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> I do believe though that global warming feeds into their belief that industry, growth and capitalism are somehow evil and confirms their pre-existing prejudices.

Well I see people using current events to feed into pre-existing prejudices and biases here on HN all the time, so now I find it harder to criticize liberals and conservatives for doing the same.
The cloud is cool but your putting your data, and for many people that means their livelyhoods in the hands of strangers.

Personal Cloud is a better option.

I personally would be more than happy to own a single device that I could take with me and still know I had all the computing power I needed, without the bulk of a desktop or even a small laptop.

Monitor and keyboard at home, one at the office, phone in my pocket all backed up and synced in my personal private cloud.
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Having seen some in the MS camp suggest that F# is a good candidate for data work (vs C#) for similar reasons, are there languages in the cross platform crop whose strengths lend towards data (string) processing (vs app development)?

OCaml becomes interesting given the above due to syntax similarities. Scala/Clojure due to Java library support(?). Haskell because it seems to get a good amount of attention.
I would like to like this, but there are some red flags: It seems like they are engineering their own high-end hardware. Are there really no off-the-shelf platforms for this? No ODMs from which they could order 10k units, including the GPU driver license?

Supposing they could get 10k units for $500 each, that means they could ask for $1M or $2m and be far more certain of hitting their goal. Why not do that?

It seems as if they are trying to fund development of Ubuntu for phones on the back of this hardware project. Or, unlike Jolla and Tizen and Firefox OS they lack launch partners, so they are doing a "Microsoft Surface." Maybe the $900M write-down of Surface hardware made them think $32M is a doddle.

Ubuntu should run nicely on Surface RT hardware... They could make an offer.
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Let's say an average person has a great idea but to come up with that idea she had to go through a lot of schooling and industry experience. Also she needed to earn enough to have a solid 11-13K bank balance. I have a feeling to attain these objectives that person would have to be in her mid-30s. How does a person at that age naturally adapt to a new country, when all she has experienced and adapted to so far is another culture in another country?
While this is great in theory, it's likely not going to lead to anything other than one marquee Toronto Star story about the foreign entrepreneur who found success in Canada.

Canadian VCs are far too risk averse and conservative; that's why the uptick of start-ups in all areas of the country, even Toronto's own would-be "Valley" of Liberty Village and the Junction, hasn't fielded much in the ways of success.

Until Toronto VCs start taking more risks and going down the road of helping people experiment (much like YComb itself), I don't see this doing much other than acting as a talking point for why Canada is a good place to live.

(I say this as a Torontonian who has worked almost exclusively for start-ups in the GTA and is now moving to San Fran to work for another one).
"Answer Set Programming" or more generally, Constraint Programming.
New Zealand is preparing to introduce new legislation specifically to address the "whack-a-mole" issue that the article talks about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_Substances_Bill

It will basically set up a regulatory regime whereby any recreational drug which can be proven "low risk" can be sold to anyone over the age of 18. Not really all that different from how "regular" pharmaceutical drugs are tested and approved, actually.
I would gladly get on a phone call with you. My contact information is attached to droplet id: 281363
Maybe they were French? (Primarily)
+1. I'd rephrase it - they are newcomers with no experience in the filed of making hardware.
How about patenting the method of submitting a document to register a patent?
Have a bunch of stateful stuff that you need to keep track of? Encapsulation is nice.

I think this one is open for debate. There are other models for managing state which make things simpler to reason about than classical OO with encapsulation. One such example is Clojure's epochal time model.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
Street vendors in Canada can typically sell well over 100 of anything on a nice day, I imagine in China with the greater foot traffic and culture of street food they're selling a lot more.

I read the story as them thinking that when they sold 100 per day when they started was validation that their plan was going to work.
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And yet.
"... all the more reason to hate title case."

So just because a company uses an ambiguous term as a product name ("Now"), that's the final nail in the coffin of title case? Seems a bit silly to me...
Strangely enough, when I lived in Japan the guy who owned the takoyaki cart near my office surprised me with perfect English and a Californian accent that he had picked up as a game programmer in the USA in the 90s.
...and there's a very clear and easy path to get from Permanent Residency to Citizenship.
This kind-of hearkens back to simulation I think. That is, if two objects have the same properties then it might be useful to identify them as distinct things because they are in fact distinct entities. That they happen to have the same properties is a matter of fidelity only.
You don't have to go very far to find people against "growth" in western societies. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Oxfam etc all seem to think that growth is an evil that should be opposed.

I don't think they are duping us, but a mixture of pre-existing biases combined with enormous funding certainly helps to create the idea of a consensus.
I think the tech companies will be "allowed" to release select information out about the number of requests, etc. I think that they are chomping at the bit only because the number of requests will seem relatively small and make the spying seem less onerous and more benign. The companies' goals are to reassure their users, so they wouldn't be pushing for this release unless they believed it would do just that.

I believe the NSA is specifically calculating that it's better to delay and appear to put up a "fight" over releasing this info. Then, when it finally comes out, it will have the psychological effect of making people think that if the NSA is fighting so hard to protect something so "trivial", then maybe there's nothing to worry about. Maybe all of their programs and activities are just as "trivial". So, nothing to see here. Let's keep it moving.

But, of course, the specific number of a certain type of request for a small number of tech companies is only a small part of the picture with respect to this overall issue. So, ultimately, such a limited release would work in the NSA's favor.
I guess they just didn't find investors. Jolla managed to do it because they have expertise and accumulated knowledge in the field. Canonical don't have that.
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I've duplicated it into a private repository. Reference, if you will.
Not exciting then. More interesting would be to crowdfund glibc drivers.
This is an excellent result. I worried when the idea of helping the PTO uncover prior art would be controlled by the attorneys filing the patent (which is to say they would be a filter between the examiner and the external sources) but if the examiners are going directly to the source then this will really put a crimp in bad patents being issued.
I've written about this before, but this guy definitely wrote it better. I experience a very close relation between this and Ruby vs C#(Mono). I love Ruby as a language, but the pain of using Rubygems and random things requiring Ruby <1.9 and <1.8 (And setting up rvm to manage that) is an absolute pain. Python is slightly better, but I still have a python2 and python3 installed.

This is why I love mono. Things may not be backwards compatible, but I've never had a problem where something wasn't forwards compatible. And I think this is a result of it being compiled. The compilation step decouples the language and syntax from the actual execution of the code. This means that compiled applications can have drastic and breaking syntax improvements, but still be forward compatible on future runtimes. The same can not be said of interpreted languages unless you somehow work a version number into the execution, and even then it makes implementation of the languages much harder because future versions must support every version of the syntax
Password reuse is still bad, your password doesn't have to be breached through a database dump. You could be accessing a compromised site, or get caught by any number of network attacks from stripping to mixed scripting to dumping a stream that doesn't have forward secrecy. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/07/19/hope9talk.html
Yep, that appears to be the case:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/22/mobile_gsm_sim_card_...

An attack similar in spirit to this breaks RADIUS.
Not that this invalidates what you said, but NPM and Grunt (and just enough Node.js to use them) are required learning for JavaScript developers nowadays IMO.
It's a shame it doesn't cover things we already know are pretty safe (THC!), but baby-steps I suppose...
You would think it would be that simple, but you really need to look at it from the investor's point of view: What is my ROI if invest my money this way instead of that way? More unattractive investments won't help the tech startup community grow.

My suspicion[1] is that the thing that will really fix this is changing the way that investors are taxed on their capital gains and losses.

[1] Been a while since I lived in Canada, but IIRC capital gains and losses are not taxed like they are in the US.
Didn't know about GNU ffcall until now, so thanks, very useful stuff.
I'm wondering if the ambitious goal of $32M is part of their strategy. Given that a higher goal is less likely to be met, I (and others who might consider backing) may be willing to adjust our risk function for the $600-800 such that we are more likely to back the project. Assuming that after 30 days only $20M is raised, then the outcome is as follows:

1: Nobody is actually charged for supporting the project

2: Other interested parties (phone manufacturers and carriers) will see that there is demand for a phone that doesn't even exist yet. These interested parties might consider reaching this market to differentiate from the current phone OS leaders.

3: Canonical still gets to see their OS in smartphones.

Maybe I'm reaching at straws. I do believe them when they say that manufacturing at scale is expensive.
You might consider taking linear algebra.
Friend, you're stretching the definition of conspiracy quite a bit here. At the very least, a conspiracy theory would require some accusation of collusion between some parties. There is no secret plan, I'm just pointing out a common rhetorical tactic I disagree with.
There's been so much controversy, zealotry, and fraud around this topic that it alienated a lot of people. And rightly so.
Ok didn't know that - thanks for the info!
No. I am not. Read my original post again where I said:

...if you know what you're doing.

Where did I imply anything remotely close to what you just said?
I've been to schools in about 4 different school districts in 3 different states (VA, PA, FL). None offered foreign language classes before high school.

Of course, this is also just anecdotal but I would certainly be surprised to hear that an elementary school or middle school were offering foreign language classes, especially if those classes are not tested for on the standardized exams that drive school ratings.
I'm still a Google fanboy. Most of what they do is better than what the competition does. But there seems to have been a pendulum-effect with regard to UX that I do not particularly care for.
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> I'm happy to publish that

foolhardiness is not bravery ;)
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great article. fun dichotomy between russian and thai culture I bet
There isn't really much to work out. She does believe in heaven and hell, but she also believes that God has a plan for everyone. We can't prove each other wrong so we don't find much point in arguing or debating the issue. The only potential sticking point is how we raise our daughter, which we've solved the way most couples solve things: doing what she wants. I think a child has a lot to gain, socially, being raised in a church, as long as we pick one that isn't preaching certain messages (anti-homosexuality or anti-feminism being the two important ones for me).
I think you are far worse off if you make too much to be on Medicaid, but don't get health insurance through work and can't afford it. Everyone I know on Medicaid can go pretty much anywhere they want to receive treatment. I know very few doctors that don't accept Medicaid. (Dentistry is the exception, for those who are covered, it can be difficult to find a dentist.) (This is in Missouri- it may vary depending on your state). Even if you don't have insurance, you can still get a great deal of medical care- you will just be billed exorbitant amounts of money.
I used to work in the food industry, in fine dining restaurants (which are notorious for long hours, hard work, and mediocre pay).

Alot of my friends left to start food trucks, street stands, etc... Keep in mind where I live (a cold part of Canada), you can realistically only sell street food for 4-6 months out of the year. They would all make $60,000 to $100,000 in a season, and now a few of them have brick and mortar restaurants to their name.

I worked a street food stand for a festival awhile back, we made $3000 in a day (split 2 ways).

Street food doesn't scale too well, and there are a whole slew of downsides, but if you can figure out an efficient way to make tasty food, you can make a lot of money and there's only a small barrier to starting out (likely less start up cost in China).
Michael Greenberg also published a JavaScript lenses library back in 2007, as part of his thesis at the University of Pennsylvania:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mgree/ugrad/lenses/docs/overview-s...

It's a bit dated now, to be sure, as there have since been many developments in the field of "bidirectional programming". See, for example, Daniel Wagner's paper on "Edit Lenses":

http://dmwit.com/papers/201107EL.pdf
AFAIK, it was a white (or grey) hat hacker. See the comment on the techcrunch article. He nabbed Apple employee details, as proof. But they are probably worried that someone else has also done it.
Since I downvoted, I'll tell you why: this comment is factually incorrect. It's not possible to have sexual intercourse with a government program, let alone coercive sexual intercourse.
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Good parenting causes you to be born outside the southeast?
A set of dedi's a bought as soon as BHS opened were on a rack that wasn't wired properly, an electrical short blew a PSU.
One thing missing in the patent system is that the patent seeker should pay a "fee" of $1000 if it is patentlyobvious that prior art exists.

That would enable "Amazon Mechanical Turk"-style killing of most patents with prior art.
That wasn't a binary distribution problem or anything like one, was it? That was as I remember it a development team that simply hadn't created a known-good repository of their third-party dependencies. While I grant you that's a common pitfall in the rubygem era, it's hard to feel much sympathy as someone who came up building commercial C code, where not having a one-command third-party build-world system was a cardinal sin.
We'd get the tourism anyway - people got to Stratford Upon Avon and Shakespeare has been dead for years.

What we get from monarchy is an ever expanding line of spongers and hangers on who we're expected to support.

Someone will no doubt be along in a minute to say we don't support them financially as they are the crown and generate wealth that way but I'd argue that was all stolen from the common man anyway (plus there's lots of hidden costs such as policing and security that don't come out of the royal budget)

The French had it right with Louis XVI.

We need a non-political president like the Irish, German and Israeli's have.
Yeah, I mean my full name. I share my last name with a well known Norwegian actor, and she has acted in a few movies with a guy I share my first name with. So whenever there is an article about them, it will pop up in the search for my name.

The only thing actually missing when you google my name now is my website.
The peon actively chose to work there and participate in Microsoft's attempts to dismantle any competition in any field they enter through highly questionable tactics.
High end and Mediatek are a contradiction. They're probably looking at something like a Snapdradon 900.
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Reached 100+ K in an hour!!!
Morally, I would take it down.

It is all well and good to write these sorts of things as a demo, but distribution is something where I would defer to the actual owner of the API in question.

After all, how many of us would want someone creating an unauthorized library to a private API that we don't wish to have public?
just google the figure. Jim Rogers uses it in the interviews all the time, so when you are at it, google him and his stand on the future of the agriculture too.

As easy as supply & demand. App Store Supply & Demand is such that you get apps for free. Food industry Supply & Demand is such that a cup of coffee can be at 3-5 bucks. Just paid 20usd for an organic chicken. And that's cheap! Really does taste different (much better).

So? Coding an iPhone app for free because it's cool? I know agriculture doesn't have any of the "cool" factor some of the people are looking for, but you know what? Working for free isn't cool. Selling chickens 20usd/piece or coffee 4usd/cup probably is. And if you can't make it in the agriculture world - the government will keep subsidizing you forever.

What not to like about it ?
He pointed out that the study did not appear to be a peer reviewed scientific study, and asked if this was really the case. He was told to read it himself, but reading the report yourself doesn't necessarily tell you anything about the review/publishing process for the report. (Of course since it's not in a scientific journal the chance it received peer review is pretty low.) Telling somebody to read something themselves may or may not be rude, but it certainly wasn't an answer to the question.

I know everybody on HN likes to think they are an expert in everything, but reading 'reports' by think tanks or other political institutions, even ones that cite scientific studies, is a good way to confirm your own biases, but not a necessarily a good way to educate yourself about contentious issues. If you are not familiar with the area of research you won't know what has been missed or ignored or proven unrepeatable or flawed. A peer reviewed meta-study would be much more likely to include the full cross section of available research.
A phone, or better still a tablet, on which I could run Ubuntu dual-screen would be a winner with me. I could have a light tablet for meetings and document-creation and a portable development environment with a portable external monitor.
So, ten people each putting in $100K? Because I think that's how many people care about this issue.
the campaign, I meant.
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I see climate change denial as an example of a cargo cult, the leaders want to regain their hold over their followers by copying the same rituals that they see the scientists performing.

Maybe it is just a hard-wired human response to disruption of a society by outside influences.
And the person who found prior art should get a cut of that fee. Crowdsourcing at its best.
> Since patent examiners rely so much on keyword searches, when you submit your application, if you can change some of the keywords in your patent to be different than the words used everywhere else, you might get your patent through even when there’s blatant prior art, because by using weird, made-up words for things, you've made that prior art harder to find.

Wouldn't it also make sense to build up, maybe at the same time, a sort of "counter-thesaurus"?

As in: If you find prior art where the thesaurus method has been used to obscure terms in the patent, enter those as an example into a database. When another patent is looked up, individual terms that show up in the database have a "there are alternative terms for this" marker applied to them.

This might also make it a lot easier to make automatic search for prior art feasible again.
Well, I can't actually produce a number for this, but how would you feel about a correlation between first digit of US zip code and incidence of Tay-Sachs disease?

Note: Tay-Sachs is something that happens to Jews, and Jews are concentrated in New York.

Does the zip code connection satisfy your demand of "in this context"?
Wouldn't make sense for Canada to give you a visa with an American investor and probably your company registered in the U.S. though, would it?
Obviously if an investor was that bad, they shouldn't be an investor.

Running a diesel engine off waste oil is a great idea, more people should be doing it.

And no, food businesses don't scale well, but that's ok, because if you're efficient, and your food is good, you can make a decent living for your whole life.
If people care about mobile Linux, they care about this issue (it's the worst issue in the industry). If people don't care, they wouldn't care about this device either. There are tons of Android clones already for them to use.
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Yeah, it's quite possible they realise how unlikely the target is, and it could just be a way of attempting to demonstrate the market (given $830 is likely at one end of the bell-curve, it's a potentially interesting data point).

I find it a bit baffling. I refuse to believe Canonical want to enter the hardware market, but maybe there is a Nexus-like role for this hardware in terms of getting the ODMs to up their game. But, as a way of testing the market, I don't understand it. The FirefoxOS approach is much more appropriate, tbh, and if anything they need volume (which is going to come from the lower end of the market) not quality.
Maybe [1], but then Canonical is aiming at getting Ubuntu into as many phones as possible, and it working with the Android stack is helping in achieving this goal.

[1] On the other hand what would be a benefit of investing into getting drivers work with glibc, other than running your classic Linux distribution?
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You're probably right, but I think your point is orthogonal to mine. Being told to read something is insulting and rude if the presumption should be that you'd already read it before commenting, but that presumption vanishes when you militantly declaim that you shouldn't have to read things.

I'm biased because I sympathize with the "rude" commenter, in that I think discussions would be better on HN if people took more time to read linked sources and spent less time promoting their own preconceptions.

Also, if this community is as smart as it likes to think it is (no comment), it should be able to extract credible content from think-tank reports without succumbing to their intended conclusions.
As was ruled in the recent Oracle vs. Google case, APIs are not subject to copyright protection:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/no-copyrights-apis-jud...
Yes. This site had exactly as much content as its url.
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