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> They don't seem to want to target higher-end handsets

It's only the beginning and I think they are smart for doing this - iPhones are high-end and cheap Androids suck. The low-end market is still dominated by Symbian, or Bada, or Rex, or Asha, all of which suck.

They have a real shot at gaining significant market-share with this strategy. iOS and Android have too much inertia to beat by playing the high-end game.
C also has an empty for loop that works like while (1):

for (;;) {}
Yup, I managed to grab a new one at a Microsoft store for $86 (had a gift card and they had in store promos I abused). Most bang for the buck consumer product I have ever purchased.
Interesting question. Seems like they have a lot of weight in the superstructure that would be removed with a single blade (and tail rotor).
> I'd be far more worried about this sending a false prosperity signal that could exacerbate our already insane and unsustainable population levels.

Hello there, person I'm very glad entered this conversation as you did.

You're talking about a great taboo. No one wants to admit that not every precious snowflake can do exactly what they want to be a shining star. Saying that we have too many precious snowflakes, or that we shortly will, is akin to saying that and it makes people nervous.

But there are a lot of us, aren't there?

And our population plan seems to be "Reproduce however you want until nature starts killing us off."

It could be that our coming jobs shortage is the result of too many people. Our geographic area is big enough that there will always be a certain number of jobs because of the different specialized tasks necessary in each locality.

But everyone wants a kid, and it seems the people who don't plan for those kids, whether rich or poor, have the most.

This worries me more than global warming, nuclear proliferation and synthetic marijuana (mostly jk) combined.
adventure that I didn't anticipate. Yes. and I am thankful for that :)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025221
I've never seen the gelatinous mess I use http://www.naturecrops.com/ and I can put the precooked one in the refrigerator.

What's your recipe?
A BI is generally associated with a flat tax to pay for it. Aka everyone gets 10,000 a year tax free but after that all income is taxed at ~20% to pay for it pluss whatever else the government needs, net result increasing the BI costs everyone making over around 50k per year more money than they gain. However, the good thing is it's revenue neutral for the person near 50k. And adds 5k to someone making 25k per year so there is no disincentive to work a low paying job to like with the current social programs.
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How about pre-loading user databases on commercial websites with lots of fake data? There are plenty of username generators out there, also password generators, and I even found a valid credit card number generator (without the security data, of course). Identity thieves would suddenly have to deal with a major noise/signal problem.

I don't have the energy/time/skills to make this work, but I'm sure someone out there does.
I use R, Mathematica, Haskell, Julia, or my own CAS that I built.
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The FAA requires that all helicopters be capable of autorotation. We actually design and test for this extensively, by adding mass to the blade tips to store inertia, pilots regularly practicing power-off flight etc.

Autogyros fly in constant autorotation (hence the name), the main rotor being unpowered.
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Without sounding like a fan boy, I would actually recommend you to go give WP a try. I am not going to say it's better than iOS for lacking quality apps but it's way better than my Nexus 4. Android to me is the poorest OS amidst the 3.
Every farmer has a decision: Eat the grain, or sell the grain. They sell it if the money has more value to them than eating it. Unless they're indentured servants or slaves, they are doing this for their own benefit. If they'd starve as a result, they just wouldn't sell the crop.
I am not attempting to explain why every kind of food is selected for certain criteria for whatever reason. I am not also saying that you either select to for looks or nutrition. It's a matter of degree and compromise between different criteria. For quinoa particularly, I think it happens to be a type of food that largely guides people's preference based on nutrition rather than looks.
Quinoa has totally replaced rice in our cooking at home. Just stick it in a rice cooker with water/vegetable broth and it fluffs up just like rice.
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It's possible to self sign client certificates, right? If so, you could just limit the list to your own.
Hopefully their talk will be replaced with a Q&A session with NSA reps.
Notice that the Cryptome URLs say "manning-flight" instead of "snowden-flight". Freudian slip?
I'm not sure that OP's use of DRY (which seems to be about setting requirements) is the same as is referenced in the CodingHorror article (which is more about coding style and avoiding multiple modules that accomplish the same task)
When you hear other countries talking about "US control over the internet" they're largely talking about ICANN.

But I agree that they're not "The Man" per se. Though I assume they're co-opted to the core.
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I wonder how many others (if any) will follow your lead.
I should think OCaml or SML should be added to the mix. Neither has Async built in, but the other points are handled quite well. http://ocaml.org/description.html
> The point is basic economic theory define this as an impossibility.

Because "basic economic theory" goes out of the window when technology starts doing everything for you. You can't escape from labor being free to services, because services are next for machines to eat. And after them are knowledge workers.

The pillar of our economics is scarcity. Money is needed to allocate scarce resources, because there is in general always more demand than supply. But the moment "resources" (food, manufacturing, energy) gets dirt cheap, the whole concept loses sense.
And FYI, about 100 different people will have your credit card information if you use the hotel ATM to get your cash.
for me the bigger issue is that while it's +1 to speed, it's -5 to memory.
summary: they will not present, but they will.
There are lots of concrete details in that post, by someone with direct experience training these pilots. He offers specific reasons to suspect that they aren't being trained as well as they should be -- the most telling of which, to my mind, is that instructors get fired for holding students to the proper standards.

You seem to be accusing the author and your fellow HN members of racism. I think you didn't read the post carefully. The author goes out of his way to make the point that there were some Korean students he thought did very well -- but they were a small minority.

We need to be able to criticize organizations and their cultures frankly, without that being taken as some kind of ad hominem against the people who work in those organizations. And to the extent that organizational culture is colored by national or regional culture, as it often is, that's fair game too.
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I've never heard of a GPU automatically downclocking due to heat. Source?

Other scenarios:

When the fan (eventually) fails, the GPU will fall victim soon after.

A lot of gamers also overclock their GPU which would put that GPU at even more of a risk.
Well, you could read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mis-measure of Man.

Or you could read The Bell Curve. It is positing a small difference between "races", a difference so small that it is very minor compared to the expected range of deviation for a populace.

The idea that there is a scientifically definable thing called "race" lacks data. That is your row to hoe if you believe other. Skeptics are not required to disprove the existence of the tooth fairy, Nessie, or "race".
Did you miss the part where they make six times their previous income?
Compare this:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130708/1...

With this:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130707/2...

What you see is a substantial deviation from one to the other. One flies over land in the US quite a bit, the other only very briefly.

If headwinds are bad enough on the great circle route it could actually be more efficient to take a non-great-circle route. Airplanes fly relative to the air, not the ground. So if the air is moving fast enough in the wrong direction it can lengthen the route substantially. The jetstream can be more than 100mph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream

EDIT: It's also not terribly wise to state something as fact (that I am wrong) when neither of us will know either way until the media reports on it. We can both speculate, but unless we know the pilots on the airplane and they confided in us prior to the flight, we can't know. I don't know the pilots and I suspect that you don't either. So let's not dress up guesswork as facts.
Gluten Free? Big deal.

Also worth a read: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
DUPE -- This is a repost of an article Steve Yegge wrote almost two years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
this is so awesome by Secure Ideas, and also an awful move by DEF CON. one of the largest problems with current state of technology is that what the fed is doing is possible. hopefully there will be a lot of talk about how to shift towards more secure services such as mesh nets and polymorphic encryption. the feds would have been good resources to talk to, and it's extremely hard to find an opportunity to have the kind of necessary talks outside of conventions like DEF CON.
That was my question coming out of the article: why exactly do we want quinoa? The native Americans stopped growing it because it didn't yield well enough. Modern farmers have had trouble growing it here in the US. And I've never found the taste astounding, so I find myself wondering why we don't stick to rice, soy, lentils, beans, corn, and wheat?
To be fair, Commonest appeared in Mathematica 6.0 about six years ago.
Another comment in the informal series, "Let me state the obvious in a way that makes me sound superior to this author."
I think some who have direct or indirect ties to NSA or other government organizations will probably feel the pressure to opt out for DEFCON that increasingly have become anti-government.
That's kind of the idea. Reappropriating the coding best practices into higher level project management ideas is the premise of the post.
There isn't really a "flood" of newly minted BTC.

The system performs closed loop control keeping the supply relatively constant.
Add quinoa to water (ratio: 1:2), bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer for ~20 mins.

I should have added a time parameter to my storage comment. We typically make a bunch of rice, like 6 cups uncooked and keep it in a big container for the week. With quinoa, by the end of the week it's pretty gross, kind of a big blob.
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Preferably something that has an API
> The BI's natural "lobbying organzation" is the entire public... not even the entire voting public, but the entire public. Even people making $150,000/year are going to still appreciate $10,000, and we're now talking well above median.

Then why couldn't we get universal health care passed through decades and decades of attempts?

I think you are assessing the human psychology factor incorrectly. The US population is not a lobbying organization. Just because something is in their interests does not make people rally behind a cause. A lobbyist has an agenda, but the very existence of BI does not make it everyone's agenda to increase it. The person making $150k has better things to worry about than exerting pressure to increasing BI, and in fact, will likely be a business owner and someone that is very receptive to the argument that raising taxes will hurt production. Similarly, raising BI is not a cause that fuels people's competitive spirit and drive for meaning. Certainly there will be a socialist contingent that does have that agenda, but I don't see why you are so convinced that it will inevitably become a runaway train.

> You can't use our experiences with things that well less than half the population gets to judge the effect it will have on voting patterns.

Exactly what I said previously—we're both speculating.
Not really. you could use a storage medium that is remote and load it in memory only, if the usage justified.... not case, for reasons you outlined eloquently on the article.

Also, the client cert, as with private keys, allows you to memorize ONLY ONE password (make it a passphrase, please) instead of a bazillion (or, gasp, reusing).

So, no, it's not an extra hassle. it's a solution for the real hassle of passwords in websites. if it was used.
Well, even if they removed it, our hypothetical library user could do it by themselves if not told not to.
This is awesome. A big win for AngularJS.
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Not that MS hasn't always been about that, but it's clear they're doubling down on it.

They might as well play by the same rules as their competitors.

It's unfortunate for consumers, and I hope that in the long run market forces and/or regulation will open things up again. However, for the immediate future, if your major competitors are running closed worlds and you're the only guys running an open one, there's only one direction that customers can move in.
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Your argument underlie some implicit assumptions, which are that (a) a BI that increases over time has negative consequences, and (b) these consequences would be invisible to the people.

Those seem some pretty strong assumptions to me, and they deserve to be further justified.

Why do you actually think that making the BI larger is a bad idea? And why do you think that people will disagree / not add one and one together?

If you think that increasing the BI requires tax increases, well, there will be people complaining about the tax increases, and your argument goes poof.

If you think that increasing the BI causes higher inflation, then either people will decide that having a higher BI is worth it, or there will be people complaining about the higher inflation, and your argument goes poof.
Sorry, I deleted my post because someone else posted at the same time a reasonable explanation - a rice substitute ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6029358 ). Thanks for adding information.

My original text:

"The arid, cool land that quinoa needs was plentiful, since little else could grow there. And thus far, that trait has made it difficult to grow elsewhere." (posted link)

"Protein content is very high for a cereal/pseudo-cereal (14% by mass), yet not as high as most beans and legumes." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa )

I'm puzzled. Why not stick to beans, which are cheap and plentiful, and come in a wide variety of shapes and colors?
Investment in staff, research, equipment etc. tends to come out before profit calculations. So no.
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So far I found https://www.padmapper.com/ pretty good.
I'm fascinated by the lack of any skepticism about their guilt. The public has been shown literally no proof whatsoever that they have committed any offense that warrants their imprisonment, and yet they're imprisoned essentially for life.
We're building matchist to a) help freelance developers find worthwhile work while getting paid on time, every time (http://matchist.com/talent) and b) help clients find quality developers to handle anything from simple website builds to complex API integrations.
All these discussion remind me how much time people wasted on mission statement.
It's a problem for everyone else. Specifically, malnutrition in children has grown in quinoa cultivating areas since their parents can no longer afford quinoa. It's literally four times as expensive per weight compared to much less nutritious noodles

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/world/americas/20bolivia.h...
You're making the assumption that Ballmer even knew about this, which isn't immediately clear. Someone at Microsoft certainly did, but so did people working within the government. You know, people working for US citizens, ultimately, if you still believe in the whole "government for the people, by the people" thing. So far, only Snowden leaked any of this stuff. I think it's unfair to lay the blame at Ballmer's feet in particular, considering both of those things.
Some puzzling stuff in this article. We're apparently to believe that Colorado's transportation infrastructure is far behind that of the Bolivian Andes?
There is a near balance between those who would vote for and against a basic income based. The simplest implementation would involve a flat income tax that is distributed as a lump sum. For this case, families earning less than average would want an increased basic income and families earning more would want the opposite.

Some rational voters, however, would want to mitigate their downside risk, and therefore wish to have a basic income despite its cost.
You want to couple one controversial idea (basic income) with another controversial idea (global climate change)? Yikes!
As a seller of products or services, what motivation do you have to peg the price of your products or services to such an inflationary measure?

Developing countries frequently switch to USD/EUR in times of financial calamities, as marketplaces there gravitate towards currencies that preserve wealth, not erode it, which is what you're planning to institutionalize.
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But we have no idea what their previous income was, nor how much other sources of food cost.

It feels weird that local food is exported as a cash crop, and other food is imported.
Honest question: how does that article contradict that statement? Everyone is bouncing off the walls about this but I honestly can't see where the story is. Microsoft + others enable NSA to access customer data when presented with court order. You can agree or not agree but is it really a shock?
the US provides ATC services for the western half of the mid-north atlantic, even if it's not our sovereign airspace.
> Most people in the US have never even heard of Bitcoin or an Unconditional Basic Income.

Most people also don't understand technology and what it means that, to quote a Portal poster, "Robots are SMARTER than you, Robots work HARDER than you" [0]. Those people who have never heard of UBI will also, in 30 years, never hear of their jobs again.

[0] - http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Karla_the_Complainer?file=Bu...
Sorry, friend, but I cannot think of a single one. As you move here you will probably discover that the real-estate market in the San Francisco Bay Area is driven mostly by landlord greed. Unless you are a wealthy CEO or something, then you will find any rents in the City impossible, and all of the websites designed to "help you" only want a piece of the action.
I see the rationale in that argument, but I think one of the things you're missing is that companies won't just automatically raise their prices in unison.

Smart companies may hold their prices constant and take a per unit profit hit to capture more share, allowing them to maintain or even increase overall profit. They may introduce higher margin products and/or develop entirely new strategies or lines of business.

And that is the free market mechanism that I mentioned: each company must adjust to the new reality and try to use it to gain an edge over its competitors. They do this all the time.

And, given this new incentive to maintain profits, they may be more aggresive in finding cost reduction elsewhere. One might argue that companies are doing all they can now, but you might be surprised at how new realities create new incentives.

The other important thing with returning shareholder value is how Wall Street works. It is very much a time-relative game. For example, how did the company do vs. last quarter or same quarter last fiscal year? Viewed this way, you can see why some companies pump the brakes on all out profit-maximization over a given timeframe, instead opting to ensure that the line keeps moving up and to the right over a longer period. So, it's more complicated than all companies are always maximizing profit at all times.

Finally, your example that the easiest thing to do is to raise the price by, say, $1 doesn't really hold, irrespective of what direct competitors do with their pricing. They must still keep prices in line with what the market will bear. If not, consumers may begin looking for substitutes or go without (depending on the product). So, while it might be the simplest thing for a company to try, it might not be accepted by the market.

This is all part of the free market at work. So, your simplification is tempting, but I think it goes back to creating that vacuum I mentioned, ignoring all of the many market variables that countervail the assumption that $1 in increased "cost" equals $1 in increased price.
Re #4:

There is a funny scene at the end of Disney's Carousel of Progress ride that shows exactly this -
a "futuristic" family is gathered for the holidays while their voice-activated oven cooks in the background. As they make various unrelated comments that contain words like "up," "heat" etc, the oven responds and continues to increase the temperature on their Christmas turkey (while the family obliviously chatters on) until it is burnt to a crisp.
What if no one buys your widget for $101? You'll bring the price back down to $100 very, very quickly.
Well, it is seems like caching of the actual map data, but the application itself is not capable of performing the searches or figuring out routes. Since the device I am talking about was really not that powerful enough to perform that kind of computation, it could be intentional.
Same here. Sauté some onions and garlic in the pot. Right as those finish up dump in the water and quinoa and cover. Turn the heat to simmer and wait the few minutes for it to cook down. Using broth or stock of some sort instead of water adds even more flavor.
It contains a good amount of all of the essential amino acids (ie the amino acids that your body cannot produce adequately itself). It also has calcium and iron. It's a pretty awesome nutritional food.

EDIT: to emphasize, the key advantage of quinoa is that it has a lot of all of the essential amino acids, which is very very rare among plants. I believe the only other plant with all essential amino acids is soy.
Before there was Hacker News there was Slashdot. Before Slashdot there were NNTP servers (Usenet). Before Usenet there were BBSes. We've been chatting online for the past 30 years and yet have still been able to create operating systems, window managers, office productivity suites, databases, compilers and all sorts of other things.

Not saying our system is perfect, but it's working and besides developers need to let off some steam and just talk about geeky stuff.
I have not tried both, so I did not experience this problem. I do know SSL client certs do not work well, and wanted to work on building my own solution that does what StartSSL (an OpenID endpoint with SSL-cert based authentication). Does anyone know of ways to do this?
What about the broader community?
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Both Ruby and Perl are in active development. Both jQuery and mootools are in active development. Python 2 is not in active development and most of the useful python libraries are not ported to python 3.

Your analogy breaks on a number of levels.