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I am tired of all similar conspiracy theories posted the last week in .se comment fields with very bad Swedish. I am going to answer this.

If Russia was mistreated in Western media, Putin would have been burned in effigy every day for a decade in every city in the west over e.g. this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War_crimes_and_t...

"On October 21, 1999, a series of Russian ballistic missile strikes on central Grozny killed at least 137 people, mostly civilians, and injured hundreds. The missiles hit the city's main marketplace, a maternity hospital and a mosque."

And other points listed on that page, which has never really been discussed in western media.

But I guess Wikipedia, HRW et al are in on Obama's homosexual conspiracy? :-)
I think the point is that a photorealistic scene isn't 'realistic' because you can't really interact with it, it's a painting.

And a world where you can actually interact with stuff, like minecraft, can stagger the most beastly rig, even though the graphics suck from a realistic perspective and your interaction is limited.
This kind of story freaks me out because I know that not in a million years would I be able to navigate these kinds of inter-personal situations. Knowing from eye contact and a shrug that somebody didn't want me talking to them but that we were cool and it wasn't personal. Wow.

I've had many jobs and I've always just talked to whoever of whatever gender or place on the org chart. I've had to make an intentional study of how to deal with people and still in 35 years I learn there's so much more to figure out.
Pretty much all new businesses, no matter if they're tech startups or corner stores, have 80+% chance of failing within their first year. You don't get to choose to start a profitable business - you can put your best effort to try and make it so, but even that is just a gamble.

If your family can afford the income hit during a failed company without the kids suffering - that's great. But if it can't, but you simply believe that it will be successful - then that's just lying to them and yourself.
Uber is innovating in bookkeeping and creative interpretation of regulations, which is not the kind of innovation that benefits the world at large; they're employing marketers and lawyers, not drivers. They just built cute ways to work around the employment, road tax and health insurance costs their competitors pay, turning those costs into their margin. Good point, their competitors had to obey a cap and they didn't, raising the taxi cap by 30% to address demand made a lot of sense.

Some of the excuses are right out of the pimp playbook and deserve ridicule: our drivers are freelancers! no one is paying for a ride, these are voluntary donations! we don't encourage anyone to operate unlicensed taxis, we merely collect a referral fee!
Although obviously hyperbole, the sad thing is that this is actually not completely outside the realm of possibility:

With regard to the first point, before there was email, Lysander Spooner attempted to compete with the (at the time notoriously high priced) US Postal Service. He was profitable, but the US government sued him out of existence.

You could argue the second point already happens "indirectly" through our less than transparent foreign policy.

The third point also kind of already takes place thanks to patents: the US government has given Microsoft a way to profit off of Android despite clearly demonstrating failure in this market.
... and just added voice and video today.
Sounds like you want a Pebble.
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What if there is just another dimension to this?

OP could be wired to be very productive if he doesn't have side projects and instead focuses on hobbies.

yangez's examples (parent of your comment) could be wired to only be very productive if they do nothing but become immersed in their work.

What if some of us can only thrive with imbalance by nature?
If the goal is "Buy and own a house", pulling in $220/year pre-tax probably isn't enough to get the job done. Unless you're living extremely scarcely in the meantime.
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That's reality, though. The past cannot be changed; the future can be.
You can turn off all the push notifications.
From seeing some of the suggestions here I think I will extend this with two more articles:

1) Some more detail about how the low level of the computer actually works
2) A more "beginner friendly" guide to getting started in programming assembly.
I like checked exceptions in certain situations. I generally dislike the checked ones that come with Java ^1, but it can be very useful to create your own. I had a situation where I was interacting with an API that would sometimes fail over things I could not control. But, the code responsible for interfacing with the API didn't have the context for handling those errors.

Initially I threw a Runtime (ie: non compile time) exception. After going to production I realized that these were bubbling up to the UI and giving the user very intimidating error messages. So I changed the exception to a Compile time exception and then the compiler caught every place I let the error slip through to the UI. In my opinion it saved me a lot of time and made my code easier to maintain.

1: EG: Who is Java to say that this IOException should be handled in code? Perhaps this IOException should not happen and requires a developer's intervention.
Exactly - checked exceptions is more of an policy / code style decision, null and NPE - roughly the same and in the end your spider sense just knows where to expect it.

But type-erasure of generics - that's the decision with which we will need to live till the end of time.

- no multiple implementation of same generic interface
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2723397/java-generics-what-is-pecs
- small performance hits..
- casts
- a lot more but I'm just sleepy right now.

I use and like Java, I love the backwards compatibility which it has - but there are times when crust can be removed with scalpel - and if not, you will need an jackhammer later.
But why would you press Ctrl+K if you've removed the search bar?
You have to draw a line somewhere don't you? otherwise we've eventually got Gattica.

Does wearing glasses modify the logical center of your brain like Ritalin? How about we start genetically engineering humans to be smarter, stronger, etc. How about we give all short kids hormones so they can be as tall as the rest of their classmates, it's only fair after all. Vaccines do something that nature also does, it is just in a more controlled way, antibiotics are used to save lives so they have a different consideration, again though the thing that I want to underline is that altering the brain's chemistry and behavior is bad.

Some things like modern agriculture seem like good ideas at some level. Tons of food can be achieved cheaply, but it has side effects of pollution and toxins/antibiotics ending up in our bodies, the cycle of life and our ecosystem is damaged. The same with factories. They can produce amazing amounts of goods, but they can also destroy the earth.

Systematically altering thoughts and minds because they don't fit into office jobs well is something that will end up with consequences (it already is starting too).
The sketchiest thing about Andreeson is that he sits on the board of directors for HP... and at no point has he told investors that it's a rudderless shell of it's former self with almost no hope.
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Hi everyone,

I am looking for other entrepreneurs around the South Bay (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara, San Jose, etc...) to partner up with, work together, and launch something amazing.

A bit about me:

I'm a UC Berkeley engineer, have an MBA from MIT. The first startup I joined, as the first engineer, raised over $50M in funding and is doing quite well. I am well versed in Java and a plethora of other languages, scalable systems, AWS, web-stuff (www.lostland.com is my blog)... etc etc.

Currently I work as a senior staff engineer at one of Samsung's Innovation labs focusing on all sort of incredible crazy thingies I can't write about. I have many friends who are also entrepreneurs but they are already working on something and their teams are set... hence this message.

I have a few ideas but I am not married to any of them. I am basically looking for other smart people who'd like to ideate and jump into any space we all find suitable for growth -- it could be wearables, bluetooth beacons, hardware, or a plain old new web application that solves X, Y, Z.

So, if you're interested drop me a line at somid3@gmail.com, I'd love to buy you a cup of coffee or a beer and go from there.
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Yeah, for sure. Wouldn't allow for cleanup of non-memory resources, though, so far as I can tell.
While it's an interesting idea it will come at the detriment to other musicians using the platform. Spotify's payouts are largely based on subscriber's monthly fees divided over the total number of plays for a month (to get price per play), then multiplied by the number of plays an artist gets. This means that as people flood to play the silent songs, other artists who actually use the platform to share audible music are making less money. If they want to crowdsource a free concert tour they should make a Kickstarter/Indiegogo and sell shirts or autographed paraphernalia.

Refer to the "Royalties: in detail" section: http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#spotifys-pr...
>but programming IS a creative role and needs to be treated as such.

We need to distinguish between creators and people who just implement, because there is a lot of work that doesn't involve new ideas. Complicating this is the fuzziness between the titles 'engineer' and 'programmer' and 'developer'.

Much of this just seems like growing pains for a field that's relatively new to humanity.
I find it annoyingly disingenuous for Mozilla to pride itself on a "plugin-free web" when they are the ones making decisions that ensure languages other than Javascript will NEVER run without plugins.

Please stop hurting all of us with this artificially imposed Javascript monopoly
From a policy standpoint, I like to think of the Senate Intelligence Committee as a good-faith attempt at providing "sufficient statistics" of otherwise sensitive data -- having trusted elected officials peruse classified information, collate it into the essential set of decisions the public might formulate should they have full access, then let the public debate proceed along the transformed decision space.

For the outcomes to be truly unbiased, a number of assumptions should be enforced, that are being insufficiently upheld:
- the sample of the senators in the committee should to be representative of the people's interests. The 8/7 member split between parties sounds nice and non-partisan but might be biased in favour of the minority. Also, nomination to the post depends on party favour.
- a mechanism guaranteeing that the intelligence committee obtains ALL pertinent documents sans curation by the agencies. It's certainly ridiculous that there's even the possibility the CIA could claim that the Intelligence Committee obtained some documents illegally.
- finally, a notion of weighting actions appropriately. The intelligence committee is not in the business of taking action in itself, but making recommendations for the rest of congress to act on (subject to weights based on their political stances and the requirements of the situation). These weights are unfortunately being re-normalized to near even odds along purely political lines in the senate and in the media.

While the representational biases can be repaired somewhat with appropriate procedure, the final problem of retaining the right weights for actions doesn't seem solvable so long as the first amendment is around. One can't silence Fox/MSNBC pundits constantly trying to put their spins on every debate, and it's difficult to correctly evaluate these solutions unless the public can actually gauge the adequacy of each approach against all the data.

tl;dr: IMO the ability to take optimal rational decisions via proxy opinions from the intelligence committee is severely mitigated by biases inherent in the institution. So long as the committee model persists it may be possible to mitigate these biases but impossible to completely eliminate them.
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'"Retroactive classification can even reach documents that are available in public libraries, on the Internet, or elsewhere in the public domain."'

No, it can't. It can try, but that doesn't mean it would succeed or even have a chance to. This is simply ridiculous. I don't know who Jonathan Abel is, but someone should teach him some basics on how the Internet and digital communications work. That goes for the author too. This is a hypothetical that is just not backed by reality. How exactly does one "give back" a digitally distributed document?
If we had an unlimited amount of transparency, how many people do you think would die from terrorists, and please be specific about which terrorists and how.

Or, would more people would die falling off ladders?

Now before you say "But! Ladders have utility!" consider that you would be implying that freedom and transparency and consent of the governed have no utilty, or, at least, less utility than ladders.
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Have you worked with the Nexus 5?
This sounds like the "information want's to be free" argument people use here to justify copying movies and music, shouldn't it also then apply to your phonecall data? It's all just bits right?
San Andreas came out almost 10 years ago and had to run on the PS2 with 32MB of ram.

GTA 4 came out 5 year ago.
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That's why webapps are built in a modular way: it's similar to 3D games in the sense that you don't need to have everything immediately to start using it: load what you need to display first, and get the rest when needed: e.g. you don't need the last level of a game when you're just starting it.

Actually, I was toying lately with the idea of making my own modules loader * insert mandatory xkcd strip about competing standards * because I wanted an hybrid loader that can pack multiple modules per file, but that doesn't have to have all modules in a single file either (e.g. 3d models could be packed with their textures, or levels packed with the models they need) as I haven't come up with a satisfactory setup to do so in r.js or browserify yet, however Unity already solved that issue in its Web Player, so making a JS version of it should be trivial.
I know a Nick Bobic personally, a really smart and ambitious compsci guy from Ottawa. He is the guy mentioned in all those articles (Cryptobox, Excino, WiPlay, the Gamasutra article, etc.) listed in the other thread. I got involved in some of his endeavors, but not the main companies he did. He was two or three years ahead of me at Ottawa University. Last I chatted with him online was around 2005 (and he told me to buy AAPL, heh.)

That said, I can not personally confirm Nick Bobic is nickb, but it fits pretty well and others in that old thread seem to be sure of it.
To the extent that stability of certain kinds of businesses is essential to the stability of our society, it's actually a very good thing that governments are somewhat conservative about protecting the establishment.

If a certain kind of business is essential to the stability of our society then it should not be a business, it should be part of the government. "Essential" is a pretty strong word. A business should never be too big to fail. Free market competition should ensure that existing businesses will be quickly replaced by competitors if there is sufficient demand for their product or service.

we have bigger problems, not the least of which is the question of why those big, successful companies get so much influence over the laws in the first place

These are not even different problems, they are one and the same. The big, successful companies get so much influence over the laws because their friends in government shield them from competition, allowing them to grow into monopolies that are wealthy and powerful enough to exert influence over the laws.

This is done through industry regulations passed under the pretense of protecting consumers from the dangers of untrusted companies offering products of unknown quality, a concern that you expressed above. But when you look at who is actually lobbying for the tighter regulations and licensing requirements, it's always the established businesses looking to raise the barrier to new market entrants. That's their ulterior motive.
It's not sold until the deal is closed. Till then, it is a Google company.
There is a lose correlation between quality and popularity, but being the most popular language is in no way indicative of being the best language (as the person I responded to was saying).
I wonder what is the conversion rate between the amount electricity used vs. the amount of royalty payments generated. Perhaps it might just be easier to straight up donate to this guy.
O2 isn't flammable and doesn't provide fuel unless the oxidant is something very electronegative like fluorine. In most fires, oxygen is the oxidizer, not the fuel.
Yes, there are other options.
Retaliation is a real problem, when you don't crush your enemy. U.S. foreign policy didn't have to punish Japan for it's Manchurian expansion, but it resulted in Pearl Harbor. Japan absolutely completely had to be destroyed brick by brick for that nation to yield. No Japanese terrorists since. Other incidences of unprovoked and unchallenged acts: see Crimea and Nazi annexations.
So current taxi and hotel regulations have more negative side effects than benefits as they currently stand?
Better is subjective, and the cause of many flame wars.
My sample is clearly biased, but a lot of people in my flying club fly for a living with airlines or the military, then come fly some more in a recreational capacity with the club.
Colour is required exactly because you have a tiny screen. You have a lot smaller interface to communicate, so you use colours as well.
What's OpenSearch on mobile?

Can we finally add custom search providers like desktop version from http://mycroftproject.com/. It really seems to be an odd exclusion since sync takes care of everything else.
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That doesn't make it an unreasonable request. There's always the option of not purchasing one until the technology improves enough to make it smaller while having an acceptable battery life.

Given the full color display and the current abysmal battery life for any smart watch not using e-ink, I'm pessimistic about the battery life of this product. I would be very happy to be surprised though.
If the plane is stolen for a future attack they have unnecessarily taken too much of trouble
- First plan a theft which is incredibly difficult that hijacking and then ramming it somewhere
- Then actually keep it hidden while half the world is searching for it.
- Get rid of those passengers
- Hiding a Boeing 777 is not same as hiding a cookie jar. The plane will need a runway, fuel etc. which needs to be provided for and can be easily tracked.
- Terrorism is all about surprise. There is no surprise involved here. All the countries will now be much more cautious with any object that appears on their radar.
That certainly seems extremely likely to me. Asleep at the switch, subsequently partially at fault for the disappearance of a couple hundred people, and a reluctance to come forward will be the expected result....
I got deja vu in Paris after playing Battlefield 3. :)

Frostbite is an amazing engine, if a bit quirky.
Put up a Kickstarter and I'm in for a grand.
I already linked you the evidence in my previous post. Stop being purposely obtuse. At this point you just seem to be part of another NSA program. [1]

I'll just quote the lead:

> The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

And more recently, GCHQ's JTRIG program. [2]

Again, I'll quote:

> (The core self-identified purposes of JTRIG is to) use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

[2]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
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Software is another part of the equation - how can the overall efficiency be better if the increase in energy efficiency is being counteracted by increasingly less efficient software using more computations to perform a given task? Exponential increases in hardware have not translated to anywhere near the same gains for overall productivity in average use cases.
The JVM has a couple of pretty significant problems when trying to work with functional-style languages. The biggest one is the way it deals with the stack: It's not in the heap, and it's pretty limited, so with something like scala, and more specifically with scalaz, you have to do some contortions to avoid overflows. 90% of usages of scalaz trampolines are nothing but ways to work around JVM limitations.

I'd argue that today, you are better off with the .NET VM, as far as features are concerned. But being stuck in windowsland is really a non-starter for all kinds of applications. I can send a major task that will take 400 computers for a week to Amazon if my code relies on the JVM. If I write it in .NET, not so much
This might be a good occasion to shake that trend. Smartwatches are not only targetted to the traditional watch buying people, but also to those who don't wear one today and are uncomfortable strapping a giant device to their wrist.
I don't understand what's supposed to make internet-based reservation/dispatch such a game-changer that it should make your taxi service immune from existing taxi regulations.

Here in Baltimore, there are tons of illegal 'hack' cabs operated by 'private citizens,' mostly not white people, sometimes in their spare time, sometimes on the regular. They are illegal. But they do it anyway. And probably seldom get caught (they do not put weird devices advertising their existence on their front grill). Okay, such is the black/grey market, it happens.

But we're going to legalize some _other_ kind of illegal taxi service because it's run by white venture-funded capitalists instead? (Apparently we have, because I see the Uber cars here, I don't know the situation). Do the illegal hack cabs just have to accept internet-baed reservations, and they're suddenly legal too?
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