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In between his work on VMS and VAXELN, and leaving for Microsoft, he was also responsible for a system called "Mica" which was intended to be a micro kernel system which supported both a Unix and VMS layer on the system, and was written in an in-house Pascal-like language called Pillar. FWIW, NT was inspired by some of the ideas they had while designing Mica.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/prism/m...

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/prism/m...
It's also important to list the proposed services the monopoly provides. Personally I avoid them at all costs... Nevertheless they are historically:

* Price reliability: Prices in most taxi systems follow strict rules. Customers can use this knowledge to estimate what they will spend, and drivers what they can earn.

* Service dependability: Because medallions are limited and prices are regulated, taxi drivers can make a living, and the service does not boom/bust. This means customers are not gouged in good times and unable to find taxis in bad times.

* Non-discrimination: Taxis are usually required to respond to all hails, and to not refuse service because your ride is too short/long.

* Driver tracking: because a taxi driver must have a medallion and follow rules about posting information in/on their cabs, passengers can distinguish between 'taxis' and random people offering ride services. While there may be no built-in reputation system, there is incentive and recourse. How do passengers know if a non-taxi is a guy who makes his living from offering rides, or a guy who just stole a car and is going to rob them? A taxi driver is risking a lot by robbing his passenger.

Many of these points are matters of preference, or can be solved by technology (reputation). Do we, as a society, want to incentivize a stable transit system by limiting the number of drivers or by paying more than 'market' prices in slow periods, and more in busy periods? Do we want drivers to be able to refuse service? If not, how do we compensate drivers who make short/long trips that have low profitability and high opportunity costs?
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On the other hand:

- I can get a cab even if my phone battery days (or if I don't have the phone)

- in theory, they can't say no (apparently, they sometimes do in NY, but haven't had that happen to me in London yet)

- they know the city, and don't need to be constantly looking at the GPS while driving.

- no surge pricing
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I was working at a university in the UK and got to see Mosaic in 93(I think, it was a very early beta). I said to the main sysadmin "It's very pretty, but it will never replace gopher". He still reminds me of that fact occasionally. Even then it wasn't as fast or efficient to get data/documents out of and I stand by that judgement.
That is some really good advice for keeping security tight, I'm going to link this from my blog post if you don't mind.

Personally, since I basically use WordPress as a static HTML generator, I'm wondering if there is a solution out there that can just decouple the administration interface and put it on a while different domain, port, or server – I really like WordPress for managing my content.
>Where would you re-settle four hundred million people?

No one is talking about resettling anyone. My question was just about why people individually choose to remain in places that feature temperatures well outside of the range compatible with our species. Others have covered it pretty well. Some combination of habituation, laziness and disliking hot summers basically.
> Non-discrimination:

Aparently, that's not true in the US - I've read about many times how white people hail cabs for their black friends, because cabs won't stop for black people.
Thats exactly it.

Im not sure how google 'monopoly' has any effect on AS. Its not like google is the only site that scraps media sites for news overviews and things like that.

As far as I know google does not give them lower priority in searches, so how would there search monopoly matter?
I think the reason LISP remains obscure is that syntax is important and LISP syntax is an unpleasant way to express a lot of domain languages.

(I work with embedded DSLs quite a lot, but in Scala, where infix and postfix operators are easy)
I saw a documentary that showed squatter-types already were living in the surrounding area - whatever the exclusion zone area was. They interviewed them, but they were 'meh' about the risk. They had the place to themselves and were pretty happy.
I went to one of these and got freaked out because it's an unmistakable cult.

The teachers on the podiums up at the front is a creepy psychological hack, the recorded chanting they play while you meditate is hypnotic programming, the 2 hour video lectures of the great leader convincing you of his religion being your only stimulation, the bowing and mindless chanting from the regulars being passed off as "optional for first timers."

Many of the people there mentioned they go several times a year, with that glassy eyed obsessed stare. At least one person mentioned they had moved their home to be near the group.

I tried to skip a session because I didn't get enough sleep and the management came and got me out of my room. That's when I knew it was time to leave.

Also, if you leave early, you get excommunicated and blacklisted.

The point of all this is to make you unquestionably loyal to the group and to become an evangelist, which is how these things become so popular.

The danger of cults is that if you go for long enough you can permanently lose your identity and self respect. It's probably not actually possible to 100% master the skill of meditating painlessly, which undermines your confidence and makes you more determined to achieve the enlightenment they promise, which exposes you to more brainwashing and makes you more submissive to the great leader, etc.

They do at least provide a source of protein and the food was pretty good.

The technique itself is pretty useful, and after the 4 days of silent nonstop meditation reality felt really weird and everyone in the outside world looked like an impulsive idiot being emasculated by their smartphones. This feeling lasted a few days and then wore off.

I'm sure the effect lasts much longer if you do the full 10 days. I'm pretty sure you would get that same effect going through any very intensive and stressful course and avoiding anything fun or distracting, and the culty brainwashing stuff is totally unnecessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-Hms7bHqY
Those are usually called “sprints”.
You can specify certain time intervals in which reports should be generated.

So far our most successful sources of user acquisition methods has been:

1. Cold emailing
2. Hacker News

And something else that I don't know about that generated 18 beta sign ups from a number of rather high profile companies, one of them was Box.com - I don't really know where those sign ups actually came from or how they heard of TelemetryAlliance.

But my theory is that they were generated from Saasclub.com and then converted into direct traffic.

...
Is that really a small LCD wire-bonded to the top of the chip as a live readout device? That's a nifty trick.
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Not thinking about, as much as observing the current sensations.

> why is focusing on breathing the only way that meditation teaches?

It isn't. You can focus on whatever you like, and there are descriptions of using pretty much anything you can think of as meditation objects. What you focus on is not the most important part, but that you focus your attention and your ability to go of thoughts.

Breath is often recommended because it is always available (takes away the excuse of "oh, I can't mediate because I need X and I don't have it here"), it is simple yet it has many qualities for you to observe; it has distinct phases (in-out) that are cyclical, and that have distinct pauses (when you shift from breathing in to out). It also has the property that it calms as you get more relaxed and more concentrated, so that the more you focus, the more you have to focus to keep attention on the breath.

At the same time, as you get deep into concentration, the fact that the breath calms lets you (if that is your goal) more easily shift the breath into the background, to focus on other things (e.g. your emotional state; observing fleeting thoughts; other bodily sensations or whatever else).

For a lot of forms of meditation, focusing on the breath is considered an important part developing "access concentration", that is, your ability to easily and rapidly calm yourself and enter into sufficiently deep concentration to focus on your desired meditation object.

For vipassana / mindfulness meditation, for example, the goal is not to endlessly focus on the breath, but to observe various aspects of reality (including the breath, but not limited to it) in a "detached" state where you are not engaging or reacting to them but simply paying attention to them. E.g. notice a thought arising, notice how your body reacts to it, but don't "respond" to it with a new thought - just observe the qualities of it, until it fades, and wait for the next one.

Meditating on breath then is a method of getting into deep enough concentration to enable you to do that without constantly "waking up" to realise you got caught up in some strand of thinking and spent the last 10 minutes thinking about what to do about your taxes.

(You can certainly observe the breath as the focus of your mindfulness meditation, but if you limit yourself to the breath you are
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The thing that is fascinating——and only possible in Lisp——is that by extending the DSL that he started as the assembly language he could, eventually, actually program his 6502 in... Lisp.

A typical assembler reads the program in assembly language syntax and translates the lines into binary instructions. And you could write a Lisp compiler that reads in Lisp and produces maybe C which is then compiled into assembly language which is finally fed to the assembler. But he started by writing the assembler in Lisp and instead of parsing and translating assembly language he wrote his assembly program by calling Lisp functions such as (inc) (txa) (lsr) which just emitted the appropriate instruction codes.

However, at this point there was no barrier left between his host-side Lisp and target-side machine code. He could write constructs in Lisp that, by running the Lisp program, expand to the corresponding machine code. And given some well-chosen Lisp constructs he could elevate the code into a much higher level but still output 6502 machine code. He could write Lisp macros to produce Lisp code that produces 6502 code.

And because everything was still tightly integrated in a single running Lisp program, he could keep doing the low-level stuff as well because he was still in control of what machine code instructions would be written out.

This IMHO is a much better way to write assembly language than the usual syntax that assemblers parse. But it's not possible unless code is data is code.
Note that the standard signals are not queued, a signal handler for a specific signal might be run just once if several signals are sent between the first signal arriving and the signal being handled.

As an extension, there are "real-time" signals as well, which are queued - linux implement them, see e.g. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html
Yes, you are misunderstanding. There is no more chain reaction; the "close proximity" is irrelevant. The heat is generated by the unstable isotopes decaying. And there is nothing in the universe which can stop them from doing that.

It's a misunderstanding I had as well before I read detailed discussions of the Fukushima incident: stopping the chain reaction does not make a nuclear reactor "safe". It just prevents new highly radioactive material from being generated. But the material you already have is still generating massive amounts of radiation and heat, and if you're not able to dissipate that heat (which you want to do without also dissipating any of the material!) then the heat will build up, cause it to melt, and that will usually restart the chain reaction!
The language of the future is a language that allows the creation of DSLS per task. A DSL for compiler construction, model checking,driver construction,GUI programming. This language could compile to C or Assembly and be self-hosted.
How can Kiev be #1 and #5? Similarly Kharkov.
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What are the brilliant sucess storys of antitrust laws? I have spend a fair bit of time reasearching them and far more then 50% of the cases it was just losing competition looking for governemnt hand outs.

So if that is true, on what bases do you defend them?

Let me give you a example for another imaganry law. Assume cops are allowed to walk around with full automatic weapons. Now in the majority of cases this causes suffering for people who are not at fault. In a few cases it helped. Now, your argument applies, sometimes you need automatic weapons. My question is does that make it good these laws exist? (Note I know nothing about the this example or what the data is there, its a example).

Also in the antitrust cases there are tons of external cost. Companys spend there money on lobbying and laywers because they think its more effective then improving there product. Good companys getting hurt and also having to spend money on defence. There is also massiv amount of tax dollers spend on these things.
The product is called Visual C++, not Visual C.

I praise Microsoft for leading the way to eradicate C from our computers.
Absolutely agree.

react-tween-state is less about the specific tweening function and more about the idea of a numeric value changing over time that can be interrupted. Instead of the standard Penner tweening functions you could just as easily substitute in some physics (like https://github.com/facebook/rebound-js). And with the DESTRUCTIVE mode of react-tween-state you can seamlessly transition between direct manipulation mode and inertia mode.

There's still a lot to do here, but I am pretty positive on the overall approach.
Automated? Not sure they can tell nefarious from normal traffic.

I would expect they would block the offender very quickly if notified though.
Well, you can's make a funky comment about `pause` being essential, and `sleep` is essential.
I guess it's price (osx) and drivers (Linux). God, everyone would be much better off if we just moved to FOSS OS's.
This may be useful:

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That problem seems reasonably solvable.

The main problem I see is that saccades are ridiculously fast, so not only does the eye tracking have to be extremely precise, but the latency for the track-update-display pipeline has to be tiny.

This problem is already difficult for head motion. Doing it at the eyeball level is way more ambitious.
Definitely doable on desktop.

IMO, if you're doing animations on mobile web you're targeting a higher end phone anyway (since you'd be crazy to do anything fancy with mobile web on a constrained device) it's less about execution speed and more about GC at that point. If you can't hit 60fps with this technique I think we need to fix garbage collection, not use a different set of animation primitives. But lots of very smart people disagree with me.
Just for info: I understood your joke, I just made my own on top of it. :)
Stories like this confuse me, they seem to suggest that I should be sympathetic towards previously inflated prices starting to fall. In this case we're talking about taxi medallions but closer to home it's been UK house prices where a decline is reported as "bad" and a rise is "good". In both situations it's seemed pretty obvious to me that there's a crazy overpriced asset that will correct eventually and those who paid over the odds will take a hit.
-> They exclude people with lives and responsibilities <-

This is the strongest point.

I will contribute to your project, I will not spend the night drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.
About SEO.

In the beginning SEO was easy but now it is hard, so hard that doing SEO actually forces you to make good websites. I have worked in a startup and we have talked at length with SEO experts and lots of things that you do knowdays to improve your result is actually good stuff, adding good metadata, writting storys that actually capture peoples attention.

Sure with enougth money you can still hire tons of people who spam you all over the internet.

So it seams to me that because google search is so good, it forces people to actually make better websites.
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If we thought Amazon's Product Search was a threat to Google, this is taking the battle to a new level entirely.
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> Most (if not all) hackathons in my country are sponsored by companies to try out their new api's, gather potential hires under one roof, or for investors/business people trying to find developers/co-founders.

This accurately describes every hackathon I've been to in San Francisco. (Facebook, Heroku, RackSpace...)
"“I’m already at peace with the idea that I’m going to go bankrupt,” said Larry Ionescu, who owns 98 Chicago taxi medallions."

That's how much again? 30Million?

If you manage to go bankrupt with this kind of equity you're bad at business. Like, really bad.

The best investors know when it's a good time to go into a business, but also when it's time to disinvest. Looks like the time is now (or maybe, 6 months ago)
> no reason to spend time&money on that in 2014

If you're considering whether to go back and change it, don't bother; you've failed. The point is to do it that way the first time, instinctively.

The time&money spent writing element-inserting JS corresponds to time&money saved by not adding a bunch of links/buttons/etc. to HTML templates.

If you're tied into a framework which makes the right way more difficult, then file a bug with the framework devs ;)
Only 217 Mt of tests has been from fission bombs; fusion bombs contain a much smaller amount of radioactive material relative to their yield.
The gcc Fortran compiler is unfortunately pretty far behind the state of the art (or at least was a couple of years ago). To really realize the true potential of Fortran you unfortunately need to get a commercial compiler.
In my experience it usual means that you need some form of time reversal e.g. unsend an email or put a BEGIN TRAN before the SQL you just executed.

Reasonably sure that can't be done in C even with all that undefined behaviour.

However, if your IO monad implementation is sufficiently slow, you could ^C between when you thought the code had executed and when it actually bothered to get around to it.

I can't believe that none of the functional ninjas thought to add time travel as a benefit. Most remiss...
That's a lot of baked in dependencies for a language.
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House prices are always reported as bad. Either too high for new buyers or they're falling and owners don't like it.
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> Except, those sensations might not be 'actually happening'.

The sensations, as in what impulses you observe in your mind, certainly are happening. Whether or not the sensations are a result of actual physical stimuli is both the point and besides the point. If they are invented by your brain, that makes them no less valid to observe. Yet if they are invented by your brain, then observing the qualities of those sensations is still fascinating and just as valid.

> It doesn't surprise me at all that, after concentrating on a particular body area in silence for 8 hours a day for 3-4 days

You don't need to spend more than 1 second focusing on your body to pick up some sensation or another. He is not suggesting you should try to pick up something unusual, but observe what you already notice thousands upon thousands of time every day, but which you normally do not pay attention to.

E.g. that itch on my left elbow, the way my glasses press down on my nose, the pillow pressing against my neck, my tongue pressing against the top of my mouth, the dryness of my lower lip, the sensations of my fingertips against the laptop keyboard, and so on.

Of course, from a purely philosophical standpoint you could argue those sensations also could be just illusions. But that's irrelevant.

> I take issue with preaching dubious advice.

What is the dubious advice being preached you take offence to?

There are certainly many, many meditation teachers that are teaching religious nonsense.

But the basic principles of meditation boils down to practices to learn to concentrate, and practices to learn how to observe your thought processes and physical sensations well within the scope of what is actually physically possible, verifiable and repeatable.

As an atheist and sceptic, meditation is something I think everyone should engage in, because, while there certainly is the possibility of "mystic" experiences because of the nature of prolonged concentration, you also have the potential to learn a great deal about your own thought processes that we usually ignore (and to learn how to dissect anything unusual you might "observe", alongside how to dissect other broken thought patterns)