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There's no intractability here, with enough power you could just push the air around any way you like. Weather is transforming energy in a very, very complex set of feedback loops, but you could override it completely with even more energy. You can throw paper balls at a cat to try and get it to move somewhere, or you can just grab it and put it where you want it to be (and then catch it again, because it will most definitely try to escape).
This land being swallowed by the Gulf is home to half of the country’s oil refineries, a matrix of pipelines that serve 90 percent of the nation’s offshore energy production and 30 percent of its total oil and gas supply, a port vital to 31 states, and 2 million people who would need to find other places to live.

The landscape on which all that is built is washing away at a rate of a football field every hour, 16 square miles per year.
Doesn't it have to be a bit of both? Because if you start strictly with the experience you might back into impossible technology.
Supporting docker caching would be huge.
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> Thanks for the exchange, off to bed here (4:39 am...).

You're welcome, and thank you as well. Also going to bed (03:49 AM here, and I was supposed to be coding up my thesis... I guess it's time to turn on the noprocrast again).
> By an extremely liberal interpretation of "this", perhaps.

Well, the "this" operator is overloaded, just like in C++.
I'd like to thank Michael for putting so much work into this - it has helped me obtain a baseline of knowledge to get into web development as my career about 2 years back (even though I have been mostly doing JavaScript professionally), and I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone interested in trying to learn about web development.
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A more modern implementation of Joy's ideas can be found in Factor[1], which the author of this article (and of Joy) endorsed[2].

Also related: http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html. This article considers the relation between Joy and combinatory logic, a topic that enjoyed some interest in the Haskell community[3].

[1] http://factorcode.org/

[2] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/concatenative/conversati...

[3] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Combinatory_logic
Living in a city with crappy public transportation, I really don't care about that—I'd just prefer a mapping application with a better user experience.
I've given up and switched to Pale Moon.

For me, Firefox reached its peak just before it switched from the classic download window and has been going downhill ever since.

It's now rapidly going in the direction of too many formerly promising open-source projects - the core developers feeding back on each other until they go the way of the fashion industry - "This is what you need. Everything that came before is useless and must be discarded", repeating every so often.
> But if you have ALL the semantics of C, why bother changing the syntax?

Two reasons: first, change what sucks (like the useless clutter with braces and semicolons, or the switches that fall through by default). Second, add more features on top of what we have.

As much as I hate C++, we do live in a C dominated world, and C is… limited. The lack of a usable generics system is crippling. C++'s destructors really help with semi-automatic clean up. And it would be good to have a module system, and maybe built-in support for algebraic data types. (I must not overdo it: if I end up turning C into ML, I should use ML. Or Rust.)

> if I asked you, no doubt you'd give me some.

I'll give you one: Algebraic data types, which are virtually unmatched at representing abstract syntax trees, and basically any intermediate representation a compiler can come up with. Other arguments here: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

> There's just one rule: no bootstrapping.

Of the top of my head, I don't recall any compiler that doesn't bootstrap. In any case, I fully expect that most compilers are indeed written in C and C++, not in ML or Haskell: C and C++ are that popular.

I also happen to think our industry as a whole is mostly nuts, retarded, and short-sighted.
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Australia does have better rules than the US - it is possible (although not easy) to operate a drone company in Australia. In the US it's still legally problematic.
Why are tail sitters better than a tilt rotor?
Ride sharing will become like airline travel: a huge industry which greatly benefits the consumer, while suppliers struggle to make a profit on very thin margins.
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OK, so it's not a Chinese tune. What would be a suitable replacement? Ideally something authentically Chinese, broadly recognizable, and somehow representative of Chinese music.
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Apr 2004 [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
Like I said, it's a visualization technique, and it works better if you have some experience with pushing your mental energies around. Practice in Wiccan grounding, centering and shielding helps (Google that or start with http://www.witchvox.com and start probing, I guess; I don't know of any instruction materials currently in print or online). This is my experience, so I describe it here in first-person...

When I close my eyes, almost immediately my visual memory lights up with a "day review" which is like a daydream but for being something which I can direct, using pretty much the same visualization mechanism I use for data/code/schematic structures when I'm designing, coding or debugging. I can feel that forebrain activity as a slight heat just behind my forehead. It's great for overview and casual entertainment when I can afford the time, but not when I need a quick nap and it's keeping me conscious.

I will the main weight of my awareness to recede from that frontal visualization viewplane, moving toward the back of my skull, deliberately dissociating from the visual activity, to where things feel like they're quieter and move slower. If, for motorcycling, where a less tightly-focused, more panoramic viewpoint is best for situational awareness, I take a half-step back, for quick napping I take several steps back.

You can forcefully imagine the footsteps if it helps establish the change of center; after awhile, that mental positioning becomes familiar enough to dispense with the imagined physical/aural sound-effects.

Sorry if it sounds all too Crafty or New-Age, but that's how I live.
IFTT and Zapier are two of the most exciting companies to watch in tech right now. Why? Because automation and programming are still inaccessible to most people, but the need and interest is widespread. IFTT and Zapier, both of which I use, are racing for breadth of services they integrate as opposed to depth of a service's API they expose/support. I think that is a mistake. I also believe the first of the two to support industrial devices, a robust security model and open source hardware will run dominate the space. There are only so many Mailchimp, Salesforce, Google Docs integrations of value - but infinite use cases for device integration. On this score perhaps IFTT has a lead. IFTT and Zapier are what, IMHO, Apple's Automator should have been. I think Apple may have missed the mark throwing resources at Swift, when the much larger market is end-user integrations. I might add applications like Tasker and Locale on Android add a ton of value to those platforms, at the expense of the iPhone, and Apple remains largely absent on the integration front.
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Feb 2005 [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps
TomTom will actually do this. You can specify that you want to go to a gas station along your route and it will list all of them and the detour distance required. Unfortunately TomTom makes you pay for live traffic data.
I don't think so. I can almost hear Jeff's voice...

"Don't make your problem the customer's problem!"

There are often many technical solutions to create a particular customer experience. Jeff never accepts false dichotomies. If the particular technical solution being considered fails to produce a delightful customer experience then you better start thinking about other solutions. Many of the projects on which I worked turned out much better when Jeff challenged us break out of our little technical boxes and consider alternate solutions that preserved the customer experience.

I can sense that my answer will be frustrating to some who don't like being told that they aren't thinking big enough / creatively enough / bold enough / outside the box enough. Believe me, I felt that way too when working on Jeff projects. I left his office in frustration many times only to realize several hours or days later that I would have been better served by focusing on creative problem solving instead of trying to convince Jeff that X was not possible.

I have immense respect for Jeff. I also have increased respect for Sergy because he appears to be asking the right types of questions at Google.
I don't but how would sugar beat caffeine into the blood stream?
This seems to happen frequently with some of the largest tech companies. I'm reminded of how Apple was developing a tablet computer, what would eventually become the iPad, far before anyone was thinking about multi-touch interfaces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad#History). They spent almost 10 years in R&D before they were able to put something out there, and even longer before they could actually ship the iPad. It's a good thing they wasted all that money, because it ended up paying off.

I think Google, Amazon and even Microsoft are hedging similar bets against the limits of technology. After all, what's impossible today may be trivial tomorrow.
I think you're misunderstanding the gossip protocol, but, regardless, that was not the claim I was responding to, it was that the disclosure of email addresses (or a hash of them) with no way to remove them from the Key Directory is somehow beyond the pale for a public (and automated) key exchange system.
Well, I think starting with the experience first gives you a clear indication if this is worthwhile or not. Once you decide if it is worthwhile then you can go back to the technology and determine if it is feasible.
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This is not only the best tutorial-style book I have ever read, but probably the best book there is to get into web programming for someone who has never done it. This book totally demystifies the process from start to finish:

* What's a web framework?
* Why do I want one?
* How do I set up useful version controi?
* How do I build an app?
* How do I test my app?
* How do I deploy my app to the real world?

No other book I have ever seen answers so many questions so eloquently. Thanks mhartl, you are doing something great for new web developers everywhere.
I don't sleep well at night. I never have. But, after lunch (and after perusing HN for a few minutes), I start feeling that dull sensation like my brain is trying to shut down. If, at that point, I get into a reasonably comfortable position (doesn't have to be lying down, just rest your head on a table or lean back in a chair with head supported), close my eyes and allow my thoughts to wander. In 5 to 15 minutes the world looks like a much better place.

I really think the key is closing your eyes. I've read (no citation available) that the vision system requires a huge amount of brain activity and that by shutting your eyes you can achieve a large sleep like win even if you don't sleep.
I wonder if this is to get in front of anti-trust actions. They where clearly using their search duopoly (US) and monopoly (EU) to juice google+.
Personally I think it's more inciteful in a "cut to the chase" way than it is inflammatory.

Search was sold, but search was/is an integral part of web browsing and so was going to be in there anyway. Adverts on the new-tab tiles aren't necessary - if content is necessary there it doesn't need to be paid advertising.

He made a succinct point that others hadn't made, IMO that adds to the conversation.
You can't use Visual C++ to build software that was designed for Linux...

Sure you can. Projects of all scales do this all the time. Have you never heard C described as being portable assembly language?

Unless you are writing low-level, performance-sensitive code for something like an operating system or device driver, usually details like endianness matter only to the extent that they specify external protocols and file formats. I would argue that this sort of detail is normally best encoded/decoded explicitly at the outer layers of an application anyway.

Obviously if you rely on primitive types like int or long in C or C++ having a specific size or endianness, or if you assume that they will be equivalent to some specific external format, you’re probably going to have problems porting your code (and any package containing it) across some platforms.

However, that issue does not contradict what I proposed. It’s perfectly viable — indeed, it’s inevitable — to have packages that are only available on some platforms, or packages which depend on different things across platforms. That’s fine, as long as your packaging system doesn’t assume by default that the same thing works everywhere.

And no, it isn't code publishers that spend thousands of hours resolving broken and incompatible builds, it's release maintainers.

Who is the “release maintainer” who made those jQuery libraries I mentioned in my extended example above play nicely together?

Again, this issue does not contradict what I proposed anyway. In my ideal world, if packages are incompatible or don’t have sufficient dependencies available on a certain platform, you just don’t list them as available for that platform in whatever package index they belong to. Once again, this is no harder than what a bunch of different package management tools do (or fail to do) right now.
Depends on whether you consider Android a Google product or not.
Git commits can not serve as "proof of work" as the term is normally used, because they are not much easier to verify than they are to generate.

Proof of work is used to limit behavior by adding artificial cost - in hashcash they are used to make spamming more expensive, and in Bitcoin for controlling block creation.

It's not a desirable feature in a protocol if you can avoid it. In the case of coding contributions, it's easier and more reliable to have a central maintainer that accepts patches and pays out bounties.
This is planned pretty soon.
I'm not making an argument for SWAT teams, just about the difficulty of evaluating false reports of a serious crime.

A patrolman would've been more than sufficient for this.

That sort of depends on what report was made in the 911 call(s), doesn't it? I mean, we know now it was just one guy playing videogames at home, but you can't just call 911 and ask for them to send a SWAT team somewhere. Presumably the dispatchers were led to believe that something much more dangerous was taking place.
> Most people that complain that Linux isn't ready for the desktop are complaining about not being able to run specific applications, so it's not ready for mainstream use.

I complain because Linux on the desktop keeps going backwards. The Gnome 3 transition is probably the most recent example of this. For me, Linux is actually further away from being a useful general purpose desktop than it was five years ago; the desktop development process seems to be to make progress then oooh squirrel.
Do you believe android succeeded w/o juicing from other google businesses? I don't, I think.

The forced bundling of gmail, calendar, and maps (w/ turn-by-turn) where critical to android's success imo. Though I'd be curious for an argument otherwise.
Power users probably. They're disproportionately likely either to use it themselves, or to recognize authors at a glance.
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Interesting that they use an hoverable airplane design instead of a quadrocopter... I wonder if this is in part because a failed engine en-route is less likely to cause a human injury, since an airplane is able to glide to the ground.
It's more complicated than that. Mozart was following a "Turkish"/"Janissary" style of music popular in Europe at the time. Indeed the style was pretty much unrelated to actual music from Turkey, but there's a history of how it developed that started with Turkish Janissary bands. (More obviously in orchestral "Turkish" music than in Mozart's piano sonata, where compositions used exotic instruments like bass drums.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_music_%28style%29
I am. My sites traffic went way up after adding authorship to my posts.
ACCC (AU consumer watchdog) sues US video games giant Valve
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err...

"Another obvious idea is to simply land the craft, drop the package, and then take off again. To test the premise, they brought in some of Google’s user experience researchers who queried people about how they might react to such a delivery. What they found was that individuals could not be stopped from trying to reach for their packages, even if they were told that the rotors on the vehicle were dangerous, which they are."

I have worked for neither company but I use products and services from both daily and I have to say I disagree. And remember the Prime Air demo video that showed a drone landing in a yard? And when your dog thinks it's a great new toy and runs up to it? Or your kid?... I have to say they didn't really think that experience through before taking it to the press.
Can you name a single tail sitter in active use by the military?

The k-max helicopter was used for a lot of unmanned cargo supply missions.
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I might be remembering it wrong, but iirc it so transpired that there was a thread on the Lua mailing list about the unfortunate clash in the name 'luv'.

richardhundt/luv is older of the two pieces of software but Richard graciously offered to yield (pun intended) the name to luvit folks and continued to develop on his code and ideas under a new name, shine. richardhundt/luv is more than an obvious wrapper over libuv whcih is what luvit/luv intended to be.

Please bear in mind I might have got the exact events (Gawd, pun again, this time unintended) wrong, but if you are interested you will be able to find this on the lua mailing list archives.
This is pretty much exactly what SpoonRocket does: spoonrocket.com.
> Then why, regarding security issues, do so many in our field say 'consumers don't want that'?

You answered your own question. Consumers actually do say they want privacy and security all the time. It's (some) folks in our industry who think they really don't. Or think that "privacy" or "security" in the abstract are pretty meaningless terms.

I fall in that latter category. Consumers say they want "privacy," but what they really want is something that addresses a particular threat model at minimum cost. Take Snapchat for instance. For its target demographic of teenagers, the primary threats are parents. Snapchat won't protect you from a technologically savvy opponent, but for most of its users, that's fine. Snapchat COULD build in two-factor auth, end-to-end encryption, and a whole slew of other privacy measures, but if it makes the app slower and harder to use, it's probably not a good value proposition given what Snapchat knows about its users.

Now, what I think what you're implying is that Snapchat should do more, regardless of what its users care about. Although Snapchat's users might not care about the security of their pictures outside of their parents, there are larger "political, historical, and social issues" surrounding the fact that a single entity has access to so many of those pictures in the first place. That well be so. You could argue that Snapchat should take greater care of those photos in order to be a good citizen of the world. But that's a different argument than "there's a growing market for privacy".
link to "Anatomy of a Database System: Joe Hellerstein"[1] appears to be broken.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262693143chapm2.pdf
You should send a pull request, to add that as one of the "External Reading Lists"
> with enough power you could just push the air around any way you like

Maybe a real god could, but we can't. Unless you have tractor beams, anti-gravity force fields and other sci-fi tech, either you'd have to have these "weather machines" placed in a fairly tight grid, or intractability would rule (outside a small area of influence). The problem isn't just energy, but directing it.
Isn't that exactly what a nap is?

Does your awareness reduce? It's hard to notice a change in awareness. Sometimes I notice a transition from haziness to attention when a sound draws my attention. My understanding is that the haziness is a form of sleeping and is exactly what a nap is meant to be. If you fall into a deeper sleep you will get some of the side effects others talk about -- grogginess etc. The length and depth of sleep is related, so I thought that's why you need to be careful to only nap for short periods of time.
While I find this technologically interesting, I wonder if a drone bucket brigade might not be a better use for a technology that can pick up 10 lbs at point A and drop it over point B. A five thousand such drones, even at $10,000 each or $50M could keep 3,000 gallons of water[1] per (speed/distance) seconds dropping continuously on a wildfire.

[1] That being somewhat more than a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-64_Skycrane skycrane can deliver, and with better failover characteristics.
My secret: short story podcasts. Engages my brain just enough to help turn off the competing thoughts. There really is something to that bedtime story thing!
Hey that's neat. I worked on something similar back in 2009/2010.

<http://bardagjy.com/?p=614>

We used a G1 dev phone to fly a 1.5 meter wingspan airplane. We used only sensors in the phone, camera, gps, etc.

Honestly it didn't work too well - we needed either a much better model of our airframe, an airspeed (not groundspeed) sensor or an airframe that could power through 10-15 mph winds.

In the end however, we demoed waypoint navigation and imaging the waypoint. You text it lat/long and it texts back a picture.

We did it as a proof of concept (for an interested govt agency), modern smartphones are neat, but bespoke, real-time hw, with navigation grade sensors are probably an order of magnitude more effective (though an order of magnitude more expensive).

Working with android to do robotics was.. interesting. We had to do all sorts of hacking to make the phone behave a little as possible like a phone and more like a real-time controller. What do you do when someone calls the phone while you're flying an airplane? How do you keep the phone application from taking over and exiting out of your navigation app? While the airplane is 1000 ft in the air?
There is a huge difference between unoptimized code and maliciously slow code. This case definitely falls in the second category.
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Most orgs put an OpenLDAP proxy in front of their AD server. AD has multiple known crash vulnerabilities in its protocol parser (fuzzing attacks can easily break it) and is too slow to handle the load generated from open internet access.
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