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Maybe I misunderstand everything, but why couldn't such a system be use on Earth as fusion power plant? (it seems to produce more energy than is consumed to produce the fuel, right?)
I have to say this summary seems to make the whole summly purchase a lot clearer for me, rightly or wrongly, intentional or not.

$30 million to have the entire tech sphere spread the word on how Yahoo are evolving and are going to make peronalised summarized on the go news a core feature seems like a bargain (there certainly is a market for something like that I would say -- or at the very least, if implemented well, it certainly would be nice to have feature -- possibly a habit changer).

They no longer seem to me at the very least, the old who are they again company that they once were.

It's a shame they won't be changing their name anytime soon though. That on it's own puts me off a little. Forgive me for the snark.
Sure some kind of markup construct will exist in 100 years. But not HTML. I do not believe plain text will exist in 100 years, but that's another discussion. I am claiming something far weaker than what you seem to think I'm claiming. I do not think each and every website will be written from scratch on top of the VM. I'm simply claiming that the distribution mechanism for new features of the web will change.

Currently the features are mandated by the W3C, then implemented by all browser vendors. The browser vendors send out updates to all users. Instead what will happen is that some future version markup language that's better than the then current HTML will be distributed as a library, running on top of the VM. This way if you are a site owner, you can immediately start using it. You do not need to wait until (1) the W3C recognizes that this markup language is a good thing and standardizes it (2) the browser vendors have implemented it (3) your visitors have updated their browser. You simply include the library, and start using the new markup language.

Note that this is already happening in the small. Javascript libraries like knockout.js are already changing the fundamental model of building web applications. Instead of waiting for the W3C to standardize some kind of web components with data binding, people implemented it as a library. 20 years ago people would have thought such a thing impossible. They would have thought that something like that surely has to be built in to the browser. As JS gets more powerful, more and more features can be implemented this way, instead of through standardization. Note that things are still flowing over the network in markup language (in this case, knockout.js template language). A similar thing happened with form elements. Remember the xforms standardization effort? Nobody cares anymore because JS libraries offer far better rich forms elements. The thing that changed is where it's implemented: ON the web, rather than IN the web. This organic model is far more in line with the principles of the internet, rather than the centralized way it's done with the web standards. Instead of giving somebody a fish, give him the tools to fish.

> HTTP and HTML are foundational to the web. They are basically the simplest thing that could possibly work. You can reimplement them in a few days using a high level language.

A few days?! This is absolute nonsense. You can't even read the spec in a few days, let alone all the specs it depends on, like PNG, JPG, etc. Maybe you can implement some tiny subset of HTML in a few days, but the whole thing is massively complicated. In comparison a VM is far far simpler.

100 years is a very long time. The web is 23 years old.
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Can you run it without it communicating with Firebase? (If not, how is that better than having it under your own control?)
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Leaves only work fresh and they don't stay fresh long (which is why this "folk remedy" was spreading leaves in the evening and burning them in the morning).

Furthermore, leaves only work on horizontal surface, an artificial version could e.g. be put on bed legs to avoid covering the ground.

But of course that's a business opportunity to you: you could sell bags of bean leaves yourself.

I wonder if you could combine diatomaceous earth with bean leaves for increased efficacy.
Helping farmers increase their yield, which makes food cheaper for the poor, is "pure evil"?
Are there any open source implementations of lock-free B+ trees? I'd love to play with it.
I assume you are referring to the fact that the traits can make their way into non-GMO seeds due to the way nature functions? However, Monsanto has only been able to successfully defend their patents when gross violations have occurred – i.e. the crop has also been sprayed with roundup. Someone who is honestly trying to grow non-RR seed is obviously not going to be doing that.

Monsanto has been so successful with this because, for 99% of the farmers out there, these patents have no effect on their business. It wasn't particularly common to grow your own seeds for a variety of reasons, even before the patents came into effect.
Basically, yes, but with a prompt. Notepad++ will prompt you that a loaded file has changed and do you want to update it. ST2 will just load the file as soon as it realizes the file has changed.

The NP++ behaviour is ideal and a feature I use a lot. Unless something has changed very recently in ST2, there is no way to duplicate this behaviour. I believe there are some circumstances where ST2 will prompt you. IIRC if the file name has changed, but this is only part of the problem for me.
There's a trade off between how efficient a thruster is, and how much power it produces over a fixed amount of time.

(Good reading is the specific impulse article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Impulse )

At any given point, our technology allows us to create highly efficient but relatively "weak" engines (e.g. ion thrusters), or "powerful" but inefficient ones (e.g. rockets). Actually, both use Newton's second law to generate thrust, i.e. some kind of material has to exit the engine in the opposite direction, in order to get things moving. So, even ion drives and similar designs carry some material for the purpose of being ejected, it's usually just on a completely different scale to rockets. Energy also needs to come from somewhere to facilitate this, with rockets, it's the chemical energy from the fuel itself. With ion drives, it is usually some form of electricity, generated with a solar panel or nuclear power plant, etc.

So in reality, even the efficient drives also have to carry some way to power themselves. To get more thrust, they need to have more power. If you run the maths, by the time they have enough power to overcome Earth's gravity, they need to have an entire solar farm worth of panels (which are heavy), or a rather large nuclear power station on board (which is also quite heavy). So, unless we find ways to make more powerful sources of energy, or even more ridiculously efficient drives, the thrust coming from these will not be able to overcome near-Earth gravity.
Not if Clarence Thomas has anything to say about it.

Monsanto and the FDA are a revolving door for each other and Clarence used to work for Monsanto.
Patents on seeds and breeds have been around for many decades before Monsanto came to the party. Farmers tend not to replant seeds for a very long time now, not only to avoid patent disputes but also to ensure consistency of crops. It's only become viable now to DNA test seeds and breeds to protect these patents.
As as cofounder of http://tldr.io this confirms our vision that for now (and for many years) only people can perform such a hard task like summarizing.
Shoot them an email, they seem nice enough about academic/nonprofit work.
I hope you fixed your security issues.

(http://redd.it/14o4ki)
Monsanto created Agent Orange and DDT, claiming at the time that both were perfectly safe for humans. Now we know better.

http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/company-history.shtml

The results for GMOs is mixed but is not looking good for Monsanto at the moment.

We don't need to fix the food system, it wasn't broken to begin with.
What they should wait for? What was CEO suppose to do during those 1-2 days? Pivot the business model entirely? What is the reason Apple should give them special threatment? AppGratis can still pivot into something different and submit the app again. Like everybody, I feel sorry for the people, but thats how the life works. It's not like the decision was unfair. Business model they had was pretty crappy anyway. They were trying to skew the Apple's ranking for money.
It's not continuous, it's pulses. But that doesn't actually matter, attach this thing to a big wheel and pulse it to run a generator. Or a few of them pulsing in sequence.

But I wonder if the radiation exhaust might be to high to be practical on earth.
I think no algorithm can perform such a summarizing task. If you're looking for summaries of PG's essays see here http://tldr.io/discover/paulgraham.com.
I experimented with giving bonuses to proper nouns and verbs, as well as giving a slight advantage to shorter sentences.
Can we identify the products on the shelves that are of Monsanto origin and have a list posted somewhere so we can boycott them? I don't really feel like ever buying anything originated from that company.
"It would be near impossible to recoup your investments with that first sale, and so the more likely consequence is that research dollars would be put elsewhere,"

Great! Fuck Monsanto's investments and their fucking poison.
If monsanto holds the patent on the pesticide, why do they need a patent on the seed as well? Isn't it in the best interest to proliferate the seed as much as possible to maximize the number of farmers who need the pesticide?
Apple should reject this App eariler. Thats the one thing you can blame them for.
What does it feel like to lose a lot of money (quickly)?
Excellent, thanks, it does work now.

So what does it do exactly? It seems to extract some sentences more or less at random from the text...?
On the ambient weather side - for years I commuted by bike, over country lanes or through London, and I simply knew the weather for the day (London is not quite as changeable as say SF).

Whilst these days I can barely tell you what season it is, I was more in tune with the weather then (not nature, too treehuggy)

I think my overly long point is to agree with you - I had no dashboard for weather info, but because it was part of my daily environment I knew what was normal and sensed changes.
> what's the point in developing anything.

One good reason to developing better farming techniques is that a large number of wealthy organization would profit, and such are more than willing to spend money on research. If I went to the military and said I had a method to produce biofuel at 50% the current price, would a likely response be: "No! If you don't have a patent, we are not going to give you any money for that. We are happy to spend loads of money on more expensive methods for fuel. We the army lives for patents!"

Lets take a hard look on something like corn. From chemical industry to food to fuel. I am sure not a single company would want to spend money on research into better production if there was no patents. Cheaper production and less risks be damned.

Or... and this is just a thought... Some research is like math. There is intrinsic benefit from improved technology. The army is not hurt because others can also produce cheaper fuel.
Why not? Their seeds and their competitors' are shown to be perfectly safe by the FDA, and the National Academy of Sciences and American Medical Association vouch for their seeds.
It seems like your comment was well intended, but you come off as a bit presumptuous.

The problem TODAY is not whether or not a computer can summarize, but rather to what extent we as humans are satisfied with the computer's summary.

In some cases a dumb summary is good enough (first 200 characters for example). Given this baseline, and a target (human summary), you have to admit it's really an incremental process.
Yes you're right. I wrote it to create color palette for company logo. It's useful for designers or theme creators.
Look at the value of derived from the price.

-Centralized resources (Because I doubt the average child will go to IRC channels let alone know what they are)

-Consistency in service and access (Because even if a kid did use IRC / Stack Overflow, they're not guaranteed an answer)

-Tolerance and willingness to teach (Cough Stack Overflow "Closed because question isn't a proper format"; Flame posts like "Wow, you're an idiot, never use X technique")

-Quality of resources (Graphics, video, demonstrations project files vs. sifting through disjointed posts)

-Physical, Local Community (If you want to teach a kid to swim, put him in a class with kids his age. Not in an IRC full of varying ages and no faces)

From an educational standpoint this makes perfect sense. From an open-source hacker's perspective maybe not. But that's why this isn't geared towards open-source hackers. It be fo teh children dawg.
Please reread what I wrote.

My concerns are not about the safety, but about the patent ability of our food supply by private companies.
It's not about safety, it's about ownership. This quote from the Judge: "Why in the world would anybody spend any money to try to improve the seed if as soon as they sold the first one anybody could grow more and have as many of those seeds as they want?" - the part about "anyone could grow more and have as many seeds as they want" pretty much sums up farming as we've known it since agriculture began.

Edit: yes, I'm aware of that most farmers don't actually store their own seed for next year for efficiency of another farmer/company providing high-quality seeds yearly for them, however this is not justifying Monsanto's methods. There must be limits on food patents. I simply don't believe Monsanto cannot recover costs on the first-sale of seeds.
I'm not sure about how widespread Haskell is in the finance industry.

And while the language itself is small, it includes a lot of high-level, rather abstract concepts. Besides, it would really benefit from being larger instead of having several libraries for handling strings, errors and accessing records in a sane way spread all over Hackage.
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And we all know how trustworthy and corruptless these organizations are. Their word is like gospel.
And it's not only knowing what is relevant - I used to use some nokia phone and it would show my meetings on the sign in screen - so I know when I was going to get interrupted. With my iPhone, technically superior in every way, I have at least three clicks or swipes and I never know what my day is shaped like.

Luckily I use it as an excuse to get my head down and work.

But the point (another long one!?) is iPhones UI whilst much lauded, misses some useful functionality - and that will become more more painful as relevance becomes achievable
Um you know that city wide wifi woudl require an insane amount of AP's and backhaul - hence why wimax doesnt seem to be going any where.
...damn, just when I started equating "social" with "cluttered" :)
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that ain't right. let's ask for our money back..
Generally part of what makes something good art is the ambiguitiy around interpretation allowing space for the viewer to add their own meaning and interpretation. As a result he's better off saying very little and allowing us space to engage, condemn, question and critique.
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I do Pomodoro, running tests etc. when I take breaks. And when having breaks, I try to get away from my computer, to just stare out the window, get a fruit, walk around a little, or just lay down for five minutes.
> Maybe I misunderstand everything, but why couldn't such a system be use on Earth as fusion power plant?

That was my question also (see my other post in this thread) -- if they really achieve fusion break-even (i.e. produce more power than they require to start the reaction) then they have done something that many decades of fusion research have so far failed to achieve. If their device can really do what they claim, it has implications far beyond the described project.
Its hard to beat the irony where a game development company, A company with the business model of producing entertainment, is voted as the Worst Company in the United States.
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Yes my wife threw her galaxy ace out of the car window on the M1 the other day because of a persistent lock up bug.

However I've got a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and I'm rather happy with it.

you win some, you lose some.
> but unless companies get to protect real IP that they develop themselves, what's the point in developing anything

How about addressing his point?
The fusion products are presumably fairly hot - so why not use them to heat water and drive a steam turbine generator combination?

[NB This is in reply to the idea of using whirling fusion generators as a means of generating power, not part of the discussion on using it as spacecraft propulsion!]
Why is it funny that their FAQ has an answer for Celsius? It's pretty much only the US that uses Fahrenheit for temperatures, the rest of the modern world uses celsius to display temperature. That coupled with the fact that Panic are a renowned Apple-based developer, should indicate really that there's likely no chance of getting a Panic-developed Android version.
Love to watch (and support with my money) all these low cost space propulsion projects. This kickstarter project http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-el... was particularly amazing to watch. Best donation / entertainment money spent ever. And I hope B612 foundation would result in some great fun as well ;) Or not :)

And another thing. And advice for kids looking for summer internships. Don't do these 'iPhone games' startups. Try something real, like NASA or Lockheed, or whatever. If you good, who knows, maybe a few lines of your code will have a chance flying into space.
That sounds great and diligent. Me and commits never seem to sync properly anyway (mostly because I am the sole dev on so many projects I guess).
The FDA and Monsanto run a revolving door system. Just about everybody knows this.

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/monsanto.html

http://rense.com/general33/fd.htm

The tests the FDA conducts have come under criticism for not being long enough for any bad effects to be noticed, among other flaws.

http://rense.com/general59/cchm.htm
I don't get this either. Also from the article:

"Why in the world would anybody spend any money to try to improve the seed if as soon as they sold the first one anybody could grow more and have as many of those seeds as they want?"

If the flaws in their business model are so obvious (i.e. farmers can reuse their product once they bought it), why don't they try to improve their business model instead of threatening farmers with lawsuits and trying to regulate the food industry?
Reading lutusp post, anyone on HN who got sufficient funds to double the budget, would also have learnt to look very closely at extraordinary claims with only ordinary evidence.

Be nice if it was true, and one day I am sure it will be (I mean the Sun DES this all the time and not even a single Phd was involved)
20+ years ago BT offered the then thatcher government FTC in return for a 20 year payback period - they where turned down as competition would magically build a competing network.

And of course vast amounts of capital was expended in building a cable network all the operators of which got into financial trouble and effectively got brought out of bankruptcy which is how virgin got its current network on the cheap.
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Arguably we've had "fusion drive" for spaceships ever since Project Orion. Very simply, build a ship with a big shield in the back, throw nuclear bombs out behind the ship, detonate, the shock and radiation hits the plate (some ablates, but it's still fairly study and safe), and some kind of shock absorber system pushes the spaceship forward. Repeat. You can feasibly get to 0.10c with this, using 1960s technology, and really big ships.

I think most of the earlier designs involved fission bombs, but there's no reason you couldn't use fusion bombs, and maybe even some kind of laser or magnetic means of initiating fusion. Which seems to be exactly what UW is talking about here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...

A lot of the engineering and physiological problems of a Mars mission go away if you have the ability to move huge masses between Earth and Mars fast. You can skip the low energy launch windows and just go for a short on-Mars trip, rather than needing to loiter for a year or two between windows. You don't need to worry about supplies in space and radiation issues for a year-long transit. etc.
"Monsanto: All Your Seeds Are Belong to Us"

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I understand the impact on farmers and that Monsanto plays dirty, but this is their invention, you do not have to use their seeds. If you do, however, you must play by their rules. I understand that the lawsuit is different (planted someone else's seeds) but that person also violated his agreement.

"They want the farmers to take all the risks associated with farming, yet they want to control how they use those seeds all the way down the distribution chain,"

So it's an unfair agreement. Don't enter it.
Yes, but the same effect happens (in the opposite direction) with a normal inflationary currency. Every few months or years, prices change to reflect their new value. When prices are doubling or halving once a week, that starts to get problematic (see interbellum Germany, 2000s Zimbabwe).
"It's very scalable; we can achieve fusion at a much smaller scale," he said. "We could run the designed engine off 200KW of solar panels, which is about the same power as generated by the panels around the International Space Station"

So this is hot fusion, not cold. Hot fusion has been around for a long time. In fact I remember a couple of high school kids made a hot fusion device once.
Whoa. That's some FUN stuff! Great job!
Seeing shiny effect as used in this app makes me realise how much I appreciate the trend towards a much simpler, flat design in software.
In the UK in particular both broadband AND cellular/mobile service should be nationalised.

Both businesses and consumers NEED good quality infrastructure at an affordable price. Essentially the country's economic growth directly depends on it.

To accomplish that the government should control all fibre, all phone lines, and all cell towers. It should then re-sell access to these things to ISPs/telephone companies.

With this in place you might still buy your cable from Virgin and your mobile phone service from Orange, but Virgin and Orange would be renting space on the government's infrastructure to accomplish it.

Similar to the Network Rail model but less terrible.
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Ah, sorry, I thought everybody have adopted new mnemonics for sarcasm - http://pseudotrue.com/2013/04/10/a-new-punctuation-to-highli...
Don't you have a garbage can at home?

That's pretty irresponsible.
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