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I wonder what's going to happen when computers will pass the "mirror test" (think of it as an advanced Turing test). Should we consider them as persons too, with their own rights? Should we be morally responsible for turning off a machine, even though its internal state is completely represented in a finite amount of information, and could be "paused", "resumed", and even "cloned"?
I read this book in the early 90s:

http://www.amazon.com/Library-Research-Models-Classification...

The gist of it was that the "value" of a scholarly article could be measured by the number of citations, weighted by the number of citations each of the articles that cited it got, and so on.

Basically PageRank (though without the actual mathematics that to calculate the number).
I worked in a lab where we had a computer dedicated to running a very specialized piece of equipment. The computer was a 386 running DOS. We had all of the software updates (including operating system) to upgrade everything if needed in case the computer stopped working. That was only a few years ago, and as far as I know that 386 is still running. After seeing the current software for running that piece of equipment, I understand why the lab never upgraded. The old UI was a bit clunky, but it was much easier to use.
If Mozilla licensed DRM from a competing browser vendor, they would effectively be crowning a de facto DRM "standard" based on combined browser market share. Mozilla's support for Adobe's "less evil" CDM means there may be more competition around DRM, though I have no theories how that might play out.
> Because they don't consistently follow any rules whatsoever they're dangerous and the majority of them have an holier than thou attitude because they're not ruining the environment. They're just ruining every driver and pedestrian's commute.

I think a more generous reading of the situation is that there is no generic norm for how cyclists should act. They don't actually know how to best act. They are not cars. They are not pedestrians. Laws themselves are both inconsistent and unnatural between various cities (precisely because there is no generic norm for cyclists...).

It's no so much that bikes should conform to rules which make no sense, but that the larger complex of cities as a whole should adapt to the fact that bikes have become part of their character. There needs to be predictability, certainly, but you're not going to get that by forcing bikes to act like vehicles that they are not.
Overall design of product is not very good. Also, you should probably not use the word "Render" for a consumer app; maybe "Publish" or "View"?
From what I understand, the purpose of the project was to amass an enormous database of code patterns and their SMT-proven more optimal replacement code. Is there also a project to apply the harvested optimizations against code?

Also, couldn't the same principle apply to compilers that emit LLVM bitcode, like GHC and rustc?
The issue is, is that DRM fails abysmally at this, all it takes is a couple minutes and someone with the right software, and -poof- your DRM is gone, and next thing you know, it's on the pirate bay, easier to acquire than legitimate means, and more convenient to use.
Hypercriticize much?
Yes, I agree that some Firefox users had moved to Chrome early on, and that Google does have the potential to market Chrome more forcefully than Mozilla can for Firefox.

I don't think that the timing is all that relevant, though. This has been a gradual process over several years now.

The main point is that it wasn't so much what the other browsers and their vendors did that reduced Mozilla's influence, but rather that it was what Mozilla did (or didn't) do that has resulted in Firefox's decline.

Mozilla stopped leading, and instead decided to follow Chrome. While doing this, they've bungled major Firefox features, ranging from automatic upgrades to the UI design, time and time again. They've neglected to sufficiently resolve long-standing resource usage problems. They've ignored feedback from disappointed Firefox users for years now. They've ignored that this direction obviously isn't helping to prevent users from leaving Firefox, while at the same time it's driving a lot of users away, and furthermore it isn't really bringing in any new users.

In my opinion, Mozilla has been its own worst enemy these past several years. They've inflicted more harm on their own cause than any external opponent or competitor could have ever hoped to do.
In case it's not totally obvious, that's monthly!
Does anyone else think the tone of the article is strongly implying Marchiori is owed honor, fame, money etc while his quote contradicts the implication? "Munchausen by Proxy" is a recognized syndrome but I've read several articles lately that sound like "Sour Grapes by Proxy".
I'm 21 years old and inherited Essential Tremor from my grandfather. They're definitely noticeable normally, but can get worse during a caffeine or adrenaline high (also if anxious about something). It makes taking notes during a lecture or handwriting for a long test kind of difficult. Answers get messy, so professors can't always read everything. Either that, or I try to slow down my pace, but then that ends up using more time than I have.

I think there's a long way to go until there's a "cure" or way of treating it, but the work you've put in will hopefully be prove useful to the research community. Thanks Chris for taking the time to work on this cool project.
Comcast is threatening to divest themselves of the ISP business and just be a media company

No kidding? I hadn't heard about that.

I wonder if that means they'll be selling off the pipes cheap...
> reallocate efforts to making their product more attractive for them.

The product is attractive to them already, they are illegally downloading it for use already. By making it more attractive do you mean lower their price to compete with piracy? Hard to stay in business when you compete with illegal free copies of your software.
The thing about McDonals, a company making profits in a consensual trade is a total non-sequitur.

What I assume is disgusting is that the British Government's money actually belong to British taxpayers, who contributed it in the first place. Those taxpayers have reasonable expectations that this money will be used to indirectly benefit them or for the good of the British people at large, and not end up squandered.

Now other people correctly pointed out that the pound would have devaluated with or without Soros, so I don't think his actions where all that unethical. But as it happened so suddenly instead of the usual drawn-out game of rumors, some politicians clearly felt the burn.
It may be difficult to believe, but automobiles are a much bigger threat to the safety of pedestrians than bicycles are. This is true no matter how you measure it: rate of incident, rate of injury, rate of death, etc. Motorized vehicles drive too fast in urban areas. Pedestrians should welcome anything that effectively slows them down.
For anyone interested in seeing the before/after effects of DBS treatment, this video is pretty powerful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBh2LxTW0s0
Show HN: nData – In-memory data store which uses JavaScript as a query language
Because of this awkwardness, I never minimize windows either (like others who replied here). I simply hide them.
Removing DRM makes the product easier to use. Freed resources can go to anything else there is to improve. Nothing is ever perfect.
Do none of the teardowns include text? Descriptions of how to do specific steps are super useful if any of the steps are tricky or hard to show visually.
What do you think the gross unit margin is on a copy of Microsoft Office? (obv it's high). Would you consider that it is because it is a "small, niche market"?

What is the unit margin on a printed copy of a Finnish translation of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn which is now in the public domain? (Obviously very low). Is that because it is a "small, niche market"?

The view that whether a market is a) small, b) niche, determines price, clearly has its limits.

In formal terms, the price we are looking at is the "monopoly price". It maximizes the profits given a single supplier (as for Microsoft Office.)

If Microsoft Office were more niche, it may cost $20,000, e.g. for excel in use just by a few wall street firms and nobody else -- we are talking about a situation where the software itself is exactly the same -- whereas if it were even more mass market, it may have a lower price.

At the current price for Microsoft Office, it is a steal for Wall Street trading firms doing some quick rough calculations, whereas it is expensive for students and families. Nevertheless, it is set at the monopoly price.

If the product we were talking about were a utensil everyone would want to use, it may have a price at $99 or $50 or even $20, depending on the scale the monopolist wants to hit.

You are right that the price depends on the demand curve. But in a monopoly, it depends far less on the supply curve.

Your argument about the first mover's advantage is not specific enough - can you state your premise more specifically, especially for hardware, maybe given some non-protected innovative examples (such as Pebble versus the Samsung Gear watch)? Then we could discuss it.

Where you say "unlikely that a copycat competitor would challenge someone in a good position." Out of curiosity, would you consider Lift Lab's position currently "good" if it did not have any patent protection?

Finally, you are completely correct that patents allow the patent holder to do a "poor" job, that "doesn't fully reach people who need this product". In terms of execution, how close do you think to optimal is Lift Labs doing in terms of executing on its idea?

For both of the last two paragraphs you could look at these common questions for example: http://store.liftlabsdesign.com/pages/faqs
I remember walking across a four-lane major road with the last moments of the pedestrian walk signal allowing me the right. A cyclist was turning into the four-lane road, all lanes of which were empty and available for him to choose from, with only light traffic waiting for the lights to resume. Despite this bevy of selection, his chosen course of action was to buzz the single pedestrian crossing and abuse him for being in the way.

Aggressive cyclists are a problem. Assertive cyclists are not, and there is a clear and important distinction between the two.
If bicyclists are to be allowed in vehicular traffic lanes, then they should be treated as vehicles and governed by the exact same laws as vehicles. No exceptions.

Bicycles are part of a larger system and that system runs on expectations. Adding a new class of movement patterns for bicycles which are sharing lanes with cars makes this system much more difficult to predict for everyone. There's no way this would be safer in dense, highly trafficked cities.
AFAIK Lombok plugs into Eclipse APIs, it doesn't use annotation processing.

Read this to get some idea of what can be achieved with annotation processing: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/projects/Erni08b.pdf

They do use so compiler API which are not stable interfaces, but even without that, you can go surprisingly far.
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Customizing GroupDocs.Annotation for Java UI to Match Your Needs
The article provides detailed instructions that will help you make a custom user interface based on the GroupDocs.Annotation for Java library and seamlessly integrate it into your own app. It mainly covers customization of the navigation controls and collaboration events handling.
Leaked NYT innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
Why does it keep refreshing the page?!

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"scaled container width: 566.6315789473684"
Again, I'm not saying your position is wrong. I'm saying that your point is buried beneath your sarcasm and your ceaseless series of edits and revisions.
I'd be perfectly fine with them having a set of rules they follow assuming the vast majority followed them and the ones that didn't were ticketed just as drivers or pedestrians would be.
I feel the same way. When I moved from Windows to Mac, I nearly burst into tears due to lack of simple keyboard shortcuts. And it was surprising to me given how geeks prefer Mac over Windows. I expected Mac to be more keyboard friendly and was disappointed.
To quote a blog post I wrote in 2006 [1]:

"To be fair to my parents, they did supply a vast supply of love, encouragement with my more sensible interests, pushed me in school (that was a lot of work and would have been much easier if I'd understood my personality type and learning style at the time) and provided an endless supply of items that I could take apart in an effort to satisfy my curiousity of "How this works" (they were especially happy when I became skilled enough to successfully reassemble these items)."

Perhaps it would be a good idea to show how to reassemble the more expensive items. Future parents would be grateful.

[1] - http://codesnipers.com/?q=microivs-making-dreams-come-true
It's definitely unfortunate that Clojure doesn't ship with pattern matching out of the box, but there's a library that implements pattern matching macros.

But obviously summing over a list can be done in one line of code in any decent language even without pattern matching.
An Introduction to Cubism
Square Cash does this exact thing. Uses an app or via email, deposits via debit card number, and has no fees. No idea how it works, but it's how most of my friends send me money. https://square.com/cash
A pretty good documentary from the BBC about Black Wednesday. Shows more from the government side and the mistakes they made than Soros part but still gives you a good understanding of what happened. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_oET45GzMI
If you see an online service whose online security is terrible, do you (a) notify the company (b) hack them and privately inform them off the exploit or (c) hack them, steal all the data, sell it on the open market and make a million pounds, simultaneously disadvantaging millions of average customers?
My policy, when on foot, is such:

-Completely ignore bicyclists. This may perhaps cause them abruptly stop and not like me. I don't care, because I have the right-of-way, and they are in the wrong.

-Beat the living piss out of any biker that collides with me. (As a result of their vehicular assault, which is what recklessly hitting me with your bike in the crosswalk represents. This includes throwing their bike into traffic where it hopefully gets run over, for good measure.)

Fortunately, I haven't had to do the last step yet. I've cut off plenty of bikers as they attempt to zip past me in a crosswalk and have had them curse at me and just give them a 'fuck you' smile. :)

Listen bikers, the rules are simple and have been around forever: when you're in the roadway, conduct yourself as a vehicle. This includes obeying all traffic signs and patterns. If you ultimately have problems hitting people, YOU ARE IN THE WRONG.
This is such a terrible thing to do. You are intentionally taking advantage of your backers by giving them the false sense of security that you will be more likely to complete your project if you get far more then your goal, when in reality you could be far below what is actually needed to deliver because you really expected to get even more.

Again, you are taking advantage of your backers if you do this and it shouldn't be OK. I wish Kickstarter had a penalty or some other system in place to discourage this.
TFA seems to exaggerate the difference between Idaho and Dead Red for stoplights. Depending on how Dead Red laws are interpreted, the stopping time is not necessarily a "set period" as stated. If the cyclist knows the induction loop isn't going to pick up the bicycle, then a momentary stop meets the requirements in many jurisdictions.
However, the law says you still have to yield to these people. So why not follow the law and stop?
Man, this guy is going to be REALLY upset when he hears about how cars constantly speed, roll through stop signs, and text on their cell phones. I say until we get those problems stopped, we don't give cars the special treatment of having use of all lanes. We'll just shove them in the far right like we do with bikes.
This is such an HN reply. Tear everything to shreds. Who cares if it "would be useful in a limited subset of cases where the tremor resembles another condition known as essential tremor"? Seriously, no one is forcing you to buy one. Be happy that people who are sick get the dignity of feeding themselves back. This is only positive. This can only get better. FFS...
Small UI nit: on both services the tags really overwhelm the rest of the content visually.
SizeUp is a great utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts for resizing and moving windows around. Essential!

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
I don't see how anything above negates what I said that more competition will make things change. The point is that publishers somehow need to grasp that DRM serves no useful purposes whatsoever. For that they need examples, and that comes from competition which doesn't use DRM.

> Publishers don't want to make consumers' lives difficult or prevent you from enjoying yourself

They obviously want that. Since they use DRM which doesn't affect pirates but affects those who buy stuff. So the obvious conclusion is that either publishers are morons, or they want to insult all their users, or they use DRM for completely unrelated sinister purposes.

What I meant above about competition is simple - the more successful DRM free projects there are, the easier it is to disprove that DRM is needed. The size of the budget is completely irrelevant to the fact that DRM is ineffective against piracy. It equally applies to a low budget or big budget project which spends millions on marketing.

Of course we are talking about publishers which are just clueless. Those who use DRM for side purposes won't care since they have other goals. Those will be forced by hard competition only. I.e. imagine a big publisher coming which doesn't want to be a part of their cartel and makes DRM-free releases. Many would prefer that, and it can force other publishers to drop their crooked reasons when they'll start losing profit.

> It's great that Veronica Mars raised $5.7 million on Kickstarter

That's a bad example. WB didn't allow it to come out DRM-free despite it being crowdfunded. It should be a lesson not to trust these backwards thinking publishers ever.
It's all tied up in the mythologization of ideas.

I've found it's extremely common even for business writers to regularly buy into the notion that ideas are the critical element in success. That spark point is endlessly romanticized, whether we're talking about Newton's apple or Pierre's pez. There is something a bit romantic about that moment of clarity, but it's such an insignificant fraction of the work, luck and timing that goes into success as to be absurd to grant much value to it.
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There was a lot of fraud involved in the banks and mortgage brokers who made hundreds of thousands of liar's loans: the fact that nobody was prosecuted for that fraud is a failure of the justice and regulatory systems..
I have regularly argued that much of it was, in fact, illegal. At a minimum there was a lot of negligence with regard to fiduciary responsibility. I would also argue that there was a fair amount of fraud from borrowers, mortgage brokers, banks, and so on all the way up to the top financial levels.
The point is there shouldn't be such a thing as an 'aggressive' OR an 'assertive' cyclist.

All cyclists should follow the law and follow predictive traffic behavior! It's pretty simple.
LOL, I can just imagine the scene now:

INTERIOR, HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY OFFICE

PHONE RINGS

SOROS: Hi, my name is George Soros, I'm a hedge fund manager and international speculator. I noticed that you're trying to prop up the British pound, but rather than try to profit from this, I figured I'd just call and give you guys the heads up that it's not going to work.

TREASURY OFFICIAL: Oh my God, you're right! We'll issue a public statement right away, admitting that we've been wrong and that we're putting an immediate end to the policy. Thanks so much for the warning, kind sir!
If you're riding your bike on the road, I think you need to follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, get off the road.

I've seen way too many cases where cyclists make the roads more dangerous for everyone.
It's not the injecting large quantities of virus that poses a risk, it's genetically modifying viruses and then exposing people to them that is risky.

I would hope that quarantine procedures around any human made-or-modified virus would be quite strict to avoid something unwanted making it's out of the lab.
I think some banks might do this too. I know one site where you pay by bank transfer with a specific code as reference said very clearly never to use "bitcoin" in that reference or you'd be banned. I suspect Google don't share the fraud liability of banks though so this is kind of surprising.
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I still remember the first VCR I actually managed to get back together and working in all its dark wood panelled glory. I moved onto software a few years later to the excitement of my mother since I was a forgetful child with a lot of burn marks on the floor where I'd forgotten or dropped a soldering iron. Computer parts everywhere and a busy phone line were better than the risk of a burnt down house.
You seem to be suffering from an obnoxious case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'esprit_de_l'escalier

It helps when you can put a name on these things and auto-correct.
>But in that case, I'd argue that the issue of open access to cultural artifacts, even if it's Ben Stiller and not Plato or the Principia Mathematica, is quite serious matter.

if Plato were DRM-ed, the license servers would probably be not available today, and thus the Plato itself. In that regard DRM to today's cultural artifacts is like Alexandria library fire to the artifacts of ancients.
Cars pay yearly taxes (registration) and face inspection and insurance requirements to drive on roads. Cyclists are not taxed yearly for owning a bike, required to get licenses, insurance, inspections, etc. Until this changes, riding bicycles on public roads is a privilege, and should be treated as such.
It WAS a consensual trade between the British government and Soros, in effect.... the gov could have at any time earlier in the process stopped buying obviously over priced pounds, but they didn't.... yes, the gov was spending tax payers money in doing those deals, but the tax payers had selected John Major, and he was quite clear on his position in terms of monetary policy.
I think the article and the report fail to mention what other organizations and companies are able to access your data. Several of these companies are known for using your data as a direct source of income and selling ads or using your likeness for financial gain. Companies like Dropbox, Wikimedia, and Adobe don't use your personal directly for financial gain. Companies like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn use the data you provide them for direct financial gain. Sure, you know this going in, but they are still selling information about you to other parties.

To this effect, yes, it is nice to know what they are reporting to governments, but it'd also be nice to know what they are reporting to NGOs as well.