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>> If the university was not able to patent, then the startups could never happen. Since startups are credited with being the innovation driver in the commercial world, killing off all of these startups would have a stifling effect on innovation in the US.

No, the research would still go on. Much of it is funded by government grants and that would still continue. The results of the research would be published and anyone could make use of it. That simplifies everything and results in more competition to commercialize things.
Just a nit: IIRC their patent didn't cover the idea of "interactivity", but something more along the line of "plugins", which is what the "external programs" refer to. Active-X is why they targeted Microsoft.
People don't buy ARM cores because of the trademark or support services. They do it because key implementation techniques for the ARM instruction set are patented, and the high-performance softcores are protected by copyright: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/08/07/a-long-look-at-how-arm-li.... Yes, they support it just like any company supports their products, but it's not a "free product, pay for support" play like RedHat.
Yes, it's possible this indeed will be the default behavior at some later point.

Some people don't like this since `unhandledRejection`s can be handled later on at some point (for example, after a week of not adding a catch handler).

There is a discussion here: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/830
TL;DR:

FedEx: “We are uncertain at this time whether this device is a regulated commodity by local, state or federal governments. As such, to ensure we comply with the applicable law and regulations, FedEx declined to ship this device until we know more about how it will be regulated.”

UPS: A UPS spokesperson wrote in a statement that the company will only ship guns and gun parts between holders of a federal firearms license. In a follow-up statement, it confirmed that it won’t ship the Ghost Gunner either. “UPS reserves the right to refuse to provide transportation service for, among other reasons, any shipments that create legal, safety or operational concerns,” writes spokesperson Dan Mackin. “UPS is continuing to evaluate such concerns with regard to the transportation of milling machines used to produce operable firearms but, at this point in time, will not accept such devices for transportation.”

USPS: The US Postal Service didn’t immediately respond to questions about whether they would allow the shipment of the Ghost Gunner or other potential gunsmithing devices.
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While he didn't know Microsoft would pioneer it, Bill Gates says he knew that there'd be a software industry.

While he didn't know Facebook would pioneer it, Mark Zuckerberg says he knew that all software would be social.

While he didn't know Google would pioneer it, Larry Page said he knew that the fast growing web would eventually need a good way to search.

While he didn't know Viaweb would pioneer it, Paul Graham said he knew that ecommerce sites would eventually be created by software.

And so on....

I respect the fuzziness and path dependence of startup growth but boy do I respect people who can see the future now, make it happen and end up being correct. Even more props to people who make it happen multiple times [e.g. Joel Spolsky, Elon Musk]
It's hard to imagine that battery concerns are the reason for their extremely spotty ES6 support.
Oh cool, this reminds me of a game we made for Github's game competition: http://guesshub.io/
> I have yet to meet a serious AI researcher who worries about AI ending the human race.

As an industry practitioner of machine learning / data science, I believe AGI poses a genuine risk to humanity.

Having said that, what I do for a living is of little relevance. People are pretty terrible at predicting the future (see late 19th / early 20th century predictions of year 2000, with food replaced by pills, etc). Unless someone has put enough thought and research into it, their predictions about the future of civilization are likely to be worthless regardless of their academic credentials.
Are there any places at RealScout where you think this approach might not work? Trying to understand the situations in which you would make an exception to not apply this policy now that you have tried it.
I can't literally save money.. Always spend it halfway trough.. What kinda gamification we are talking about.?
'foaming at the mouth' is an Orwellian characterization of what is a profound and rational aversion to totalitarian state surveillance. Stop using the metaphor of a rabies infected dog to describe those who wish to live without the government spying on them.
I wouldn't put to much into worrying about being turned down. The DC area sees a lot of people apply, and not just from the area, just because it is DC and students that are interested in the government sector specifically all are trying to get their foot in the door. Just keep pressing at it and eventually you will land one.

Also, go to as many networking events as you possibly can. I know some are going to be 21 and over events, but try to go different meetups that you can attend. Make connections. Even if you don't land an internship for this summer, by making connections early on during the "off season" you can gain an advantage for next summer.
The argument about not taking shortcuts sounds silly. Shortcuts will get picked up in CR, usually. I'll admit that tests are much harder to review effectively.
I presume they are over-aggressively caching data.
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I tried to find any info about license or repos and couldn't find anything. Unlike Samsung's Knox, which is FOSS, how can this be even remotely secure if it is closed source?

Seems that Google is full on the "Extinguish" phase with Android.

edit: amazing that I'm being downvoted for stating facts yet nobody replies to me.
Looks like they are going after Microsoft on a different front. Especially with the notes and outlook integration. Can they provide enough of a productivity boost to get people to dump the windows ecosystem? Will IT managers be comfortable with cloud managed systems?
It's been an interesting winter. We've had more or less the opposite here in the Pacific Northwest.

Many of the Cascade ski resorts are either fully or partially closed. Further inland things haven't been much better in terms of snowfall[1]. We moved into a house in Idaho this summer with a long driveway that typically has 1'-3' of snow for a month or two every winter, but I took the plow off our UTV 3 weeks ago, after only having used it once (on about 4" of snow) the entire winter.

While of course climate isn't equal to weather one interesting side effect is that I've heard quite a few people say things along the lines of "Ok, I believe in global warming now." I'd imagine the reaction has been quite different in Boston.

[1] http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/data/water/wcs/gis/maps/...
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I think this sort of illustrates the flaw in the reasoning of the original post. No one could have looked at Altair BASIC and seen Microsoft, because Microsoft didn't grow out of Altair BASIC. They grew out of canny marketing and business decisions and dumb luck. Their shitty software had nothing to do with it.

If someone can proverbially sell ice to Eskimos, it's not because ice is great stuff.
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Hopefully this will finally shut up the people who complain that the NSA's behavior will damage the US tech industry. If they are interested in compromising a system, being non-American just means they will break in the hard way. At least American companies can theoretically be secure if they are willing to grant authorized access when requested.
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How mature is the product that the team is working on?

I think as a product (or core dependency) becomes more mature code reviews are immensely valuable. It also seems to become an issue when new members of the team are still getting their bearings. When a new member joins my team I generally book time explicitly for reviewing not only code but the development process that they follow. This helps suss out any issues they may have with environment, workflow , etc.
Sorry, I'm not sure I get your point, are you referring to this comment:

2012-08-31 Tony Chang <tony@chromium.org>

Remove ENABLE_CSS3_FLEXBOX compile time flag
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95382

[..snip..]

Everyone is already enabling this by default and the spec has stablized.

If so, as a honest question, I'm not sure how is this comment related to, or why should it be an example for Apple not being transparent about why they lag behind. Can you clarify?
You can't cheat once you're in the workplace (at least, not in the same "directly copy other people's work" or "look up the answers during the test" way). So if you cheat your way through school, you haven't really proven that you have what it takes to do the things your degree indicates.

To use the biology 101 example - if you can't spend 10 hours/week studying/learning material that you don't really care about and that is irrelevant to your life, how are you going to spend 60-80 hours a week doing that in your excel-modeling job?
The ars piece opens with "How leaky is shale gas production? Good news—fracking's probably not as leaky as earlier studies suggested.", it continues without much analysis, and my weariness is that it doesn't really address that these studies and findings and reports are very hard to trust on face (or any) value as this topic or industry has a history of funding convenient research and, as with this ars piece, reproduction of the reports as news headlines. I would like to know whether fracking is bad. I'm old enough to remember being told in the 70s that oil would soon run out. Both the 70s and the deadline have passed and now there's so much fossil fuel it's a danger and we should not have the Keystone pipeline because we'll never survive the carbon release. The 70s also bought us the forecast of another ice-age, with hindsight we should take it all with a pinch of salt, but instead we brand each other science deniers or otherwise.
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It’s very hard to know how close we are to machine intelligence surpassing human intelligence.

I feel comfortable stating there is no evidence that the current trajectory of machine intelligence (e.g., developing a set of tools for optimization of mathematical functions on digital hardware) is bringing us any closer to sentience. So in that sense, Sam seems misinformed.

Of course, there's always a remote chance of a fundamental, revolutionary breakthrough in our understanding of AI or human intelligence (or anything), but it would represent a complete departure from our current state-of-the-art, not the mere evolution of our current progress. So in the sense that "it's possible," Sam is right -- in the same sense that it's possible teleportation or interstellar flight is right around the corner. When weighted by probability, it's not a pressing issue in my mind and should remain relegated to science fiction for now.
>I was in college when google first launched.

I was working in a company at the time. Happened to be one of the early people there to know about Google. Tried it out. A few days later told a friend, who was sitting at the desk next to me, about it. He tried it with a search; results came back in 0.x seconds (even in those days, 1997 or so), then muttered: "That's fast."
Fight over parking spaces. It's Boston's favorite winter pastime.
Not sure if you have checked this out or not:

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Who thinks they're going to live 26,000 years?
Unrelated, but what kind of website refuses to load if gravatar does not load????

Who needs gravatar? Certainly not needed just to display a page.
So we're all going to code, write, etc. on four inch screens?

Seriously why hasn't someone made a smart phone that "transforms" into a larger screen form factor when connected to a monitor? I could see Android phones doing this. I could never imagine iOS doing it-- Apple would never cannibalize Mac like that, and iOS is too jailed for anything "real."

Of course apps would have to support it. But those that didn't could pop up in little windows in "desktop mode." That would be fine.

Google should dump ChromeOS -- which I never understood -- and do this instead.
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Do they ship lathes? How about CNC metal milling machines?

How, aside from the name, is this different? Strikes me as similar outlawing nc because someone might use it to do a port scan against machines they don't own.
People don't buy iPads because of the ARM chips. But if the alternative is a Xiangdi Industries "10 Tablet" with a zhMIPS CPU and a not-entirely-unlike-Android OS, the lack of any familiar brand names may influence the consumer to just pay more for the sure thing (to them).

(I made those names up. Any similarity to actual brands is entirely coincidental.)

In any case, I was not trying to say that ARM cores are free to use. I was comparing their business to open hardware, and pointing out that people often prefer to pay for the ability to not delve too deeply into the details of what they are buying.
A firehose of updates? Updates to what?

There are basically an unlimited number of world wide routes - a mind blowingly dizzying number of permutations to get from A to B.

Before you try to say "well travellers won't want routes with feature X" to cut down on the volume of data travellers want all sorts of contradictory things. Some a vastly price sensitive, some hate a particular airline, some love that same airline, some are time sensitive, some change those preferences depending on whether they are flying domestic or international, with or without kids.
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Sure. In general there are lots of examples that illustrate the ugliness of using floating points _unnecessarily_.
Is this a different paper to the original DeepMind video game paper? http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602
That is indeed our point. Thanks for explaining it!
I don't understand.

> Since you are so knowledgeable about the unknowable

If knowing the unknown was a requirement to exploring it through playful thought, forming opinions and refining them over time through discussion, reflection and if possible testing, well... we'd still be chunking rocks. I think it is unfair to compare expressing concerns about the implications of AI to debating the gender of angels. No one is trying to build angels...

> for instance from Andrew Ng at the Deep Learning Summit a few weeks ago: "dude, stop it. That's such a distraction".

Ya, this makes sense in the context of the summit. But, applying it to a guy's blog? It is a blog...

> Yes, AI is something we should probably be worried about.

Agreed!

> "The history of technology advancing has been one of sigmoids that begin as exponentials."

Sure, but will we be irrelevant before the slope changes direction?

Anyways, I share your fear of advancements in technology being used to secure entrenched power structures. And yes, if it happened it would come before the singularity. But I just can't imagine how anyone wouldn't be afraid to be part of a species that had stopped evolving while a new competing "life" form was evolving at rates that known history has never seen.
Maybe there's a list of preconditions which help improve a team's chances for successful adoption?

I can imagine teams where pairing unleashes creativity, resourcefulness; and teams where it'd be intolerable.
+1. Haha, what an apt comparison.
Yes, Arlington is a nice model to adopt, but needs to be even denser.
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It depends on the nature of your being broke. If you have dependants - pets, relatives, etc. - then you have a responsibility to take a job and pay the bills.

Otherwise, it looks like you're in exactly the right point in life to risk being broke for a while in order to gain the type of job you want.

I don't know about the specifics of your local job market, but one thing I would do is find a reputable recruiter (i.e. one held in high esteem by progammers; such creatures are rare but they do exist) and ask for advice. Explain your goals, and see if they're realistic in your area.

Also, attend meetups in your area, and speak to developers and recruiters there. Most old hands will be more than willing to share advice and experiences, and some of them will even be correct and relevant :)

Consider the words of Roark in The Fountainhead (great motivational book, by the way): "If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work." My guess is that you already know, deep down, what you want to do :)
Or maybe that's anthropomorphizing and they won't! Let's just throw the lever when the time comes and find out, and urge people to not spend any time thinking about it too hard until then. This is a good and reasonable and safe strategy that isn't at all guided by an underlying desire to assert dominance over weird outgroup people who might threaten your own status.


(Not aimed at you, sorry. I do have a lot of trouble understanding the "maybe the universe isn't fundamentally unsafe" worldview though.)
> The argument that WebSQL was tailored to a specific SQLite version is nonsense. SQLite supports the official SQL92 standard, as do several other SQL embedded engines like the SQL engines from MS Access, MS Outlook, MS SQL Embedded and many others.

Nobody ever said WebSQL was intended to require a specific version of SQLite. But nearly every browser would have used SQLite, and experience has shown that when you expose functionality to the web, sites start depending on specific implementation quirks - check out all the gibberish people used to feed to IE6's CSS parser to trick it into behaving.

Also, note that SQLite is not what most people think of when they talk about SQL databases, if only because of its very "manifest typing". Maybe SQL92 is flexible enough to permit such things, but code written for SQLite is very likely to break horribly on other SQL implementations.
They don't have to be blood samples. I remember one which was blood, urine, and stool each day. Also, each sample might have multiple tests performed. Its a pretty interesting logistical problem.
I think "wet dream" captures it better.
This is a bit off topic, but something I wanted to know for a long time.

How does match playing simulation work in sports games? For example, given Yankees (strength: 89/100) vs Red Sox (strength: 88/100), how does a program come with with score like 5:2, Yankees win or 3:7, Red Sox win?

Even just a name of the algorithm I can look up would be super helpful.
"What's the point" referred only to the use of deferToThread in Twisted. And I was specifically talking about "typical Web page", you know, login, logout, comments and such.

Other than that we actually agree 100%. I wrote that "Async is good if you mostly do things which can be asynchronous", you in turn listed a couple of examples of such things (WebSockets, not RDBMS). We're violently in agreement here.

One additional point I made was about Erlang. Really, if you're building " a product for which you see peak usage of, say, 1m users" go for Erlang (or rather about pre-emptive scheduling, but it boils down to Erlang anyway). In my experience it's the only environment which provides both concurrency and parallelism for both IO and CPU-bound tasks and is easily (transparently!) distributable to many nodes.
In addition to @noelwelsh's reply, I want to add that we are very much working on a type system (we have a working internal prototype). We are also working on a very different kind of type inference, unlike Hindley-Milner. For us, it's important that the error story be as good as the "proper functioning" story, which is why we haven't released these. But it does mean that in the near future, people will be able to program in the typed language starting whenever they want, including from the very beginning. (And then we can do some experiments, too!)
yeah right i wanted to chase Kristen Stewart so bad, but why was i only able to date friends of my friends? so sad...
Have you really?

Seriously, though, it's really easy, as a member of the dominant group (male, white, able-bodied, you name it) to try to stand up for a minority group in a way that seems really helpful from our own perspective, but is actually really hurtful, dis-empowering, or otherwise messed up from the perspective of the people actually living the issue.

If you're finding it frustrating trying to put in your two cents, then there's no harm in just listening for a while. Sometimes it's important to speak out against really egregious stuff, but if you're not confident you're doing it "right", often it's better to let someone else take the reigns--someone living on the disadvantaged side. It's frustrating to have to do, but sometimes that's best.

However, it's important to remember that when we screw up, that's NOT the fault of the minority group. Yes, they're the ones calling us out when we're trying to help, but if our response is to dismiss their concerns, then there's a good chance we ARE speaking from our own perspective, rather than promoting theirs.

But, yes, you can "win" in these conversations. It sounds like you're dismissing them as totally unreasonable because they didn't always agree with your perspective. Could be they're just crazy, emotional women--shrill, bossy ones, no doubt. More likely you screwed up. A lot. That's what people do. Just don't abandon the idea of supporting minorities because the way you wanted to help wasn't they wanted you to help.

If it's any comfort, every feminist who got mad at you for saying something wrong has also said something wrong to a disabled person, a person of color, someone from a minority religion, someone from a different economic class....we all screw up. Ideally people will be nice when we do, but even if they're jerks, they deserve equality. We don't punish all white men when one is a jerk.
I thought Mozilla said they were going to land some form of Firefox on IOS.

Yep, here's the press release: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/12/designing-a-firefox-e...

The actual work is going on here, but it sounds like it's only at the experimental stage: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/ I'm kindof curious to build it and see if it works.

I read that the only issue with getting competing browsers onto iOS is the developer agreement says you can't provide a program with a proprietary javascript engine in it. Frankly, iOS is so big now, I would argue that that restriction strays into competitive advantage territory, and the OP is proof of that. If I were a lawyer at Apple, I would suddenly become magnanimous and get the developer agreement changed such that competing web browser programs _only_ may host their own JavaScript engines.
Thank you, you are correct--I should have been more careful.

Just claiming the idea of plugins (and not interactive browsing in general) is less ridiculous, but still dangerous.
The website is pretty obviously made to sell tshirts. It's already made a few hundred dollars by the looks of it.
I didn't see anything about sentience in the article. More generally, sentience has nothing to do with AI safety; whether or not the thing has qualia has very little to do with what the thing may or may not do to our civilization.
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