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That's the scenario I imagined as well. Which gave me pause, because I thought most onlookers in this situation, including myself, would value publishing the video immediately instead of collecting a payoff.

The entire transaction strikes me as a bit tasteless (perhaps even Ballardian), but raises another interesting question: once you have such a video, how do you put a value on it, given that there may be any number of other amateur videos taken, with a good chance that they're of better quality than your own?
> PTP or P2P (Powered To Play)

How could that even come up as an option, given the pre-existing usage, peer-to-peer?
Much of this is over my head, but 1kb/s across 2.5 feet seems like a very small step.

Is the significant value in this it's ability to function at low power?
This is something that has been worrying me for some time. More and more, the IPO is being used as a method for cashing out, rather than as a source of funding. I am an advocate for low cost index funds, as historically, it is one of the best returns an ordinary investor can expect to achieve. But this recent trend in private/public markets has me second guessing that position.
I love this! Only complaint is that after playing for a few minutes, my browser's back button is completely worthless. Web is such a hacky place to develop.
Pilots are human, and they make mistakes. Good training, having two pilots on the flightdeck and having good SOPs should prevent anything like this ever happening. It looks like training and/or SOPs were severely lacking here.

As well as the "don't waste our company money doing a go-around" fuckwitted notion, people are saying that Asian airlines don't like doing visual approaches period. Therefore whenever the pilot is required to do a visual approach, he/she will be severely lacking in the skills to do it.
So when you are being detained, it is as it was before?
I'm not quite so sure that this is a 1st world thing necessarily. It think it's more of an American thing. During our last vacation in Europe, I was surprised by how people, even at random rest stops along the autobahn were interacting with my kids and did not feel threatened or run off with their kids b/c I was the one taking the kids to the play area. (Albeit, I wasn't the only father/male there)

All things being equal, I think it may just be our media. I noticed other parents were playing peek-a-boo with my 2 year old, whereas in the US, I face the same kind of treatment at parks as the author of the article and people in general aren't quite as friendly to kids they don't know(possibly due to similar sentiments).
There are a lot of pointless contrarian comments on the post, and I don't agree with everything in the actual article, but I do see the point being raised and the shift in Apple's ads.

Layered on top of the details of the product that used to make up 100% of their advertising are more explicit points about the company, their philosophies, and their process. I don't think that's necessarily wrong - it certainly isn't out of the ordinary in advertising - but its a tactile shift. That being said, they are still a long way from "jumping the shark" with this strategy, and I'd disagree with the writer's point of view that this indicates they have nothing on the product front to talk about.
A 2% dividend wouldn't even remotely come close to doubling the 124%x S&P return since 1997. It's a nice booster shot, nothing more.
There are significant improvements in battery life, display technology, glass, and packaging yet to come. plus 4G radios and BLE. Let's talk in 4 or 5 years.

Plus, tablets, which are really just handsets with bigger displays, are going to eat a majority of the PC business.
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> Unless of course the high ranking officials are like the regular PHB's we know - clueless about technology issues.

Bingo.
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I just moved to NYC last weekend (from L.A.) and found an apartment in two days:

* a Friday/Saturday in L.A., slamming craigslist and building up a spreadsheet of leads

* a full Sunday of looking at apartments

* moved in Monday morning

I settled on a month-to-month 3bd/1ba in the East Village--no brokers involved. Buh-zam!

Now I've shifted focus to meeting people and looking for work (as a software developer)...
Absolutely. I encourage and am encouraged by anyone who is on a quest for personal development. That you additionally chose to share your story (including your struggles) in such detail was an act of generosity. I appreciate the many references, novel insights, and opportunities for my own self-reflection.

Continued success to you.
This is just describes another transitional point in human history. In any given year, we can produce the same output with less labor. As this effect compounds, take this pattern to its extreme -- producing all the output the world could ever need with virtually no human labor. In such a scenario, what is the meaning of a wage? What does it mean for a person to produce "value?" How would humanity, whose genome has been shaped under the chisel of scarcity, adapt to a system where such a thing did not exist?

In this thought experiment, I believe it becomes evident that the laws of economics, as we understand them, are NOT timeless. Modern economics has gone on a tangent, creating a system of analysis and theory that only works for this microcosm in our existence. It is only as our economy approaches the scenario described above that the true laws of human economics can become evident.
No, they don't distrust RSS/Atom, they distrust any service that springs up to provide Reader like services. For users who have multiple devices, Reader was an incredibly easy way to sync state. Whether other companies can be profitable providing similar services remains to be seen.
this is a silly comment. democratic process != majority rule. My point was precisely that by democratizing access to information, technology helps the public form an informed opinion.
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>Slippery slope is a terrible argument.

Fortunately it wasn't the only argument.

And I'd say, slippery slope is not a terrible argument by itself, just because there are "fallacy" list saying so. It is quite appropriate as an argument in an awful lot of situations. Matter of fact, the "broken window theory" is an example of the slippery slope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory "Overton Window" is another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

>If folks want to change their gender, then let them.

I did not say "don't let them".

I said labelling those that are not Ok with this "phobics" is taking it too far. Are those not OK with people doing meth, meth-thobics? Are those not OK with women content to be in an abusive relationship abuse-phobics?

>Much like someone being black or gay, it's quite litetally none of my, or anyone elses, business.

Waiving our genitals in public is, by all means and with the same reasoning, none of yours or anyone else's business. And yet, we do (and perhaps you too) frown upon it.

Thing is, we don't base a society only on "whatever rock's one's boat", but also on general principles. That's why it's a society, and not a jungle.

>If people want to chop off their leg for fashion, who cares?

I care. And "who cares" is not an attitude to base a society on. An egotistical dystopia, maybe.
And when they lie, steal, and cheat, they should be punished. In fact, they should be punished much more harshly than the general public, because it is their duty to prevent lying, stealing, and cheating. They should be held to a higher standard.
So is it possible to use this as a database in a web app? What sort of problems would come up with concurrency?
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Really an odd way to show you are for differing viewpoints, to inoculate "prospective watchers" by opening the floodgates to a host of disparate subjects that have nothing to do with the topic at hand, all the while winking and nudging that he is a bigot regarding said subjects.
I get that you're kidding, but no automation is better than automation that doesn't solve a problem.
We've known about your point A since the 641A information was leaked in 2006. Worse, both major party 2008 presidential candidates (Obama and McCain) voted in 2007 (as then Senators) for effective immunity for the telcoms for their participation in the helping of the government to spy on everyone. Snowden was wise to reveal new information to get people interested again.
"Radio Free Asia is a US-government funded, non-profit organization, incorporated in March 1996, and began broadcasting in September 1996" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
Well it's small framework, but a micro-framework based based on a micro-framework. Is this like another russian doll between Silex and Symfony2(in terms of layers of complexity or size)?
I have a pointed question for you:

As an investor, how many of these dropouts would you like to hire at one of your startups tomorrow morning?

I don't really understand which solution you're pointing out as a candidate for crowdsourcing. Microloans are as much of a solution as pawn shops, to be brutally honest.
IMHO, the copy is terrible. For example "The experience of a product" would be more effective if it were just "the experience" ... people don't think of the word PRODUCT, they don't buy a PRODUCT, that is a word you use internally. People buy things, iPads, iPhones ... not ... PRODUCTS.

"Until every idea we touch, enhances each life it touches." is an awkward sentence to hear spoken. It is stupid because you don't touch ideas, but aside from that, would probably be more effective as "Until every idea we touch, enhances our lives" ... I'm sorry but it makes me think that this company is really suffering without an obsessive dictator micromanaging the product/marketing message.
Most common price measurements have increased by 100%+ since 1997 (in many cases a lot more), from housing to commodities. There's a very strong case to be made that the real rate of inflation has just about wiped out all stock market returns since the mid to late 1990s.

I don't know if it's 0%, but even 20% inflation adjusted over 16 years is a very bad return.
I think so, yes. No battery means smaller, cheaper devices that can all interconnect which opens up all sorts of possibilities for making everyday objects 'smart'. Your router could tell you where your keys are. Your fridge could tell you when you are out of milk.

On a distributed level, there's a lot of other cool stuff that could be done as well.
Yes, I take a lot of inspiration (with some leeway for personal taste) from Delphi and C#, so I have great respect for Anders Hejlsberg - who I'm now competing with since TypeScript.
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>The same pressure would exist for employment,

No, stop pretending that labor supply is adjustable outside some narrow range. Wage earners at the bottom don't withdraw from the labor force in order to help those left in it earn a higher wage. They work for less, until a floor is reached. Then they work another job, driving wages down further, unless there are none, in which case they eat less. And when there are fewer jobs still, they subsist in other ways (charity, crime), or fail to subsist. Almost no one is moral enough to starve.
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> I'm an IT Technical Specialist 2, but if we're using words that mean something I create iOS applications

Ha! That's what they want you to think! In reality you're a sleeper agent/hacker.
Much more plausible from a CI perspective is that he had fairly massive help on the inside, combined with known incompetence at designing and enforcing internal controls in Today's NSA (vs. the NSA of the 80s).

I imagine there were people with access and knowledge inside NSA who didn't want to risk becoming whistleblowers themselves, and pointed him in the right direction or outright gave him stuff.
I'm still happy with my iPhone 4. It's not as snappy as it use to be, and I had to replace the battery last year, but it's still good enough for my needs.

I'll see what the iPhone 6 or the Nexus 5 have to offer, but if they won't radically change my day to day use, why bother upgrading?
The brand ad is again, in my opinion, terrible. It reminds me of when MTV jumped the shark, it has become totally self referential. It feels to me like an internal communication, a mission statement, or a guidance video for people who work at Apple. It doesn't seem to address what actual people thinking about buying and using stuff would actually respond to or care about.

Or possibly I am really, really, out of touch.
I'm in the same situation... gotta love doing the bulk of your work before 8am or after 8pm (sometimes both in the same day) ;)

may be a bit awkward

Usually more than a bit awkward as they talk about trying to have more kids or women hygiene... that is when I just pretend my daughter needs some assistance and I walk off to "help" her.
Nor has the US officially confirmed most of what Snowden has said. The government is prosecuting people regarding Stuxnet leaks which is as good as you'll going to get for an official confirmation.
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Um, the smartphone has one advantage over the PC or laptop or server - it will get broke and replaced every 2 years (or less) like clockwork.

Phones are small, easy to drop, and you carry them with you everywhere. Also, with contracts they have a built in 2 year replacement plan. They are the disposable tech.

So, in terms of pure growth, maybe that is slowing or will slow down, but that doesn't mean people will stop buying smartphones, it just means that they will be a large, sustainable, profitable product worth selling for a good long time.

That might get boring to write about, but there will be a lot of successful companies making a lot of money selling phones for a long time.
Either they already are, or it was deemed not useful to diagnose and prevent other disasters. Given the depth and the breadth of rules and regulations that make air travel safer than crossing the street [citation needed, I'm sure], I would assume that they're doing something right.
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expected this to be another fluff piece and was pleasantly surprised.
That lobbying is corporatism, not capitalism. It's frustrating to attempt to talk to leftists because they conflate the two constantly.

As an anarcho-capitalist libertarian I don't advocate a guaranteed minimum income however I think it would be preferable, given whatever amount of government intervention in the economy, to have one since it would somewhat insulate the poor from the rest of the intervention.
Emergency landing on water is "standard procedure". You might have the impression that it's something which was creatively invented by the pilot at a moments notice, but it's really not. The engineers designed the airplane with the capability, included advice and checklist in the operation manual, they even put a button labeled "ditch" on the dash! Can't really see why they could not make such an autopilot program.
Uhh.... fiat currency is not monetary policy. You meant monetarism, which has most certainly not been the dominant monetary policy for the last 40 years. It's been influential, yes. There have been periods of time in which it has been in vogue, yes, but you certainly cannot call it the dominant monetary policy globally for the last 40 years..
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So you've got C/C++, .Net, NodeJS, Python, Lua, Java, and Ruby covered ... but PHP is a no go?

Why not change it to we're on everything but PHP? Seems more succinct.
Are the police as para-militarized in other first-world countries? Canada? UK? Japan?
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Whoa -- We present the design of a communication system that enables two devices to communicate using ambient RF as the only source of power. Our approach leverages existing TV and cellular transmissions to eliminate the need for wires and batteries, thus enabling ubiquitous communication where devices can communicate among themselves at unprecedented scales and in locations that were previously inaccessible.

p.s. just pasting a couple lines of text from the article, for those who are wondering what this is after looking at the comments, my typical "use case".
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The entire transaction strikes me as a bit tasteless

I agree, but it does cause me to pause to consider the entire news business. CNN would pay for a video like this because they'll generate substantial revenue from it. If it were posted on Youtube, Google would generate substantial revenue from it. So I guess the question is, where is the line. Is for-profit news ethical? I definitely get immediately turned off when I see people profiting from stuff like this, but doesn't the media do exactly the same thing, just at scale?
That could be possible, you could even do it today, if you wanted:

macro operator binary ^$
ASTE $left bitxor $right

There are also operators for `and`, `or`, `xor` which act logically. `not` which does a boolean invert. So there are `bitand`, `bitor`, `bitxor`, `bitnot` which fit well as working bitwise instead of logically.

I suppose the outliers are `bitlshift`, `bitrshift`, `biturshift`, but it does somewhat make sense to keep the `bit` prefix because it casts to int32 and because its operations are inherently bitwise.
Would be pretty cool if replication can be achieved
well, until report is out, we're here to speculate (or to read a good speculation if we're lucky :). From the Flightaware data the plane had 109kts at 100feet altitude before the seawall. The stall speed of 777 is about 110kts (its Vat is ~140, and it is 1.3 of the stall). And the speed was falling as the next recording is 85kts. While we can only guess about the original cause - pilot error or hardware, etc... - the stall seems to be there.
I think its peak for certain markets such as US, Japan. But it is not so for markets such as China, India, and these requires a lower priced models. That's why Apple is likely to introduce cheaper models in September to sustain its growth, largely targeting these markets.
NP, I'm glad you found it useful. :)
Misleading title. It's a solicitation for entries to a contest (the Open Technology Fund) that awards money to disruptive technology projects for advancing Internet freedom and human rights.

The contest is being administered by an organization (Radio Free Asia) that has been criticized as propagandistic in its charter to provide information to people in Asia who lack adequate protections for freedom of expression, free speech, and a free press. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia#Criticism

The contest has in the past provided funding to projects like Cryptocat; see a list here: https://opentechfund.org/projects
Without the contract model, I think that the rate of phone replacement will drastically decrease. Although some people do break their phones, I know plenty of people who don't.
It could certainly be tried on the private scale. Perhaps you help them locate a position in addition to bankrolling the move.

I don't think there are many loan products currently that could fill that kind of need, so it could be an open opportunity.
>I suspect he's pretending all STEM is programming though.

I am not. I would have said programming if I had meant it.

ETA: Ironically enough, I am a non-degree holder (dropout) working in a non-programming STEM field. My bio is a bit out of date since I have indeed gotten out of the data science community.
What I think is more interesting is the idea that private markets are less rational. If you look at venture capital over the last 30 years it's underperformed the stockmarket. There are a few big winners but if you look at the total returns of the funds which invested in them it's a lot less amazing. Which arguably comes back to the lack of hard data plus the effort involved in managing these small investments.

PS: Also of note he ignored dividends and inflation when looking at microsofts returns which is a sign of basic incompetence.
FWIW, that's a market of only 300k people, who all learn norwegian and english fluently in school.
> Is it standard procedure to land A320s in the Hudson?

Yes, ditching an airplane that has lost all of its engines is a standard emergency procedure.

> Prior to 2009, how likely do you think it would have been for someone to have programmed an autopilot with such a capability?

What difference does that make? I'm not saying it's a good idea to take pilots out of the cockpit right now, I'm just saying it's a lot more plausible than most people think. The main limiting factor is politics, not technology.

> Are you willing to bet your life that the computer on a 737 that looked like this[1] could find its way to a safe landing?

Sure, why not? Losing the top of the fuselage looks dramatic, but it probably doesn't change the flight characteristics all that much. Also, very good adaptive control algorithms exist that could almost certainly handle this.

Also, you're cherry-picking your anecdotes. There are plenty of examples of flights that would almost certainly have ended safely but for some stupid mistake the pilot made. Controlled flight into terrain accidents, for example, are much more common than heroic rescues, and they could be entirely eliminated if you took human pilots out of the loop.
Your job was never intended to free people from work. It was simply to do what people did, faster, more accurately, and many times over.

If your code was slower and more expensive than someone doing the work manually, you would doing another job.

I think.
Quick! Smartphone developers, start adopting more lazy coding, and maybe we can double the CPU cycles and RAM size required to run Facebook in the next couple years!
I'm not sure how to say this without being inflammatory ... there is a universe outside of PHP, and PHP is not at the center of that universe.
And those contracts aren't as prevalent outside of the U.S.
It looked like the wingtip dug in, causing the "flip up", then aircraft slowed, the jet settled back down.

If the jet had done a 360, its unlikely the main fuselage would stay together, it would have broken into several large pieces.
It's a lot more complicated than anybody can possibly imagine, and it's probably why the Obama administration has given NSA's General Alexander so much backing in recent spying revelations.

In addition to the spying revelations, there has been concerns about the US Government's ability to manage and maintain confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of critical communications in case of major and sustained attacks on its communications infrastructure.
It's just nice to see a project where they put the effort into driver development. Even without PHP it's an impressive list of drivers.
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Social Security isn't welfare. We pay wages (FICA) into that. It's just like hiring a rather crappy financial advisor.
It seems there is more demand from Lua developers.
I can see a valid argument for this in the tablet space, but in the phone market, Android has been on par with the iPhone (and indeed surpassed it in many ways) for at least one year.
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