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Tom Mitchell: Never Ending Language Learning (2012)
Oligopolies are likely to have some price effect.
Without getting into the whole rabbit-hole of monopolies/government good vs evil... Do you see any realistic alternative to an auction allocation system for mobile frequencies?
Can you expand on why it costs so much to upgrade a basestation? the fiber is already rolled out, the contracts between land owners have already been signed, the surveys for radio propagation have already been done. I honestly don't think the upgrade from 3g to LTE was nearly as expensive as the upgrade from EDGE/2g networks to 3g was for carriers. Also it was much, much quicker for them to roll out LTE networks vs 3g networks.
> compared to what? the stock browser? mobile chrome? in my experience it blows both of those out of the water.

I don't use Android, but I think those two have been one and the same for quite a while now.
My price went down massively thanks to the TMob kamikaze mission. 180->135 for 3 iPhones on ATT. Thank you TMob.
I kind of inserted "because Valve, Steam, and Linux" into his statements about OpenGL versus DirectX, and then I was better able to understand where he's coming from.

I mean, you don't really think he has no idea what he's talking about, right? Then game dev world is really, really big. It's worth noting he has worked at Valve for some time, so he's coming from the Gabe Newell world.
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Given events in Ukraine what are the ethics of hiring russian freelancers?
In light of recent events in Ukraine I am trying to decide whether I should keep working with the russian freelancers I am working with or not.<p>On one hand they are not responsible for the current situation and I dont want to punish them.<p>On the other hand the news seems to show a lot of support in Russia by russians for what is happening.<p>Regardless of whether or not they personally support it I feel like I am giving some sort of tacit approval by continuing an economic relationship... that said Russian energy is still flowing into Europe...<p>I strongly disagree with Russian actions in Ukraine but do not know what is the right thing to do here ethically.
I got recommended into the medical fields. Interesting, as I've always dreamed of being a doctor when I was young.
I'm certainly not saying discriminatory pricing is entirely fair :-) But the article's premise is that costs haven't come down, and that simply isn't true. (Admittedly the reasons likely have more to do with T-Mobile's strategy than technological shifts.)
Mkdown
Maybe lottery? Though unless you had some restricitions on entry that might just result in the winners reselling their allocations to the established players for a profit.
Duct tape can fix Mother's day
It seems to me that the ability to merge threads (either automatically or through moderator action) would benefit this, and the problem of multiple posts on the same subject in general.

Although I don't agree with seeing popular, user generated content as a negative, but it's not my sandbox. I think it's at least better than yet another Techcrunch post or ceaseless bickering about class warfare and internecine SV politics.

Also, perhaps these threads should automatically expire weekly.
Adam Smith described how free markets can deliver socially beneficial results when individuals and firms compete vigorously with each other.

Since when does ensuring vigorous competition equate to Marxism? Seems pretty capitalist to me.
That's true :) While for that, you give a delay for say ~.5 seconds once your hand is off the keyboard, then read the value in the form.
When I decided to switch, I started here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_v...

and compared a couple dozen of them. My previous carrier was Virgin Mobile. The service is good, but they won't let you use a smartphone without a data plan, and their phone selection sucks. Republic has limited options too, but I wanted the moto x anyways.
On one hand, it's good that such extensions exist. But it's getting very tedious having to install so many these days to replace functionality that was removed, or to fix up functionality that has been broken or made worse.
I do realize this. I also know someone that has had problems with it on github's diffs. I do think it would be better to use other colors to avoid the issue entirely.
Hi ndarilek, sorry but at this point of time the project is closed and doing a purely sound based game will be a different challenge for another project.

We would suggest you check out BlindSide(blindsidegame.com) and Papa Sangre(papasangre.com) in the meantime.
But the cool thing is that the companies will attract all the non-standard R&D people: smart kids, people in between jobs, university students, etc. Smart people with extra time on their hands, who would love for a tangible challenge to work on with real deadlines. But of course, it's also not really reasonable to devote so much time to something that they aren't guaranteed to win. Maybe there could be something in between? You show the company an early prototype or some sort of promising direction, and then they pay you a stipend to continue working on it. The prize money is then distributed among the most promising results, instead of just one.
Mid life criss used to hit at 40.. now its lot earlier.

I had mine around the early 30's. Had done it all and was wondering what next. Marriage, kids decent job, good pay, low expenses, decent house.

Got rid of the job and pay and living off savings now. Will be 40 soon. Hopefully I will figure out the meaning of it all. For now I focus on living.
I live in Indonesia and I can vouch that ring-back-tones are not just alive but also remain very profitable.

When you call a person with a RBT there is first a message saying "If you want this tone for 10cents please press 7", then the music starts, usually the latest chart-song.

Needless to say it has a solid customer base made up mostly of teens, but also of corporates with a company jingo as the RBT (I kid you not).

Im not sure if the big chat apps (will dominate VoiP) have this function built in yet but Id imagine they will at some stage, a nice VAS if you can charge for it..
I miss Tiberian Sun. That and Goldeneye were what got me stoked about gaming in the first place.
Yes. I was able to lucid dream about 2 years ago. I read a lot on the subject at the time, and tried many methods to induce lucid dreaming and/or OOBEs.

The latter never really worked, but I once got very scared because I couldn't control myself anymore, I felt like a spirit locked into a body. With hindsight I attribute this to unintentional self-hypnosis.

The former was quite easy to achieve. The trick that did it for me was to remind myself often, while going to sleep, that I wanted to lucid dream. I repeatedly thought "When dreaming, ask myself if I'm dreaming" when laying in bed. The first night was uneventful but the second one I was able to "wake up" from my dream, but control it. By controlling, I mean move freely around in the scene I was in, not generate scenes.

I happened to be running towards a lake with my brother (recurrent dream for me) and I realised I was dreaming just next to shore. I spontaneously began to fly over the water, and I could control where I went. Still, the surroundings were a bit fuzzy, like in usual dreams, I just could move around freely.

It happens to me once in a while now, but never lasts more than what seems like a good 15 seconds. It's as if my subconscious knows it lost control, and then I wake up. It always happens in the morning.
Government intervention is practically required to allow competition. Any market left to its own devices will devolve into a monopoly. Governments are required to regulate to avoid monopolies thereby preserving a level playing field on which competition can occur.

When Adam Smith was talking about a "Free market", the freedom he was talking about was freedom to enter and freedom to exit a market. That is, freedom from barriers to market. These freedoms are guaranteed by governments. Businesses left to themselves will raise the barriers to market thereby making the market non-free in Smith's terms.

Oh, and pointing this out is not "Marxist".
Hey. Great example.

I think you're correct to point out that "in Telstra's case the government did effectively grant them a monopoly" in the first place.

The specifics I'm talking about in the Comcast case is that government is continually granting the monopoly privilege by preventing other companies from creating infrastructure (laying wire), even if a company wishes to do so.

This is precisely what allows Comcast to charge whatever it wants, begging more regulation down the road to force Comcast to charge 'fair' prices ('fair' in the minds of the legislators).

If any competitor was allowed to enter what is an enormous market it would provide continual downward pressure on consumer prices. The monopolistic privilege granted to Comcast leads to higher prices, as consumers can only pay the high price or forego service.
I'm addressing malice, not oversight. The SHA allows you to be confident that you've got the same code as everyone else.
If you think using regulation to keep markets functioning is a Marxist, don't complain about down votes until you learn some basic economics and history from sources other than industry propagandists pretending to be libertarians.
He's referring to mindshare among professional (game) engine developers - those people who try to get maximum rendering performance out of multiple platforms. His statement is totally on target for reasons I enumerated with a blog article on this subject back in December: http://inovaekeith.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-opengl-probably-...

As for WebGL Apple intentionally disables WebGL support on iOS - except for in iAds - so game devs can't circumvent the app store. Since WebGL is needlessly restricted to the feature set of the OpenGL ES specification its usefulness is severely limited. WebGL also has many other problems such as the fact that JavaScript is slow as hell.
Speaking of the harmonic numbers, there is an interesting conjecture. Let H_n be the n'th harmonic number. Let s(n) by the sum of the positive divisors of n. For example s(6) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 6. Then it is conjectured that:

s(n) <= H_n + exp(H_n) log(H_n)

with equality only in the case n = 1.

What is interesting about this conjecture is that it is true if and only if the Riemann Hypotheses is true! [1]

The Riemann Hypothesis is one of, if not the, most important unresolved issues in mathematics.

[1] http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/math.NT/0008177/
OK, really. I know coffee fetishists can be wound a little tight, but step back and be objective. You're on Shark Tank and you're pitching the 1970's designed Chemex. It has a wooden collar and a leather thong holding it together. It has a narrow neck so even if you dismantled it and put it in a dishwasher it might still need hand-work to clean it with a bottle brush. And you're going to trust your customers to reliably take it apart and put it together. How do you think that's going to pan out.

Right.
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Couldn't find any Bitcoin goodies. That's surprising!
Relation between the psychological and thermodynamic arrows of time
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It's not intentionally left out. Battlemesh is driven by the people who come there and participate, and if nobody is interested in a particular protocol or approach, it will not be set up or presented.

Disclaimer: I'll be presenting cjdns [1], the encrypted IPv6 implementation using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing.

[1] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
There's nothing wrong with paying for software, but enterprise support is a complete black box here.
Awesome idea, but it's already been done: http://gist.io/
She doesn't foresee a commercial market in lucid-dreaming because she thinks it's dangerous to induce an electrical current in the brain without an overseeing physician, not because she doesn't imagine any demand for it.
The First Thing Apple Should Do With Beats
I just understand that I use only DB2 in AS/400 right now
that's scary
If users are on the same limited plans they're not using more bandwidth over any appreciable time scale.
Yes, I think Mozilla has collectively made some very bad choices these last few years. And, yes, I will express my displeasure when Mozilla and their actions are the topic of discussion.

I know I'm not alone in these beliefs. Just look at how Firefox's market share has plunged, for example. Look at how Persona saw minimal adoption. Notice how Firefox OS is suffering from a very similar lack of adoption.

Mozilla has a lot of potential to do a lot of good. This was exhibited quite well during the early years of Firefox and Thunderbird. They produced useful offerings that benefited millions of people. But since then they've been acting in ways that don't help their users, and that don't help themselves. At this point, they're just going on inertia they earned years ago.

I, for one, would really like to see them return to their former glory as a true leader, rather than an imitator and a maker of bad decisions.
Why your iOS device may be a better cable box than the Apple TV
SpotRocket: discover hottest startups to work for with their rankings
He seem to be at peace, and it surely does count more than anything else. Happy 40th birthday man.
Genesis-skeleton
> But it's getting very tedious having to install so many these days to replace functionality that was removed

Click the link, click install. That's about as tedious as it gets. I've actually been using fewer addons as time goes on and the Classic Theme Restorer addon has some additional UI tweaks that I find interesting.

That said, I generally use two Firefox profiles: One for general browsing, one for documentation. The former is configured to use Australis more or less as packaged while the latter is configured to appear as closely as possible to classical Firefox (minus the FF button). Although there are some things I don't especially like about Australis, it's grown on me, and I'm someone who likes his tabs below the address bar. Thus, as someone who's been using both, I can't help myself from thinking that you're either not giving the new UI a fair wrap or you're being unnecessarily harsh. Some of your earlier comments in this thread strongly point toward the latter, but I suspect I'm just reading too far into your apparent disappointment. Or your disappointment is coloring your opinion more than you might realize. The point is that there are solutions to rectify what you perceive as significant drawbacks in the direction of Firefox's development.

> or to fix up functionality that has been broken or made worse.

To be honest, the only glaring issue I've found with FF29 is the rather horrid behavior of the print dialog. I like the direction it's going, generally, but under KDE, it doesn't allow printing a selection of text unless I re-enable the menu bar and print from there (maybe this works under Windows, I haven't tried). Otherwise, I can't think of any other issues that have been "broken or made worse." Compared to Chromium with 50+ tabs open, Firefox is exceptionally light on system resources, and I've since switched my browsing habits to use FF instead. I'm glad I did. It works well for me.
Wow, how did I not know that?!

Well, time for mkdown to pivot and rebrand as "gist.io but without serifs."

Seriously though, looks like they did a great job.
Scrollyeah
>How taking company from another person, firing him is interesting

I'm not an apologist for the top .001%, but Vinton brought this mostly on himself. He tried expanding beyond his business capabilities and failed. It's not like this was a hostile takeover by Knight. The company would have gone bankrupt and had its assets sold off if Knight didn't take over.

Maybe it would have been benevolent to keep Vinton around. But Knight didn't act particularly unethical. It was selfish, but people act in their own interest all the time. And I suppose it was Nepotism, but at least he made his kid start out at the bottom. And clearly his kid has some talent because he's somewhat turned the company around even if it came at the cost of an open and artistic culture.

If you want to paint this story as the sterotypical billionaire being evil then go for it. But I think that shows the shallowness of your thoughts than ours.
Either that, or he has, but retains idealism anyway.

Based on a quick Google, I don't think this tweak has been cracked yet; however, unless the author has spent an inordinate amount of time on custom DRM* , I expect it will be eventually. At that point, there will not be much downside to releasing the source code, perhaps under a no-derivative-works license. Potential exceptions I can think of include making it harder to re-secure the tweak when updating for newer iOS versions or to add features, since someone could make an illegal fork, and making it easier for someone else to simply clone it, but I would not personally consider either of those a big deal. Of course, it will remain their choice whether to release anything; they may not see an upside, or, more likely, they will simply not see the request here and follow the norm of not doing so. However, it does not seem unreasonable to hope for/encourage them to make a different choice.

* Nobody has invented DRM effective against highly skilled people, but most people cracking iOS tweaks are not highly skilled.
Tech commuter shuttles riding wave of controversy
Should at least try to handle code...

http://www.mkdown.com/9382108

Also, mkdown.com fails (without www. subdomain)
Although http://gist.io has this already, I think I like mkdown's CSS a little better (though there doesn't seem to be <code> styling as of yet). In any case, great work!
The mobile sector is a great example of a natural monopoly:

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

In this case, competition is the problem not the solution. It makes no sense to build out massive cellular networks in triplicate.

Connectivity could be provided much more efficiently at the municipal level, like water. Certainly, my experience with city water has been orders of magnitude more pleasant that with mobile providers, many times cheaper and more reliable, and I really don't see one as being harder to provide than the other.
I dig your mkdown design, it's beautiful. Cheers!
> I think the Rust crew could have pulled off Rust 1.0 by the end of the year had they stabilized the language and standard library a few months back. But that didn't happen, and we're still seeing relatively significant breaking changes happening to this day. It just doesn't leave them much time all to freeze the language and libraries, and to then give it the significant amount of testing and bug fixing required of a respectable 1.0 release, before the end of 2014.

Yes, according to you, we should have frozen the memory-unsafe design decisions in a language whose entire selling point is memory safety, defeating the entire point of the language in an effort to reach 1.0.
Yeah, maybe for v2. The goal of this was to elegantly share .md files (hence the name), so other file types are outside the scope of what I wanted to build.

re:www, it's working on my end: http://cl.ly/image/371J2a1Z2F1s. But I'll investigate.
There are at least three different ways switching a transistor consumes energy, the power for charging the gate is only one of them and tends to not be the limiting factor in small power bricks. The other two are current spikes in the channel during the switch in logic circuits (because you normally cannot let the output float, which means that during the switch you have to switch on both transistors at the same time, but that's not a problem when driving some inductor/transformer), and energy loss due to voltage drop while the transistor is moving between on and off states (that's where all the heat tends to come from - apart from the heat from the rectifying/free-wheeling diodes).
I think I'm having mine right now and I'm 26.

I've pretty much got everything I've ever wanted out of life. Make enough money to live comfortably and have leftovers every month, have published a book, have started a business, am debt free, have complete freedom from everything.

Really the only thing I still haven't done is publish in an academic journal. But my life has taken on a trajectory completely outside academia, so not sure that's likely to happen anymore.

Everything else, it seems, is just a matter of degree. Eventually I will be financially more successful than I am now, but that will only get me a bunch of things I don't care for. I will publish more books and they might end up being more renowned or not, but there isn't really _that_ much you can do with renown other than turn it into even more financial success, or enjoy it out of pure vanity. And I guess I will start more businesses, launch more products, and some might even become hugely successful ... but that's just a matter of degree once you've passed the barrier of having done it once at all.

Guess I could eventually start a family, but I've never wanted one of those. If I do start one it's going to be out of pure boredom and wanting to try new things. And that is probably the shittiest reason to start a family.

Pretty much everything left on my bucket list is pure hedonism. But that seems like a shitty thing to strive for in life.
The Lytro gallery:

https://pictures.lytro.com/lytro/albums/149429/embed?token=6...

I want this.
Practical Thinker --- Engineer or Technologist. That's pretty appropriate. I've been told I would be an engineer since age two or so. For a while, I thought I was going to go into the humanities/arts. I'm now an entrepreneur and (applied) mathematician.
Aether is not a full-fledged mesh network in that sense, it still relies on an existing IP connection between the nodes. But in cases of full blown mesh networks, there needs to be 'exits' from the mesh to the normal Internet, and those points would cost money to run. In that case, though, those exits would be clearly identified, i.e. not fleeting interstitial nodes on the mesh network, and you could direct payment to them. The problem arises when you try to transfer money from a mesh node to another, not from a mesh node to a known location (the exit).
Yeah, if I called someone and heard an ad, I would never ever call that person again. I don't need anymore ads in my life, thanks.
It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript
Mozilla to test sponsored tabs on Firefox
Do you have any info on "Autodesk's entire product line" migrating to D3D-only?

I know many of Autodesk apps run in Linux, Mac OSX, Windows and iOS--so I'm curious. The only reference I can find is a long reply from an Autodesk Inventor developer [1] from what looks like around 2007 where OpenGL was removed form their Windows-only app (Autodesk Inventor). It sounded like his beef was with the sub-par driver support for the OpenGL spec amongst video cards and not with the API itself (which I appreciate as an issue, but is very different from this discussion about it being a poorer API).

[1] http://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/78/...
>> religious holidays for faiths we don’t hold

So, a human is born, lives and dies and that's it? Earth, planets, solar systems, galaxies, the universe, all just some big accident. Wow. Of all of the above, no signs of life from any planet out of billions and billions but ours and it was just an accident. Wow.