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I don't know much about the subject but what about flattr, aren't they trying to solve this problem?
I come from a poor family, and I'm no rich guy now. My family has always owned used cars. My current used car has saved me a ton of money, and as long as I maintain it, it will last a very long time. And by no means am I some great mechanic. I know how to change the filters, I get jiffy lube to change my oil, and thats it.

So buying a used car can make a lot of sense. Of course, I'm not buying a used Maserati. That's just stupid.
You're right with those numbers, but it's only half if you take the year's average per day. I was referring to their current rate (as of the most recent quarter, during which they earned $18B). $18B gives the nice, round, shocking $200M/day, but even $100M per day isn't half bad.
The jury's still out on whether `set -e` is worth it.

On paper it sounds like it's equivalent to `on error goto 0`, making a script fail-fast -- which would have been awesome.

Instead, it makes a script fail sometimes for things that are sometimes errors. The rules for how and when are unexpected and unintuitive, several weird cases are described on http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105

If enabling it just granted a free 50% chance of stopping on any given error, it would have been worth it, but it triggers on false positives as well.
>>In your scenario, what will happen to GPG? The world just loses this essential asset?

I say f*ck the world.
Hopefully a TedX Talk as well.
Or quit before the deal goes through...
That is how you make money on internet. Car broke down? Dress it up and write an article.

In next level write about someone sooo rich, he does not even own the car.
Before braces, I had to undergo two upper jaw surgeries (1st was a SARPE, 2nd was a Lefort I Osteotomy). Needed to widen my upper bite, then detach and pull the entire upper jaw (maxilla) forward 5mm. Only then could the braces align my teeth.

The surgeries were under my medical insurance, the braces were dental.

Search YouTube for SARPE...it's not for the squeamish.
Open source and free software are synonyms. They refer to the same category of software. RMS doesn't have anything against open source software. He's got something against people de-emphasising the freedom parts of free software by calling it open source, but he doesn't think non-copyleft licenses are doing any harm.
Probably because we're talking about encryption software ITT, and nobody would trust closed source encryption software.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpgp
> There are so many people involved in the design and manufacturing of a processor, that I don't see how it's possible to hide a backdoor, either in the microcode or during manufacturing. We're not talking about some secret government agency, we're taking about a place with many workers around the world, with different agendas.

However, the end result of both CPU design and the microcode team is essentially unreadable.

No-one outside Intel can read their microcode updates, as they are obfuscated in some way, possibly encrypted. This means that compromising just the last step, the people or tools doing the obfuscating, means you can output whatever you want with no-one on the team being able to find it out.

The same is true for the CPU design. Created masks are generally not looked at, other than to verify small spots if it seems there are bugs. Because of this, compromising the last step between the model and the mask would allow you to output whatever you want with no-one of the thousands of the people working on it ever finding out.
GitLab B.V. CEO here, thanks for pasting that Sam! I'll be happy to answer any questions here too.
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From first paragraph: Bolt’s partners and engineering stuff

*i think you meant staff
The EFF is correct that this is a travesty, but the real scandal is the undemocratic way the TPP is being negotiated in the first place.
Ditto. Was just talking with one of my employees this week about setting up encrypted email. Right now we use OTR chat for any sensitive stuff, but that's not always the most convenient channel. Like most others I had no idea this project was so under-funded.
Then is selling apps on app stores not profitable anymore? I was under the impression that it was.
Use the To: field of your request to your advantage. Send him an email along with 20 other webmaster@domains asking all of them if their domains are for sale and for how much. You can even throw in a line that you're looking for a quick deal and whoever can respond with a reasonable price, say $50 or so, will get the buy.
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You are required to give your SSN if accepting the Obamacare subsidy, look for it in the "fine print," which doesn't come close to meeting the intent of the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-579). Unfortunately, the Obamacare subsidy is a form of government assistance. The healthcare.gov operation is a joint venture between the government and non-government entities. If you are personally paying for your coverage, you "voluntarily" gave it to them when you filled out their application. I personally haven't been known to any insurance company, especially health and life, by my SSN since 1979! Remember, they can't lose (or be hacked out of) misplace, abuse or misuse what they don't have. All government agencies (but not anyone else) are required to follow the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 and it's requirements prior to you disclosing your SSN to them. Unless someone is paying you a salary, wages or interest don't give up your SSN! Don't ever give up your SSN and accept a lifetime of liability and potential ID theft for some else's 3 seconds of convenience. You are not numbered like a head of livestock. Stand your ground and take your business elsewhere when dealing with a non-government entity who insists on having your SSN! Information travels in one direction and you're not going to get it back.
I'm consistently pleased to see the clean, clear new media pieces the NYTimes is producing. Can anyone speak to the difficulty of producing work similar to this? What tools are likely to have been used?
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> When I pointed this out as a HIPAA violation

What provision of HIPAA does this actually violate?

Its clearly a bad practice (and obviously increase the risk of a breach, which, if it occurs, becomes an issue under HIPAA and related laws), but AFAIK neither HIPAA and subsequent modifying statutes nor the regulations adopted thereunder actually mandate particular password handling practices. Or is there something addressing that in the "guidance" issued under the HITECH act (I remember that establishing, by reference, some standards for encryption, and it wouldn't have been out of place for it to establish password-handling practices)?
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I'm not sure about this. For instance, Scala has a very capable Java FFI, but using it can be problematic due to the different expectations of the languages.

In Java, you represent a missing value with null, but well-typed Scala should never encounter a null. Java will also regularly raise exceptions, but Scala usually prefers wrapping values that may fail with Either. There's no clear way to automatically bridge the gap, which means falling back to Java is always going to be a necessary evil, rather than something that should be encouraged.
It's been years since I worked in the industry so I don't know anyone, but I did spend a couple years designing composite structures and testing the materials. The basics of composites are learned in undergrad mechanical engineering, and you can generally apply them in real life. It's not that complicated. Where composites get tricky is in the details - de-lamination, manufacturing nits, that sort of thing. I would look at engineering schools - someone in a masters program with an interest in composites would get you quite a bit of useful knowledge. Structural composites get tricky, though. Things that are easy with metal (for example, bolting parts together) get hard with composites, and you really have to think hard or you give up all the benefits of composites when you have to engineer around their limitations.
can't help but feel that maybe you missed the point. The point is that an inexpensive single computer, programmed properly, can be seen to blow away gigantic, extremely expensive "big data"-programmed clusters.

if you wanted to run this same algorithm on a 'real' single computer with ecc and high-performance cores, nothing would stop you, and it would get even faster, and still be radically less expensive in every dimension than the "big data" clusters, for this problem set.
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Does this page look like a beta:

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Glass_Explorer...

"Who are Glass Explorers?

From chefs to cyclists, Glass Explorers are the first to make, move, and marvel through Glass. They're bold and inspiring and they're helping shape the future of Glass."

It certainly doesn't even use the word 'beta' even once. And when there are frames made by DVF available I'd say that, yes, you can critique it as a fashion statement, too.
I don't remember anything about a fee, but I do specifically recall something about Google withholding from the iOS version two greatly desired features that had already been deployed on Android: vector tiles and turn-by-turn directions. The lack of the latter, at least, was beginning to rise to the level of consumer awareness as an iOS weakness.
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You have to be good at repairing cars, but probably not an actual mechanic. An actual mechanic may not make enough to afford the parts.

I had a truck that was less than reliable in the past. I had all the know-how and tools to fix everything myself, and even had the money to buy the parts. But I shed a single tear and then traded it in for a newer, more reliable car because, while I was making good money, I had been sitting in my driveway at 8:05am still trying to crank the engine over a few times too many. My boss wanted me there at 8, not 9:15 when I was able to get a ride from someone else.

And that's half the point of the article. If your job demands you be there on time, you can't own a clunker even if you can afford to fix it and know how to fix it.
If you think inflation's only source is 'printing money', you may not be qualified to speak on economic issues. Liquidity, the monetary supply, and the cost of exchange are quite a bit more complex than that, and far more prone to being manipulated and falling over, as both the Housing Crisis and Libor Scandal taught us.
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This is brilliant.
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A lot of the very recent, surprising successes in hardware (Oculus, Pebble) were crowdfunded (specifically for those, Kickstarted). I would go as far to say that using a premier crowdfunding platform to test the market may be the best, lowest risk way to validate a hardware idea. Or at least crowdfunding lowers the barrier for hardware success from "damn near impossible" to "really really hard."
Actually I think a red state like Mississippi could be the proving ground. The argument from right-leaning groups like the Cato Institute is that BI would replace existing social welfare programs (SNAP, SSDI, HUD, etc.) and reduce the incentive for special interest groups to lobby for special programs and transfers. Everyone gets a check for the same amount, if you're wealthy then you owe more in taxes than your check is worth.

Those programs can get really costly in states with low economic growth and high poverty rates. The idea that we should just give poor people money instead of funding huge government programs (often with no metric for success beyond "number of people enrolled") would play well in many red states.
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I've been using this and it's pretty nice. See a real world example in this pull request:

https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Turtle-Library/commit/...
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Interested hardware startups should be sure to check out Wearable World as well:
http://www.wearableworld.co/

They have a similar focus on hardware, great numbers re the percent of each class that gets funded, and have had some big successes like the Skully AR-1 intelligent motorcycle helmet:
http://www.skully.com/

WW recently toured the AQS facility in Fremont where a lot of well known products are being made like Makerbot and the Lift Labs tremor defeating spoon, and class members get frequent introductions to everyone from investors to Perkins offering billing for law services only on funding. It has been a pretty kickass program so far.
I did not get that from the article at all. Just that there are certain costs to owning a used car that you don't usually incur when owning a new one.

I thought the author was acknowledging that he was better equipped to deal with those costs than someone else might be in a different life situation. And for those other people, it might actually make more sense for them to own a newer car even if it might appear at first blush that they were being less responsible with their money than we might think they should be.

In other words, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Just the opposite. 1.2cm vs 1cm might be a world of difference. And if weight is a concern, you might be stuck with a 1cm tube, which might be less stiff than the 1.2 cm tube even if it's made out of a stiffer material.

The idea is that design is material dependent. You can't assume you can just swap out parts for lighter/stronger/stiffer parts and still have everything work.
It is in grams.

Watch the video demo from around right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTdDJ6fu-c#t=97

When I'm doing the same problem in the actual tool, there's a "details" button which pops up a screen telling you the meal's details and how much of each food to eat.

You can click on the foods in this area and it'll tell you how many eggs 300g egg whites requires (I actually click on cheese in the video, but you get the idea).
For the most part, they're open source and have no significant revenue.

Or they're small for-profit companies and they can't spare the revenue.

Or they're large companies and no one with a budget and decision power is even aware they use the product.

Or they're Red Hat... With limited budget for this and unlimited needs to cover.
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They also thought the efficient-market hypothesis was true, until the financial crisis hit in 2008.
Indeed. But crowdfunding has opened up a new channel for hardware startups: preorders. It makes developing a hardware product, which used to be very difficult and take a lot of up-front investment, much more accessible. It's still difficult (see all of the infinitely-delayed crowdfunded projects), but has been getting steadily easier over the past few years. Crowdfunding serves as nondilutive financing to the startups and can also signal market validation to future investors. It is a very important part of the chain.
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"I understand that deprioritizing interop suits academics because new "colors" are more vivid when they don't have to mix with old ones,"

It's worse than that... some "colors" basically break if you allow admixture. For instance, immutable and lazy languages come crashing down around your ears if even so much as one thing unexpectedly mutates, because the compiler rewrote the order so strongly that even if you think you can second-guess the evaluation order, you're wrong. It's why "unsafePerformIO" in Haskell is even more dangerous than you might think it is as a novice... it isn't just that it violates the ideals of Haskell, it's really unsafe! It's not an idle comment, it's a serious warning. It is possible to use it correctly but it's very subtle.

"Microservices are an interesting development in this space, providing an architecture within which components with very different underlying semantics may cooperate -- it's not a new idea, but neither was AJAX. Other historically significant interoperability initiatives are CORBA, COM, SWIG and GObject."

This is why I qualified my post by assuming you were talking about more than these things, because they exist and aren't going anywhere. Fundamentally you can always send a message from a runtime and get a message back in return, but if there's any particular problem with that, it's that it's an oversolved problem rather than a not-solved-enough problem; too many choices! But that is not the fault or responsibility of any one language.

"The project I work on, Apache Clownfish (a "symbiotic object system")... Working through issues like how to design an object system which is compatible with diverse GC/allocation schemes is fun and mind-expanding,"

And I'd point out that a quick glance at your project (which I specify so you can correct me if I'm wrong) makes it appear that I actually already called out all the languages that currently supports (C, Perl, Ruby) [1] as working in the same fundamental regime, before I knew about what you were talking about. It sounds like you're working on those accidental complexities, which may well bring great value to many people (and let me highlight that, I'm serious, this may well be an awesome project, let nothing I'm saying here be construed as a criticism of the project, its ideas, or its worthiness of being worked on!), but is currently working on C-gray to C-gray interop, which, alas, does little to counter the ideas I'm discussing here.

If you are interested in these ideas, you may find it worth your time to dig into Haskell/GHC a bit and just consider how you might even begin porting your ideas across. By no means would I suggest actually putting any time to code this in, but it might give you a different perspective to think about. If you are feeling less ambitious, even just looking at how you'd port it to Go, a language still mostly C-gray but with one colorful streak of asynch in it, could be an interesting compare & contrast.

[1]: https://github.com/apache/lucy-clownfish/tree/master/runtime
I don't see this happening with FFTW or Qt. Apparently selling exceptions is fine? I can imagine a market for selling GPG exceptions.

Also, I know some free games are sold on app stores. Wesnoth comes to mind. Have people come to spite the Wesnoth developers and put the same game on the app store without a fee?
It's worse than that - it seems almost as though there aren't many people left working on the project who understand Mercurial. Case in point: stripping Mercurial changesets from a repository has been almost completely broken for many months now with little interest or activity on the bug report.
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Are any of these resources available for anyone who isn't already a YC founder? Does that make sense?

Wouldn't it be valuable to give interested folks who aren't yet in YC a place to do their prototyping, get discounts, and help, and then use it as lead gen for the next batch?

Think of all the companies that could exist but don't because they don't have access to these resources.
What are you referring to?

Tavarish's blog is gold. Baruth's post is thoughtful commentary and reflection.

None of it is click-bait.
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He didn't write about buying used card. In fact, he even made a point about buying not-that-old Civics, because there is no risk to owning a used Civic. But changing your oil and filters won't help you when the CV joint snaps going down the road (and it's going to happen someday), or when the alternator seizes up, or when the starter won't turn over, or when the timing belt snaps without warning.

All of those things can happen on an older vehicle without a moment's notice, and besides the timing belt, none of them are commonly found on a scheduled maintenance calendar. Changing your oil only helps until that odometer rolls over 250k (for a reliable car) or even 90k (for a cheap econobox).

The point isn't "don't buy a used car", it's "don't listen to articles saying you should buy a car with a million miles for $1000".
Really nice article. As he states, when confronted with an unknown topic during a discussion/meeting, most techies fit into one of these categories:

* Nod and pretend you know about it

* Nod, pretend you know about it and go read about it afterwards

* Admit that you never heard about it and extract as much knowledge as possible from the conversation

Moving from the first one to the second one is easy, and you're kind of crazy if you don't. Moving from the second to the third is hard, but once you do it, you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner. I've learned a ton by asking for clarifications on things or asking another developer how he would use [technology x]. People are typically very happy to share things they have mastery of.

Simple way to start: in a meeting full of alphabet soup, ask for clarification on some acronym. Takes a second, the response is also usually just a second or two long, and there's undoubtedly others wondering the same thing. Once you've opened yourself up to publicly admitting you don't know everything, it makes asking future questions much easier.
If anyone suggests it's not ok to make a living out of your chosen profession it's pretty okay to ignore their advice.

Some source is better to be open for all stakeholders, others... it's more or less irrelevant, unless you believe the entire world is out to get you.
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It's probably an ever bigger problem than that. Regardless of liberal or conservative, if you want to raise taxes essentially across the board (which you'd have to do--even taking all of the wealth of "the 1%" would fund this project for maybe a year) you're going to have a really tough time convincing people that their taxes are going to be raised 500% or whatever it would end up being.

Just back-of-the envelope numbers, if 300 million Americans received $30k/yr, that's $9 trillion dollars per year that has to come from someplace. My guess would be that the majority of people would end up handing that $30k right back in the form of taxes. And at that point, it becomes an exercise in the government giving people money, then having to get it back via taxes, so then what is the point? Is it easier to give 10 people $10 or to give 100 people $10, then take $900 of it back?
He said "marketable IP" (i.e., "useful IP") not "patentable IP".
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Do you plan to open source some of your stuff (voice recognition, speech synthesis, gazetteers, UIMA related code)?

Watson Jeopardy itself is built on top of Apache open source stack (Apache UIMA and Hadoop): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIMA