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Where you download it from and SHA only gives guarantees about integrity of the data transfer. I am talking about trusting that the code does what it is supposed to do. Bugs can hide in code for years, whether inserted accidentally or intentionally, as the Heartbleed episode demonstrates. SHA does absolutely nothing against this.
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I think it's a misquotation. The linked article says

> Around 1960, a London ensemble player earning £1,000 a year could expect to pay twice that sum for a fine 19th-century instrument.

which fits well with what others have commented were typical salaries back then.

I am however surprised by the other commenters saying that playing in an orchestra is not a full time job. Perhaps it is different in the US, but in Sweden any symphony orchestra worth naming is comprised of full-time musicians.
It reminds me of that show Silicon Valley where the Hooli (Google) guy offers him $10m for his algorithm, but he decides to go it alone for the chance of big bucks.
> counts some of the most interesting and intelligent people among its users (and that will improve as it grows)

But will it really? https://answers.yahoo.com/
This is slightly incorrect as the problem only affects Google Chrome on Windows. Also, the Chrome team is actively working on this problem as seen in in its issue report [1]. The progress can be seen by launching Chrome Canary with the --enable-direct-write flag. chromestatus.com indicates that its scheduled to be released in M36.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541
Alright, I agree that "cannot" was too strong. Nevertheless, charging for total usage is discouraging the wrong thing, even though it correlates with the right thing. If you want the roads to run smoothly, you don't charge everyone a dollar; you charge peak users $4 and everyone else nothing.

And weighting data price by "peakness" is not significantly harder than not weighting it; in both case it's "just another metric" for the user to monitor.

(The broader point is that, in no case does it justify the standard ISP practice of singling out a particular content provider, even if the content provider is responsible for 99% of usage.)
Hi, we spent a few years working on mesh networks at One Laptop Per Child (as engineers rather than academics, obviously). We ended up giving up, for the reasons gsteinb88 mentioned -- another cause of bandwidth saturation was that broadcast packets turn into multicast on mesh.

I'm not saying this to discourage others from trying. But they should definitely be teams of network protocol experts, rather than a generalist team trying to put a product together as we were. We used 802.11s, and being the largest deployment of a protocol you weren't planning on having to fix yourself isn't an enviable position.
Although I'm not looking to switch anytime soon, may I ask who your carrier is? I use Republic Wireless right now, who was mentioned in the article, but that's a damn good price for 5GB LTE.

I'm always trying to convince my friends to look into MVNOs over the major brands.
>So, since the milkshake's straw does not and CANNOT change size

The reason you get this impossibility is because you make the wrong assumptions. You assume that there is one channel (for a very specific definition of channel), which everyone has to share.

In reality this is just not true. By using directed antennas for instance we can create more channels. By using polarized waves we can create more channels.
one advantage with firefox os is that - that it succeeds or not, they're forced to improve it for low cpu/low ram conditions and thus improve gecko.

these changes also generally go in the desktop client.
I love how the author explains how (relatively) simple doing these transformations is.

We've used pretty much the same technique for this little pet project of ours where we add profanity to English texts: http://cursingapi.com/
There is nothing new in this article. They basically just did the untyped lambda calculus in Ruby; Landin already had everything worked out in the 60s! To write a similar article, just find a cool idea from the past, and then port the idea to some current technology so that readers can better empathize with it.
Essentially: electrical stimulation of the brain can cause some to wake up, and some to enter a state between awake and asleep; sounds fairly intuitive.

I have had personal experience of lucid dreams, when I was very young I would stare at my bedroom wall until I fell asleep, the concentration must have kept me awake to some degree.
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If Mozilla ever releases a paid version of Firefox, I'm sure they'll also keep an ad-supported version for people who don't want to pay.

And thus we return to the glorious days of "shareware" and ad-supported "free trials".
Nice in theory, but many commercial shops will just use BSD instead. And that's fine.
i would actually like if firefox just came out of the box with a set of extensions enabled that mozilla chooses.

ie everything would be an extension (or in their words, addon).

That would ensure everything stays compatible and that you can make your browser look exactly the way you want (it would also shut you up! :p)

That being said having looked and sometimes contributed to the gecko source code this is not something that is easily doable.

Til then im actually quite happy with their choices. i uninstalled my status bar addon eventually. Its better without it. I even like the new FF UI. Sure theres a few things that could be better, but overral i find most of the complains to be because of the "i dont want any change, better or not" attitude (even i have a little bit of that attitude).
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you're not adding more spectrum - my point - its a finite resource.
you can also emit lower power and add more cells since they wont interfere.

but theres only so many details you can put in a comment post without making it 20 pages.
Funny, I used to have the '81—'83 issues...
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I was asked to remove offending content too. Like OP they admitted they couldn't make me, but it was implied that it would appease the offended party and make things easier (for them, at least, since it makes it more likely the crank would stop wasting their time).

It certainly wasn't suggested in the way the Mafia might suggest you pay for protection, if that's what you're thinking. There was no sense of authority when they asked it. It sounds like the same thing happened to OP.
t-mobile pay as you go - you have to order the SIM online.

there's also decent MVNOs but none offer LTE AFAIK. (well, maybe some do nowadays, but im not aware of them)

source: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

scroll down to "more plan options"

Also thats what ive been using for a while, i think its been there since a year or so.
On that topic:

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

"In the British model of policing, police officers are citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of their fellow citizens. Policing by consent is the phrase used to describe this. It denotes that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, demonstrating integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so."
I don't think UKIP 'pulled the strings of the law', I've read a lot of people say that they had visits from the police because someone (who was not famous or important) complained that they were acting in a socially inappropriate but probably not illegal manner (for example). To pull the strings of the law they'd need to exert some special influence that was not available to the ordinary person, but that is not the case here.

Raising your fist clearly implies you are going to hit me if I don't agree. Here the police made it clear there was no crime committed and took no action when he said he wouldn't take it down.
This article seems like it was written by someone who has little if any knowledge about cellular tech.
So is there a reason graphics programming is still in the dark ages. This sounds like assembly programming where you have N different add instructions with slightly different semantics for how flags are set.
I'm not sure I like the UI changes in 29, but it is, at least qualitatively, much faster. I also saw a nice drop in resource usage somewhere around 20.
Highly recommend Middleman or Jekyll. Find an open sourced Jekyll theme you like and build off that. Tumblr can also get the job done
I'm not sure Boko Haram is a good example for the proposition that educated girls are the worst nightmare for extremists. Boko Haram also attacks boys schools. That's not as newsworthy because they kill the boys right away, so a given attack doesn't become an ongoing incident like it does when they kidnap girls for sex slavery.

They specifically are upset over what they consider to be western education. In particular, they object to schools teaching evolution, that the world is round, and that rain comes from water that evaporates from the oceans. These all contradict their interpretation of their religion.
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ProTip: I just called AT&T today and asked when my contact ended, because I was considering going to T-Mobile. A few minutes later they offered me the approximately the service for half the cost.
What incentive would the author have to talk with the police (let alone invite them into his home) in this instance? I understand that the police in the UK may not be as menacing as they are in the US, but if nothing is in it for him (and as far as I can tell, nothing was), then why would he allow himself to be questioned in such a way?

If I have nothing to gain from talking with the police, I never would, even if I also felt that I had nothing to lose.
Adam D'Angelo responded to this question himself:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-20...

quote:

There are a bunch of reasons why it's valuable for Quora to be a YC company:
We'll have Sam and all the other partners to help us.
We get to be part of the YC community / alumni network of founders.
We get access to all the resources of YC.

We were raising money anyway, so there was no overhead in letting YC participate - this ends up the same for us as if we had just raised slightly more money from Tiger. And independent of the benefits to Quora, I think it will be fun personally to participate in some of the YC events. I hope my perspective can help some of the other companies.
Yup, there is almost nothing new under the sun. Everything I use in my day to day job was discovered in the 70s. Heck, half this stuff is even worse than what was discovered in the 70s. SmallTalk was a complete OS/programming environment with checkpoints, pausing, and live migration. What do we have now that comes close?
With multiple sending and receiving antennas and spatial encoding (specialization of MIMO) you can receive and send more data over the same spectrum and basically just make use of a second (or third) "straw".
My mistake, but I'm not assigning magical powers. I'm aware of what a holographic display is, and the rift fulfils 3 of the 4 criteria. The lack of accommodation in my experience is not critical and the applicability to lytro is still valid.
Legalizing it all is the only sane solution.

Drugs are a product where the demand is roughly constant. People that want drugs will try and get them from somebody; even price does little to change this. Rates of use are surprisingly consistent, and tend to change based only slowly based around changes in "pop-attention", taste, or other social pressures instead of economic or legal pressures.

This leaves us with a choice: who should be the supplier for that demand? The catch: there will probably be some sort of profits associated with that exchange. For some time now, we've chosen to hand those profits to the violent gangs and cartels - some of which were effectively created from this vacuum in supply.

Alternatively, we can choose to give the job of supplying drugs to something we can regulate and control: a business or other sanctioned organization (co-op? gov agency?).

There are, of course, many ways to accomplish this; one of the primary benefits of a regulated business is that we have options on how we choose to regulate it. It may take a few tries to find the best methods (such is life), but even partial-failure or not-quite-working regulation is significantly better than the alternative.

I suspect that anybody still choosing to channel money to cartels is either engaging in magical thinking ("if we make things illegal, they will all stop doing it!"[1]), or somehow profiting from the War On (some) Drugs.

[1] see "pro-life" for another example of similar "the problem will go away" magical thinking
Relative to what other languages, though? The competition gives important context.

I can say, "Language X is designed to be fast". But that doesn't tell you what it is good for.

What if I say "Language X is designed to be faster than Python"? Doesn't that tell you way more about Language X?
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I am finished.

Now I put on the marketing hat exclusively.

Programming cannot change things.

I need priest hat. Prove God. Instant sucess.
If such incentives are already in place, Google risks nothing by drawing attention to them. Either way potential inventors go, Google may make this happen sooner.
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But it is very important! Because you could have two devices communicating using many channels on the same spectrum. This removes the theoretic Nyquist rate bound.
If you take a easy to read and understandable explanation to a patent office, the people who work there will more likely find prior art.

The firms that specialize in patent applications are paid to increase the chance that a patent is granted, so its natural that clear and understandable language is the first to go.
This is a great story - it's one of the things you learn about when you take the Circle Line cruise in NYC.
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You're curious _and_ idealistic. Expecting him to give source when he needs to commercially profit from the software is beyond silly. I'd gander that you haven't been screwed over enough in life to understand the possibility of good-will gone wrong.
But the details matter; you don't even need more finely grained directional antennas to get more bandwidth: send two different signals from two different antennas and receive them with two antennas; with the data you get and certain encoding schemes, you can work out the two underlying superpositioned waves on a DSP chip and nearly double your bandwidth while using the same spectrum, thus working around Nyquist and adding another "straw":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO#Sampling_theory_in_MIMO_sy...
In the future, other companies/orgs may add to one company's prize pot therefore make it a sufficient offer.

Often times, people try to win the prize, knowing they'll on average make a loss, but doing it out of fun. See e.g. Google Lunar X Prize.
It doesn't encourage. It forces. Which could be another nightmare.
You're using very biased language ("bribe"). Its not bribery for a for-profit company to demand payment for other company's who want to reach its users. That the basic premise of Facebook's or LinkedIn's business model after all.

You've clearly picked a side, but why should we? I understand that people on here have an interest in startups succeeding against big companies, but why does that rise to the level of public interest? These are just all for-profit companies hoping to make a bunch of money off consumers.

It should also be noted that content creators naturally have a lot of leverage, because their products are non-fungible. Its content aggregators and distributors that would see the biggest hits to their profit margins.
At line-frequency skin effect is not significant for almost any practical conductor (ie. reasonably conductive and with reasonable cross-section). What gets significant for long distance transmission is that few thousand kilometer long power transmission line starts behaving like, well, transmission line even on frequencies as low as 50/60Hz. Also HVDC elegantly sidesteps problem of grid synchronization.
My Verizon contract is up and I am really thinking about moving to Republic Wireless. The Moto G offers as much if not more than I want in a phone (I have a simple flip feature phone now) and I like that it uses wifi for voice which would make it feasible for me to use my phone at home (I live on the very fringe of cell coverage, and voice calls tend to have a lot of dropouts). Are there any other services I should consider?
I agree. I don't have a problem with unobtrusive ads, but people are seriously deluding themselves when they think ads enhance the browsing experience.

It almost feels like a case of Stockholm syndrome. We're stuck with ads anyway, so why don't we come up with silly reasons to like them . . .
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They are, most of what they do is open in the wild. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=directo...
Indeed. Prices _have_ come way down, but the carriers are engaging in price discrimination (quite rationally). You don't get the new prices automatically, you have to switch carriers/plans or persuade your current carrier that you are going to do so.
Honestly I think it is fairly problematic for them to even relay the request that you take it down. If the aggrieved party has an issue with what you are saying but you are operating within your rights and the law, then the aggrieved party can make the request themselves.

I think that having the police, or a politician (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09...) or any other member of the government relay those requests is out of line.
The thing is, there are people that require that level of control to achieve the performance they want.
Hands-on engineer though, note. Civil Engineering, Materials Science/Engineering, that sort of thing.

Distinct from many (most?) readers on HN.
Thank you. This does sound like an entire industry waiting to exist rather than a clever one off.

So how are you planning to go from tenuous projects to repeatable revenue (sorry someone asked me some hard questions today - paying it forward!). I am guessing that a 5bn dollar shipping firm that just stopped multi-million clients walking out the door is getting some serious payback - even if your daily rate was enormous.

So what about things like multiple clients simultaneously (hiring interns), building a capability maturity matrix to help clients increase their data sophistication (and naturally you charge a monthly retainer)

Just interested in knowing where you are taking this.
As i said in a comment further down: Comments are not documentation.

Documentation explains how to use the exposed API to get the code to do something the user desires. It does however not describe what the code does, or why a specific bit of code is done in a certain way.

Comments do not concern themselves with the API, they also do not describe what the code does, that task is up to the code by way of structuring and proper naming of variables and functions.

What is left to the comments is to explain to the guy coming in afterwards why a certain bit of code is as it is when the code or the documentation cannot adequately explain its purpose explicitly or implicitly.
I'll quote a guy from a different site:

I installed Nightly on Friend's computer yesterday, and
there were "suggested sites" on the new tab page. And you
know what? I was grateful. A few of them were frequently
visited by him, so I was able to simply pin the items
already there (which had recognizable icons instead of
thumbnails) instead of having to browse around and
manually click and drag.

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?100100-Mozilla...

I do think that ads can be useful when done right. For example, ads about tickets/cd of a band when I'm browsing Last.fm. Or ads about the stream/box of TV Series/movies when I'm browsing IMDB.
It's so great to see the RTS genre getting love from the free software community. It's really been abandoned by commercial game development studios, much like point-and-click adventurers.

I can't wait to have some cross-platform Command and Conquer style games with my friends.
I think you've merely re-stated my point. A strong, independent mind makes determinations on ideas objectively without respect to the sources of those ideas.

And, I find Rob Pike completely unimpressive. I would suggest that you find other folks smarter than yourself (and preferably smarter than Rob as well) to blindly follow (if that is your thing).
Reading this manual really brought me back to the time when being a programmer was probably closely tied to being a mechanic of the machine. We take computing for granted today but it must have been amazing to see first-hand how physical inanimate objects come together to build intelligence.
I think it's instructive to compare with OpenCL. It was designed to be very similar to GL, but didn't have a backwards-compatibility legacy. It's still not exactly friendly, and some of the nicer bits are optional, but it does serve the purpose of being a hardware abstraction layer for parallel processing. It strikes me as being many times simpler than GL, even though its fundamental purpose is only a bit simpler.
Along the same vane from the math world is how natural numbers (which can then be used to build the reals, etc) are represented using only empty sets. Pretty awesome.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_definition_of_nat...
FPS is much more of a visceral experience to me. RTS is perfect for esports IMO. Even superficially, think about soccer or football. The spectator can see the whole field. Players work as a team to orchestrate big plays. Different players have distinctly different roles. The parallels go on.

FPS has a lot of this, but it gives the player a more visceral experience- and as a trade-off, makes it more difficult for a spectator to "watch the game".

The part about having to understand some of the lingo and all? Well, football (both US & EU) is completely obtuse to the uninitiated.
Actually in Japan 4G plans are cheaper, presumably because the 3G networks are so oversubscribed that carriers are trying to get people to swap (and buy new phones in the process).
Having only ever made OpenGL applications, I feel a transition to DirectX may be in order
Now even too 'bigger-to-fail'
You could do that, but who is going to want an extra round trip or two while making an HTTPS connection? Internet latency is often bad enough already.
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Not the author but if I were him I would have done the same just because I'm terribly affraid of the police and could imagine it only being worse by not acting as normal as possible.

While I'm perfectly conscious I shouldn't be like this, really bad past experiences with the police force got me into this kind of mental workflow whenever I see a police uniform. I must say being in the UK for the past years is slowly making me change this perception, I do feel much better just knowing they don't carry guns. And whenever I talked to a PC they were always very friendly and interested in what I had to say (which, as you can imagine by now, is a very different experience from the ones I had in some other countries).
I've been doing "apt-get install daemontools daemontools-run" since forever on Ubuntu; it might take a little longer to get into the repositories, but it does get into mainstream distros with almost no patching -- comparable, IIRC, to packages of similar size and complexity that do not have an upstream debian packaging.