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The camera owner did everything but actually aim the camera, pretty much the entire creative process.
What is left unsolved?  How many more Bitcoin-like insights are left
Having decided to drop out of threads involving bitcoins until I have carefully reviewed my own positions (I know! What on earth am I doing on HN?), I was inspired by the below essay.

So if bitcoin is a worse is better solution, if it uses no new breakthroughs and just a unusual combination of existing technologies, what else is out there, what other problems exist looking for a worse solution?

http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better

Examples I am trying to think of is ability to easily create markets in any area,

Ereceipts as a solution to product reviews

Supply chain transparency (which could use the block chain)

Make sense to anyone?
The whole Mapbox GL stack is open source and can be used locally as well. It is complicated, but possible nevertheless.

Also, it's very different — with OL3, you just have GL rendering usual server-rendered image tiles with some simple vector data overlays, while Mapbox GL JS renders OSM vector data on the client.
So what are you saying is since some people were wrong in the past, then these people are wrong now?? About something very different.
My award goes to Extended MAPI. It took me weeks of trial and error just to read and send email messages through an Exchange Server. I remember people were selling 3rd party wrappers for the API, because it was so horrible.
For a very deep, thorough and painful treatment instead of feel-good books, read "Practical API Design" by Jaroslav Tulach. Yes, it's Java, but it exemplifies the fundamental tradeoff that the feel-good books ignore: the more powerful you make your API for users, the less potential for evolution and long-term maintenance your API retains.
Well, the usual example is why give away all your Google juice to FB - keep those links pointing to your domain.

However I have just posted my latest so called thought to Ask HN : my blog has run out since I changed phones and I am fed up wasting time writing to email and never catching up.

So, yeah I understand his position. Plus Scoble is the name he cares about not Scoble.com
Same reason we have search engines. Centralized, low-latency access to a larger dataset than a single person can afford to buy or license. Try searching at http://books.google.com and see the difference in content quality between the "web" and "books".
>China is also a deeply corrupt authoritarian klepto-state.

Kind of like the US in that respect. Part of the reason for the enormously high cost of HSR in America is the corruption tax. There are a lot of entities on the take in an undertaking this large.
The fact that he is a professional and intended to take pictures of monkeys is not relevant.
This post is actually two weeks old, but we never did the "Show HN: We built an API for biological research" we had been thinking of doing so I figured this would still be relevant.

We also released a new web app today: https://www.transcriptic.com/blog/2014/08/05/new-web-app.htm...

We've been working on this stuff for a long time. Shipping feels good.
Use zoho invoicing solution. Templating is awesome.
I do not think that is true, VS2012 for example defaults to emitting SSE2 instructions for 32-bit code.
Well, that is changing because technology now allows us to communicate with each other from distant locations. There are websites like HackHands where you can code with a mentor simultaneously. So even the "loneliness" barrier to coding is also dissolving.
Meanwhile my dad's flashlight app on Android was accessing his location, contacts, calls, messages, network traffic and many more stuff without him knowing it.

It's funny how Android OS is on the app developer's side in case of the privacy but iOS cares so much about user's privacy
This was tried in the UK. It resulted in ballooning ticket prices, underinvestment in infrastructure, ridiculously confusing pricing (this is a competitive advantage in oligopolies) and lots of attempts to capitalize on the confusion by issuing fines when the obscure rules caused by the confusing pricing were broken.

Market forces didn't work as predicted because, oddly enough, the London-Edinburgh rail operator doesn't feel much competitive pressure from the London-Bristol route.

It was all an exercise in transferring state assets into private hands at a knock down price so that they could be milked for profits. In that respect it was a resounding success.
Except the is no artistic expression in providing a camera.
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The idea of breaking down courses is really interesting to me, because I think a "course" is a great way to organize content in a field. Let an expert guide you through a series of perspectives. But completing them often takes more dedication than most busy people can muster.

By breaking courses down to a more granular level of components, there is a huge chance to recognize people for the pieces they are able to complete and let them string those together in new ways that the traditional course designers hadn't thought of. But there are huge challenges around figuring out how different modules could be fit together into new ways. For instance, the Open Educational Resource repositories have had really slow adoption because of it, even though they have in total a ton of great educational content (and quantities of chaff).

I wrote a little bit more about this today, and how digital badges could help a provider like edX crowdsource good organization of many distributed modules. http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.com/2014/08/mit-report...

I think it's really all about switching to a different metaphor for organizing content and examining the entailments of that metaphor to make sure their internal logic leads you to the values you want to promote.
Yeah, when I make API's or configs(or whatever) I usually start with the message(or config) format that I would want to use myself, then go from there. I should think for people wanting to use their own API's that would be pretty natural though.
[SO] This site is really strict like the Taliban
Wikimedia sides with monkey in photo copyright battle over macaque's selfie
I would wonder if they'd look at this and worry that there wouldn't be enough interest:

A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Universitys-Offer-of-Credit/1...
If the person's sole input was tapping the button, then no that person doesn't own the copyright. But in this case the camera owner didn't construct any elements of the shit. The lighting is natural, the monkey aimed the camera, and it sounds like auto ficus was used. The camera owner contributed no artistic effort to the shot
ups.. fixed ;)
Joke? It's Gunther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_(singer))
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Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string [pdf]
Of course, the conspiracy theorist might say that it's a bit too convenient to suppose the hitherto extremely clever criminals helpfully and stupidly copied their private keys across to computers controlled by 'the feds'. A bit like those supposedly 'random' police stopping of vehicles which turn out to be full of drugs or explosives.

Maybe public/private key pairs aren't as secure as we've been lead to believe.
And neither did the camera owner.
This seems pretty cool. I would be interested to see an open source version of this concept
The problem with the California project, which hopefully isn't indicative of the other projects, is that they're building the wrong line first.

The plan is to build the Stockton to Bakersfield line first. The one that will get by far the least traffic!

If you really wanted to show value and increase public support, you'd build the Stockton to SF line and the Bakersfield to LA lines first. Those lines would get 1000's of daily riders as people switched to the train from their 2+ hour commutes.

Then use those profits to build the connecting line.
A lot of people seem to claim the monkey can't own the copyright, therefore the camera owner does. In fact no one owns the copyright.
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Dogs meeting shadow self
You're listing the clear, black-and-white cases.

The interesting case is: if I am the sole legitimate user of the device, should my device resist my attempts to run cat_pictures_infected_with_cryptolocker.jpg.exe?
But he did not create the photograph.
Because until Snowden they had so much success arresting random muslims^W^Wterrorists.
I think that's more a sign of the current pressures to succeed (get good grades) in college and double major and etc. are extremely high and the perceived penalties for 'failing' also quite high. A combination of a high pressure situation, more work than most people can comfortably manage, and the opportunity to take a pill that allows you to do more maintained, focused work than you would be able to otherwise? I think many people would go for the pills. They're extremely effective at allowing you to maintain an intense focus on an activity for much longer than most unmedicated people would be able to.

There isn't any evidence that I'm aware of that there has been any noticeable change in people's abilities to do actual, focused work: studies today show that most people can at most manage around 4-5 hours of focused work, and as far as I know that hasn't changed much in the last 200+ years. Ritalin can allow a healthy person to put in bursts of 10+ hours of focused work. Of course students are going to take advantage of that. My understanding is that it's also fairly common in other high pressure situations that require prolonged focus (stock trading, etc.).

Things like the web/etc. do allow people to do more multitasking-esque behaviors (with the obvious impacts on focus), but that's less about people's brains being rewired at some fundamental level and more that there are now more opportunities to goof off. Pre-internet, you had a much higher activation energy of chatting with friends (you had to go call them and talk with them, versus clicking three times to get to Facebook). I don't think that's limited to people in the younger generation, though: one of my family members (an English professor, one of the top in her field in the world) will sometimes turn off the internet/block distracting sites while writing and does all of her editing away from the computer in order to avoid Facebook/reading the news/playing scrabble against the computer.
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RSA-2048 is fundamentally broken, only they know about the flaw, and rather than exploit that advantage in any of the innumerable ways it could be advantageous, they decided to make a web service?
i thought adding an exponential increase on research was a little better, get some summer students and knock out that higgs boson 25. just clicking won't really buy you much when you need exabytes of data.
Before spending tens of billions of dollars on high speed rail, which is only a baby step forward, why not give NASA $100 million to try out evacuated tube transportation? I believe ET3 (http://et3.com/) is planning to break ground for a proof of concept line in 2015.
The article is about providing rail service in California, with billions in public funds. And where is the land coming from for this new rail line?

http://cchsra.org/cahsr-eminent-domain/

My proposal was for taking the existing rail lines, which had government subsidies, and making them a commons and improving them so that all players had better service.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentations...

The rails themselves become owned by the public and are improved so that more freight and more passenger traffic can utilize it.

As it stands now, passenger traffic here takes a back seat to freight and it makes traveling by rail on the west coast fit only for tourists with plenty of time on their hands.
Yea unfortunately, this is one of those things one really end up learning by experience. Once you've been writing code for long enough (and especially in a codebase that's been highly) is when the developer experience starts to be a thing that really occupies your mind when building.
they'd just be annoyed at the battery life of their fancy new phone going down so fast.

For that single reason, I adore Android's "this app ate this much battery" statistics.

And if they're using the 'offline' locations in recommendations, it will dawn on people that the app has been stalking them.
>the BeagleBone Black is [..] less prone to "power abuse", because it has a traditional power jack (people are less likely to use a random USB charger with it)

Not quite true. The BBBlack can also power itself from the mini-usb port (and mine is currently powered up in exactly this way, off a normal usb phone charger I had lying bout)
"...So far, more than 7 million people have purchased a piece of the moon..."

Ulimate proof of the old adage "A fool and his money..."
I just hope as many people as possible who were affected by this lockdown and who have not paid ransom yet would know about this. As per the Krebs' article only 1.3% paid ransom so it's not too late.
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Have you seen Dock? https://github.com/bripkens/dock
Read Rusty Russell's "easy to use versus hard to misuse": http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html and http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
Silicon Valley wants to hack North Korea
Hi all,
this is Kevin from the Particle Clicker dev team. We made this game last weekend at the [CERN Webfest](http://webfest.web.cern.ch). We didn't get much actual work done since then...

Thanks a lot, this is really amazing but the game is far from perfect. We will release a mobile version soon. The code for everything is on [GitHub](https://github.com/particle-clicker/particle-clicker) and we really need your help to make it better.
So, are you suggesting that liberal democracies are outmatched by authoritarian governments and central planning, or are you pointing out that corruption and incompetence have become so pervasive in the US that even statism would be an improvement?

If the former were true that would be really bad news, but I don't believe that's the case.
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Designing decent APIs is a good use case for TDD. You start writing what makes sense from the client/problem domain perspective.
I know they are doing this as a community service... because, I assume they feel it is their honor and duty to do so... but why the hell do these guys NOT have at least a donate link/button on their site!!!!! This is crazy. I know they are going to get awesome press which would have normally cost thousands but it never hurts to throw up a link and see how much your appreciated.
I'd recommend this course: https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch

If you're too advanced for this, I'd consider writing some behavioral VHDL or Verilog for a few of the units to see how a few of the pieces fit together.
Right now it does not do anything a vim and a normal shell can't do. But the idea of plumbing is something that would be quite difficult(not impossible) to achieve in vim and a terminal.
As somebody who tried to use ETW, I can say that the OP didn't do his homework. Everything you need to know about ETW is described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb96...

ETW is much more than a simple logging system; the description says "Use ETW when you want to instrument your application, log user or kernel events to a log file, and consume events from a log file or in real time. ".

It allows broadcast (multiple consumers), structured binary data, filtering based on data structure, etc. It is an immensely powerful system (See manifest-based events above). In addition to everything it does, it is also designed for performance and for not using too much space.

Re my attempt to use ETW: I began to drool when reading the docs; it would be immensely useful in my project. However, the product must also work on Linux, and building a cross-platform layer for something like ETW (even if the Linux counterpart is a no-op) would be an overkill. I might return to it one day.
"If you really wanted to show value and increase public support, you'd build the Stockton to SF line and the Bakersfield to LA lines first."

That plan would show results too early. Results are scary, because they might not live up to the promises by politicians currently in office. Politicians do much better with hoping, wishing, and grand visions.
No search? No traffic? Pshaw!
Something I've noticed, there doesn't appear to be any roads in Greece. Is this because the Romans didn't build any roads there and just used the Greek roads? If that's the case, then why aren't those roads on the map? I sincerely doubt all transport in Greece was done by ship.
It was good, but I don't know if I would call it great. The technology is interesting - and maybe that's what matters to most people here - but I found the male presenter (Dan?) to be... distracting, to say the least. My first thought when he started talking was, "wow, is this guy on drugs or what?" And I just couldn't focus on anything he said.
Missing data I presume?
If a food-based approach to medicine was more profitable, our system of care might resemble something more "natural" as well...and who knows, maybe more effective. As Hippocrates said "Let thy food be thy medicine medicine be thy food"
It's interesting how empty northern Italy is compared to the center. If you look at where I am in "Patavium", there are just a few towns around, and not much else, but even off in the Marche, it's dotted with quite a few places. It does seem to be missing the 'graticolato Romano' to the east of Padova, though, which is still quite visible on maps today:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Padua,+Italy/@45.5036786,1... - it's the very regularly spaced grid in the middle of the map. The land was divided up to be given to ex-soldiers to colonize.
One day there'll be a study on the types of people that cite the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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California of course
Not sure if my answer would be better that those of Google search.

I could have a flexible, programmable good-enough DE for C/C++ with make, emacs+cedet+cc-mode on my netbook with a crappy AMD x86-64 CPU and 1.5Gb of available RAM. It works fine for navigating over my own code, when I know what I am doing and why.

I would not explain the wonders of emacs+slime+cmucl or emacs+cider+clojure-mode here. Just one hint: everything works on a [remote] text terminal via ssh,tmux,etc. Google does it better.

Eclipse, while it could start without any progect in a minute or so, is unusable for anything but menu navigation.

Moreover, there are people around who still believe that make and command line tools are still good enough.

My bet is that very complex software, like nginx or postgresql has been written in vi or emacs.
> I encounter projects on the web, they almost always have an ubuntu .deb

Ubuntu got a lot of hype in the past, and Canonical put an effort in PRing it. However it doesn't really mean that it's actually most used. I never really saw some conclusive studies on that. It surely is the most PRed / hyped. Or rather was until recently. That hype cooled off somewhat lately because of various controversies like Mir. Mint is commonly perceived as most popular distro these days (I'm not a Mint user for the reference, I use Debian), though again - it's hard to prove it globally.

I don't equate PR with actual size of the user base. It's probably more proper to use the term "most used" than "most popular" for such kind of evaluation. Making a choice based on PR / perceived popularity works to some degree, but it's not a precise method therefore it can be disputed.

> What do you think is a more naif-friendly distro?

I'd recommend Mint or may be some KDE centric distro for new users, openSUSE for instance.
The level with just a vertical drop down a pipe to land on the target below, filled with random obstacles to bounce you off a perfectly straight run. Three of us were competing on that with ultra-close scores... I wish I still had our scores.

We played that one hundreds of times, experimenting with the straight roll off the edge, roll-jumping, a quick brake before slipping over the edge, everything we could think of to shave off that last little bit.

Thanks for reminding me. :)
Some more info on the first high speed rail project:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/booker_federal_rail...

"It wasn’t long ago in this region that airlines dominated travel to Washington, D.C.," he said. Now, Szabo said, Amtrak accounts for 80 percent of travel between New York and Washington.

Critics of high-speed rail, including many Republicans in Congress, say the benefits are outweighed by the huge costs.
You still have to approve permissions during the app installation on Android. Its made pretty clear exactly what is being accessed.
This is crazy impressive. I'm still reading the source but so far what i see is really great already. Very concise and clean. I would love to see an embeddable C + portable ES2/CoreGL version of this.

Edit: Just found the native version. A bit heavy on dependencies but basically what I was asking for. :)
When I was a kid exploring my brand new desktop, I broke it several times by deleting system files or wiping out my partition. It was a great learning experience to reinstall my OS, that also boosted my courage in trying things out.

So I really don't understand this drive for safety features. If you want to teach kids to program it kind of defeats the purpose.
Excellent move by Google that should push people to use HTTPS more.

Hopefully this will take into account the supported TLS versions and ciphersuites as well. It's sad to see sites that only supports TLS 1.0 and prefers a CBC ciphersuite.
Show HN: Lite commandline Bitcoin wallet (ZW)
The median result of polling AI researchers is we will have human level AI by is the 2040's.

The last century we went from no computers at all, to people carrying around supercomputers in their pocket. We went from the first powered flight to landing on the moon in 66 years. AI in a century is by no means impossible or unlikely.
"...Timex unveiled Wednesday its new smartwatch.."

Never mind the recent "theatre" vs "theater" debate. At what stage did the mangled syntax above become standard 'Merkin' English?

Timex's new smartwatch is called "Wednesday"?
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We recently changed our existing clients site to 100% SSL when we launched their new site.

If only webmasters had an option to change http:// to https://, the entire move would have been slightly easier as "fetch as googlebot" returns "redirect" since we direct http:// to https://.

Apart from that, we've had no ranking loss for their keywords.
NASA's Fuel-Free Rocket Thruster Is Literally Too Good to Be True
I'm afraid I would offer a much more cynical explanation for why attendance is mandatory.
Thanks! I will check it out. Why did you use OOF2?
Haha yeah pretty much your first paragraph sums up what I was thinking. I wouldn't word it so drastically, but I like the point you make at the end: if there's no real investment by business in the community, then why not just relocate when the conditions are optimal? (e.g. another tax break)
A very relevant short essay: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/2011/plenty-of-room-above-u...

Thinking human brains are the pinnacle of intelligence is ridiculous. We are just the very first intelligent thing to evolve. On top of which, biology is severely constrained in many ways and stuck in local optimas.