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> I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this is a far more extreme case.

Happened to me when I was a kid. Opened a DOS prompt. Was labelled a dangerous mind.
Well, yes. I'm not saying anyone should actually do this. But it's fun to imagine.
Of course it won't get set straight. His "record", such as it is, will say:

- three day suspension for bringing hoax bomb to school

- arrest record, juvenile detention, child protective services called

And that's it. There's no "and then the magical internet outrage fairy came in and fixed everything".
This strikes me as the kind of peephole optimization that LLVM would do anyway (similar to people manually converting `x / 2` to `x >> 1`, my nemesis). But maybe it's esoteric enough for them to not bother?
Just three days ago The New York Times published a piece about immortality through cryonics: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryo...

Now BBC publishes an anti-aging piece. They feel like "submarines", paid/encouraged pieces to promote a certain point of view.

Yudkowsky, is that you? I'm all for it and I'm glad someone is doing this, but curiosity is killing me.
Hang on, I _could_ write a (small) twitter or (early) fb clone in a weekend. Easily. That would probably scale to 10k tweets or feed entries.

What I in _no_ way could do is rewrite fb or twitter at the scale these systems operate today with a billion users and even more posts and data points. I don't agree with the sentiment of the previous poster, but fb & twitter were initially basic CRUD apps.
SAA = South Atlantic Anomaly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly
I'd never heard of it before
Exactly. Exploiting his race to further a political narrative as the author has done, is both intellectually feeble and misdirects away from the real issue: authoritarian government behavior targeted at school children.
Reading through comments, I think there is an undercurrent of slight envy or resentment (perhaps unconscious) both towards WhatsApp and Erlang. We are rational people so we'll never admit to that, so it comes out in other objections "It is a simple system", "I could do the backend in a weekend"...

There are a lot of startup people here, who work at a startup, bet their time, money, life? on one, and talking about a successful lean startup sold for 19B probably bring feelings of "How come it is not my startup?".

And then for Erlang, it has different syntax, and have to think about concurrency, functional programming, and it is hard for someone used to curly braces. Maybe many tried it, but dismissed it, or bet (time, money, life?) one something else so it is easy to say "But it is not about the platform or technology". Because other conclusions might mean "heck, maybe I made a mistake, I should have that up as well for my problem domain", nobody like to feel that way. Of course, nevermind that engineers from WhatApp have mentioned Erlang was one of their strategic advantages.

Managing 2-3M connections per machine means needing to have fault tolerance (so Erlang is a good choice), but also means managing an order of magnitude less machines! One of the deeper insights we can learn in general is that at scale no matter how cool the concurrency mechanisms, how fast, and new, if they don't go hand in hand with fault isolation then it will just be a very fast system until it starts crashing and its throughput drops to 0. Of course you can do fault isolation with separate servers and OS processes (containers,VMs...) but in this case they do it at a finer grained level.
What's incredibly sad to me is all the kids whose parents wouldn't let them leave the house with a homemade clock.

"What are you doing? If you take that to school they'll think it's a bomb!"

Even Ahmed's engineering teacher advised him not to show his clock to any other teachers. Fear and suspicion are the default now. That's heartbreaking.
The image accompanying the story doesn't seem to be the bond in question. The date on the bond states the year 1944, and the payments also start around that date. The last payment was done in 2003. Odd.
290,000,000 speakers (including secondary speakers.) out of 7,000,000 people on the planet.

4% of the planet. If 4% of America spoke a language, most of us wouldn't be in much of a rush to localize.

Fortunately for French, the core native speakers in France are rich, and most of the planet is still poor. As the rest of the planet catches up, "curiosity" becomes more accurate over time.
Why would anybody be surprised by a pumpkin-positive cop? They're explicitly selected this way: http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...
The article talks about how that actually was not possible when the movie came out in '95, but it is now. Back then most of them were on mechanical timers I believe.

They actually quote the researcher that figured out the flaws, apparently in SF the lights are still unpatched.
Ha really good!
"They live a lot longer than human beings, yet they are living in the wild, without going to the doctor or any of the perks of human society.."

Followed by:

"By studying these whales and other extraordinarily long-lived creatures, de Magalhaes and colleagues hope we can find new medicines that will similarly slow down the human body’s decay and delay death."

Has to be one of the most ironic things I've seen lately and that's saying something. We are studying organisms that live long lives without medical intervention in hopes of creating medical interventions to keep humans alive longer. Take more pills, go to the doctor more, pay more money for "health". At some point, surely we will begin to question what it means to be alive. I'd love to live longer but not at the expense of quality of life and taking pills for the rest of my life is lower quality in my view.
Nice image. This would be useful for spinning up web apps and not having to hit hero my at all.
No one asked you to apologise.

From an outside view, American society by and large seems to embrace unregulated 'free market' concepts and/or minimising the government's ability to have any kind of impact on society.

The person I replied to claimed that Banks are the problem, and specifically mentioned the 2008 financial crisis, which was the result of banks doing things they never should have, because they are either not bound by laws about their behaviour, or they're not punished appropriately when they break said laws.
The worst, unchecked, crony cap Papuan is exactly the system for which the name "capitalism" was coined, and crony capitalism had been part of what the term had referred to -- and an element of all real-world systems with the name -- since the real-world nineteenth century system that features it was named "capitalism" by its critics.

Cronyism is central to capitalism, and you can't have one without the other.
I'd say this is a case of collective stupidity punishing original thought. So I would phrase this exactly as "collective stupidity in authority turning people to mindless sheep".

And why would you have to be an engineering teacher to presume innocence here? This is a school; anyone involved should have been able to clarify everything in 5 seconds, even without the child explaining himself.

Welcome to 'murrica, kid. You better learn to censor yourself.
The Nanny State didn't Show Up, You Hired It.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3095062/posts
>Living longer has NOTHING to do with a better quality of life.

Really? Then why are we so adamant on building hospitals and stopping wars? Not dying is necessary prerequisite of having a quality life. What you're wanting is a quality death.
> Build a better, self-sustaining world for all first

I agree with this in principle. Still, people are going to work on what their unique histories and interests lead them to, and I think it's far more likely that some of those people will discover life extension procedures than that we'll be able to convince everyone who isn't already working on building a beter, self-sustaining world for all to drop what they're doing and work only on that.

Also, whether or not I'm depressed, there are plenty of people who hate death that aren't (aging scientists who know they won't be able to fully pass along their expertise, for example). Actually, I'm pretty sure this is why religion was invented, and why the majority of people still cling to it with a white-knuckled grip.
Interesting. All very different reasons to choose tape than what I'd personally do.

I guess the difference is that I make music as a hobby, and do it almost entirely for myself.
Aging also doesn't stop the Kim dynasty from enslaving and murdering millions of North Koreans.

Imagine an alternate world where aging didn't happen naturally, and some people lived several hundred years before dying of accidents or non-age-related diseases. And suppose there really were some instances of long-lived dictators abusing their subjects for centuries. Would your recommended solution be to develop and release a pathogen that slowly crippled everyone's bodies and minds over the course of 80 years?
I guess that the world is split between fetishists (who enjoy the things for multiple levels) and functionalists (who enjoy them only for their core utility).
I think there is enough info to do a jit_vpu_raw.c, which could be a fun project!
You're disingenuous so I'll just not bother anymore.
My wife does most of it for me...
Ugh, good question. First of all, here in Europe everyone I know either order blanks from http://www.shop-016.de/shop-audioservice.htm or https://tapeline.info/ or overwrite a bunch of second-hand tapes themselves. It takes dedication to into the tape market but I can point you in three directions.

1. The ambient scene: http://fangsandarrows.com/ was a great community, similar to HN crowd. Serious people. Not sure if it's down for good, here's their bandcamp: https://fangsandarrows.bandcamp.com/

2. Vaporwave: If you don't know it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave here's a label https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/

3. Post-punk / post rock / synth pop (the dark stuff like John Maus) etc. Concrete basement shows etc.
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The company I work for very likely would hire him. We are field-service for hardware and have techs in Minneapolis. While it may not be as flashy as software development or support, the job field still exists and jobs are still available. Have a little bit of optimism!
This isn't limited to authority figures. Most people, when faced with evidence that they were publicly wrong, try to save face by doubling down on their original convictions.
Because adults in education over here are still capable of independent thought, probably.
One might also donate to the Lebanon public libraries foundation: https://www.leblibrary.com/giving
Wow kudos. I think i just fell in love with both little workshop and BitGem.
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You can have mandatory paid leave without additional risks for the employers. In Germany for example the paid leave is partly paid for by the health insurance and partly by taxes.

All the employer has to deal with is not to see the employee for a few months, but good management should have plans for that case anyway (e.g. dealing with sickess/accidents).
Look at the second image on the page, which is definitely old; I think I can make out year numbers in the 1700s. The first image looks like an extra sheet appended in 1944.
That's always the lesson from these sorts of things: don't try, don't explore, or possibly don't trust people in authority to know anything.
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You're assuming steady resource requirements and birthrate. Both of those things can change. You're also assuming we're eternally bound to this planet.
What is even more interesting is that the National Geographic is now a for profit publication and is now partnering with Fox.

https://t.co/if1JrdCA6u
Btw., VPU had been reverse-engineered to a degree, should be sort of possible to roll out your own bootstrap now: https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv
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Interesting point. The second image has dates much farther back, I see many from the 1700s.

Perhaps the bond was originally issued and in 1944 a companion document was issued with it? So now the single bond consists of two documents. It would make sense to issue a newer document that goes along with the original. I imagine some numbering scheme was introduced between the original issue and 1944. The 1944 document would provide a number in the modern scheme for the original bond.
"but being overly alert on this is better than ignorant."

Please cite any evidence that this is true in practice.

Seriously.

The long-term cost to treating kids like this is probably vastly higher than any possible damage caused by the threats.
(IE i would even expect it causes more kids to die younger over time)

Humans are very good at significantly overestimating the risks they can easily reason about, and significantly underestimate the ones they can't.
I pay cash at the bakery, to get a coffee, to load my canteen card at work, and to buy bus tickets in small cities at the driver, that's it. Buying used cars is usually done by cash (even 10k and more). Almost everywhere else you can pay with a German debit card (Girocard).

But credit Cards are coming fast to Germany. Since a few weeks even the cheapest supermarkets, including Aldi, started to accept MasterCard and Visa.
It probably refers to the neutralized terrorist threat they can't tell us more about because that would give out details and crucial information on what they know of the `enemy'.
So why are there so many Polish immigrants and so few Chilean ones?
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What really strikes about this story is the fact that Ahmad was the party who came forward to the teacher and notified him of his invention and even demoed it but that wasn't enough for the school staff to deter suspicions since and this elementary school logic level if he were intent on doing harm, he would have concealed completely the fact that he built such a device and kept the info to himself without sharing with anybody till the operation is carried out.

But apparently everything is indeed BIGGER in Texas and this applies to stupidity, ignorance and prejudice as well.
To be completely fair about the stupid liquid rule, it was prompted by fears about someone making TATP on the flight. The precursors are not particularly dangerous on their own.
Kicking and screaming is the only way US business forfeits anything. We fought a civil war over slavery, for god's sake.
It is an hour talk and it specifically mentions how Erlang was used and how it gave them a strategic advantage.

I have found other mentions about it, perhaps on Erlang mail lists, here is an interview with Eugene Fooksman:

https://pdincau.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/an-interview-with-e...

"""

And the consensus in our team is that it is largely because of Erlang. We’re managing to serve huge amount of connections from single front-end server (this is from last year’s Erlang

"""

I don't know how much clearer can it get.

Here is another directly from their website:

https://blog.whatsapp.com/196/1-million-is-so-2011

It is a bit older they clearly indicate that FreeBSD and Erlang are key and critical elements that let them operate they way they do.
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> Distributed Spam Proof Mail! Uncensorable, inherently spam proof and transparently encrypted and sender authenticated messaging! Secure enough for Edward Snowden! Easy and fool-proof enough for a child!

43 exclamation points on the front page. He has the hype cranked up pretty high. Still, it's nice to see all of these P2P efforts.
Talking about Erlang has the cred of an esoteric language. And you can hype up your company for using it, the allure of different languages seems to be in fashion right now (the article goes on tangents about Facebook/Haskell, Mozilla/Rust and Google/Go).

Talking about ejabberd is admitting a core piece of the product is standing on the solders of giants. Something startups are often loathe to do.
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Thanks for the info, that's really interesting stuff. Do you mind if I email you a couple more questions?
> I am reminded of stories of kids opening a command prompt and being accussed of "hacking", only this is a far more extreme case.

I remember a teacher seeing me type "BitchX" into a terminal and freaking out, he apparently thought I was doing something obscene in my terminal window..
Not sure about the mole rat, but bats cheat by shutting down their metabolism (basically hibernating) most of the time.
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There are two points that you've conflated and dismissed glibly with one statement: the slightly longer (+5%? +10%) lifespans of the rich today, and the hypothetical doubling+ of lifespans being directly discussed here. They're totally different and can't be treated as one and the same. (Owning a car in 1910 and having a 200 year lifespan is a comparison so disingenuous that I'm not going to spend any more effort discussing it.)

The slight increase that wealth currently brings is unfortunate for those who don't benefit from it, but doesn't seem to draw widespread contempt or criticism. It does, and should, act as a spur to remove or mitigate the factors in poorer peoples' lives that stop them from living to the same age.

The 'contempt' in the parent --- pretty mild, and probably not contemptuous enough to accurately be called 'contempt' --- stems from the fact that the rich living much longer than everyone else would be yet another example of widening inequality in society. If we're talking some kind of treatment or technology that doubles lifespan, why shouldn't people be pissed off about not being able to access that? That's not a slight improvement like we're talking about above: that would effectively be an entire second life. I know for a fact that I'd be angry as hell knowing my fiancée would die at half the age of a rich person simply because we don't have the money to buy whatever it takes to make her live to 200+.

The very idea of some people having that whilst others radically and perhaps fatally undermines current human society, which is implicitly built on the idea that everyone only has one life.

It seems implicit in your comment that you think that this kind of imbalance is somehow fair or just or natural. Why shouldn't the aim always be to let everyone benefit from advances rather than just those who can afford it? You can argue that technological progress will allow life-extension to trickle-down, but that doesn't happened evenly or reliably, and seems a bad assumption upon which to base society's progress.
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> If the government builds a bridge by using a construction company, no one says the government is capable of building a bridge with zero engineers.

However I doubt people pay much attention to the companies quarrying rock to make concrete, or the engineers designing the axles of the trucks. Any large project is a team effort, but to count tangentially related projects as partitions of another ignores the achievements of those projects (i.e. AWS and Erlang are massive achievements that have, and will, exist regardless of WhatsApp).

So, WhatsApp has 50 engineers modulo any dedicated support staff.
As soon as French salaries come ANYWHERE CLOSE to similar salaries in London or the US or even Berlin, then maybe I'd consider it. France just isn't competitive on the salary front, hence the brain drain.
It wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Rosa Parks was staged to go to suit, as was Lady Chatterley.
Perhaps he is more unhappy about being photographed.
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How do you define Islamophobia?
Where did you get the idea it was "approved"?

Let's look at the facts...

1. His own engineering teacher "suggested that he not show the invention to other teachers." He should have listened, but...

2. During his English class the case made beeping noises. Not smart bringing it to English.

3. When questioned, he didn't explain what it was all about, and was described as playing "passive aggressive".

4. He calls it an "invention", but a digital clock in a case is not an invention. He's 14 years old, not 8. There's nothing inventive about it.

5. Admitted in the video he chose a "simple cable" to lock the case so it "wouldn't look threatening". So let's be clear, he did think about the possibility of it looking threatening, and his own teacher warned him about it.

Are the pieces coming together for you?

if he's smart, which apparently he is, then he should move on from clocks in cases to something that approaches an actual invention.
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Maybe they're trying to be cute? Toddlers love imitating their parents and doing "grown up" things.
I've debated lots and lots of other psychopaths, going through variations of those bullshit distractions, so I'll just not bother now.
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He looks so confused in that picture. Even after they handcuffed him, he can't believe they're being that stupid.
>“He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation."

Did it really need a broader explanation? It's a clock.
I think his comparing startup vs established.
Wikipedia says she pled guilty to disorderly conduct and handed in her teaching license because the school board wouldn't pay for IT support that would have kept the naked ladies off her computer. Incredible.
I do have plenty of friends who use tape purely in creative capacities i.e. they DJ on tape or do experimental reel-to-reel cassette setups for live shows.

Personally I'd actually love to own a 4-track and do some solo stuff for the same reasons you described in your original post.
If police really thought this was a bomb, why didn't they evacuate the school and call the bomb squad? Their motives are suspect.
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Thanks for correcting, not being there too often currently things like credit cards arriving there I miss. That was unthinkable three years ago.
Perpetual bonds are a terrible idea. Just like "unlimited" anything, if you offer unlimited then someone will try to use unlimited.

Even if they had done 200 years, it likely wouldn't have diminished the bond's value too heavily (at purchase), and would have put a stop to this.

I guess they figured that they would eventually buy back all of the bonds, but missed a few or never had the money.
Making a keyboard pretty is not innovative. Making a faster and more ergonomic keyboard is what we need. A few more companies like this, for example:

http://shop.keyboard.io

There are several more efficient keyboard layouts too:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/dvorak_and_all_keyboard_layouts.html

http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main

Ergonomics is key:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...
these movements are not about everybody living much longer, only selected wealthy elite

Just like cell phones cost thousands of dollars and will only ever be toys for the rich.

Just look at people beyond 80 - most of them are a mere shadow of their former self in all aspects.

That's exactly what we're saying: aging is awful, and we should fix it.

I have my time here, and that's enough.

And that's why you'll refuse all medical treatment after you turn 60, right? (The expected lifespan for 20 year old people in 1850, before our godless and unnatural medicine started working: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html)