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The problem here is that you can't really explain the technology without freaking people out even more.

Well, at least not without leaving out the "1 ton magnet spinning around you at crazy speeds" part.

In any case, everybody goint into one of these things should at least be told that the machine works without ionizing radiation, i.e.: "Unlike a CT scanner, you are not at risk of getting cancer from this."

Maybe that puts at least some people at ease.
Why, I agree with most of what he said. Please enlighten us to whatever you find incorrect!
I don't understand your logic. The Democrats were for a more expansive Part D, not a cheaper one. Do you think they're more enthusiastic about reforming Social Security to make it a better deal for the young? They're certainly not for reducing cost-of-living increases through adoption of something like chained CPI. The most common Democratic policy prescription I've heard for Social Security is lifting the payroll tax cap, which certainly doesn't hurt current seniors or Boomers about to retire, but rather young people who have some peak earnings years in their future over the current cap.

As to "privatization"-style reform, I think the theory was that the sorts of instruments available would have better long term yields than Treasuries (I'm actually rather skeptical of this). Higher yields would mean less future budgetary obligation, and you have to start somewhere, no? At the same time, the government could skim some of that excess off the top and use it to replace some of the redirected SS revenue. Yes, you would certainly also have to take money out of general revenue for a generation or two to cover the transition and/or any market swings, but money from general revenue is provided by our still (post-Bush tax cuts) highly progressive income tax, rather than a regressive payroll tax.
This is before my time, so take this with a grain of salt. But I don't think RMS has changed that much. He still advocates unlocked wifi networks ( http://stallman.org/#long-term -> https://openwireless.org/ ). My guess is that his crusade to use empty string passwords was actually just to let the common man have access to computing resources. These days, a password means much more and I'm guessing that RMS could explain why his fundamental view of security is the same still.
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"And yet not a single browser vendor offers ad blocking, instead relying on optional third-party plugins, because this breaks their business model and how they make money.".

I'm actually happy when browsers keep their core features as lean as possible and instead do the work that enable plugin creators to create functionality. More true for ad-blocking, where you want the plugin to be updated more often than the browser itself (e.g., for newer lists, new techniques for detecting ads).
Ouch. The first post seems especially unfair.

...they are screwing up the world for the rest of us, for everyone.. Choices being made by the tech-savvy and law ignorant are creating the precedents, while destroying themselves, that form the foundation for computer law going forward. We may be saddled with bad law for decades...

The point seems to be: when a random computer person provides a service, and that service is targeted by federal prosecutors, and idiotic judges use the opportunity to cripple civil society, it's the random computer person's fault. Are lawyers and judges simply vengeful automatons, whom any citizen should expect to destroy civilization if given any opportunity? Maybe others in the jurisprudential profession could help defend society from their colleagues?
Too bad your page flip animation violates Apple's patent.

http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=D0670713&SectionNum=1&IDK...
In the States maybe, Windows is massively pirated over seas especially in Asia.

Also there's a reason self assembled laptops aren't a thing, packing all the components in the size of a laptop is a really hard problem.
Dual-view, in two windows.

Also, uploading would make it an instant non-starter for me, due to data sensitivity issues.
That's interesting. When Intel was developing speech hardware one of the FAEs was given a Ford Thunderbird with speech enabled to 'try out'. When ever you were driving faster than 55[1] it would say about once every 10 seconds "Speed limit exceeded!" The FAE decided that maybe speech wasn't everything it was cracked up to be :-).

In this case there is a valid use case for not having secure boot enabled, but I can see where Microsoft might not recognize any of them as the 'general case.' Another step in the process of appliancizing computers into application platforms.

[1] At the time federal law stated that no speed limit could be higher than 55 MPH so exceeding 55 was by definition 'speeding' anywhere in the US.
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Best of luck to him. I still wouldn't touch his ichor with a ten-foot pole.
Annoying, but it allows for linking to specific "slides".
We don't "have an income tax." We have a detailed set of tax laws that apply to individuals. Those laws treat capital gains differently from wages. One of the reasons for that is that lower taxes on capital gains is believed to be more economically efficient.

There are, of course, many other considerations that should be taken into account when designing a tax code. And you're free to argue that those other considerations are more important than efficiency.

But you aren't actually doing that. You're just pointing to the name of the thing and declaring that because of the words being used a specific system must follow. That's what I mean by word games.
1) It's not even the point whether there is some cost or none. It's not the cost that prevents Apple from implementing open codecs. It's control, I already emphasized that above. They spend a lot on other things, it's not like they direly lack resources.

2) I didn't invent the usage of "open" as in "liberated". That's used in open Web, open technologies and etc. Usually some try to complain that free software is different from open source software and so on. While it's formally valid, most often you can deduce what's implied from the context. Open codecs imply liberated codecs. Open standard (in many contexts) includes being not encumbered by patents (surely, even closed codec can be implemented as open source, it doesn't make it free because of that). And that's not the case with proprietary codecs - they are patent encumbered. That's why they are not open standards. When something is discussed as open vs closed as in not having a public specification, it's usually pretty clear.

3) Vorbis is clearly innovative over MP3. We were talking about digital players, and most of them use MP3, not AAC.

Opus is clearly innovative over any above, including AAC.

4) I already explained, it's not about expenses. It's about control. It's not just about "taking actions that benefit other people". It's about taking the opposite - actions which damage others (i.e. HTML5 codecs mess). Apple can't escape being blamed for it.

5) Even if there is some benefit in limiting the number of codecs, it's not what drives Apple not to use open ones, especially when they are technically better.

So we agree that Apple doesn't see a benefit in using open codecs, but we disagree on their motivation or what exactly they see as a benefit. You view them equating benefit with reducing expenses. I think they consider control as the primary benefit.
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This seems like an unnecessarily mean-spirited comment.
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They are actually trying it. http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-windows-phone-ch...

(First link I found)
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Stop sending paychecks, they figure it out eventually.
Reread my comment. And then again. Did I claim that? What did I claim? Now reread again.
Is Stanford still a university?

You're missing the point of the question. The real question is, is stanford legitimately a non-profit institution?
That's not a 'silly' question, and it has material implications.
Unfortunately the aforementioned persons are unlikely to realize they could pay someone to look after security in an open, communicative fashion.
Citing Avik Roy does not help your claim. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/01/t...
There is enough data to indicate that the primary function of elite universities is to signal that those they admit are motivated enough and smart enough to achieve success, for their definition of success. What they do post-admission in the university has little relevance to what they do in their professional lives. These latest trends at Stanford are simply a logical extension of this truth. In this scenario, Stanford is simply a richer version of Y Combinator.

What this means is that in the rush to make more money and get more startups going, perhaps more meaningful things will be de-emphasized. The bright student on entering the school gets the unspoken message that founding a tech startup is more prized than say building the groundwork for bio research, or questioning and trying to change society, or perhaps investigating dark matter.

If other universities followed Stanford's lead, we could end up with a world where many individuals will individually be monetarily richer, but one in which we could all collectively end up less rich in knowledge and meaning.
>Short-term capital gains are taxed at income rates. And long-term capital gains are taxed...

Of course. I used the generic term "capital gains" as a stand-in for "long-term capital gains", since the latter is the one that realizes the different tax treatment and is thus relevant to this discussion.

My apologies for not being clearer there.

>Eliminating corporate income taxes would actually encourage companies to realize and distribute profits to shareholders

I agree. I think this can be a "healthy" behavior change as a result of tax code changes.

Still, I would be curious to know how much the additional individual tax revenue would serve to offset the loss of corporate tax revenue. On the face, there would seem to be a gap--one that may be filled by a simultaneous increase in the long-term capital gains rate.

I'm sure this info is available. Just need to stop being lazy!
Call me an anti-foodie

I only eat because I'm hungry; the taste, as long as it's bearable, is always an afterthought. I find grocery shopping, cooking and especially doing the dishes to be insanely inconvenient in my daily life, and eating out is far too expensive. My wife asked me the other day, "It's not that you expect me to make dinner for you, it's just that if I didn't, you'd likely eat either a frozen pizza or boil some pasta every night, right?"

I would absolutely love for this Soylent project to become a reality. The convenience of getting a well balanced diet served in one small dose is something I only dreamed of coming true; fingers crossed they can pull it off.
Of course they are; this bill feeds them a guaranteed customer base. This is the largest issue I have with ObamaCare. The sole job of an insurance company is to assess risk. With a government mandated customer base there is no longer any risk to asses.

So... Why are the insurance companies involved at all? Why are they still in business? That's rhetorical, I know the answer, and I don't like it. We're all paying a middle man to do nothing for us.
The official website says: "We'll have videos of the individual talks up as soon as we can." (http://startupschool.org)
I think the size and scope of this project compares pretty well with yodlee.com, which pulls financial records from all of your banks and credit cards and acts as a service for other sites to build upon (mint).
I think a lot of companies use brain teasers or math problems to test general mental aptitude, whether it works or not is under serious debate, but in my opinion that's the right thing to test for (if it's even possible).

The reason is smart people can figure out git, or databases, or objective-c, or whatever, in a fairly short amount of time.

For example, my co-founder learned objective C off free online video tutorials and built an iOS app (talking an app with serious firepower and back-end transaction logic) from start to end by himself in less than 3 weeks.

That's why we're not as concerned about what you know right now as what it's possible for you to learn in 3 more week.
There's actually a way to just include arbitrary HTML (but it's not shown in the quick initial demo).

If you put your email in at the end you get access to a full demo that shows you all the features of the full CMS. Thanks for checking it out!
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This looks great. My team of distributed developers could really benefit from something like this.
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What are the overhead/barriers to entry for this? If they are making a food/nutrition product, I imagine they'd have to hire people for food safety/regulatory compliance. Plus additional FDA compliance if they want to market this as a competitor to current inpatient GI tube feeding solutions/nutrition shakes (i.e. make it billable to insurance companies).
Quadruple that for me as a German. I'm pretty certain that if videos surfaced of children reciting the pledge or something similar in front of a German flag in a German school, a scandal would ensue, resulting in disciplinary measures against school staff (or a shutdown in case of a private school).
Wow, Google is trying to provide DDoS protection and you figure it must be evil.

Can you think of one thing Google could do for you to think that they are not evil?
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The machine from the story is using a decal.
The author explicitly mentions conflict of interest:

There are conflicts of interest here; and questions of power dynamics. The leadership of a university has encouraged an endeavor in which students drop out in order to do something that will enrich the faculty.

ryguytilidie then made the connection to what some of the problems are with this conflict of interest. One of them relates to students dropping out but having paid for school.
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You've missed the point big time. They screw things up when they pick inexperienced lawyers whose inexperience costs them their cases. If they pick experienced lawyers who lose despite their experience, then no one is blaming them.

The context is important here: Levison was initially defended by a small business lawyer who was only 4 years out of law school. That was truly a boneheaded decision and may very well be why Lavabit crumbled so quickly.
Math questions are probably an okay substitute for "general IQ" testing for the majority of population, moreso than most other question categories (math is literally just logical reasoning). But, it's not a truly general skill, it's a specialized discipline--and that means the practice of using it as a screen is going to fail hard when you try to apply it to someone with specialized training. Which is what happened in the article.
1. Faster? Really? Those values only live in registers for a short while, is saving one or two cycles all that important?

2. That is an interesting point. Gut instinct says tmp should end up being f64 and then both expressions would be the same. Equally valid is the interpretation that the user selected explicitly for conversion to f32 of the intermediate value. We all know computers don't perform platonically perfect math with real numbers, there isn't much you can do about it, but I think the choice which results in the most precision should win at the end of the day.

Perhaps in a language which doesn't require specifying types like Rust, the best thing to do is to simply dispense with 32-bit floating point values entirely. I'd be equally happy with compiler flags like -fmore-precision. Or maybe you could have other arithmetic operators like +64 and +80 which cast all their arguments to 64/80-bit floating point numbers and produce a result with that precision. So I'd write

let a: f32 = b (+80) c (/80) d as f32

Given that Rust is a pretty young language and still far from a 1.0 release, do consider if you can provide any kind of syntax to actually make full use of computers' numerical capabilities.
True, and their ad campaigns were fresh too. “We’re fighting back for Mac!”

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It would be better if you could anchor link then (like http://startupnotes.org#zuck or something)
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Mac OSX runs all of that x86 baggage as well.
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These alternatives would all have their own pitfalls.
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Tiberius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk
Certainly SSN could be improved by making them harder to guess and adding check digits. Other than that, I don't see how any other number scheme is any better. Ultimately there is some number that is associated with you, and is therefore useful for identity theft. Since it has to be used by people and not just computers it'll have to be relatively short and thus easy to steal.

Multiple identifiers per person is a feature, not a bug. People get new SSNs when they want to change their identity (eg, witness protection programs), or because someone stole their old one. That need doesn't go away just because you have a new numbering system.
Oups? I do not get this answer and never was my intention to be incivil. Mmh? Sorry if I hurt you but I was just being as clear as possible. And as assertive as the sentences I was reying to.

Possibly the 'please' in my comment is paternalistic, but then again your definition of the job of an artist is quite simplistic. So it may not be paternalistic but a plea for sensible speculation.
"Off of" has been an English construction since the 1500s. It's entirely reasonable and appropriate in this context, much like contractions in informal written English.

But I'm fairly sure I'm replying to a throwaway account, so it's not like you were seriously interested.
This is great! Awesome summary, and your quote doodles kicked the pants off of mine for sure. :)
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./ansiweather: line 76: jq: command not found

If you run into that on ubuntu, there does not appear to be an ubuntu package for jq. Binaries and source are available at http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/
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> there's way too many "toy examples" out there.

I am not sure what you mean. Tutorials can only deal with toy examples. Once you understand them, then you can (and you should) write bigger projects. About Carmack, that's exactly what he did, he implemented Wolf3D in Haskell to have a real impression about Haskell. (Assuming you're talking about this video where he discuss functional programming for games)

Aren't you just being lazy? :)

Edit: that video:

http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-...
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Great Job! All of the startup school notes being posted on the internet have helped me make up a little bit for not being able to attend startup school 2013!
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MR scanners need to look better for everyone, same goes for any large piece of medical equipment.
I think he made a valid contribution. He is pushing that we keep comments civil and useful. The comments he mentioned do neither and drag down the discussion and promote discord in the community.

I'm not sure why his comment warrants such a hostile reaction when it is in the interest of the community that people engage in self-moderation and policing to keep it healthy.

Additionally, even if the attacks on Pogue's personality granted it credence, I personally feel it doesn't belong here and isn't useful for any of us to spend our time as if we're judges in a tech scene popularity contest.

The more interesting discussion is about how this could be relevant to Yahoo and their attempt to change direction. Or if this type of move is a harmful trend for the Times, such as how they lost Nate Silver.
If they need more money, they can try issuing it in different colors next i.e. Soylent: Blue, red, yellow, green.
For the records; This was meant as a joke, I'm canadian myself. Arguably it was not very clear or funny.
The largest problem to long term success of Soylent must be that people will grow weary of eating the same tasting food. You can add a couple of flavors but that is it. Try eating exclusively your favorite food, I doubt you would enjoy it after 6 months.

I guess you could mix it with 1/3 of normal food, but still two out of three meals are the same always.
School of Haskell is actually a website where people can create their own tutorials, so most likely the author added it themselves. (EDIT: I just checked, they were created by user Yann Esposito, which most likely belongs to the author.)

Furthermore, while FPComplete are commercial, I don't believe they're monetising SoH in any way, other than its being good marketing for the company and Haskell in general.
The placebo effect does not really apply to software, though.
> "almost certainly correct".

Yes, that's why I wrote it's an obvious guess.

> Windows has an enormous amount of legacy code, and behaviors that were perfectly fine even just a few years ago now can devastate battery life.

Ok, you seem to know this. Can you tell us now EXACTLY what legacy code is there in Windows that causes the "busy-loops" and bad battery performance?

> But it is, because the choices made in it were made for a different world of computing.

That's a very vague statement. What choices exactly?

Come on people, anyone can make these claims! This is almost the same as saying: "There is some software in Windows that is causing the bad battery performance." It's patently tautological!

The other guess is "there's some power-hungry components in Windows devices causing it!"
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True.
What is fun is that you could imagine a technology where you would (powering down some unused memory chips), but I don't know if this would be worth it.
What exactly do you find suspicious?
Woah, someone who did research.

Indeed: it is a known fact that Apple gets custom exclusive low-clocked CPUs from Intel. Apple's chips are closer to "Y" class Intel Chips, which are designed for exceptionally long battery life at cost to performance.

Overall, I think the better screen, Wacom Digitizer, and faster CPU will all add up to the difference between the Surface2 and MBA.
If you upvote an article on HN then it shows up via the "Saved Stories"[1] link in your profile (not visible to others).

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I've had one as part of a brain science study at my undregrad school and aside from the loud noises (which can mostly be muffled enough by some good earphones), it's pretty okay. In fact, with the muffled MRI noises, I honestly nearly fell asleep every time I went in there.
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Remarkably few, which I found interesting. Food safety compliance has primarily been achieved by only using ingredients that are already identified as 'food safe'. And a lot of what Rhinehart has done is exactly what someone like 'Sara Lee' might do except they weren't trying to make it seem like a pie, rather its just goop.

If you're a person who likes eating, this will be a horrible thing, but if you're a utilitarian it can be quite reasonable. Presuming it is successful there is also a huge opportunity in prisons. By eliminating food preparation and eating utensils you mitigate both costs and threats.