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Except that the particular beams of light being discussed are intentionally meant by the broadcasters as resources for the public as part of fulfilling their deal to license the spectrum that beams of light useful for TV happen in, since the spectrum is fundamentally a public resource (hence open to anyone), and the exchange of public spectrum comes only in return for public usable content.

It's not like the claim was about just any beam of light.
Well, if a fix is possible without much hassle, it should be implemented. But it's crazy to raise as much attention as in this case.
no doubt andreessen is smarter, both in raw intelligence and financial wisdom, than you or i or the next guy, but the billions of dollars at his command to assist in manifesting his will helps quite a bit.

and so does being at the nexus of the tech industry and seeing the entire ecosystem from the inside-out, "behind the curtain" so to speak. they have a lot of insider information, not the least of which is basically every single pitch that comes across every other VC's desk in town, and the actual financial health of funded companies operating in the marketplace. they all share information, that's why they don't sign NDAs.
Or David Nutt's suggestion that, as a public health issue, we should be trying to engineer a drug with the same subjective effects as alcohol but without the toxicity or addictiveness: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol...

(such a chemical would, in practice, be immediately banned in most countries)
I'm not saying that eyewitness testimony is automatically better. It's generally pretty terrible, and people have all kinds of different incentives to lie on top of being mistaken.

The underlying problem is that we're making decisions that change the course of lives based on weak evidence of any type. Nobody wants to actually follow "beyond a reasonable doubt" because it would mean too low a conviction rate, so instead we suffer too high a false conviction rate.

But you're also confusing what classifies as one type of evidence or the other. The seventeen people who swear you were somewhere else are eyewitnesses to your alibi. In addition, circumstantial evidence is extremely useful to acquit, because although proof that you could have committed the crime doesn't prove that you did, proof that you could not have committed the crime does prove that you didn't. The prosecutor has a tough job, and they're supposed to, because they're proposing to lock a citizen in a cage for a number of years. That's a thing that should happen a lot less often than it does.
He blames the SOX act for decreasing the number of IPOs but they were already down from 100s/year in the 80s to 80 in 2001 (before sox) and this trend continued. He seems to be performing the slight-of-hand anti-regulatory BS that accompanies the right these days: "over here there is a problem - over there is some regulation; wink wink nudge nudge".
Can you give examples of which opinions you consider "finance sector norms" rather than a more neutral or individual viewpoint?
Do you have firsthand knowledge of this? Does that include all the various places the bug exists? Bailey documented more than one bug.

I read the bug report and the angry blog post about it, too.
I've never used 4SQ b/c I couldn't care less about "checking in", even for discounts. But I use Yelp all the time, and you guys make a good case for giving 4SQ another look. A Yelp with pure data, no subjective anecdotes, opinions, or rants? Sounds interesting.
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You managed to get this totally wrong. Broadcast television is taxpayer-subsidized, because broadcasters are given free use of the airwaves.
A web app to quickly record 'visits' .. visits by customers, meeting or event attendees, etc https://www.speedvisit.com
We're working on a mobile app to help people spend bitcoin at Target & Starbucks- the successor of coinforcoffee.com. I'm focused mostly on the backend (Python / Django) while waiting for a designer friend to give us comps for the app.

I'm also working on a web app where folks can exchange their gift cards for bitcoin - cardforcoin.com. It's Python / Django / Angular.
I wished these articles concentrated more on the solution. It is easy to say what is not working. He mentions that public company is not going to grow as much, but then where should we put our retirement money in?
I would much rather hand assemble machine code than program in sed. I imagine most people have a better understanding of how computer architecture works than how to do arithmetic and logic with sed.
Marc Andreessen is being true to form when he attacks regulations, attacks Piketty and suggests that IPOs will flourish if we remove (what he describes as) "burdensome" regulations, "Regulation Fair Disclosure" etc.

However, he seems to be totally glossing over the fact that IPO regulations have already been weakened in recent years. This has resulted in less transparency and increased secrecy and that is exactly what people like Andreessen have been asking for.

It is questionable whether this increased secrecy actually benefits the economy or the average investor (of course, it is clear that the lack of transparency does benefit powerful interests in the country and that is why a bipartisan majority in our dysfunctional congress was able to miraculously come together and pass a bill to reduce regulations and cut down on IPO transparency).
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/the-twitter-i... touched on this topic in the context of Twitter's IPO.
I definitely prefer seeing him discuss the realities of the situation and pontificating there vs. his pontificating on the visionary stuff.
I'm a big fan of the US Soccer team.

I built an Android app last year and continue to add content to it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usmnt360.a...
Isn't this what quaaludes were in the 70s and 80s? (and they were quickly banned)
Synthehol! http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Synthehol
That could suck up a lot of your time. Are you planning to semi-automate the process by letting people submit themes ?
That's pretty sweet, I'll be watching!
I'd love to ask Andreessen, (or anyone here, really) a question informed by a book on pg's reading list:

I, too, am dubious about Pikkety's thesis. But I'd like to call out a distinction between the concentration of wealth, and the static nature of the oligarchy. One will continue to happen, the other Pikkety could be dead wrong about.

Andreessen says (paraphrasing) in the interview, 'Pikkety says wealth and oligarchies will happen, but look at the Forbes 400 and you see lots of churn, where is this supposed stability that will happen with rich people cementing their gains'.

It's true that Pikkety presents a view of social mobility becoming increasingly static, and reverting to a supposed historical norm.

But one lovely book I have pg to thank for reading, "The World We Have Lost", talks about how things were in England according to an analysis of actual data (county records etc). One chapter, 'The One-Class Society' ('gentlemen' were the class, the only class that mattered), speaks of how there actually was a large amount of 'churn' in the gentleman class -- even outside of cities and the merchant classes, it was possible for a father to become a substantial yoeman, and his heir to become a gentleman. Families went up, families went down.

But despite a certain amount of mobility being possible, all effective wealth and power that mattered was still very concentrated, as it has been for much of recorded human history, for many reasons.

This was momentarily interrupted by the usefulness of humans as wet robots that were briefly able to exert the political and economic leverage necessary to drive hard collective bargains about their compensation.

That was temporary. (Offshore wet robots, and eventually dry robots, taking the place of the less-needed troublemakers).

Wealth, even if mobile, will inevitably become more concentrated due simply to better technology and efficiency -- how can this not be so? It seems self-evident.

So, I guess the question is:

If technology magnifies individual differences in productivity, and if we accept as a given that attempting to tax away the resulting fruits of that productivity is on the whole economically injurious to an economy, how can wealth not become more concentrated over time?

(Yes, of course, there will be churn and disruption, and wealth will change hands. Even as it did among the gentleman class in England in the 1500s; families came up and families went down. But because of technological magnification of productivity it should tend to go to fewer people. This just seems like a natural law.)
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My wife was using zaim.net (it's in Japanese, but similar principle), and I asked her if it doesn't bother her to enter everything manually. She said it's not a bother, and indeed a part of the enjoyment of tracking her spending.

For me it seems like a real hassle, but for some it's part of what makes it work for them.

Keep it simple! It might not fit everybody, but I think it could work great for enough people. Good luck launching this.
You've got it half right. Aereo could pivot to selling "the little antennas" just as they are. Aereo could then charge the antenna owners a "storage fee". And continue on as usual. Surely their lawyers will have thought of this.

However if an individual owns the antenna the legal question, already murky, becomes much harder because how could a decision make these personally owned antennas illegal while keeping antennas in the home legal?

("Hellbanned for Life." yeah, I know.)
He does make excellent points about the public market, it is in a tough spot and something does have to be done. SOX was a nightmare reaction in the wrong direction and we can see the effects a decade later. Crowdfunding might even be a side effect of this sideways investment market.

Maybe the stock market needs more risk tiers with differing levels of regulation, even a growth market where regulations are relaxed for smaller companies, essentially private investment open to public. One size fits all of the public market will regulate all the growth out, it is not even really an option for small-medium business to even try anymore like he says.
In general, predictions from influential people can be translated as "My life will get a whole lot more convenient if x happens."
I was wondering whether my general dislike of some current design trends -- specifically, flat design, use of animation for its own sake, and trying to present homogeneous appearance and behaviour across very different platforms -- was just a personal bias, a consequence of my general preference for "tried and tested" over "trendy but seems worse than before".

So, over the past few weeks I've been asking a few friends and family what they think of things like iOS 7, Windows 8, flat styling on web sites, and the like.

Quite a few responses to my completely unscientific study have been downright negative, such as "boring", "childish", or "dumbed down". "I can't find anything any more" was probably the most common form of complaint about behaviour rather than style, particularly regarding Windows 8 and the UI formerly known as Metro. Some people have been more moderate, for example giving two-way comments like "this might work well on a touch screen but it's awkward on my laptop" or "it's very simple".

Most telling to me is that absolutely no-one has actually come down in favour of either iOS 7 or Windows 8 overall so far, while I know at least one person who is trying to return a brand new iPad after a week because they "hated it" and several who have at some point in the recent past bought a device and either chosen Windows 7 over Windows 8 or actively downgraded after purchasing. People are literally avoiding or even returning or rapidly reselling new devices just to avoid these kinds of UIs.

I'm sad, though unsurprised, to see Google following Microsoft and Apple down this evolutionary dead end. As others have commented in this discussion, it seems like reducing everything to the least common denominator. To me, it also seems like promoting tools that make it cheap and quick to build software and web sites with maximum reach -- essentially, a direct commercial advantage -- rather than promoting tools that help you build software and web sites that are any good.
I was a little disappointed that we didn't get a resolution here, but it's interesting to see a little more of ARC under the hood:

"It isn't clear why those retains/releases were crashing, all the objects involved looked OK in the debugger, but at least we will no longer be puzzled by code that can't possibly crash...crashing, and therefore have a better chance of actually debugging it."
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I'm not sure this is all that surprising.

Turn it around: what do we expect to be the causes for those adults between age 20 and 64 who die? I really should read up on the relevant actuarial facts, but isn't it the case that by and large those from 20 to, say, 50 plus or minus are fairly healthy?
I think he hints at the solution: reduce regulation (he names Sarbanes-Oxley as one problem).
The tricky part in my mind is determining what exactly a quality of life issue is in the first place. I know plenty of moderate, sensible drinkers who would consider their quality of life lowered if there were any more restrictions placed on alcohol.

It's not just a price issue, but all sorts of things like not being able to buy alcohol on a Sunday, despite not being religious. Or one that I personally still experience from time to time - being asked for ID despite being 12 years over the age limit.

These are all quality of life issues in my mind. If we were to solely go on doctors guidelines, life would be pretty boring. No sport - too dangerous. No drinking - too much liver damage. No sailing, no cheerleading, no mountain climbing, etc...

There comes a point at which you just have to tell the doctors that it's all well and good pointing out the risks, but ultimately, life is about risks. I can barely see the point in living if we deny ourselves all the slightly risky things just because of the potential downsides. It's cowardice wrapped up in a fresh new label for the modern age.
Do you ever plan to bring this to Android? In this day and age, it'd be a shame if you didn't.
But then you are evaluating class he was assigned to teach and its relevance to your career, not his teaching. I did not used whatever I learned about networking or cryptography much, but that does not mean those teachers were bad. Nor does it mean CS major should not contain those classes.
I'm working on an app for my school's bell schedule, and a website to go with it. I've already created an app for the school newspaper: http://joshuaoldenburg.com/apps/steinbrenner-oracle
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The ones you wouldn't remember probably weren't sufficiently different from the mean to warrant a positive or negative score in the first place. Meanwhile, the ones that you do remember probably were.

Just make opting out of each individual question easy (add a N/A or "don't remember" option). Sure, you'll collect less data, but I imagine that you'll get at least partial cancellation after multiplication by the SNR, possibly much more than partial cancellation.
I know it's ironic given the larger point of this post that I came out of it with a tangential technical question, but... Can anyone elaborate on this?

Databases. When you have 500 million users, you can't afford unique constraints and foreign keys in the db layer anymore.

Is he just saying that fully featured RMDBs don't have the performance to handle that scale? It seems like in some applications those checks will be necessary, and often the db will be the most efficient place for them. Not everything makes sense as nosql. Maybe I'm missing the point though.
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The OP may not have, but the implication certainly is there. "They should first be engineered, then made to look pretty." That statement, by the way, is wrong. Engineers design, which ever way you look at it or phrase it. Design is the process of solving a problem, be it visual or otherwise. It follows that tools must first be designed and then the design is implemented. That design is seen as merely making something pretty says a lot about a few of the "engineers" that post here.
Create a fake tower like they do to illegally intercept cellphone calls?
In one of the highest followed and most completed course, which happens to be the first Machine Learning by Andrew Ng, the level of completion was a meager 12.5%. And in that Ng's course is an outlier as no other courses with similar sizes, with the exception of AI, have come anywhere close to that level of completion. The numbers actually show the opposite, a large course has a lower percentage of completion.

IMHO if course community were a large factor this high trafficked course with a high level of community discussion would most likely have exceeded this. As you say later ML courses have had much community discussion, yet they have had lower completion rates.

At the moment there is no substitute for real interaction with the docent or professor.
And yet HN is still full of people that act like I'm the scum of the Earth for working 50 hours a week and then consuming pure THC/CBD in vapor form after work.

LOL.
This is all covered by standard models of quality of life - including medical ones - to be found everywhere, including wikipedia or in your favourite journal.

Any sane doctor won't tell you to stop playing soccer if you like it, even if is a rather dangerous sport in the lower leagues.
In fact what Google is doing is fantastic. They provide the tools to make your app have different layouts on different form factors.

But only as long as what you're laying out looks and works the same on every platform and gives good results in all cases.

We used to have this issue in desktop software development. MS and Apple had quite different UI standards for their respective platforms, and if you just naively ported an application from one OS to the other without considering the details then it just wouldn't feel right in a hundred little ways that added up.

The current trend for trying to homogenize native mobile apps, web apps, desktop apps, and anything else we can call an app, seems like a retrograde step. It makes development cheaper, but different platforms are useful for different things and they are used in practice in different ways. There is way too much hammering square pegs into round holes right now.

Ironically, Google's own sites are often excellent examples. Analytics, for one, is literally unusable on various tablets (notably iOS ones using mobile Safari), because they've tried to be too clever with standardising their look and feel instead of using native system controls. What they've actually done is cause a bunch of content not to even appear in the viewable area and broken the normal idioms for basic interactions like zooming and scrolling that would otherwise have fixed that.
"One of the stories is about how during his studies in the 80s he built a decision tree to help with kidney transplants."

And here we are almost thirty years later, and doctors in the US are still getting paid $250k or more to do stuff software could do, were it allowed, better, faster, and much cheaper.

My prediction is medicine will be one of the last fields to benefit from automation, simply because its greedy practitioners have a monopoly and won't give it up without a terrible fight. Sure, you'll increasingly see them rely on expert systems, but you won't be allowed to cutout the middlemen and go straight to Dr. Watson itself. They'll still be extracting their pound of flesh from us for many decades to come.
I work on DriveDroid on and off. It's an Android app where you can 'host' ISO/IMG files as if they were real CD/USB drives. It makes it possible to, for example, boot your PC from your phone with live Linux distros.

DriveDroid (Free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...

DriveDroid (Paid): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...
I found the map of greenland fascinating, since there is pitch black internally. Everything is along the coast.

At the lowest zoom level what are geometric lines that criss cross Greenland and the curvilinear lines and rings off the coasts?
There is one solution that would keep the crazy semantics of C, but would still allow for 2's complement arithmetic to be well-defined when one wants to.

C99 defines int8_t, if it exists, to be a 2's complement signed integer of exactly 8 bits. Same for 16, 32, etc. The standard could very well define behavior on overflow for these (that is, turn them into actual types instead of typedefs), and leave int, long, etc alone. I think this would be a viable, realistic, solution. Integer conversions would probably still be a pain, though.
I can't remember the last time I called a friend on the phone.

It's so much easier to communicate through email or text message.
There are a few genuinely odd statements about the stock market, including pretty much all the bits that involve the word "growth." I wonder if he knows about the Fama-French model and that value usually performs much better for investors. Maybe acknowledging that would mean acknowledging that for a while there, valuations were just nutty.

I never know what to make of that kind of complaining about shorts.

The "The returns degrade down to S&P 500 levels" statement about investment managers was strange. Often those guys don't match S&P 500 returns and so that level wouldn't be a degradation...

The whole thing has a feel that makes me wonder if he was misquoted or something.
One would think so. It's nice to see a company with a lot of buzz have a reasonable p/e. (As the largest company in the world, how massive could it's growth really be?) I personally had no idea it was so low - especially compared to the likes of Amazon. Of course the price could still drop if earnings do.
This is the problem with teaching - the incentives are never perfectly aligned. Students are the real customers - but they don't know what's best for them so they can't do a fair evaluation. Education is such a long-term investment, that it's effectiveness can only be measured after years. Which means short-term gimmicks will continue to be rewarded by the market.
hey, am just wondering when you say 'first android app', have you made other apps for another os (iOS obviously) or this is your first app?

am intrested in knowing the "context switch" on app development, from iOS to android and vice versa
Does anyone know why the live footage looks like it was taken using a security camera from the 80s?
Hacker News already has limits surrounding reply levels...
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Intro video specifically about this test:

LDSD: The Great Shakeout Test For Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YwSXAba6Ik
> Someone should really start a project that strips down Linux to the point that you could use its HAL for projects like these.

Firefox OS is based on "Gonk", which is basically the kernel and HAL from Android with some extra bits stuck on. I suspect that could be used again, surely?