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>How did you get public subsidy into discussion anyway?

Consider all the wealth that comes from natural resources, often extracted from state-owned lands. Consider the intellectual property policies that create wealth out of ideas by state fiat. Consider fiscal and monetary policies deliberately aimed at ensuring the health of the financial, insurance, and real-estate sector.

That is how.
Great post. I think what you're referring to is Buckminster Fuller's 'Knowledge Doubling Curve'.

I get a sense from your post that we're most likely roughly the same age and grew up in very similar circumstances. If you do get around to reading this comment, can I just ask;

Do you feel a sense of marvel at where things have ended up, or disappointment?

Thanks for a good read, as comments go.
Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs
with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but
also the ability to pause and resume an upload later
when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was
trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start
uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net,

Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)
Python 2/3 compatiblity:

"".join(map(lambda x: chr (x + 32), [45,69,82,82,89,0,35,72,82,73,83,84,77,65,83,1]))
Haskell. Here's another way to do it in the same language, using function composition and point-free style.

map (chr . (+32)) [45, 69, 82, 82, 89, 0, 35, 72, 89, 73, 83, 84, 77, 65, 83, 1]
Wayland also uses intrusive circular linked lists - but it doesn't need owner pointer, since that pointer can be computed from pointer to link, and offset of that link in owner structure.
I wonder if doom 3 really needed it.
Joyeux noël :)
Spies: The CIA's travel tips
std::map is implemented using a tree and not a hash table because it's specified as an ordered data structure.
No static typing? Lol. Merry Christmas ruby devs!
This is very exciting. They seem get the core right. First impressions:

1. Use of a modern programming language that is designed to solve embedded / concurrent tasks and doesn't have a crazy (relative) footprint. Still curious what the actual footprint will be..

2. Well designed set of official libraries (dc motors, servos, ..). Something most other open source projects lack or only have badly designed code (looking at you, arduino)

3. REST api as default. This makes it easy to integrate and communicate with, though the speed of the comm protocol will remain an issue for serial comms.

4. Testing and mocking seem to be part of the default api.

5. Good range of officially supported platforms. Though unfortunately arduino due is still missing (I use these mostly, so I'm biased)

Very nice. Hope this succeeds.
Except: boost.
BlackBerry Classic review
Perhaps he meant GDP growth in absolute amounts, rather than percent?
Great work to the ruby team, the improvements in Ruby's performance since 2.x have been very impressive to say the least. Well done and Merry Christmas to everyone that worked hard on this release.
MPAA Secretly Settled with Hotfile for $4M, Not $80M
Windows 10 by Late Summer or Early Fall
In terms of the liabilities it isn't really any different to a pacemaker - if it fails, the person most likely dies. The difference here seems to be it's just solo hackers doing the work. Are any of the big medical companies looking into developing a device like this?
Why you shouldn't drive slowly in the left lane
U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans
Oh also, there is a Mac Mini controlling the display. The next phase of the project is to install key scanning hardware that would detect key presses. So it COULD in theory act as a regular keyboard as well. The music would be pretty random though, but interesting.
For this purpose, isn't it force, not mass, that matters?

F = mv^2, so the velocity of bullet is a very large factor, especially when the terminal ballistics allow for most or all of the energy to be dumped into the target.

And the history of cartridges, the ability to "reload", make your own custom load, and the ability to stand off to let air resistance bleed off velocity, means you'd likely be able to apply the exact amount of energy you'd want.
THREE.js... is that related to node-webkit, or it's just what you're using to do unrelated 3D stuff? (are you using three.js to draw window chrome, for example)
Rapid Interpretation of EKG's.

Really. It's fascinating. You not only learn how to read EKG's (obviously, after reading the book, you're still not qualified to argue with a seasoned practitioner), but you also learn a lot about how the human heart works.

Much more accessible than I thought.
They might also want to block wifi networks with similar names, to avoid confusion.
Psychology of color for designers
Iran-Contra was a damp squib. What happens if you replace it with e.g. "Nixon"?
MiniHack is pretty awesome.
How we failed to “live the moment” in concerts
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That's laughably naïve. I live in San Francisco. I have experience interacting with more than my fair share of homeless people. So let me ask you this: what happens when a person deliberately decides to be homeless? Do you just let him suffer on the streets? Or do you offer him shelter and food?*

Deliberately decides? Well in that case I would say that he has made his bed, let him sleep in it.
Indeed, by upgrading Ruby from 1.9.3 to 2.1.2 we cut the time spent running our specs in half for our Rails project.
You can watch the documentary about BBS

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com

The documentary really brought back a lot of great memories about how one dials in, some of the software used, what one does online, etc. Plus the producers went out their way to make sure the set was captioned after I asked. (I heard of this documentary prior to its release so I got lucky)
nice!
Hope that version 3 will add jit :)
Has anyone verified this method in KSP?
Exactly. He is wanted in Sweden.

Also, Snowden is a whistle-blower. Assange is a politician, concerned with his image. Snowden AFAIK is more concerned with the truth and not his ego.
"Do you feel a sense of marvel at where things have ended up, or disappointment?"

Both. But, mostly marvel.

I'd certainly hoped we would have made more progress on health and life extension by now (I started reading about it when I was maybe 15), but the progress that has been made is also wonderful. Hell, we're on the verge of an effective vaccine for malaria. That alone would be a miracle that saves about a million lives each year.

And, I'd hoped space exploration would have gotten further. We seem to have lost vision on that front. The space shuttle was a bad idea, and I think it cost a lot of momentum only now being re-gained.

And, flying cars. Where are the flying cars? I guess electric cars are almost as good. Maybe better in terms of reducing the harm humans do the earth.

Which brings me to the disastrous behavior of humanity toward the environment. I was much more optimistic about humanity's willingness and ability to stave off climate change. We have only accelerated the destruction in my lifetime. That's a serious disappointment.

I also think I'm just now beginning to understand some things about the global economy that aren't so flattering to humanity. My lavish developed-nation lifestyle is built on the suffering of people in poorer nations. My computer, phone, shoes, appliances, clothes, etc. are all made by near-slave labor in horrific conditions. Even if I try to minimize my impact in that regard (and I do), it's impossible not to be part of a pretty horrific system. That's disappointing, and not something I knew to think about (because the access to information needed to begin to understand it wasn't within my reach back then).
So why don't they enter the embassy and extricate him forcibly then?
I doubt it would work in KSP - as far as I can tell, it depends on using the gravitational pull of the target body to slow down while still outside of its SOI. KSP uses a simplification where it ignores the gravitational pull of all bodies except the one in whose SOI you currently are. (AFAIU, this is mostly to simplify the mental model for players, though there are also performance benefits.)
MRI technology is improving over time, but I don't know how practical it would be in everyday usage. fNIR can potentially do the same thing much cheaper. I believe it's restricted to only the first few cm of brain tissue but that might be plenty.

With fMRI you can even reconstruct entire videos of what a person is seeing (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo). Controlling something simpler should be easier.
Great work. Thanks for the Christmas gift.

btw: anyone else thinks Rails was mentioned too much in the release note?
My 3 Christmas Wishes for Java EE Security
Customer life cycle is an outdated concept. Now it's a journey
Breakdown and Analysis of the December 2014 Sony Hack
Well it is not the years but what you do in those that matters. I hope parent comments doesn't means 1 year experience repeated for years.
Flywheel also (in SF).
I don't see what he has done that was brave. Manning, Snowdon etc. are genuine brave people acting selflessly to try and make a change. Assange is a politician first and foremost looking after his own image and self before anything else. Plenty of people who knew/know him will attest to this.
RStudio is bringing org-mode to those of us who don't (know|want to learn) emacs. I like it a lot.
Sure it is. It is the official replacement for Swing and uses an architecture similar to WPF/XAML.

It is being targeted to everywhere Swing and LWUIT were. It is also being ported to iOS and Android by the community.

Volkswagen is currently researching to replace their Java 1.4 infotainment systems with Java 8 Embedded with JavaFX for the UI. As of Java ONE 2014 presentation.

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDetail...
A beginner’s guide to transaction isolation levels
More money yes, better life is debatable. I moved from the UK to here, where it is generally better paid (not by a huge amount outside of London), but I feel I have a better quality of life in Spain.
Paul Graham question and Kabbalah
You're missing the context.

Susan Thunder is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley. She was a prostitute. She was an adversarial figure in the phreaking scene at the time.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but this is a small slice of a much larger scene.
Yes I also thought the same thing... on the other hand, it shows dedication to the most important driver of Ruby adoption.
Found a link on Twitter;

https://www.seetheinterview.com/player/?p=30&e=1419653096&ci...
Zano’s Micro-Drone Follows You to Capture HD Selfies from the Sky
Well this is the whole reason of the FCC's existence. The FCC is the only organisation allowed to interfere with other's radio signals.

Radio waves are one of the explicit exceptions to property rights. The others are mining rights and airspace (including space).

So you shouldn't consider property rights here at all, they don't apply here.
There's always something to write about. Did you mean that all the articles that people are eager to write have already been written?

"The subsequent research has in some respects vindicated my views: some have tried to argue that the declines are due to picking all the low-hanging fruit in articles or in available editors, that lower quality editors merited additional procedures."
Have you looked at the price of radio spectrum recently ? This would never fly. Even a small sliver of spectrum for one country costs more than Marriott is worth.

Which is of course why they're trying to get it for free.
This is a weird article. What is referred to as the bridge is the pre-chorus, a common element in pop music. Bridges are also common, but generally only happen once in a song (I can't think of any exceptions) and are typically a 'journey' to somewhere else before coming back to the original theme. An example of a bridge is about 2.5 minutes into John Mayer's Find Another You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QcaHBTfGU8&t=2m38s.
Easy.

iTunes just feels bloated on Windows and doesn't exist for GNU/Linux.

iOS devices cost insane prices outside contract for a smartphone. As I am not willing to pay more than 300€, even if that isn't a problem to me. As many fellow Europeans I don't do contracts.

As a developer, iOS is a more closed system than Android and Windows Phone are. Specially how information gets in and out of the device without gatekeeper software like iTunes.

I don't intend to pay for an Apple system just to develop for iOS, given that I work with UNIX/Windows systems so I already have enough hardware at home.

Finally, on my home country, iOS devices are third place given their cost vs the average income.
No, impulse is what matters here, and that is mv.

And force is ma. You must be thinking of energy.
>> He did not publish raw source material, he published his narrative:

He published both.

Full Unedited Footage :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Pk53Xjvtc

Shortened version :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
Samsung's biggest UK store didn't even last the holiday shopping season
The article contains many false claims and its main statement that intrusive lists are better than non-intrusive ones is simply wrong.

Outright wrong:

1) There is no additional dereferencing needed when using his 'ListNode' implementation, since the object is stored directly in the ListNode.

2) If you want objects to be non-pointer members of ListNodes of several lists, you can achieve that with both intrusive and non-intrusive lists in exactly the same way (contrary to the authors claim).

The article is a disgusting example of someone trying to proof a point he heard somewhere else. So it is not his original idea and he is failing hard.

Why are there no comments on HN (except for jokoon) addressing that? Instead everybody uses the comment system as a platform to show off his own bad ass C++ skills... stupid. You deserve each other
Exactly property rights explicitly do not apply to radio waves. You must not interfere with radio signals on your property, except through static structures (you're perfectly at liberty to build a faraday cage on your property).

Property rights have big exceptions. Property rights don't include :

radio waves

mineral rights

air space (include "space" space above your property)

Space is even a bigger exception in that it has been agreed that the airspace above a country > 100km up is no longer considered that nation's territory. You can't buy it, from anyone.
Name one other incident where an international manhunt was conducted for what basically amounted to a groping charge.

Also, from Wiki: Assange’s lawyers have invited the Swedish prosecutor four times to come and question him at the embassy, but the offer has been refused.

So far the UK Police has spent over 6 Million Pounds keeping a stakeout on Assange.

You really think this is as simple as him refusing to face sexual charges in Sweden?
Raw Aluminium needs to be processed. Even as ingots, there is a considerable amount of manufacturing required to form and make it into a sturdy enough case. As illustrated by the pricer point of the Pixel, my guesstimate seems closer than the original $100 - if anything I'm also a bit too low...
I can barely wait for it, if that is indeed the case.

Personally I like Ant a lot and can live with Maven.

If it wasn't for Android Studio I wouldn't care 1 second for Gradle. It is just so painful slow for what is a JSON like DSL.
Ruby seems to continuously move forward. Great to see that they manage to keep this project alive without a python 2vs3 disaster.
> I've got bad news for ya: We're old.

Yes, I do notice that every time I discuss about the days when C was UNIX only, we had a huge variety of OS and hardware architectures to chose from or simple things like language design.

All themes that seem century old for the majority of HN crowd.
It's a bit weird that symbols are garbage collected. I wouldn't think it could delete them without making the same symbols unequal some of the time.
Interesting. But, still, the threats of violence and general dehumanization of her by several people is pretty horrible (someone has suggested she got someone arrested, but I don't see confirmation of that or an explanation for why...if they threatened violence against her, as several messages in the archive do, I wouldn't begrudge her for reporting those threats to police, for example).
Carillons (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillon) had control drums ('speeltrommel' is the better search term) in the sixteenth century (oldest one I could find is from 'before 1542') that allowed one to program in a melody to play. Example of programming at http://youtu.be/kHuvTKxZwr0
Rails was mentioned once, unless I missed something.
You should get another boost with 2.2. This release is much faster, I've noticed.
I think programmable medium must handle conditions. Anyway ancient water clock, antikythera, or even Stonehenge could classify as 'programmable storage medium'.
I don't do any scientific computing, as such I have zero use cases for Julia.

However as language geek, I do follow its development.

It is quite interesting to see another dynamic language in the same footsteps of Lisp dialects and Dylan, where performance, ability to compile to native code and simple FFI are considered important features to be part of the main implementation.

Really looking for Julia becomes widely used.
To my understanding the main economic motivator for hunting the buffalo in massive scale was the fact that their leather was fantastic for various belts and straps used for power transport in industrial engines.
Also, I really don't think this matters — because in my opinion ideas should stand or fall on their own merit; and anyway I am not posing new ideas or presenting results of my own, just summarizing ideas presented by others — but since you brought up the issue of "leave science for the scientists", I will mention that I am a scientist by education and a senior scientist by job title. I consequently do not feel deterred by "leave science for the scientists".

If you dabble in robotics as a hobby then you know that it's possible to gain a lot of understanding as a layperson, even in a challenging multi-disciplinary field like robotics is. Certain fields can be accessible, and in my opinion psychology is one of the most accessible. A casual reader may not have a nuanced understanding, or an idea of how to apply the result to other areas, but they will have some understanding, a mental hook for further knowledge.

Laypeople can dabble effectively in scientific analysis. For example, take a look at "Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8793346 . Insightful content written in a science-focused style. Author is a software engineer in the video games industry.
Just general advice:

You want the cost to explore and adopt to be low.

You want the revenue of a retained customer to be high.

Unlimited pricing is a good sales tool when it helps minimize brain damage for your customer. They will over-value it if trying to figure out every possible use is scary, or difficult. In other words, it gives them room to experiment and uncapture hidden value (for them).

What you need to keep in mind is whether or not paying for this trial and error usage makes any sense. In other words, are they exploring your service? If so, they are likely finding value that once discovered they will be willing to pay a reasonable rate for. On the other hand, if they are exploiting you, they are just farming out their costs to you and this will never end (it always makes sense).

So, try to figure out why they want to stop. If they threaten to stop becuase of the brain-damage/experimentation issue,,,try to find a way to work around that. If they simply feel your service is simply un-economical priced any other way, you may want to expore that more carefully. In this case, you may have a bigger issue on your hands.

This gives you some frame work to think about features. Features which are necessary to explore vs features which allow simply "power usage". May want to treat those features and those stages of using your product distinct.
12M Home Routers Vulnerable to Takeover
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

int main() {
string s {33,78,68,0,65,0,40,65,80,80,89,0,46,69,87,0,57,69,65,82,0,79,70,0,
70,85,78,67,84,73,79,78,65,76,0,67,79,68,69,0,84,79,0,89,79,85,0,
84,79,79,12,0,51,73,82,1};
transform (begin(s), end(s), begin(s), [](char c){ return c + 32; });
cout << s << endl;
}
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Neat. A friend in highschool (back in the ol' GUD days) was a mod tracker and composed using impulse tracker and acid tracker. He went on to win some intl contests.
I think the definition for slave labour is that the labourer is forced to work under a real threat of violence - coercion or just being taken advantage of is not sufficient.
Hava a source for that?
Merry Christmas to each one of you here on HN.
$200 is ridiculously high, even $100 is too much. $200 is the estimated bill of materials for the entire iPhone6 (which uses aluminum). I wasn't able to find an estimate for the MBP case, but Ford's cost of changing F-150 to aluminum (for an entire truck!!) is $500:

http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2014/11/fords-switch-to-aluminu...
Paragraph 3 and paragraph 4
Merry Christmas guys. May you and yours be blessed with peace, prosperity, and happiness, today and always.
>for what basically amounted to a groping charge.

Are you implying that groping isn't worth a criminal charge? I hope not.

>Also, from Wiki: Assange’s lawyers have invited the Swedish prosecutor four times to come and question him at the embassy, but the offer has been refused.

How kind of him to be so accommodating!

>So far the UK Police has spent over 6 Million Pounds keeping a stakeout on Assange.

As a UK National and UK taxpayer I am frustrated by this waste of money. Remove the coppers from the door, it's not like he can get out the country.

>You really think this is as simple as him refusing to face sexual charges in Sweden?

Yes
Working for an OCR company. Dot Matrix is a pain..

That said, would it make sense to give it a try here? Would need to separate the pages/create a TIF file, but I could send this through a good number of engines, I assume.
I cannot promise some miracles, but.. worth a try, perhaps.
My guess is because this is a highly visible incident, and doing so would violate the deeply entrenched norms regarding the sovereignty of embassies. The blowback would be severe. Assange is also white and not a Muslim.
They are only garbage collected if they were introduced at runtime and there is no reference to them anymore. (detailed explanations can be found in the presentation linked in the announcement)

This allows you to symbolize external hash keys without fear of a DOS attack.
Well if you're going to use silly tags like '/s' on Hacker News, you may as well make them SGML compliant
I'm not sure, most of my Ruby jobs are puppet and chef nowadays.
"Within hours of it being uploaded, the film had been viewed more than 10,000 times. The majority of viewers gave it a 'thumbs up' on Youtube, with around 800 giving it a poor review."
That's what happens when you maintain two versions, one of which has fundamental breaking changes.

When the Ruby team makes changes the attitude is generally 'deal with it'. Sure they still do point releases on older versions but only for security issues AFAIK.

Python moves forward it just does a poor job of dragging everyone with it.
What about modifying the elements while keeping them on multiple lists?

With intrusive list you need only modify any element on a single place (A bullet location as an example).

How could you achieve this with std::list?