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Yes, Nathan Myhrvold is a well known patent troll. He should be called out for what he really does, instead of being called an "inventor".
Game theory is not even a useful model here. There are plenty of rational players who would desire the downfall of Bitcoin.

The game theorists assume at the outset that everyone involved's primary financial interest is in a valid working Bitcoin network. However, banks and Western Union would not desire competitors for international currency transfer. Governments may not want currencies they can't control. The Russian mafia may want to exploit it for short-term gain or launder money. And now that there's a single pool with >51% of the CPU power, the difficulty of a hostile takeover just went way, way down.

Before, a group would have to set up a massive amount of computing power in order to take it over, but now, taking over or disrupting Bitcoin is within the reach of non-technical entities like criminal organizations and the CIA. E.g., all the CIA has to do is threaten a few people and say "Insert this code so we can freeze the transactions of $VILLAIN_OF_THE_MONTH at any time." There's many more possibilities now.
This is kinda misunderstanding Apple approach to introducing technology. Apple seldom introduce a technology as intermediary solution or discard them soon after. (the last time this happen that I could remember was GC in Objective-C which is replaced by ARC) They could double down on it even if it has its algorithmic flaws, and they will attempts to fix those flaws.

One of recent technologies that fall into this category is auto layout. (The performance of auto layout in iOS 7 for slightly more complex table view cells is pretty bad)

Apple main interests is always Apple, which makes sense because they are a for profit company. Just as Rails is always Basecamp. Apple technology have a fast paced development because Apple dog food their technology. WebKit in Safari, LLVM in Xcode. They invested huge in these area. That doesn't mean that they don't open up. both technologies I mentioned are open source and have huge impact to the community as a whole.

E.g. RubyMotion make use of LLVM to allows ruby to be compiled to both iOS and Android.

People like to think Apple is a closed company (as marketed by its competitors) but people who know the company well know that is far from true. They might not be the most open of company but they had open source technologies that are awesome in their own right. LLVM is just one of them. Open sourced and won the ACM award. That by itself is a achievement hard to beat.
Yes, one of the worst mistakes I've seen people make is trying to write Haskell exactly like you write code in other languages like Python.

If you ignore the power of Haskell's type system, and write all your code imperatively in the IO Monad, and continue to write large functions that do many things instead of writing smaller functions that can be composed, you gain almost nothing from Haskell, and you might have been better off writing your code in another language.
So? He also an amateur paleontologist whose work in that field has been published in Nature, has masters degrees in both space physics and mathematical economics, a PhD in theoretical physics, has worked as a postdoc for Stephen Hawking, is an award winning nature photographer, won first place at the Memphis barbecue championship, and is one volcano lair away from true mad scientist territory with his proposals for large scale geoengeering to deal with climate change.

People at his level somehow manage to have both a very diverse set of interests and to excel at all of them. It's kind of annoying...I have a very diverse set of interests, and I suck at most of them. How do they do it?
I don't believe it. It's just like those "peak oil" people. We just need to drill more; we can find more IP addresses.
A lot of pools straight up report their average luck and mining power BTCGuild does for example I don't know about others.

https://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=pplns
They offer a 0% mining fee.
"You have to be greedy to go into Wall Street banking in the first place."

Not necessarily. Our society places tremendous pressure on us to be materially successful. A lot of highly ambitious people in high school, and later in college, hear that Wall Street is the best way to become materially successful. So they go to Wall Street. Once they're hooked into the Wall Street lifestyle, mainlining money, they have a hard time giving up the habit. And they're start to justify an increasingly slippery array of behaviors to maintain their fix.

No doubt there's a proportion of all incoming, freshman analysts who are there because they're greedy. It's all about money for them. Gordon Gekko is a hero, not an antagonist. Wolf of Wall Street looks like a celebration, not a cautionary tale. Etc. But I'd bet that, for every Junior Gekko, there are two or three smart, ambitious, by-the-book kids who are following the recipe their parents, their educators, and their mentors have told them to follow.

Now, let's say you're one of those kids. You land a prestigious job at a bulge-bracket firm. You're making gobs of money. That's hard to give up. Especially because you've worked so hard, for so long, to get to where you are. So you keep climbing the ladder. As you climb, you make more money. You don't want to give that up, either. Maybe you experience a few shady or ethically questionable things along the way, but hell, you're making a shitload of cash. And deep down, you suspect that there's no functional, ethical difference between you and some middle manager at a Main Street company; the only difference is that you're doing more "sophisticated" work, and you're getting paid a lot more. The lifestyle sucks, but you've been conditioned to expect that having a life is a sucker's bet. You've traded all of that for the definition of success you've come to internalize.

The failure here isn't wholly the individual's. It's also the system's. Our society, our culture, our system teach many of our best and brightest to treat money and prestige as life's scorecards.

I don't excuse shady behavior from banks or from bankers. But I don't think most bankers are morally defective human beings. I think they're Type-A kids who do what they're told. Hannah Arendt wrote about the banality of evil; I think one could write just as convincingly about the banality of greed. Or the institutionalization of greed. No doubt there are some genuine sociopaths on Wall Street, and perhaps in greater proportion than you'd find in other industries. But for every sociopath, you have some folks just chasing what society conditions them to chase.
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You got the full PDF without login? I got a HTML version with very poor quality pictures or asked to pay 9 dollars to create an account that can download the PDF.
Why can't he be called both?
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> No type-system will magically know ahead of time what the contents of the file will be before you run the program.

Yes they can, it's known as 'type providers'. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2013/01/30/twelve-type...
In my experience, some compilers will inline functions when it is an optimization (particularly if you declare them static inline).
>I've learned that strong political beliefs in either direction limit your ability to make rational decisions more than almost anything else.

Strong political beliefs in any direction, not either direction. This complaint also relies on the fictional 'rational decision about a political issue' vs. 'political decision' distinction, where your opponent is always "playing politics", but you're always simply being empirical and pragmatic.

>I've learned that people's expectations grow faster than their wealth. The country is richer than it's ever been. I don't think it's as happy as it's ever been.

Not in the median it isn't. The fact that the nation's total wealth has increased while median individual wealth has decreased is a lesson about something, but not about the bulk of people's expectations rapidly growing. What a lot of people want is what most people in the US actually had before the 80s.
From "modernist cuisine at home" which is kind of the diet version of the full $625 set, I have made the pressure cooked carrot soup and it is in fact the best carrot soup I've ever eaten.

So you need a pressure cooker. And probably an immersion blender or at minimum a blender of some kind.

I've also done a variety of extractions. Carotene butter (which I think you need for the soup above anyway). This requires little more than a vegetable or herb with fat soluble flavors (like lots of carrot) and some butter and a saucepan. And a juicer. Maybe I'm a weirdo (oh, who am I kidding, I'm a weirdo) but I like carotene butter on ... everything. Its like butter-ketchup, but tastier.

The recipes are not necessarily oriented around generating the maximum volume of food or quantity of food per unit of raw material input. So it takes a lot of carrots to make a large batch of carotene butter. So it does. And its worth it.

A lot of it is ideas and techniques. So the advice on homemade hamburgers was interesting and informative and I was able to successfully employ it. But I didn't "git clone" the recipe, I just kind of fixed up my technique.
So blacks and whites are genetically inferior to asians? Is that what the data shows from your point of view?
I hope the source isn't too horrible. I was basically a complete javascript novice when I started coding the game. If I were to write it again I'd probably do it very differently, though I still have a lot to learn.
Sous vides are great because they actually allow you to measure things properly. Do you consider pressure cooking "modern" because that's also great. There's also some cool stuff you can do with a whipping siphon[0]

[0] https://www.chefsteps.com/classes/whipping-siphons/landing
But on the up side, it has a Pinky & the Brain reference, so yay for that.
"What was it about the 1970s and early 1980s that made Computer Science more welcoming to women? And what changed?
I want the answer to this question too!"

A hypothesis (remember this is only a hypothesis):

What changed was that science and math became way less cooler in the (American) public perception between the 80s and the 2000s.

With the cold war and space race, scientists and engineers were supposed to be the people who took the US to the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were, after all, engineers. The last flight to the moon was in 1972. The Voyagers were launced in 1977. Scientists, astronauts, and their like were cool, for a change. No one cared about who was winning college football when people were going to the moon and exploring the Solar System. My theory is that CS / Engineering got caught along in this wave and experienced strong female enrollment

Later, in the late 90s, and early 2000s, films like American Pie and whatnot came along, and solidified the appeal of the sports-playing jock, and making fun of the "nerds". Suddenly, nerds were the weak, spotty kids who were buried in their math books, and girls did not want to be associated with them. Enter present day, with probably 10% of CS classes in good schools being composed of women (unless it's MIT etc., which preferentially admits women to even the ratios, if I remember correctly)

To see the attitude change, just think of television programs. The scientist/astronaut Major Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70) was portrayed as a strong, positive, and socially successful character. The scientists in Big Bang Theory are portrayed as a bunch of socially inept shut-ins who are very socially/romantically unsuccessful and are supposed to be pitied by the audience.
MS's presentation on Direct12 does a good job of breaking down the problems with classic API models and how DX12 (very similar to Mantle) fixes them.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-564

youtube dupe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0QkjKGZQzI
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Not entirely related to the post, but what's the sane use case for doing:

return (expr, expr)

like in the first example? I cannot think of a good reason to do this.
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The limited number of cells, the use of up/down increments to change values instead of typing, the lack of row/column coordinate system, the lack of any kind of an apparent way to operate on multiple cells at once, the fact that the cells don't actually look like cells... it's a lot easier to come up with ways it doesn't resemble a spreadsheet than ways that it does.
Some rudimentary consideration of what life is like in a tribe would suggest that greediness and hoarding are evolutionary weaknesses. If you take too much for yourself, others in the tribe get pissed off and get rid of you. If you have a tendency to hoard things, you're going to have a hard time managing a nomadic lifestyle that necessitates light enough loads to carry. Not to mention -- things rot, things break, things get lost, and if you've just used up all the natural resources around you, you're screwing yourself quite hard.
Ok, so you can guess the wifi access points via bruteforce:

Example:
http://getwifi.io/test <-- Easy.

No transport encryption.

And why is this better than a note on the frig?
> Hollywood started in the West Coast so they could be far enough from Edison and his patents

If you're curious, as I was, this is a good read: http://www.history.com/news/the-renegade-roots-of-hollywood-...
I am gently worried that I'll play an incremental game that is also mining some kind of crypto coin simultaneously.

That sounds unlikely but look at the reddit group for cookie clicker collector - people do leave it running for days.
>it breaks the fundamentally decentralised nature of the internet and makes it harder to run P2P services

Well, those are two things ISPs don't care about...
Disappointing is relative to expectations, and my impression was that several people expected the iPhone 5c to outsell the 5s. I got the impression during the announcement of both phones that Apple itself strongly believed so. See also Daring Fireball:

> With the iPhone 5C Apple may well have created what will prove to be the most popular smartphone in the world

And Apple would have made a lot of money if that turned out to be the truth, both by selling cheaper hardware, and by selling more phones when they bring the 5c down to its knees with software bloat in the next years.
Hmm, Apple went there before Roslyn with Clang/LLVM (whose creator is the designer of Swift and works for Apple).

The idea behind LLVM was to have the various compiler stages and tooling be re-usable and plugin like, unlike the monolithic design GCC had.

And Apple already uses the came "compiler-as-a-library" approach, even for Objective-C, to implement: the compiler, the syntax highlight, AST-based auto-completion, debugging and error fix suggestions and other stuff.

I'm pretty sure that the case with Swift is the same. It's just that it's not stable yet, so you can get crashes at various stages of all those pipelines.
AIDS and the ebola virus are not spectrum diseases - you either have >= 1 ebola / HIV viron in your system or you don't. This is entirely different from depression which is a spectrum disorder with many differing degrees of severity.
It simplifies the grammar, immensely.
Yep, the biggest takeaway from modernist cuisine is that knowing how food cooks and the chemical reactions therein means you can cook a better meal.

Its not necessarily about distilling the flavor of a thing and making it look like something else. Thats more a upscale restaurant thing.

The things I found most intriguing were how little we actually knew about the process of cooking. Like barbeque as an example, it boggles my mind that until modernist cuisine came around we didn't really understand how it worked at a fundamental level. Just a bunch of "well we do this and it works and tastes well", aka we hit a local maxima and didn't seem to want to move off that hill to see if there were higher peaks around by using binoculars.
I'm reminded, maybe unfairly, of the moment just before Enron went under, when it suddenly realized that it'd probably be a good idea to have some actual assets and bought up a bunch of land to do sundry things with (mostly wind farms IIRC). Maybe Myhrvold had a premonition (prematurely, sad to say) that the legal shit concerning IV's business was about to hit the fan, and decided to diversify. There's zero evidence for this, but it's amusing.
Regarding the first one: "changing your mind is one of the most difficult things we do" -- changing our mind is almost impossible; changing other people's is down right impossible.

Eh, I did a lot of therapy. We can change our own minds. It takes work and it is hard but it is not "almost impossible."

Perhaps the second is true. If so, that would explain a lot of my frustrations. I would like to think it is not true and that changing the minds of other people is hard but not impossible.
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I find interesting that high level cuisine is growing more and more detached from "eating". It is more similar to an spectacle, when one should be surprised or even shocked, and it's not designed to be done everyday.

It is more and more about creating an experience, and ends up being totally different from some sort of "high quality feeding".
I think I disagree with almost every point you made :P

- The two missing dungeons were a non-factor (I didn't even know about this until just right now). The game wasn't buggy, and it felt complete. It was as good as it was going to get.

- Sure, a bunch of console-vendors bit the dust with CD-ROM, but nobody blamed CD-ROMs. They failed because of price, or because of lack of recognition, lack of games, or whatever, but not because of CD-ROMs. That's not me talking with the benefit of hindsight. I remember being in that era. There was a consensus that optical media in general, and CD-ROMs specifically, were the future. They were cheaper, and could hold huge amounts of data and FMV clips (FMV was big!). Nintendo had their reasons to go with cartridges, but they weren't good reasons for customers and publishers.

>Likewise, the Wii was slated when people saw the Gamecube-level specs with no HD, but then it was successful beyond anyone's wildest expectations.

Yeah, it was a success and let Nintendo survive that console generation, but that success didn't do anything for the Wii U and the Wii kinda lost steam near the end (didn't most 3rd party publishers abandon it mid-way through it's life?). They got really really lucky with the Wii.
>they all seem to involve an expense of time and equipment that I'm not willing to invest given the alternatives.

Not to mention an unhealthy obsession with triviallities in food, the same way others fixate on model airplanes.
I know this mainly as a useful macro implementation trick if where you want to be able to use it in an expression.
Yep, but for min the C11 generics would work just as well and allow for a bit more flexibility than the older approaches.

Though you do have to name mangle manually and they aren't quite as powerful as you'd probably want.

http://www.robertgamble.net/2012/01/c11-generic-selections.h...
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This is how it looks like: http://imgur.com/zTGaVNF

The link expires within an hour, and once logged in you're logged in for a day.

People complain about that shit every week. We switched to Persona for a week. Even worse results. The only reason why I'm keeping this for FtC is because I don't want to deal with passwords and hashing and stuff.
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>I've learned that people's expectations grow faster than their wealth. The country is richer than it's ever been. I don't think it's as happy as it's ever been.

Not in the median it isn't.

Your claim is that median wealth has in some meaningful sense decreased in the United States during my lifetime of just more than half a century. Because of various family circumstances and my own career choices, I have generally been below the United States median in income much of my working life, and have always been below the United States median in financial assets or possession of land and real property. And yet I have every reason to believe the author's claim that "The country is richer than it's ever been," and not just for the fat cats, but for me too.

For one thing, we have this newfangled Internet technology that allows you and me to have a thoughtful discussion while shattering barriers of distance. Having once lived overseas when my only affordable means of communication with my homeland was postal aerograms, I count this as a HUGE increase in wealth, which is certainly enjoyed by most at-or-just-below median people in most developed countries. (I communicate with friends and relatives from a variety of countries online every day.)

So I call baloney on your assertion. But perhaps you have evidence that will convince to change my opinion. Discussing this issue thoughtfully will also make both of us richer than we used to be, so I am all ears.

AFTER EDIT: You do make a good point that political opinions can (and do) differ along more than one dimension. There are many, many different kinds of political opinions, including many that are inconsistent with other opinions held by the same person.
Agreed. This does not say as much about Airbnb as it does about how much value is destroyed by outdated, ill-designed regulation.
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What a thoughtful comment, poub. Indeed, we wanted to get to having user profiles, playlists and other ways to interact with the community. That was the problem. We knew what we needed to build for our experience to be more sticky, we just didn't have the resources to do enough of it fast enough. The good news is, whatever we decide to do next can only be about 10x easier than what we just attempted. ;)
This what I really like about "modernist cuisine", and why I think it's silly that some people consider it the future of cooking. It's really fun and delightful to very occasionally enjoy food as prepared by a mad scientist, you know? If I'm shelling out $200 for a meal, I'd rather experience it as this sort of ephemeral performance art rather than yet another perfect, but ultimately unmemorable, traditional dish. But aside from the occasional technique or two (sous vide), nobody's gonna be doing this sort of stuff at home.
The government shutdown had nothing to do with defaulting on the US debt. That debt isn't a huge portion of the budget, it has to do with reigning in spending - the cause of the debt.
I see the source of your confusion now. To me innovation means something absolutely new, not re-applying/combining prior art. Wikipedia agrees: "Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better."
You know how a good beer tastes even better after a really long, arduous, confusing, painful, muddled, wonky day of hard labor?

That's what it'll feel like when you try Swift after learning Objective C.
So, guess what Airbnb is doing next?

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/10/airbnbs-stealth-home-dinin...
If you use multiple different computers, especially public computers, you won't stay logged in for two months (or whatever). This is not necessarily a big deal assuming you don't have a problem with them logging in over and over and over. It won't necessarily be that big of a convenience to such a person and might make them very self conscious of their lifestyle difference (for example, they are poor and only log in on public library terminals which have a time limit -- your assumptions about computer usage are kind of upper class) especially if, for some reason, you decide that their difference in usage makes them "suspicious" (a common occurrence for the underclass) and begin making life more difficult for them simply because their usage differs from the scenario you expected.