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High levels of abstraction and well defined edges mean more opportunities for reuse, which probably contributes to both.
Not to mention the psychological effect of a dim, reddish atmosphere replacing the sky humans are accustomed to. I'd wager the effect would be very depressing, over time.
Hi orta! The estimate is calculated from a mix of indicators: # of downloads, # of forks on Github, traffic to our docs, apps on GitHub, apps on the App Store and a few other things, using the same kind of math MongoDB and others have been using to publish this sort of stats in the past (it’s not cumulative at all, and there’s a healthy safety ratio built into the math to provide a very conservative estimate). Of course, this calculation leaves out important sources for which we do not have stats, such as Dash docs visits, people downloading from the same company/proxy — and CocoaPod downloads ;)
> the people come together to create that third party that has the guns

Can you cite me one example of this happening?
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It doesn't make sense to look at total emissions, though. Because then you can create arbitrary groups and demand that they scale down. Should Europe cut emissions because they're so high or is it okay for Germany to stay at current levels because they're so low? Either per unit land area or per capita are better measures.

The point is that if the Chinese had the standard of living that Americans have, everything would shoot through the roof. And considering that they don't, there's great potential for it to go wrong.

The whole "China shoving CO2 into the atmosphere" could just as well be stated "Americans driving large SUVs that dump CO2 into the atmosphere". It doesn't matter, we've all got to do our part.
Wouldn't investing that money in a 'real' camera be more ideal though?

I feel that most phones these days have pretty adequate cameras for their most common use-cases (Instagram, facebook, some holiday/party snaps, etc.).

For any other use-case a proper camera is the way to go in my opinion.
> There is no way how to create and sustain a sufficient atmosphere to colonize this planet.

A magnetic field is not necessary for an atmosphere. Venus also has no magnetic field, four times the solar wind pressure and somehow ends up with 90x more atmosphere than Earth.

True, any atmosphere we put on Mars will slowly bleed away but we'll be able to top it off faster than it leaks out.

edit: It also depends on the gas. For example, Earth's CO2 levels are only 4x higher than Mars's. It is possible that very hardy (probably engineered) plants could grow in an unpressurized greenhouse.
So he sounds stoned?
Also, if they'd wanted A57, they could have just implemented it; it was available in the right timeframe.

No it wasn't. A57 wasn't actually done when Apple outed Cyclone. Apple clearly ran with early aspects of A57 (your disingenuous misreading about ARMv8 being ignored). At exactly the same timeframe, nvidia, Qualcomm, and others had as many details of A57 and ARMv8, and none of them ran with it. Indeed, nvidia and Qualcomm are just getting to 64-bit parts, doing a pretty good job with their existing architectures.

Apple wanted to be first, and they pounded every bit out of 64-bits in their marketing. But here, again, we have to pretend that reality isn't as it actually is.

Also, it's clear that they DON'T try all that hard; they could have used the six-core variant of the PowerVR used here, at the cost of battery life

This is absurdity theater. Apple has chosen higher bin/tier PowerVR parts than her peers for virtually every single generation. But because they didn't choose even higher we are to believe that they don't try hard? Do you actually look at the benchmarks, or just continue on with a ridiculous narrative based upon preconceived notions?
Bitcoin is perfect if the goal is that 99% of the world can't donate.
That was literally my next sentence, in the same paragraph.
The relative unpopularity of colonizing places like Alaska says a lot though. If you don't want to be hassled over your political or religious beliefs and are willing to go a year between supply runs, there are entire towns in Alaska that are perfect for you, or you could found your own. Curiously, few people do this.
If it were altruism they would soon enough be out of business and in the future content like this would no longer be made available.
While what you say is technically correct, it's not very nuanced.

No words, just data: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Carbon_Mo...
In addition, this was built at the Dublin Bitcoin Hackathon, so I assume the authors are explicitly interested in promoting bitcoin use a bit more as well.
Roidage on aggregating Heroku metrics
> is community members willing to upvote opinions that are substantively presented and add to the discussion even they disagree with them.

The status quo prove that that is a failed strategy. It has been tried and tried again, it doesn't work. Nobody has been able to make it work, I don't see that changing without any other variables changing. People innately want to downvote to disagree, that's how people have proven they work.

> Adding more user choices won't stop people from using the one intended to suppress inappropriate comments on comments they disagree with if they, in fact, want to suppress disagreement.

It will for the reasons I set out above: Flagging stops them interacting with the comment (replying, disagreeing) and a "disagree" is a public disapproval rather than a private one which likely suits many people's ends better.

Additionally you now have more metrics (data) to measure a comment's quality on (e.g. agree, disagree, and flag) rather than two. More data might make it easier to detect flag-button abuse.

> I think this rests on a false assumption -- private use of flag doesn't reduce the incentive to use it, it just reduces accountability.

The upvote and downvote arrows have no more or less accountability, so I don't follow what you're getting at. The flag arrow just wouldn't be recorded in the comment's public scores, accountability remains identical (in that there isn't any).

> it would be stupid to use the UI option to "disagree" after you flagged anyway, since that would negate the effect of your flagging on its only purpose -- suppressing the opinion you disagree with, rather than publishing your disagreement.

It would on paper, it wouldn't for real people. While there are people who sit there and figure out how to best game the system, the majority just knee-jerk react to things they find "offensive." So they would hit flag, then disagree, then reply with "you are dumb." If we take away 2/3 of their toys if they hit flag incorrectly, they're less likely to utilise flag and instead just disagree and reply.

Plus it re-focuses flag's purpose. If you flag a comment you literally don't think it should exist, therefore you should have no need to interact with it. Heck you could go one step further and auto-hide it for that individual user.
This supports even more that the remaining energy is on the order of X/r^2 and attenuated with the SQUARE of the distance traveled around the globe.
market share is the most important thing.
Paypal will hurtle without Ebay.
I think this is a wise and significant decision.
And hope Paypal could reduce rates or even chance the fees.
Open source datacenter computing with Apache Mesos
A critical existence failure.
If we find fossil fuels on Mars, I'm not entirely sure we'll be climbing over each other to burn them. That would be a discovery of immense importance.
...this growth tracks quite well with the increase in tuition costs.

Which tracks, perhaps slightly less well, the simultaneous increase in student loans.

EDIT: Sure the effects of "the crisis" might be a recent contributor, but the trend in both tuition and loan volume is longer-term than that.
I honestly can't figure out which is more entertaining - reading that kind of vitriol directed towards apple, or watching apple fanboys defend their idol every time they do something wrong.

You tend to get so much of the latter on HN, so reading that guy's comment is almost refreshing :)
They're not directly comparable. One is a collection of components, the other is a helper library.

Polymer is a library that helps you write web components with some sugar around data-binding, templating, attribute handling, mutation observers and such.

Brick is a set of concrete components written against the raw web component APIs.
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I, for one, welcome our new Big Daddy overlords.
It looks like Mozilla is moving away from X-Tags in favor of directly using the web component APIs.
> The one thing that will change, however, is you.

Very true. I might add, your approach to solving client problems will likely grow more sophisticated. Mid-tier corporate managers and HR flunkies might not get you, but true decision-makers will.

While you're ramping-up your contract business, here's a good read on consulting> http://www.summitconsulting.com/store/ultimate-consultant-in...
Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control
US Set to Overtake Saudi Arabia in Liquid Petroleum Production
The money/resources necessary to put one million people on Mars with a self-sustainable industrial base would be better spent trying to stave off disaster on our home world. It's easier, cheaper and faster to detect and deflect asteroids than building that colony...

Not that building colonies in space wouldn't be a good idea for other reasons.
A perfectly valid point, of course.
Membership in the group of people who wear pants with non-functional pockets is elective. That said, I think we all know what the original poster actually meant, and this subthread isn’t illuminating anything.
> They are also tax exempt where it comes to endowment growth.

And they're often exempt from property taxes too, which is why many elite universities now own substantial portions of whole towns or cities and charge rent to the actual tax-payers for use of the space. MIT and Harvard own much of Cambridge, and Columbia has been on a buying spree in Manhattan. According to the facts I've managed to find, they do pay some property tax, but they also seem to cut deals with their home cities to give reduced "payments in lieu of taxes" rather than pay their full property tax burdens -- depending on where.

It ought be asked why tax-exempt nonprofit institutions receiving public funding for educational purposes can now act as landlords.
Just the other I realised Jobs was right saying the size of the iPhone was perfect because of human thumb size, his mistake at the time (assuming he really thought this through and wasn't just being a salesman) was to think consumers would always value the ergonomics above everything else. In time, even Apple realised consumers were probably favouring other things like the screen size itself even when ergonomics suffered a lot with it. It's a very important message right there for any one size fits all strategy.
Looks pretty good, I like that you use basically a webhook for status instead of building an agent or something similar.

I'm a little confused by the minimum interval attached to the different plans though. Is that just saying that the simple plan can only be configured to ensure there's a check-in at most every 60 minutes?
There are many other OS out there.

Why do people only think of the triad?
Your logo / text is behind the login box, which is unfortunate. We can't read it and it's not very pretty. :(
I just lost a minute of my life
Does this mean we will be able to get around the codec limits that a device like Chromecast has?
> why not start with, say, underwater cities on Earth?

Or you know, the boundless vast uninhabited deserts that cover the world.
maybe so-called normal adults today are pathological - look at the obesity epidemic here in the US
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I think this point of view ignores all the boring, unsexy, non-headline-grabbing progress that has developed 1950s inventions into what we have today. Progress is the aggregate of millions of very small advances.
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A pleasant side effect of this analogy is that it calls into question the notion of “success”.

Framed ideology.
Think about it quantitatively. MDMA has always been tops in the rankings (not just this one, but DARCs and others), implying it's been sold to at least tens of thousands of customers. If the worst MDMA would rank 1 and normal MDMA 5 and half the MDMA sold is bad (to maximize the possible impact on the rating), then you'd have to have thousands of people croaking after taking the bad MDMA in order to produce an average of 4.9 (to pull down the average by .1 using ratings of 1). In contrast, I've seen media reports of maybe 2 deaths clearly linked to drugs bought off the black-markets (psychedelics which were RCs and led to fatal accidents).
Replacing Shell Scripts with Clojure+JamVM
It is not clear that dropping the bomb was necessary to end the war. Was it even necessary to develop it?

Eisenhower said "it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

At the time Truman said Japan had been "repaid many fold" for Pearl Harbor. In these new images there is a bit of graffiti on the bomb allegedly written by a Rear Admiral: "a second kiss for Hirohito". It seems to me like the mood in the US camp was "let's hit them hard, teach them a lesson." rather than a more considered or balanced calculation.

Edit: in the documentary "The Fog of War" on McNamara, there is discussion of Curtis LeMay's decision to firebomb Tokyo. In that case there was apparently a degree of cool-headed calculation. http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html

Some discussion of the nuclear bomb decision here:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/it-wasnt-necessary-to-hit-...
(I have no idea what the politics of that paper are, caveat lector)
I tried to look at the "tab bar" on my iPad, it just looked like a regular unstyled document, didn't seem to respond to any taps. Guess I just don't get it!
Technically, Columbus didn't set out to colonize anything...
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of pants have pockets that don't require you to sit on their contents when sitting down.

I've never sat on my smartphones before, whether they were large or small. And I've always kept my smartphones in my pocket.
It's pretty simple to get bitcoin today. Especially now Circle has launched.
It absolutely does. The point of it all is that setting goals we would be happy with requires an inordinately stronger theory of humanity. ANY goal we give an AGI that is smarter than ourselves and highly scalable will be pursued with ruthless efficiency in ways we can't imagine. The ways we can imagine this sort of thing going wrong abound in science fiction. A paperclip optimizer is a thought experiment about an AGI deployed to a simple, trivial goal without due consideration of how to goal-set.

There is a whole world of more complex failure modes. "Make everyone happy" leads to wireheading or heroin addiction for the population, unless you grant a more compelling Theory of Happiness than any two human beings can agree on. "Make everyone food to eat", "Cure my PTSD", "Set up a colony on Mars" - unless you define all these things in a way that is specific not just to humans, but to modern culture, you leave open the possibility of undesired results. Mythology is thick with gods and djinn who grant wishes but turn out to be tricksters.

It's not that it "wouldn't necessarily have to share our values" - it's that there's no way in hell these things would share our values; They actually can't share our values until we solve "our values" as a complete mathematical proof, and then figure out a way to code that. In a resilient way, without any chance of the neuroses or obsessions or self-deceptions or delusions or corruptions of perspective available to humans.

Solving philosophy is a precursor to a Friendly AGI.

Good luck bug-fixing.
"hurtle" might be kind of an ambiguous verb here. I think you mean that PP will take off, but hurtling usually seems to imply traveling under the influence of inertia and gravity alone.

EDIT: why have two green accounts posted the same non-idiomatic comment in a matter of minutes?
Older iphones were recently rated by Consumer Report to be about twice as resistant to bending from pressure and might well have endured this with ease. Also, the gorilla glass screen may have been less scratch resistant (though more than good enough), but it is less prone to shattering too.

So once people may have fixed certain expectations about the durability of an iPhone. But those will have to be revised with the new models.
If that's the real reason Apple won't expose OpenCL and why Google has been aimlessly puttering with reinventing Ian Buck's Ph.D. thesis for the past 4 years, I just died a little inside.

That said, IOS 8 exposes WebGL, no?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/17/after_20_years_apple...

I say this because you could write a neural network engine entirely in WebGL given it's mostly SGEMM, convolutions, and RMW kernels.
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Well, Clojure isn't Forth and Go isn't BASIC, and they both have a similar number of built-in concepts, so I'm not sure your distinction is so clear-cut. But Clojure is certainly much more clever. As someone interested in large systems, I usually dislike cleverness in programming languages, but in Clojure the cleverness seems to be contained (though I'm not sure it's contained enough).
Almost no one who advocates for government spending makes it conditional on eliminating other government spending. This would be in addition to the current military spending.

Also, he wants 0.25% of US GDP indefinitely, so ignoring all the complexities of taxes maybe an approximation would be 0.25% of your gross income, every year for the rest of your working life, or like, maybe 10,000 times the the cost of a trip to Starbucks.
> "I have to confess I never thought of that, but it's beside the point."

Not in a debate about the existence of objectivity -- nothing can be more relevant or to the point. I chose that example for a reason -- arguing the postmodernist thesis always reflects a fatal misunderstanding of the subject and its effect on debate.

> Because real arguments are not about the provable facts, but about their relevance.

No, at least to a scientist, real arguments are about empirical facts, not the subjective persuasiveness of facts or their assumed relevance. "Relevance" is certainly a more subjective issue than whether a "fact" actually agrees with reality.

The reason is that relevance must await the gathering of reliable facts and their assembly into a theory. It is only after a theory synthesizes the facts can the facts' relevance even be assessed. The shapes of finches' beaks is completely irrelevant at first sight, but after they're used as evidence for a theory of natural selection, their relevance becomes enormous.

My reason for emphasizing the scientific outlook is because science possesses more potential to craft an objective outlook than any other human endeavor. In science, when done correctly, a given set of observations forces all similarly equipped observers to the same conclusion, regardless of their personal views. This is either less true, or not true at all, in every other human activity.
I get that argument. Sure, it may be bad for certain ecosystems we currently rely on, or for the current configuration of human civilization. But the article we're discussing mentions the next 4 galactic orbits. No one will give a toss about Miami in 100 million years. I will be surprised if it is relevant in 10,000.

Do you have any convincing arguments for why a wetter, warmer, carbon-rich world would be a downside for humans on that scale? If I were betting on us surviving, I'd take that over an ice-age any day of the week.
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I don't think there is a true scarcity of Zuckerberg's as every day I walk down the street and am amazed at the overwhelming mass of self important d-bags walking around....

All trolling and snark aside your comment is the antithesis of the point that many factors outside of the individual contribute to their success. If you believe that then the number of those individuals capable of similar success rises dramatically. Also those who clean and do "ordinary" jobs are people who are similarly shaped by many factors they don't control.

Also I am very certain that people would get by better without Facebook then they would with the lowly legions of those toiling away to keep the world merely "clean".
>The people in charge decided that a demonstration wouldn't stop the war or the need to use the new weapons, and later events proved them right. Contrary to what many Americans believe, the Japanese didn't surrender because of the atomic bombings, but because Russia invaded Manchuria, a development the Japanese saw as much more dangerous than atomic bombs.

If that is the case, then that proves they were dead wrong about their justification for the necessity of dropping those bombs in the first place. Why tell everyone "we need to bomb" in order for Japan to surrender when you knew it wouldn't stop the war?
U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile Data
You're certainly right in the case of the general population. That being said, amongst those who know about Tor and actively use/support Tor, I'd imagine the amount of bitcoin fluent people is significantly higher.
Exploring the edges of the dark matter map
Are there any good comparisons of other AWS services and how their speeds compare in different Regions?