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> “I can’t think of anything quite analogous,” said Floyd Abrams, a noted First Amendment lawyer. “But on the face of it, it seems to me like a serious claim.”

Really? Sounds almost exactly how in the 90s restrictions were placed on exporting cryptography, by placing strong software crypto on the US Munitions List.

> Mr. Wilson, 27, claims he spent thousands of dollars over the next two years on lawyers who helped him file paperwork in an effort to comply with the regulations, which are known as ITAR.

"International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) The regulations control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List (USML)."

So why can't, just like with strong crypto, Mr. Wilson place his drawings behind a web form where you certify that you are within the United States and will not export the drawings?
Terry Lambert's post on the backstory behind the USL vs. BSDi settlement (2003)
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> it is hard not to see the power that comes from simplicity

Actually, it is quite hard for anyone who's not already versed in Lisp and equipped with some reasonable knowledge of basic FP constructs such as folds.

It's also important to look at the whole picture, and the author of the paper (and FP advocates in general) have this interesting tendency to completely ignore the opportunity cost of using FP and to dismiss the advantages of alternative approaches over FP.

Personally, I think laziness and immutability come at a very heavy price that explains why only the superficial aspects of FP (lambdas) have been adopted while the rest of FP remains the realm of research papers and conferences.
I don't buy this at all. Whatever the application process, it's much easier to switch between Uber and Lyft than it is to move to a different software (or almost any other kind of traditional) job. The parent's question stands.
Orphan Black (set in Toronto) could incorporate this bill into a storyline, to raise awareness of possible futures.
I don't think most people would agree with such bills if they truly understood them and the potential for abuse.

What they usually hear is "this bill will stop terrorism - well, that's good enough for me!" and don't research the issue any further.

Most people would especially be furious to learn that such bills don't in fact stop terrorism and they are just lied to so the governments gets more power. But because they don't have a good understanding of the issue themselves they just think that's just some "liberal propaganda trying to remove our small government (ironically) guys from power", or whatever.
Ah yes, the whole "you can't refute my baseless assertions about what people want with poll numbers because sheeple" argument.
A decade is a long time in the tech world.

Machine learning and big data are already getting a lot of interest but if you want to see trends, you can refer to companies like Google, Miscrosoft, and Facebook investing humungous amounts of capital on forms of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality.

This has the potential to disrupt many industries if executed well and as a result, specialists in those fields will be in high demand.
What happens is you end up with a wasteful meta-bureaucracy where competing companies and governments form committees to set prices.

I used to work for an ocean container shipping company, and due to idiosyncrasies of maritime law and the fact that these companies are considered "too big to fail" by governments, they are exempt from certain price-fixing laws in many countries including the US and Canada (but they are no longer exempt in the EU since 2008). Carriers are required to publish their rate schedules and surcharges and jointly announce rate increases 30 days in advance of the effective date.

They also share service strings, so a weekly Transpacific service may have a rotation of five different vessels from different carriers, who lease each other container space. They are officially not allowed to restrict supply in a coordinated fashion to prop up prices anymore, but they have to jointly make operational decisions to downsize or cancel service strings, which is effectively the same thing.

The result of this, along with numerous government and private bailouts, is that many of these perennially loss-making companies with inefficient operations and terrible service continue to limp along and slowly bleed shareholder value, whereas in a free market they would have been bankrupted and their assets liquidated years ago.
Or, they reasonably calculate that the risk/reward is in their favor? Even if the law is used 100% to suppress political dissent, it's not like the government is going to target people expressing mainstream conservative viewpoints.
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The problem is as usual the culture. If most of the people truly don't want this then it's just a matter of time until they do mass protests/revolt, etc.

However, if the government manages to control everything quickly - Putin-style - and then through the brain-washing mass-media manages to change the culture and make people believe that what they are doing is good and right, then yeah, you're screwed. Look at China - most people there seem to actually believe that "censorship works" in "keeping the society united" or whatever bullshit the government is feeding them.

That's the real danger. Not some random dictator coming to power. But a change of culture and beliefs in the population.
Actually, it makes recruiting easier. The ratio of good people eager for Haskell to Haskell jobs looks pretty favourable to employers.

You are right about some of the other concerns.
This is why we don't rely on Google for anything in production, or anything that is actually important to us.
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I put in volunteer time helping with handing out information and educating the public (as well as collecting petition signatures / mail your mp letters... fat lot of good that did). This is an accurate description of what I experienced when talking with people in the street. People start off dismissive but once they learn about the problems with the bill, the vast majority would say they were opposed.

Meanwhile the government has been spewing fear mongering propaganda since the Bill came out
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The article mentions several times that expected wage post-expenses is around $10 per hour, not $5. That difference is material.
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In theory...

When was the last time that the monarch of the Governor General dissolved the assembly?
Travis sounds exactly like a Disney villain. I bet somehow dead puppies are also involved.
You have to be able to see the sky, and at least five satellites, to get that level of precision. Note that they test it on a rooftop.

Indoors, you'll need some local reference.
Of course.

But, the systems needed are important. Simple, dry runs now can prototype them, buy good will, potentially have an impact on regulations to come.

Also, UBER. That's not ordinary, or dull, or tepid. It's UBER. Cherry picking, dodgy behavior to avoid compliance, and other sketchy things seem inappropriate for such a valuation.
The Fed is part of the federal government. It was created by Congress, its leaders are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, it creates and enforces federal regulations, heck it even has its own federal police force.

It's an independent federal agency, like the EPA, FCC, FTC, SEC, etc. Its actions are constrained by the mission boundaries set by Congress. In the case of the Fed, part of its mission is to manage the economy for "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." Another part is to set regulations on how banks can act, sort of like how the FCC sets rules on how communications companies can act, or SEC on financial companies.

It does get adjusted by Congress. The Dodd-Frank bill passed after the financial meltdown changed the Fed's role and gave it some new regulatory powers. If you read the Fed's mission web page:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/mission.htm

The 3rd bullet is new, added by Dodd Frank in 2010.
I agree. I was more making the point that regulatory arbitrage only works when you attack an industry without enough clout to shut you down, but enough clout to make the market worth attacking. Good luck trying to run regulatory arbitrage around the pharmaceutical industry. There would be massive profits to be made if you did, but you can expect to spend a long time in jail if you tried.
Serious question: Why would any financial institution implement something that will reduce their revenues?

Followup question: How would a company be able to come in and offer what you describe and offer users savings, and take a cut for themselves along the way, so that the users and the new company wins, while the incumbent banks lose?
For those who didn't know, also an interesting story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun

"In 1943, he sent Germany’s minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a gift. His biographer Thorkild Hansen interpreted this as part of the strategy to get an audience with Hitler.[24] Hamsun was eventually invited to meet with Hitler; during the meeting, he complained about the German civilian administrator in Norway, Josef Terboven, and asked that imprisoned Norwegian citizens be released, enraging Hitler.[25] Otto Dietrich describes the meeting in his memoirs as the only time that another person was able to get a word in edgeways with Hitler. He attributes the cause to Hamsun's deafness. Regardless, Dietrich notes that it took Hitler three days to get over his anger.[26]"

"Nevertheless, a week after Hitler's death, Hamsun wrote a eulogy for him, saying “He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind, and a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations.”[22] Following the end of the war, angry crowds burned his books in public in major Norwegian cities and Hamsun was confined for several months in a psychiatric hospital."
Not exactly. The criteria for what constitutes a reasonable limit was established by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1986. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Oakes
Ok, so what are you working on that you're planning to invest a decade in?
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This is interesting for so many reasons:

1. How does it get over 500 votes on product hunt? (and so few sales from that traffic)

2. $5 is cheap for desktop software, yet still seems expensive for this problem (not something I would need often, and there are other ways to do it)

3. Considering #2 of apps being more expensive, being at the top of the top paid is less important/impressive etc than top grossing. Cheapest in top 10 grossing is $20, and all but 2 > $50. Selling 60 apps a day at $50 is a lot of money.

4. Now I'll agree that I would expect #8 paid in the MAS to be a bit higher, but I wouldn't have guessed anywhere remotely close to 12k. Maybe $1500. $300 a day is nothing to sneeze at though. $110k a year. I don't know where he peaked in top grossing, but it's at 108 now. 100 apps get to make 6 figures a year, and presumably the top is a decent bit higher. Seems reasonable.

EDIT: 5. Also, ranking in the stores lately is screwy, and at least a little bit meaningless. Not sure whats going on, but there has been a lot of talk about it not correlating that well with sales. Could be part of it.
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Albertan here.

The NDP win in Alberta has exactly nothing to do with federal politics. In fact, had Mulcair (the federal NDP leader) endorsed the Alberta NDP party it probably would have cost them a lot of votes. He is remembered for demonizing Alberta to cozy up to Quebec voters in the last federal election and remains wildly unpopular in Alberta.

Prentice and the Alberta PC's made a litany of key mistakes in rapid succession. Perhaps foremost was flouting their own legislation that "guaranteed" fixed election dates... again. Why was it too much this time? The PC's had just cut the head off the official opposition party by luring their leader (along with half it's MLA's) across the floor. While Prentice claimed he needed a new mandate for his budget, the true reason for this election's timing was obvious. They thought it would be a cakewalk because their opposition was in complete disarray. This is exactly the kind of election manipulation their own law was supposed to discourage.

The reason the NDP won the election is because voters had decided on "anyone but the PC's" and Rachel Notley was the only leader who didn't look like a clown in the leader's debate. Alberta isn't afraid of big-spending governments because that's precisely what the PC's were. They also expect the NDP to become a much more centrist, business friendly party now that they're in power. Mulcair might be walking with a bounce in his step right now, but he's going to be choking down a lot of sour news about what passes for NDP policy in the West soon enough.

As for federal politics... Harper has now been in power long enough that the West has gotten over feeling giddy about actually mattering in federal politics. A different party with a sound policy and a good leader could easily win a lot of ridings here if they took the province seriously. That means no nepotism, especially regarding the son of a leader famous for flipping the province the bird while riding right on through to the next province on the train. That means no parties that are too afraid to announce their platform. That means no parties that run garbage candidates. (In the last federal election, the NDP ran a grocery clerk from the other end of the province in my riding. She had never been to my city and refused to speak to media. She was nothing more than a name on a ballot.) No federal party that demonizes Alberta as a way of attacking Harper's background (even though he's from Toronto) is going to get a lot of votes here.

Finally, I'd just like to add that the liberals voted with the PC's to pass this bill. The NDP get no credit for opposing the bill because they'd oppose practically anything the other two parties were for.
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> However, a group of nail salon manicurists cannot.

So, this is true today, but I think it's missing the bigger picture of a world where UBI actually exists.

Basic Income leads to Universal Basic Income (UBI).

One of the reasons why there are so many nail salon manicurists today is because we have made higher education very expensive, among other reasons.

Do you really think most of the people working as manicurists today would be doing that if they didn't have to in order to pay the bills and higher education were free (or very cheap)?

No. They would not. That's not to say there's anything wrong with being a manicurist. Indeed some may do it because that's what they want to do. But I do know that most people, including most software developers, wouldn't be doing what they are doing right now if the basics were guaranteed for them.

The future is a world where most of today's jobs are automated away. It's very different from the one we live in right now, so it makes little sense to think only in terms of today's world when talking about BI / UBI.

This is necessary preparation for the future. You've got "Star Trek" on one side [1][2], and "Dawn of the Dead" on the other. You're going to have to choose somewhere along that spectrum.

[1] http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2013/10/17/toward-star-trek-e...

[2] https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29ba...
It may not target them but the funny thing about this kind of law is - hang on, you're discussing government policy on a critical site? That's a watch-listin'!
> You're brave - talking long term on HN

I think that's unfair. HN doesn't have one view, but it has plenty of people who care a lot about the long term.
There have been dozens of analog neuromorphic chips built in the last 30 years. Latest ones use floating gate transistors for synapses.
Memristors, in theory, are better devices that flash memory (faster, lower power, more dense), however that's just in theory. In practice, they are very hard to scale. This crossbar is 12x12. No one knows how to build anything much larger than that, on a mass scale.
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>>..last four digits of his or her social security number, as well as behavioral factors like how long he or she takes to remember all that information. If that combination doesn’t quite add up to a loan,...

What I find really frustrating with most of these fintech companies is that they claim they use all kinds of data. But they don't really disclose whether this is used for 'underwriting' or 'fraud'. When it comes to underwriting there are specific FCRA guidelines on reason codes. For example, if they decline credit to a consumer because s/he did not type in their address fast enough, they need to tell them that. That would make for a good sound bite for the company.

Also, what if disabled people cannot type fast enough? That seriously touches on discrimination. Too bad CFPB is not going to care about these companies until they get to $10Bn in loan size.
My bet is that they position the satellite in a stable orbit, or in an orbit for which they know the rate of drift. Then the satellite can adjust the position it emits to account for its variation in movement.

Then the question becomes, how to know exactly where a satellite is with precision. This can be done from a few fixed point on Earth with high accuracy, I guess using a technique like described here (using reflectors and the speed of light): https://youtu.be/dsRsap2_RAc?t=3m37s
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Your analysis is correct if we optimize our algorithm to maximize the profit from its most recent trade.

But, as with the iterated prisoner's dilemma, what makes a successful strategy can change when a game is played repeatedly. Imagine a genetic algorithm that comes up with a tit-for-tat strategy when playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Now imagine a similar genetic algorithm applied to automated trading. Imagine a market in which a large fraction of the trading is done by such algorithms.

I think it is quite plausible that a cartel could form more or less spontaneously, without any conscious encouragement in that direction from human programmers. (But hey, maybe you have a good argument that I'm wrong.)
> I highly doubt they will just abandon the series at this point.

Yeah I don't think they would abandon the series but the way valve works it seems to me they never really cared about pairing it up unless it's something they have to do (like source). Meaning it wouldn't be any type of forced pairing.
Pretty cool robot however it almost seemed as if they were trying too hard to point out really minor things that should not affect it that much. Terrain changes "grass to asphalt", hill climb "5 degree incline"? and to take the cake throwing balls at it.. come on guys we get that you want to make a Boston Dynamics type video, but pushing a robot over and it recovering is considerably more difficult then hitting it with a ball that's what 2% of its weight? The fact that it is a bipedal robot is cool enough, no need to add in the corny stuff.
You need to come up with a way to prevent this, rather than blame the person who did this. Fat fingers happen, make it so that it doesn't matter.
Container networking is not special or different from VM networking. There are tons of proven and widely used technologies available in the open source ecosystem.

We have been building out a series of networking tutorials at flockport from basics; static, public, private IPs, NAT, bridging etc to multi-host container networking with GRE, L2TP, VxLAN, IPSEC focussed on LXC but these will work with VMs and containers in general.

They don't need any special tools, just IP tools and the kernel and deliver performance and security. A lot of the Docker centric networking projects use these under the hood but they are easy enough to use on their own.

http://www.flockport.com/news
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Another great overview is NPR Planet Money's series on how tshirts are made:

http://apps.npr.org/tshirt/

It includes quite a bit about the lives of people working in the garment factories in Bangladesh. Sweatshops are a major step up from the alternatives - especially for women.
> Taxi corps are small, many are essentially sole proprietorships. The drivers are essentially all running their own business, but the medallion owners tend not to be huge corporations.

Do you have a source for this? I'm only familiar with Chicago numbers, but a medallion costs $360,000[1] and the top 2% of medallion owners own FORTY ONE percent of the total[2]. 3/4 of medallions are owned by corporations who own more than 2 medallions (i.e. $720,000 in up-front investment or more).

[1] http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130913/BLOGS02/1309...
[2] https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/06/...
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Has anyone here bought AMD cpus recently? Either for home/work/enterprise/anywhere? Is there a market they still have an advantage in currently?
I feel quite lucky to have got a few before they stopped selling them. I have three dual-cpu xServes still running as our main app servers and they've been some of the most reliable boxes we have.
But a sensible point - you don't want to go to all that trouble and then have a Nazi Officer holding up a lanyard saying "Nobel Institue" that he found in the bin at the back of the lab.

But I think a regular fire would do.
I don't think the initial positioning of satellites matter, I'd doubt they're carried with centimeter accuracy. What you need is to get very precise measurements of relative positions once you're in orbit. Then you get much more space for small errors in the original placement.
You pretty clearly don't know to whom you were replying so your language ends up looking a little off. If you're going to come pick a fight in HN, you could probably make a better choice as to who to pick it with.
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