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Seems to me like their competition must have been busy trying to smear them, it is much easier to smear someone than clear ones name.
You do realize that the fed does more or less what it wants?: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/24/dea-raid-medical-ma...
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(Not sure I 100% agree with your timing, but that doesn't matter too much...)

The last 10 years have seen a major shift from desktop to laptops (and mobile/tablet). That has different needs & constraints. e.g. Power, form-factor, capabilities of mobile GPUs. So I think that's part of the effect you've witnessed.
It does work well. The other day, there was an article on someone who did an extreme test on pixel scaling, and an Apple software engineer wrote the following comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634895

The part of the comment that I found the most interesting was his take on a solution:

1. Make everything vectors. You'll have to choose between weird antialiasing artifacts and potential pixel cracks; either way things will look bad. And you'll encounter bitmaps eventually, and have to deal with the necessities of resampling and pixel aligning at that point. 2. Scale only to integral sizes, and resample. You'll avoid antialiasing and pixel alignment issues, but pay a performance penalty, and things may look slightly blurry.
What you say may be true, but I very much doubt that Google would lobby for a law that creates headaches for them. COPPA compliance is a major PITA. I doubt any business would lobby for such onerous requirements.
I wrote about this a bit in 2005, although Git had just come out, so it wasn't clear that Git was going to rule while Codeville would be forgotten: https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg001...

There's still a social/economic question of who pays for storage — presumably someone needs to be able to say "This data is important to me; please don't trust the rest of the Web to keep a copy," or things that nobody happens to read for a few months will be lost. So there's still "hosting". But it might be more like what EBS or Gandi provides than what Amazon EC2 or Rackspace provides.

I think distributed content-named storage (like CCN, Tahoe-LAFS, Git, etc.) solves the "distributed immutable hypertext" problem, but there are still other problems to solve: how to make things mutable (each of these three has a somewhat ad-hoc and application-specific method for this), how to do asynchronous event notification, how to establish contact between previously disconnected parties (unsolicited messages), and so on.

Think about how you'd build applications like blog comments, or email, or Google Search, on top of such a distributed content-named blob store.
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OK, first you said "Just dig a well", now you want to get the water from the river. But again, it may not be that simple.

Do you know how much water is in that river? It isn't all that large. Do you know how much of the water is already spoken for by various canals and city water treatment plants? Do you know whether any of the water in that river is actually available?

Same thing with the lake. The lake is the only supply of water to the river. You can't just pump a bunch of water out of the lake without cutting out the people downstream who need the water from the river.

This is Utah. It's a desert. Water's not a real plentiful commodity out here. It's precious and scarce. Most of the easy answers don't work. (If they did, somebody else would already be using the water from that source.)
As I just wrote in this same thread,[1] Musk's argument is based on the idea that Nevada is experienced in regulating gambling, which it is. So perhaps he should written "Nevada is the legalized gambling capital of the world," and then you would have nothing to take issue with in this statement by Musk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644011
Chris Hancock designed and implemented languages called FLOGO I and FLOGO II in the early 00s; unfortunately you can only read about them in his dissertation:

https://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf

This work has been very inspirational to my own research as it introduces a concept known as live programming. The dissertation is also very well written and interesting to read even without a deep PL/HCI background.
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Thank you for bringing some sanity to this bizarre discussion, Seth. I miss you.
Eaze is more of the "uber for weed". eazeup.com
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Web pages do not have to be open to send notifications on OS X.
When I went to college (late 90's) my CS curriculum was: intro to programming 1 & 2, data structures, algorithm analysis. That order is what I bet the book is referring to.
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I agree. In the past the responses have always been to things that actually seem worth responding to (though there's plenty of disagreement about specific responses). In this case, I haven't seen any of these negative articles, so anecdotally, it seems perhaps not widely-reported enough to be worth a public blog post.

Furthermore, while I think describing why the deal is a good idea is reasonable, that whole lead-off with "haha they're gamblers, you think Tesla could pull a fast one on them?" is kind of strange. It's basically an appeal to authority, where the "authority" is people who oversee the gambling industry, and the claim is that because casinos are really good at not being tricked, then their overseers (i.e. the Nevada legislature) must be even better. Except it doesn't work like that, the casinos are not gambling with the state, or trying to pull a fast one on the state at all. And the Nevada legislature doesn't directly oversee the casinos anyway; they simply tax them. It's the Nevada Gaming Commission that does the actual regulation of the casinos.

Basically, that second paragraph is just a combination of multiple rhetorical fallacies intended to imply that it's preposterous to claim that Tesla could ever get the Nevada legislature to agree to a bad deal. And for any readers who recognize this, it only serves to weaken the rest of the blog post. If that entire paragraph (and the single word "Moreover" from the start of the next paragraph) were to be deleted from the post, the post would make just as much sense and would have a stronger, more focused point. And it would also make Elon look better by virtue of being willing to just state the facts and let them speak for themselves.
So to view your personal website, on my phone, I need to clone an entire Git repo, with the entire history of the entire site..

Some people just treat some technologies as a "this can fix anything" when really they're well suited to one task.

This is the sort of thinking that suggests using a Git based solution to sync binary files between computers - the thing even the biggest Git fanboy will admit it does poorly - handling of binary files - and someone wants to use it for that specific purpose.
Sadly, I'm not in San Fran
Google alumnus Kenton Varda has https://sandstorm.io/
There are the 4 majors (and their imprints etc.) and afaik a few groups that negotiate on behalf of the indies.
The fourth complaint is that it is developed largely without any public discussion - new releases land, and suddenly there are API changes you must include.

I've written a mail-client which is both configured and scripted with Lua. For ease of embedding it works really really well, and coding it was a pleasure. But I'm still disappointed when I have to update for new Lua releases (e.g. 5.1 -> 5.2 required some changes I wasn't expecting.)
There are multiple routes for doing so: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trading_bitcoins
My startup has been trying to make decentralized computing easy, but I'm just not sure there's a huge market for it. We took OpenStack and made it so you could connect nodes from anywhere on the net and rent them out, whether it was a server in a datacenter or even someone's desktop machine.

I'm just not sure there's a huge demand for it though; originally we were thinking that people would care about price, but it turns out most companies don't care that they're being fleeced by AWS. If they do care, they're probably using DO.

Anyway, here's a demo of everything working: http://youtu.be/998IYD_WomY It connects a bunch of desktop machines around the Bay Area on different networks (Comcast, Sonic.net) and blends them in with a "dataceter grade" cloud server.

The real problem with decentralization though is that the asymmetric nature of the first (last?) mile makes it really hard to do anything useful with individual nodes. If we all had symmetrical gigE FttH/FttP everything would be a lot more rosy, but so far that's really only been happening in a few places.
http://www.lancelist.com/ is a big list of alternatives to the larger sites.

Full disclosure: I am the author, so this is a plug!
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I agree. Well said.

In 2011 the new oppressive regimes had not risen yet. Even today the one in Tunisia seems better than the old one. If you are interested in more detail in what I thought about the revolution in Egypt, http://canonical.org/~kragen/egypt-massacre-sotu.html goes into more detail from January 2011, just after #Jan25. The situation in in Egypt is terrible today.

Violent revolutions have a tendency to submerge their revolution in their violence, because violence leads to rule by the most effectively violent. Those are not the people whose rule I want to live under.

I tweeted about this in May 2011, a few months before the decentralization post we're discussing, when the Syrian opposition was still mostly nonviolent:

https://twitter.com/kragen/status/65789586269421568

"@shadihamid Well, it [violent rebellion] hasn't worked out so well for the movement to overthrow Gaddafi so far, has it? Lots more dead than Bahrain or Syria."
My favorite reason I've heard of for prescribing medical marijuana: writer's block. A police officer told me that, so I'm inclined to believe its true.
"I hope you learned to stop picking your nose."
Nope, Elon is rolling back entropy on this one, 2nd law be damned.
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I know that I'll sound like patio11, but have you tried charging more?

I mean, you have clients, that value your software. You have bills to pay. Do the clients value it more than the bills you pay? Why don't you try to discover that?
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Good call! I could imagine a country being easier to form than getting the community to agree who would own a GTLD anyway.. ;-)
Now for IDE integration. Please!
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Like the name and branding a lot. Kudos to you guys for going with a forward-thinking approach.
By your definition then, Miegakure is a 5 dimensional game. Time is still an important part of its gameplay :).
The problem with their "howto" is that it completely ignores the fact that things like NAT and PAT need to be set up. Sure, the public IP's port 80 could be PAT-ed to the internal IP's port 80, but running "lets-encrypt example.com" can't magically PAT port 443 straight out of the package manager like that.

Still, this is a great idea...
And I agree with that! What happens when they don't have a business card?

Or what if you lose it along the way?
The "Google Talk Plugin" is required for Chrome as well. At least on Linux, it's a separate install.
If Vegas matters, Macau has 6x the gambling. Not sure about floor shows or film/TV/games.
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Value is not an objective property of a thing, so I don't see your point. Things have value by the virtue of them being valued, not solely because someone wants to spend money on it.
The scale of centralization is a bit overwhelming. Check out some of the things Google is hoping to get in to: http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/
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Note that it's a different kind of dimension than The other three: spacetime is Minkowskian, which means not Euclidean.
Isn't medical marijuana lower in THC? It's not the THC that is the benefit it's the cannabidiol.

If so why are some people (not all) who are supposedly "sick" trying to get low THC pot?

Although these days with very strong pot low could mean 10% THC.
Thank you! To be more clear, I was not saying google lobbied for that bill. Though re-reading what I wrote, I admit can be confused for that.
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I'm the competitor nirvdrum was mentioning (Browserbite). We had a very nice founder-to-founder talk and we have gone through quite a few of the same failures that he has. I have all the respect for nirvdrum. Most people don't manage to hang on that long.

To be honest, I was sorry to see mogotest go, because it shows that there might not be any business in cross browser testing. But there is! In my eyes it was a valid effort on all fronts - trying to build a community and handling lots of browser vendor irregularities. He was one of the first ones. But the market wasn't there, yet.

Good luck! The cross browser testing space will miss him!
Vala does a similar rewrite to convert C#-like code that uses `async` to C.

Traceur and Regenerator do a similar rewrite to support yield in (pre-ES6) JavaScript.
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You realize that the city of Las Vegas calls itself "The Entertainment Capital of the World," right?

Musk didn't just invent that slogan, it's what Vegas uses. And that's very likely where he borrowed it.

Is it true? Even if it's not, Vegas isn't wildly off the mark. It's one of the top entertainment capitals in the world.
You can probably boot it up from a USB stick and check whether everything works. Did that on my last Dell before getting rid of Windows.
Is this seriously at the top of Hacker News? -_-
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On what areas is it used? What can I learn from it as a language?
> 10 year olds probably don't have the resources to run their own hardware, insofar as 10 year olds don't earn money, can't own property (in a legal sense), and are not wholly responsible for their own actions.

10 year olds can own property, legally.
Sorry, my post was bad. I did not mean google lobbied for that bill because that would be impossible. I meant it as a general statement. That many of these bills are written by private companies. Google definately works on legislation.
Indeed. I think it's in France where the government has tried to create a legal definition for a restaurant that prepares food on site, and from what I read, they still ended up with a variety of weird loopholes.
Called it, 2.5 months ago. Most of HN said I was wrong.

If the 1.25B tax break causes a net gain in tax receipts due to the expansion of the economy, then the deal is a net positive for everyone, job-seekers, Nevada, and Tesla.

No one loses when the economic pie gets bigger. Economics is not zero-sum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8271914
Can someone clarify whether LE will check if there is already a signed SSL cert for the domain, and it contains the same information? For example, via the SSL Observatory?

Doing this would prevent a point in time vulnerability in DNS (temporary mitm showing a different IP for the domain) or direct mitm of the connection to the webserver. Otherwise the attacker could get a signed cert for https://peacenik.org, and then present that to activists that it mitms.
He's also describing what she overheard to contravene the testimony of someone who was actually a party to the conversation.
Well in this specific case the patches would have been subtely broken. I.e. replacing a thread safe call with one that is not. So it was not just id deffing (thay even suggest some ways to do that better in the patches. E.g. capability based if def instead of uclib or not)
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Yup. Took me a moment or two to even realise what its real name was
The "Right to be forgotten" thing is murky too. If I lost to you in a competition and I"m deeply offended/embarrassed by this, is it within my right to remove your victories from the internet? Why have the people indexing the information remove it instead of the people hosting it? What if you mention the event again in an interview years after said removal? Are you in breach of some covenant for mentioning something-which-shall-not-be-remembered or is it the fault of the search engine for not maintaining some infinite list of embarrassments of humanity? Would said list of embarrassments be a breach of said right even though it would be the only way to enforce it?
Network, not datacenters. Using this: https://github.com/stackmonkey/utter-va/#welcome-to-utterio-.... Pool is running here: https://www.stackmonkey.com/. It'll be a bit before we can enable significant deployments inside their network, but it will happen eventually.
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I do. I also use privacy badger and private/incognito browsing. Interpreting keywords is way ahead of the rest. One thing that's getting worst is geo targeting though. They are trying way to hard to show you local results for everything you search.
First, renames and moves require updating all descendants.

Second, the materialized path's length exceeded the database's indexable length limit. (MySQL, the DB in question, has a default index limit of 767 bytes, so only first 767 bytes are indexed.)

There are ways around these issues (like using "UPDATE ... WHERE" rather than using an ORM to walk the tree and update... sigh). We also had other app-specific / design-specific issues too that swamped these issues performance wise.

I'm hopefully we won't need ancestor and descendant queries again in our re-design. But I'm keeping PostgreSQL with its Common Table Expression stuff--the thing that facilities recursive queries--in my back pocket. It's that or use a stored procedure to build the capability by hand.
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As others have commented, it's better to make capturing that info asynchronous. What we need is something like CardMunch, only more automated, that OCRs it into an actionable contact. (with context like LinkedIn and Twitter profiles) Even better, it would capture time, location, etc. Cardboard doesn't store context well, but when I've been at a busy conference as an exhibitor, and they have an app for scanning badges with notes, etc, in the time it took me to add additional context, I may have missed 10 potential leads while I was screwing with my phone.
That makes sense. And until things improve on the legal front, it seems wise for customers to stay cash-only anyway. I know I do even though the dispensary I use takes credit cards.

And I understand the part about too many choices being overwhelming. My dispensary has 30-40 varieties and I often just stand there and stare at the board.

But, probably not a service I'd use. I have several convenient choices on my way home from work and being at home for a delivery is less convenient. But I can see it being very beneficial to people that might be home-bound and need their medicine. Best of luck.
>Git provides most of the infrastructure answers. I think the idea that someone would host a personal website in future is slightly backwards. Just clone their website's public repo and browse locally.

Are you also assuming that Git will one day reach a point where everyday web users can use it? Because unless you're using software to abstract away the ways that one normally interacts with Git, I just don't see your average web user going anywhere near it.
Why do you think that for FTTP? I do see the problem with ADSL as it is currently implemented (as analyzed very well by kragen in the mail linked to in a sibling post to this), but why would the same problem apply to FTTP?

Also, I don't get how you get to freeloading - upstream bandwidth is as much part of the product that the customer is paying for as the downstream bandwidth is.
We believe that cannabis should be taken as seriously as any other business.

Hopefully soon this won't be a topic that people are afraid to bring up in polite company.
Yeah, maybe: http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/06/news/macau-casino-gambling/

In any case, it doesn't matter. As you say, of course Musk's point was that Nevada has a lot of experience regulating the gambling industry, which is undeniably true.
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Yes, we plan to apply a few mitigations of this type. Part of the idea of the "Proof of Possession of a Prior Key" challenge is so that if a web server requests a cert for a domain with an existing certificate, we can ask them to prove that they hold that certificate.

https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/blob/master/draft-b...
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Just updated the application to use MS Word files as opposed to PDF for a better enduser experience.
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I often find the following analogy useful to have in mind

a-(b-c) = a+(-b+c) = a+(c-b)

a/(b/c) = a*(/b*c) = a*(c/b)

a*(/b*c) is not legal syntax in most languages, but why not?
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Firebase (YC S11) automatically syncs between local and remote. They have a free developer account that can handle a moderate amount of users.

I'm not sure what's needed for Ruby but they have good SDKs for iOS, Javascript and others. You can also use their REST API with Backbone.js and AngularJS (BackFire and AngularFire).

After using it since February, I really can't imagine going back to any other solution. I did things in Firebase the first day that took me weeks to get working in iCloud with CoreData.
I can see why they deleted it, it's extremely cringey.
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There is a simple reason all revenue outside the US goes through Ireland and the Netherlands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

From the Wikipedia page: "The offshore company continues to receive all of the profits from exploitation of the rights outside the US, but without paying US tax on the profits unless and until they are remitted to the US.[5]"

So yes: all of it goes through Europe.
From my experience, there is a period of about a year from launch (depending, of course, on marketing budget) where sales are pretty consistent - taking into account expected seasonal variations. After that, sales start dipping pretty dramatically - in the absence of meaningful updates/revs. At that point, an increase in marketing/social media dollars can prop-up sales for a spell, but not for long without revs. If one builds-in localization from the beginning and launches with multiple language versions it can ease the pain considerably. And, of course, taking the game to new markets like iOS, STEAM and PC will add new revenue streams.
Who's responsible for the actions and security of a minor and their property? Can a minor enter in to contracts for services to connect the physical infrastructure to the outside world? Can a minor hold insurance policies against loss or damage to 3rd parties? Should a minor be tasked with the responsibility of keeping their belongings and data safe?

> They can live with their family.

Or legal guardian. That's my point. Children probably do need protecting, so their guardians are tasked, legally, with those responsibilities. Therefore, ownership, security, consequences of actions, etc., aren't clear cut when it comes to children.