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Don't get me wrong, OSHW does have some value exactly as you said: it's a great learning tool for hobbyists and those new to field without the money to reverse engineer a product. But that is not the buzz that is being written by journalists and Silicon Valley cheerleaders who foresee a future of boutique micro-manufacturing and bespoke designs for everyone.

A game I like to play when this type of article comes up is to replace every instance of the word hardware with furniture. So when someone talks about open source hardware, pretend they are talking about open source furniture. The hyperbole used in this type of article will become quickly apparent.
>but income is not wealth and that income stops if the business fails.

Sure, sure, I'm just saying, that "decent salary" ought to make the student loans a non-problem.

At a minimum, if I'm investing that much in a company, I want to pay the founders enough that they focus on the company, not on personal finances.

More to the point, well, if you are a good enough negotiator to talk investors in to letting you control that much money, well, you are probably a good enough negotiator to negotiate a little something-something for yourself. I mean, I'm not saying millions a year, but certainly enough that things like student loans go away.
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Apparently there's a limit of one adapter per device you own, so I guess they track which devices have already been "used."

http://www.apple.com/support/usbadapter-takeback/
I'm always a bit wary of posts that tell me to "Stop doing X". I'm also pretty comfortable with regular expressions. They take you outside of the procedural comfort zone, but are a valuable tool that will pay off to learn.

Still, it's worth a shot trying to create a tool like this. What I don't get is how they would handle subexpressions.
Let's not get too carried away. Secrecy in law enforcement can be a valuable tool: it allows things like protection and development of informants, lawful surveillance, undercover operations, etc.

Prosecutors have never been required to turn over ALL evidence -- only exculpatory evidence (and that does not include evidence that might be useful in jury nullification, only evidence that would tend to prove the accused innocent of the charges). Withholding evidence of guilt from the defence is common: it is done to protect sources and ongoing investigations or even to shorten a trial. If you have more than enough to convict, why trot everything out?

The described "parallel" investigation is another common technique. If you have a source of evidence you need to protect, then you develop different evidence and instead use that to secure the conviction. Provided the evidence used is real and is sufficient to prove guilt, no laws or moral codes have been transgressed.

Law enforcement and prosecutors use inadmissible evidence all the time to pursue an investigation. The point of an investigation is to secure sufficient admissible evidence to successfully convict (prove guilt of) the perpetrator. But the rules don't say you can't use all the information at your disposal -- only that some of it might not be useful for you at trial. (Full disclosure: there are, and should be, rules governing what law enforcement and other state and federal agencies can do in collecting evidence. But disclosure of all information, evidence, and techniques to the defendant is definitely not one of them.)

An interesting corollary is the so-called "fruit of the poisonous tree" problem. If a critical piece of evidence is deemed inadmissible, it might take with it a bunch of other evidence that was generated based upon it. Courts frequently permit the prosecution to re-introduce some of the evidence if it can be shown that it could have (not "was", "could have") been developed without access to the inadmissible piece. This is precisely the parallel development narrative described, and it is a very common tool.

I agree that this particular system seems well beyond the pale, but lets not pretend that suddenly getting rid of secrecy in law enforcement and removing prosecutorial discretion is a no-brainer solution. Lets also not pretend that this isn't a clear extension of standard practice (albeit a pretty major and troubling extension we might want to trim back a bit).
This seems like a step in the right direction.

In ancient times before banks, people paid in gold or silver, but buying something like one apple that cost less the smallest coin presented a problem. The solution was, people left their gold or silver with a gold smith, and were given small denomination notes to spend at the market. Merchants could use the notes to redeem the gold at the end of the day.

It is fun to see 1000 year old ideas getting re-created for the modern world.
A. Because it shows the reporter was there and actually met the subjects.

B. Because it's a way to draw the reader into a story through imagery, before exploring the legal/technical details.

Adjective-laden writing is the mark of an amateur. However, in the passage you're objecting to, there doesn't seem to be a single adjective in there.
Two reasons why this is a red-herring argument:

1. False alternative. There are multiple alternatives to nuclear power, and I'm not aware that there are higher levels of death associated with most of them, coal being the notable exception.

2. The risk profile of nuclear power is not well-understood. Humans have hundreds to tens of thousands of years of experience with fire, water, and wind power. We've been toying with atoms for about three-quarters of a century, with commercial electrical generation for only about half of that. In that time large areas of land have been contaminated, and a number of serious plant or reactor accidents have occurred, several of them contaminating large areas of land until at least 2050 (64 years after the accident), possibly longer. The effects of the Fukishima disaster are still being revealed.

3. Few conventional power plants (natural gas plants with significant on-site storage being a potential exception) have catastrophic failure modes with more than a very small affected region. In terms of both longevity of effects and area, acute impacts are limited. By contrast, when things go wrong with a nuke, then tend to go very phenomenally wrong, and it can be unclear, even after a significant period of time, what the full consequences and extent of damage are.
Not that I've ever smoked marijuana, but it's usually pretty easy to tell if a pipe has been used even once. Unless you cleaned your pipe in acetone before you left home, "it was a gift for a friend" is not going to cut it with a used pipe.
Is there a list of PC makers that make installation of non-Windows operating systems on modern notebooks easy?
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The one I have been bitten by is the TCP retransmission timeout (RTO). This is the time TCP will wait for an ack before resending some data. This number has to be somewhat conservative because if the RTO is less than the normal round trip latency TCP will be constantly resending packets.

Normally the RTO is set to 200ms. This is conservative in case you have long distance TCP connections. However when your systems are in a same data center environment where round trip times are sub-millisecond the default is two orders of magnitude too high and should be tuned down.
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There's now a box in the lower-left informing me that I can view 20 articles in a month before they'll put up a paywall. I don't recall ever seeing anything about a paywall before.

If that's actually new, Bezos sure didn't waste any time monetizing things.
I think Jeff Bezos will be bigger than Steve Jobs one day.
As a language, Regex is somewhat opaque to most people these days.

Or a person wants to solve a simple problem by matching a simple string, so they decide to learn Regex. Now they have two problems, the second is learning to express what they want to do.

The problem this solves is casual use by people who don't match strings all day. There are tradeoffs - most of them are keystrokes. On the other hand for casual Regexers slowing down and unpacking the expression is probably useful.
Guide someone through repairing a car or some other device.

Assessing volume and packing a truck or car optimally.

Making it look like someone's zipper was down.
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The problem with sending micro payments in Bitcoin is not that you can't divide it into smaller coins, but the fact that unless you pay a transaction fee, your transaction may not be included in a block (e.g. confirmed) for a rather long time. Obviously, if the sum of the transaction approaches the amount of fee, it becomes expensive.

Coinbase solves this by having its own DB of transactions and not performing real Bitcoin transactions between its users.
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Stop writing URLs as strings. Express them with VerbalResourceLocator:

var vrl = VRL().
schema("https").
tld("com").
sld("ycombinator").
subdomain("news").
path("/item").
query({"id": "6164276"});

Seriously though, Verbal Expression is a great way to turn terse regexps into un-reusable verbiage that barely improves readability.
This happens a lot with old lenses meant for film. Amusingly, that was a desired effect at the time. It's even more appropriate for a lens made for NASA as a proper lens will render out of focus elements with sharp-ish edges. Refer to the issues with Hubble.

I have some old summiluxes and one summicron that do the same thing on my current digital cameras and, while it's not the "creamy bokeh" many people pursue today, it's a characteristic of the equipment. This was a time when asph lenses were either insanely expensive (although, I seem to remember these lenses were in the $100k range at the time, which is beyond insane) or unavailable.

As with any aberration or distortion (including creamy bokeh) it can be a benefit or a disadvantage. Sometimes you want to eliminate or obscure the background and sometimes you want to remind people that the background is there.

If you talk to someone in a room lit by candles, you're going to have dozens or hundreds of little light sources beside and around them. They're going to catch your eye and, if you wear glasses, you're going to flare.
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This is awesome, so very awesome.

Scott McCloud's written a lot of real intelligent stuff about microtransaction/digital currency programs, and implicit in that, why they haven't worked out in the past. I'm hesitant to say bitcoin is The Answer, but it (combined with some other qualities of the internet and modern UX/UI) presents a plausible implementation.

To paint with a broad brush: cost is both financial and temporal. A successful digital payment/microtransaction system has to reflect this fact.

The time cost of paying some amount of money should not outstrip its monetary value. Having six options (or worse yet, having to type in an amount) for payment size and three confirmation screens is infuriating when you want to transmit the digital equivalent of a quarter or so.

My two satoshis: I'm not sure how it will ultimately be implemented, but I think bitcoin (and its subdivided units) is a good way to build low-friction payment schemes.
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Drag and drop builders have been here since day 1. Good luck to the team, they will need it. Personally I think there's more value in strong forms like tumblr, wordpress, twitter. No one really likes options.
Since becoming "Director of Technology" of a startup, these emails have enlightened me to all the kind of technologies that have directors.

My favorite was the suggestion that I apply for "Director of Pork Technology" at Cargill.

Probably kind of like web development, right?
Make money fast--earn thousands of dollars working from home in your spare time!

Truth is, in a world where everybody is special, nobody is.
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Of course, at the same time, losing everything worthwhile about bitcoin (and I say that as a skeptic), and basically being a less-trustworthy paypal.
Yes, most books are crap.

Yet, America still has Cormac McCarthy.
It sucks how broken this part of the industry is.

I think a big reason why it's so broken is that it's easy to extract a lot of money out of recruiting with a comparatively shallow level of effort. Hopefully someday some disruptor will turn things upside down and fix things.
In this short article I have implemented the algorithm in the Programming Collective Intelligence in 9 lines of code

http://tungwaiyip.info/2012/Collaborative%20Filtering.html
The idea of living within a simulation is an odd one, assuming awareness and control over resources. Being somewhat defined by our limitations and then taking away limitations like memory, ability to learn new concepts ("Whoa, I know kung fu") doesn't actually sound like a lot of fun. And that's from someone who views life as a largely intellectual pursuit; it'd be super depressing for those who are defined by physical ability like athletes.
Honestly, they were completely based off Ubuntu at one point, and I have found upgrading OS versions on the fly to be flaky to say the least. From what I've read, I am not the only one with issues, so it is hardly surprising that a distro going for being extremely user friendly would choose to make this particular option unsupported.

I know now they have a Debian version, but I have no experience with dist-upgrade on Debian.
Totally right on (1), I think that's a resounding cry from everyone who has checked out the site today. As a follow-up, would you (a) be willing to pay for insurance to hedge your losses or (b) expect that to fall to the renter?

As bobbles suggested, a lot of the rentals that happen are last minute/late notice -- reservations that the bigger rental shops can't do unless they're local (and maybe even then can't do). But you're also right; I should make the messaging clearer on expectations for short notice, and additionally wire up SMS notifications to lenders (like AirBnB does).

Thanks for sticking with me through the early days!
Here you go:

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/

Enter St. Louis, MO and San Francisco, CA. Housing is 276% more expensive. Columbia? 252%. Kansas City? 215%. You get the idea.

Also, just for fun, try some other "large towns":

Dallas, TX: 276%
Columbus, OH: 268%
Austin, TX: 245%
Jacksonville, FL: 242%
Phoenix, AZ: 225%
Atlanta, GA: 217%
Try this: we don't get alien visitors because space travel is prohibitively expensive. But communication is cheap. So you'd expect the sky to be filled with messages, maximally compressed and/or encrypted, and so indistinguishable from noise: background radiation.
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Not the OP; I have been rather taken with the prose of Bukowski. Reminds me a lot of Naipaul. Simple, spare sentences, that are elegant. Do you have suggestions of that type? (Don't care particularly about the themes, really. )
How appropriate that this article and the following comic come out on the same day:

http://thedoghousediaries.com/5275 (Amazing Scientific Breakthroughs)
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I'm not quite sure what do you mean by saying "losing everything". It's not like anyone ties you to Coinbase. Have your own Desktop wallet for large sums and transactions, use Coinbase to handle small ones.
Teachers knowing names and information of each of their students just by looking at them.

Virtual stores occupying empty physical space.

Guides on how to do just about anything—learn to play instruments, repair things, emergency first aid.

Navigation overlays and guided tours with Wikipedia information popups.
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You wouldn't necessarily have to run it in-kernel, as these are all configurable from /proc. With a sufficiently complete test environment, you could use machine learning to tune a lot of the params up safely, then just run the resulting config in production.
pyparsing (http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/) is more object-oriented and composable, and it can parse recursive grammars.
No, doing instruments is hard and at most I would build from a kit there. I already have a bunch of good quality instruments and get the sounds I like from programming those. What I'm interested in is hardware sequencing and in particular combinatorial methods for sequence generation, eg where you combine a rhythmic sequence of one length with a note sequence of another to generate changing patterns. At present I do this sort of thing with a Nord Modular but it gets unmanageable for more complex structures. Also, I don't love the sound as much as I used to but I can't give up the control over MIDI in hardware XD

I approve of the audio clips on your website BTW, we share some similar musical tastes. I'll keep an eye on the project.
I don't think you'll find many people here who disagree with you there. Since these apps by default are stand alone, so they can't leverage large user bases as well as web apps. And people don't really feel loyalty to companies and their games, they just like to play what's fun.
I have a "science-fictiony" idea that I haven't seen anywhere else yet. The idea is this: If we can see light from planets thousands of light years away, then we can see the past. Once our telescopes are good enough to basically do a "google maps" zoom-in on other planets, we will be able to watche the past on other planets. But then, if we can ever watch our own Earth from a thousand light years away, then we can see what happened in the past. The missing link is for us to be able to travel faster than the speed of light so we can go far enough to view Earth's past.

While not "obvious", I still feel like others have probably thought of this idea. It could make a cool science fiction story.
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I don't understand the value proposition because I believe most of these problems (with the exception of possibly the last) can be solved more easily.

Video instructions - even if overlayed in Google Glass, let alone a nearby phone or tablet - will do this fine. This is the most compelling AR demo I've seen that realizes your first idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVV5tUmky6c

While it's super-cool tech, I really feel that a video screen or overlay video does the same job just fine. It's still digital content consumption, at the end of the day.

So then there's digital content creation. Well, you can try sculpting or designing structures with your hands some virtual 3D models all day, but I bet (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that it will never be as efficient as using CAD with a screen and qwerty keyboard.

"Assessing volume and packing a truck or car optimally." Hmm, this sounds like an interesting use-case. Could you give an example of where this might save people tons of time and/or money?
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Thanks coursera.

Thank you very much.

Looking forward for this course.

You save my some $$$ :)
Will surely donate you.
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I love the design and the concept of the site as well as others in this space like jetstrap, easel, and divshot. To be honest, I've tried a few of these offerings and as a web developer this is not what I want, I'm looking for two things:

1. An editor like the one Bret Victor talked about in his "Inventing on Principle" talk[1]. I want to edit HTML and CSS and see updates reflected in real time[2].

2. A way to hook this into a DVCS (Or better yet, a desktop application/desktop plugin). My development workflow relies heavily on Git and I don't think I'm going to download a zip payload and extract it every time I need to do a commit.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PUv...

[2] - http://livecoding.io/
He isn't. And neither is Google.
The question I have is, if OMGPOP had been left to their own devices, is it likely that they would have been able to churn out more short-term hits?

It seems plausible to me that they would have been, which implies to me that companies that are like OMGPOP are worth more independent than if they are acquihired. The process of acquihiring such companies could very well be self-defeating.

If you try to buy "it", you don't actually get "it".
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There I said it 'snowden'.
For what its worth I hope you manage to push through.

I think that Google is wasting huge ammounts of goodwil through its lame operation of GAB.

One does not simply not run a customer service.

Edit: To add a bit more substance to this comment. I kinda know wahat you are going through. I took it upon myself (after numerous have failed) to push through something that looked like a pretty nasty bug in Lotus Domino 8 server and client. Basically what I found out during research is 20% of IBM 852 (its internal datatype) was simply corrupt.

And boy for the longest time nobody responded. There were IBM SWAT Team Leaders guarding the sacred Process that would insist on telling me that there is no Bugs in their platform and that it is obviously my fault. It took six months, an extremely detailed testing procedure with test cases and invoking a lot of connections to get my report infront of a person that could actually understand what is going on.

Soon after that I received a hotfix. I had to repeat the whole procedure another two times. And by the third time I could get it done in three months. I basically made the blue elephant dance just for me.

So for what its worth my advice is to invoke every and all connections within Google not to just get your issues within an internal Google issue tracker. You need to find out (from the outside) who is the guy responsible for the general area that is causing you problems, then keep in touch with this person and after some time you will get your fix(es).
As safe as your private key / password.
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Unlikely. "Your honor, I should get a new trial because, in addition to the evidence that was apparently quite sufficient to convict me, it turns out they also had an illegal wiretap recording of me arranging the buy."
There is no cloud, only other people's hard drives.
How is it actually implemented? Is this like Ripple? Or are we once again issuing banknotes essentially, derivative money?
Good point, but OMR was by far the easiest to understand.
And of course there's also Parsec (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/download/...) for Haskell.
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With parentheses?
Migration to millions of star systems in 10,000 years? Speed of light says NO.
On the Great Filter, there was a discussion here about an excellent essay on the matter by Nick Bostrom, which I summarized in a comment[1] and extended the thinking. Still haven't read the one linked this time.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842416
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They do say "It can access that data 20 times faster than the best breed of flash memory" but a rate of 17 MB/s means this is incorrect.