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Well, technically it exists.
http://robbietilton.com/blog/?p=1589
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~adam/airharp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLqLmvL75B0

Robert Tiltons application is almost everything Musk seems to have done, except the lack of interfacing with CAD software (for example gesture based modification).

The other 2 links are, whilst only tangentially related, really cool, so I thought I'd post them as well.

So really, the question isn't "Why didn't it exist yet?" it's "Why was Elon's system featured on thenextweb, and Roberts wasn't?"
"Measuring" educational products is functionally impossible. The educational academic field has been struggling with this for over a century... the body of knowledge suffers from the same kind of constant churn and controversy and inability to make any forward progress that you see in management. Fads come and go and teachers keep going back to the same methods that have always been used.

While I expect that online universities can make some forward progress since they're hungrier, I don't think they'll be able to quantify outcomes well enough to overcome the brand power of the big educational institutions in the eyes of a skeptical market.
Look like a great but dangerous tool.
Stealing users bandwidth and publishing users IPs is a no go,
but it could be really handy for online games and other web applications with lots of assets.
"To improve server performance game data may be transfered from your browser to other players. Other players might see your IP."
Competitive pitch events seem like they would be detrimental to doing good business for both parties involved.

It's all just needless drama, as if multi million dollar investment deals aren't exciting enough. These kinds of things should be dealt with in a professional matter, especially given that I doubt most startups view their product as the equivalent of an unpurchased property on a Monopoly board during the tenth roll.

On an unrelated note, can someone please confirm my suspicions that the header image used is from Guildwars?
Yup. Microsoft would sue in about a week.
> You sure about your claims of insulin secretion in response to tasting anything sweet?

I read a study about it a year or so ago, can't find it now. Of course that study might have been flawed, this notion can be a myth and we only scratched the surface of how our metabolism works.

We should be wary of claims based on various studies, no matter the side they are arguing for, as most studies are flawed. Especially in regards to nutrition and dieting, it's next to impossible to do these studies double-blind, or to monitor the daily routine of subjects, or to trust what they declare (most people lie about their diet).

It does make some sense. I also read about a study on a dog, being kept in a dark room and fed at regular hours. After some time, his saliva glands started generating saliva at feeding time, even though he had no noise, no smell, no eyesight, nothing to indicate that feeding time is coming. The autonomous nervous system can be trained to do things out of reflex. If external stimuli work on the pancreas, I don't know, but it does make some sense, so that's why the idea is gaining traction.

> Nitpicking, simple carbs can burn slower than complex ones. Eg some fruits vs white bread. Fruits will release fructose into your blood stream slowly due to fiber

Of course, what I wrote is an over-simplification. I was speaking about sweetened foods and beverages, most of which are lacking in fiber.

Also, white bread is dangerous, but it's not really the problem or maybe you could say that our usage of white flour in general is, but I think the effects of white bread are negligible.

Think of your acquaintances or even your family - how many of them consume at least a half a gallon of beverages sweetened with corn syrup daily? How many of them put two spoons of sugar in their coffee? How many eat cookies daily? If you look around, you'll discovered enormous amounts of sugar being consumed by people. And that was my point.

EDIT; RE: What you really want is to know the glycemic index (GI) of the food you're eating

The glycemic index is slightly inadequate. It provides a useful clue, but it was shown to be inadequate in regards to the insulin response.

For example, if you take a look at "beer" it is off the charts, but paradoxically maybe, beer was shown to not generate much of a response from the pancreas, as the GI would led you to believe. And this may be because beer can't be tested properly OR because the secretion of insulin may not be fully in response to the real glucose levels in the blood.

That's why we now also have the insulinemic index for example (and round and round we go :))
> I also have to question if this costly signalling game is beneficial for the society both in human and economic terms.

I don't think there is any question. The "elite" university phenomenon is about class, not academics.
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Company A is still able to adjust pricing on a global level (all customers) to compensate.
If too many of Company B's customers go on Company A's network pricing will increase until they start choosing cheaper networks automatically balancing load and keeping prices at a similar point.

Plus we're talking about roaming here it's not like a lot of people decide to go on vacation at the same time and stay there for years until the company collapses.
Those movie and tv show streaming sites are going to love you.
I'm hoping for a future with faster refresh E-Ink screens available on low spec, stripped down Android or FirefoxOS powered tablets.
> the actors in the environment needs to shift focus from improving their service and lowering price, to covering the lost revenue due to new legislation.

That argument is sufficiently general that it applies to any measure that in some way reduces an actor's revenue, irrespective of whether that revenue loss is due to a greater or lesser free market. 'If the government stops subsidising lemonade stands €10 a day, they'll have to shift focus from improving their service and lowering price, to covering the lost revenue'.

In this case, the lost revenue is from having to compete with mobile operators in other countries in a single, common European market (a common market is the original and primary goal of the EU). So yes, they will lose revenue by having to compete in a free[1] market, rather than - as they do at the moment - taking advantage the fact the each country is effectively silo'd off in a separate market (from transaction costs) to avoid that competition. Cry me a river.

[1] well, free-er at least - I take your second point that it'll still be a ways from completely free.

TLDR: you're ironically using a fully general argument against government intervention to implicitly argue for less competition and a less free market (the status quo).
>Specifically, Nanex saw a spike in the milliseconds before 9:54:58 on December 7th, 2012. To be exact, they saw a flurry at 9:54:57.18, nearly a full second before the "third-tier" algorithmic subscribers got their data at 9:54:58 a.m.
This is exactly what you would expect to see if someone, or a bunch of someones, had access to the data even before 9:54:58 a.m. In this game you would want to hold your cards until the last possible moment before placing your bets.

A phenomenon not unlike what many of us have experienced bidding for an item on ebay.

Yet another example of the game being rigged. I don't invest for a living, but I've always thought it folly to approach the exchange in any manner other than a long term diversified one (as an individual investor). Maybe it is my lack of sophistication in the area, but anything else feels like gambling to me.
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It's Vincent Canzani.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=vi...

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/06/24/columbus-vict...
And for those interested a full RFC 3986 (URI) in Perl6 grammar can be found here - https://github.com/ihrd/uri

Here is direct link to grammar module - https://github.com/ihrd/uri/blob/master/lib/IETF/RFC_Grammar...
Having dedicated a lot of time in amassnig the details and contexts reasonably, this looks no more than a PR bullshit when the press goes bad. The fact they brought it up after three years just to stir it up, then apologize only when they get negative response?

I'm sorry, and even if this were sincere, I don't buy it any more.

The original strip was funny, the next one and the shirts debacle were when the shit hit the fan.
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As someone who does work in this industry, a spike before the number is completely explainable without anyone having early knowledge.

Lots of market participants are speculators. If you are speculating on the results of the number, you need to make sure your orders are in before it. Everyone in the low latency game knows when the number is coming, so it makes sense for speculation orders to go in when they do.

Now if Nanex wanted to prove something, they could show that a high percentage of those orders are consistently on the "right" side of the number, something they haven't done.
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> Next she should try the same with Yahoo’s server architecture. Ask everyone about the best server configuration and then put together a brief for the system administrators.

Well, yeah, actually. Given a server architecture problem and a company still somewhat silo'd with devops scattered on various teams, asking everyone to weigh in on the architecture would be likely to improve the plan over a single person or even single team coming up with it. Think of the Jainist tale of the blind men and the elephant to understand why.

People unlikely to be able to contribute won't have a strong opinion, while people able to contribute will, from their viewpoint. Strong opinions here represent gaps in what's being done versus what may be needed. And while you may still get a bell curve type of response, you're looking for business case viewpoints that might not otherwise have been considered and tech ideas from the tails that may give you a competitive edge.

I think the author's sarcasm here falls especially flat.

When it comes to a logo, even more so. Logos are about appealing to people, trying to convey something that people connect with. Employees like to feel proud of where they work. Their identity gets wrapped up in the company identity. Asking the whole team what they feel about identity is a great data point.

And more cynically, now all these employees feel as though their suggestions were listened to. Come to Yahoo, where your ideas matter. What a great place to work!

I'm disappointed in iA for suggesting employees shouldn't have a voice in how they see and relate to their own brand symbols.
Google mandated it for all phones with Android, which it when it became the de facto standard.
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I don't see how your reply is related to the original post.
TLDR from user caffeine-overclock on reddit:

"Elop killed Nokia twice: First by announcing the move to Windows Phone 9 months before they could deliver, and again by announcing that no more MeeGo phones would be produced the day after the first MeeGo phone was released to extremely positive reviews.

Microsoft's phone ambitions are similarly doomed because buying Skype caused most if not all of the global carriers to despise Microsoft, and by association Nokia. This will only get worse as time goes on, since Microsoft/Nokia just became Microsoft and any residual good will from Nokia is gone. Without carrier support, Microsoft can't succeed in those markets."
Since all trading sites get a commission on each trade it's no surprise that they don't push people to put their money in a number of Vanguard index funds for 30 years.

On some of the investment funds offered by my bank their fees are so high the investment fund will never ever make money for the customer. And yet they shamelessly sell it anyway.
It definitely has roots in AoE2: http://play0ad.com/about/the-story-of-0-a-d/
I just wish they'd implement real-time data sync as Firebase does, then I'm totally sold.
#5 is more to the point

All credit rating companies give it a good score

All auditing companies agree it's going great

All numbers look good

All "market analysts" recommend it

And then it implodes.

Remember what happens when you don't know who the fool on the tables is.
I know what you mean, it looks like a lot like one of the loading images used in GW2

I did a quick Google search though and found this http://jcbarquet.com/ which makes since since they credit him in the bottom right of the picture
Yeah, that. When I watch Dragon's Den in Canada, I'm always struck by how small-potatoes these investments are, considering the kind of people who are in the room. And yet they so rarely even chip in.

I think a lot of the appeal of working on one of those shows, as an investor, is what it does for their own personal "brand" more than the direct salary or the investments they make.
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This is a very good job. I plan to iOS7-ify my HackerWeb app once iOS7 is released next month, so your article would be helpful to me :)
wouldn't it be more in C++11 manner to use move semantics to solve the problem of generating new strings on concatenation?
Can any legally informed HNer explain the probability of criminal prosecution? The article seems to imply that it is un certain that this is illegal, but to me it seems like this is insider trading at the very least and maybe something else (criminal). The article says on this:

> There are disagreements as to whether or not this practice is illegal.
I read another post and then responded to the wrong one... Deleted.
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I don't understand on what legal basis the SEC could force Reuters to stop selling the information to different people at different times. Reuters is simply not under their jurisdiction, and the University of Michigan Survey is not a public good, which everyone is entitled equal access to.

On the other hand, the SEC could forbid registered entities from buying the survey before it is generally available.

More importantly, I think Taibbi's outrage is misplaced - I don't see a victim here.
> HN again has some depressingly negative comments.

Agreed. I feel like any time I read a Tesla article on HN, people feel the need to criticize it for the sake of "balancing the debate". I recommend just not reading the article if you're really that biased against Tesla, and not taking part in the discussion. It doesn't add anything more than a few flame wars.

Besides, isn't it nice to see something that doesn't look like Bootstrap, Foundation, etc. (name one)? I feel like if anything doesn't follow certain unspoken laws of minimalism decided by the startup gods, the UI becomes terrible by default. I've seen Heroku's redesign praised by many people on HN, but to me it just seems like a factory-stamped Bootstrap print-out. If all this "Iron Man" stuff is "been there, done that", then what about all the same sort of criticism for the umpteenth Bootstrap clone?
"What Bruce doesn't say is that the NSA made modifications to DES S-Boxes so that it can RESIST differential cryptanalysis better."

That was then. Back then, the NSA's clear mission was to help prevent the Soviets from winning, and that included protecting our communications (still part of their remit). Now ... it's not so clear.

BTW, according to Wikipedia IBM independently discovered differential cryptography and kept that secret at the NSA's request, so IBM was potentially in a position to understand the NSA's requested changes, or just plain worked with it on them.

There were a bunch of things that the NSA might have though mitigated the danger so it was an acceptable tradeoff to the very real threat of Soviet spying on US businesses (see e.g. http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/agent-farewell-and...):

They limited the key size to 56 bits (according to Wikipedia a compromise between 48 and 64 ... where else have we heard of that sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode#Cel...).

It was intended for hardware implementations, and perhaps they didn't do a good job of factoring in Moore's law, which then was only a decade old and had a lot more skeptics. And microprocessors were still quite new.

There was a strong export control regime back then, and to the extent DES was implemented in hardware it was more effective.

Getting back to adversaries, official and unofficial, to the extend they aren't nation states, or not very wealthy and technically sophisticated ones, the tradeoffs are significantly different today. We can be very sure they're not worried about al-Qaeda brute forcing a secretly weakened algorithm as long as it's not too weak (i.e. requires a lot more than a handful of machines with GPUs or FPGAs).

Same might be true for various nation states as long as they don't get patronage by the Russians or Chinese Communists, and we might have an idea of the capabilities of the latter two frenemies (I sure hope we do!).
Yeah, I think the audience for this is internal.

It is her way of saying that I can and will fix this company even if I have to do every bit myself.

Maybe that is what Yahoo! needs to get moving. Crazy way to run a $10B company.

I think the danger sign in this story is not a sub-standard logo but what it says about her inability to delegate.
Not only that, but if market makers know volatility is about to increase, they will jump in early to get to the top of the queue.
Well, that was the exact post I used back in the day :-) It helped me a lot, it's a really good reference.
Yeah I see your point, but just because I commented on the thread doesn't mean it still has me in it's grasp. I was simply sharing my experience.
I think there's something of a cultural divide here. To me it seems like a lot of HN users have taken PG's oft quoted statement:

"At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."

And turned it into:

"Most things dismissed as toys are worth investing in."

Here's the thing, from where I'm sitting this is Light Pen Redux 2.0, as other commentators have pointed out, the system looks like a great way to induce the gorilla arm effect. Maybe there are aspects of this that SpaceX has a real use for, I'm not a rocket engineer. But I don't think it's out of line to call this what it appears to be, a PR piece.
Even though most of the work happens on the client side, there's a tracker server that we run that's crucial to the whole system working (tracks who has what, serves as an authoritative source for data hashes, fights against malicious peers, etc.).

We have and will always have a free tier for everyone to use, but for bigger clients who want more support, we'll have paid plans. We'll also be open sourcing peerCDN soon.
That's the most C++ I've looked at in years. Great tip on adding memory allocation into the list of resource thieves.

I'm actually wondering if we can get a speed boost for javascript in a similar way. I find myself concating strings together often in the code.
This is certainly not insider trading. Reuters insiders are not giving out information about internal Reuters information. They are giving out proprietary analysis/research about the economy (specifically employment). There is no law that says everyone needs to have the same access to this.
I'm not sure that Suite A is actually stronger than Suite B. In fact, it may be weaker, for practical reasons (efficiency of encrypting high-bandwidth streams in resource-constrained devices), and so they are relying on an additional layer of security-through-obscurity to help keep it safe for longer.

There is some information known about some of the algorithms. Wikipedia has pages on BATON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BATON and SAVILLE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVILLE. You may notice that these are frequently used for hardware implementation in radios, smart cards, encrypting video streams, etc; devices that are probably fairly resource constrained, and would be hard to replace with new hardware if attacked.

If you look at the description of BATON, it has a 96 bit Electronic Code Book mode. Yes, ECB, the one that is famous for leaking information, as you can tell which blocks are identical and get a good deal of information out of that.

But even with fairly efficient hardware implementations, adversaries have been able to use off-the-shelf software to intercept Predator drone video feeds because encryption was disabled for performance reasons: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.ht...

The NSA has approved both Suite A and Suite B for top-secret material. I really don't think that they have any worries about the security of Suite B (though as Schneier points out, you may want to be a bit paranoid about their elliptic curves, as it's possible that they have ways of breaking particular curves that other people don't, like they did with the Dual EC DRBG that they promoted). I suspect that Suite A is around for legacy reasons, as they have been implementing it for longer than Suite B has existed and many of the implementations are in hardware or otherwise difficult to update.
Name will have to change. Will have to see about the hardware though. If they can pull off somethind like the Lumia but with Android I'll buy it.
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Does the same on Windows (7) for me though.
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seems not unreasonable for work. but there is also a level at which they can't see much of what's happening, because they simply don't have the source code, right? so for the home office it would make sense a lot to use Linux.
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(I work on peerCDN). Thanks for the question. Right now, it's not anonymous but we're working on adding anonymity by relaying traffic through intermediate peers (like Tor).
If Steve Ballmer comes up to you and says "hey buddy, I'm retiring soon, better buy some MS since the price is going up", and you buy, that's insider trading.

If I (unrelated to Steve Ballmer) tell you "hey, that guys getting old, he'll probably retire soon", that's not insider trading.

Near as I can tell, the Reuters early release is firmly within the category of the latter. I can't see any reason why early release of private research would be illegal.
Whilst it makes perfect sense, it's an exercise in frustration. An asymmetric key is usually used to protect a shared symmetric key. Generating a strong asymmetric key on a phone, for example, takes bloody ages. As ever, strong security comes at the expense of usability.
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From a business perspective, maybe. But from a consumers perspective? Every time I have the option iDeal vs. PayPal I go PayPal, much easier and faster (just password and go!) -- and better uptime to boot.
Matt Taibbi is the man - he's one of the only investigative journalists to consistently stay on Wall Street's ass and make reading about it entertaining (and not just depressing).
Just last night I improved the startup of one of my apps in C++ which had a previously unexplainable 1 second delay by precomputing some string joins and splits at build time. I nearly cried. Thanks to the Instruments app on OSX which is seriously awesome!

Startup is now instantaneous. It was also making queries slower. Queries are now also instantaneous.
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