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Thanks, succinct explanation of the tripping mind. Have always felt there was some level of distortion in the trips I've taken, as if something were being created from nothing.

Then again, that is the appeal of the trip, the mundane takes on a life of its own and becomes something else entirely -- the oh, now-I-get-it-what-a-fool-I've-been-experience, it's been here all along!

Later, returning to work, relationships, etc., the trip becomes a memory, some far more pronounced than others, but a memory nonetheless.

Life is a moving stream, nothing to hold on to here.
Is there any talk of open-sourcing the presto engine?

Even if it were not to be actively developed by engineers; just having the code out there would be good for academic purposes or "This is another way of how it was done" archiving.

It would be a crying shame for the presto code to fade into properietary obscurity
The "trick" is to provide a so called draft instead of the paper you have in the IEEE/ACM format, I wrote so called because it's usually the exact same content with a different formating. The only paper you are legally not allowed to share is the one with the publisher's template (LNCS/IEEE/ACM...). If you go to researcher's web page you'll find that most of them just upload a version without using the IEEE/ACM template on their public page to be on the safe side. However many people don't really care and upload the pdf from the proceeding even when they're not supposed to ;)
In order to keep the increase in sharpness that you get from 10x the pixels - yes, you would need 10kHz, 10x the refresh rate. The moving picture would look sharper than the moving picture on the 2000px display. If you use 1000Hz refresh rate, then the crispness of moving objects on the 20,000px display would degrade to approximately the crispness of the 2,000px display.
I hope that made sense.
We've got some companies in Holland that take care of that problem. You buy the car abroad and have the companies strip them and replace luxery items with standard stuff. Car goes to customs, the price is estimated and a tax is paid. Car gets assembled with all the good stuff. (Most profitable for cars that are 1 year old). Tried to do this with a Harley davidson bike from NY to Holland. Failed because you really need someone on the other end (buyer you can trust).
Thank you for this insightful commentary.

I wanted to add that there is a general vibe in this overall thread (not your comment - the vibe that you have responded to) that Microsoft essentially muscled their way into the console industry and achieved market dominance, largely because of their financial abilities.

Certainly, their financial abilities allowed them to shoulder the losses on hardware, but as you have pointed out, it is a common practice to implement a loss leader [1] strategy on hardware to achieve market share for other services (e.g., subscription gaming services, games, etc.)

Back to my point regarding financially muscling their way into the console market and why I do not believe that this is an entirely correct assessment.

For example:

1. Microsoft included a NIC in the XBOX at launch. It was baked-in; this was not an add-on. Sony had to step up and compete by offering the PlayStation Network Adapter, initially as an add-on. Also, Microsoft launched XBOX Live approximately 4 years ahead of PlayStation Network... 4 years!

Before that time, Sony essentially relied on game developers and publishers to support networked gameplay via a server infrastructure that was not controlled or offered as a subscription service by Sony. That service did not occur until Sony offered PlayStation Network.

2. Microsoft included a hard disk (a console industry first) in the XBOX, for storing downloadable content.

These are two examples of why it is not entirely correct to say that Microsoft achieved success solely by financial ability alone.

It was Microsoft that had the vision to launch with a unified, subscription-based gaming service with XBOX Live and a hard disk for storing additional content. They ultimately delivered a superlative networked gaming experience out of the gate, particularly with the quintessential launch title, Halo: Combat Evolved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
Jeff Minters autobiography series is a fun read: http://minotaurproject.co.uk/lshistory1.php

Someone just needs to get him to keep writing - last post was 6-7 years ago.
It is not cheating. If you are still employed - you fulfill job requirements you agreed on in exchange for money. If you are not fulfilling these requirements any company fill just fire you. Side projects are irrelevant.

(Unless it is specifically said in contract and you are being paid for a chance of inventing for company something forth extra pay)
... how does selling off unused domains relate to this at all?
You signed up on HN to give the worst company response ever in a HN thread? Is "visit the github" a new brocode meme?
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If it makes the difference between keeping a typical employee for N years and keeping them for N+1, it's probably a huge net savings of money.
it's the difference between knowledge and groking I suppose.
Ah, I had just been viewing it in the browser; but I do notice these things as I'm a bit of a fan of the fluid to mobile idea. https://www.promosity.com <- my startup - fluid to mobile throughout
As far as the Bloomberg Excel plug-in goes, as long as you open the spreadsheet on a desktop with the Terminal installed, it will be displaying realtime data in the context of the logged in user (delayed/realtime, exchange permissions, etc.). If the spreadsheet is opened on a PC without the plug-in, it will just be missing any data that is supposed to be supplied from the plug-in. So users share spreadsheets as they would any other Excel spreadsheet.

As far as the origin of spreadsheets that Bloomberg helps create, they usually fall into one of two categories:

- There is a gallery of great complex examples that have already been created and designed (probably initially for one client / company) that are available to launch from within the Bloomberg Terminal w/ screenshots, descriptions, etc. They can be searched and when a user finds one they like, it is downloaded and opened in Excel, allowing them to further customize it.

- The user contacts the Analytics desk (chat/phone) and is either trying to integrate live market data into an existing spreadsheet or needs to build something complicated from scratch and does not know how to go about doing it. The team specializing in Excel spreadsheet builds takes over and works with the person to build what they need. In many ways, it's like a small consulting gig -- a service provided to Terminal subscribers.

Once the user has the spreadsheet via either method, they are free to share it internally like any other spreadsheet.
Or you could have a look at this page instead; http://jacquesmattheij.com/thank-hn-our-friend-is-safe-and-s...
I would suggest you to do this:

First, ask yourself why you want to learn programming. Is it something that really excites you? Go watch some of the Destroy All Software[1] screencasts: do your hart jump everytime you see Gary orchestrate Vim with elegance? Are you eager to start molding your ruby/python code with his mastery? If the answers is yes, then just let yourself go and start learning: define an easy project and just try to build it up from scratch (watchign screencasts, reading tutorials along the way).

If the answer is no and all you want is to start a tech business, then perhaps it is better for you to hire/find a team?

Btw, if you want to discuss programming, bouncing ideas off and just general support chat, fire me an email (in my profile).

Good luck! :)

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
Well yes, but the same goes for keys..
China is relevant because it is huge.

Mexico is not huge but it is big, has a growing middle class and it is close from the US.
A/B loop would make this a fantastic learning tool.
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I could just click on the overlay and the login-box disappeared.
The "tool" analogy breaks down somewhat in that what we're really talking about are building standards and frameworks. If you build your home as an insulated concrete form to European green standards, you can't simply start building the rest as a stick and plaster home if you find that your needs change or your understanding of ICF wasn't complete. If you did you would end up with a mishmashed hodgepodge that ends up being the worst of both.
Three reasons.

1) They aren't my photos, they are my family's photos. My wife has her own user account and needs just as much access as I do. I'm sure there is some sort of "sharing" solution, but then you lose the convenience of having one location for "My Pictures", so what's the point?

2) C:\photos is a lot easier to type than C:\Users\xxx\Pictures. I much prefer typing to mouse navigation.

3) Windows will actually admit that C:\photos is a directory on a hard drive. If I navigate to "My Pictures", I get some pseudo-directory called Libraries > My Pictures.

Also, are you really so limited that you think there is only One Way to organize files on a hard drive, to the point that you feel the need to mock a stranger for choosing a different location on his hard drive for photos? I expect that snark on anonymous internet forums, but having it embedded in the operating system is another matter.
Hey,
I am currently in Dallas. I really have no ties here, I am considering picking up and moving, but not sure yet. I would definitely like to know some people who have worked on, or are working on something programming related. Part of the reason for me wanting to learn basic coding is to find my mission/passion. I have many interests, most too large probably to be feasible on any level, but I feel that as I become more aware of things that are missing in my life, more ideas pop into my head. I would like to be a little more prepared than I currently am in case the need arises, to put it coarsely.
Fair enough, I used the wrong phrase. On the other hand, yours is the second reply pointing this out. Only one reply addressing the actual question I raised. I suppose I could go hang out on a logic and rhetoric forum, but that's not really my focus. Innovation and technical solutions for hard problems is. Ach schade.
Your analysis seems not quite right. Metallizing, for example, is a public use case in the sense that the legislative history uses the term even though the public could not have understood how to make the invention from the public use. I think the legislative history here is meant to say that the clause is meant to have the same scope as the old 102(b) bars except for territoriality. There's stil the new clause though...
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> you end up spending time maintaining your template, losing much of the benefit of the template

It really depends on whether or not you start a lot of new projects. If you're a Rails dev shop that does a wide variety of apps on a regular basis, then the N=1 cost of maintaining the template is well worth the per-project getting-started cost.
> Out if curiosity, what IE6-ish things do you see WebKit doing?

You mean like shipping various non-standard features and advertising them to web developers? Not like other engine's aren't doing similar things in various cases (though WebKit on iOS is shipping features Apple is actively opposing ever being standardized, backed by patent threats, which is a bit different from most browser vendors).

But the real issue is not what WebKit is doing, it's what web developers are doing. And the IE6-ish thing web developers are doing with WebKit is creating sites that deliberately only work in WebKit.
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I feel like we are turning hackernews into lambda-the-ultimate :)

I wrote this really bad unpublished paper once [1] that described the abstracting-over-space problem as a dual and complement of the abstracting-over-time problem. It turns out, for simple scalar (non-list) signal (reactive) values, the best thing to do was to simply recompute. However, for non-scalar signals (lists and sets), life gets much more complicated: it makes no sense to rebuild an entire UI table whenever one row is added or removed, and so we want change notifications that tell us what elements have been added and removed. However, I've changed my mind since: it is actually not bad to redo an entire table just to add or remove a row, as long as you can reuse the old row objects for persisting element. If my UI get's too big, I can create sub-components that memoize renderings unaffected by the change (basically partial aggregation).

Now how does that relate to theList.toMultiSet example? Well, the implementation of toMultiSet could be reduced to partially aggregated pieces very easily (many computations can actually), which could then be recombined in much the same way as rendering my UI! Yes, the solution that decrements/increments the count on a specific insertion/deletion is going to be "better", but a tree of partially aggregated memoizations works more often in general; its easier to do with minimal effort on behalf of the programmer.

I still need to understand their work better, but I approached my work from a direction opposite of algorithms (FRP signals, imperative constraints). I have a lot of catching up to do.

[1] http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/papers/mcdirmid06turing.pdf
when i looked six months ago it was
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I like that, "very difficult to evade", read: no escape ;-)

Then again, LSD, is not exactly easy to avoid, nor is Ayahuasca or any other class of hallucinogen.

In the woods or at party will of course have different expectations/outcomes. Will be intense regardless...
> What does other openings have to do with "world network for dodging taxes"?

Marketing.

> Several consultancies will happily open a "paper company" for you in Ireland or wherever you choose. No problem whatsoever

Not every company is willing to spend this much on marketing.

> "Talent goes to Mountain View" [citation needed]

Read up on the story of Lars Bak.

> There are a lot of talent outside the US (V8 came from Germany, also Zurich, London and Dublin offices have technical openings, Australia, not to forget Belo Horizonte in Brazil) and inside the US (NY comes to mind)

Openings that have been "open" for many years. If you get through you will be moved to Mountain View, CA.
Do the travel thing, possible while doing some small projects for yourself or others.

The real world can wait. (and you have to step up against your parents at some point anyway)

(I'm 28 and wish I would have done it, although I am very happy with my current life (=flexible consulting startup) too)
Opening 100 gnome shells that will crash my system and make me lose whatever I was working on is NOT harmless.
I loved this game as a kid - I remember getting my whole family to play a few times, what a blast!

It's touched on briefly in the article, but another thing I remember from this time in gaming is a short-lived but fascinating push to make the makers of these games public figures. It wasn't a ton of games, but I think it was EA (ECA back then) that would include pictures of the game design team and a brief blurb inside each of their games.
All this tells us is that we have trouble transferring conclusions from the rational bits of brain to the emotional bits. That no amount of secondhand experience will truly prepare you to experience itself doesn't mean there's something special about perception, just that the brain doesn't have any other way to take in what it perceives as the subjective experience.
Multiple people can independently invent the same thing, either over time or all at the same time. Whichever one files first, wins.
Leveraging SQL views with ActiveRecord.
I look forward to the book then!
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Spotify is the same. $9.99 in the US, and £9.99 (US $15.55) in the UK.
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Meh. A bit of a weak article IMO. It just seems to be a bit biased against this "strange new technology".

The main (and interesting) point is that heavy media coverage of flu caused people who weren't ill to search for it, which Google's algorithm misinterpreted.
I have been to Venice. It has crowded river traffic. And most of the cars in a city are parked, and do nothing.

Did you read any of the links I posted? The first says "There has been an extraordinary high number of boat accidents, people ending up in the water and general confusion since many are not used to the complex canal traffic code where imaginary lines mark lanes that you are not supposed to cross."

Boats are definitely a problem. That WPI report I posted describes many of the problems with boats in Venice, including how they have "the literal ability to destroy the city" through wake damage, with pictures of what some of that that damage looks like and damage. Yet only 3% of boat traffic follow the posted speed limits.

(And I know that that report doesn't go into the full details. Wake damage also increases the amount of rotting in the buildings, because submerged wood and dry wood rot at a slower rate than wood which is both wet and exposed to air, which the wake in Venice exacerbates.)

My question to you was, how do you compare car traffic to boat traffic? Your response seems to be that you base it on the number of deaths or dangerous accidents. I thought surely that "destroy the city" quote would help you understand that you have an incomplete understanding of the issues.

BTW, if deaths and dangerous accidents were the key factors to "clogged" traffic, then NYC's traffic congestion could be solved with a 5mph speed limit.

You wrote "Most of the boats you will ever see are the bus boats, or gondolas". The traffic counts from that WPI report says that gondolas "represent a tiny portion of overall boat traffic in Venice" - except around the tourist area of La Piazza San Marco. It gives a breakdown. Gondole "account for 4% of the traffic in Venice" and "turismo boats account for only 40% of the total traffic." 44%+4% < 50%.

The majority of boat traffic, though just barely a majority, were service, merchant, and sport boats. (I checked. The vaporetti are classified as turismo boats for purposes of this analysis.)

So the reason that vaporetti and gondole are most of what you saw would be because you were a tourist, in the tourist areas, where the boat traffic more caters to you and people like you.

Doesn't all this suggest that you don't understand the traffic issues in Venice enough to be able to make a comparison with "swarming" car traffic?
Given that his degree is in Operations Research, I wonder why he doesn't say he does Operations Research, rather than Industrial Mathematics. I often say I do OR.
I more or less agree. I used to have a more negative view, but I realized that what you get from Sokal et al is a fairly inaccurate and biased reading.

Actually, while I thought the Sokal hoax itself was brilliant, I'm in retrospect quite disappointed by his follow-up book. It reads like a bit of a lazy hatchet-job by someone trying to put together an "attack" piece without having read the stuff he's attacking, and certainly not trying to read it sympathetically.
Anybody who lives near a state border will know which side of the border has cheaper taxes and will go there to buy things like cars and booze.
I'm not sure I understand with how you got to "entirely". Yes, his pull request was dangerous but it also reveals how the repo owner would accept just about any pull request you send him. That seems like a major issue. I'm sure both parties involved will not make these mistakes in the future.
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I'm chucking because you just used "simply" and "unpatentability" in the same sentence. Maybe you can argue your point in a probabilistic sense, but I don't see how you can do so based on the underlying principles. Parallel inventions can certainly still be novel, useful, and non-obvious.

What if we think bigger and better? I can envision a more perfect patent system protecting two (or N) parties who independently invented the same thing. After all, a key justification for patents is to make the up-front R&D cost worthwhile. In the case of parallel invention, it seems more fair to the parties and the public interest to not force N valid inventions to result in either zero or one patents.
'first to file' is not quite right; it's 'first inventor to file.' You can show an earlier filing was derived from your disclosure and, thus, was not by an inventor. See http://www.aiarulemaking.com/rulemaking-topics/group-3/deriv.... The distinction is noteworthy, in part, because most of the world is in a true 'first to invent' regime.
It's just a question guys, not a moral judgement.
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I wish he would commit these kinds of speed boosting changes to other linux distributions.
I get the impression he was not expecting that pull request to get merged. This was silly, but not malicious. He wasn't trying to delete home directories to prove a point: the point he was making was directed at the repo owner.

Meanwhile, merging that pull request seems downright stupid, but maybe there are mitigating factors I'm not aware of?
Interesting, very interesting.

Until now, I was believed the point was just to make a cheapass machine that ran from web, not that the intention was make it fast.

Unfortunately, it ended as cheapass machines that run from the web, and not as good machines that are fast.

The day that I can use it 100% offline, I will jump in ;)
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I basically have no technical background other than basic engineering, but nothing software related. On the bootcamps, do you personally know anyone who attended and recommended a specific one? I thought about doing this, but I heard mixed reviews (I know there are quite a few now).
This dynamic seems to give an advantage to corporations who have a systematic, always-full pipeline of patent applications. The barrier to entry for a single inventor for filing a patent is pretty large.
...or maybe more people are searching for flu information than are going to the doctor to treat it. I had the flu and didn't go to a doctor because I know there's little than can be done.
There's nothing stopping anyone from ordering from the US (eg. on amazon), apart from the extra GST (10%) added on top by aussie customs. On Amazon its only $2166 + 10% GST

http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65167117-CS6-Master-Collection/d...

In fact you can get the software locally for as low as $3550 if you shop around - http://www.softwaresite.com.au/adobe-software-/69-adobe-cs6-...

The main issue is the RRP (recommended retail price) put out by the developer (Adobe) which is totally ludicrous. My favourite is Microsoft AU's official RRP for the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade at AU$399. In the US its $199.

In my opinion, home users tend to shop around more and will be able to spot a bargain, but business users will probably be the ones being ripped off.
When I was living in the UK in 2005, it was cheaper to fly to new york and buy a IBM Thinkpad Laptop, than it was to buy one in the UK. The US price in dollars was the same as the UK price in pounds, even thought $2=£1. And the return flight to new york was only £200. Buy two, and you could make a nice little profit.
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