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> It is really constricting to have to decide these things before being able to talk freely about it.

Yes, it is.

You can try to get people to sign NDAs. I don't know how much luck you will have. Sometimes, or so I've read, people in your situation find small clues they can share that will pique the other party's interest without giving away the whole idea. That possibility might be worth exploring.
I'm with you on rent control, but states banning municipalities from owning their own broadband networks is at least as myopic. Thea rgument is that publicly owned utilities crowd out competition, but we have abundant evidence for the argument that (unlike typical residential rent markets) utility markets are dominated by oligopolies who are easily able to engage in anti-competitive behaviors without having to form a cartel. Sure, in theory Comcast and AT&T might offer such competitive discounts/service upgrades that they cross some threshold and trigger an all-out price war that would be good for consumers, but I'd put the odds on that actually happening at close to zero.

Now I'm not such a big fan of municipal legislation - as a European, I think American democracy may be too decentralized and exacerbate the public choice problem, but I don't see a clear organizing principle that will only prevent economically bad legislation while allowing economically good legislation. The proposals to ban municipal or county internet services in North Carolina are just as mypopic as rent control laws in many Californian cities.
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> Filing presents two obstacles: time limit and cost.

Someone else, someone who realizes the value of your idea, may see it differently.

> ... or the idea is forever unpatentable.

Only by you. If you don't follow up a provisional patent by filing for a full patent, this doesn't mean someone else can't take the same idea, make some minor changes, and re-file it.

> It is really constricting to have to decide these things before being able to talk freely about it.

There are people who have sometimes-valuable ideas and who talk freely about them. One example is mathematicians. The reason? Mathematics can't be patented.
Let's see, Washington DC has a population density ~10 times that of Japan. Guess which has the faster Internet speeds? As an independent state that have no need to subsidize anyone in low population areas yet the Internet is just not that fast.

Population density is something of a misnomer as for example parks significantly lower population density but there basicly irrelevant when building a network.
> No cop is going to do that without reason.

Your inability to accept that there are bad cops is frustrating.

Obviously police do sometimes grab people for the wrong reasons.
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I wish it wasn't necessary to use a VM to run Docker on a Mac. Shouldn't it be easy to get Jails running on OSX, and wouldn't that be a good basis for Docker? (I'm not sure.)
Oh yeah I'll surely look into this! Thanks!
I guess I feel like using your demo doesn't teach me what I need to know about installing it, and having a custom installation of my own on my own server to play around with. The demo you guys have is great and is the reason I wanted to get sandstorm for myself. There is nothing wrong with the demo what-so-ever, it's just already ready already and it didn't teach me how to set it up for myself. No harm, no foul. I understand there is a base level of knowledge needed to get this started and you guys are at no fault for that.
it uses http so anybody can snoop api key ?
Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll get on it! :D
Poorly-planned infrastructure can lead to a lot of red ink, but it seems to me that the leading cause of bleeding municipal balance sheets is underfunded pension obligations.
Please stop bringing up this kind of measurement as if it were an excuse.

Sweden's population density is 21 inhabitants/km2 -- about 54/sq.mile. Finland's population density is lower. Both countries have much better, and cheaper Internet connections on offer than the US.
In languages with more leeway on execution order, this problem can be made to go away. For example, Haskell's stream fusion combines back-to-back calls to list processing functions into a single iteration over the list.
I'd love to see this benchmark alongside how many lines of code were required in each language.
mounting host directories into containers with -v is one place b2d definitely hurts more than running on linux directly.

The options appear to be:

1. Don't do that

2. Mount something via samba into the b2d vm, then -v it into your container

3. Use virtualbox directory sharing (which won't work properly/at all)
Don't forget water vapor (and clouds), that is the main greenhouse gas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Impacts_on_the_o...
My primary care physician and my neurologist both would personally take my readings and do even the most basic of exams themselves. They were extremely thorough, and had the utmost respect for their patients. Maybe this was the case because they were both 60+ years of age and had their own practices -- maybe this allowed them to buck the trend by having established their business before things got really bad.

They both retired earlier this year, and I am like a lost child again, having had so much trust in these two doctors :(
I remember, at the turn of the millennium, when lava lamps were actually used to produce entropy. An SGI project called lavarand had a battery of the things bubbling up and down, used low-end digital cameras to capture images and, after some postprocessing, hashed the results to get what was effectively a fairly good PRNG.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
There is very little about the health care industry, at any level, that is "free market". The government funds much of the basic research that generates new medicines and medical devices and then regulates which ones can be sold. It works hand in hand with medical professional associations to determine who can practice medicine and in what capacity; it also funds residencies, the crucial gateway to becoming a physician. It pays for a hefty portion of medical care (for the young, the old, the very poor, and veterans) directly and regulates how the rest is paid for (out of pocket, through employer-provided insurance, or privately purchased insurance).

There are a few islands of private industry in healthcare, but between the regulation and the direct payments, it's a government sea.

Barring the most radical dissolution of the current system, the question isn't whether the government should be involved, but how.
I'm guessing this is inevitably already going to happen over time....

You can't have people unlearn what they have learned. If your wife cheats on you, even if she manifestly passes on an opportunity to do it again in a well publicized display, you are going to have a hard time trusting her from then on and if fidelity is important to you, you may start to examine your options...

Microsoft isn't going anywhere soon. They are embedded. But they are not going to be generally trusted again by many, and I don't believe this can be fixed by a couple of high profile PR schemes. This isn't MS hatred nor NSA rejection. Just stating the reality of the situation. Alternatives are going to be looked for and this case won't change that.
literally state sanctioned monopolies

there was a website posted to HN a while ago that described the hurdles for municipal fiber in each state, i don't have the link any more, but it seems very relevant to this discussion
I think it's similar to a drug lord whose family lives with them in a nice house. If the drug lord gets convicted the children lose their house/home although they were innocent.
Law of unintended consequences. Cable giants lobby to abolish net neutrality and for the FCC to not designate Internet service as a common carrier. Consequently other people band together to provide their own service.

Now the cable giants, one pure local geographic monopoly, lobby to control municipal remediation of the crappy service. The hypocrisy is, unfortunately, unsurprising.
> I'm a leftie socialist tree-hugger American who thinks taxes (on the wealthy and corporations) need to go up quite a bit...

I agree with that idea, but guess who also agrees ... billionaire Warren Buffet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-...

Quote: "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice."

And even among billionaires, Buffet isn't alone. Buffet, Bill Gates and other billionaires have agreed to leave most of their fortunes to charitable foundations instead of allowing their children to inherit it.
It also seems to tangentially make sense with the bias against "smaller" men in leadership positions.
Beautiful article.
it's easier to work both with monads and parsers in dynamically typed language

I'm asking a genuine question. I'm certain other people have had a different experience to this. Could you expand on what makes it easier? (And would you deliberately distinguish between 'easy' and 'simple')
Because diners are not interchangeable components. Some become regular customers.
I can't find any mention of dmd in those. Only "proof-of-concept upstream shell scripts"

I started to think: if dmd was revived in 2013, how could Debian/Hurd have started the effort to switch away from it in the same year?

This post talks of Debian/Hurd having "relied on its own init and rc system":
http://osdir.com/ml/general/2014-01/msg61628.html
Cool. But I would really like at least one citation for every fact...
But if you remove the other advantages/disadvantages of being female/male, and just ask someone: "Would you rather be judged on your profession/career or personality/behavior?", I think most rational people would pick the latter.
I find that I have a similar issue with all node apps on my Macbook Pro
Complex and bloated, eh. Thank God emacs has managed to avoid that fate...

As far as extensibility goes, the openness is the most important part, I think. No need for a scripting language necessarily - though it makes many things more convenient.
The concept of "intrinsic blind spots" sounds like from a spy thriller. How can I very slightly alter my face to mess up face recognition software?
The paper describes how to calculate "blind spots" that should hold for various different neural networks (even if they are trained on different data sets).
You still have the issue of not having an implementation of an Ethernet or network virtualisation features like Crossbow/VImage.

Even if you were to solve that you would be stuck with the VFS graph driver unless you could get a CoW filesystem up and running on OSX (maybe revamp the old ZFS port?).

Docker is much more than just jailing is basically the problem.
I left this off the list because a frozen snowball earth was the topic. But yes, water vapor, methane and other greenhouse gases play an important part in most circumstances.
> he stopped posting abruptly...

That is the slight problem, mega-dosing types have probably independently arrived at some coherent theory of everything many times yet not got as far as writing it down. The 'increased focus...' is probably comparing micro- to mega- dosing, not 'reality'.

At least the Beatles were able to complete albums with words written whilst off their trolleys, few others seem to manage it. Really if there is to be research in the wonders of various psycho-active drugs, the hard part, writing it down, in a form that makes sense in the 'real world' is where research needs to be conducted.
I can't think of any place that I've lived in the US which has consistently worse broadband performance than DC and Northern Virginia. This is especially sad given Northern Virginia's density of large tech companies and history as 'internet alley'[1].

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/internet-alley
Terrific. I'm looking forward to those changes.
It is possible to get this data directly from the MTA: http://datamine.mta.info/

It is a good bit messier than this, but it is free, unlike this site. And after all, you never know how long sites like these will be around.
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Yeah, but what does that have to do with their right to build out these projects according to the FCC? The central issue is that the telecoms are lobbying the telecom regulator to prevent municipalities from directly competing because it would be bad for the telecoms.

I don't see the relevance of arguing that the FCC should prevent municipal broadband projects on the grounds that they are a financial boondoggle for the municipalities involved. Plenty of companies in regulated industries fail to generate enough cash flow to stay open yet a company's balance sheet remains unregulated. To suggest that the FCC has any responsibility for a municipality's balance sheet would be quite an expansion of regulatory jurisdiction, to say the least.

I certainly hope that someone at the FCC reads the fiscal arguments in the same way, or else we're really screwed.
Um, you may have missed the point.

1. The thing that distinguishes the values of the Civil Rights era reactionaries is that they're generally failing to transmit themselves from one generation to a next. So unlike the more egalitarian values of the left - which are actually growing stronger with each subsequent generation - the bigotry of the right is uniquely tied to the lifespans of specific people. When they die, their fundamental opposition to social justice dies with them.

The break isn't perfectly clean, to be sure, but enough to make the retrograde electorally insignificant and that's the real point here.

2. The "hippies and radicals" on the Baby Boom's left were actually a distinct minority in the 1960s. Highly visible, yes, but politically (as opposed to culturally) persuasive? Not so much.

However, unlike the reactionary right - which was entering its last generation of social dominance - the lefties were well ahead of their time. In the long run, their ideas and values are the ones that are becoming mainstream, while the overt racism of the right is what's becoming retrograde. That's why gay marriage and drug decriminalization are happening, while the racist cops freaking out in Ferguson are seen as the bad guys in a dystopian nightmare that causes a general sense of recoil.

3. Not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying America needs a white majority to remain functional and prosperous?

So you know, the demographics I'm focused on are those of the millennial generation, which is the largest in American history. In terms of electoral politics, their preferences are going to dominate everything in the decades to come. And unlike the lefties in the BB generation, this is a generation in which broadly egalitarian and progressive views are, for the first time, held by a clear and ascendent majority.

As far as the health care system goes by the time these people hit middle age, it's safe to assume that sanity will be prevailing. Indeed, I suspect that will be true of politics in general.
I'm thinking of the tuition fee protests from a few years back.
Because customers are willing to pay higher food prices in exchange for reliably being able to arrive at the establishment at a particular time and be seated.

I've been to restaurants that don't take reservations, and instead take a wait-list. It took something like 3 hours of waiting to get a table.

I could never go there for a client or investor dinner, because the unreliability of the table timing means I can't schedule it in. Considering a meeting like that is worth tends of thousands of dollars and requires that people with busy schedules all be around at the same time, I don't mind the extra $50-100 a person meals at those places tend to run.

tl;dr: They do charge a reservation premium, it just gets mixed in to the food expense rather than being a separate item. Additionally, people scheduling tend to bring large parties or are there for special events, which tend to spend more money.
How does React work under the hood. JavaScript would normally throw an error if it found <Map /> in the source code. How does React do this? Is it JS?
Sounds become annoying with time. But visual cues are often automated and ignored. This is why the current solution works best.

Because of the way we evolved, a sound automatically makes our brain alert. At first it's ok. But with time we learn that there is no actual danger. And the sound only becomes annoying. Making us alert for nothing.

Visual cues are treated differently. If something is deemed safe or accepted by the brain, you automatically start ignoring it and focus on something else. So an acknowledgement comes only when something is different. And even then, we simply notice it. It's not an actual alert like sound is.

So the idea is bad. It goes against the way our brains work.
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Without power or water your basic standard of living drops significantly. Without high speed internet you....don't get netflix?

I don't really see why lumping all these things together in the same category makes sense.
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Skill is not the point of art. Feelings of the beholder are. If you create hyperrealistic portrait then the creation itself is worthless for me because it evokes no feelings because it looks like yet another magazine photo. The process of creating hyperrealistic portrait is worth more as a piece of performance art because at least it evokes some feelings.

I agree that some art can be in some sense better than other. But the only thing you can do is gather statistics about what feelings and how strong any given piece invokes in some population sample. But feelings don't have clear definition of better. Also statistics doesn't have it either. So even objective comparisons are subjective because you have to subjectively choose what you objectively compare.
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Yep totally serious. Cite your claims if you have them. Municipalities have plenty of competing laws to dis/incentivize housing stock. We have buildings that haven't been updated in 30-50 years raising the rate of a studio apartment from 850 to 1250 in the span of a month.

Libertarian nerds aren't the only people in society.
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This is not React's, but a javascript preprocessor called JSX that compiles to JS (like LESS -> CSS).

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html

Something like <Map foo={bar}/> would compile to a function call Map({foo: bar}). Behind the scenes, React is not dealing with HTML.

You can use React without JSX, but it's useful.
Well there is no way Lisi's E8 theory can fit gravity and the standard model at the same time. At first glance the group structure seems to allow it but the actual group representation (which are the actual particles allowed if one wishes to construct such a theory) don't allow it. I'm totally fine if someone wants to pursue this area of research the problem is the MAGAZINES have printed his theory as though it were a valid contender or alternative to string theory or some other theory. Lisi's theory isn't. If it were a plane, it never got off the ground, it blew up on the runway. A recent TIME magazine special issue features this broken 'theory'. It's deeply misleading and shows a lack of concern about misleading the public. Loop quantum gravity, simplicial quantum gravity, and causal sets etc. are all examples of broken theories that just don't work. Just so you know there ARE valid alternatives to superstring theory regarding unification or physics beyond the standard model. Alain Connes non-commutative gravity, superconformal field theories, Kac Moody algebras, twistor gravity, twistor string theory, plain old N=8 D=4 supergravity is a contender, SO(10), SU(5), MacDowell Mansouri gravity, matrix models,... I could list more. These theories aren't broken, they actually work. Those are the kinds of things the public deserves to hear and read in the magazines.
Nice question!

It "easy". Cause it takes less characters in your code: you don't need "type classes" of any form, you don't care about liftings etc. You can start from 2-3 lines of code and see immediate result.

But it's really not that "simple", cause without constant thinking about type of each expr it becomes very hard to trace long chains of monad operations very quickly. Plus types are great for verifying that you didn't break anything inside your "do" block (which is painful in dynamic env).
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You're right that the current healthcare industry is far from a free market, but javert too is right that the golden age of American healthcare was when it was far closer to a free market.

Interestingly, the golden age for physicians' personal wealth was during the socialisation phase, as they were able to pocket fees increasingly paid by insurers, leading to a quintupling in income. They went from lower-middle class at $50,000/year in 2010 terms to $250,000 in 2010 terms. Doors anyone seriously suspect that we'll ever get back to $50,000/yr physicians? This illustrates why industries are often keen to socialise: they can guarantee outsize personal success.

What our system absolutely rewrites is radical dissolution.
Understandable, but in every other mathematical context (LaTeX for example) a single caret is used as the exponential operator. I guess it's just a convention that's different in different cultures/crowds.
Agreed. However, having gone down that rabbit hole too often, the arguments devolve. One particularly puzzling exchange devolved from my position of "Japan and Korea has ultra high speed Internet, why doesn't the US?" to "population density" on the other side, then to this same argument about Sweden's density, then to "cultural homogeneity" on the other.

That made me pause. "Cultural homogeneity?" I asked. And, the debate devolved into how there are too many minorities in the US and because of that, no one in any position of power wanted to allow everyone universal access because minorities (which I assumed to be Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, etc.) would need too many handouts to get the same speed, which no one would want to pay for. But if it were all-white like Sweden or all-Japanese, etc. it would be fine because it's "for the good of the people".

I just kinda tuned out after that argument. That debate did make strike a nerve, though. I wonder how much "cultural heterogeneity" actually _does_ come into play rather than the tired "population density" argument.
IANAL so be sure to confirm this with a real patent attorney, but...

>... or the idea is forever unpatentable.

As I understand it, this is incorrect. Provisional patents, unless followed up by a non-provisional filing within a year, are never published and never searched and and never considered as prior art, or as anything, going forward. They may as well not exist, since typically nobody even looks at them unless a proper non-provisional is filed. You can very well file a patent, or heck, yet another provisional on the same idea (resulting in a new priority date, of course). The risk you run is somebody else filing on, or simply describing, that invention in the interim, in which case you lose rights to claim as your own in the new first-to-file regime.

Edit: I completely understand your hesitation, as it often takes many years to bring even a small innovation to the market, so the choice is hard. That said, a provisional can cost as little as $65 if you qualify as a microentity and file it yourself. All you need is to file a detailed description, and let a real attorney / agent draft the non-provisional if you decide to convert. But be sure to be excruciatingly detailed about every aspect of your invention, else it can limit what you claim in the non-provisional. My view is, for less than a hundred bucks, it may be worth filing one just in case.