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1. I'm not aware at any especial effort of secrecy about the TPP. It's normal to negotiate treaties behind closed doors; the time for public debate is when they come up for ratification in the Senate, which is in accordance with the Constitutional design.

2. This has little or no effect on US copyright law, but seeks to promote that standard elsewhere: * What they want is the most restrictive interpretation of U.S. policy to become the international "norm" by which all other TPP countries will be forced to conform their national laws.*

3. All TPP negotiating coutnries are already signatories to the EBrene convention and in principle are alsready signed up to these terms as fr as foreign works are concerned.

4. The US copyright regime got to be the way it is largely as a response to changes in European law (specifically the Sonny Bono copyright act extending it to life + 70).

I'm heartily in favor of copyright reform but until such time as it takes place it's entirely understandable that international trade negotiations would be based on the law as it currently stands rather than some hypothetical future version. Furthermore, the TPP copyright rules as discussed are basically just an affirmation of the existing copyright regime rather than some drastic change. The normal thing in any kind of trade deal is for the parties to try to get theri commercial marketplace rules onto the same page so that they can minimize the legal barriers to selling goods in each others markets.
I certainly am not the person to backup the EMH (my complaints about it are more about the lack of provability/usefulness) but you are completely misstating some very central points about the EMH and more specifically about Richard Dennis.

1 - no version, even the most strict, of the EMH claims that returns above market over time are not possible. The claims are about the prices of assets and their relation to information. So even a very strict interpretation of the EMH wouldn't say you can't make above market returns over time, only that you can't do it because you know something no one else does. Random movements or other non-knowable events are not part of the EMH.

2 - all EMH versions talk about risk adjusted returns. So if you place an incredibly risky bet, that pays off, that does not violate any form of the EMH. The Dennis system was particularly risky, especially in comparison to other market participants like him.

3 - Dennis' system did not perform well over a long period. The system does not perform well past 1986 and was only first codified in either 1983 or 84. Dennis performed better over that time, but his system did not. This is evidence that he was lucky, not beating an efficient market. Even if we take the most charitable view of Dennis' system, not that it was luck, rather it was some new found previously unknown information, that backs up less strict forms of the efficient market hypothesis. The market responded to the actors in it finding an inefficiency by making that efficient to the point of the opportunity disappearing.
Is there any proof whatsoever for this? I'm extremely skeptical because the first post Usenet post warns that you'd be sentenced to death if you were in possession of information about Kvikkalkul.

Sweden hasn't practiced capital punishment since 1910.
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Oh, don't worry. There are plenty of anti-Bitcoin people around here who will do it for you.
>Google Inc. nurtured YouTube into a cultural phenomenon

What? No.

Youtube was huge before Google bought it. They bought it because they couldn't compete with it. I'd even go as far as to say that youtube kept growing despite Google's meddling, not because of it.

Didn't read the rest of the article because, as others have remarked, it's paywalled. But that's not a good first impression.
The lack of a "for 10 minutes"-type option is, IMO, the biggest failing of Privacy Guard. XPrivacy is better in that regard, but was harder to use overall when I last tried it.

XPrivacy does have the benefit of making it easy to provide realistic-looking fake data, which I believe the CyanogenMod team is against.
The language appears to be fiction beyond these Usenet posts, and the same goes for the mentioned "SABINA" computer. Capital punishment, brought up as a common consequence of possessing this information in Sweden is, of course, incompatible with current Swedish society.

The Swedish Wikipedia has an article about it (describing it as likely being fiction) here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvikkalkul

(I am Swedish.)
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> There are tons more people than you know of in the right-place-right-time, but couldn't/wouldn't act on it.

So, right-place-right-time-right-preparation? Boils down the same way, just with an added dimension.
Surprising that it's not profitable. It's still probably better than having lost a major chunk of internet traffic to another player, like they did with social networking and real-time info (i.e. Twitter).
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Latency, latency, latency. Everything else is pretty much irrelevant at this point.
I suspect a problem with late stage investing is that some of it is marketing for the investment funds. You make a late stage investment in Uber at $40+ billion valuation so that you can tell people you invested in Uber. People who aren't paying much attention assume you are very savy, making a 10-100x return, when you may only be making 1-2x at best.

People assume institutional investors are "smart" so they won't fall for things like this. In some ways they are smart because they tend to be systematic (less emotional than individuals), but in other ways they follow the herd. They need to be involved in whatever is hot.
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Video entertainment is inherently time-wasting, so for the majority of content that argument doesn't have legs.

For someone technical, there's little "futzing" - one time setup, and ongoing maintenance will take less time than when "cable company 2.0" is (down, showing advertisement, changing selection).

I do agree that piracy UI needs to be a lot better so that anybody can setup something that just works with a minimum of effort. But none of these pragmatic considerations invalidate my original point, which is that those who give money to the old style media companies are directly funding this corruption.
This was so much fun to do! Hoping to do doodles for past years too.
But Obama has always been broadly in favor of more trade - he was never one of those candidates promising to dismantle NAFTA or use protectionist tariffs. Much as he always made it clear that he was no peacenik and would deploy US military power where he felt it would advance US interests.

I'm not saying you should like or agree with these policies, but I can't sympathize with your expressions of surprise. I'm hawkish enough (as a classical economic liberal or 'neoliberal' if you like) that I broadly support the policies mentioned above, and it was part of why I decided I'd prefer to see him in the job back in 2007.
While the effort required to change your lifestyle can seem like a personal task, it's important to remind ourselves of all the work of free software developers. As we've seen with GPG,[1] many of them lack resources. It's a testament to the inherent goodness in people that these options even exist. We should continue to contribute our skill and treasure to these increasingly critical programs so they continue to exist and prosper.

[1]https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...
Whenever I entertain the "employee #N" daydream, I fantasize that I might have negatively altered the trajectory of the company: butterfly effect and all that. By hiring me, they might have missed out on hiring engineer X, who sneezed one day at lunch and gave designer Y a cold, who became inspired to doodle a graphic while out sick, which subconsciously cheered up a key customer prospect because of something his daughter said that day, which leans him towards signing a big contract, and that made all the difference. Or perhaps it was a more direct action or inaction of mine that changed the course of history.

Is the success of an endeavor highly sensitive to small perturbations in the timeline? I'm guessing most of us don't buy into the mythology of the all-powerful Idea and Founders. Every employee and action matters. The details matter. If I could go back in time and swap in for employee #8 at MS, it would probably no longer be the MS we know. Or perhaps we wouldn't know of it at all.

Perhaps best not to sweat these missed opportunities, and instead keep making whatever we're doing right now the next MS, or whatever you define as outrageous success.
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Paradoxically, the solution is to stop thinking of startup ideas in terms of solving problems in the early stages of startup germination, and instead start thinking in terms of changes in the economic environment and the opportunities these changes unlock.
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strong point, exactly what I have been thinking lately while trying to understand every single products Google acquires. I still think there are rooms for innovation.
Sure, but so what? Not saying, "What will happen if this works?" is an amateur move. In an industry where the whole goal is wild success, it's not a good sign if you are totally unprepared for wild success.

But for the sake of argument let me grant that some people in YC somehow a) thought something was so important as to take time away from their startup, and b) never even considered that it might work. Once it started working, there were a number of things they could do other than the "make a complete hash of things" strategy that Wired's experience apparently suggests they are pursuing now.
I do not think that it figures out "what the win is" as the score parameter is explicitly made available to the algorithm.

In some sense this paper even demonstrates that how simple the problem actually is.

I think more important question is that what else can be modelled as such problem.
Randall has us covered, as always.

http://xkcd.com/687/

and

"You can even plug it into Wolfram|Alpha, and it’ll tell you that 20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters (roughly the area of two pixels on a computer screen)."

https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
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Congrats to the Layer team! This is a really great toolkit, and definitely something developers have had to re-build many times.
Is you argument really that if there is something that "has been a thing for a LONG TIME" that it isn't problematic and that we shouldn't be concerned about avoiding it?
Grace Garey's doodle says "6% of money raised for Haiti went to the people they were trying to help." Source?
...and I get the eery feeling sometimes that it's running Windows 95.
I think Microsoft could be in a position to do this with Windows 10. It certainly seems to me like it would be the next logical step after the Surface Pro.
Great, just what Mexico needs is a zero-down solar clone as a carpetbagger. The issue with zero down solar is this: solar panels (and equipment and installation) now cost about 5-10 years worth of electricity (it all depends on electric rates and any state subsidies, which are obviously different in Mexico), but they last 20 years or more. The zero-down subscription models capture that 10-15 years of revenue instead of passing it on to the electric user.

Much more advantageous to the homeowner would be to offer solar micro loans for the express purpose of buying and installing the panels. Structure the loan so it's a bit less than he electric bill (and more predictable) and it should be paid off in 5-10 years, and then the owner gets he free electricity. Or the SunRun power purchase model where the company sells all solar output to the homeowner for the cost of the system (either upfront or on a monthly payment plan), but the company still owns the panels (and could conceivably recover them in case of non-payment).

As far as I can tell, the zero-down model only works because of slick marketing and the general public being unfamiliar with the true low cost and possible financing of a PV system.

And I'm sure the Mexican population is thrilled about having a foreign-backed company data mining their financial info and creating an unregulated credit agency.
You don't need Google Voice at all anymore (that I am aware of) and Messaging just goes to sleep when you make Hangouts your SMS app.

GV integration is not the most seamless perfect experience ever (for example, incoming IP calls go straight to voicemail when I'm on corporate WiFi) but I'm fairly pleased with it.
Excellent essay. I feel like the emphasis on "the story" reinforces pmarca's point in his "product market fit" article (http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee204/ProductMarketFit.html): that more important than the team or the idea is the market (in coffeemug's words: the environment).

You can obviously screw up a great market -- and that has been done, and not infrequently -- but assuming the team is baseline competent and the product is fundamentally acceptable, a great market will tend to equal success and a poor market will tend to equal failure. Market matters most.

And neither a stellar team nor a fantastic product will redeem a bad market.
I'm really looking forward to Julia, I like the language and its performance, but this blog post by Dan Luu is discouraging: http://danluu.com/julialang/.
It may sound like ad hominem, but that would mean I was "responding to arguments by attacking a person's character". That said, I'm definitely making blaming statements, so it's fair you made the observation. I'm pretty sure cognitive dissonance isn't a character trait so much as it is a current state of thinking surrounding a given topic, which in this case is global finance. I've read Stross, and like his works, but I am attacking what he is saying (currently) about a given topic. I think it's also fair to point out he makes his own ad hominem arguments: "Bitcoin (is bad b/c) mining software is now being distributed as malware". I also think it's fair to say, when observing illogical remarks from an individual, that they may still be conflicted on the topic.
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The Zappos story is actually from the founder, Tony Hsieh: http://about.zappos.com/press-center/media-coverage/deliveri...

"Hsieh likes to end his presentation with what he calls his pizza story. One night, he and some vendors returned to a hotel room late. Someone in the group was craving pizza and was told room service had ended. As a joke, Hsieh suggested calling Zappos. You can probably guess the end of the story—even though Zappos doesn't sell pizza, the customer service rep found a list of local pizza places that would deliver to the hotel. It's a fun story that seriously reinforces Hsieh's theme of customer service."
> Often the founders themselves didn't know why their ideas
> were promising. They were attracted to these ideas by
> instinct, because they were living in the future and they
> sensed that something was missing.

This is confirmation bias
Wouldn't this be one of those things poked through by either side? We have the same TPP secrecy and issues with copyright in Australia under a conservative government. I'd expect the situation to be largely similar whichever of the major parties were in power.
For me, this is the interesting quote:

That is a problem still facing veteran Google executive Susan Wojcicki as she begins her second year running YouTube, one that could be tougher to solve if declining profit margins for Google overall limit her ability to invest in new content and services.

As the air slowly seeps out of the search advertising business it makes it harder and harder for Google to keep non-profitable businesses alive.
Coursera does something like this IIRC
Then to put it bluntly your service is misleading, and is the encryption equivalent of selling a leather jacket as a bullet proof vest.
Streaming Netflix in Central London isn't an issue (I'm on Three); do you have a choice for a better provider?
"""Idioms are not static. Please stop using that as a strawman to tear down. Idioms rot. If they are not what the community currently uses, they are not idiomatic."""

I'm not annoyed by idioms because they don't ever change -- but because while they exist in a certain form, they inhibit experimenting with different approaches.

Or to be more presize, I'm not annoyed by idioms themselves (as I also wrote above), as individual practices. I'm annoyed by people insisting on them, and criticizing everything diverting (unidiomatic) as something that's bad.

Nothing is static, except change. But for a specific period of time (which can be like aeons in the software industry) idioms are for all intends and purposes static.

E.g Java EE land, from say, 2000-ish to 2007. The idioms were fixed and agreed upon, and most people and groups, from Apache Struts to Java engineers and IBM played by them, but they neither helped the community "communicate via code" nor helped "make programs understandable".

Instead, they hindered both communication and understanding. Almost everybody agrees now that the adopted idioms at the time were bad, and inhibited progress and even slowed down projects.

It's not even like "it was good for it's time, but we eventually came up with something better". We always had the option to do the better thing (it doesn't take unique new research to not use a 20-levels deep hierarchy or to not think GoF patterns should be applied everywhere). And since we moved on, everybody seems to agree it wasn't "good for the time" either.
The whole essay is really a rip off of pmarca's product/market fit argument, and Peter Thiel's contrarian but right argument. I just rewrote it through the lens of my own experience.

The only truly new thing that I discovered was the "story" bit. I haven't heard that anywhere else before.
Capital punishment was incompatible with Swedish law at the time of the posting as well. The Swedish constitution has prohibited it since 1975, but it was long-since abolished in practice, the last execution having taken place in 1910.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Sweden
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I can imagine the average business manager type reading that line and thinking "Wha?!"
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Here's the actual quote: http://youtu.be/ftpoG2fSZBY?t=4m57s

(I flipped it around to because 6% Haiti vs 100% Watsi was a better comparison in the notes; I may have lost some of her meaning. Will edit to clarify!)

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I'm not sure, but it's possible the number came from somewhere like this:

"Ninety-three percent of that money either went to United Nations agencies or international nongovernmental organizations, or it never left the donor government."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/02/28/172875646/what-ha...
There is an Ada to kvikkalkul translator and most new programs are written in Ada and then translated to kvikkalkul. The kvikkalkul version was the definitive program that was reviewed, approved, tested and maintained. There was also a Simula to kvikkalkul translator in the 70s and some programs were written with it.

Nope nope nope...my suspension of disbelief popped right there. Great troll, tho.
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What's your take on TPP's proposed criminal enforcement provisions which would criminalize noncommercial activities such as fanzines, even when rightsholders have no complaint?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/latest-tpp-leak-shows-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/10/17/latest...

http://japanitlaw.blogspot.com/2013/01/tpps-effect-on-fanzin...
> Keep in mind that your whole linux system essentially mmaps your binaries / shared libraries when you run an application. And with caveats our world still keeps going around.

Yes, and it does very admirable things there, brilliant things I would say. If you aren't going to touch the whole thing it doesn't have to load it from disk. If there is memory pressure it can just evict the in-memory copies of pages. All great stuff for that usage.

That said I have seen it cause issues. Most commonly I'd see it on Windows (it's not called mmap there, but whatever, same issue) if you run an app from a network share. Suddenly network timeouts make the whole app blow up. Not cool. There is actually a flag in the EXE file format that says "if you run this from a network, copy the contents to the pagefile first" - meant for exactly this scenario.
Without knowing what went on in the interviews you've had, I would say to reflect on them and see what you feel went wrong. Was it technical? Was it communication? Was it how you presented yourself?

Contributing to open-source projects is a great way to get noticed. But there's more to interviewing than just the technical part. Companies also need to make sure that you would fit the culture and your work will help them further advance. If you can find, communicate and convince them that you can help them advance their mission, I am certain they will give you a look

All in all, continue to pursue and don't be afraid to show your passion and enthusiasm.
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This person wrote a lisp in 1K lines of C (not bytes :)), the cool thing is that also includes a copying garbage collector.

https://github.com/rui314/minilisp
It only took how long? But nevermind. I'll believe it when housing actually goes in and people can live there.
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Encryption keys can be hidden in a way that is next to impossible to decipher. Superfish level of insecurity doesn't have to be the norm. The downside is that there are no open source libraries that make this possible which is why few people know about it.
do you really want Google to be reading all the mail on your non-gmail accounts? If you want that, you can set up forwarding on your non-gmail account to send all your mail to a gmail account, and you'll get cards.

Personally, i'd rather have the option for google to not read some of my mail.
You can go to the UPS store and ship an unmarked package there. So how would they know?
Wow is that article bad.

> and then for some reason decides to makes itself undetectable.

Uhm, what?

> In fact, many respected neocortex researchers believe there is effectively one algorithm for all intelligence.

And that belief is absolutely ridiculous since most algorithms effectively aren't a single algorithm. What they call an algorithm is a huge monolithic program generated by a dumb evolutionary algorithm, e.g. mostly noise.

> because artificial seems to imply it's not real or not very good.

WHAT? Look up "artificial" please.
Indeed, by "current" I had the last fifty years in mind. It seemed appropriate at the time of writing given that we speak of major changes to society, but perhaps there is a better word to describe this particular period of time.
Data caps are a form of price discrimination, and will evolve with supply and demand. It's like Apple's upcharge for each jump in flash or SSD size--it's a way to push a higher proportion of costs onto those who value the product the most. The brackets will keep going up and be priced such that lots of people will pay it.
Ask HN: Why to startups put so much emphasis on GitHub profiles?
Do people actually open source their best work?

Also, why do major tech companies never even ask for and put no emphasis on GitHub or BitBucket profiles?
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1154366377.

Just posted 22/9 40ms ping in DC Union Station. It's 7pm and the place is packed with people playing on their cell phones while waiting. Maybe blame SF NIMBYs for not letting the cell companies put up enough towers or run enough fiber backhaul?
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