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Planet Earth calling: science fiction is not a predictive medium.

It's a literary form -- a subcategory of fiction. Yes, some works of SF are set in a plausibly-imagined future. Yes, some of these works may make projections/extrapolations about technologies around us. But the authors are writing in the social context of the present, and what they write about reflects the present day's concerns and perspectives, unless they are really hardcore about their futurism.

Upshot: the vast bulk of SF isn't predictive, and isn't intended to be. As a field we sometimes get something right -- but there's an element of the thousand monkeys eventually emitting a Shakespearean sonnet to this: we also get a whole lot more wrong.

Source: I do this for a living.
> Can Economic Growth Last?

Not if a big chunk of the growth comes from the entertainment industry (Netflix et al.)
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Sure thing, C++ is now very slow. That's why big projects like LLVM/Clang, WebKit, Gecko, Internet Explorer, AutoCAD, all Adobe products, all AAA 3D games and most indie ones use C++ instead of Java. If they knew back then when they started that Java and C# have lower overhead than C++!
>> So IO definition does not claim that IO is able to hide the key.

From what I've read, that doesn't even matter. The obfuscated program IS effectively the key. A copy of that obfuscated program is still a copy of the key. It's still not clear to me what the advantage is supposed to be.
I'd also point out that the "flying cars" of science fiction generally either explicitly or implicitly involve some sort of anti-gravity. In the 1960s, the idea that some sort of anti-gravity would be possible in the future wasn't so silly. It just seems to be the case that we're not going to get it. (Even if physics turns something up that can be used for it, the crazier the physics necessary to invoke it, the less likely it is to be practical.)

I'll be honest, when I see "Where are my flying cars?" used seriously, not just as a "ha ha" sort of thing, I dock a lot of points. It's fashionable pseudo-intellectual claptrap.

Real science fiction has discussed all sorts of things, and yes, that actually does include women in a wide variety of roles, including giants of the field like Heinlein and even TV such as the original series Star Trek, and I could keep going for a very boring amount of time.
One of the key reasons is that we in Hoffice support each other to reach our days goals, by speaking out working goals in front of each other, facilitate a 45-15min pomodoro technique, share fun breaks together and thereby create a super-social work atmosphere. Hofficers get far more done that working alone from home and have normally also far more fun ;)
I've used two other Virtual Learning Environments (Fronter, GLOW) and they were equally bad. Fronter, interestingly, has a very serious XSS vulnerability that my school got mad at me for pointing out.
UNIX philosophy, the rule of KISS or some other nonsense

How are those things nonsense?

Are we really going to spend lots of energy the next n years discussing the best init system?

Why the hell shouldn't we?

Isn't this a pretty simple and solved problem by now?

Nope. It's actually a very hard problem with little in the way of complete solutions. Take your ignorant trolling elsewhere, please.
It is much more exciting to discuss strife and chaos. Doom sells. Continual progress is boring but more accurate.
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I feel like this is just on the line of being a scheme, or being totally relevant to today's workforce. Which is what makes it fascinating.
It blows my mind how far people will go in order to protect the schema which they use to interpret the world. Take a look at yourself, you are bending over backwards attempting to dispute something which is unbelievably obviously true. Unbelievably Obvious. Blows my mind.
Try to join here :)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hofficefrankfurt/

If there is no events going on right now, you might want to host one at your own home?!
Flare guns in your checked luggage is actually a really good thing to do even if you arent concerned about it- I have a friend who works at an airport and he says that protocol dictates they have to flag and keep special track of anything gunlike- and flare guns don't need any sort of licence to carry. It keeps your bags secure and makes sure your luggage gets where it is supposed to go.
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While this is true, many disadvantaged students don't even know this, because they don't even look at these schools in the first place, as they assume they cannot afford to attend. Selection bias.
Many developers are capable of learning a second language. If they are stupid about hiring they will insist on experience with ClojusreScript. And lets face it most companies will do that.
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I'm the uselessd author. It's dead, as I made clear at the top of the wiki index.

There will be a successor, though I wasn't expecting SystemXVI to arrive. I might just rethink it to be a layer on top of SystemXVI RPC, I don't know yet.
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Unnecessary? This is not a novel suggestion about the problems with futurists. It may be a generalisation, but it's pretty accurate generally. People privileged in some way aren't going to think much about that privilege. The rich won't envision a future with less (or more) poverty.
It will be interesting to see how direct neural drugs are going to be regulated. Or maybe I've just been reading too much scifi.
So far Hoffice is organised completely over facebook groups/pages, where everyone can host events and invite into his home. We considered to build an app to facilitate the event hosting and participating, but couldn't get enough volunteers to tackle this complex task.
Example case of where it matters would be modding. There's an expectation that installing things like new textures and new models is safe. Likewise for making changes using a game's internal scripting system. If these external resources aren't properly validated, they allow a apparently safe mod to execute arbitrary code. Doesn't matter that it's a game, it's bad either way.
It adds to human capital, which we can't quantify as of now.

I'm not sure if we'll ever find a good proxy for how much information is worth as it is an extremely heterogeneous, intangible input that goes through a complex, unstructured, and not-fully-understood process (the human brain) in order to create value in the world that we can measure using money as a proxy - a company's revenue, for instance.
Photos are not included, Apps aren't (only their data), I'm not sure about music. It's gonna be hard to exceed the 5GB this way
you keep saying no value when several people have pointed out the value to you.

Why do you keep saying that? Do you think repeating it will make it true?
Meshes are typically quite big. Moving two small blocks of data together helps to improve cache behaviour as the two blocks can then fit in a single cache line. Moving two giant blocks of data closer together is not going to make much difference, because they probably span hundreds or thousands of cache lines anyways.
A group which, on present evidence, is about 0.1% of the population, which would not be a big problem for the scheme. But there's no reason to make it mandatory in that the goal is to make transit free and allocate money statistically. No harm would be done by putting some obscure checkboxes deep in the settings.
I thought that the reason for immutability wasn't so much for performance as much as for getting predictable state to enable time-travel, etc.
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Even the install is a mishmash of voodoo and arcane knowledge. Horrible horrible thing.
"You want to grab that country by the shoulders and shake it to its senses."

You mean the USA, right? The "Narco Cultura" would not exist if it were not the United States "War on Drugs".
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And after the US left, China tried its own little invasion of Vietnam, and suffered badly.
There are no completely accurate tumor models. The best a tumor model can do for a group is provide a standardized disease progression to test against.

This is why in mouse tumor models there are a lot of highly aggressive tumor models that are meant to rapidly kill the host-- if you can show even a 5% reduction in tumor size or 5% longer life of the mouse, it's impressive.
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Do you deal with a lot of bullshit in your work?
Any examples would be appreciated.
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SoftICE holds a fond place in my heart even though I was never more than passingly capable with it.

I worked at Numega from 1999 through 2001 in the technical support department. When I started, I provided support for another product, but over time became familiar with all of the tools and eventually managed the technical support team.

We would frequently get support requests from companies asking for ways to detect and/or prevent SoftICE, and we had some nice reply templates trying to break it gently to them how there was no practical way for software loaded after SoftICE to reliably stop a determined user from debugging and/or tampering with it.

The SoftICE tech support issues were always the tough ones. We had a small team of elites who would slog through those issues while the other team members could only wonder what they were talking about sometimes. :) Some companies even resorted to shipping hardware to the team to help reproduce and resolve tough issues.

My favorite memory though is when I was learning SoftICE and I grabbed one of the guys and asked them if they could help me figure out a weird issue with it. As we walked over, I shared with them that every time I broke into SoftICE, my CRT monitor would shut off, and it wouldn't come back on until I closed SoftICE. I asked them if it could be some sort of new countermeasure.

They looked at me with that disbelieving look one shares with a mere novice, and sat down at my computer and pressed Ctrl-D. Click! Off went the monitor. Their eyes bugged just a bit and they tentatively toggled the power switch just to make sure. Dead. With hesitation, they typed the command to close the SoftICE window and blinked as the monitor hummed back to life.

As I said though, these guys were good. After hitting Ctrl-D a few more times and watching the monitor switch off and on, this person didn't let the mystery send them down any rabbit holes. They immediately went fishing for the monitor power cable and traced it to the plug where they found a suspicious looking box it was plugged into. As they looked back at me with a glare, I guiltily held up the remote control for the power switch and fessed up.

Good times.
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But if everything uses similar protocols, then it won't be long before someone releases a tool making it easier than smashing windows.
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You mentioned booting into rescue mode. Rescue mode is not emergency mode. Have a nearly two decades old explanation that still holds true for systems like nosh and systemd today:

> If you need to check the root file system, you can reboot into single-user mode with the root partition mounted read-only by issuing the -b switch at the LILO prompt. The -b switch will be passed through LILO to init and will cause an emergency boot ...

-- David A. Bandel (1997-01-01). Disk Maintenance under Linux. Linux Journal. http://linuxjournal.com/article/193
I've upgraded to iOS 9 GM and El Capitan GM, and I saw some new items show up in my iCloud Keychain, titled:

PCS Backup
PCS CloudKit
PCS Escrow
PCS FDE
PCS iCloudDrive
PCS iMessage
PCS Maildrop
PCS MasterKey
PCS News
PCS Notes
PCS Photos

(They also have what looks like a base64 string in there, but I'm excluding that just in case it might be secret)

Just a guess, but between this and the fact that iCloud Backups were broken during the iOS 9 beta period, it seems like they might be encrypting backups now, as well.
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I cannot decide if this is brilliant or masochistic (and possibly still brilliant). It's definitely outright weird to me.
Is the blackboard really disappearing, though? First, while there are some subtly-different affordances between a whiteboard and a blackboard, they're not that different. Second, where powerpoint and presentations and slides are making inroads are in places where the blackboard was already simply being used for slide delivery. A professor can get up in front of a 500-person class and say whatever words they like about how they want this to be an interactive experience, but it's still by-and-large a bulk slide dispensing class by necessity. (I say this as one of the lunatics who would participate even so, so yes, I know it's possible. But on average, 496 people are passively sitting there.)

Once you clear away the essentially non-interactive uses, is it really "disappearing"? Except for maybe a few whiteboards instead of blackboards, it's not going anywhere any time soon, I think. I've never seen a digital replacement that even comes close.

All the blackboards they show that are plausibly snapshots from real classes (as opposed to the three or four that are being used just a political polemics) would still be blackboard-based today, quite likely.
> Thats exactly analogous - both oversized parking lot and burning down forests for few years worth of farming are profitable, yet highly undesirable.

I specifically talked about an oversized parking lot getting reduced due to it not being a good investment, so no, not exactly analogous.

The point is that the allocation of anything that's privately owned and used in/for some sort of production will get adjusted as necessary, purely out of its owner's self-interest.

But for starters, burning down a forest would not be a productive endeavour, and as such, not in its owner's interest. Already we can see you're not quite clear on what the problem is.

On the other hand, cutting down a forest to make room for a farm might well be a good idea, but probably not for only "a few years worth of farming".

Why would someone operate a farm for only a few years when it could produce him wealth indefinitely? Again, it's not clear what problem you're seeing here.

> everything is spaced out by parking lots, so more and more people are using cars in turn needing more parking lots

Here you're assuming that people will buy more cars if there's more parking space. I can't see how that would be the case.

If people notice that there are more bicycle parking spaces, will they buy more bicycles? If someone brings you an extra coat hanger, will that make you buy a new coat?

I don't see the connection. Can you point out a real problem related to any of this?

> hardly desirable outcome for a city, which would be better served by good public transport

Now you're talking about something that's not determined by market forces, but by government. Public transport is irrelevant to the earlier discussion. If bad decisions are made in that sphere, blame it on the government.

> A simple metastable suboptimal state example is extreme income inequality - it took years to get out of another metastable state - more sensible income distribution

"Metastable" sounds like a term some academic self-proclaimed philosopher might use. That means it's probably nonsense (or pointless).

> Now, it would take a lot of effort/change/work/whatever to switch the states.

I'm not sure what sort of effort you're imagining, but all it would take is for governments to not dictate what currency we're allowed to use.
In fact, refunds have proven to be a great way to combat click-bait links. The example we've given before is gossip magazines, which thrive on click-bait (purchase-bait?) titles on their front covers.

In Blendle, we see a high refund rate on these types of magazine articles, when the title suggests something else than the article presents to the reader.

Freeloaders have turned out to be only a minor issue, whom we are willing to live with, if it means we have a great user experience for 99% of the other people using Blendle in good faith. We're of course thinking of ways to tackle this as well, but never at the cost of user experience.

RE: Being asked whether or not I want to spend $0.25 or $0.50 twenty or fifty times a day is not an appealing prospect.

I agree, this is indeed something we work to improve every day. The two biggest features to combat this are refunds and low-friction purchases. The latter we implement by not requiring any action except for clicking on the text you want to read.
If Fred and Ginger are an economic system whose total value at time t is $1000 (all of which is in Ginger's bank account), and Ginger loans Fred $500 on the promise that he'll pay her $600 at time t+1, then their agreement is predicated on the assumption that the Fred/Ginger economy will have grown 10% at time t+1.
Yeah, Thiel seems quite ignorant in this article unfortunately.

I was aware of the HeLa contamination issues and ultramarathon-culture length, but I haven't heard the bit about the extreme genomic abnormalities in HeLa (I haven't worked with HeLa cells) and it sounds really interesting, can you speak a bit more about the specifics?
I believe the spec says you can have up to 32 windows, implementation dependent. You can have as few as 2, in theory. It's interesting to note that the AMD Am29000 series also used register windows and it could have variable numbers of registers in each window (out of the set of 192 registers).
> cache coherency

Cache locality. Cache coherency is something different.
hmmm, I would put more emphasis on the photo over the maps imagery. This seems like a great idea for an iOS or Android app, being able to track the trips entire location history.
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>after you used it

You clearly have a different Facebook use-case than a lot of people.
As I understand it, immutability makes management of state on complex objects easier to deal with. Whereas ImmutableJS the library makes immutability performant in JS. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong because I cannot seem to locate my source anymore, but I believe what ImmutabilityJS does is not actually deep-copy complex objects, but reuse references to nested objects that have not changed. Such that you get a new object, but not everything in the object is new, which is what keeps things fast.
The TSA key photo was taken as a close up; SNEAKEY is something different, but the same end result.
These flyertalk guys are crazy. Yes, it's awesome, but I can never imagine having the time to do this...Like the guys who fly from DFW -> NYC -> LA -> back to NYC -> SF -> back to LA -> back to NYC -> back to DFW all in a little o=ver a day and for about $360. Yeah, it's cool, but you are traveling without leaving the airport. Not my idea of fun.
This is a bit old - Bobby Robson died in 2009.
Seems cool. Though I found it a little bit confusing that 'Intro', which contains archtecture overview is not a part of 'Docs'.
Beautifully written.
I too was expecting an article on Marinetti and his cohorts and their love of violence, speed, and strange dinner parties.
I really liked this answer on stackoverflow--I went from not even knowing decorators existed to a complete understanding:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1594484/1158666
Definitely lagging here, brand new 12" macbook running chrome.
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When you are trying these kind of system exploits, it really helps to not have to deal with any humans. It would be very easy for this plan to be shut down by someone in the office just refusing to rent to you after the first car, because they see you are trying to game the system.
A really interesting discussion here about the legal issues! I am regularily hosting Hoffices and am part of the group steering the Hoffice network and so far I've never heard of any of the problems you mentioned happening... Hoffice is completely based on gift and trust principles. This assumes that people who get invited into your home won't sue you afterwards, if some kind of accident happens. But this is of course not certain and a host might take a certain risk here.

In terms of taxation I believe that there is no real threat, as one of the basic premises is that you host without charging money for it. It's a gift to all people participating. In return you get the a group feeling and motivation to work from your guests. Furthermore Hoffice includes a potluck lunch culture, where everybody contributes to a buffet. As home working as such is not taxed, I don't see why homeworking together should be.
Liberal foreign-policy concerns? Why does everyone always forget that the Culture are anarcho-communists?
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When you use Immutable JS, you are taking a slight performance hit. You are creating a new object every time you change anything and returning it. But the benefit of not having to worry about unexpected changed or sometimes referencing something you didn't mean too is great.

The added performance can come from the equality checks. Like, do not do anything if newState === oldState. This has added benefit with something like React where you can use shouldCOmponentUpdate, which we returned false, will not call the render function. It can increase performance drastically on complicated things.
Tooooo minimalistic. No information on the landing page about the app and what is going to be revealed. If I give my contacts I want to know in exchange for what? Won't try, need more info
It's definitely both.
You've just described basically all enterprise software. This is the somewhat inevitable outcome of a process where very large deals depend on a checklist but neither the implementers nor the buyers personally use the product.
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Yes, it's totally based on gift principles. No money involved. Hoffices are right now organised over facebook groups/pages, where everyone can propose/host an event.
I sometimes think the HN community takes itself a little too seriously in an effort to be different from Reddit. Personally, I would be happy if HN threads had a little more humor like this in them.

Or maybe the HNers just didn't find this comment funny? No accounting for taste, I guess.
Eh, the Saigon Execution photo looks pretty convincing. The rest look great, but colorized.
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If you are a frequent flyer, I can see the point. "Waste" a weekend and bump yourself up to the next level and get free upgrades on all your future flights for the year.
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Previous discussions for the one interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261263

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890367
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It's one thing to make a good deal. But IMHO it's another thing to behave like a parasite.