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When I first thought of the implementation for Code Bounty it was too cool not to build. Working with Kevin and Ryan was a great experience and we all learned a lot about meteor, paypal, chrome extensions, and bitcoins.

Way too late, after building it, I realized I liked the implementation but not the concept.

Ryan and Kevin are busy with other things so I wanted to know if anybody is interested in taking over / having this project?

It is open source here: https://github.com/codebounty/codebounty
I love the Android dev community so I'm sad to see that the job is getting harder, but I don't think that implementing a verified boot mechanism is necessarily an anti-modder move by Google. They've implemented security like this to great effect on Chrome OS, which is one of the most secure operating systems you can get out of the box. It would be great for the average person to know that their Android phone is super-secure, and it would encourage the penetration of Android into enterprise and military applications, where security is a huge concern.
Yeah I just believe that you can only go so far with an app that is used to send funny pictures to your friends, the fun will eventually die. It just seems to be the same Ron Conway and group going money going round in a circle with a lot of these companies.
As a libertarian myself, I am also sympathetic to the basic income proposition. I like the idea in principle, but feel more experimentation is warranted. I like the premise of trying it out in small increments.

My chief concern is that progressives will ask us to explain how we contend with people who despite being given a stack of currency still manage to squander that, leaving themselves hungry, without shelter, or without savings. They may not say that now, but I think that challenge would eventually arrive. I personally favor family and charity as a last safety net, but progressives routinely dismiss those as impractical or insufficient.

My pessimistic side believes that a portion of the progressive inclination for central planning comes from a fear of allowing people to act stupidly and suffer the consequences. In other words, it's not necessarily that they want to manage the allocation of funds and/or delivery of services and products to the poor, but that they believe if they don't do this, bad decisions will be made, leading to suffering. Meanwhile libertarians such as myself routinely are naively optimistic, believing everyone will make decent or good choices in spending their basic income (knowing to put some into healthcare, some into savings, and so on).
Reduce the cost of living by $3,000 a year. Cut waste producing production, reduce co2 emissions, and the results scale out to the rest of the world's population.

How about a freemium economy? The fries are free but the salt and ketchup cost money.

The biggest lesson I've learned from running a company is blanket money tossing tends to be an excuse for intellectual laziness.
But, tech is even different-er now.

Go back to 1999 and build a website supporting a million concurrent users. How much hardware do you need? What are your fixed costs? What are your engineering costs? How do you even market your thing?

Now do the same today.

What's different?
> Who wants a workforce that has the ability to say no or to do anything other than beg for the chance to be hired at a low-paying job without benefits?

The workers, I would hope. Unfortunately, many people don't understand their own self-interest.
Another is sponge from the same package.
My first reaction was "hell no".

My second was "there would at least be one and only one number to vote on and administer in this area of government"

My third "oh...wait, you can't live on 3k anyway. The rest of the machinery would have to stay and this would be in addition. Worse, next year its 3.5k, and then next 4k..."

So my counter is this:

Will it work if we give everyone 30k a year? Because that would actually simplify and change things.

Anything less and this isn't a serious proposal.
> I don't feel happy charging for something which I still feel is incomplete

It's not so much a question of what you feel happy charging for, as what your customers are happy paying for. The only way to find out is to add paid tiers and see what happens. You can always round out the feature set by adding additional 'premium' features to the paid tiers - free upgrades for paying customers!
Oh yeah, this is not a book to use for learning Haskell. I personally recommend Graham Hutton’s Programming in Haskell or Real World Haskell if you want to learn Haskell. Hutton’s book focuses more on the principles of the language while RWH on its applications but still covers principles well. RWH is a significantly larger time commitment.

I know a lot of people wax on the virtues of Learn You A Haskell but I found its explanations sufficiently full of inferable minutiae that my brain switched off safe in the knowledge that thinking is not required and I stopped learning. Maybe this is just me though.
Well if the manufacturer isn't violating the GPL, you should be able to easily rebuild the stock kernel without this verification. But of course, that's a big 'if'.

I'd still love to see a significant kernel contributor step up to the plate and force the issue that locked bootloaders violate even GPL2. Of course all of these issues would be more straightforward if Linux had simply moved to GPL3 while it still could have.
Nah. People mostly live offline and have to interact with people in their community and region.
A LLC in the United Kingdom seems pretty easy to deal with, IMO.
The problem with this system is that those who have the most genuine need for welfare will be the ones who are made worse off.

Namely, the permanently and severely disabled. These are the people who will have the highest cost of living because they will need additional care and special considerations made for housing etc.

They are also the people who will find it the most difficult to supplement their minimum income by working.
I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io, the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.
I like the idea - although I would like to point out that there is no such thing as a 'general' reaction container in chemistry.

There are automated reaction/deposition systems that are used in combinatorial chemistry. Many of them are in use in the pharmaceutical industry, or solid state chemistry.

I built a small multi-reactor for high temperature synthesis with ("only") 8 reaction tubes myself, and had a bit of hassle when it came to the injection and stirring. As such, I think the 3D printing technology with its fine control for delivery will definatly have some application in this field, as pointed out in the comment in stackexchange.

As with the the microsystem based synthesis which uses micro-sized reaction volumes/object features to enhance e.g. removal of thermal energy in an reaction, this technology has good potential to find some niche application, e.g. screening of optimal reaction conditions. However, note that these optimization procedures have to be done again when scaling synthesis up to the synthesis of larger volumes.
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Are a few firms overvalued right now? Of course. But that's nothing new. Healthy markets have a mix of overvalued and undervalued stocks.

The main difference today is that most rational investors understand the diversity of software firms. The business model and drivers of a company like Facebook differ wildly from a company like Workday. But back in the 90s, they both would have been lumped in together as "tech stocks".

The only common ground between tech firms today is that they often compete for the same talent and investment. But that seems to be changing slowly as the industry matures.
Wish T-Mobile came over to Canada and take Wind Mobile.
The question was never whether we are in a bubble or not. It has always been when it would pop.
Keep emails pg-13 please. :)
Not in that list, but I think Smartmeup is quite interesting too: http://www.smartmeup.org/index.php?skip=1

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> The reason you need to run a 16 bit installer is the software isn't free or open source therefore a simple recompile with a newer version of debhelper or whatever isn't going to bring it up to modern packaging standards.

On the other hand, the old windows software in question will most likely actually run. Debhelper is irrelevant: confronted with a package of comparable age on Linux, you'll be digging up the source code and trying to make it build, not merely tweaking the package, with all its ancient dependencies.
The only Mac that still has an optical drive is the inexplicably still available (it's more expensive than a MBA, and worse in most ways) 13" non-retina MBP. You can get a USB DVD drive for practically nothing, though.
They're not saying it directly, but that's what they mean.

They are saying "X is not worth this huge valuation" which implies the person saying that thinks there is something "unfair" about the multi-billion dollar valuation.

But, this naysayer person has a proper "fair" valuation in mind based on their complete outsider knowledge. To them, it's actually worth nothing (no revenue == if someone buys it, they can't make money == it's worth nothing), but they'll concede a little since a lot of people use it.
This might sound like a cop out, but mostly as sources of other articles I come across. I'm routinely shocked by how often I'll read a blog post summarizing a paper, then read the actual paper and draw a much different conclusion than the post that led me there.
This response was a rambling piece of nothingness.
"git pull" is the closest equivalent to what people are used to from many other source control systems where there is no concept of a local copy of remote branches.
The swiss idea is much to high. The theatlantic idea much to low. I guess Euro800-1000/month is a much better choice. A basic income should allow living, health insurance, small flat, but not luxury goods like cars, big houses or the like.

A basic income should be a security net to catch all, who failed to earn enough for living, but not to much to avoid that everybody stops working and starts party.

One problem of a basic income is the iron law of wages and the private property on housing. Wages tend to balance to a point that they are barely enough to make ends needs. When wages climb, also housing costs and rental prices climb.

So a basic income must accompanied with a big social housing program to allow cheap housing for everybody. Else a basic income would only make the 0.1% who have large assets even richer, because they would earn most of this basic income by renting out housing.
>which integrates Google Now

I now know which app I'm ditching once I get a 4.4 device.
Assuming a cell phone and indicating that only people with a cell phone are important are two different things.

And your cell phone doesn't tell you it changed times, it just changes it for itself.
> One example is the location stack. They have moved into it play services and added a few features, but the open source one is now going to bitrot.

The location stack has not moved into Google Play. The location sensor APIs are still AOSP code. Address resolution and other things have always been tied to Google services, so that geofencing and Google Maps specific APIs are in Google Play Services is not surprising nor unexpected.

> 4.4 has now a new closed source launcher, and I'm sure the old GoogleHome.apk will go bitrot in a couple years.

The previous launcher from 4.3 is still available in AOSP. The new Google launcher has high integration with Google Now, but we've already seen that the launcher space has a thriving amount of competition and an open source launcher is totally do-able.

> If you get AOSP today is quite far from an Android device. Surely it's better than nothing but the distance is widening every month as Google keeps going down to this closed source way. In another couple of years AOSP would probably be irrelevant if you also don't subscribe for the Google apps when you build your device.

This is the core point. Its not that AOSP gets less free over time, its that Google-specific code and services get more functional over time compared to AOSP components. Since Google controls code commits for the main Android project, it means people have to fork and generate alternatives like Replicant is trying to do.
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My favorite comment in the thread is from John Ludlow who explained why you would want to package a 32 bit program with a 16 bit installer:

"The installer has to be the lowest common denominator in terms of bitness. This is because it needs to be able to check whether the application can run on that system and give an intelligent "um, you can't install Program X because your computer is 16-bit and doesn't support it" message rather than falling over in a big heap."

Exactly right. And the kind of detail that is easy to forget about.
Looks like a gastric bypass.
Yeah, I always wondered how this could be. Capitaine Train is making money just selling train tickets, without any kind of ad at any point of the process, and that's their only revenue.

On the other hand, we have the official SNCF website, which doesn't even have to be financially successful itself (since SNCF already makes money on the ticket itself), but is littered with ads, slow, ugly and unhelpful. And even PDF train tickets come with half an A4-page worth of ads.

How can this be possible?

EDIT: just looked at the train ticket I printed today, well ok, I was wrong, there is no ad on it anymore, but I'm sure there was at some point.
Do you want to go broad or deep? One strategy is to find your first paper (or book with references) and then go through each of the papers it cites, and each of the papers those cite, and so on. A lot of the papers probably won't be interesting but it can be an efficient way to find quintessential papers in a field that get cited a lot.
The summary is very much appreciated. I read the first two pages of the article, had barely gotten any real information other than the author's personal and biased experience.

The whole thing felt very self serving and not very informative.
> My chief concern is that progressives will ask us to explain how we contend with people who despite being given a stack of currency still manage to squander that, leaving themselves hungry, without shelter, or without savings. They may not say that now, but I think that challenge would eventually arrive. I personally favor family and charity as a last safety net, but progressives routinely dismiss those as impractical or insufficient.

It's complex.

See the UK, where we have complicated benefits and medical care and social housing.

If you drink your money, and cause yourself to become homeless, you'll have no money and have nowhere to live.

I think understanding how people get themselves into that kind of situation, and guiding them into better choices, is useful to society as a whole. That small investment avoids costs later.
> a very small number of bad eggs

Even if there are a lot of bad eggs and hype and bullshit, you have to ask yourself what the alternative is. The non-science-based existence we suffered through for millennia? I think not. Excuse us for trying to cure cancer and failing less than 100% of the time.

Part of the reason there is so much hype and bullshit is because, if we weren't cramming it down everyones throats for the 30 seconds they'll pay attention, there would be no money funding science and we'd still be living in our own filth and praying to god that the plague stops.
T-Mobile seems to be pushing the SOP for carriers in the US. I can't imagine this happening if the AT&T purchase of T-Mobile went through. Competition's a a good-thing and may cause the bigger carriers to start making adjustments as well. And to those who say that 200MB is nothing, I would guess that most people use their iPads on WiFi at home so this would mostly be used for catching up when out and about. Go T-Mobile!
The author says "Petrofsky was a lavishly honored star of the IEEE", but I was unable to find any honors he got besides an award for a paper in an IEEE journal (http://ieee-aess.org/contacts/award-recipient/jerrold-s-petr... -- there could be other awards, but they don't show up in google). I thought "lavishly honored" would be shorthand for IEEE Fellow, but Petrofsky is not on the Fellows list.

Saying his work was prematurely made into a biopic starring Judd Hirsch is not an indictment of science...
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I don't know if Google strip hinting, but that sounds broadly accurate. Font Combiner makes use of ttfautohint as part of hinting types B and C, with slight modifications where a subset omits character 'o'. Hinting and truetype instructions make little difference to OSX and others.
You're fallaciously posing a dichotomy between the "natural living" of 19th-century American late-feudalism/industrializing capitalism versus the "failures" (failures by what metric, compared to what capitalist competitors?) of "socialism" (actually social democracy).

Here are a few facts to the contrary:

* Europe is not "bankrupt" from "socialism". In fact, even the most successful European countries (the Nordic states and Germany) are far more social-democratic than the "successfully capitalist" Anglo countries, most particularly the United States of America.

* Why is Europe "bankrupt"? Trade imbalances, and a monetary policy aimed at maintaining those trade imbalances for the benefit of the incumbent capitalist class rather than correcting them for the good of all citizens. It's not just net-importer nations like the "PIIGS" undergoing wage deflations and heavy debt, Germany has actually been leading Europe in wage deflation, not to mention that it does actually have a public debt issue. The cause of the Euro troubles, after the Great Recession itself of course, is the German use of mercantilism; the mercantilist system in Europe is not broken but working as (inadvertently, nobody outside Germany intended for Germany to become a mercantile empire) designed.

Citation: http://seekerblog.com/2012/01/17/euro-crisis-german-unit-lab...

* When have the successful Western nations been at their richest, in terms of total economic growth and socioeconomic equality? In their peak social-democratic years of the Postwar Consensus, precisely when what Americans decry as "big government" was used to shore up demand for labor and pump productivity into the economy through national infrastructure projects.

* Open question: does public and private debt growth have a causative relationship with the use of social-democratic fiscal policies, or with the use of certain trade and monetary policies instead? It's important to note that the late '60s and early '70s switched the entire Western world from the Bretton-Woods regime of trade and currency regulations (not to mention capital controls!) to today's neoliberal, neo-mercantilist regime of virtual debt-money. Today capitalist governments manipulate their currency whenever they want in order to suppress labor wages and increase exports, even despite normal market mechanisms acting against them (as in the cases of both China and Germany, who under "clean" markets would be effectively forced to consume and import more stuff, lest their money degrade into worthlessness from capital glut).
As I said, I am not saying that we should have much hope for expanding the subway system even if the state budget was perfect. The MTA's main area of expertise is wasting money.

In my earlier comment I mentioned the Rockaway Beach Branch. That right-of-way would require only a bit of cleanup, some maintenance on a few bridges, and switches to connect to the A line and hundred feet of tunnel in Rego Park, and we would have a new subway line in Queens with access to JFK. We are talking maybe a hundred million dollars, assuming competent engineers and contractors are hired -- a fraction of what the MTA has been spending trying to get the Rail Control Center online.
My 99 RMB/month ChinaUnicom plan comes with only 300 MB a month. Since YouTube is blocked anyways, its plenty for email and basic web surfing.
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For anyone interested in looking for at this, here is the wikipedia article: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
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I'm always wary of 'for life' claims.

A few years back Three in the UK did a 'free Skype calls for life' promotion to encourage 3g take-up, of course they have now stopped honouring that promise
Like you were in 2000, I'm a software developer who realizes my business acumen is far from adequate for running my own shop. My question is: Why did you decide the way to improve was to go back to school and get an MBA?

As a self-taught programmer, I tell people wanting to get into software development that it's definitely not something you have to go to school for, and that the best programmers I've met are those who are always taking the initiative to enrich their own knowledge, and not those with the most academic degrees. In my experience, number of personal projects is a better indicator of the quality of a developer than GPA in CompSci classes.

Of course, being the CEO of a multinational corporation or a software developer on critical banking infrastructure is different than running your own 5 person business or developing alarm clocks for your phone. At what point does one really need an MBA to further their business development, and why did you believe you had reached that point?
There are actually some "Chinatown-to-Chinatown" shuttles from the eighth ave in Brooklyn to Flushing, Queens in thirty minutes or so for two-fifty.
Making 500 Euro per month and after expenses I am making 450 euro . My first customer and 110 customers in beta list which I am going to starting releasing beta next week . here is the product . http://bit.ly/HDcvfA
Where would you remove $3000 of costs per year? Reducing CO2 emissions would cause prices to rise since alternative forms of power are more expensive. What you really want to do is mandate a lower standard of living, which is by definition cheaper.
It was tax cuts during Bush's years. But yes, the end result is basically the same though.
All that matters is the success rate. Watching videos of individual surgeons is pointless to pretty much everyone except surgeons.

I'd love to have the stats on each doctor.
> I think this was inevitable given the sheer number of cheap e-readers and basic media devices being manufactured in China which happen to use Android.

Ahem, those are not smartphones

> A more revealing statistic is web traffic

Exactly why?
Who are the "qualified customers" for $0 iPads?
If your phone is not locked, and it's physically compromised, then you're hosed already. If this is something you care about, you probably should lock your phone, and keep it physically secure.

If your phone is locked, and there aren't any available root exploits for the system (why is why I'd agree with tytso about getting an unlockable phone -- less incentive for the community to collaborate on what are essentially weaponizeable root exploits) then a physical compromise that installs a persistent rootkit must wipe the device beforehand. (Which gets rid of your data, and is easily noticeable)
Want a quick and dirty fix? Kill half of the poor. Problem solved immediately. (I hate such rhetorical questions, so this is the ironic answer I always give)

There is no quick way out, and the various "basic income" schemes are untested on such a wide scale, and their consequences unknown.

Those who favour basic income on the hypothesis it will be balanced by a reduction of government redistribution jobs ignore a very important trend: governments never shrink - they grow with time (IIRC, in the US over 40% of the GDP is eaten by the gov)
Strange. Mine took less than a second.