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> The Bitcoin network has unfortunately not been owned by the people, but instead dominated by Chinese miners with ASICs.

This is not the ownership I'm talking about. It doesn't matter who gets the reward for a particular transaction. What matters is how many people are validating the transactions to ensure that no one is putting fraudulent data into a blockchain's database. Those Chinese miners that comprise 70% of the hashrate have no power to dictate which transactions are valid and which aren't. If they try to incorporate invalid transactions, they will be ignored.
I don't agree that people think that incentivisation is the only way to make the world go round. That's a very poor vision of what humans are. By the same kind of logic, governments are not efficient; water supplies should be privatized because they'd better managed; refugees landing in your country eat your job. Sorry for conflating things a tad, but, damn, that's just all the same simplistic logic. Upgrade your social brain and you'll see.

I don't care if 20% of money goes back to research. I care that pharmaceutical companies use various means to "protect their assets". I once worked for Johnson&Johnson. Guess what was wirtten on every single desk there ? "We work for the good of our patients and investors". That is, patien on the same level as investor. For me, this doesn't sound like a sucess for humanity. That looks like the best of the worst solutions.
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I think that's relevant context which proves that your analogy in this particular case is inappropriate. He's a chef working in one of the world's greatest restaurants and he's not using a machete to open the coconut. Therefore, there are probably good reasons to prefer another tool and the advantages of a machete are probably not that big (or are offset by other factors). Again -- in this particular case.

So while the "any Turing complete language" is an over-generalization, so is "use the right tool for the job". Programming languages are not at all like knives or hammers as they are 1/ terribly expensive 2/ require constant training 3/ require specialization and 4/ each designed to be general-purpose. It's more productive to use just one language you know best than keep switching to a completely different one that's marginally better at the particular task at hand.
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Do you have any examples of implicit acceptance of arbitrary contracts merely through accessing a network resource?
Hah, that sounds almost like something out of a book.

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams, H2G2

Although I do think that without a way to store knowledge outside the brain it becomes much harder to form and maintain societies. Ian Stewart uses a wonderful term for that part of intelligence which we cannot hold inside our heads: extelligence. An external store of knowledge and (mis)information allows for sources of reference even when no other people with the knowledge happen to be available.
> Depending on the season, I could be hiking, camping, boating, mountain biking, hunting, fishing, paddling around iceburgs, watching bears, watching whales, hiking on glaciers, hiking up mountains, backcountry snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snow mobiling hundreds of miles into the wilderness chasing bison at -40, etc. Of course I might just decide to read a book by the fire too.

Where does earning enough money to survive come into it?
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Fravia wasn't doing it as a job
"It comes into the cell, multiplies and finally kills the cell. It is able to kill the amoeba - but it won't infect a human cell."

Haven't there been brain eating amoeba's?

http://www.webmd.com/brain/brain-eating-amoeba
Depends when indiscriminate killing turns into genocide. If I say - kill everyone in this city, and don't care about false positives, it is mass killing. The genocide requires precision.

And lets take srebrenica - finding all the muslim men and executing them is obviously harder than just killing everyone in that area.
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I wrote a fairly detailed post about sqlite full text search with python (1). I also put together some notes of you want to build the new FTS5 extension and give it a whirl (2).

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/using-sqlite-full-text-search-...
http://charlesleifer.com/blog/building-the-sqlite-fts5-searc...
I agree with you on most points but the idea would be an Airbnb or Uber that don't take a large fee and make a large profit right?

I know this is all wishful thinking stuff but it doesn't seem fair to say this is terrible because companies that exist to centralise transactions within a space won't want it.

You're right that it doesn't seem to work without money though, and if it is a centralised service it's way more expensive than before. It all feels too theoretical when you get talking about multiple blockchains.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141715
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Inducting those who show promise into the upper class through admission to elite universities is one of the ways the upper class retains its stranglehold on power. And that's how a community organizer from Chicago can become a symbol for 'hope and change' when in reality he had been co-opted by the wealthy nearly 2 decades earlier. And once he's in office, business as usual continues.
> death of innovation for all functions absorbed into systemd

Not sure there was much innovation in 'su'...

> might come to the point where one has just systemd and the kernel making up a Linux distribution

I think that's kinda what they are going for...
> SML is to C as OCaml is to C++

In what way though? The amount of concepts and gotchas you have to understand to be proficient at OCaml is nothing compared to C++ in my opinion. I've used SML as well and didn't find it hugely different from OCaml unlike when I went from C to C++.
Please don't put Show HN in the title unless you're sharing your own work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Me, Android (Cyanogenmod) user :)
Well, yes. That would invalidate the whole idea of "they're not even interested in actually preserving anyone".

You could verify other things too, but unfortunately, considering it's cryonics, there's not much you can verify except for the authenticity of the effort (e.g. you can't verify effectiveness of the effort since no one really knows).
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I may just use it for compile time prop validation! Amazing. I was looking for that feature alone using eslint and so on but couldn't find anything like that. Since the compile speed improvements I'm running out of excuses not to use TypeScript in my projects now.
I'm a DBA who wants to make the occasional simple web-app, mostly for a small number of internal users at my company. This looks great! Thank you :)
I do like that he is being honest about how historians think and reason. Start with the conclusion and then work backwards.
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My apologies then. I didn't mean to come off rude; elegance is subjective I suppose.

I was under the impression that the only safe pointers (references) must be GC'd. So if you want/must to avoid that (say for perf), you're stuck using regular unsafe pointers. Is that inaccurate?

The manual even says that just calling printf is actually unsafe as the cstring could be GC'd (but it probably won't). Maybe Nim should have an unsafe directive to make sure any unsafe user code is clearly marked?

I also coulda sworn there was some part of the manual or site that was discussing a feature with a limitation due to the difficulty of expressing it in C. Maybe I imagined it. Sorry.
>Yes it is. Sane people are comfortable with death. It takes a weird sort of narcissism to pursue cryonics.

What? Why should people be perfectly accepting of cessation of existence at ~80? People not wanting to die at 20 is perfectly normal, are you meant to get bored of life at 80 or something?

>Dying in the jungle in pursuit of the fountain of youth or bathing in the blood of the young rightfully comes off as bonkers to healthy people.

Let's rephrase that a bit to apply to money:

>Dying in the jungle in pursuit of the city of El Dorado, or killing people and selling their organs on the stock market rightfully comes off as bonkers to healthy people.

...and therefore pursuing money is clearly psychotic, and we should throw all entrepreneurs in the loonie bin?
ADP = Reinforcement Learning. This got some attention lately when some people at google wrote a neural-network based RL system to play Atari games.

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf
Just write a script that would move all the videos and photos off the device when docked each night or each week. 1G a day for photo's and 3 video's should be enough for everybody, you don't have the time to rewatch them anyway. Less is more.
Or just get an Android device with a microsd port; 128G is cheap.
Well done. I had a nasty ear infection misdiagnosed as an impacted cerumen once (no pain at the time). If your doctor can't remove the impaction, I'd recommend anybody with no history of them to request antibiotics as well as the standard wax removal treatment. The pain was nearly unbearable by the time I received antibiotics.
The more I have learned about Hitler over the years the less I understand him. At this stage I really have no idea what he was trying to accomplish or even if he knew what he wanted to accomplish. To me his motivations are a mystery wrapped in an enigma hidden inside a riddle.
Bathing in peoples blood is considered insane because to do so, you've historically needed to be A PSYCHOPATHIC MASS MURDERER. This breaks the analogy.

A more neutral example would be someone who thoroughly investigates dietary health, and makes sure to eat a nutritious, healthy diet full of fresh vegetables and whatnot. Which is CLEARLY insane, /s.
Wait? This doesn't require people to remove su right? Isn't it just a preferred alternative?
People say "the jews" but were they an organised group or system?

How can such a large collective of people (the jews) make a common decision on such a scale and act on it in seeming secret?

Is there something fundamental in "the jews" grouping that allows them to, in theory, act cohesively? Is it their teachings? holy books?

What was driving Hitlers hate against all jews, not just the jews that screwed him?
This startup culture of "begging forgiveness rather than asking permission" has really got to stop -- if only because it's impolite.

Edit: I also worry about where the line actually is when there is no line. What if a startup takes advantage of children? Is that crossing the line? I mean, when paying fines is part of your business model, everything short of whatever might send you to jail is fair game, isn't it? That makes me uncomfortable.
The ideas of personal property and wage labor are certainly not emergent properties of the universe. We could just as easily have chosen collective ownership with equal distribution of the fruits of socially compelled labor, trial by combat to see who gets the most stuff, serfs being fed by their masters who effectively own them, everyone feeding himself directly from the land which is owned by no one, everyone feeding himself directly from the land which was cleared of competitors by deliberate genocide, etc. All have been practiced at one point or another.

An economy based on property ownership, investment, and labor is absolutely a system created by humanity, though you could argue many of its observed properties are emergent.
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Something has to validate transactions. If miners don't do it, who else will? Clients run by users won't, because they can't store the 50GB-and-ever-growing blockchain locally. They simply use the SPV protocol, which trusts that somebody else has validated the chain for them.

As you can tell by the bitcoin.org alert, it was a serious issue that miners stopped validating transactions, because lots of wallets blindly trusted the longest chain, which was actually invalid.

The majority hashrate can effectively determine the longest chain, and thus, most wallet implementations out there.

Even if the wallets start doing limited validation, the Chinese miners could always exclude specific transactions they don't like.
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/11/spanish-cancer-patient-ge..., which points to a gizmodo.com article which points to this.
Why only one clone?
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Why I disagree with the Just a Ship It mentality
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140690
This is a scary thought: What language will people be written in? Imagine if you were stuck in an emulator written in Java.

I'd be a little bit afraid of being in an emulator written in C++ that makes heavy use of Boost, though.
Why? If Uber and lyft did this from the beginning, they would have never lasted a week.

"Turns out we can't operate like a Taxi". "Turns out we are actually supposed to be treating the drivers as employees". "Turns out we are supposed to be vetting these drivers more extensively".

If uber and lyft asked permission they simply wouldn't exist.
The AU has a strict 'no border changes' policy, mostly to try and protect from extra-continental bodies interfering with African affairs. Somaliland is a case where that policy is maybe lacking a little nuance. That said, there are movements in the right direction; the government has already been implicitly recognised by the National Assembly of Wales, so they're basically half way there.

Though, Somaliland isn't quite the Paradise that some news articles like to portray. There are still serious issues over the Puntland-Somaliland border, and the political parties are very closely tied to the various clans, which concerns me somewhat. Still miles better than Somalia though!
That's true, but making a living from it is not everyone's end goal. If you aren't doing it as a job, you can focus on quality, not on maximizing clicks.

There's absolutely no way quality can ever compete with thousands of underpaid click farmers. Google is steadily getting smarter, but even they can't keep up.
> we need someplace to store our stuff

What do you mean by "stuff"?
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Hitler's view: All Jews are Jewish first and German second. Their true loyalty was to the other Jewish people of the World, in Britain, America, and everywhere else. They viewed the war between Germany and the western powers as a war of Jew vs Jew. Their incentive was to end the war using their massively disproportionate influence over German society. The defeat of Germany was a victory for German Jews.

My view: Jews were a somewhat cohesive group of people for thousands of years. For various reasons (prosecution among them) they were insular. Through the passage of time many Jews did accumulate vast wealth and power. But most Jews were poor as shit and got nothing out of being a Jew except an extra hard life. Some Jews felt like they were more German than Jew and others felt the opposite. Many Jews died fighting bravely for Germany and many more would have done so again.
And his sister! They brought him baked goods. Thoreau was no dummy.
One should take into account the war hawkish right-wing xenophobia that was in place for years leading up to the Nazi party:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

Especially troubling today given right-wing attitudes towards immigrants with this current election cycle in the US.
> due to the simple fact that SML is a language frozen in time

Unfreeze it, all the extant MLs fall short in one way or another. A modern SML with none of the syntactic cruft of OCaml; the lazy evaluation of Haskell and its non-existent module system; the nutured nature of F# ... that would be ML joy, maybe Rosenberg's 1ML will make that a reality.

We're in the middle ages of computer science language-wise.
> why are the resources constrained

Because resources are always constrained. The only difference is the level of constraint.
Consider slightly modified choice: between "extending lives of 1M modern people + revival of 0.1M medieval people" vs "extending lives of 1.1M modern people".

Or another choice: "Revival of 1M medieval people" vs "producing 1M clones of modern people".

Curiosity about history would make sure that some medieval people would be revived.
May be a thousand total.
After that resources would be redirected toward cloning best performing modern version of people.
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What is a good SML implementation that creates compact binaries that are easy to deploy? (One of OCaml's strength is the compiler that produces native code binaries that don't depend on tons of runtime libraries or other files.)
I used to be wonder why Settlers of Catan (or just Catan as it is now known) remained so popular. "It's fine, but there are much better games in the current wave of boardgaming" I woukd think to myself and would avoid it in a frankly snooty fashion because of this attitude.

I've matured, and while I still think it doesn't "deserve" it's extreme popularity, it is a good game and nowadays mostly chalk up its popularity to it being early in the modern boardgame era and it just has a lot of inertia (much like Monopoly does from a previous era). So, go ahead, play it, have fun, and leave a seat for me to join you.
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Ask HN: Can a software ever be 100% bug free?
If we have so many great devs, and people constantly working on a piece of software. Why can't they produce 100% bug free software/app?
I'm not talking about interpretation of quantum mechanics here. Just standard physics, of the kind we can test for —did test for.

If the Star Trek transporter is shown to work (it has transported healthy monkeys so far, and did nothing weird with flies), I would totally step on it. I would feel uneasy of course, but no more so than if I stepped into a rocket.
I just changed trains in Ludwiglust (I am in Germany but not German) and apparently it was a concentration camp site (and no more than 2 hours from Berlin by train)... So while I find the article interesting I am a bit dubious about the part where the historian says that "Jews could not be killed in situ and had to be deported first".
Correct

Still, you want to limit your liability.

Not following FCC rules seems a stupid and pointless transgression
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>Without hand writing, or something like it, to act as a physical artifact and provide shortcuts to skip over expensive processes of trial and error, I doubt that a codified language, borne of strictly oral traditions among small pods of disorganized dolphin social groups, would survive across generations, to jump the inheritance gaps introduced by being hunted nearly to endangered status by predators like us.

There are many examples of Native American tribes that didn't lose their languages despite being nearly wiped out by disease and lacking written language.
Hitler's view was that Jews are a race. A race without state. They live within other states. They also have preserved their race in a cleaner form through inbreeding, then other races.

In his world view there is a hierarchy and classification of races. The 'Arier'/'Germanen'/'Deutsche' are a productive race able to create culture. There are races who can preserve culture and there are races, who can destroy culture. The jews.

(I'm not a proponent of this view.)
You keep accusing others of making 'content-free' posts, but what exactly are the contents of yours?

How about taking on the people in this thread who posted substantive anti-systemd comments and refuting their points?

So far it seems you're just spewing negative characterizations all over the place, hoping they somehow serve to discredit people on the anti-systemd (=pro-sanity) side.

If you can't back your complaints up with any reasoning/evidence, then please do us all a favour and shut up.
I asume you are managing classical adminstrative data like student records and so on. For this case I advise a relational database like postgres.
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Proof of work tells you which version of history has the most work behind it.

Imagine you join the network, trusting nobody. All you trust are the laws of physics and computation. You ask everyone you see "What is the current status of the ledger?" People give you different answers.

So you choose the answer that has the most proof of work behind it. This is the one that the world is most invested in.
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Seems like an oversight
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> Further, many data sources only store integers into ODS

If the underlying data type is 64 bit double, aren't they losing precision for integers greater than 2^53?
> Not following FCC rules seems a stupid and pointless transgression

Perhaps unless the FCC rules themselves are pointless?

The reason why Uber and Lyft are given a hard time is that they're a serious threat to state-maintained taxi-cartels all over the world.
What's the legality of this? That's a PDF of a recent, in-print book, on the site of someone who is not one of the authors but who is one of the interviewed mathematicians, and there do not appear to be any links on the site leading to this file or any mention of it.

My guess is that this is a courtesy copy of the ebook given to the site owner because he was interviewed in the book, and he probably did not intend for this link to be circulated.

BTW, this is one of a series of books of interviews with mathematicians by the same interviewers/editors. They are all very interesting.
> We all think of Hitler as the prototypical nationalist

Who is 'we'?

Hitler's theories around 'race' are well known.

Similar thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain#Di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundations_of_the_Ninetee...
The key in my comment is the difference between "built" (as in: purposefully designed and built, like it happens with software) and "created" (as in: you can accidentally create something). But I know that human language isn't so well defined and other people can give different meanings to those terms... because nobody "built" English!

Regarding "We could just as easily have chosen" I don't agree at all on "easily". Contrary to many theories which say or imply that, people's minds aren't blank slates that can be easily programmed (not to mention re-programmed) to adapt to any social engineering project. Countless examples in history prove this.
From the article: "Even though the company’s terms say that a user can opt out of robocalls and texts simply by using “provided unsubscribe options,” the investigation by the FCC found that the company does not actually have these options available."

Lame.

Getting ad robocalls and texts on mobile phones is really annoying, totally unacceptable, and illegal.
KZ Wöbbelin (near Ludwigslust) only existed for few months right before the end of the war. The systematic killing of jews happened predominantly outside of Germany (even though there were many KZ in Germany as well of course. But they were much more focused on slave-labor than mass killing.)
I guess everyone is remembering to check the return values of fmt.Println() then huh?
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What about this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14625449 ...

and this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22442371 ?