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No, people should just do their homework and choose the crowdfunding platforms with the best reputation (which will be the one which force funding seekers to verify themselves with the best identity platform). There should be a free market so crowdfunders can compete to offer the best reliability.

Honestly, there's no need whatsoever to regulate this whatsoever. The market will evolve of its own accord until it's "good enough." Regulation will be impotent at best and destructive at worst.

This is the exact same thing that happened with banks. People got angry because banks went bust, and the government stepped in to insure them with public dollars (i.e. take risks that no private citizen would take with their own money.) How did that turn out eh? 100 years down the track and people still fail to do their homework because they can trust the government will pay. And everyone loses.
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I would tend to agree. I mean, the point of those government programs is to encourage private investment in clean energy technology. I would say that Musk is basically the prime example of what the programs are designed to support. I would be willing to tolerate some amount of rent-seeking behavior if its in the interest of funding exactly the research we want funded anyway.
The upgrades are also completely gratis. And again with the "Twice as much" myth? Do I really need to link the article that shows the discount being offered on the new Pro machines with the workstation chipset?

And you're also not counting the reduction in cost from the bundled crapware that comes on most every OOTB PC.
> The other consideration is that you have to pay this even if you have a salaried job

That's the part I meant was unfair. To the rest I agree: When you earn money, you have to paid fees to get your health security, I agree it's normal.
Infact its not all that different from femto cell base stations. You'll still need a license to transmit on that frequency, and you still need a reliable backhaul to dump the data on.
A few tens of millions of XP users would sure appreciate that, April 8th is fast approaching. MS has extended MSSE updates for XP 'til 6/2015... can't wait to see what they pull out of where next month.

PS: I could have sworn I saw XP workstations running on the ISS while watching NASA archives couple days ago. I do not know how recent the archive footage was...
That people are avoiding Windows 8+ is a side affect, it's not the problem. The problem is that developers have been (and are continuing to) fleeing Windows like it's the plague. The solution is to either radically make Windows more developer friendly or open source Windows. At the very least open source XP which you have no interest in supporting. Stick it on GitHub and accept pull requests.
Thirded. Before I refit my main gaming rig (built in 2010, running Windows 7), I'll see what Windows 9 looks like. If it isn't a major improvement over Windows 8, I'll probably get a Mac Pro instead.
Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1
He's pointing out the risk factor, a severely (and deliberately?) overlooked aspect of the "income inequality" rhetoric. Consistency of income has it's own significant non-monetary value. There's more to benefits of a job than just the paycheck, such as not worrying month-to-month whether you're going to make your mortgage/rent payment vs getting evicted. Many lower-paying jobs remain consistent regardless of whether you're sweating hard for 8 hours or watching TV for hours waiting for a customer to show up & need you for 10 seconds; that vs higher-paying jobs which are deeply connected to the actual value of every second of productivity ... everyone would like the profitability of the latter, but the assurance of income of the former can make it the better choice (given common circumstances).
Constant, even.
They both have community editions (Fedora, openSuse) and I was under the impression you were paying for support rather than the product.

Plus the article talks about a free version, which would imply that the relationship is similar.
wow, what a visually engaging mobile formatted blog post, thanks for sharing.
A pocket of someone who had means, opportunity, and motive? Hmmm...
zeFrank also covers this in his True Facts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k01DIVDJlY

A masterpiece of silliness.
I'm talking about a more sophisticated solution that addresses this- See https://github.com/olalonde/blind-solvency-proof
It would be interesting to see how "free" it will be.

I'm not sure how OSX is accounted, but I suppose it's now defined as upgradable software coming with the hardware, the same way drivers are just software for a device already paid.

Would Windows follow the same way of thinking and be free when bought OEM (as the article hints at) or have a really free tier that anyone could download for any hardware supported ?

It would be nice to have Microsoft let go a lower/barebone tier of windows and focus on a premium version and additional services (unlimited skydrive integration with automatic backups for instance) for profits.
I imagine a lot of machines running XP won't be able to run 8.1. IIRC even the minimum screen resolution of 1366x768 is above the popular old 1280x1024.
Don't bitcoin tumbling services pretty much make it logistically impossible to follow the path of bitcoins if they cycle it enough? Also I wouldn't rely on the governments to do much to return people's investments in a currency they already distrust. In fact, considering the historic and contemporary roles the US and the IMF have had in deliberately destabilising and undermining international economies/currencies, you'd be naive to remove first world governments from the list of suspects. The incentive is even higher for them than normal thieves -- not only do they already have an established system for laundering stolen money, but they don't even need to remove the money to profit, they just need to steal it and render it inaccessible. The credibility of Bitcoin as an extranational, anonymous currency has been dealt a serious blow and, if you consider bitcoin a threat to the current institutions, then that has a value far greater than the few hundred million that they'd wind up with in pocket. I'm not throwing around any conspiracy theories here because there's no evidence for it so far, but I don't think there's anyone foolish enough to pretend that the US/UK/etc governments haven't already been in this ethical sphere of operations for decades. The first question was whether they have the werewithall to operate on this level technologically (confirmed by Snowden), and the second is whether they consider bitcoin a threat.
various UNIX (Solaris, etc.), QNX, z/OS, etc. (and OS like iOS/MacOS on non-Apple hardware)
They claim to be a miner. If I made (say) 1m, then lost 250k of it (due to risks which I was aware of when I started playing the game), I'd still be pretty happy.

I think they are just chalking it up to a cost of doing business.

If they lost 250k which they'd made from a different source, they'd be more upset. As no doubt may people are right now.

I'm not sure if it's rational. But ... that's the way people often respond.
The state pensions these days are tied to where you worked and paid taxes. At least that's the case in Denmark (not as familiar with Sweden). If you work in Denmark 40 years, you're entitled to a full state pension. If you work 20, you're entitled to half of one. If you work 4, you're entitled to 10%. You don't get it solely by citizenship. There is some basic welfare support for those who live in the country, though, e.g. if you're a Danish citizen who lived abroad and ends up back in Denmark dirt poor aged 70 and lacking a pension from elsewhere to support yourself, you won't be on the street. But that is relatively uncommon.

Generally so far it hasn't been a major issue, though things are being continually tweaked, and there are some tax shenanigans especially at the corporate level. But Scandinavia has been fairly successful in the inter-country competition for being seen as a nice place to live. It's pretty uncommon for people who study at university here to pursue careers elsewhere for more than a short period of time, because most Scandinavians prefer to live somewhere with a functioning civil society and government, low levels of crime, good support for raising children, and generally a working social system.
The $1M-A-Month Business Behind Your Favorite Twitter Accounts
It's the classic innovator's dilemma. ChromeOS was worse/cheaper than the existing options, but good enough for some people/uses.
To an extent that's tough luck for MS. Apple have a bundling strategy. Google have a 'see what sticks' strategy. Linux is open source. Samsung, Apple and anyone who wants to sell a tablet needs to compete with Amazon who can subsidize their tablet with ads or book sales or whatever else.

MS wouldn't be the first software company to find that their system and method for causing customers to exchange cash for software is losing its potency in light of gradual technology and associated cultural changes.

They are a powerful, cashed up, profitable company and this is competition.
Unless you build a Hackintosh[1]. I'm typing on mine right now. I jumped from Windows 7 because I use Windows 8.1 at work and hate it. I've totally loving the Hackintosh. I do lots of scripting, and while I love the crap outta the Cygwin people (heroes, all of them), it is soooo nice having a real unix under me, albeit a slightly weird one. Yeah, if it weren't for Lightroom, I'd be on Linux.

I have a pretty beefy machine, but I spent less than $2000.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/
Actually, I was being optimistic.

I wanted to add the possibility of law enforcement from various countries tracing the alleged perpetrators. This is actually the most worrisome scenario, because a large portion of this would be unrecoverable from the law enforcement, due to the immense confusion stemming from authorities not knowing who has jurisdiction and the laws surrounding crypto-currencies.

This might be an acceptable situation for the customers but would be bad for the customers as over 6% of BTC would be almost permanently removed from circulation.
Every episode of my podcast, I remind my listeners that today is International Backup Awareness Day. Ironically, it looks like Jeff forgot to backup his blog images... again.

(podcast: http://thenexus.tv/category/cs/)
i thought the leak had been happening for years? wouldn't they already be laundered?

and hasn't this happened already? someone did steal coins and was tracked for a while. how did that work out?
Like our facebook page to enter this contest?

And after say look how many likes we have (cuz many people only gave a shit because of the ~free stuff)
They only gave the winners 3 days to claim their prize, that seems a bit tight!
It is interesting that in some places there are mandatory break times, where I grew up you had to have a half hour break per 8 hour shift or something like that, even with these laws, those working conditions still persist. Some employers might not even be aware of them. I worked for one that was super not-breaking-the-law type and one that was who-the-hell-has-time-to-research-that-shit? type. Both in food prep and service.
mismerge looks like a possible explanation, do you know what the upstream project/codebase for this is? Would be interesting to look at that.
Mavericks isn't, and Ubuntu/Mint isn't
The new Mac Pro is a joke. If you need to add more disks, you're adding an additional $1,500 to $2,500 for the external disk enclosure. That puts the base price, for 6 bays at $5,500! Now that is absurd.
No comments/discussion directly on the blog anymore? Looks like we've been purged for the anniversary. This is funny considering the recent complaint-driven-development posting. I also found the app-pocalypse-now a little ironic considering they just released a SO app.
Expect Reddit and 4Chan to spend weeks tracking the wrong transactions and the finally identifying a poor sap whose only fault was once buying coins from mtgox years ago. Which is not much different than being audited by the irs...
"The Lost BitCoins of Mt Gox" sounds like a good Scooby Doo episode. Or Hardy Boys?
More accurately, Apple is selling you both the hardware and the software in a modern version of the old IBM model (give away the software to help sell the hardware).
This is the issue. It can become a never-ending wild-goose chase. The thieves can continue to move the funds around until they're no longer tracked, or far enough ahead that from the trackers (assuming there's any enforcement or penalties or laws relating to accepting stolen Bitcoin - which there aren't currently) or just spend them if they're not being tracked or if there's no enforcement in place.

The thieves will move funds around at little cost in order to try to gain the value from the Bitcoin they stole.

The problem with Bitcoin is that because there's no fee associated with them, there's no money or resources being made available or directed towards policing and following of these thieves.

Edit: And it's not particularly fair to use the rest of society's resources to do this policing, when they're not contributing to the system - they're avoiding contributing, to a partially corrupt and currently inefficient system, yes - but it'd be better to fix these inefficiencies and deal with the corruption.
C++ is currently my language to go on mobile development, even if I nowadays prefer GC enabled languages, because of:

- experience with C++ since the ARM was published

- only language common to all mobile OS SDKs and I not want to rely on third party toolchains

- C++11 makes it feel refreshing (except for compile times :\ )

- I am only doing portable graphics related stuff as an hobby

- RoboVM would be nice, but it is still kind of work in progress

In the OP case, you are right, but it could also be compensated with third party libraries like Qt, instead of the DYI approach that was taken.

However with bigger teams with disparate skillsets, maybe something like Mono would be a better approach.
So which did not exist before Musk, electric cars of rockets?
I could see the benefit being people who have to re-install or want to upgrade from XP/Vista can now do so for free - but wouldn't 9/10 of those people just buy Windows or pirate it anyway?

For non-technical people, is losing Windows XP customers to Linux even an issue for Microsoft?

They do have a good point about combating Chromebooks with a free version of Windows. Will it run efficiently on Chromebook level hardware? The Acer C720 is a Haswell Celeron with 4GB of RAM which should be plenty. I'd be concerned about the OS footprint on the SSD more than anything. 32GB vs 16GB would double the storage cost of the machine.
Too bad screens are using a good chunk of your device's battery. Reducing the radio and computation to close to zero may reduce consumption to 30-50% but it's not an order of magnitude. The batteries are here to stay I'm afraid - until we get some radically different display technology, along the lines of a color, 30 hertz e-ink.
The other, other thing is that inverse square law still applies. along with propagation loss, and the like.

wireless power is literally a waste.
Microsoft has a potential winning strategy here vs. Dart. They are basically giving JS programmers no more than what they are directly asking for.
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and my twitter handle is @sarahnadav
Have you tried Google Drive on android? On a tablet or phone with decent screen it is pretty nice
This is why my repos reject code that doesn't explicitly use curly braces and semicolons. There is no legitimate reason for leaving them off.
I feel like you could write this about basically any profession, besides the usual "teachers are underpaid" rant.
I'm in the same boat myself. Right now I'm strongly considering picking up a mac mini and a nice displayport KVM switch. Last upgrade to Mavericks hosed my mackintosh install (panic on boot) and no amount of re-running the tools seems to fix it. There's also the small miscellaneous problems you have to deal with.

I keep coming back to Windows for the games. Once Steam's streaming functionality is nailed down, I figure I'll build a nice beefy shoebox machine, throw Windows on it, put that box in the corner, and use the mini or a laptop as my main machine.
This was submitted a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293960

Numbers is now free on iOS 7 and can read/write XLS and XLSX out of the box. The iOS7 version is definitely a step-up from previous versions. Why would someone make the $10 purchase for the IAP (required for export) rather than use Numbers?
If you're a keyboard centric user, the start menu's not a huge loss as one would think.

I used to think it was a big deal until I realized I stopped using the Dock on OSX in favor of Spotlight to launch stuff. When I started using Win8 and learned that I basically could keep the same habits by hitting the Windows key and typing the first few characters of what I wanted to launch, I stopped caring about the start menu.

I used to think the idea of a touchscreen laptop was stupid, but Win8 works for me, and my main machine is still a Macbook Pro. I have a Surface Pro that I use in place of my original iPad, and I think Win8 is quite good in tile mode or desktop mode. It's still hurting in the area of power management though.
You might be interested in this startup that helps people track the status of legislation from state to state...

http://www.billtrack50.com/

I have no affiliation with the service, just learned about it this weekend but it seems relevant to understanding and tracking the process of law making.
The issue I have with metered usage is that in the data world, last-mile is relatively expensive to rent, and even more so to build, which artificially limits carrier choice. You're already seeing some of the effects of this - as an example, Verizon's FiOS rollout, they've stopped the rollout in many locations because they can't pay for the physical infrastructure, so many customers are locked in to their current carrier (even when they want FiOS). It's not like wireless where you can simply switch carriers so data pricing stays reasonably honest.

With that being said, you have less incentive for data caps/metered pricing following the mobile model where pricing is kept reasonable by carrier choice/number portability. As backbone increases, there's no reason for Comcast/TW Cable/RCN/etc. to increase the data tiers/lower cost per Mbps, so I believe you'd see costs creep upwards as data consumption grows.
This needs more defense. I find it hard to imagine a situation where such a minimal and deniable action with such a massive effect wouldn't be worthwhile.

Because the goal of any such agency is not "let's render a minority of computing devices insecure for a short period under certain circumstances." That entire argument hinges on the idea that taking this action would have achieved some kind of desirable goal, when it simply would not have.

In fact, the whole thing is a massive distraction. There are myriad easier ways to conduct individual surveillance if that was the goal, and I would be much more concerned about the fact that these same agents already apparently have legal carte blanche to intercept traffic in other ways.
puff piece, if not pure propaganda bordering on hyperbole.

People and students respect teachers as a whole, what they do not respect and I bet many in the profession do as well is the inability to remove those who are not good teachers.

It is not a position one walks into without many upon many stories about what your really getting into. My Aunt retired from the trade, her aggravations in order that I remember are, Administrative people(usually political appointees), other teachers, and parents. There were a few others but mostly the tripe coming down from non teachers within the system seemed to be what we heard of.

That and the personal money she spent to have supplies because it was more important to blow money on marble floors than supplied, or having someone's wife/kid/friend in some advisement position that did nothing but occupy space.

Guess what, I can say the same of some other service professions, having a neighbor who does night shifts as a nurse and hearing the horror stories of what she puts up with is enough to let me know some jobs come with extra mental if not physical stress.

I think in the end we are all more than willing to heap accolades on good teachers. Its a system where the kids aren't first that irritates
Damn good question! The answer will give rise to a new expression: "I got deanallened!"
This is true of being a professor as well (I certainly didn't understand what teaching really was about until I starting doing it).

I've always thought that our graduate students should be made to take acting lessons, because there's an element of second-order persuasion you have to do in a classroom that's hard to learn and difficult to describe but that shares some similarity to acting -- or maybe just rhetoric in the very ancient sense.

You can't just purvey information and mumble something about its importance. Ultimately, you're modeling what it means to be an intellectual -- trying to give your students certain habits of mind by showing them how those habits play out in practice.

We also spend an enormous amount of time trying to devise strategies for dealing with students who just don't get it (and you quickly learn -- or better learn -- that this might be the most important part of the job).

I could say more, of course. It's a very subtle set of skills -- more art than science, as they say. It's hard to do it at the college level, and I think it's far, far harder to do it at the elementary level, where the stakes are much higher.
Ok, centralization leads to silly things like this.

Namecoin is but one of many ways to decentralize DNS while even while having one centralized registry.
Why doesn't Mt. Gox just publish the ID of the wallet(s) from which they were stolen?

1. They weren't stolen - lost in cold storage harddisk failure for example

2. Revealing it would show something extremely embarrassing - they only used a single wallet?

3. They still have them - yay?

4. They were stolen by Mt. Gox - gulp
Wrong link, that's a different issue (type recursion). This is a good discussion about limitations of polymorphic recursion in C++: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1319
I got a Chromebook for my teenager and one for myself at work for note taking, etc. It's been a win for the kid. At work, it's been a pain in the ass. Google spreadsheets is pretty bad and can't handle many of the spreadsheets I need to deal with on a regular basis. And, gotomeeting doesn't work on the Chromebook, even though they have a new web-based version.

Printing is the Achilles heel, however there are new printers out that have Cloud Print built in.

However, a agree, it is a game changer.
And what's the benefit of a tiny chassis when you're still giving up more desk space for external hardware and a mess of cables?

The Pro's impressive innovations in size and design, in my mind, were done for the sake of bragging rights than for practicality.
It seems Bing Maps is also vulnerable to the same kind of exploit.
I think it's actually CESU-8 encoding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/

I'm guessing it's implemented like this for performance reasons and calling it utf-8 was just a marketing ploy as everyone knows we should always use utf-8 for everything...
Does it matter?

Edit: Not "does it matter that they are lost", but rather "since they are lost, does it matter where they are".
Really paranoid thieves could choose to lose a large number of the keys, making the chances good that investigations will run into dead ends. But al most no one is that paranoid. They'll just keep moving the bitcoins around.
Not yet. I'm not a particular fan of Google's ecosystem for various reasons (or any cloud platform as a matter of fact).