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The only reason we have a shot at affordable commercial spaceflight, as well as an eventual affordable journey to Mars, is because of that vanity project. If it was left up to the public sector alone, I don't think we'll be able to go to Mars in 20 or 30 years.

But this hasn't really changed. Even in NASA's hey day space missions weren't government-only projects - The space capsules and Saturn V were built by contracted private firms like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, North American Aviation. Nothing really has changed in that regard - NASA is still contracting private companies, only now we have an American company, SpaceX, that can not only build a rocket, but design and launch one as well.

Ultimately having innovators like SpaceX who can contract out to more than just the American government will drive the cost of spaceflight down. This can only be a good thing, in my book.

Musk is doing the same thing with electric cars. As far as I can tell the only way we're going to get highly reliable, affordable, mainstream electric vehicle in the next ten years is because of his vanity project, Tesla.

I mean, I'm as skeptical as anyone about pinning the future hopes of humanity on a few extremely rich people. But it's also comforting that incredibly wealthy people like Elon Musk are preoccupied with how to benefit humanity, and not just themselves.
I think you have a really good idea. I also agree that a lot of users would use an image sharing site if they know potentially they could make some money instead of none.

There are some really good points brought up in this thread, that I think you are going to have to battle against. Maybe not as severe as Popcorn just faced but these are issue.
They are, what do you think this AmazonFresh push is about?
Not to mention that we are already in deep debt. We may have allocate part of our budget from other areas to science.

For example, reallocate defense spending to pure scientific research.
I was at a SXSW show two days ago and the music from that showcase was downloadable before I left the club. Crazy.
And they're not the only one deploying lockers. The integer.pl group is starting to invest hundred of millions of dollars to installing 10k+ lockers worldwide.

This is will be integrated with amazon's warehouse robots.
The fonts that are also in Google Fonts should have the same license; for the ones that are not, consult the license file in each font's directory, but all of them should be usable commercially.
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yeah but it's already implemented into db software, why would devs reinvent the wheel ?
They are engineering projects, rather than something that discovers something new, per se. Even so, extending our capability to explore space allow us to do more scientific research, rather than less of it. With the advent of electric vechicle, the money that went to buying gas and doing maintenance can be better spent on something else.
"We aim to bring VPN/privacy protection to people who have never heard of VPN"

Will such people understand the subtle ways in which using a VPN will make your communications less secure, though?
Not really. There are some pretty considerable disadvantages to using the Raspberry Pi for the sorts of things the Arduino excels at. There are more, more resilient GPIO ports, there are more ADC ports, there are more PWM ports, the Yun can enumerate itself as a USB slave device, which can allow for all sorts of other cool uses, etc. Each device has pros and cons that you have to take into consideration.
That doesn't work, you get to 128 with some nice patterns and then the algorithm fills the screen. Maybe some clever play from then on would work, but the random pieces always mess with your strategy.

If you have a static solution, please show it.
This seems like a really cool idea! I'm not sure how well this would go over on reddit since they prefer direct-link images usually, but I love the idea. Good luck, I hope it takes off!

How are you sending revenue back to users? Do you wait until they reach a certain threshold before you transfer it to them? And do you use a particular service for doing the transfer? Does it eat a hefty piece of the transaction?
I use Replicant. I've discovered that I don't really need GPS, as it turns out I usually know where I am. I just look at openstreetmap first and quickly memorize my route.
It doesn't really matter how 'plain' the pages are since most people using sites like Reddit only use direct links to image hosts. The fact is you can't monetize directly linked images and its one of the biggest expenses for an image host.

Also, 'easy fixes' are irrelevant. Image hosting itself is 'easy' to do. Upload an image, store image, pull image. It's the details like direct linking and the issues like scaling to handle large traffic spikes that separate a good image host from the literally 100+ free image hosts that exist already and the hundreds that have died due to it becoming too costly to maintain.
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Yeah, I think SpaceX's main win is that they're taking tech that has existed in various forms for decades, and updating/optimizing it. That's not quite the same as aerospace research, but it's useful. Of course, the research is also needed, or there would be no existing designs and prototypes to update/optimize, which is a big part of why they can do their work more cheaply.
Hi Ivan,

I wonder how it is possible that you keep no logs of customer IP addresses. It seems that, from a technical standpoint, you must log some IPs for troubleshooting connection issues and being sure that your system is not being used for nefarious purposes (i.e., ones that cause harm to your own system, not necessarily copyright infringement or spam). Furthermore, wouldn't you need to log IPs to track how much data one user transfers? Or even to determine who has an account and who doesn't? This data must reside somewhere on your system.
Whatever do you mean? DHH said he'd like to do it. What do you think "passive aggressive" means?
fair enough that maybe i'm not in the target audience. and perhaps i'm too stuck in my own head, writing iOS apps, where i can't imagine general constraint solvers being used to solve a software-design problem (as opposed to an algorithmic problem, where it certainly does make sense). i am genuinely curious - are general constraint solvers useful as a software-design pattern?

are one-way dataflow constraints really any different from the observer pattern? i avoid cycles exactly because i implement it myself, and don't even have a solver, per se. even KVO seems not to handle cycles. and when e.g. i am using auto-layout in IB, even then i am careful to avoid over-constrainedness, even though the solver can settle on a "solution."
You feel queasy about firsthand accounts compared to what, exactly? Secondary sources are weaker than primary sources. We now have unfettered access to most primary sources, whereas before we had to rely on secondary sources and their interpretations and biases.
You can understand how tough that is for a native speaker, though. Thanks for being reasonable about talking about it and being willing to learn!
This is great! In the past, I've had to write kudgy scripts to do this. Two features requests:

- Syntax highlighting on code blocks
- Ability to insert page breaks

Great work!
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People complain about "corporate welfare" but Musk gets the "cool sustainable tech bro!" pass.
It seems to have gone more in the other direction. At least in CS, if you want big funding nowadays you need to do DARPA research, because their budget has fared better. And DARPA research has gotten more micromanaged; gone are the days where they'd hand out large block grants to promote general American excellence in areas of "national importance". Nowadays they partner you with effectively a professional "minder" (called an "integrator") from a contractor like Lockheed or BBN, whose job is to make sure your research stays on the DARPA agenda and is going to deliver what they want.

Partly because I think we no longer feel much of a need to prove we're better in science/tech than a major rival, which was once the Soviets, so general science/tech advancement is a harder sell.
$79 in 2005 is apparently $94.62 in 2014.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=79&year1=2005&y...
That's not what I meant, I meant that the two companies fighting a war using incompatibility makes both of their services / platforms worse (than they could be).
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what beliefs the owners of a Swedish VPN have. The FRA law [0] means that any data which goes over Swedish links will be logged. One can only assume that the iPredator service is heavily monitored by the IC, just on principle.

If you are concerned about your privacy and want to use a VPN, then I would recommend using cryptostorm [1]. Firstly because it is run by people passionate about privacy, who have devoted considerable time and effort into creating a service that is both "safe" and fast. Secondly because those efforts have been directed at solving the right problems: unlinking, best practices crypto, and fast links.

The primary strength of cryptostorm is their decoupling of the VPN service provider and account management. You don't buy VPN service, you buy a token that is redeemable for VPN service.

Their banking is handled by a First Nation's bank (so effectively a country), and the financial transaction is between you and a 3rd party (not cryptostorm the VPN service provider).

So while some companies claim "we don't log account access", cryptostorm literally has nothing that they can log. They do not have access to any personal information at all. It is all handled by other people. Even if cryptostorm was compromised, or they lie about not logging, or they are forced to log due to court order - they are unable to provide any personal information.

So they solved the important problem: you are anonymous to your VPN service provider.

Their openvpn config is heavily tweaked to ensure that it uses only the most robust crypto (no RC4, thank you very much).

Of course, a VPN isn't really much use against a nation state level actor, but at least it can provide protection against local miscreants on an open wifi.

(Full disclosure: I've spoken with the cryptostorm guys about privacy and security, I respect their skills and knowledge. I might be biased for that reason [I also know anakata, teimo and peter sunde, and no disrespect to them but the cryptostorm guys did it correctly])

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law

[1]: http://cryptostorm.is
Put another way:

Vertical is a great way to realize a very specific vision for something, but it's a huge impediment to getting majority market share. Done properly though, you can do things your more horizontal competitors simply can't. It can be quite profitable but it won't be for everyone (Mac). The danger is that there's a higher bar that needs to be reached in order to pull it off. You can't assume that third party hardware or software vendors are going to jump on board to add value to your platform.

Horizontal is a great way to insert yourself into a preexisting market, help create a new market, and maybe even get a monopoly on your layer of the stack (Windows). This can also be very profitable. You still can't be everything to everyone, but you can get much closer to that goal. The downside is that being everything to everyone is not always a desirable goal, but now you're stuck with it, because otherwise what's the point of going horizontal? You need your layer to be as general-purpose as possible in order to maximize third-party involvement in the layers above and below you.
Last time I messed around with MAME pretty much everything which was playable ran at full speed, even stuff like STV, Namco System 22, and Seattle based games. This was on my 2600K running at 4GHz, which isn't exactly the latest and greatest.

From what I understand the most demanding thing to emulate isn't the 3D hardware anyways, it's the high clock rate CPUs. Most of the latest 3D hardware supported by MAME is implemented with ASICs which have a relatively high level interface. This allows the emulation to be pretty highly optimized since the low-level details aren't visible to the game software anyways. CPUs are a whole different story though. There you are stuck emulating individual instructions which gets pretty hairy when the CPU you're emulating can do 200+ MIPS.
> Popcorn Time as a project is legal. We checked. Four Times.

What the heck does that mean? Four times, eh? You mean you asked four different lawyers? You asked the same lawyer four times? You got sued four times and won? (Obviously not). You 'checked' by googling around for legal information... four times? You asked your cousin who took a class on copyright once? Four cousins? You emailed the MPAA... four times?

I don't think the law works like you think it works.

> Our experiment has put us at the doors of endless debates about piracy and copyright, legal threats and the shady machinery that makes us feel in danger for doing what we love. And that’s not a battle we want a place in.

So, if after your 'four times checking', it still caught you by surprise that there'd be debates and legal threats... I don't think you were checking in the right places.
'prominent engineer' makes it sound like the prominence is due to being well-respected for skill in engineering, when it's apparently not. This is what ehutch79 is saying.

As an example, my primary role in my company is administration of systems. I very rarely take out the trash, and sometimes refill the toilet rolls if they're low. It would be misleading to refer to me as a janitor, prominent or otherwise.

Edit: I say 'apparently not' because she may be an awesome engineer, but her code is in private repos.
Yes, we already existed before operating the new HN search. We did it as a way to participate to the community and of course it's good for our visibility. The hnsearch.com domain is the property of Octopart, not ours.
I don't think this is really the case. First, I don't think Apple regards iTunes as anything else but means to sell more Apple devices. They make some money on it but it's still negligible compared to hardware profits. Second, there are other content providers (e.g. Netflix) already present on the Apple TV. Third, Amazon clearly has no problem with conducting business with their direct competitors; it's well known that Netflix is one of the most important customers of AWS, often beta testing new services before they become publicly available. Neither does Apple, the default search engine on all Apple devices is still Google.
i absolutely hate paywalled sites and refuse to read the articles.

that said, this is entirely unsurprising since scientific and mathematics research were almost entirely patronized fields until the rise of the modern university. this is very similar to computing in that first monolithic centralized computing was the path, then it was the PC, then it was the cloud, now it's moving back to a decentralized network. these things are bound to yo-yo and academic research is no different than most human-designed processes.
Yup, he's in : https://netguru.co/blog/posts/code-ping-pong-with-dhh
Ah yeah I'm using ART. It takes 30 min to rebuild everything for Dalvik, bit too much effort when I'm out and about. Unlucky! Usually most apps work fine under ART.
I wonder about this. Is Tesla driving battery technology much (which is really sort of the key for EVs), or are they just putting themselves in a good position for when they get good enough?

I realize that they are creating demand for millions and millions of cells, but cell phones, tablets and laptops have been doing that for a decade now.
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I think it's the chinese whisper effect applied to http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html [0] and as such more cult than information. As witnessed by the discussion around here.

[0] ("Correctness-the design must be correct in all observable aspects. It is slightly better to be simple than correct.")
Not quite "100% Free Software stack", as they still using closed 3D driver, and of course the modem processor runs proprietary code:

"Not a single line of closed code will have to run on main CPU to be able to use the Neo900. With an exception to 3D acceleration, which is not necessary to operate the device, FLOSS Linux drivers will be available for every single component."

I'm sticking with Replicant on my Galaxy Nexus...at least I have it in my phone now working, the specs are comparable (dispite being a couple years old) and I got it used cheap. I'm not getting much more benefit with the Neo900 dispite the significant price tag. I'll wait for a fully free software stack, including modem processor.
See also: http://netzero.io
choss_y rock (clean rock)

loss_y copies (high fidelity copies)

the opposite of boss_y

is nice (BTW, which means "accurate and well measured")

bossy means ill-considered and lacking in awareness#
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Netflix does everything you just said, better.
Agreed, syntax highlighting for repos with a lot of example code blocks in their README.md would be great:

https://gitprint.com/thearn/stl_tools
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I don't care for samsung's response. The fact that it is possible for modem to read files (and if run with root privileges, that means all data) means that my phone is comprimised.
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It's true that a given small seed can generate a long sequence. Sequences like these have low http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity, since it's possible to write a short program that generates the comparatively long sequence.

A pseudo-random number generator with a seed length of 64 bits is capable of generating about 2^64 possible sequences (roughly one for each possible seed).

Given a random long sequence, though, it's quite unlikely
that there's a short seed that will generate it; given a seed size of 64 bits and a random sequence of 100 bits, for example, the chance that there's a seed that will generate the sequence is roughly (2^64)/(2^100), or about 1 in 100 billion.

A theoretically optimal solution to Hutter's challenge would somehow notice whenever this happens to be the case, across all possible seeds and all possible sequence-generating functions, and provide the seed and function as the solution!

So, no: it wouldn't be cheating. But, it's statistically likely to be impossible.
here's an anecdote from a german communication network professor i was sitting at lunch with.

as comparison, the pay for a professor here is 50k a year, but can be more. you heard that right, that's what a bsc in low pay southern states gets.

he said the following thing which made me rethink the whole thing a little:

"conversely i get to research anything i want to, and i don't have to worry about pleasing business with my research results"

germany though has a big problem of americanization like so many other countries.

i've heard of so many research in the us getting shut down, or the researchers discredited, because they pissed off the wrong company funding the department they were working for.

it's a double edged sword.

EDIT: it's funny this got downvoted. i was personally involved in evaluating software that was written for the DHS by a huge contractor SAIC. they paid 20+ million for that piece of junk, and my supervisor was scared of passing on the assessment, because they were scared we would lose opportunities on further grants(they were impressed by the assessment, apparently we were the only ones that did such a thorough assessment).

i never said professors in germany don't have to get research money or grants, but they are way less dependent on what outcome the industry dictates.
Does Pipelight require a functioning TPM to function? I'm a little confused about the mechanisms involved. Netflix's stated desire for strong DRM seems at odds with allowing solutions like Pipelight to function (since it allows their DRM to operate in an 'untrusted' environment. )

I'm of course less than excited about this in general since it makes me feel like Netflix can trust my computer better than I can, and I'd like to be able to say that no one can trust my computer more than me.
> This is, of course, very much to Wal-Mart's advantage. Americans really hate to think about the cost of their cars and really love to drive them, so the perception will generally avoid factoring in the costs of driving to and from the store into the final prices.

I honestly think that is in flux. Wal-mart's recent inane suggestion that some customers do delivery for others is an example that they're aware of the problem. Their recent downturn in sales is another. The inflection point is coming.

Amazon (Amazon Fresh) and Google (Shopping Express) are skating to where the puck is going to be - optimized delivery services as a booster to existing retail storefronts.
I think my favorite example is Ford investing in rubber plantations.
You must have pressed up or down. It doesn't check for invalid move. That is expected with the 2048 source limit.
Imagine if someone shared an opinion in support of feminism, and you, having read something you disagree with, proceeded to read their entire comment history and then comment upon it. That's a very, very common tactic against the very people you're supporting, so I'd caution against venturing down this path. Everybody loses.

If you disagree, form some substance. If you want to attack the messenger, hold your tongue. You're not helping regardless of which side you stand on and no matter how obviously that account is perceived by you to be a troll.
Attic implements the same idea but seems more stable; https://attic-backup.org/
But Amazon Locker deliveries aren't any cheaper or faster than normal Prime deliveries, at least when I looked into it a year or so ago in San Francisco. The only use case as far as I could tell was you could have things delivered there if you don't have a secure place at home for packages to be dropped.
The site says there will only be 5 "matches", so agreed: if the trial goes well you guys should consider expanding on this format.
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I do this as well. With Netflix I have just accepted that I will be months — or years — behind everyone else in TV watching. And I don't care because there is always something decent to watch.
> You don't use gendered pronouns to refer to your coworkers and professional associates because you're reducing that person to their gender when it rarely matters.

Huh? You mean you should not refer to your coworkers as "he" or "she" when they are a man and a woman, respectively?

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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