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Yeah, but then they look heavy handed and the cost is probably relatively similar. Not to mention that they get the net gain of the skills.

It seems highly likely that Apple has some interest in protecting their brand. Part of the whole "Most amazing phone we've ever made" is the implication that the things you can do on iPhone can't be done on commodity hardware. This would undermine that in a way.

To say there is no way they would hire instead of doing a C&D if that was the motive is really silly. We don't know why they did it, but we can basically assume they know he was doing that before the hiring process.
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Exactly, but the bill makes it mandatory and default on for all smartphones in CA (which will probably lead to the same happening across the U.S.) - Ferguson protesters, watch out when police tell you to stop recording on your phones
This comment really confused me as I couldn't find the quote in the NYT until I read the other comments that the link had been changed from The Guardian. Nevertheless, this seems plausible.
The vast majority of time and effort is spent, essentially, building an ad hoc model of the world, filtering the past through 'discovery'; but you end up going back and forth to this ponderously slow phase, each time the court loses context and spends time to regain it. It's slow, messy, and error prone. With better tools, you could get an OOM (or two) better, I'd guess.

After all, a trial is just a program that outputs a single bit. (Yes, I'm aware that damages take more than a bit, but to a first-order the output is a bit.)
I've got a bunch of really good ideas for food containers and packaging. I've always wondered what the first steps would be for getting a business going?

I guess that's not really what these type of incubators help with.
My wishlist for Satya
>"We live in a strange time when a company that has successfully flown useful cargo into space on their own hardware has a valuation around 50%"

We continue to live in a strange time where people speak of "deserved" valuations without ever talking about future potential profits, both for space companies and even messaging apps.

Elsewhere in the comments, someone said that SpaceX will will simply "go public" to raise the money for Mars (sidenote: that must be an SV thing, to talk as if "going public" is like going to the ATM). Well, who in the public is going to invest without having some idea of what the business model here is, with a reasonable expectation of profits for the undertaken risk?

Look, I'm fascinated by the work SpaceX is doing too, but I need something more concrete than a bunch of loose ideas ("Mine asteroids! Launch satellites!") before I'd turn over my money. It will probably (hopefully) happen eventually, but until then any valuation is meaningless, high or low.
This hypothetical question involves an exoskeleton and neurofeedback.

Hopefully it remains hypothetical and does not become a mad-scientist methodology for using babies to bootstrap a neural network that teaches robots how to walk.
How out of touch does a corporation have to be to announce the resignation of a board member in this manner?
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They seem pretty lightweight, but as a result they have less control over their industry and are extremely vulnerable to market changes.
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I've only been to Ecuador once, but it seemed like people in general didn't trust the government and thought it was corrupt. If that is the case, Ecuador's problems wouldn't be monetary or fiscal at all, it'd be that they have a bunch of crooks robbing them blind.

It always seems like it's my lay-about, heavy-drinking, multiple-DUI-offending, chain-smoking, new-car-on-lease-every-two-years cousins who have the most trouble with money. I once saw one of them chug the leftover half of a bottle of whiskey, smash it over the back of his truck (oblivious to the damage he did to the tail light) and scream, "That's how we DO!" Yeah, you have no idea how truthfully you speak, you idiot. And those three kids by two women you had out of wedlock are the ones who suffer the most for it. But "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse," amiright!?

If you don't get the analogy, my cousin is corrupt government, the kids are the people they govern. I'm not in general calling Ecuadorians drunken layabouts. And I'm not saying I specifically know this is the problem. I'm just saying, money is a communication of value, so if you have money problems, you most likely have value problems.
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This seems like reason enough to prefer using a virtual DOM.
I think Satya is known for doing that.
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I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but does that honestly come through?

I routinely turn down offers from the big players because I imagine once I'm in, it's going to be like the movie Brazil.

I've worked for three large companies as a non-contractor - and I mean maybe I just didn't have the right title but I found the following (in all three):

* I was prohibited from working on broken things that I was capable of fixing but I wasn't assigned to - even if nobody else was addressing them ... Almost as if there's some internal taxonomy model which strictly defines my role as X and only X. Having things lay broken is so frustrating to me.

* Pointing out that projects are on a steady course for derailment and failure was discouraged. Recommending any fix whatsoever was completely a prohibitive.

* Questions like "what does the client want?" or "Can I ask the client a question" always came back with things like "That's not your job".

* Proposals to big payoffs for small LOEs that would substantially improve the project always got shot down. Probably because the "from" field of the email was wrong.

* Creativity, innovation, and working on big new problems was incredibly discouraged. The concept that I have more than just one ability appears either cognitively impossible or structurally incompatible.

I got a nice paycheck - the work was relatively stable and secure, and everything was running smoothly --- but I was completely wasting years of my life.

On the contrary, all the small companies I've worked for have been the exact opposite. It's not that I necessary want to do contract negotiations and SOW writeups, but it gives clarity and purpose that I was just unable to get from the larger firms.

I mean again, maybe it's because my resume doesn't say "PhD, Stanford" on it - I don't know.

Has your experience been dramatically different?
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Thanks for sharing your experience.

How much effort was it? Did you run in to bugs? How is the performance for a public facing website? How hard was to adopt to this new mindset about immutable database?

Ever since I started using Git, I have been wondering as to why we don't have a database product which works like Git. When I read through this fantastic page on their rationale (http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html), I was furiously nodding my head in agreement. Their approach makes so much sense in this day and age where hardware is cheap.
An attempt to highlight how much gambling they will be doing going forward as opposed to simply riding some (much easier) opportunity.

"Microsoft will need to be bold and make big bets to succeed in this new environment. Writing great software is a tremendous accomplishment and selling software has been a fabulous business. In the mobile-first, cloud-first world, software development is a key skill, but success requires moving to monetization through enterprise subscriptions, hardware gross margins, and advertising revenues. Making that change while also managing the existing software business well requires a boldness and fearlessness that I believe the management team has."

"Big bets" - we won't win everything we try or even come close. Some of the things we do will make us look foolish.

"software development is a key skill, but success" (it's not the olden days when we had a lock on things)

"moving to monetization through enterprise subscriptions, hardware gross margins, and advertising revenues" (I'm not sticking around for this one, best of luck!)

"well requires a boldness and fearlessness that I believe the management team has" (but I"m not certain after all I didn't say "I'm sure" I said "I believe".

Ballmer want's to leave the party before the end or at least when all the good food and booze is gone.
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Ok - I'll take the bait.

Let's apply that test. The old do not die (of old age) instead they live on, and what happens?

Does the world reach a new nirvana? Does peace reign? Or do things go on as they are now? If we're such a hot bunch where are the solutions for the wars that are currently pumping the news cycle?

Lay them on the page and I will listen and believe me, I will change my mind.

That's just what we have on our plate now, think on to the future. When society faces new challenges where will the new thought (and thinkers) come from to meet them?

But forget the questions and the species preserving game theory. The moral issue is that getting rid of ageing and installing a gerontocracy is selfish and penalizes all subsequent generations, actual and imagined, either through snuffing them out, or by subduing them and taking their chances from them.

I can live with a cold and uncaring universe, that's just the way it is (if you take the view that we count for anything on the scale of the Universe and anthropomorphizing something that we have neither the perception or cognition to form a proper understanding of). But, human arrogance (for example, imagining that human agents might be able to change the aforementioned non anthropomorphic, non perceptable, non cognitively encompassed universe) and overweening selfishness (ie. all future children count for nothing) is something I think is a matter of choice and something that anyone wise enough to merit living forever will be able to opt out of.

And here is the answer to the conundrum of let's kill the old. If we as a species have the intrinsic merit to live forever we will opt out of doing so to make way for our children. If we don't merit this then there will be no death camps and euthanasia programs, just nuclear war, famine, environmental collapse and all the rest of it.
It may not be cut and dry to kill it legally. While they probably could do so on a patent or EULA case, if the guy is willing, it's a lot cheaper to just offer him a run-of-the-mill salary and employment package. As soon as he becomes an employee, any substantive future contribution to the project is instantly tainted, even if it's just documentation or giving hints to the new maintainers. At that point, Apple would have a very solid trade secret case, amplified by copyright claims and the violation of the prerequisite NDA.

Similar projects know to stay really, really far away from anyone associated with the company whose product they're duplicating. WINE wants nothing to do with you if you've ever come within 500 feet of Microsoft's source code. If the project's founder is willing to give up that easily, it's certainly an easy, cheap way to kill off such a project.
There's just too many backdoors in smart phones. That's why I choose to use standalone hardware that can work with any phone for my voice encryption project:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/jackpair/
xkcd has a comic explaining the same thing.

http://xkcd.com/882/
Yes, I remember those. I (and a number of my friends) were waiting for the DEC PC, believing it would blow everyone else out of the water. We thought it would be an 11. I owned an H-11, which was an awesome machine.

When the Rainbow was unveiled, you could hear the jaws dropping on the floor. That moment was the end of DEC. We knew that x86 was the future at that point, and never looked back.
BTC is deflationary. Central banks will set stuff on fire to avoid deflation, but BTC is deflationary by design. BTC is dumb, basically, and unfit for being what wages are given and loans taken in.

Euro inflation is 0.2% or something like that and the ECB is not only demanding money for bank-to-ECB deposits, but giving away ECB-to-bank loans for free. Soon it's going to start buying government bonds. If that doesn't get inflation back to norm helicopter cash-drops are probably next.
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It's that XKCD strip about jelly beans. ( http://www.xkcd.com/882/ )
"Mobile-first, cloud-first"... I've used their cloud and even our .NET fanboys voted it off the island at our shop.

And mobile first? Do they even have a mobile offering? I mean, sure, the Slate is kind of cool. But doesn't your company need marketshare to say that you're "mobile-first"?
Are canvas tiles more performant than one giant canvas sized to fit within a user's browser?
They have to pay for exchanging damaged currencies. It cost millions every year to Ecuador. That's what he is referring to printing I believe.
Also, cops in California will be issued guns that they may use to arbitrarily murders citizens.
This is something I would love (lurve!) to tackle, because justice is a vitally important part of any society, and it's a place where "productivity improvements" could be vast (perhaps 100x faster trials?).

The way I'd move into this would be to get some experience with real trials and/or private arbitration. It would be ideal to get a JD and actually practice law, but that's probably not necessary. Arbitration is a good place to start because it's relatively unregulated and easy to introduce new models of interaction and judgement, and there's a strong cost minimization incentive anyway.

I'd work on it but I've got other fish to fry at the moment. Maybe next year!
some people are born without the ability to walk.

others, are born without the gift of hearing.

i was born with an incredibly low "cringe" threshold.

reading this "exchange" almost put me in a coma.
Oh, it would be grand if an alarm clock could wake me reliably through sound alone without waking the neighborhood. My problem is rarely the snooze button, unfortunately. I'm curious, however - do puzzle alarms help others wake?
And that does not include third party modules that have their own ideas about user interface conventions and often conflict with whatever modules were installed with Windows. Wi-fi is one such thing where all kinds of weirdness abound.
Hindsight? Everyone knew that floppy thing was a mistake the moment it was unveiled. People actually laughed.
"$500,000" is not the cost for a ticket on the first mission, it's the eventual cost in the steady-state.

There are a lot of pieces left that need money dumped into them. Musk seems to be building all the technology pieces needed for a Zubrin "Case For Mars" trip. [1] Not all of those have immediate market needs that SpaceX can justify, such as artificial gravity. (NASA is extremely reluctant to have anything to do with this. Their tune might change if someone else can demonstrate it safely, but for now NASA policy is to only talk about microgravity, not artificial gravity.)

SpaceX needs to stay profitable. That is extremely important, because people need to be able to build plans around the company continuing to exist. It can't have loss-leaders.

However, Musk can be a loss-leader: he can hire SpaceX to (say) research, develop, and build artificial gravity labs. SpaceX would be hard pressed to find a business reason for building those in the intermediate term.

The "Case For Mars" got a ~$30 billion price tag from the same committee that gave the 90-day report a $450 billion price tag. SpaceX has demonstrated the ability to significantly aerospace costs, but even if they cut it by a factor of 6, that's still $5 billion in development costs that a company with a total valuation of $10 billion somehow has to support. (And "selling tickets to Mars" won't give them revenue for at least a decade.)

[1] The rough list of big technologies needed is about 5 elements long: 1. Heavy lift. 2. Methane-burning rockets. 3. In-situ resource production. 4. Artificial gravity. 5. Mars EDL. SpaceX is working directly on #1 and they have a nice research project going on #2. Methane rockets are justifiable by SpaceX because they have (some) practical advantages over LH/LOX rockets.
Looks like their back up but don't see any communication from them on Twitter. Anyone heard anything?
The advantage to mandatory and default-to-on is that it will be prevalent and will therefore decrease the expected value of mugging someone for their phone. That is a legitimate benefit, and is not worth nothing. I'm still not happy about the trade-off, if the disable doesn't depend on an owner-controlled code or similar.
The Roman Kingdom/Republic/Empire is a really fascinating period of ancient history. What's really mindblowing is when you realize that the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire didn't fall until 1453.

If you're looking for interesting listening on Rome, I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast. The series Death Throes of the Republic focuses on the period where Rome transformed from a Republic to an Empire (maps 13-16). I just finished listening to that a few weeks ago, and it was amazing. Additionally, Thor's Hammer discusses what happened in Europe when Rome fell. There's also an older series on the Punic wars, but I haven't had a chance to listen to that one yet.
The problem is, how many people actually carry non-phone devices? There are a small handful of folks who carry around SLRs or iPod with cameras, but not many. (Since Google glass is paired with a phone, I'm guessing it would be bricked as well.)

I'm also curious if "Airplane Mode" defends against shutdown. While common sense says it should, it's an easy loophole for the thieves who are (ostensibly) the purpose of the shutdown switch.
Absentee slumlord gets his comeuppance, claims corruption and sues. What's news here?
>quite possibly the same PR team drafted both letters.

How cynical are you people that you don't think long-time corporate executives can sit down and write a professional, "safe" sounding, 500 word resignation letter?
Yes, I buy the idea that ageing is bad, it's the lack of a reset/times up factor that I don't fancy (in the sense of absolute disaster for everyone).

If the option was to enjoy (say) 130 years of middle age life followed by a sudden painless and invariably fatal brain seizure then I would agree that would be better than the current slide into a nightmare.
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I used to be afraid that this is so since it seemed for a long time that only one server exits. But now there are many gateways so there are many node in the p2p network. So how is this not decentralized? And, since there is money involved, there seems to be high incentive for adversaries. So it seems Ripple does work in an adversarial, decentralized context. What am I missing?

I am honestly interested in this. I have trouble finding any reliable information about the viability of the Ripple consensus mechanism.
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No, it can be an operator on any kind of (usually) ring or more general algebraic structure. What you refer to is the "usual" derivative of functions of one variable, just one of many derivatives one can define.
Ballmer's weirdly suited to be owner of the Clippers. Coming in to Eminiem's 'Lose Yourself', practically hysterical with excitement is kind of cool. Much, much better than Sterling.

If the owner couldn't be Magic Johnson, I'm glad it's a superfan like Ballmer.
Is Iceland's next volcanic eruption about to happen?
The term "hacker" implies rule-bending to solve real problems in a productive way, whether you're bending the rules of a programming environment or a legal construct like an EULA. Adherence to contracts is not mandatory for something to qualify as a traditional hack.
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The new Google Play store screams Video
For something like that I'd suggest talking to potential customers.. if restaurants, for example, are you target audience, go and visit... become friendly with a bunch of owners/managers/etc.
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There are fundamental freedoms the government cannot and should not be able to subvert. Communicating with others, via any means necessary is one of them.

I feel I am politically very far away from many guns rights activists, and am wary of the practical outcomes of widespread weapon ownership, but at the same time I believe 2nd Amendment advocates are completely right to be wary of government's ability to strip individual power to protect and disrupt.
> (BTW, 4 hours a day means an actual 4 hours of high concentration and high output, which can take a full working day as anyone with a day job will attest.)

TV-watching is not high-concentration.
Does this include access points like the MiFi hotspot?
If this legislation passes (and I hope it doesn't) there will be an immediate First Amendment challenge.

One place where we've been lucky is the fact that the FCC has rules against jamming of any sort of radio signal.
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If I am a bootstrapped start-up with a very limited budget, and about 100-150 inbound leads how will spending $30 on this book help me?
How did you make that chart please? Specifically, the percentage on the y-axis -- how does one get that? Thanks.
> Suggesting "invalidating wallets" indicates a lack of understanding about the underlying system

It might be a wording mistake rather than a lack of understanding, but I see your point. If you think about it though, it's technically easy to do and maybe a good thing too. Since you can see any transaction ever done, you can easily lookup the last transaction done by any address with value (valueless addresses can be discarded from memory anyway). If that transaction is more than, let's say, 50 years ago, you could say that it can be discarded from memory too (no longer included in the block chain to preserve space).

People may want to store coins for over 10 years in cold storage (hot storage would simply be able to do a transaction to itself every few years) so maybe that's too short, but 50 years seems like a reasonable time. Looking at the future of Bitcoin (and I mean 100+ years), even though storage will get cheaper and cheaper, it might be smart to discard really old addresses.

Of course this is all just an idea, I'm not saying it really surely would be a great thing to do. It's just that it's possible and not just a dumb remark from Retric.
I don't think I see the relevance. This article isn't about spying on you, it is about disabling your phone remotely ("kill switch," etc). How does encrypting your voice before it enters your phone mitigate that?

Plus if you're paranoid enough to use that then frankly you're too paranoid to own a cellphone at all. They can still use it to track your location and to remotely turn on the microphone and eavesdrop on the background sounds.
Copyright is fundamentally open to interpretation. Android users may have a reasonable fair use case, regardless of what Apple says.
The sensing substrate would seem to be the most significant difference.

Additionally, this technique uses a "temperature-driven dye", whereas e-papers is typically an electromagnetically-activated mixture.