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>Government regulation (patents) creates an artificial concept of property that prevents humanity at large from benefiting from scientific advances that could be much cheaper.

That regulation might be voted by government, but is lobbied for and pushed by the corporations. Like copyright is.

It's not inherent in government to have strong patent/copyright/etc regulation. In fact some of them that don't get pushed and attached diplomatically by more powerful governments working for private interests (like the US pressuring Sweden for the Pirate Bay etc).
Myself, I like the idea of opportunistic encryption. Why not require TLS for HTTP/2 but don't require authentication for http:// URLs?
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I know if the price was cheap enough I'd definitely be willing to put up with slightly longer pickup delays

(considering that it'd probably still be faster than normal taxis around here)
You're right. It really depends on what you are making. MS's tools only target MS platforms. So if you're not trying to make something for an MS platform, or specifically Windows, then they're out of the question.

Mac has the advantage it's a flavor of unix so if you're writing server software you're on a machine that's closer to your target environment. Similarly if you run Linux. But, the tools on both of those don't come close to MS's tools when actually writing the software. At least that's mine and many other people's experience.

As just one example, state of the art debugging on Linux is still command line GDB. Even many of my mac friends switch back to GDB to debug on Mac. Where as on Windows Visual Studio's debugger has always been amazing to work with for like 20 year? (19?) Maybe Valve+RadGameTools will fix this with their work on LLDB but it can't be too soon.

As for India I'd assume they don't want to pay the Apple tax. Best Buy lists 147 PC laptops for under $499. The cheapest Apple is $999. And that's just on brand stuff. Go to further off brand stuff and the prices get even cheaper. I'm not judging quality or specs. But people without money would seem unlikely to pick the $999
Please stop spreading this myth.

The group of people who don't drink includes a bunch of very ill people, so it's not surprising to find that group dies sooner than the other group. That doesn't mean that alcohol has any health benefit.
If it's hidden, then its assumed to be unprecedented until evidence presents otherwise. There aren't going to be forward assumptions of precedents without evidence.
> You're looking for Visual Studio vs. Eclipse or .NET vs. Mono etc. in each case I think most see the no-cost alternative as quite obviously inferior.

In manys eyes it is quite the opposite: Netbeans and Eclipse used to run circles around VS. I understand a lot of people like VS and there have been improvements lately bur please don't spread FUD on HN. Thanks.
I guess that was possible beforehand. Just take a look at movies.
You might be underestimating how helpful they are for the student. I would prefer seeing board work any day to a slide deck. Board work imposes a natural rate control, and seeing things cancel out makes mathematical concepts easier to internalize. Board work lets you see the sausage being made. Slide decks typically have the sausage on a platter with a neat little bow, I say typically. For me the best case scenario is that the instructor works thing out on the board, and has handouts of latex notes for students to take.
And Agile doesn't suit 100% of development projects
Products, yes. Startups, no. The other "startups" are just products too.
No, it's still poisonous, because it contains the head of distillation, which contains methanol which would be discarded in alcohol made for human consumption. Yes, they add other denaturants to make it taste foul as well. However there are still a few cases of serious alcoholics who try to drink methylated spirit.

Amusingly, the treatment for methanol poisoning is to get the patient drunk with the good stuff, although this is usually done under medically-induced coma with a purified ethanol drip. The ethanol competes with the methanol for the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme, reducing the rate at which methanol is broken down in the body into really poisonous formic acid. There was a case in 2007 where a hospital ran out of medical ethanol, and substituted vodka in a drip while treating poisoning with ethylene glycol, which has the same treatment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7037443.stm
Maybe you should read the T&Cs, the 50mbps probably refers to the maximum speed you can expect
As far as I can tell there will be a total of 10^18 ethers in total. At this stage, 1 BTC ($600 USD) for ~2,000 ethers seems like a really high price for something that hasn't been launched yet.
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monetising a website by putting ads or affiliate links on it does not qualify as a "startup" in my opinion. It bugs me how the hacker community throws the word startup around willy nilly.
Good point. It comes down to how well the analog cancellation will attenuate the in-band blocker (cf. IIP3 spec of the RF LNA).
They called the system Hydra? Really? Seams like some agents read too much Marvell comics
Do they? I think a lot of them fail, apparently there are also practical issues with attracting enough mining power to make them secure.

Atm Bitcoin still seems the only safe bet for the long run.
Because with R you can and usually do multiple things with multiple data sources within one session, which effectively dissolves the start-up and load time. Even if reading one file and calculating mean or something with a single script is the only thing you do, you can use Rscript which runs R without loading heavy stuff like the methods package.
> For most people who aren't social butterflies, conversations are either simple social gestures or they actually have a point.

I think that's only partly true. In my life I've gone from extremely shy, 'introverted' and lonely to socially active and 'extraverted'. Both were not optimal and thankfully I think I've found a balance that works for me.

An important part of finding that balance was to accept that for a lot of my friends, especially the extraverts, 'simple social gestures' and small-talk type conversations do have a point. They need those.

And I'd be a bad friend if I didn't learn to do that occasionally, in the same way that they'd be bad friends if they wouldn't let me monologue about some subject I just spent a week reading about in isolation (where 'bad' means partly 'not a nice person', and partly 'just not a great match as friends).
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Well, taking changes is not the point. There are two pilots, at least one of them should be looking out all the time, doing scanning. It's unfortunate when two airliners collide, because nobody was watching where they're flying. It has been happening. Even in situations when both planes have been already warned about the precense of other planes.

Problem with planes is really high speed, so the plane can be just a pinhead, even if there's good visibility and in the following 15 seconds you're doing something else, is enough to collide.
A classic practice is to archive pdf's of printed and scanned documents, instead the source digital documents - based on the concept that you need to have any signatures, approval stamps or notes/amendments as they might be on the actual document.

So instead of an excel worksheet you get a scanned picture that's possibly even unusable for OCR if someone has a wide signature and some line(s) of it go inside the actual table.
In classic biological fashion i.e., everything is connected and has side-effects, consistent use of aspirin is also linked to macular degeneration:

http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20130118/aspirin-blindi...

Cancer or blindness?
Your definition of freedom differs from theirs. They belive in the freedom to follow their religion as they belive it should be followed. Their supporters believe in the same freedom. Your definition of freedom (and indeed mine) is very different. But you would be foolish to think that they thought of themselves as the bad guys and that they had no support amongst the local populace.
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>>That's when the driver has to tell the passenger to stop talking so they can concentrate on directions or signage, etc.

When I do it to my mother she gets cross and starts talking even more, which is even more distracting. There is no good way out of this situation I am afraid. Some people have absolutely no situational awareness and are actively distracting as passengers.
This is one of those examples where the raw idea is not the main part.

Uber have a lot of advantages. They have a userbase of passengers and drivers that can be brought over to new services. They have the media's attention, including mainstream media. They have the cash to run at a loss while building up. They have presence in a lot of cities. They also have the competence to do this well.

Imagine that you build a "person search." You enter a name. It brings up a page with pictures, facts and other information collected around the web. It's nifty. That's interesting. But, if Google put a little "people" link between images and news in their search page and person search will have hundreds of thousands of users this week.

The news here is "uber launch carpooling service," not "carpooling service now exists." Rightly so, IMO. If this works well, there could be tens of thousands of user in a couple of months.
Sure, which answers the parent's question. Teachers (typically) can't touch-type so they can't observe this flaw.
It's not about number of users, it's about liquidity for the money/currency in question (whether it be bitcoins, litecoins or "ethers").

Ie. how much will selling/buying a certain amount of the currency affect the market price. This is what defines money: high liquidity (market depth). Something cannot be money without this property. It might have the potential to become money, though. But without liquidity it is as much money as baseball cards and wine.
I found that Hanoi had a lot nicer and cheaper hotels than I could finnd in HMC. I did book online prior to arriving though - I was only staying in HMC for a short time and didn't want to waste my time accommodation shopping. I also found HMC to be a lot seedier than Hanoi.
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What happens if you go bankrupt?

(I once asked that question of a salesperson flogging eportfolios - student work for portfolio based qualifications stored entirely on their servers. There was no answer)
I'm curious about the common belief that private offices are better. Here's an article that suggests private offices might not be better. Do the two ideas fit together or do you just not believe the article (I didn't see any research sited)

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/working-...
Exactly what applications can I use Ethereum for the moment that it releases? What independent scientific research are these applications based on, what trust models do they have, and how much can they affect the "real world"?
>>Additionally the passenger can shut up instantly if (s)he sees a situation developing or even help bring your attention to it.

If they know what to look for. Doesn't work with children, people who don't drive themselves so they have no idea what to look out for, or even worse, it can work the other way around, when someone yells "WATCH OUT" at the top of their lungs because they perceive danger, even though you were not in any(saying hi to all my elderly relatives here).
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> filled with children ... who would often rather spend a class period figuring out how to bypass a firewall to get to facebook, rather than half a class period writing

One could argue that the learning process around bypassing a firewall might be much more useful education for their future than the standard curriculum
Is there anywhere to read up on the theory behind all this stuff? It's always fascinated me!
I requested all my data from a department of my local council.

Someone print-screened all the screens of their database with my information. I had several hundred pages of badly printed black and white pages of generic enterprise database screens.

> It seems like the bureaucrats responding to these requests are specifically trained to not release information.

I kind of wish that were true, because maliciousness is somehow more comforting than incompetence.
I test drove a BMW M6 which had it, it was amazing. I believe most high-end BMW cars have this as an option.
Source escrow - we release it to clients if we go bankrupt, all data is freely exportable and best of all we're rolling in cash so going bankrupt is going to require some seriously hard work.

We're trying not to be that bastard enterprise company if you know what I mean :)
I'm going to make an app called "Shout", where you can "shout" to people within a 20-foot radius. It's going to be voice activated.
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I'm curious your take on some of the research claiming people are more productive and/or more creative at a coffee shop with noise surrounded by people than in a quiet place alone

Google for "more productive at coffee shops".

That would seem to suggest that maybe private offices aren't quite always best
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>> I can just ignore the background noise and keep working

Good for you. Not everyone can.
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You should look into http://elm-lang.org/. A lot of the examples are specifically for web games. I haven't used it myself, but from research I did into it months ago, I remain very intrigued.
> To be fair, Ethereum is not strictly a cryptocurrency, in the sense that its exclusive purpose is not payments.

Payments is not the exclusive purpose of Bitcoin either. Bitcoin supports things like contracts (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts), via its transaction script.

Bitcoin is essentially a distributed timestamp database, where the storage cost is denominated in bitcoins. This has a tremendous amount of uses.

Granted, Ethereum can do a lot more via its "script", which makes it both more powerful and harder to implement.
Are you referring to LyesD?

Or maybe you mean the organics brought into being by what some would call the original Godfather ;-)
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Where are you residing? I am sure the rest of the world could learn from crash-free place you live in.

In my 18's I though the same, why all those precautions? I can write SMS and not kill anyone! Truth is, I was lucky not to run into emergency situation while being distracted by mobile.

There is very little risk in regular circumstances, but when unlikely events overlap bad things happen. Blown tire on a motorway, cyclist falling to the middle of a road, uncontrolled vehicle approaching you, and other infinitely many rare possibilities.

P.S. highlighting pedestrians might be life-saving during minimal vision weather.
Because when government no longer represents the people, the constitution is supposed to be a final stopgap.
This doesn't work when the issue is voter suppression. Also, "tyranny of the majority" is a real issue in race relations.
Ah, it's time for SIGGRAPH again! Excellent. As a layman, I always look forward to the new "looks like magic" results that come out of there.
Along the lines of reducing fossil fuel consumption and having just returned from a trip to Copenhagen and Amsterdam, I really wish the bicycling culture was better embraced in the States in the bigger cities. NYC has Citibike which I find fantastic! But DC doesn't have the density of bike stations to make it convenient. How are the other cities? Miami, Chicago, San Fran, etc?
How? What PC are you using?
There goes HTTP2's most exciting feature. I guess IETF will remain as useless as ever. Strong encryption on the Internet will need to arrive organically from certain projects catching momentum, and then Internet stakeholders can adopt them as they are, or risk being left behind. IETF standards will always have a multitude of compromises to please all the top Internet stakeholders (even if that's detrimental to the Internet ecosystem and its security).

Also are those 1 or 2 (from what we know of) NSA employees still shaping crypto policy at IETF?
Windows 7 Enterprise edition. I am using workstation in my office. I confirmed this by checking with 2 other colleagues.

I disabled Javascript and the site did not crash my pc.
This.

Life is better now I work from home. It's better to have the kids screaming in the background than people tapping your shoulder and blasting your entire thought process out of the window.
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There is nothing mounted to the window. The device sits on the dashboard.
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It's an impressive piece of work as for a Scheme implementation (saying this as a Scheme implementer myself[1]). I'd love to introduce some ML and static typing in my Scheme too.

I spent some time looking for the source code, then found it at the site one directory up: http://nightmare.com/rushing/irken/irken/ , just in case anyone's interested. It looks like the author does not use version control and Github at all.

[1] https://github.com/EarlGray/SECD
They mention on the site that the image is focused into the distance. Perhaps the imagery they currently have is just poorly designed, but hopefully it's closer to your experience when it ships.
There it is. I noticed it was 2005 but didn't think of this. I was trying very hard to understand statements like:

>Now.. with those definitions in place, you can see how the relationship between simultaneity and lazy evaluation isn't quite as simple as it appears at first glance. It's theoretically possible that the 'f()' or 'x' might change between the lazy evaluation of step one and the lazy evaluation of step three million. Trying to prevent that is what we programmers call a 'hard' problem.

It only makes sense if you don't consider Haskell to be the most immediate example for lazy, purely functional programming.
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I would like the following from a HUD:

Outline a car that a standing still or rapidly decreasing speed. This would reduce mundane traffic accidents due to perception errors.

Show road lanes, especially in poor visibility.

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What are you doing?

I bought an iPad 2 on release, and still use it to this day. I've literally never run into the problem that you describe, and for a few months I did all of my work on it.
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But then the recruiters can mine your network in the interim, and start bugging your contacts. "I asked radicalbyte if he knew anyone who was a good fit for this role. He told me it was right up your alley."
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I'm a pretty big proponent of bitcoin and enthusiastic about 2.0 applications. But I've got serious doubts about Ethereum. For one it's still pretty much vaporware, little has been released and there's a ton of hype that puts style over substance. For example you'll hear 'turing complete' used 500 times in any piece about Ethereum, but speaking to core developers it turns out that this isn't really significant at all.

Besides this there have been some doubts about the development and governance of Ethereum. Let's be clear. Bitcoin is mostly developed by developers funded by the foundation which has a total budget of about $1.5m a year for 2013 and has been doing this for half a decade. Ethereum has already raised as much money as the BF spends in a decade on development, legal, lobbying, evangelism etc. In short, they've got way more money than they need.

And then there have been some complaints about how the team handled things, e.g. an investment round they tried to do earlier but failed. And how there's no real reason to need such a large amount of expensive ethers for actual development purposes, particularly not a long time before actual development start.

Don't get me wrong, not trying to hate on the team. But I can't find a good reason why people buy ethers like they do. They're supposed to be for development, not as an investment, and we really don't need so many of them. It's the equivalent of Google selling developer Google Glasses for $10k a piece, and regular joes buy 10 of em 'just to hold as an investment, who knows it might take off.' It's ridiculous. Only then it was a pre-order, and there'd be no way to start developing for it, the team behind it is talented but unproven, and in a classic hype scheme the price goes UP over time, not down, despite it being already overpriced and sold as an investment instead of as a dev-resource.
How do you explain Boeing's decision for backdoors in their planes, then? If a hacker ever gets access to that, Boeing deserves to go bankrupt over international outrage.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/29/cyber-atta...
I think mining based crypto-currencies are not the way forward. Consensus based protocols like are far more practical.
I think you can look at it as (convenience + quality)/price.

Different people evaluate & value those three differently. To get a customer that equation needs to yield a higher value than the next best thing. To win in a a market completely, you need to tick all three boxes. Better, cheaper, faster.

Uber focused on high quality early on, the limo market. They beat limos for price and convenience (the competition sucked) and matched the quality. More expensive than taxis, but better quality (nicer car). As the network grew, "convenience" went up, fast pickup times. They expanded downmarket (lower price & quality) with uberXand to take on Taxis.

I think this ridesharing/carpooling, if it works well might find an unserved niche somewhere between Taxis and public transport.

A next step might be something close to public transport. Basically minibuses running something similar to shuttles between hotels and airports. Most cities have these. They are possible because hotels can coordinate. That's why they are more common between the hotel and the airport than the other way around. There are probably lots of other use cases that are just missing the coordination.
It only "works" because China doesn't give a shit what people living in the western part of the country (i.e. Uighurs and Tibetans) think about this issue.
Sold to actual developers.

It could be that the team sells ethereum to itself with their own bitcoin. The transaction shows up on the blockchain but nothing happened. They both owned the ethereum and bitcoin before and after the transaction exactly the same.
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You know, in 2003 we (I'm the original author of CoreXT) had some attempts at a serious discussion of merging CoreXT + Razzle and whatever the VS team was doing. I was told "Windows is too big" and "Visual Studio is built for a different customer than Microsoft developers" and the "future is Team System".

Here we are 10 years later ...