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Only the truly privileged feel comfortable without privacy. Only once there is no such thing as an outcast, an undesirable, a freak, or a nerd, can a world without privacy be livable.
Yes and yes.

There should be nothing wrong with thinking about crime. Openly discussing and planning a crime...well, that depends on a lot of factors, but there's certainly situations where it should be fine, e.g. kids idly fantasizing about blowing away a school bully without any real means or intention to do so.

But when someone honestly and to the best of their ability attempts to commit a serious crime like murder or child abuse, then yes, absolutely they should be prosecuted. If someone attempts to kill me but screws it up, I don't want them walking free to try again and again until they get it right.

Also bear in mind that, at least in the US, "murder" and "attempted murder" are different crimes, and I'm okay with that.
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Not necessarily. Efficiency of delivery matters - the homeless are very time-poor because every basic necessity of life costs a huge amount of time to acquire, even if they are free monetarily.

Every meal involves a multi-hour line. Every shelter bed too. Every free clinic, etc etc, you get the point.

The net effect is, despite having well-funded charities providing for their basic needs, they have neither the time nor the bandwidth to make any substantial improvement in the long run.

Contrast this situation to transitional homes, where once admitted people are guaranteed shelter, clothing, and food for a period of time, where (basically) the same services are provided but without the daily time sink, and the success rates are much higher (this of course, should account for the fact that transitional homes mostly exclude those who still have major mental health or substance abuse problems).

Both institutions are a source of "free money", but one works a hell of a lot better, largely because it frees them up for higher-order goals.
I got distracted, sorry

I think fees will get cheaper as times goes by and the bitcoin network and market matures but it is very hard to say right now with the current transaction size limitations.

Bitcoin is still in early development and very niche, so far the incentives have been working well enough but once the block rewards halves is yet to be seen if fees will be competitive enough and whether the price for them will go up. We also have to hope that the block size and the network capacity can grow fast enough to support its own weight.

In general I think that as more players come in the industry the fees of exchanges, atms, debit cards etc will decrease.

I wish some core developer could also contribute to answer your question and provide more insight than i can offer.
yes plz.
But had he not had the incredible good luck to meet Woz when he did, he would have died penniless and alone.
So...

Are you saying you weren't allowed to? If so, why not? You can walk into any random liquor store that I'm aware of and buy gallons of beer or hard liquor if you want to
It's pretty awesome to be able to host CoffeeScript OSS projects on a .coffee TLD
Quite right. If they were compelled -- e.g., "insert this backdoor or we'll imprison you" -- they might trivially serve up a tweaked version of their JavaScript to the one user the NSA was interested in.

And it wouldn't take a complicated tweak at all to sneak the real password (or some sufficient version of it) back to the server, after which point certainly "even us" can read & listen in to all of that user's conversations.
Should patents change to a use-it-or-lose-it system much like trademarks? If you're aware of someone using one of your patents but don't do anything to control it, you're implicitly ceding future rights to that invention.
I hope he's getting paid for his time. MS should really be hiring him.
The privacy concerns with throwing loads of data at a third party api is staggering and perhaps the main driver for doing ML in-house.
I tend to agree with the article.. but it would be nice to also read other opinions from other obj-C coders. Anyone here?
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You have a name and credit card number which may or may not belong to the person using the service.
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You should try to visit India. You can see various great startups like flipkart, redbus, explara, paytm, etc.
The idea's been percolating for a while - one of the major facets of blockchain technology is that it can be used to effect many kinds of transactions, where traditional finance is just the simplest one to conceive of. Simultaneously there's been a thread of philosophy arising from various sources(Singularity writers, cypherpunks, Anonymous) that advocates new governance forms that fully exploit digital technology.

My favorite book on this is Binding Chaos [0] - most of the material in it clarifies problems with existing governance structures and their inevitable tendency towards power inequality. The remainder suggests that a better system would contain two major concepts: stigmergy - essentially, "space-making" instead of our existing "leadership" model, where environmental changes can automatically direct the next action of the group - and epistemic user groups: Communities that are focused on a particular form of expert knowledge and its study.

We already have some models for this in open source projects, Wikipedia, etc. but the book is light on specific implementation ideas. What is really needed is software innovations on these concepts, and blockchain hacking is one way to go about it.

[0] https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/

edit: forgot this isn't reddit
gmail doesn't belong to you. With android, you wouldn't be able to run your own code without much effort/porting to new platforms. If you wrote a game for the amiga or apple, and still have the original machine, you can still run your own code. There are programs being used today that are 30+ years old which serve their purpose. This will be used to force extinction of programs.
Yeah I'm sure. I'm reciting the latin version because it's easier to read in English. The original version is: νοῦς ὑγιής ἐν σώματι ὑγιεῖ.
I live in Europe and my client is American company. That is pretty much only possible arrangement since they have no presence here.

Also being employee would mean to give-up my copyright, which I am not that keen to do.
Makes sense, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Making licenses tradable really doesn't affect the stability of access to licenses or facility to fire drivers in the slightest. You tie the licences to whoever pays for them, and give that entity - firm or individual - grandfather rights to the same number of taxi licences as last year. Sure, if the licences are paid for and renewed by the firms it makes individual drivers dispensable and at risk of unemployment if the taxi firm wants cheaper labour, and if they're paid for and renewed by particular drivers it disincentivises firms from firing then for underperformance; allowing the "owners" of the medallion to collect large amounts of economic rent on a secondary market doesn't change that at all assuming the total number of licenses is still fixed at the same amount.

If anything, arguably it's worse for Joe if Lucky Cabs owns his medallion and also has the opportunity to sell at a profit, and Lucky Cabs are similarly badly off if their drivers own the medallions but don't particularly care for keeping customers happy (perhaps because they're counting down the years til they can sell the medallion on for an order of magnitude more than they originally paid for it).

If you want to encourage flexibility in licenses which are short term leased rather than "owned" you can even give holders the option of pro rata rebates (at the price paid) for trading them in early to encourage people that aren't using their licence to return them.

Basically, the city is in total control of the terms on which medallions can be leased and can collect the full market value of the medallions itself; to not do so is economically indefensible, unless you think giving cash windfalls to its original taxi drivers and speculators is high on the list of civic priorities
That issue about requiring a root item should be solvable in the future, it's just the current implementation that has limitations. I'm building up the test suite to specify the behavior and hope to have it working soon.

For the most part jQuery plugins should work fine with Hamlet, so long as one remembers to update the data in the model rather than arbitrarily throughout the DOM. It can be a moderate mental shift to go from jQuery style "The DOM is the data" to the newer Backbone, Knockout, React, Angular, etc style of "The model is the data" and may not be right for all applications.

Thanks for the comment I'll take a look at Meteor Blaze and see what cool tricks it has :)
So, at a basic level, a pivot is just a field experiment without a control? Or is it an observational study?
I certainly wouldn't suggest this method in place of a proper deployment strategy for serious development.

There are problems with this method, but, for a hobbyist who hand codes a small static or very simple site, I think it would be fun. Magic internet stuff.

The interesting idea for me was not just auto-syncing files onto a remote server, but onto a web server. It's obvious once you think of it, but I hadn't thought of it before.
Which knock-off tablet and digitizers have you used?

The oddness is that Wacom is itself a Japanese company so even the 'original' products are Asian from soup-to-nuts. I'm unclear on the relevancy of your Korean extraction or what you believe I am supposing.
The problem is the mechanism of the government footing the bill that the US has chosen incentivizes the disgustingly high tuition rates: offering an essentially unlimited amount of debt to all but the absolute most unqualified borrowers (the standard is "no adverse credit history," and given that the vast majority of borrowers have no credit, basically no one gets denied), who then spend the money at a third party who takes on none of the risk that the students won't be able to pay back the debt. The third party acts rationally, and drastically increases its price, then justifies the price by spending it on extravagant buildings, massive administrations, and high salaries for those administrators (my alma mater had a Dean, a Vice Dean, a Chancellor, a Vice Chancellor, a Provost, a Vice Provost, and a President, not to mention the Deans and Vice Deans of specific branches like admissions and financial aid, and to this day am unclear on the difference in all their responsibilities, since they seemed to be deployed at random in responses and school-wide emails), so that they can point to how expensive it is to operate a university.

I'd be open to free education for all if the schools would pare back on administration and extravagance (since there's a strong argument that taxpayer dollars can be well-spent educating a workforce, but not a strong argument that taxpayers should be funding educations at the equivalent of an all-inclusive resort). I'd be even more open to taking the federal financial aid budget and distribute it to schools with a mandate that it be distributed in the form of grants and financial aid, so that in order to maintain their quality of life, they'll be forced to work to actually generated positive outcomes for all of their students, rather than following and promoting the successes and ignoring the rest.
I use self hosted WordPress blog. I like having more control, but give up some conveniences like not worrying about bugs and patches.
Opened the issue tracker in the InriaMescsi fork.
You can get free VMs at https://modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools . And also a free 3 month BrowserStack trail from the same site.
Except it's a GPL'd web application, so you're free to run your own server.
Given that M-PESA is run by a telephone company, is it the traditional financial industry or not? It can be argued both ways. SafariCom effectively runs a bank, but it is nonetheless primarily a technology company.
Only exceptionally stupid thieves would use the actual serial number from the bike.
Those modes fail testing. They're not replacements for the real browser. Helps with trivial things like formatting issues, but for the handful of things I've tested that work in 9 and break in 10, the legacy modes have largely the same issues.
I'm glad to see a few studies bearing out the sort of things I perceived growing up.

'To him, the obvious conclusion is to radically change our thinking. “Just like you wouldn’t charge them $1,000 to fill out a form, you shouldn’t charge them $1,000 in cognitive complexity,” he says. One study found that if you offer help with filling out the Fafsa form, pickup goes up significantly.'

I believe this is exactly the right sort of thinking. Finding ways to encourage and enable people to start moving gradually in order to build positive momentum.

The "front loading" of forms, waiting lists and probationary periods are like mountains. Some people break themselves on the ascent, others spend themselves reaching the summit and have no energy to continue safely down the far side. These man made mountains need not remain arbitrarily steep.
That's correct. Note that I never said it was the FCC's job to prevent protectionism in other countries. I was simply answering deciplex's question of how net neutrality could harm the American economy if it were only enforced in the United States.
People make mistakes. Every piece of software ever written has bugs: I don't think that means everyone's process is rotten. It just means they are human.
The luck thing mostly applies to consumer internet, see the comment [1] from wdewind elsewhere in this thread.

For B2B/SaaS you can lower the risk a lot, especially if a team member has domain knowledge and industry connections.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901437
It's not really an important feature--if it was, people wouldn't have been gushing their details into massive databases over the past decade.

It's nice to see a set of tools that lets even the most simple of business people exploit their customers as effectively as, say, Facebook or Google.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372059(v=vs.85).as...
>even though I just recently did got a notice that IE has been updated, it is still IE10.

Win8 ships with IE10. If it did an upgrade, then you should be on 11 now.
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Definitely not. Most of mobile software strives to run at 60fps. That's just 16.7ms.
Sure; but there's a world of difference between communicating with a webapp that claims to protect your privacy even from the NSA (but actually cannot) vs. "any regular application", which makes no such security claims, and from whom savvy users won't expect that kind of protection.

People with important information to communicate that they must protect from the powers that be (quite possibly to protect their own lives) will seek out secure methods; at the same time, the powers they're avoiding will be targeting secure communication methods.
The actual numbers are far worse with children, between $20K and $60K there's a no (wo)mans land for single moms where they'll make more money off .gov at $20K than off .com at $60K. Its pretty sick.
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Incidentally, the large rear wheels in drag racers is an example of a variable torque wheel design:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ug6w4ZjwVo#t=55
If you did it like that, then it would be trivial to take away all Patents. Just create a shell company that infringes, sell the product to another shell company, and then the patent would be gone since the holder company didn't take action. It is almost impossible for a patent holder to know the implementation details of every other company in order to detect infringement. Typically it is patent is granted, someone comes along and infringes, the holder gets notified somehow, and then legal action is taken. There is always going to be a period of time where the holder doesn't know their patent is being infringed. Also, the holder does have the right to take no legal action against an infringement.
money?
"optimal experience"

I'm all for supporting open source. But seriously, it took me about 20-30 hours to get my FreeNAS setup working (the way I wanted) (getting the hardware together, configuring... lots and lots of configuring). And I'm definitely not going to say that that project is "end user friendly".

I really really love open source projects but I'm willing to put down that they don't always meet the end user in an appreciable way without a serious and committed company behind the product making it end user applicable (android, et all). Otherwise the open source project will fit the needs of the people that work on it (engineers) and that's about it.
Man can't wait for someone to build a pivoting web framework on Github, where I can build a subscription based service and then switch whatever the product is with the data schema, and the pricing and the description page changes.

Basically a framework that already has Stripe/Paypal payment integration to charge a user's CC, a schema for a informational or subscription-based product that I can modify pricing and description for, and some front-end templates to modify the landing page and call to action and A/B testing analytics for me to optimize on conversion.

Kinda of like A/B testing but hedging my bets and executing all of my business ideas at once!
In N Out famously pays its employees far above minimum wage, even at entry level and offers fantastic benefits. All managers make >$100K annually. They have one of the lowest employee turnover rates in the food services industry, despite paying their employees more than enough to pay for an education and transition to a white collar career. I know friends from high school who started working there at 16, continued through college (and paid their way), then chose to continue on as managers at In N Out, as it was far and away a better immediate career option (with the potential to move to corporate after a few years as managers) than their others.

Schultz's comments lead me to believe that he's well aware of In N Out's model.
I like the memory profiling, way better then the others.
I'm guessing you're not active there, but maybe you know someone / some outfit that is. I would assume Canadian authorities are also snapping this equipment up.

A while back, I knew someone who played a significant role in helping pass a FOIA-like measure in British Columbia. (I'm no longer in touch with them.)

If various U.S. authorities remain uncooperative, I'm not overly hopeful about Canadian, but maybe?

And while I guess that wouldn't focus on U.S. authorities' use of what is already a fairly well understood technology, I bet a few Canadians would like to know when and how this technology is being used up there.
Our company mulled the idea of doing a similar product for years. Essentially putting a pretty UI on top of machine learning algorithms under the hood where you automatically determine which algo gives the best fit.

Ultimately shelved it because we couldn't find a good customer fit. For corporate enterprise users, our usual bread & butter, this has to be super secure so the idea of uploading gigs of proprietary company data or customer data rings alarm bells. Plus the data has to be cleaned up and ready to go. It just seemed like a lot of leg work before you even got to the payoff - and even then, having to explain why the predictive results weren't 100% accurate etc.

Curious to see how this plays out. I wonder if they're using vowpal-wabbit under the hood - I believe the guy behind that worked / works at MSFT.
I think it's always been like that, it's just that the internet allows light-speed iteration, hence you see the same phenomenon that would take decades in the past happening within days.
The problem is that most current jQuery plugins modify the DOM. If someone want to use a jQuery carousel, the plugin will add arrows buttons and page indicators in the DOM. Then if the template engine updates one of the carousel slide, these nodes will be removed and the plugin will be broken.
I'd be interested in this - how easy was it to set up, is there an image or something that one can use so I don't have to worry about iptables rules and things but can just spin up an instance and go?
I was about to chime in on this. Yes, the surface got thrown at Gabe since the getgo. He's been raving about it for a long time.

Which is surprising as he was using it as part of his major workflow for a while over his cintiq.
>> Is it somehow evil to boost education cost-effectively?

Pretty sure the OP feels that education at a low marginal cost is a fantastically positive thing.
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Your posts appear to be reverse snobbery.
OK so entity makes a super expensive "thing" containing the patent. Now what? They have a valid product, sold 1 or 2 copies.

You'd require a judge to start deciding if a company is _really_ using the patent. Which seems hard to tell. Especially if the patent is for something requiring a ton of work/capital. Like a patent for a new spaceship or rocket or jet engine.

NPEs would quickly find a way to stay NPEs but get passed the legal definition of "non practising".
A longtime wish of mine is that every law ever written came up for review every decade or so, providing ample opportunity to adjust and remove laws to fit changing cultural norms. There is probably a downside to this that I'm not seeing, not being a lawyer and all that.
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> I think easily and uniformly programming disparate compute devices (CPUs, SIMD, GPUs, FPGAs, ISPs, DSPs, and eventually quantum) is the next BIG problem in programming languages.

The biggest challenge to producing a unified programming model across all of these is dealing with moving data around. CPU vs GPU vs FPGA all have very different memory access characteristics. Gary Sabot was the first to try to tackle the problem of dealing with memory layout/locality in a language with what he called the Paralation model (http://www.amazon.com/The-Paralation-Model-Architecture-Inde...) and a lot of that work carried over into NESL (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html). Hadoop is a very lobotomized and hard to use modern version of these ideas.

I wouldn't knock DSLs - a lot of people are having good results using DSLs to program FPGAs (for example that's pretty much what http://www.novasparks.com/ does - http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2013/06/lisp-hackers-marc-...).
I think it's another word for "moving on"
It's interesting the Rockstar thing doesn't get more coverage on HN. My old company had Nortel as a customer. It was a tremendously inventive, if management-challenged, organization. I remember thinking when it was liquidated what was going to happen to what I was sure was a very deep patent portfolio.
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It really really depends on which product team you deal with at MS. I had experience with the silverlight/winphone teams and they were pretty on the ball. We had major carrier backing at my last job though... so they usually listened to us and we usually had early access hardware.

Sorry your experience with them wasn't as spot on. They've really been trying to be more responsive to feedback (at least with windows phone).
Judging from flog's reply to my comment it's a cultural thing. In the UK the main supermarkets all have sections for ethnic foods (as the number of polish immigrants has increased for example the supermarkets have added polish food sections). Things in the US market seem to work differently.
Given a large enough population with random outcomes, of course a small percentage will consistently succeed.
Apple has had a stranglehold on the graphic design industry for years despite not actually making a good stylus-driven product for that market.

I don't know if there's a legitimate marketing reason for this, but it's a tremendously symbolic conflict. Microsoft attacking Apple in their stronghold.