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One of the major reasons for the cancellation of the space program was Britain was at the same time developing Concorde (with the French). There was only enough money for one of them and it was decided concorde was more likely to be commercially successful.

Other people think concorde is an masterpice of engineering but I'd have preferred the rockets.

On the other hand a lot of the research and technology went into the European Space Agency so it wasn't a total waste.
> The goal isn't to provide largess (is it?) its to provide the basics with no strings attached free of charge, anything beyond that should require satisfying the desires of other humans.

The goal, in my view, of Basic Income is to mitigate the fundamental structural inequity of capitalist markets (particularly in the way that money/commodity exchanges work as a proxy for value/utility), to wit, that such markets weight present utility experienced by market participants by past wealth accumulation, and thus are progressively distortive in terms of distribution of utility.

Providing a basic, no-strings-attached allowance is a means, not an ends.

> anything beyond that should require satisfying the desires of other humans.

As it does in BI -- you have to gain income from market exchange to realize utility beyond that attainable with the BI alone. The difference between BI and your "basic welfare" where the government provides a standard-issue basket of goods and services is that BI is simply additive with other income, whereas the limited exchangeability and substitutability of the standard basket of basic welfare goods and services means that it takes a large additional income to get a small additional benefit, which reduces the incentive to provide additional value since, over some range at the bottom.

> I understand the reason this check is necessary, I also think you're going to end up with a lot of dead illegals.

BI serving its purpose does not preclude other programs serving people present in the jurisdiction of the nation that aren't subject to it. Nor does the example of potential classifications mean that BI couldn't have a different eligibility rule ("everyone physically present in the national jurisdiction" is also a possible rule.)

> This is a moral problem we're trying to solve right?

There are many moral problems. Not all of them have the same solution.

> Why should specific people starve?

I don't recall arguing that anyone should starve.
sure is, but it doesn't work in a mobile browser, though!
The article states that the two main factors are family and money. I am of the opinion that family is the much more important, and difficult to solve factor but everyone wants to focus on the money. Growing up rich gives advantages for success, but in my opinion growing up middle class makes it much more likely you will be a success, not just slowly squandering your inheritance. It is hard to have a strong work ethic if you don't have to work for anything. The phrase helpless as a rich man's child comes to mind. We should concentrate on helping families stay together.
It would be free, but not necessarily easy, as it would still entail configuring your web server to use SSL, and that might not even be an option if you're using shared hosting.

(Aside: self signed certs don't protect the connection from active attacks unless CloudFlare pins the cert. I'm mainly concerned with passive eavesdropping though.)
The cost of a lookup on the term is O(1) with one perhaps two main memory accesses and measured in nanoseconds. The search index is likely a tree, and will be taking a main memory stall every node traversal.

There are hundreds of easter eggs. There a trillions of search entries. The cost of even a byte per entry would be massive.
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Thanks! I appreciate the heads up on the attribution...I knew that, and I actually included it in the code where I add the leaflet tile layer, but I guess I need to include a leaflet control to display the attribution. Here's the code I'm using:

https://gist.github.com/michaelcolenso/e89bc327cb31e7f0b6d9
> The fact is, if we raise everyone to a minimum standard of living, the richest will suffer, as will even the upper middle class.

Not a fact-- until we start to reach some physical limits. But, the universe is very very big! Life is not a zero sum game other than in the very very short run (approaching instantaneous) .
I'd be interested in information like this for drones that are fully programmable (wasn't there one that could run NodeJS?)
Sounds like you should raise money and launch your own expedition.
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Hunter gatherers had violent lives, experienced starvation and died in their thirties. So it's not a fair comparison.
The HotSpot JVM stack allocates (actually, even better: it SROAs) in very similar conditions to when Go does: when escape analysis decides that a value does not escape. Even if it doesn't stack allocate, bump allocation in the nursery ends up being about as fast as stack allocation (which is, as far as I know, why HotSpot chose only to lock elide and not to stack allocate when they implemented escape analysis).
Well, if we're doing treasure we shouldn't forget about the Lost Dutchman's Mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine)
What percentage of readers know you could fill a football stadium with these chips and for many tasks it wouldn't come close to a human brain with today's knowledge of software? I love news like this just feels like analogies using brains are easy to overhype.
> People that work for other people aren't trying to build that business, they're trying to build themselves within that business.

I really like this sentence. I've been looking for a way to express this thought nicely.
Some comments are wrong but interesting, it's a common error or an error on a strange case. I try to vote a correction reply or write a comment explaining the error.

Some comments are extremely wrong, as "If you plant a fried potato, you get a fried potato tree." I downvote this kind of comments.
Comments from previous discussion (8 days ago):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8108855
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As a side issue, are there any plans to switch to gcc as thr main compiler? It can do everything that 6c can do from what I understand, and produces much faster code due to gcc well tuned optimizer.
Half-way through reading, I was thinking "what a fitting name" :)
'IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does'

Interesting, I did not know that we already know how the brain 'processes data'.
Other threads about this paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8064934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8147376
Also, just a 1980s power suit could be a fun approach.

The bigger the shoulder pads, the better!
Does it involve a lot of diddy roidin'?
>I've been building my ZTE Open since pretty close to its initially release. I also use it as my daily device.

I bought a ZTE Open off of ebay back in April. My Nexus 4 broke in July. I have been using the ZTE Open as my daily device since.

I built from source (Boot2Gecko 1.4.0.0-prerelease) and, from my experience:

- Sometimes when I open an MMS message and click the back button, my phone reboots
- If I open a content-heavy webpage or app the app will force close
- Sometimes when I'm scrolling through the gallery app my phone freezes
- Sometimes my handset earpiece doesn't work and I have to make calls on speakerphone
- Sometimes the camera app freezes after taking a picture

Now, I'm not sure if these are issues with the ZTE Open's specs, the state of the build I flashed, or the method in which I flashed it, but those are my daily struggles using the phone.

That being said, as a phone (phone calls + sms + mms) it works, mostly.

I haven't been keeping it updated though. I should build the most recent and flash it soon.
> That only works if you're talking about a customer buying something from an established merchant.

True. However my point stands: Bitcoin reduces fraud overall, because most transactions happen with reputable merchants.

> Charges that the credit card company pays, not you.

That's incorrect. In the end it comes from the customer's pocket. Because credit card companies have to have higher CC processing fees to cover higher fraud levels, which indirectly causes merchants to raise their prices. Sometimes it is not obvious (eg. all prices are 1-2% higher in an industry, eg. supermarkets), but sometimes it is more obvious. There is a perfect example from a few weeks ago demonstrating my point: AirBaltic charges a 5.99 EUR fee when processing a CC payment, but not when processing a Bitcoin payment: http://www.coindesk.com/airbaltic-waives-controversial-bitco...
I think Joe Fitz is working on some malicious active memory prototypes as well. Could be very interesting and scary.
Worth sharing, google led me to this interesting fellow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUrpcxD0uo

He has a surprisingly interesting idea that the shaft of periodic wooden panels may be an ancient viking ship buried vertically.

My own vote is for sinkhole + telephone game/hype machine.
> If you look at the happy faces of indigenous people, you experience survivor bias: you only see the smiles of the people who survived. Perhaps you could argue that it's better to live short and happy than long and miserable, but I think a lot more research would be necessary.

Two things.

1. You say "short and happy" life, but you can argue for "long and happy" - people before civilization didn't live much shorter lives than we do.

2. It might not be survivor bias, there are lots of records and arguments suggesting that living hunter-gatherer lifestyle is much, much happier than what we have today.

There's a nice article elaborating on that in case of Comanches [0]. An excerpt:

So there was a bit of traffic back and forth between America and Comancheria in the 19th century. White people being captured and raised by Comanches. The captives being recaptured years later and taken back into normal white society. Indians being defeated and settled on reservations and taught to adopt white lifestyles. And throughout the book's description of these events, there was one constant:

All of the white people who joined Indian tribes loved it and refused to go back to white civilization. All the Indians who joined white civilization hated it and did everything they could to go back to their previous tribal lives.

Note the second paragraph.

[0] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/340809.html
Why not do something like the go get tool, that uses git, mercurial and subversion to try to resolve a repo by a URL and to get its contents?
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A CTO (and any other C-level) should be measured on delivering results, not on schedule. If they can deliver in 30 hours, fine. If they need 60, so be it, but maybe they aren't cut out for being a C-level. I've carried a CTO bag a couple of times in my career, and if I'm working 60+ hours week in and week out, I'm certainly questioning how I'm doing my job. It usually means I'm not delegating correctly.
>'A great example of this is how often people point to outliers in discussing the structural barriers holding back poor kids. It's not rational.'

So very true.

I think of this as the 'Black President Dismissal'.

I draw that from a certain set that will immediately raise the 2008 election as 'proof' that discrimination and inequality is an excuse and relic of the past.

You see the same with successful immigrants - who have already self-selected for drive, determination, ability and likely a certain amount of luck in getting here - who are wielded the same way, held up as 'proof' that anyone can make it America.
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One big problem with pools is that you have to deallocate the pool sometime (or else your program's working set will continually grow over time), and when you do, all the pointers into that pool become dangling.

Another problem with pools is that you can't deallocate individual objects inside a pool. This is bad for long-lived, highly mutable data stores (think constantly mutating DOMs, in which objects appear and disappear all the time, or what have you).
> That's a good point, but since the new ISA is only available in 64-bit mode there's no practical way to attribute the performance gains.

I would say there is: create a compiler for the ISA that only uses as many 64-bit registers as a 32-bit CPU has, and only use the additional 64-bit registers to perform 32-bit calculations.

As far as theory goes, as you say, one of the reasons 64-bit is faster is because it can operate on 64-bits more efficiently than a 32-bit processor (because it has more registers that are 64 bits wide). So if we can split up, for example, a 256 bit bignum operation into two instructions instead of four, that should -- more or less -- half the execution time. But yeah, I have no idea to what extent this effect influences how fast various operations are done.

Another factor, that I think is often overlooked, is the width of the DRAM-to-CPU interface. Memory still is the bottleneck of most systems.

A 64-bit CPU should also be slower at some things, among other things because describing a memory address requires transferring twice as much data to the CPU. But again, I really have no idea how much of an impact this really has.
Does that mean, nothing is secret anymore?
Has your co-founder brought in any sales?

No, but we plan on going to sales meet together.

Does he have any industry expertise?

No, I had to explain the industry in it's entirety.

A strong network of customers/advisors/investors?

No but knows other sales people.

Is he leaving a high paying job?

I think it's high paying, but not 100% sure what he's salary is.

The thing is he does feel like a co-founder, he got everything I explained very quickly, we think similarly and dig the vibe. Now he wants to code and help out on the dev side (as he's done it on the side on and off), which I welcome.

Do you mean after a year, both of us start earning equities? What does it mean to vests? I will consider a lawyer.
The interesting thing about this project is that they're using transistors to physically simulate synapses and neurons, which is quite an inefficient method. Transistors are expensive, and your brain has about 100 billion neurons, and trillions of synapses.

A recent discovery by Leon Chua has shown that synapses and neurons can be directly replicated using Memristors [1]. Memristors are passive devices which may be much simpler to build in the scale of neurons compared to transistors.

1. http://iopscience.iop.org/0022-3727/46/9/093001/
> Why do people assume that cleanup in reference counting has to be synchronous?

It doesn't, but it most real-world implementations of RC it is.
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Most VASSAL modules don't, either.
I believe you could use node.js or https://github.com/indutny/bud for asynchronously selecting SNI context per request. This is very fast and flexible.
Lebron James was already playing basketball and being noticed by coaches when he was 9 years old. He was incredibly lucky to be in that position. At 9 years old 100% of you do in life is your genetics, environment and luck.

You also can't possibly believe any significant part of the difference between Lebron James and lesser basketball pros is due to effort and dedication unless you assume everybody else is lazy and partying when Lebron is practicing. He is the best (or one of the best) out of hundreds of extremely dedicated professionals.
The answer to your question is here:
http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/06/02/karl-alexander-long-shadow-res...

Only 33 children moved from birth families in the low-income bracket to the high-income bracket as young adults; if family had no bearing on children's mobility prospects, almost 70 would be expected. And of those who started out well off, only 19 dropped to the low-income bracket, a fourth of the number expected.

He compares some of the other stats too.
Yes, of course the lower echelons of Freemasonry are completely oblivious and makes for plausible denial for the organization as a 'hole' (pun-intended).
The Japanese retro-future consists of white people of European descent, immersed in a world full of katakana/hiragana/kanji signeage.
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I often wonder. It seems that our technology must suck at this or is simply too expensive to use.
>And when everyone started carrying cellphones.

in 1984 George Orwell talks about TeleScreens,

Here's a little excerpt from wikipedia:

>"Telescreens are fictional devices which operate as both televisions and security cameras....telescreens are used by the ruling Party in Oceania to keep its subjects under constant surveillance, thus eliminating the chance of secret conspiracies against Oceania. All members of the Inner Party (upper-class) and Outer Party (middle-class) have telescreens in their homes, but the proles (lower-class) are not typically monitored as they are unimportant to the Party."

now consider recent NSA revelations (dragnet surveillance) including: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-se...

Cellphones are Telescreens... they are a source of entertainment for most (like TV) and function as security cameras -- with your location and data connectivity being constantly logged, complete with backdoors which allow full remote access.

The middle class is being destroyed (http://time.com/money/2917709/wealth-inequality-doubled-over...) and anyone who opposes the party will be subject to indefinite detention (NDAA) or wiped out.

Apps are primarily a distraction mechanism and social networks are services which profile every aspect of an individuals life, data which can and will be mined and used against you if you commit a thought-crime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/technology/15twitter.html

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/7/5878069/why-facebook-is-bea...

Try and stop them: www.cnbc.com/id/101669271
I think you are right. Lot of advising and a lot of explaining from me but I guess when someone is new, you have to explain it as well.

Right now, I'm just thinking what do I value more? Future sales or someone who can develop the product with me? Or someone that does both?

Nothings in ink, everything is just in the air. But my worry is exactly that, I am lifting all the heavy parts and what I actually need is someone to do it with me.
The Parrot AR runs a web server, and is easily controlled with the HTTP client of your choice.
Wonder if they are then going into direct competition with Qualcomm and Samsung; all these companies have quite active neuromorphic chip research groups going.
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Look for papers by Carver Mead from Caltech in the '80s, these are all based off of those concepts I think.
what I just paid 20/month for the SSL....

Update: I have another concern I just found out.

For example, I do a lot of web scraping through my domain and I see that I was automatically opted in to use https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/scrapeshield, something that is supposed to block scraping.

There's a huge conflict of interest if it turns out that the cloudflare network actively aims to help block scraping.

I know you guys said you will be on the neutral side but if the cloudflare is helping Scrapeshield become more intelligent about scraping by monitoring my scraping actions, I really don't know if it's wise to stay with cloudflare, as much as I love it.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149162
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Hey t-plane. Famo.us offers a bit more than just matrix 3d transforms, in fact one of the best ways to think about how famo.us handles dom is more of a transport layer. There is no reason that famo.us could not use the same entity pattern and tree to render to webgl, we just have not been focusing on it (yet).

Disclaimer I work at Famo.us
This thread was originally about someone telling their experience with the phone that Firefox OS is developed and tested against. This was an article about developing Firefox OS which is done on the device discussed in the start of the thread. That is relevant information to someone who might be interested in getting involved in designing and developing Firefox OS which was what the article was about.

No where in the start of this thread or in the article did it involve which system is the best, nor did it ever even mention Android, iOS etc etc.
I haven't looked into the JVM's stack allocation logic in several years, so it may have improved to the point where that is now true. (It wasn't so in 2010.) However, Go does have features that make it easier to control allocations than Java. One example,

type s struct {
x int32
y int32
}
v := make([]s, 1e5)

The object v uses 1e5 * 8 bytes of storage. Equivalent Java code would require boxing of each s value. That is, instead of []s, you end up with []*s and allocating each s.
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They also had happy lives, didn't have to slave themselves for 2/3 of their lives to get food and shelter, and no, they didn't die in their thirties, they lived as long as we do. Oh, and also they didn't have so many diseases - it's another thing we got from settling down and becoming agrarian.
As opposed to lazily parroting locally created lazy propaganda, I suppose. What does trolling western blogs pay these days in Russia?
Funny you should mention that. It is the top thread right now on the dev-gaia mailing list.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/QP7...
"everybody in physics these days uses Word to compose papers"

What subfield of physics have you worked in?

In my experience, this is not remotely true. Almost paper I read in grad school (e.g., on arXiv/quant-ph) was written in LaTeX. The exceptions written in Word were indeed quite likely to be the work of crackpots...
I too would like to see a decent comparison. Also what's ultimately going to matter is up-front cost per synapse and ongoing cost per synapse-second (from power consumption). That's really all that matters if you are planning to make a cluster out of them.

Of course, there could be some new and interesting uses in embedded devices where sheer throughput doesn't matter so much as total power usage, for moderate processing power. For example, the AI in Roomba and similar robot vacuums is pretty rudimentary, so appliances like that could maybe get a boost from this.
A lengthy article in NY Times with the word 'billion' is all that required now to increase the hype.
There's a long debate whether profit correlate with value. The simple example the rise in GDP due to car accidents.
Why exactly do you describe trying to best position your daughter for a happy, healthy, successful life as "unfair"? Is this what the world has come to, is this the degree of our guilt, that simply being a good parent and using money where possible to better their children is an "unfair" act worthy of shame?

Maybe something got lost in translation but your inclusion of this one word "unfair" depresses me.
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That's what we're going to do: issue certs that our customers can use on their origins, that will be trusted by our network, and that will be pinned to a particular site. That will allow end-to-end cryptographic connections. There are other groups working on making installing and setting up SSL on origin servers easier, that's not something we're likely to tackle, but agree it's important.
Are EV certs going to remain Business/Enterprise-only?