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> About crowdfunding satellite licensing.. I just remember a lot of people are sending high altitude balloons, maybe that would be a cheap middle ground.

Want to work on an autonomous dirigible project? I'm up for it. We could build a home made Argus for image collection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

"The three principal components of the ARGUS-IS are a 1.8 Gigapixels video system plus two processing subsystems, one in the air and the other located on the ground.[17]
The sensor uses four lenses and 368 cell phone cameras, 5 megapixels each.[18]"
Totally agree. It just makes me cringe a bit.
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F# supports value types just like C# does, so I wouldn't expect more boxing on the F# side. Some types like tuples that are used more in F# than in C# are reference types, so you might want to avoid them in your inner loops, but that generally just means writing F# that looks a bit more like C#. Likewise, as to the number of function calls, it's probably a question of style more than features, though you can do things like use the `inline` keyword to make sure that particular functions always get inlined at call sites, which can be a big win in some cases (it also allows you to write type-safe generic math code, which is an oft-lamented unsupported scenario in C#). Lots of people are making good use of F# in contexts where heavy computational requirements exist (e.g. finance or scientific computing), but I'm not too familiar with projects using it where more real-time requirements exist (though I think someone's in the midst of porting Quake III to F#, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes).
He posts regularly on HN so (I guess) has almost certainly seen this thread. Up to him now.
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The OsmAnd people translate most of the world and I just checked, all their maps would fit into ~25 gigabytes. That's device ready, indexed data with quite a lot of overlap (they provide smaller extracts to help people save cell data and larger extracts for people that want them).

That even includes a bunch of POI data from wikipedia.

On the other hand, as a for instance, that total includes more data for Germany than for Africa.
This video is part of an article that was posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318558 (71 points, 39 comments)
A favorite of mine, in C:

ASSERT(apples = 1);
VERIFY(oranges = 2);

(Note the '=' means assignment, not comparison.)

Both are assertion-testers resulting in a core dump if the test fails, but ASSERT is only defined for DEBUG builds.

Since the assignments are to nonzero (true) values, buggy values of 'apples' are silently corrected -- but only during test runs. Buggy values of 'oranges' are always silently corrected.

Hilarity ensued. Afterwards, 'gcc -Wparentheses' became mandatory.
Pretty great article.

Luttwak is nothing short of genius.
After reading yesterday's HN thread on Broadcom's RPi video driver source and seeing the ratio of the word "education" to the word "Quake" equal 0.0, I'd have to agree.
Seeing how he has (presumably) an extensive network from his VC days, and (presumably) a decent enough cash runway from having just left a well-paying career.. I would hesitate to call this "starting at the bottom".

Still.. good luck. Coming from that background it might be a bucket-of-cold-water awakening of what it actually takes to get a startup off the ground.
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At my bachelor university (University of Bologna, Italy) we used to have Scheme with htdp for the programming 101 course. That's what I did when I studied there but apparently now they (unfortunately) changed it to C++. The day I found that out was a very sad day for me.
I don't think crowdfunding will work for science. Science is the turtle in the race. Long, slow and steady is how every single breakthrough has occurred, because it requires setting foundations that take decades. Crowdfunding is the most unstable funding source, and thus involves a level of uncertainty that no professional could live with on a long term basis. It's great for small, self contained projects with a clear goal. Not for quests into the unknown.

Furthermore, the average person has no understanding of the history, practice, and effects of scientific research. They don't realize that the unbelievable technologies we enjoy today are a result of very concerted efforts throughout history to advance the state of our understanding. The iPhone is a result of the accumulation of every discovery made by mankind since the inception of our species. This is not what the average person thinks when they hold an iPhone. As such, I believe crowdfunding will be for a very small niche of like minded people. That does not compare to the resources available through taxation.

From the article:

“A Fred Sanger would not survive today’s world of science. With continuous reporting and appraisals, some committee would note that he published little of import between insulin in 1952 and his first paper on RNA sequencing in 1967 with another long gap until DNA sequencing in 1977. He would be labelled as unproductive, and his modest personal support would be denied. We no longer have a culture that allows individuals to embark on long-term—and what would be considered today extremely risky—projects.”

From Peter Higgs [1]:

"The emeritus professor ... published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964.

Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980.

Edinburgh University's authorities then took the view, he later learned, that he "might get a Nobel prize – and if he doesn't we can always get rid of him".

Higgs said he became "an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises". A message would go around the department saying: "Please give a list of your recent publications." Higgs said: "I would send back a statement: 'None.' "

1. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-b...
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I am getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. If we're down, @HNStatus might have more information" a lot lately. What's going on.
yeah it's CP Snows Two nations repeating its self - Arts Grads vs the oily engineers.

Some of his angst is that as a child of a major columnist in a broadsheet he feels that he should have a proper job on a proper news paper which in previous generations he woudl have stood a good chance of like say Polly Toynbee on the Guardian.

Due to the decimation of the traditional print media he can't get a nice job on the NYT as a columnist and has to slum it in a tabloid and they are using typical tabloid "monstering" techniques
Nobody is an island. Human existence is a collaboration, but people do need to do things for themselves. You just described narcissism.
We were TOTALLY planning on having a fair and balanced conversation with you, and listening to everything you had to say, and telling you the truth. But those darn T-shirts have ruined everything, by hurting our feelings. Now there can be no conversation, because our feelings are hurt, and we are totally disappointed that you've forced us to refuse to have the conversation we were really looking forward to having! And it's all the fault of the mean people wearing those conversation stopping T-shirts.
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In 2004 you wrote in "What the Bubble Got Right" (http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html)

"I think it's a big mistake for companies to loosen their belts as revenues increase. The question is not whether you can afford the extra salaries. Can you afford the loss in productivity that comes from making the company bigger?"

Many YC companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe and others seem to be hiring at a prodigious rate now that they have the cash available. They're still "small" next to Google or IBM.<p>What do you think now, looking back at the expansion of these YC companies, Google, Yahoo, etc.? Is it a mistake to build a huge team?
Zooko's triangle doesn't guarantee anything. It was proven to be false. Read your own link.
"does the defending party get their legal fees reimbursed by the suing party?"

Almost never.

The law requires "exceptional circumstances" for an award of attorney fees and the CAFC (the patent appeals court) is inclined to reverse even fees awarded under those circumstances.

There were two cases argued at the Supreme Court this week to try to define what constitutes "exceptional" and reduce the authority of the CAFC to weaken the awards. [0] The court isn't expected to change much.

There is a bill in Congress that has passed the House and is being considered by the Senate [1] which would change the rule to award fees by default "unless the court finds that the position and conduct of the nonprevailing party or parties were reasonably justified in law and fact."

So plenty of people even in languid Washington are frustrated with the current lack of fee shifting. Maybe something will be done. Maybe not. Washington is not famous for swiftness or wisdom.

[0] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/02/shifting-arguments-highm...

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr3309eh/pdf/BILLS-113...
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> Capitalism is a messy system, but it does tend to self correct in the long run.

That's quite a generalization; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Sure thing - email in profile.
Or, the most obvious option that someone who craves attention is telling a fib to find the attention they so desperately seek.

The funny thing is, I actually support Food Not Bombs. Just not the lame "crypto-anarchists" who mostly practice twitter-based slactivism.
two questions:

- can any cartoonist sign up to sell cartoons using this platform?
- can you allow cartoonists to sell under more permissive licenses like CC-BY?
What is the name of the law that requires them to cancel having conversations they were otherwise looking forward to having, if people wear t-shirts that hurt their feelings?
It's 3.54% over 20 years, assuming a 0.18% annually. I think that's actually quite a lot, but it's smaller than I initially expected.
Check out terminology [0]. The video is quite long but impressive.

There was a work by someone on github for building a new kind of terminal. It wasn't line-based, rather "context-based": the output of the command was written next to the input, but you could write commands in the same terminal next to each other. It was some amazing stuff, but I can't find it (I think the logo was an octopus or something like that, and the "backend" was emacs)

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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>> Aren't you?

Yes if you choose to identify yourself with small part of your being called the consciousness.

I don't find that view of self particularly appealing, I prefer to view my ego as part of me as my leg is a part me. You are not the image that you have constructed for yourself shaped by the society you live in. I don't want to identify myself with a tiny portion of thoughts that my mind has, I am not my ego.
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I wouldn't call a quality of education difference between MIT and ITT tech artificial.
Consider contributing yourself. If everybody would just add his house with his address and make sure the street is there and maybe some houses around you that would already help a lot.
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In much of the U.S. there basically aren't any businesses mapped at all.
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Or use better abstractions / static analysis.
> What do all these earlier mistakes have in common, apart from the obvious: being exemplars of “catastrophic loss of structural integrity”? They all date from before 2013. That’s how we know the NSA wasn’t involved.

I get that this is trying to make fun of the response to Apple's "goto fail;", but this logic ("These similar errors predate 2013 → Apple's similar error was not an NSA backdoor") seems rather faulty. There are a number of flaws with this line of reasoning. To name a few:

* The NSA could have been involved with backdoors before 2013 (unlikely in Debian, but mentioning 2013 is a bit of a red herring)

* Apple could have been encouraged to insert a backdoor and did so in a way that gave them plausible deniability (either because the NSA specified that, or because they wanted to cover their behinds)

Whether or not this incident was the result of the NSA's prompting is something we'll probably never know[0], but this article doesn't do much to argue one way or the other.

[0] The only way we could know is if someone literally came out and admitted it (or someone like Snowden were to leak it). It's possible to prove the existence of something (ie, a backdoor attempt), but impossible to prove the absence of something.
Kissinger was a drama queen prone to petulant and unprofessional behavior. I bet there are senior FO Staff who where burned by him back in the 70's - and I bet there's a few now senior members of the state department who feel the same.
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This sounds like an awesome idea. Really clever.
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Look up the phrase "catabolic collapse". It's one I only ran across in the past year, but it explains much of what I've seen for the past two decades and some.

About a quarter century ago, the following thoughts struck me:

• Are we going to hell in a handbasket?

• Why are we going to hell in a handbasket?

• Is this what's supposed to be happening?

• Who else has figured this out?

• Is it better to be a tree or a mushroom?

It seemed clear to me that the huge resource troves which had fueled the past couple of centuries of growth were expiring. And that without them we'd likely at best be holding ground, if not losing it, by and by.

My own constitution is to be a tree: I'd rather build things up than tear them down. I catted around for a bit looking for work in renewables, transit, or anything remotely similar, but found the jobs were very few and the pay worse. I opted for the next-best thing and ended up in one of the two great catabolic endeavors: software and IT (the other is, of course, finance). I've been very disenchanted with what Silicon Valley's turned out over the past decade.

And so long as we're relying on the naive market principle to guide us, I think that's the best we can hope for. I'm not sure alternatives can do a whole lot better, but some level of guided state or higher-level directed investment and planning might help. Or not.

As for the patronage funding model: I suspect that's going to be what's increasingly common, particularly for science and the arts, possibly also technical ventures. If you think about it, it's a regression back about 150 - 200 years.

It'll be interesting, though, over the next 10 - 200 years.
I wouldn't have wasted my times trying to get my CS degree at a community college. Going to a kore prestigious institution does have advantages.
> Three years and two jobs later we were picking up dinner from the grocery deli on the way home from work and preschool and up he came and asked if we were going fishing and it wasn't for a day or two that I remembered who he was and what he had said the one time we had met.

What is this, a novel in the making? The whole strange-person-who-makes-an-unforgettable-impact has to be tied with some actual event, not just a random person who impacts some sage advice, with no build up or context for imparting that sage advice. Being old doesn't quite cut it.

If it's from your own life, then well... I guess we all know one or two eccentric elderly people.
I just use "mail". email vs. postal mail or physical mail when it needs further disambiguation.
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Huh? This is definitely not true. As long as the map itself is not behind a paywall, you're fine, and charging for being listed in your system (not for visiting it) would pretty much easily pass the terms of service requirement listed above. Lots of people make money on sites with google maps embedded in them. The only thing you have to worry about is being more popular than 25k loads per day.
Cough, there's one major thing all of these bugs have in common - they're all in C code.

This is mostly due to the volume and prominence of C. But a language with the same fundamental semantics of C but lacking the cleverbait syntax and weakened types would have prevented over half of these mistakes.
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It's also available for Chrome, turns out.
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Does anyone know which is the cheapest phone that can be hacked to run Firefox OS? As in, is there a port to any of the , for example, the chinese Mediatek SoC-based phones - some of those sell for less than $50, retail. Vast majority sell for less than ~$100. They usually come with Android ICS/JB, but if even one of them has been hacked to run FFOS, i'd sure like to give it a try.
How are tuition waivers any different than loan guarantees?
ClojureScript is a subset of Clojure that compiles to Google Closure-optimized JavaScript, so close enough, right?
Static analysis would have caught this immediately. It caused unreachable code that the compiler even recognized and optimized away.

You're saying Google Chrome doesn't test that an ephemeral key is actually signed by the cert's private key? If that's the case, that's completely unacceptable because it's the whole point of the protocol.
The AP Stylebook switched from e-mail to email a few years back.
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