generally academics working for free — and by others making citations. The publishers contribute negligibly to this, which is why the substantial rents they subsequently extract — and the exclusivity of knowledge this promotes — are so annoying to people.
It's going to haunt not just Tesla for years, but all electric vehicles. And with good reason - calculating the remaining potential energy of Lithium batteries is difficult, even without throwing in the variable of temperature. It is not, by any means, "simple physics". The battery is a weak point in all EVs right now, and not just because of this.

Full disclosure, I own a Zero motorcycle. The thing is amazing in SF city traffic. It's less amazing on the highway. You should read up on Terry Hershner. He's taken a Zero motorcycle cross country by driving for 45 minutes and charging for 45 minutes. So, it can be done, but road trips are not the optimal use case for an electric vehicle. yet. :)
Well wow. You know what? "We" already came upon this idea (the last sentence) and you will be seeing something cool in about 5-7 years. :)
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> First, marijuana is still illegal for doctors to prescribe in all 50 states, so saying that it's already used in modern medicine is a bit dubious.

Dronabinol is on formularies all over the US. There are marijuana dispensaries in many places. MDs write letters saying they believe their patients are best served by inhaled marijuana. What is legal and what has evidence are sometimes two different entities.

> And presumably the amount of commercial research done on naturopathy is almost zero since plants can't be patented.

Plant derivatives are patented all the time, so this isn't the reason that nobody is willing to invest in naturopathy.
Next time always remember to withdraw your earnings no matter how small the amount, once its in an account other than your bank.
Once.

On fall 2011, my college friends and me entered a local hackathon to create a mobile app for Mexico city. At that time we were still students and the event was held on weekdays so the first team that we thought was modified several times due to this. In the end 3 of four members of the original team showed up plus one friend we invited out of panic.

We didn't have enough confidence because most of the participants were experienced IT professionals who entered for leisure or mobile development companies seeking for talent or attention and we were just students who had less than a year working on Android. From our point of view we were under-qualified and we feared to public ridicule.

It was a 2 day hackathon of non-stop work where the result was a totally functional app for routing using public transportation. Everyone was shocked for the amount of work we achieve in 48 hours, mainly because most of the teams had just unfinished prototypes and we had a ready to distribute app.

The next year we participated again, this time the whole team, but it wasn't the same, we had a plain participation. I couldn't help but feeling disappointed and thoughtful of what went wrong. It might be overconfidence or that we were lucky one year before. I am willing to try again sometime in the near future.

The important is that thanks to that one time we won, we got to know to a lot of talented people, got to own a top app, and got the chance to work in a national cool IT company and we helped to fund one of the companies of the first batch of 500startup MX (but that's another story). All of this before our graduation!
But that's not as much fun. :-)
Can you cite some evidence to the contrary? I'm tempted to say it's you who may be mis-informed.
But you could also never wash it?
Awesome idea, but all it ever gives me is a loading bar. shapecatcher.com/engine/recognize eventually returns "504 Gateway Time-out"
i would imagine the boot removal would be required regardless in these situations. i doubt this hydrophobic coating can withstand being walked upon and thoroughly abraded by a 200lb worker after being applied to the soles of the boots - the part that actually tracks mud.
No, because you could still get the code from Microsoft, assuming the original code would be gone for whatever reason.

Commercial vendors could always make use of LGPL if they distribute the software. Unless they are using languages like Go.

As for server side applications most vendors are just lechers. They use the code because they don't pay anything for it and most never return anything back, regardless of the license being used. This is my Fortune 500 experience.
Spray this inside your computer everywhere except at key places requiring cooling (like on the top of the CPU). Flood the computer with water. Passive silent cooling !
> The whole cleaning industry could be changed.

By making it obsolete maybe. Sounds like unemployment.
I used to be an international student in the US. So I feel OP's pain. I have an advice in addition to winter_blue's. However, I have been out of the US for 3 years and I don't know if any rules have changed since then.

Besides applying for precompletion OPT which will take months and months, a much quicker route for me was to get a part-time job at school. I did this when I was working as a CS tutor in my CS department's lab. This could still be possible for international students, it's definitely worth checking right row. The reason a social security card or a tax ID is needed for international student is solely for tax purposes. Yes, you read it right, we pay sales tax and income tax and don't get to vote or a path to citizenship in less then 20 years. I suspect your funds were frozen because PayPal could not determine whether your money should be considered income or something else. If it's income, you'll have to pay taxes.

I don't know which school you go to, but generally there should be hundreds of part-time jobs in all sorts of variety available at your school to accommodate students in work-study programs. You can apply for a job to be a lab janitor in a day and get your SS card in less than about 2 weeks. Once you have that then you can file a dispute complaint with PayPal.

Good Luck.

---Additional Advice Here After Edit---

If your 200k is saved towards paying for your tuition and living expenses, and you have money problem now, you should talk to your school's international student's office and/or legal counsel immediately. You might be allowed to work off-campus and stay in school under the premise that you are in "economic hardship".
That would be a qualified yes. As an example, the Gates Foundation has given a bit over a billion dollars to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. Those three diseases are among the biggest causes of (relatively) easily preventable deaths. In terms of vaccines, research is being done to develop a vaccine for malaria (which causes about 1% of global deaths), but vaccination may not prove to be the most effective means of eradicating the disease. Things like antimalarial drugs and mosquito netting may be more cost-effective, and so malaria rates have dropped dramatically despite there not being a vaccine. There is a vaccine for Tuberculosis, but it's definitely not cost-effective. AIDS is no longer a death sentence, though no vaccine exists. So in terms of Malaria and AIDS, the foundation has been reasonably successful (tuberculosis is proving to be a rather more difficult problem).

So the Gates Foundation has contributed to improvements in health, though again, the contribution is fairly limited (as one would expect when talking about a fund with only $30 billion, which is a huge amount of money for an individual but pretty much insignificant on a global scale).
> high-end residential

lol
People are already doing immersive liquid cooling with oils. Distilled water should be safe, too, as it's completely non-conductive.

EDIT: Follow-ups, thanks for the correction.
I remember reading it's already food-safe, as in if you scraped it with a knife and munched on it, it'd still pass through you without any effects, but sorry, I don't have a source for that.
TrueCrypt uses only 1000 iterations of SHA-512, which is worse not better. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=header-key-derivation
I think the real difference here is not so much that the marginal cost of digital goods is low, but that customers also own the means of reproduction. That is the fundamental difference that leads to arguments over rights, and then to arguments over morals, as these things often do.
Just another link in this subject: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2016968 - the problem with patents is the scalability of the system. It can work reasonably when there is an index - like in the chemical patents now - but without efficient search it is a minefield for inventors.
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That is nice advice for someone just building a traditional sold-product model game but that's not the sort of thing I'm referring to. I'm referring more to business models like the one Valve has adopted and the one used by Spry Fox and a pitch that has distinguishing characteristics other than 'we are making a cool game', where the tough part is proving out the business model etc.

EDIT: Aw, why'd you delete it? I think that was good advice to share for anyone else, even if it's not applicable to my question :(
Heat dissipation issues can arise, besides with rising temperature the coating can lose integrity. Poor heat dissipation is the reason why smartphones don't use these coatings inside the chassis to protect electronics.

PS: I work on this topic, and that is why i keep replying to every post. I am not being facetious.
And by new jobs spraying coating.
Well, for what it's worth publishers are responsible for maintaining those editorial boards, over time periods much longer than academic careers. They care about the long term sustainability of the journals for commercial reasons, of course.
I wonder how long it lasts, particularly when constantly exposed to the elements?
But it would also never get dirty!! :D
Having read the article, this comment seems to come out of nowhere.

The content creators want their work to be free, and none of the stuff you're posting seems to touch on that.
That was MIT's "LiquiGlide"[1]. Theirs was created from food-safe materials.

[1] http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679878/mits-freaky-non-stick-coa...
The Knuth optimal balancing algorithm is implemented in C in the Gnu Core Utilities program "fmt" -- see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ -- and is plenty fast enough for a browser to render text.
Superhydrophobic and oleophobic coating - uber waterproof anything
I agree with what you said, except I'm not totally thrilled with how you took one and a half sentences I wrote out of context, incorrectly claimed they were in error, and then wrote a bunch of unrelated stuff that had no bearing on them, as if it was a disagreement.

But, yeah. Textbooks are far clearer for a novice than papers are, and hard work is more effective than whining. That's right!
I had an idea about this recently, and would love for someone to further develop it. I already implemented a proof of concept, but won't have time to build it to a complete product any time soon.

The (simplified) idea for recommending movies was:

1. Crawl a torrent site (say, the pirate bay) for as many torrents you can find. Extract the title, description, magnet link and category for each torrent.
2. Use the DHT network to find out which IP addresses are downloading what torrents
3. Use these (torrent, ip) tuples to build a recommendation based on "People who download X also download Y"

This way you can try to find movies that are liked (or actually, downloaded) by people with similar taste to you. The quality of this recommender is quite impressive in my opinion.

Email me at arno at vanlumig dot com if you want to see the proof of concept, I won't post a link here because the performance is quite bad and I'm sure the server won't be able to handle any significant load.

I will make the data (torrent metadata and data about who downloaded what) available as soon as I've anonymised the IP addresses, also mail me if you're interested in that data.
This is exactly what I thought of when I first read the stories about "linux bricking Samsung laptops":

"Hmmm... what if a malware author ported the 'linux driver' to windows and embedded it in a drive-by download?"

Hopefully this will push vendors to fix bugs like this instead of unfairly causing a PR disaster for Linux.
Like the article mentioned, coating a boat seems like it could be awesome. No drag, zip through the water. If it does work like that, I'd imagine we'll also start seeing it in competitive swim suits.
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It won't be safe long though, it'll slowly leach various chemicals out of the components. Eventually it'll form rust which will dissolve into the water and serve as an electrolyte, and then everything will go to hell in a hand basket quickly.
Because its not easy, and we just got started. And in research, this is not a long time. I told the timescale on the higher end of spectrum, and i'm sure lots of momentum will be added once first publication is out.
"losethos"? Are you talking about this guy? https://twitter.com/losethos
I don't think customers are expecting that. I wouldn't.
OK, you do the product development, I'll file the inevitable patent lawsuit, and we can both be famous!
If you need 129 slides to explain your culture, there is definitely something wrong with it.
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Distilled water is a bad choice. While deionized water is non-conductive, it can act as a solvent for so many things that almost any impurities it comes in contact with will result in the water being made conductive.
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If Earth were devoid of vegetation and instead uniformly rocky, running into a sliver of a downed plane might've been far more probable. Especially with volunteers scouring every taken image for anything that doesn't look like a rock.
Forgive me for not being able to find the link to reference, but this very same question came up on Reddit aswell.

The company replied to the suggestion saying yes, the technology has marine uses, and coating a boat with the compound does reduce the drag - the issue being the stability of the boat is reduced in turn which means the running speed needs to be increased to compensate.
Ohh, I expected this joke coming since I saw the movie ads.
Those images are straight from NASA's website. Unless you're suggesting there's a photoshop troll on NASA's Curiosity team?

Here's the link to the full-res photo from NASA: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0173MR092... and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00173/mcam/0173...
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Do you mean this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension
Correction: no FDA approved HIV vaccine exists, yet. However, HIV vaccines do exist and are in, or will soon be in, clinical trials. That doesn't necessarily mean that they will be proven to be safe and effective, but it's not unreasonable to imagine that one of the vaccines in the pipeline will prove to be.
You should lawyer up. Having multiple accounts with intentionally fake adresses and this sum of money may be illegal and punishable according to money laundering laws; and the business may get you thrown out of USA permanently due to visa violation - so you need to protect yourself.
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It's basic surface tension, just like how the water at the beginning forms beads. That's essentially just one large flat bead.
There's even a song and music video about it (albeit in german): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWQGNSqZ8o
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The only thing this seems to leave out is the individual "will not be vaccinated"'s culpability in the spread of the disease to one of the "cannot be vaccinated"s.

Manslaughter charges as part of the utility function then?

Two or more people living within each others influence is an engineered society. The only question is what does the engineering. "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".
> Is it perhaps the more comfortable of the two possibilities?

The more plausible of the two (Occam's razor). Even though it's highly unlikely to stumble on a spacecraft wreckage on Mars. It is even more unlikely for this to be an alien tech. Though, I do admit, I want it to be :)
I think that with respect to game royalties, that ship set sail a long time ago. Publishers in the earliest generations would often give creators huge royalties, and it's just been on a gradual decline since then.

The topsy-turvy situation the industry is in now, though, has countless factors - it's going to be discussed for years to come, and the signs of disruption are appearing on all fronts.
Bah. Good sentiment, bad blog post.

If you watched a documentary about Silicon Valley, and came away thinking that Noyce invented the transistor.... either you have a listening problem, or PBS has a fact-checking problem. Noyce was 21 and still a junior at Grinnell.

Also, just because YOUR attention is on silly little so/mo/lo startups doesn't mean they're the focus of Silicon Valley. Seriously, how many people are employed by all the Y-Combinator companies put together? Now, how many people are employed just by Google, in the Bay Area alone? And it's not like Google is the only company doing worthwhile things, but even if it were, that'd be sufficient to disprove your catastrophizing.

There are lots of awesome companies, large (e.g. Google) through small (e.g. Khan Academy), doing awesome world-changing things. In some cases they're hiring PhDs, in other cases they're hiring passionate dropouts, whoever can make the awesome happen. Just because a bunch of illiterate idiots write a lot of smoke-and-heat-but-no-light articles about faddish "apps" doesn't mean that's really where all the action is.

Ignore the idiocy; keep your eye on the stuff of value. Of course, if what you value is hype, then I take it all back.
Certainly no more unemployment than was caused by the invention of automobile farm equipment, but I think most people come down in favor of that.
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I think the onus lies the other way. Go through the list of the 10 wealthiest billionaires and explain how each has earned their wealth either ethically or unethically. Please. Maybe just the top 5 even?
That sounds odd (removal of boots) to me since it compromises safety and creates liability. Hardware and paint supply stores sell tough fabric bootees that fit over regular workboots for this sort of situation.
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