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The real problems in San Francisco and elsewhere, the problems that are hurting and displacing people, aren't caused by self-driving cars or software to make construction more efficient, and the people experiencing pain will not be made better by casting out all of the professionals, many of whom politically side with progressive causes. (And isn't doing home composting and growing your own garden what Berkeley protesters would demand people do?) The local governments need to figure out ways to encourage affordable housing.

Yes, DARPA funds long range research which can be used for military purposes. That includes the Internet, which was DARPA funded. But all technological research has dual use. The Internet could have been used as a command-and-control network for the military during war, but it is also used to distribute political dissent.

The same research into chemicals and biology that allow life saving medicines to be created to save children around the world can also be used to make chemical and biological weapons. Fertilizer grows food, it also makes bombs.

Google X's Car project doesn't seem to have anything to do with making weapons for the DoD. This is pure guilt-by-tenuous-association. Many college campuses also enter these DARPA challenges, where's the protests?

The purpose of the car is to solve a very real social problem: hundreds of thousands of people are killed in auto accidents around the world every year and millions more are seriously injured needing to go to the emergency room. This is an enormous social cost which could be used to fund better housing, or education, but instead is going to treat injuries and repair and replace damaged vehicles. There is no evidence of a Google contract with DoD for Google Car technology for weapons.

What I find really disturbing is the level dehumanization. The protest is peaceful now, but the first step to encouraging violence against someone is to describe them in dehumanizing terms (a robot). When gun-advocates like Sarah Palin start using rhetorical devices that dehumanizes opponents and paints literal gun targets on them, we are not surprised turning up the rhetorical temperature leads to violent confrontation, the behavior shouldn't be tolerated or defended on the other side.
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback!
Wait, do you actually think DPRK is actually communist? It reads far more like an autocracy to me.

On the other hand, look at the rest of the industrialized world. Almost every industrialized nation has socialized medicine, social insurance/welfare, etc. You're trying to characterize it as a binary when it's a lot more like capitalism in that there's a lot of latitude.
Cryptsy, the crypto-currency exchange, have over a hundred markets running right now. Some of them are more active than others, of course.
It's been almost a day since this was posted, but I still haven't heard of any other customers having had the same experience.

Is there anyone else out there to whom this has happened? I'm having a hard time finding a colleague that is a NetSol customer -- so I have no one to ask. Can someone confirm that this isn't the only case of this happening?

I'm no fan of NetSol, but this seems ridiculous beyond belief. I just want to know if there is more to the story.
Nothing dramatic, I was working at a different company within the compound and not involved at all with the dispute. Just... nerve wracking a bit (confined road in, rows of people abiding by the law but just looking you straight in the eye)
This is something we're working on. Right now Docker is successful in projects and companies who want to be on the ground floor of revolutionary product and have the capacity to invest in / contribute time to dealing with maturing technology.

Not all companies have the benefit of being in such a position, and we're working hard to make Docker adoption a possibility there by offering Services (through partners) and Support (through us) around it.

We will not be the ones to make the judgement of when we've hit that level of maturity, but we will be publishing use cases / white papers / details about people who believe we have.

What I would encourage you to do is to start thinking about it and take advantage of the fact that we have a vested interest in making your project successful. Get in touch, tell us about your needs, and help make Docker better by making sure your use case is on track for being rock solid.
If I was an investor, these types of answers are the real gems that I would look for before making any acquisition.

"That all being said, I have about 1200 devices in AirWatch. More or less I am the only person for the deployment and maintenance of these devices. I have very little complaints about the use of AirWatch, my job would be a lot more difficult without it."

That is value right there.
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It's ...interesting. The grass is not as green as it would appear.
10 things every software developer should do in 2014
Good luck supporting a "bitcoin economy" when the only income sources are argentinians selling their services over the net.

Even if Google was based in argentina, and accepted 100% of it's payments in Bitcoin, it would only account for about 10% of Argentina's current GDP.
Whether principles are misguided or not is a subjective, not an objective, question. Its not something you can "be sure of".

OTOH, if no one sticks to them, that would be evidence against them being widely viewed as important principles.
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It's definitely not a total win - first, the return isn't actually ~50% given the $365M in installment payments and assumed unvested equity; second, your LPs committed capital to your fund expecting a certain IRR over the length of the fund (7 years i'm guessing? 10?). Getting them a low- to mid-double digit IRR over 1 year is nice, but it also means that they now have to spend money figuring out how to redeploy that capital for the next 6 years.
Ask HN: Am creating a finance management app for startups and personal use
I am currently creating a finance management app for startups and personal use. The app will address saving and money usage tracking. What are the core features you would like in such an app?
I really like the minimalist design and I would totally use this but for some reason, I'm unable to drag links into collections on Chrome. I drag the link into the collection and I get redirected back to the original page but nothing ever gets added.

Also, I would love a way to easily delete or move multiple links at once.
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Mm. I've followed the example of Bitcoin Average in this instance, who have a fixed 24h chart on the homepage. The backend can already cope with pulling data for a chart that's wider (or indeed, shorter) in timescale, so that may change when I've collated more data.
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Damn, I really should have thought of this when switching over to my current password manager. Upvoted and soon to be put into action!
Hacking Snapchat's new people verification in less than 100 lines
Google improves the virtual keyboard in Chrome, but why?
Meanwhile, 10-15 years ago 1.4 Mbit/s was pretty fast. Infrastructure is very expensive, so economically speaking urban areas will always be a generation or two ahead of rural.
Good thing to point out. Though I think this is, as zokier points out, a less important point than accuracy and breadth of color gamut. And also in regards to "the blacks don’t look very black," a lack of dynamic range is also somewhat to blame for that. Luckily, OLED displays are here to address both issues!

4K at this point has little point, but the increased resolution will be nice once the quality catches up.
For web, front-end, or mobile apps (excluding games), I agree math is not necessary. These type of apps rarely uses math, they simply streamline data and present it on the screen. It can't hurt, but it isn't a criteria when I interview developer.

Of course, once you get into back-end systems, data analytics, and algorithms, math becomes much more useful, if not a necessity.
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The things you've listed are all "skills." Learning new skills is great, and you should do it for the rest of your life.

Don't limit your 'trying things' to just new skills, however. Consider new experiences you'd like to have. Others have mentioned travel, skydiving, etc... Those experiences are what make the memories that last a lifetime, long after you're past the novelty of being able to plunk out tunes on the piano. Here are a few suggestions:

* Go eat at a Michelin 3-star restaurant, even if it the price seems crazy.

* Next time the Mormons or Jehova's Witnesses knock on the door, invite them in and listen to what they have to say.

* Go to a concert, especially one that's outside your "norm" (Been to a few rock concerts? Go to the symphony. Or vice-versa).

* Volunteer at a soup kitchen, homeless shelter, or some other place where you'll work hard for nothing more than feeling good about contributing to society.

That said, when you do tackle the skill stuff, I highly recommend Josh Kaufmann's book "The first 20 hours" (http://www.amazon.com/The-First-20-Hours-Anything/dp/1591845...). In which he teaches how to become "not a beginner" at something fairly quickly.

Good luck!
It's not necessarily about pushing the boundaries of math. The simpler you can make the math the better for a given level of insight. But I don't think it's "easy" to derive clean mathematical results for many economic models. It's a combination of math, insight, and style.

Imagine this: prove to me some conditions under which equilibrium exist for prices in a market of consumers and producers with heterogenous preferences and skills, that can only communicate on a network with a cost per interaction. Now introduce time and savings and prove the equilibrium interest rate over time. Now prove the optimal tax rate on capital and labor over the agents lifecycle. Now prove that when skill and preferences are not observable to the government. Now introduce default and unobservable savings. Are there conditions under which the markets unravel when faced with exogenous shocks to productivity or beliefs. What is the optimal interest rate policy?

These are classic questions in economics in a more realistic market that captures heterogeneity, limited information, and locality or search costs.
Fair enough. I take "clearly" back then.

My objections to opting out of war policy and drug laws were practical. Nations must be able to fight wars. Drugs must be regulated (if only to establish civil liability). I don't see how an individual can practically opt out of at least funding those things. Humanitarian aid, however noble, is not essential like war policy, and it's not inevitable like drug regulations. I can go into more detail, but it's fairly off topic.

I am interested in finding ways to let people live their consciences in the face of unjust wars and laws. One way is to make more decisions at the local level and then people can move if they get really fed up with policies. This doesn't work with war policy, but it can certainly work with drug prohibitions and humanitarian aid programs. I don't see why the city of Tampa Bay couldn't legalize marijuana and send millions of condoms to southern Asia or southern Africa.
Yes! I noticed (visually) how close Rosetta came to Earth a few times. I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist but didn't get a sense for how close a spacecraft may get to a planet (other than not so close as to interact with the atmosphere).
http://themisescircle.org/blog/2013/08/22/the-problem-with-a...
Dogecoin was probably the 200th altcoin released so far... we still have a long way to go. Check out this list for some of the larger ones: http://coinmarketcap.com

Take all the numbers listed there with a grain of salt, though.
We just added a doc that show you the (very easy) steps to prevent the automatic reboots: http://coreos.com/docs/cluster-management/debugging/prevent-...

Hope that helps.

We have an automatic build of an etcd container on the docker index if that helps you out as well: https://index.docker.io/u/coreos/etcd/
This is amazing. This page should just be the top link on any Bitcoin discussion: "Guys, guys, guys, I'm feeling really bullish on Sexcoin. Does anyone have the Winklevoss' phone number?"
No offense, but did you read the article? The point is that when children stop dying, parents stop having so many children. When the mortality rate goes down, the birth rate does too.

Parents want to have X kids. If Y kids are likely to die, parents must have at least X+Y kids to get what they want. That, combined with a general lack of knowledge/access about/to contraceptives means population growth. Make it so that kids stop dying and parents stop having the Y+ part of the equation. Educate and give access to contraceptives and you complete the puzzle. Contrary to popular belief</sarcasm>, women don't want to spend their entire lives being pregnant.
>The word "perverse" has been used on this thread

Only in the phrase 'perverse incentive'. Which simply means a system has a high potential for unintended consequences / being gamed.

It has absolutely nothing to do with whether the basic idea is noble.
I'm not sure why this is important. Obviously the author is much more knowledgeable than I am, so perhaps I can be enlightened.

As noted in the article, Deep Color is important so that sampling errors do not accumulate while images are filtered, processed & combined. But a television or monitor is the final step, it should be performing very little image processing. (Should is the operative word here, that's not necessarily true).

If you used HDMI to connect cameras to recorders or to connect effects processors, this would be important. Does anybody do this for 4K?
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Please. This is HN, and you know it. Your account was registerd over 2,000 days ago.

Stop with the pointless comments.
OpenStack Swift use cases.
If you only get one life, and can kill other players, what's to stop somebody connecting as TROLLAXOR BINLADEN and just teamkilling 24/7? Because if I was 13yrs old that's what I'd be doing.
The signal to buy was when Dogecoin volume doubled Bitcoin volume. You had a couple days before the world realized how underpriced Doge was. Doge was around 45-50 Satoshis then.

Funding the Jamaican bobsled team, and tapping into Cool Runnings millenial nostalgia was a great PR move by the Doge community.

The recent price correction is probably due to mining pools jumping in when profitability soared before difficulty adjusted.

The Doge community has a saying "To the moon!". Moon being defined by many as $1 per coin.

Edit:

Watch the video at http://howtodoge.com to get a feel for the community effort to go "to the moon!"
Have always wondered. Is there any evidence that learning to solve math problems - even in the spirit of this Author's post - makes you a better thinker / problem solver? That is - compared to similarly rigorous problems in other fields - does math come out ahead?
Curious. For me the 30-240 seconds long ads YouTube shows are always 1080p (or at very least high quality) and never choppy, yet streaming YouTube content videos at the same resolution often results in terrible buffering issues. Are the crappy ISP (ComCast) cahce servers only caching the non-ad videos? Does YouTube serve these through an AdSense / non-YouTube source that bypasses the cache? There are times it seems the only part of YouTube that works are the ads.
Postulating existence of the "patriarchy", whose grip is unescapable, makes the argument perfectly circular. Of course (nearly) all men are sexist, what do you expect if they are influenced by the patriarchy? And of course patriarchy exists - what else you expect from the sexist men?
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> This course gives an introduction to all major programming concepts, techniques, and paradigms

IMO, there are no paradigms in computer programming. The concept of a paradigm is overkill for describing the guiding principles that some programmers use sometimes. People who don't buy into a 'paradigm' are not heretics and charlatans. tldr: principles, concepts, techniques yes, 'paradogmas' no.
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The sky is the limit, node-webkit is indeed very powerful when you know what you're doing.

For the build process: just try it with brunch, e.g.: with my skeleton (a simple todo app is included for playing around). It will take ~4sec to start up initially, but then work close to perceived realtime, taking 50ms or so on my machine to reflect any changes you do, plus: livereload automatically the browser window, so you actually save the "press reload" step in most cases.

And: since i'm using only meta-languages that require a compile-step (!), i have basically a useful error-checking (incl. linting!) on coding time, without time-intensive inspecting the result in-browser. Do not underestimate this. Sure, finally i have to confirm in the browser (and/or testsuite) that everything works, but typos and other common bugs are "growled" as i type.
Not enough oxygen for it to rust. And even if it were, a collection of dust traveling at bullet speeds would still probably kill you.

But worry not! A bullet fired from 12 million light years away would probably be ablated into nothing by the interstellar dust.
The ads are cached because the same ones are shown to so many people. Most videos are served to any particular neighborhood much less frequently than ads, and so are usually not in the edge cache.
I went to a rodeo in St. George, Utah last year.

It was sponsored by budweiser. Yet, not a single drop of beer or any alcohol was sold on site.

Utah sure is an interesting place to be.
I think most people got the "experimental, not mature" bit. Kudos for shipping an entire language, especially with the slew of features it has.
About as reasonable as Kaczynski's Manifesto.
To be fair I hadn't looked at the license comparison in awhile (http://unity3d.com/unity/licenses). It looks reasonable - I think I recall at one point you couldn't even submit to the App Store without a pro license, which I may be imagining.

Oh well. I stand corrected :-)

Maybe I was thinking of Xamarin's license costs instead ;-)
A/B's completely fine on iOS - just see the way that Facebook runs their tests:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/09/airlock-facebook/
I go for 64 as a default length, but it's surprising how many sites respond with "No! You can't havee more than 8/10/12 characters or I'll sulk!" Makes me extremely suspicious re: just how they're storing them.
This seems right.
What a great response from the developer.

I was already leaning towards 'no' regarding the project, but this has sealed the deal.
It depends what type of software developer you are. If you're the type who scours the web for open source tools to solve your problems, generalizing your challenges as coding problems, then maybe math isn't useful. Having a logical, structured approach to solving your problems, the way you would with theoretical problems (like in algorithms or discrete math), definitely requires some mathematical maturity. Not to mention, you can't study CS in college without a strong math background. Even outside of math requirements, you would absolutely struggle in core CS classes like algorithms or automata. Then again, a CS degree may not be necessary for software development either. But even from a practical point of view, it's harder to get a job in software development without a CS degree.
I agree. I know people posted a comment saying its fixed in 2.11 but if Scala wants to be production ready language it shouldn't take 10 years to address this.
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Ukrainian government is less dependent on individual taxation, and more relying on corporate taxation (of enterprises divvied up among oligarchs) and external borrowing.

Taxation in a corrupt environment transforms into endless series of bribes one must succumb to "speed up the process" for pretty much anything.
Ditto here re Comcast, but in Mountain View. I am a stone throw away from YouTube HQ and still get bad performance. Tried the 8.8.8.8 DNS and not much different. Comcast is definitely squeezing the pipes!
HFT doesn't happen over the Internet. It happens between boxes within the same datacentre.
Oh I know, just kidding :)
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Worked for me when I had streaming problems with AT&T, but AWS micro was the cheapest at the time.
Indeed. Try building a Javascript MVC app. I've been doing it for ~3 years, since Backbone.js was a tiny unknown project, and it's still painful.

One positive is the lack of old IE version support these days. But then there is also mobile.
I did like the focus on design however this might have been a better list in 2008. I would prioritize learning a mobile technology first.
Bitcoin, Litecoin, and...Dogecoin

And dozens more.

http://coinmarketcap.com/

I think you've come to the wrong conclusion. Doge might be a funny name, but the crypto is real and so is its trade value against bitcoin. What we're seeing here is that Satoshi's idea is so valuable that it empowers a community to arbitrarily construct a functioning decentralized financial platform, even as a joke.

We're just touching the surface of what cryptocoins are going to mean in the future.
IMHO, the fact that the GPL covers only distribution and not usage (i.e. the GPL is NOT an EULA), is the reason for why I consider it a free software license.

AGPL never took off because AGPL is not really free and should have never happened. Unfortunately the FSF is blinded by these so called "dangers" in their fight against proprietary stuff, totally ignoring that AGPL in practice is only used purely for marketing reasons in dual-licensing schemes, there are no communities around AGPL projects and OSI doesn't really give a shit. As a consequence, AGPL is now posturing as a free software / open source license.

> Worse still those startups often think they are on the 'good' side of the free software debate because they use some open source code in their products and maybe even contribute a bit back.

You're making it sound as if that's a bad thing.

The web is the most open distribution platform. The alternative to the web is not FSF's GNU, but rather the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon's Appstore and the Windows Store. And compared to 15 years ago, the barrier to entry for kids wanting to experiment with building and distributing software is very low and the web in combination with open-source tools, libraries and platforms have made it possible. I also hate this holier-than-thou attitude.
The .app extension has been around since the first preview release of NeXTSTEP (1988) [1].

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/15578792@N02/2461295650/in/phot...
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The gravity assists (and more) are detailed here: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rose...
> including great public universities

Citation for German universities being great?
I see no reason to move away from OneTab as a way to manage my huge backlog of links, as well as a few starred and/or named 'groups'.

That said, I really like the presentation and Thumbprick seems like a nice idea. I just don't see the need right now. Anything that is more important than what I use OneTab for, I store in Notational Velocity.

Maybe look into OneTab for some extra inspiration?
It seems obvious that the discussion here is about college level (or late highschool level) math, not elementary school arithmetic.

Your response is a little bit like an article saying "studying literature isn't necessary to be a good software engineer" and someone replying "reading and writing names and 1-sentence comments is still reading and writing".