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I don't disagree with your facts. I am merely saying there is a structural reason for this - Windows and Android manufacturers will never command the same power as Apple (who as you say, got it the hard way by taking over ground before it became valuable - i.e., skating to where the puck will be). They will never have it because Intel, Microsoft and Google will fight tooth and nail to prevent it.

Lenovo bought IBM's business because IBM (who essentially made Microsoft who they were) decided it's a loser's game to depend on Microsoft. They are structurally incapable of meeting Apple's capabilities. If they do something novel, it will be reverse-engineered by Dell or HP and become commoditized (I would support that clandestine type of sharing if I were Microsoft).

About the only exception might be Samsung because of their dominant position supplying memory/disk/processors for Apple and other smartphone manufacturers. Apple is worried about Samsung, but Google should be as well.
That number is also assuming that the pump pulls from the air rather than the ground. Ground based pumps are apparently more efficient (well, energy effective; efficient is not quite the right word in this case) because the ground warms up in the sun more than the air.
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Would love to know if you like the new design. More info on how we interpreted iOS 7 change: https://medium.com/design-ux/d768bede7d6e
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When you sit in class, or say, on the bus, do you usually go for the back seat, behind everyone, where no one can see you?
Maybe you have social anxiety (or anxiety in general) which what makes it painful going out and interacting with other people.

Regarding the inability to write essays, I also have that problem where I feel like nothing is coming to me and I don't really know how to start. I have recently been tested and it appears that I have a learning disability (something memory related).
> That was a serious hypothesis before this. Heard about Tegmark's level IV multiverse?

Of course, I love Tegmark's speculative work. But that's all it is, speculative. It's like reading science fiction, one shouldn't confuse it with reality, at least not without evidence to justify that.

> It's the idea that every mathematical structure just 'exists', like 'poof magic', and the simpler ones would, like, have greater weight.

There's no evidence that this is how reality works, and there's no particular reason to think that it should work this way.

> A corollary is, the simpler the laws of physics are, the more probable the above hypothesis is. And suddenly we learn that the true laws of physics might be much simpler than we anticipated? This is huge. Or not.

All current evidence is that it's a fantasy, one which happens to be so attractive to some people that they're willing to suspend critical thinking to favor it, much as people do with belief in supernatural beings.

There are certainly cases where basic mathematical principles are expressed in a very direct way in the universe. Probability in quantum mechanics is one example, Noether's Theorem is another. But even in these cases, saying that some property of the universe arises from pure mathematics is misleading.

To boil down the objection, mathematics is a way to describe and model these phenomena, and shouldn't be confused with the phenomena themselves. Doing so is a map/territory style confusion.

If you want to say that the universe arises from pure mathematics, you then have to explain what sort of phenomenon pure mathematics is, that it is capable of producing such effects. To use my analogy, it would be a bit like saying "The topography of Earth arises from a pure map."

> The idea of a timeless universe, where our subjective notion of time just arise from its structure has been around for quite some… time.

That's a little different from the idea that reality is an incarnation of pure mathematics. In case, the fact that ideas have been around for some time has little bearing on their validity. Consider astrology.

> Likewise, Occam's Razor itself suggests that the true laws of physics are simpler than we think.

It does not actually suggest that in general. It can mean that in cases where an explanation contains unnecessary elements, but it says nothing about explanations necessarily being simple, or simpler than they already are.

> Plus, current human laws of physics are either false or incomplete.

I prefer to think in terms of models than laws, and models are always incomplete. The only complete model is the thing being modeled itself.

> I fully expect future physics to be further simplified. Claims of massive simplification are therefore not that surprising.

By your premise, actual simplification would not be surprising, but claims have no necessary correlation to actual simplifications.

Sorry to be picky!
Google has been publishing transparency reports for years and were the first to get approval for the disclosure of NSL requests.

It's not Google's fault you only started looking for the information after Snowden's stuff.
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This features sound like fun. But networking is not on my priority list right now.

Problem is the server and security issues. At the moment everything runs out of the box even on the simplest web server. This would change. And at the moment I don't want to implement features which you can't use on the demo web-site.
But of course, you are free to do so. You have not even to change something in the kernel-image because everything is ready to test. Exchange the dummy ethernet driver with the real one from the or1ksim project.
To me, EE being gone is good riddance, I HATED THEM, HATE HATE HATE HATE.

Most people might wonder: "why?"

It is because ANYTHING I searched on Google resulted into 3 pages of their links, sometimes sorta hidden (ie: sites that republished their links for example), and it resulted in:

When it started, I wasted lots of time visiting their links, seeing the stupid paywall, and getting pissed off with the wasted time.

As I learned to not click on their links, then I clicked on other sites that republished their links.

As I learned to filter those out, I had to expend time looking carefully several pages of google results searching for what I really wanted.

So I hated them, because not only they provided nothing for me (I was not willing to pay for whatever crap they were selling, I never saw a answer on their site, since I never noticed the "below the fold" or whatever that means, thus I still don't have a clue on the quality of whatever was their answers, so to me it was just a scam), they also wasted my time, they made me lose my valuable time working around their shady SEO tricks.

When they were gone from google, and thus made me stop wasting my time, I was really happy.

And if a employee or ex-employee come complain that I want the demise of their employer, all I can say is: "Don't work for people that do evil stuff." (this also apply to anyone working for cigarrete manufacturer, US intel and DoD, US private army contractors, some certain divisions of game publishers, some banks, and so on...)
There's this sort of idea that I can't wrap my head around, which is that if there's this fact A, and you don't like it, you can somehow make it not true by... explaining in detail why it is true. OK, so EE has its reasons for doing what developers didn't like... the end result is still that developers didn't like it. You explained that fact quite well, but I'm at a loss as to how that's supposed to translate into a negation of what you just explained.

I see this argument pattern bizarrely often online. It boggles my mind.
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I know that was what he said, but I believe that sentence was just a simple way to communicate their vision like using "XYZ done right" to describe a company. He did not particularly care about Experts Exchange IMO.
Hipsters like Google? I thought hipsters liked Apple...or do they just like whatever you dislike?
You pointed a link to one android phone. I'm suggesting that in 2014 there will be many android phones with front-panel fingerprint scanners.
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Margins are an indication of how good the product is. Either you compete on quality, or you compete on price, basically. Also, value != price alone, or even the margin the company is making on the product (they could just be more efficient and better at execution than their competitors).
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More on Jobs:

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This is awesome. Whenever I don't feel like getting things done (i.e. I feel like procrastinating) one of the best ways is to go do research on methods of getting things done ;)
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A picture is worth 1,000 words. This is awesome!
So this article was presumably written beforehand and embargoed to coincide with the official announcement of Calico. While I guess there's nothing wrong with that, it does make me wonder what kind of pre-approved message is supposed to be imparted by a premeditated PR campaign.

Perhaps it is just to avoid scaring investors, going by Larry's concern assuaging in the second paragraph of his post.

One of the Google founders was also behind funding the first purely lab-grown burger eaten in London a few months ago. That also had an obviously professional PR campaign attached to it, although little of this was explicit in the press. A professionally edited HD recording of the event appeared on the BBC web site only a few minutes after publication, so obviously some PR mechanism was at play.

But that event wasn't to promote Google or anything else, it was absent of any commercial labels attached to the copy or the video itself, and no mention was made of who organized or funded it. I have no idea what the message, or the point of that campaign was either.

What are these campaigns trying to tell us?
So now we know what Steve Yegge was talking about, when he said he was moving to some mysterious "making peoples' lives better" project.

Cool.
Regarding quality of our ancestors: Yes, but there are downsides too. We probably have longer periods of lower quality of life. We improved both quality and length. But we improved length more.

I hope for more youth, not just more life.
I find it astounding that someone went to the effort of making that video. Of the people who do use paper, who doesn't work like this, or do something very similar?
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Funny. No mention of Kurzweil.
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Lots of people have known this for quite a while - nothing new to see here. Here's a blog post by a friend of mine, from 2007 ("Bypass a wifi captive portal"), which includes an example of a script to handle it all: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/2007/Aug/11

The basic idea is as follows:

1) ping the broadcast/multicast addresses to quickly fill the arp cache

2) change your mac address to that of the detected nodes

3) see if you can access the internet now [repeat step #2-3 until you can]
Man, this comment went from "fair frustration" to "crazy train" mighty quick.

Blanket statements like "don't work for [entire industry X]" generally make you come off as a little tin-foil-hattish, just FYI. :-)
The federal system of justice doesn't generally work like this. Except where specifically allowed by statute US courts don't issue declaratory judgments, and the fact that LinkedIn didn't cite any statutory authority that would give the FISA court the authority to do this is telling.

If LinkedIn wants to publish the stats they are absolutely free to do so; they just open themselves up to a lawsuit from the government. The fact that LinkedIn is filing a useless motion instead of publishing the stats sends the message that this is more about PR than results.
So the fact A is that developers didn't like EE. I don't dispute that. What I'm arguing is that sometimes it's worthwhile to take a nuanced view of something that goes deeper than the surface level.

In this case, I'm asking you to consider EE from a different perspective, and whether what they did was worthy of scorn. My hope is that you'll soften your hatred of EE, but I don't expect everyone to come to that conclusion. Not every argument is a total negation of the counter position, I suppose.
Can we just get LLVM on browsers to compile embedded IF with JS-to-IF (or existing VM) as legacy? Think about it. Every three months, "omg THIS in Javascript!" and every fourth month, "omg THIS language becomes Javascript!" Can we just get an acceptable LLVM sandbox that uses the browser as sort of the OS and -actually- can do everything we need the runtime environment to do instead of giving us more and more relatively fake advances in user-facing software?
You mean, that there might be a war between the 150 year olds and the 250 year olds? Sign me up! I don't even care for which side!

The base state of the world that we live in is that everybody dies. Your hypotheticals about how horrible it might be to live in a world where people might not die have to be pretty horrible to compete with what is already true.

(Mind you, this is not an unleapable bar, in my opinion, but it's much higher than you just leapt.)
Most companies are terrible at putting together Android support and waste money on engineering teams that don't know what they are doing. If they could buy something that's 90% ready to rock + support contract I'd think it'd be pretty compelling.

And with open source they wouldn't be locked into a single vendor.
Does Opal generate source maps? That's a pretty big deal as the source generation gets further away from 1:1.
Before: it's no big deal, how likely is is that someone could compromise RDRAND without anyone noticing
After: what's the big fuss, everyone who counts already treats RDRAND as compromised

Why does this always happen with stories like this one?
You might be surprised that if you pay more money, Microsoft has more to sell you.

No, I'm not. I like FOSS, and ZFS seems excellent - I wish it made it to Windows. Like, Windows 7, for consumers and businesses...
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Are you suggesting that I'd be better if the technology is not available to anyone lest some people live longer than others? I am pretty sure that in the beginning the new technologies will be accessible only to the people who can spare some cash, but I am also pretty sure that the cost will go down, as it has for any other technology.
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At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406551 I'm having a reasoned discussion with someone who responded more substantively to what I wrote. Your petty sniping is not reasoned discussion.
Google currently has no incentive to lock down those apps. The one place that they have the least incentive to lock down is the Play Store, as CM users will still be sending money their way.
You are assuming resources are limited, but they are infinite. Making the assumption the Universe is infinite.
This is potentially great news. The funny thing is that the first thing that crossed my mind is a book I read many years ago: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Conditi...
> (I actually have an account at SO, but haven't posted anything: I don't feel like an expert on anything enough to write an answer that would actually earn points.)

The best way to learn something is to teach - pick a question that you can't answer and spend some time researching it. Then write it up as if you were explaining it to yourself before you started looking.

You'll come away with both points and more knowledge.
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Except that technically "their work done" is improper grammar when your subject ("the programmer") is singular.
Were the answers readily available elsewhere in most cases? If so, the main "wrong" done by EE was simply placing inaccessible results higher than otherwise accessible ones, which is pretty rubbish, but if instead, a bulk of the content was unavailable elsewhere, this doesn't seem that bad. I'm guessing it was more of the former though, lending to the general ire towards EE.
Kurzweil is a joker. His entire hypothesis rests on the assumption that computational power is the only obstacle to general AI, which is manifestly not the case.
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catalyze a shift in the world's thought paradigm

Absolutely. The goal should be to enact a vector of a new paradigm, as proactive team players synergize an out-of-the-box strategy of functionality and infotainment, re-engineering the learning curve framework of your
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I have no problem with free market capitalism, if it's fair. But some think that companies like Genetech exploit the rules around patents and intellectual property at the expense of people's lives and receive preferential status.

There's a difference between making your money back to cover the cost of research and development while making a profit, and plain old greed. A 20 year lifetime on a patent with a 3-7 year window of exclusivity means you might be dead before you can afford treatment. That's one of the ethical issues that we will hopefully address in a sane and logical way as we move forward. How much money should one be able to make if they are adding days to your life?

I do agree that this type of thing may be helpful to humanity. I just cast a skeptical eye knowing how the drug industry has worked in the past.
When Google sponsors an awesome project like this, I see the tech company equivalent of Nike sponsoring LeBron James for $105 million. Even if the R&D angle doesn't work out, Google gets real value (i.e. indirectly interchangeable for money) in terms of PR and recruiting. Consumer products companies pay huge amounts of money for PR. Google is just doing the same thing in a typically Googlish way. I don't think it's as cynical as just that: Google, and Larry Page in particular have been talking about making the world a better place for 15 years in a way that makes me pretty inclined to believe them, but the side benefits must counterbalance the longshot-ness quite a bit.
I think I'll go with death, then.
Yes I sit in the back all the time. It's weird, if you met me, I'm the most confident/nice/happy person to hang out with, but it's all absolutely fake and orchestrated, and borrowed, and I can even tell you which features are from who! Ideally I'd throw on my default face all day but nobody likes that, I just look super pissed off.

How do you get tested/evaluated? Yeah I have social anxiety for sure.
Publicly naming someone as your arch enemy is pretty specifically targeting them, if you ask me...
Yes I read the article. Do you have anything original to add or context for why you chose this quote?
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The medical community has shown itself time and again to accept treatments with marginal advatnages and meciine with dubous wholistic heatlh effects (trading stroke for cancer). At the end of the day, pharmacueticals are not know for integrity.
I don't. I love working with paper, but I have zero organization. So I end up with stacks of uneven paper pieces with notes all over the place.

For me this post has been really helpful. I am going to try this system out!

p.s. I have always found funny the sort of passive disdain organized people have for those that are not organized. As though organization is something that should be innate in everybody.
Perhaps you meant Fisheye ? https://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/overview
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'lose'

If you had enough money to live off for fifty years, the market taking a dump isn't going to wipe it out. Especially if you invested part of it before the market got high, and your total without accounting for dumps would have lasted seventy years.
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Looks great. I've had luck with http://www.javascriptoo.com/ too.
that would only happen if you have a world that no longer creates new value, but simply redistributes ever diminishing existing size of the pie. I doubt that sort of dystopian society ala Cloud Atlas will ever come to pass, so there will always be room for young people to disrupt existing order
It's hard to keep in mind the small but valuable beauty of relating to someone, it's often under a fat layer of "fakery" but it seems they all click, admit and understand it while I drown under this accidental complexity.

I can safely say I've never related to a single person I've met, I just kind of see through them. Sure I can laugh at your jokes and share stories but I still feel as though I'm in a one man gallery and you're all on display.
You're exaggerating your claims and expectations to an extreme degree. For one, Snowden put his life on the line to leak a hell of a lot more than email spygate. Secondly, why didn't Google shut down Gmail? Is that a serious question? Because it quite obviously would've done far more harm than good, to citizens of the world and to Google.

You should calm down a bit and try to adopt more reasonable stances if you actually hope to make a difference.
Absolutely. Right now money is the bottleneck for the things that SENS is doing, so rich companies joining in are very welcome, as is the mainstream coverage that will come with them (hopefully resulting in more donations).
Has it been confirmed that this isn't a joke?
Agreed. There's an emotional reward I get from not only writing with my Namiki Vanishing Point fountain pen on a nice piece of Rhodia paper, but also from seeing a clean and well-organized task list or set of notes written with good penmanship. That emotional reward really helps reinforce and perpetuate good habits, and it's something that's sorely lacking from working with electronic solutions.

That being said, my phone is much better at automating my repeating reminders.
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The trouble with this is that everyone with the answer has an incentive to answer for free on an open site. The incentive is that others will do the same if they feel like they got value for their time.

How does a paid site compete with something like Stack Exchange? SE has most of the answers. People appreciate finding the answer they needed. Many of them will turn around and pay it forward by answering questions or improving other answers. It's the same reason Wikipedia killed paid encyclopedias.
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I went to www.bulletjournal.com but I can't find a link to download their app. =)

But seriously, I'm going to try this. I've been doing paper notes forever because I can never find an organizer app that fits me.
Normally I agree, but the implications of anti-aging treatment need to be considered.

Yes, the rich will get it first. But then think about what will happen: they will start living longer, and as a result, accumulate even more wealth over their lifetimes. While the poor will have 30-35 years of productive work-life, the rich will have much longer. Combined with the already large difference in their earning power, this will lead to a world where the rich not only life much higher quality lives, but also longer lives.
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Does Opal support Native to an extent to allow me to use it with existing libraries such as Backbone without the need of writing extensive wrappers? Opal is an awesome project, but the last time when I looked at it using JS libraries with it wasn't trivial.