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The impression I get from their various press releases and comments is that Kickstarter is not really interested in the tech gizmo scene. They're kind of pushed it away by some of the rules they've added.

I'm also not sure they're making most of their money off of technology. Look at KS's 'Most Funded' page [1]. Sure, the projects about delivering A Tech Toy are generally making more. The Pebble's the only thing to break 10,000k. But scroll down a bit and the highest movie made 5,000k.

In fact, if you go look at the stats on their page summing up 2012[2], 'technology' is #5. Behind games, film/video, design, and music. What would happen if KS dropped the tech category? Hell, let's be aggressive and drop the game category too. All its big projects are pretty technical.

Games + tech pulled in $112,118k. People pledged $319,786k across all categories that year. So technology AND games pulled in about 1/3 of their pledges. Not too bad. But most of that was from games. Drop the gizmos, and they're only dropping $29,000k in pledges. (KS takes 5% of all pledges, so that's only about $1,450,000 out of $15,989k they'd be losing in terms of income.)

I think KS is doing the exact opposite of a pivot: the market found a use for their idea they didn't like, and instead of rebuilding things to make that easier, they're digging in their heels and insisting that it should only be used their way. Which is often a recipe for disaster, but not in the case of Kickstarter - it's clear there's a pretty good revenue stream solely in being the man in the middle of crowd-sourced art grants. Which is what they built the site to do.

As to whether or not they should be sending out smarter auto-generated mail based on what you've backed, whether or not they should let you build smart filters, I dunno. All I can say is that as a comics creator, KS worked damn fine for me as is, and I'm pretty confident it'll work equally well for the campaign I'm about to launch in a week or so.

1:http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/most-funded?ref=footer
2:http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#category
3:http://www.kickstarter.com/hello?ref=nav
He basically admits he didn't even consider the arguments. He calls the person a coward for posting anonymously. He's attacking the person's behavior irrelevant to the argument. Attacking the man, and admitting he never considered the argument at all. So if it's not considered ad hominem it's just trolling.
The difference, in this case, is the collector of the information is sanitizing the information before providing it to law enforcement. Law enforcement isn't standing in the halls making copies and "sanitizing" those copies as the paperwork travels from one office to another. By "sanitizing" I mean trusting law enforcement to perform privacy-related sanitation without oversight to verify.
How on earth did you do this while still being able to eat and afford rent?
It's a shame that Americans of the future will miss out on the childhood pastime of making your voice sound really, really funny.
I love Gladwell's writing (he writes some of the most entertaining non-fiction around), but it is wise to take some of his more outlandish claims with a grain or two of salt. He takes anecdotes to be almost evidence, especially in Outliers.
Big side note, but C++ for me is just... too much. I come to C++ from Python, and they are just so far from each other it hurts. One of the fundamental things about Python that I loved was:

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

Meanwhile, the sage wisdom I heard learning C++ is:

"C++ is wonderful because there are so many ways to do anything."

These two methods of thought fly right in the face of each other, and it's very hard to reconcile. With Python, I felt like I truly was learning a language, a language of action where doing any one thing was consistently defined. With C++ I feel like I'm in an ocean of choice and ambiguity, having to carry around this huge load of tribal knowledge to get anything done.

Not saying it's a bad language, just sharing my feelings on it.
This quote reminds me of the US Navy saying I used to hear from officers: "A bitching sailor is a happy sailor." Sometimes, but more often sailors have real grievances that higher ups are choosing to ignore. I had a choice to re-enlist in the Navy and later with C++. Didn't happen with either.
Buy it from ... whom? As the article points out, Russia "reneged on a deal to sell 22 pounds to the U.S." and might not have any left for sale.

There are no other producers of 238Pu. (And for that matter, Russia stopped producing it years ago.)

Edit: Here's a link for you. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/636900main_Howe_Presentation.pdf .

> In the past, the United States had an adequate supply of 238Pu, which was produced in facilities that existed to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program. The problem is that no 238Pu has been produced in the United States since the Department of Energy (DOE) shut down those facilities in the late 1980s. Since then, the U.S. space program has had to rely on the inventory of 238Pu that existed at that time, supplemented by the purchase of 238Pu from Russia. However, Russian facilities to produce 238Pu were also shut down many years ago, and the DOE will soon take delivery of its last shipment of 238Pu from Russia. The committee does not believe that there is any additional 238Pu (or any operational 238Pu production facilities) available anywhere in the world.

Full details are in "Radioisotope Power Systems: An Imperative for Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Space Exploration", National Research Council committee report. ISBN: 0-309-13858-2, 74 pages, (2009)
Why don't people understand it makes no difference if the internship is paid or unpaid? If you are working for an org other than the government or school the rules are the same. Interns don't actually exist as a class of worker and labor code is based on a 1946 supreme court decision that referenced bricklayers.

I'm being sued by a former intern whom we paid a very respectable $15/hr for part time work over the summer; she's coming after me for like $100k because she alleges I wilfully misclassified her as a contractor rather than employee.

Bottom line: I won't use ANY interns. I say blame it on the millennials and generation entitlement. Drives me out of my mind that this person is trying to get rich off the back of a start up.
As a cyclist, I disagree. Ultimately you're the one in charge of your own safety, and if you're going 30+ mph in conditions that have poor visibility (skyline has a lot of shadows), and not being defensive, you're at fault. "Share the road" goes in both directions.
This is mostly semantics.

AdWords is the overall interface. Adssense is the website-owner-focused product that lets people put ads on their website. AdSense is for all intents & purposes google's display network, but is definitely served up through Google's AdWords platform.
One interesting bit of Yahoo news. Yahoo in Australia is partnering with Adwords rather than Bing Ads. Wouldn't surprise me if all of Yahoo went that way once their contract with Microsoft is up.

Despite all the effort it doesn't really feel like Bing Ads is on the map compared to Adwords.
“I’m always learning.”

Is it just me, or does he seem to have taken every situation and learnt the wrong lesson? Perhaps it’s not everybody else that’s the problem...

“If somebody is making me do stuff by suing me, sure, it’s taking a bite out of my time.”

Looks like he failed to learn what irony is, too.
Dr. Winston Royce came to this conclusion over 40 years ago. Unfortunately people read his paper and developed the Waterfall methodology instead. See Step 3:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate...
ATD are a pretty big brand at least in startups now, they've been visibly out-scooping TechCrunch et al all year - all the Yahoo stuff including Tumblr broke through them, Google's massive investment in Uber, Rakuten's $200m acquisition of Viki etc.
I think the actual argument was "C/C++ is not great, but others are worse". :)

Pretty much all languages have handy OS API calls, usually a lot more portable than C/C++ - so that's not a compelling reason.

Yet somehow a lot of new code is still written in C/C++: Redis, Memcached, Nginx, MongoDB, Android, Chrome etc
To be honest, your behavior is rather obnoxious. It's exactly the sort of bullying behavior I left behind when I left primary school.

Let people make their own decisions about others; there's no need to spread nasty opinions.
I've pondered that before and realized it could be problematic, so hurray, you've finally prompted me to run the numbers.

A fusion reaction that starts from 4 hydrogen atoms (with no neutrons) produces one atom of helium. Let's just ignore the fact that this is a very hard reaction to do, even by fusion standards, and let's just ignore how the energy comes out and deal with raw amounts. Let's produce 1 mole of helium, which according to Wolfram Alpha, is .025 cubic meters of helium at standard temperature and pressure [1].

To produce that mole of helium, we need 4 moles of hydrogen. According to Wikipedia [2], 4 atoms of hydrogen combine to produce 26.7 MeV of energy. So the production of that 0.025 cubic meters of helium produces 26.7 MeV times Avogadro's Number of energy, which Google [3] conveniently converts to Joules for us without asking: 2.6 × 10e12 joules.

Wikipedia [4] says annual hydrogen consumption was 15 million kilograms per year in 2000. Let's roll with that, because whynot. Helium's atomic mass is 4.003, let's just call it 4, so the number we just ran in Joules was for 4 grams. So we have to multiple that Joule count by 3,750,000,000, yielding 9.75 × 10e22Joules of excess energy to produce the world's helium use for 2000. Human energy consumption in 2000 (because why not stay consistent) was 117.687 petawatthours, which is 4.23 × 10e20 joules.

So, to produce the amount of helium we used in 2000, if I've got all my numbers correct (and it's been a while, but the tools I'm using here handle units automatically so that's a plus for my chances of being right), would produce as a byproduct approximately ~230 times the amount of energy humans consumed in that year.

That's actually enough energy to be a serious problem, even before we discuss the fact that it comes out as positrons and gamma rays. (And neutrinos, but that's not a problem.)

In conclusion, we are not about to start producing helium from fusion, even if we could.

[1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+1+mole+of+hel...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#Nuclear_fusion_reaction_pa...

[3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=26.7+MeV+times+Avogadro's+nu...

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium
Sounds like fun. Perhaps a productive way to procrastinate.
I've never been a fan of Mossberg or Swisher. I think their interviews of tech icons, lack insight into the fundamentals of technology, which is evident in their questions and followups. I actually think there is still a pretty big hole for quality tech journalism. Ars Technica used to be a lot better than it is now, but has fallen prey to the press release and tech media buzz news cycle, much like Engadget and others. Though, I do appreciate their continued coverage of tech privacy, policy, and law issues - which is lacking nearly everywhere else.

Technology and how it affects our lives is a huge nebulous topic, which grows larger each year. I hope some sort of real journalism takes root to provide meaningful insight, investigation, and commentary/opinion.
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I personally setup Llama to turn the wifi when I'm not connected to a tower that I previously defined as "wifi available". It's nifty because I never have to explicitly turn wifi off then back on during my travels. To add a new wifi zone, I simply add the cell tower to the previous list and let the app do the rest.

Llama by itself uses less battery than leaving the wifi chip on, even in passive scanning mode, as the phone is always looking and checking cell towers.
"Sadly, instead of wondering why someone of a different perspective could think that of him..."

So it's his fault that people were nasty and hated on him? Way to go - blaming the victim much?
You don't have to wait if you go to google.com, paste this into your dev console (Ctrl+Shift+J in Chrome) and hit enter:

document.cookie="PREF=ID=e66a207a51ceefd8:U=936bafc98b2a9121:FF=0:LD=en:NR=10:CR=2:TM=1378808351:LM=1379592992:SG=1:S=OXyq0fqClYB66VuV ; path=/; domain=google.com";window.location.reload();
While there may be corruption afoot, part of the reason they couldn't move the entire supply at once is because it's so hard to store. Helium can seep through a steel tank without difficulty. The US government keeps its helium in an old mine dug out of very dense rock. Apparently it is one of few facilities capable of long term helium storage.
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Helium can be harvested from natural gas, so there isn't a shortage in absolute terms. This is a technicality of the reserve's debt structure and a shitty path towards privatization that never developed.
As great CSI minds leap into analysis, I would like to point out that an eight-year-old boy lost his mother yesterday.
Hydrogen really isn't that dangerous, despite its flammability. It's already used for party balloons sometimes.
That's really awesome. I'd like to know, though, whether the MPTCP is integrated into the mainstream API, or a special case for Siri. It's normal that only Siri generates MPTCP traffic since it requires both endpoint to support and enable multi-path. However, multi-path TCP is compatible with original TCP stack so I don't see a reason it can't be built into the general purpose API.

Could somebody who has developer account that can deploy to real device verify it by making another MPTCP-compliant[0] endpoint?

[0]: http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php/Users/HowToInstallMPTCP
That certainly hasn't been the case in Canada.
It's going to be using a version of this bar:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/09/google-rolls-out-ne...

I imagine that was a major consideration when designing this new bar, "How could it fit in on YouTube?"
It's less about routing and more about connections. Typically, your client makes a single TCP connection for HTTP communication, all data requested on that connection is communicated on that connection. With a supporting server, multiple TCP connections can be used for the same HTTP connection. This doesn't help with transfer speed, but it improves TCP's ability to route around failure. One of your multiple TCP connections goes out, and another one (presumably on a different route) continues handling data transfer. With regular old TCP, the connection tends to fail and has to be re-established.

Pointless Pontification: since TCP was designed to route around failure, multi-connection TCP sounds to me like an adaptation of technology to the "demands of business." What I mean is network operators seem to want to centralize their networks to reduce costs instead of distributing them to make them robust, thus the technologists are attempting to work around this "failure."
At least they'd have a culture then.
Reposting a deaded comment by drivebyacct2, since it seems any comment that goes against the "we're so much better than reddit" grain gets deaded by the mods:

>>As reddit is nothing other than a festering cesspool of cyberspace.

>What possible good or truth can come of making a statement like that? Hopefully you aren't proudly so ignorant as to actually think that's remotely authentic. But then again, most "Reddit is literally Hitler" trolls don't know what they're talking about or sub to any subreddits, so whatever.
Much appreciated. Thanks for taking your time to read it, hope it helped you a little bit too. :)
I think it's not very relevant to adjust the price for inflation. You should adjust for opportunity cost instead, like the rate of T-bills.
A vehicle is much more visible than a bicycle. And Skyline has huge amounts of shadows from the trees, which would be exacerbated by riding on the right edge of the road where the shadows would be the deepest.
The content sync is the really impressive feature here. Basically drop-in multiuser support.
>why not search in the address bar like chrome

In Firefox at least, I've learned that the regexp isn't as fast if you type a search query in the URL bar. It takes slightly longer for the browser to decide if the text is a URL or not. That's why I reenabled the search bar in Firefox (it's not required).
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The problem isn't that the resource was wasted (we can harvest helium from nat gas). The problem is the government stayed active in the market and then mandated this bullshit disappearing act.
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Who is worried about undermining counterculture movements? Don't wear that old camera, b/c it makes xyz not appear legitimate? Wha?
apllications use just the socket api for their interactions with the n/w stack. there is no change there, and hence the "unmodified applications" part.

from the mptcp paper, we have the following :

In brief, here is how MPTCP works. MPTCP is nego- tiated via new TCP options in SYN packets, and the end- points exchange connection identifiers; these are used later to add new paths—subflows—to an existing con- nection. Subflows resemble TCP flows on the wire, but they all share a single send and receive buffer at the end- points. MPTCP uses per subflow sequence numbers to detect losses and drive retransmissions, and connection- level sequence numbers to allow reordering at the re- ceiver. Connection-level acknowledgements are used to implement proper flow control.

so yes, both endpoints need to support mptcp for this to work.
It might be easy to go into a skid and lose control. I guess it depends on road surface, and maybe it's not an issue for the pros, but I nearly got into an accident once trying to suddenly stop using rear brakes while going a bit downhill.
Is it just me, or does every time Jeff cuts a loud fart it gets featured on Hacker News?
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Here is a video where they show it running, droping wifi and network connections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWN0ctPi5cw
There probably all ready is such a list and they probably already know if you would support something like this and what your general political viewpoint is. The flip side of that is that Congress and our elected officials don't know where you stand so it is good to show our support!
This is very similar to what we do at Firefly (http://usefirefly.com), except we support all the way back to IE 8. Kudos to these guys for putting this together - especially if it works well. It's a lot harder than it looks.
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I tend to group posts like this in with the recent attention on sexism in tech, and it makes me ask ...

Why do people feel the need to be such assholes to other human beings? Why should it ever matter what someone else does with their lives as long as it doesn't interfere with your inalienable rights? Why should it ever matter to anyone what color your skin is or what genitals you have if you get the job done?

I just don't get hate in general.
I was just in Woodside last night talking to other cyclists about Old La Honda and other popular routes in the area and my coworker mentioned that she refuses to ride on Skyline because of the lack of a shoulder in many places and how fast people drive there even when they see cyclists and know there's a blind turn ahead.

As fitness becomes more socially connected and leaderboards get more attention for popular routes, I wonder if we'll expect to see more aggressive riding and more accidents like these?

I also know there are a few other areas people tell me to be careful, mostly the Berkeley Hills around Tilden (a cyclist died there in 2010 trying to beat a personal best on Strava) and on Hwy 1 on the way up to Mt Tam due to the large number of cars headed to Stinson Beach and Muir Woods.

Be careful out there.
Till then, we can just skim it off nat gas. Thank you shale!

Problem SOLVED!
I am speaking from experience here. The only language I have used where this does not apply is F#, and only if you count .NET support.

I love CL, I never want to go back to C or C++, but the most annoying aspect is the lack of good system call support. Sure SBCL has a posix compatibility layer, but anything beyond basic system calls becomes a drag. In the worst case you wind up having to write a C function to wrap a system call just to expose an easier-to-use interface for the FFI. It is a complete mess, and it becomes a maintenance nightmare.
Even so, your center of gravity is much higher than in a car so you are not going to be able to brake as fast without flipping.
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Funny that you just told yourself to go fuck yourself. :)
This is fantastic! Same basic idea, but with physical movement and exercise. At least for the grownups.
Can you post a citation here?

Googling, all I can find are references to a database of consumer complaints that people have proactively made to the agency about Credit Card companies being abusive.

That work seems like good digital government at it's best to me -- helping aggregate and track down fraudulent and abusive companies before they hurt more people through voluntarily submitted complaints from consumers.

That db is here: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaintdatabase/

They even have a REST API and visualizations.
Energy dependent. Helium dependent. We might have to export more democracy to make up this deficit.
Well, you can contact folks at any of the organizations listed to confirm that it's not an NSA operation. Not very likely the ACLU and EFF are going to allow their name to sit on a honeypot site. We asked for the phone numbers because we want to follow up with people who RSVP to see if they need help getting to the rally or finding a place to stay.
Well, there is also the difficulty that there has not been, save Ada, a serious and concerted effort to replace C and C++ for so many of the things that they are used for. Except for Ada, no other modern language is suitable for writing things like kernels, drivers, emulators, etc; except for Ada, basically all modern languages are dependent on garbage collection.

So if you want to complain about C, remember that the only serious alternative is and has been Ada, and ask yourself why you're not using Ada, why operating systems and window managers, mupen64plus and Wayland, et cetera don't use Ada, and the truth is: people like C more than Ada.

Ada is the anti-C++. It's the answer to every criticism. It's also basically unheard of outside of situations where people really, really need safety cf. airline industry. In fact most of the people who complain about C++ would never even consider Ada. The author of the article seems to be unaware it even exists, which says a lot.

The takeaway is that safety is overrated, consistency is overrated, reliability is overrated, because if we really cared about these things... we'd use Ada. And we don't, because "Ada is annoying!".
Uh, by your own definition you care whether a person is a hipster so you can tell them o go fuck themselves. Doesn't this make you a hipster?

What's it like to tell yourself to get fucked?