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The temperature is a reason why Venus would be a good place to test out the ideas for climate manipulation we have collected so far.

A first step could be to lower the CO2 content (my current favourite would be to release engineered bacteria into the atmosphere that can bind the Cs and after death collect it on the ground), and enhance the albedo (so more sunlight is reflected away).

In the longterm we will need climate control anyway since Earth's climate is somewhat unstable (global warming is just as bad as a new ice age, which, extrapolating from the past, would be about due by now, if not for mankinds influence). Testing it on a planet we are not critically dependent on should be a better strategy.

Geologically, Venus is very different from Earth due to the lack of water (which enables plate tectonics and all its implications). Some changes we can make would even influence the geology. (Hm, I wonder what would happen if we dumped enough water meteroids.. )

All of this of course premises a lack of preexisting life with planetary ownership rights and no natural reserve rules (which we kind of have at the moment - http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about).
Extreme thermophiles can reproduce up to 122C but we think DNA can't survive past ~150C or so, much less the 462C surface temperature of Venus.

So step 1 in venusforming humans is to create a non-DNA-based life form. That might take a while.
I was unclear: I know what constitutes a corporation. My question was really what benefits accrue to the corporation that do not (albeit indirectly) also benefit the shareholders?
Pretty cool article. Some new players I've never heard of that look awesome
Uber and Carnegie Mellon University announce a strategic partnership
My IANAL interpretation is that you can't ever say that Facebook infringes on anyone's patent, and you can't ever say any of Facebook's patents are not valid. In any setting, not just in court or as part of a legal process. Careful what you write in AskPatents!

You can defend yourself, however you can not do so by saying anything bad about Facebook, you are basically restricted to say you do not infringe. I'd say it qualifies as a legal trojan horse.
I'm an Android developer, so that experience colors my perception. But compare Apple and Google in mobile. Everything Apple comes up with goes into making their product better, and they will fight with every tool they have to make the iPhone the better smart phone.

Every time Google comes up with a high quality product (Google Now, Inbox, Maps), they do everything they can to ship it on iOS as well as Android. If it wasn't for Apple, Google Now & Maps would be just as good on iOS as on Android. Google doesn't use their cloud service advantages as a weapon to make Android better than iOS. They just want their technology in front of everyone, no matter what they use.

I see self driving cars as a similar market. Google wants self driving cars to happen. There are lots of good reasons, but from their perspective it is both a play for even more data, and it increases the amount of time we have to use Google products. I can look at ads even longer if I don't have to drive on my commute. Thus for them doesn't it make sense to license/give away all of that tech to everybody? It doesn't matter who manufacturers the car, so long as it uses Google's car software.

Thus, plenty of companies will make self driving cars using Google's software. Thus Uber will have plenty of access to self driving cars.

If Google was more focused on killing Uber, they would hoard the self driving software for their 1st party initiative. I imagine if Uber invents self driving tech, no one else is getting it. They are far more interested in the core product of driving people from A to B.

It's a bit of 'commodize your compliments' and the two companies respective business model. Google operates a scorched earth campaign of making everything around ad supported internet as cheap or free as possible. Uber and Apple are building businesses around charging money for the product they make directly.
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Any real colony needs to be mostly self sufficient (hopefully entirely self sufficient) so the problem is not getting materials down from orbit, but up from the surface.
Vastly less upside on running your own airline than transforming ground transportation.
As mentioned in another comment, I'd probably do a Levenshtein distance between the old and new passwords, and reject if they crossed some threshold. However, only knowing the plaintext of the immediately-preceding password as they enter it to authorize the change, it wouldn't do much to stop them from doing:

PasswordA
SomeOtherPassword1
PasswordB
SomeOtherPassword2
PasswordC
SomeOtherPassword3

Just iterate on every other change, and you've beaten the requirement.
I don't think Google Ventures's role is particularly relevant. Companies should be aware of what data they are providing Google when making use of Google services. Google doesn't need to have insider information to have a wealth of information about Uber trips: the number of trips, when they most frequently occur, duration and miles covered, what cities are most popular, what are the popular starting and ending points. All of these data can be mined from just watching Uber's use of the Google Maps API. It may not be contractually permitted, but the data are there for Google to use.

Through a paranoid lens, Google APIs are corporate espionage you sign up for. Since Google is a valuable and entrenched service provider, they can get away with it. What I could see companies doing in return is attempting to obscure their API usage by fabricating requests. For example, Uber could break the correspondence between API requests and trips by sending requests that look authentic but don't correspond to any actual trips. This kind of corporate information warfare sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel, but it certainly feels present and real when you look at Google's relationships.
Surely they don't need to buy it, surely they can request it under the guise of national security.
I'm imagining a future where there are self-driving busses that route themselves based on where people are and where they want to go. For a dense urban area, I think this has real potential to increase route efficiency and bus utilization while decreasing crowding and unpopulated bus trips.
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The flip side to your purely technical viewpoint is exactly why the industry created HDCP. The 'perfect' data transfer method (w.r.t. analogue copying) that you see as a major benefit is a potential disaster that would enable recording and redistributing of near perfect copyrighted sources.

There isn't a compelling technical reason why a PC couldn't have an HDMI in, it's all legal. The industry would never sanction raw HDMI signals to be read in by an unrestricted general purpose computer. It would be equivalent to no DRM at all enabling you to record high definition copyrighted material.

I know that dumping to disk is different than actually reprocessing the signal to splice it into an immediate output, but i don't think there's much of a difference there.

If all you really want is PiP, look for a monitor that supports displaying multiple inputs simultaneously. This isn't a feature that should require a PC.

I'd love to live in a world where actions such as recording and storing weren't punished just because distribution is a protected right in some countries.
Full preprint article:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6213
I could buy a lot of rack mount servers for the price of one mainframe. And I can run all open source software on them. For no licensing fee.
Eventually it might, but that assumes that all cars will be driverless. Even if driverless cars have a 0 error rate, human driven cars will run into them at at least the same rate as they run into static objects.

At any rate, this eventual reduction in insurance is why I started by saying "Initially at least". With time, the cost of manufacturing self driving cars will also go down.
Could not hacker/makerspaces sell this inventory as non-profits? And use the funds to help fund themselves?
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I wonder if Marx considered that labour could shift to serve new markets.
That may be why we don't have a line connecting San Francisco and Chicago. It's no excuse for why we don't have a line connecting Boston and DC, or SF and LA.
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I find it strange that Microsoft is trying to pitch Windows as an OS for Internet of Things projects running on ARM processors. Microsoft's primary strategic asset, the Win32 API (and specifically the large number of x86 Windows apps), is useless for this use case. And it seems to me that Windows would be quite heavyweight compared to a stripped-down Linux-based system. I guess they're desperate.
What's the $31-300M cost going towards then?
By that logic, shouldn't all of the workers in [manufacturing|food service|sales|etc] do the same?

Virtually all firms are going to invest in optimal production/service methodologies in order to stay competitive and capture the largest margins. In the (somewhat) near term, that means replacing a whole lot human labor with automation. But until then, there is still a job there to be done and a lot of people that would like to have the money for doing it.

With that said, I don't disagree that the long-term career prospects of taxi driving are plummeting. I think many other careers are nearing their expiration dates as well, though I may be overly pessimistic...
Do you think there is any such thing as a natural monopoly?

Do you think the cost inherent in laying cables makes the entity that owns the cables a natural monopoly?
thanks, I'm glad to hear that
No, it's the one thing that they happen to be good at, that is the problem in that case.

Some 'one things' scale to epic proportions, like Google's search engine or Facebook, and become large stand-alone products all to themselves (and dominate their category).

If your product doesn't have that capacity, you're likely to eventually end up as the target of a bigger company that has that. The Windows ecosystem was famous for that, Microsoft continually ate things that were useful and put them into Windows, killing off entire niche product segments.

The iPhone is about 3/4 of Apple's entire business (the iPad shrank significantly this past quarter, and nobody cared much, because of the iPhone's growth). Search + ads is the extremely share of Google's business. And Facebook (11 years old) only makes money from its core social network for now.

Most very successful companies only do one thing really really well. There are a few conglomerates running around, but they're a very small fraction of businesses.

Also, being good primarily at one thing, doesn't mean you can only ever be good at just that thing. The iPod has all but disappeared as a meaningful business for Apple, to the extent that they essentially no longer talk about it. Apple has been good at one thing, with three different unique things: PC, iPod, iPhone.
Also, what about Koka ?

http://koka.codeplex.com/
and
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/koka/

From the latter:

> The Koka project tries to see if effect inference can be used on larger scale programming. The language is strict (as in ML), but seperates pure values from side effecting computations (as in Haskell). Through the effect types, there is also a strong connection to its denotational semantics, where the effect type of each function has a direct translation to the type signature of the denotational function.
I'm not sure anything warrants that.

More seriously though (HN can't take a joke), what is the real concern here? NSA can't 100% trust the data they collect and it certainly can't be used in any court because plausible deniability (and past, known-fabrications/parallel-construction) will always trump whatever records or logs are produced.
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We need a statistical analysis of HN userids, thread topics and posting times.
Thanks for at least engaging with this instead of downvoting with no response.

I would argue that you are putting a negative spin on the analogy, so I'll put the corresponding positive spin on it to balance out.

For the road crew, we expect them to give us ready access to the places we most want to go. Imagine a highway - we would judge it a poor highway indeed if there were no exits within 10 miles of a large city. Similarly we do not expect the highway crew to give us equal access to some rural area, even though someone might one day build a fine resort out there. We don't judge a road by how well it gives access to things not yet built, but how well it gets us to the places we want to go.

Using that spin, we should actively encourage ISPs to make paid fast lanes, akin to a tolled expressway, with preferential access to the most common web destinations.

I do not agree with that conclusion. What I do think is that focusing on whether or not a company is allowed to perform any sort of rate-limiting ignores the much bigger issue that competition has been historically stifled in the ISP sector. Many (most?) municipalities offered exclusive franchises to cable (television) providers which made competitive entry illegal. Those cable providers are now our locked-in ISPs. If we must have government action, it seems to me that the best course is to allow freer entry into the market - this looks like allowing competitors rights-of-way to lay wire, allowing access to utility poles (based on my recollection the majority are not owned by telecoms - I should be fact checked on that, though), and dissolving any exclusive franchise agreements. Rate-limiting, as I started this entire thread with, is just a red herring.

(Final pedantic point - road work is done by a multitude of private firms contracting for the government - it is monopsony not monopoly.)
What would a non-robot such as yourself hope to accomplish by calling the company that hires a rapist? Seems like the police would be a much more effective option for walking meat.
Plans for the Apple III were a little bit optimistic:

"Voice and character recognition are both being considered as built in features. Possibility of UHF very short range transmitter for wireless display capability depending on FCC approval."
Actually, it is a little more complicated than this.

First, startups do need to find out what is that "one thing". So many startup end up building more features (use cases) since they are searching for "the thing".
That is ok - but the problem is that many startups are not removing features (use cases) even after their metrics show that this new feature is not "the thing".

I heard arguments like this:

It is wrong to release a user feature and then simply remove it when your testing shows it isn't improving any metrics. Users will feel they are being cheated, even though they aren't spending a single penny for that feature.

My answer to that is: "How much money did you say they paid for this?"
It is an incentive for some amount of people - the larger question, how many, has insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

This mechanism of entitlements and requirements and such enshrined by capitalism is deeply engrained, but it is not above challenge.
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Wordpress has way to many security problems, especially if you use plugins, as that I would want to administer it myself. Especially since wordpress is so popular and you can assume that vulnerabilities are actively exploited very quickly.

A static site generator, something hosted or even a more modern, less popular platform takes away a lot of that pressure.
Agree. There may be fewer issues with misinformation if you put out the correct information yourself. And using your main channel rather than a comment on a separate site is a good way to do it. (Looks like that's been done in this case though - the blog seems to state the situation accurately to me.)
If you are interested in concurrent revisions, you might also be interested in Glitch:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...

In contrast to Burckhardt et. al's work, Glitch re-executes computations to reach a fixed point (logging side effects so they can be rolled back along the way). This paper compares the various approaches in solving this problem (including concurrent revisions, but also a few others):

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/211297/onward14.pdf
Longterm, we will have to find some kind of climate control. The last ice age was not too long ago, but mankind has almost entirely lived without. A return of the glaciers would be even worse than global warming (in my estimates), and extrapolating the curves shows that the next ice age is due (were it not for the fact that we changed the atmospheric composition sufficiently to avert that for sure).

Right now we already are playing around with the climate, but very uncontrolled and destructive. I'm also not in favour of using methods designed for climate control in our situation due to the risk (which is different for the different methods, and the failure results are very different also, but still) - the better solution is clearly to stop emitting CO2 - but longterm, we will need the knowledge. Best to test it on another planet first..
> But going by what a lot of people do, they will get a workout of thirty minutes burning maybe 200-300 calories, then reward themselves with a Big Mac at 550 calories,

The effect of exercise plus an additional Big Mac does not reinforce the claim that "exercise on its own doesn't lead to weight loss", because "plus a Big Mac" is not "on its own".

> and they probably already had a caloric intake in excess of maintenance (hence why they are exercising to lose weight, and more likely to go for that reward)

The reason why they are exercising to lose weight is probably that they have a current weight above their desired weight. That doesn't mean that they have a current calorie surplus -- plenty of people seek to lose weight when their current weight is stable but above their desired weight.
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I'm glad that the article highlighted how valuable the mapping information is that Google collects. While Uber probably could still run its current operations without Google map data, there is a much smaller probability that they would be able to run a self-driving car service without a highly accurate mapping product. And to build a mapping product is really difficult and expensive. I was surprised when Google starting putting money into mapping the streets because it's a giant effort with major barriers to entry. Nokia bought a company called Navteq that was the clear leader (and basically a monopolist) in driving the streets and collecting the data (they originally supplied data to Google Maps). Navteq supplemented the data with satellite images and other sources, but the roads change often enough that you need people driving on the streets.

So, Uber really needs to start thinking about the mapping aspect. Perhaps they can incent their current drivers to start reporting back all the street info as they pick up their passengers. Of course, this would bring up problems if the drivers eventually realize that this data could be used to replace them. It would be interesting to see uber cars with Google StreetView style cameras on their hoods.