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The boom has peaked, the initial explosion. This is somewhere between 1988 and 1994 in PC terms however. The market will still double in size globally over the next decade, reaching deeper into the bottom 50% of consumers that have a hard time affording an Internet connected smart phone today.

There are also a vast array of innovations yet to be uncovered, as we connect our lives in a mobile way. In that regard it goes far beyond the innovation limits of the desktop computer (for example). Indeed, having max distribution will facilitate an innovation boom for mobile.

So while 75% of American adults might have a smart phone, that says nothing about the pace of innovation for either the hardware or software, and that's far more important than the sales growth rate in my opinion.

As you get closer to max distribution, the profit center will shift to the software and away from the hardware.
What do you mean by "a huge number"? Do you mean "a huge number" or do you mean "a huge fraction"? The difference is important for policy decisions.

25% of Americans are food insecure each year. If you gave them enough money to not be (we sort of try to do this: about 15% of the US population received food stamps at some point last year, but 15% is less than 25%, and the monetary amount is sometimes too small to prevent food insecurity), some amount of it would probably be misspent. Let's suppose 1% of recipients misspent it. 750,000 people blowing government money on heroin and hookers is a huge number of people. But a program with 99% efficiency -- where only 1% is misspent -- is also objectively really fucking efficient; a charity only has to spent 80% of its funds well for most people to consider it efficient.

So do you care about a huge number or a huge fraction of people abusing the system? Personally, I'm OK with the idea of hundreds of thousands of people abusing the public trust if it means that tens of millions are bootstrapped out of poverty.
Pretty cool, although, not entirely a new concept:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio (no battery needed for wireless reception)

Using that concept to also produce transmissions is the kicker here.

Now, "the walls have ears" takes on an entirely new meaning in "The Internet of Things"...
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The disappointing thing about Tokyo Cabinet is that an empty database is six megabytes in size. Not good for embedded systems where space it short.
I'm assuming you're not advocating having postgersql serve up html and javascript, and listen on ssl connections directly from the clients.

So you'll need some middleware, and there's no good reason why you shouldn't be able to keep your model and validation logic in one place - I'm guessing one of the easiest approaches, if you're using an sql database, is to use nodejs for the middleware, sharing as much as possible of validation and model-code between the api server and the client?

I think having to fix three different code-bases on every model change/feature addition is going to be a problem (SQL, PHP/Scala/Ruby/Python, and javascript + bonus fourth language if you use templates...). I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying there has to be a better way?
He meant iGoogle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
I would think people with basic income would be much less likely to commit crimes because a) essential needs can be met and b) they would have something to lose (freedom, time, money).

Beyond that, there's something inherently silly about your question - perhaps its the way it assumes the worst of people. You might as well ask why don't teachers get tenure and leave as much teaching as they can to subs without being fired, or why don't programmers pass all their work on to elance or odesk and get some additional outside work to make more money. These things may happen on occasion, but I'm inclined to believe that most are not so mercenary/sociopathic.
You completely misunderstand. I wasn't talking about a generic "emergency landing on water".

A plane suddenly loses power in a highly urbanized area. It's very near multiple airports. Prior to 2009, I have no expectation that an autopilot would have been equipped to judge whether it should attempt to land in a heavily-trafficked river. (I further have no expectation that it would have been equipped to notice in the highly plausible scenario of one or more small boats being in the way.)

It's not a question of landing on water, it's a question of making the decision to do so and where.

Humans have the judgement gained by a lifetime of learning. Computers only have what it occurs to us to put into them while we're sitting safe and sound in our little offices pushing little buttons that don't threaten our lives.
This comes off as having been written in a bubble. What I hear is someone arguing for their own self interest while using the Middle Class to gin up support. Who wouldn't want to help the middle class? I'm sure the middle class could be helped by more IPOs and less regulation to get more of them but I'm also positive it'll help the wealthy even more.

How about this idea: lets start human trials of drugs earlier and require less regulations before medications are released so we can help fight disease in 3rd world countries... And boost my Pfizer stock.
They need to talk to these guys.

http://www.thmoray.org/
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I thought about legal recourse but ultimately rejected the idea. I liked the founder, the company, and the accelerator. I didn't want to potentially ruin his dream and muddle his business with a lawsuit. After all, what investor would want to invest in a company that was being sued for discriminatory practices? In any case, he wasn't malicious - just ignorant. I suppose I should have done one better and helped to educate him to what he had done wrong. Instead I just wished him and his company the best of luck.
Dart reinvents a full type system for itself, with its own environment and paradigms, and if you want to cross-compile to JavaScript instead of running in a dart VM, you have to ship a huge swath of code with it to get it working.

GorillaScript works with the JavaScript type system instead of against it, at least as well as it can, including supporting nice future additions like Map, Set, and WeakMap.

GorillaScript tries to work within the JavaScript landscape as best it can so that there is as little of a disconnect between GorillaScript and JavaScript as possible.
Hacking infrastructure/cyber warfare has been part of the plan for over 30 years or since it was available. Even Reagan allowed it to help bring down the USSR (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/03/62806).

Stuxnet is largely believed to be created by the US and Israel to cause problems to Iran's nuke programs (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects...). Part of defense is offense against infrastructure that is a threat and will be as long as there are countries.
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> there is a universe outside of PHP, and PHP is not at the center of that universe.

There is only one universe and PHP is a part of it. A big part. That's the reality.

Some of us have to work on multiple platforms with multiple languages and it's truly a disappointment when the authors clearly put in an effort to cater to the community where multiple platform support is prioritized ... but then exclude a platform due to personal bias.

That makes this project a no-go for me.
Excuse me, other than chastise the guy for not being on top of the story, what can you offer in terms of how much access Snowden actually had? I've been reading reports on this stuff and nobody has ever said exactly what he did or didn't have access to with any kind of precision. I believe he had access to something. But everything? To the point where someone would say "how wouldn't he know?" without evoking laughter? However you feel about the guy, it is quite ridiculous to elevate Snowden to the point of omniscience.
Homemade DIY guys playing with the idea.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:Ambient_Energy_Collection_De...
And let's not forget you pay taxes on those nominal dollar capital gains.
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Yes, that's why Amazon had no effect on the retail market before disappearing. Because fat margins are the only important thing.
I think the everyday average person (non engineer, non tech industry) would take interest in the subject much more with PRISM, which names companies and services that they interact with every day and they depend upon.

If you take the body of people who use Google/Yahoo!/Facebook and get the % of people who are aware of the existence and importance of internet infrastructure, you will find that the % is nowhere near 100%.

I think the order is okay, but the issue is that the media is making it a personality focus to make the story more sensationalist (do we sense a pattern here!?) and said average Joe is surely distracted.
Anyone but a kidnapper, I'd say.
The distinction here is that I as an individual have a lot more control over what's on YouTube compared to what's published on CNN.

The utility of that freedom being that if I had published the video immediately and forfeited my copyright, It would have better informed the audience earlier in the news cycle and led to less speculation.
An alternative implementation, mentioned elsewhere in the thread, would be a negative income tax (NIT). This would work by establishing a 'baseline' wage, and if someone is below that baseline, they are subject to a negative tax (i.e. they receive money from the government). This would probably be a much cheaper method of establishing a BI, as only those with low or no wages would receive the benefit, but would also allow for massive reductions in welfare programs. Something to consider.
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PHP might be in the pipeline.
Let me rearrange it for you.

there's secret cabal of "capitalists" all persuaded by some idea that they never publicly proselytize, but all coordinate action in order to pursue... it is not conspiratorial, but it is implicit.

Indeed, this is a code, similarly to how you don't have to tell your best friend not to hit on your ex, yet. You know it, s/he knows it. Just because it isn't said, does not mean, it is not well understood.
I tend to agree with most of the comments in this thread. What I think will be most interesting is seeing the next iPhone iteration, and the one after that. If the ads are still spending a lot of time talking about brand, then I think the problem will be more apparent.
...the hipsters to hell.

Back in ~2009, living on the southern periphery in Whitechapel, we came up with the idea to call 'em ditchies.

There's a decent old-school pub left with some serious artists (aged and incoming) directly opposite the East London Mosque. It's run by an alcoholic former schoolteacher who reckoned it was better public service running a bar (apparently, for artists). Good place.
This is awesome, I'm wondering how it performs for the average web app. Are there benchmarks load tests anywhere?
This kind of proves my point. While a stabbing attack is a crime, and a violent one, I would scarcely call it terrorism. If so, then we have to call just about all crimes terrorism. If we do that, then the word simply means criminal and that's no good. A terrorist is not someone who stabs you. In the strictest sense it is someone who commits acts of violence or uses intimidation in an attempt to achieve a political end.

I've seen so many people labeled as terrorist that never even come close to the "political end" part of the definition. Kids bringing guns to school is not terrorism, but it is a crime, burning crosses in the yards of black families would be.

I don't trust the US or Israel to publish data reflecting acts of actual terrorism, I expect them to bolster their arguments by fabricating this data. Just look at us here in the US. The media and the government have called just about everyone a terrorist that commits a crime and they want to see them treated harshly. I also expect them to use these bolstered numbers to prop-up organizational infrastructure like the NSA and the military-industrial complex.

It's practically impossible to use "terrorism" statistics in any real way for any argument without strict definition of what a terrorist is as put forth by the person making the argument. We can compare gun deaths, we can compare auto deaths, we can compare bathtub falls, but we can't really compare any of that to terrorism statistics.
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The reason for this executive order is probably that government communications is increasingly occurring on the public internet, and, just like how many hosting services (be it AWS, Linode, or otherwise) provide dedicated communications links between data-centers, the US Government will probably be establishing its own fiber infrastructure.

This is probably a stop-gap before wiring up the entirety of the US mainland with dedicated fiber connections, and hopefully the USG will release their clutches from the internet's core infrastructure afterwards.
Ouch. Onboarding? You can't communicate if you make up words as you go along.
Actually, it looks like the video was edited to become vertical after the fact. Look at the blurry images in the sides of the video.
This cannot be stressed enough. Anyone who enforces a rule through violence but is not subject to that rule is nothing more than a thug.
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That or it's easier than ever. Hack the computer that stores the fingerprint and retina-scan images, upload yours, and you're golden. After all, everybody knows "computers never lie".
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On a scale of 1 to 10 of importance to the middle class, buying early into IPOs is about a 0. Try housing prices, health care costs, stagnant wages, an unpredictably irrational criminal justice system, and the all-but-inevitable revolution that comes when today's young realize that it is stupid for them to pay 30% of their salaries to support the retirement of an entire generation of selfish people who politically could never make hard decisions and passed the buck onto their kids.
> How wouldn't he?

Easy. Omniscience is not the default state of a human being. Perhaps he had access to information revealing this, and didn't find or read it. Perhaps he had no access to such a thing. I don't think we can safely assume he knows everything there is to know about anything the government (or even some small sector) is involved in. He's just one guy, after all.
Instead of creating another framework , make a service provider/controller and make your library pluggable with any Silex application. Sorry but silex is ultra pluggable , so dont force people into something. Silex Di is here to help and you should provide hooks instead of making decisions on everything.

There should not be any app.php file in your project. Unless you need to extend the silex Application class (you shouldn' need to), write a service provider or a generic controler.

It should be a library usable with any silex app , just like Symfony and its bundles.
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Oakland, I think just in planning stages, but see https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh for lots of info.
I would say start treating the authors with the respect that they, as human beings, deserve. I too would like PHP support, but, if it's not there, I can still appreciate the hours and hours of labor that go into the support they do have. There's an expression "if you don't have anything nice/constructive to say, then don't say it," and claiming that it's a "disappointment" that they don't include your feature, and even going so far as to presume it's out of personal bias, is just rude.

Edit: Besides, if you're running php, you're probably developing a web app, in which case you should be using a database like mysql or mongodb anyway, not an embeddable db.
> Yes, ditching an airplane that has lost all of its engines is a standard emergency procedure.

See my reply to krisoft. You're changing a specific situation into a general one. You can't just say "ditch the plane if you lose power", you have to anticipate every possible variable that may influence whether that is actually the correct course of action, and the manner in which it is carried out. And you have to do that before it ever happens.

> What difference does that make?

Unanticipated situations are unanticipated situations. We don't have AI. We haven't replicated the ability of a human being to adapt on-the-fly. There is no reason to believe we will in the near future.

> Controlled flight into terrain accidents [...] could be entirely eliminated if you took human pilots out of the loop.

The problem I have with this line of reasoning is that so much more could be done to prevent them even without taking the pilots out of the loop, and yet it's not. That does nothing to give me confidence that the right thing will be done when pilots ARE taken out of the loop.

Edit: What it comes down to is this. All you're ultimately doing is completely and irrevocably substituting the unalterable judgement of somebody in a completely different time, place, and circumstance for the adaptable judgement of the person on the plane. When you do that, what you're really saying is "I refuse to give people in a scenario I didn't think about the chance to survive". I can't accept that.
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Brand ads are supposed to be mission statements and the whole point of them is not to talk about product selling points.

And you are out of touch in the sense that people are influenced by a brand and what it says about them. After all many items including clothing and shoes roughly cost the same to make regardless of the brand yet the prices and demand vary wildly.
any freedom? isnt that a bit drastic? or are you referring to the particular issue of privacy here?
I feel it pretty much holds true when you try to compile any language that was designed without JavaScript in mind into JavaScript, the result is likely to be ugly and/or imperformant. (Not always, e.g. asm.js)

GorillaScript is designed to run with JavaScript semantics and be as efficient as possible (within reason), so that when you write something as simple as `x + y` in GorillaScript, it is efficient, even with unknown types, unlike Python which would need to check `__add__` or Ruby with its operators-as-methods system.

Also, since JavaScript is so different from so many languages with async-by-default, handle through callbacks or promises or something, being able to replicate something as compilicated as Python's GIL in JavaScript would be atrocious as compared to designing your code in a language that nudges you to write "good" JavaScript.
I understand that money never needs to cross borders. But presumably this only works when there are enough local senders of money to offset the "incoming" funds to be collected by local recipients.

My question was what happens if, for example, people in Helsinki are always only recipients? The Finnish branch of the organisation is providing them with Euros, but if there are no Finnish senders of money (or more likely: the Finns as a group simply don't send as much as they receive) where do the Euros come from?
He should start signing all his messages
I'm almost certain he sold the footage to CNN. They probably waited a day to see if it was the only footage of the crash then msde an offer.
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Pfizer benefits massively from a highly regulated, FDA controlled market, in which only the big players can bribe their way through challenging approvals, and only big players can afford the massive cost of creating new drugs + bringing them to market fully.

Companies like Pfizer would be more likely to get toppled in a free market, than not. As it is, their position is guaranteed by the FDA. They're a government protected company, similar to Verizon or Boeing or Exxon. They roll in the profits, and all they have to do is buy up smaller players that can't hang around long enough to get approvals. The only threat to Pfizer right now is massive European pharmas.

Pfizer loves the system exactly the way it is.
I think it's significant because it's a huge increase over '0'.
A bunch of research was done on this kind of problem in the 1990s under the heading "Operational Transformation".[1] Google have subsequently applied it to Wave and Google Docs.

If you are prepared to accept some suckiness, you can probably do something simpler, borrowing partly from synchronous lockstep RTS simulations.

Put a single canonical model on your server. The server accepts command objects from clients, then forwards them to other clients. If each client is running the same code and applies the same command objects[2] in the same order, they will have identical local models.

It'll drift, of course. Periodically you need to do some sort of checksum and repair. But it's probably simpler than a fully-dressed OT system.

In terms of implementation, I'm working towards this sort of a system currently for an app I am trying to write. AngularJS on the front end, emitting command objects to a server which rebroadcasts to other clients. I don't have the details nailed down. For example, I don't have a firm concept of how or whether to try and coalesce multiple changes locally. And I don't have a firm view on the server system.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_pattern

[3] http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/09/synchronous-rts-eng...
Just off my basic understanding of how the database works, I don't believe a production web app would be a very appropriate use-case, since considering it's an embeddable database you'll be bound by the slow filesystem. Mysql/postgres or mongodb would be better options. This is more for self-contained applications such as cron jobs or utilities.
This is going through the ceremony of a Jobs era ad (emotional connection, experience etc.) without understanding why those ads worked.
I apologize if the written tone of that comment appeared chastising, I did not write it as such.

It was an honest recommendation that he follow this closely. There is history being revealed in this matter and everyone should be paying close attention.

At a minimum, everyone should be thinking critically about what it means to be an American and what one really stands for/believes in.
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Use coroutine based servers, everytime there's guranteed one thread accessing the db.
Agreed. Are we just believing everything Snowden says without proof here and are we believing that any site that posts a Snowden interview is actually posting a legit interview? That's not to say someone really believed they were talking to him but rather to ask how are we to know? Are there documents that prove the mass data collection is real, especially the British and other European programs. So far the only documents I've seen are related to PRISM. I'm hesitant to just take Snowden's word at face value. There are a few things about him and his behavior that make me question his reliability. I'm willing to believe a lot but not all of it yet.
Why wouldn't companies just increase the price of their shares by a factor of 4 to counter the increase in tick size by 4? Thus keeping the percentage of tick size to asset value the same ($1 stock with $0.0025 tick size = $4 stock with $0.01 tick size).
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Really? I'd be interested to hear why it can't be used as a web server database.
The flawed assumption in your argument is that malice and irrationality are the only possible explanations for his actions.