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The article mentions the importance of evidence in argument. Forgive me for my boldness: you have cited no evidence. You asserted, "the environmental crisis is now," which I can't easily verify. It sounds no different than, "the rapture is coming."

Alan Kay might say this is the problem we should be solving. Evidence-based argument feels so much better to me than slinging bloviations at one another.
Yup, that is a likely counter argument to be made in court if anyone ever sues over these issues. As I said, though, this is civil law, so it would come down to how lawyers argue it and what judges think. In civil cases, answers are rarely black and white.
iCloud backups are not encrypted, and they include iMessage conversations. So the backups don't compromise the iMessage "service" or "application," but simply provide access to messages sent and received before the backup was made.
Ah, my point was, actually, to base the remoteStorage spec on WebDAV instead of a new JSON-based protocol as it currently exists. remoteStorage could define a WebDAV 'profile' for what needs to be supported by the server...
Of course economic growth can last. GDP is just a number, in nominal currency, that measures not just sheer output, but also efficiency, technological progress, etc... In an idyllic future, when we're no longer extracting oil from the ground, no longer working manual labour jobs, etc..., economic output may reflect technology and ideas being created, the dollar will be worth much less (thus more nominal output), and as long as people are engaged in some form of economic activity (buying something, working in any form), we'll have measurable growth.
So then you use two unique captures of the same material to find the deltas and munge away.
Serial is also ever so slightly slower than gigabit fiber.

But more importantly -- fiber network cards have clearly physically separated transmitter and receiver ports. A transmitter port does not contain the hardware for receiving data, and the receiver port does not contain the hardware for transmitting.

A one-wire serial connection can (probably) be reversed by replacing the firmware of the controller chip. A one-way fiber connection as described in this article is physically incapable of transmitting data in the opposite direction.
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> Sometimes installing an entire programming language just to use one tool is not worth the time I could possibly waste just trying to figure out how to get it working (assuming it works).

That's why I would love to see more Docker containers and docker-compose.yaml files for tools shared on HN. A Docker container for this would be super simple to build using an official Ruby Docker container and it would save so much time for anyone who wants to try the tool.
Yes, and then you have another optional version of WebDAV, adding to the existing mess, while you don't actually have the benefit of interop that you say would be the reason for using WebDAV in the first place.

The way I read it, that's basically the point of the article.
> Serial is also ever so slightly slower than gigabit fiber.

Hehe, still fast enough to track thousands of commercial targets : )

Good points about physically incapable. Another thing fiber gives you is electrical insulation.
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To be very fair to Meteor, they're trying hard to separate their UI/rendering layer from their front-end data layer [1]. There are prototypes where you can build an entire frontend in React from the top down, taking Meteor collections as stores and passing them down your hierarchy or just including them [2]. Still rough around the edges, but Meteor's going in the right direction here.

[1] http://info.meteor.com/blog/meteor-the-missing-infrastructur...

[2] https://github.com/jedwards1211/meteor-webpack-react
I really like the ability to pay instead of getting ads. However, my big opposition to Blendle is that it breaks the web. How do you guys feel about this?
It's not just WebDAV that's an abomination (returning HTTP status codes and messages in XML, WTF were they thinking), but vCard and iCal as well.

The vCard "group construct" (see rfc6350) is one of the dumbest things ever added to a spec. It seems a trivial thing to add, but completely screws up your internal storage and manipulation formats. It's horrible, on top of all the other horribleness that is vCard.

Of course, I'm biased, given we're trying to push alternatives to IMAP, CardDAV and CalDAV - http://jmap.io/ - but please do check it out. Having actually worked on IMAP servers and clients, CalDAV servers and clients and CardDAV servers and clients, we've learned a lot about creating a saner alternative.
It's not an invalid example. It shows that GDP has some weirdness. It's just not a scenario likely to be common enough to cause problems. But, it does demonstrate the leaky abstraction.

There are also scenarios that break GDP but not homo economicus logic. What happens when a woman starts working and paying for childcare? Do you subtract the childcare she is no longer directly providing as negative GDP? Do you just add on this new service as growth, even though the kids are not getting and more hours of "childcare?" This is a real problem with data pre 1960s and post 1980s. GDP can't measure those.

That's the economic equivalent of bulldozing a house and building a new one. There's a surplus, economic or otherwise but there is an unmeasured destruction too, parenting hours are reduced. We only count paid work so when one increases at the expense of another, the GDP abstraction leaks.

What happens if important new products and services are free, like Wikipedia, Khan Academy, etc? What happens when you can buy a £500 android phone for £200? Do you do an inflation adjustment that counts the value of all £200 iphones produced @ £500?

The real world mixes these up in ways that GDP can't really handle.
Oh, thanks. :)
Exactly. You can point to benchmarks that favour one or the other. Parsing is almost never the bottleneck.
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Nice. Does it do only load average and memory?
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Scientology maybe? Or the Knights Templar?
I agree. Forensic "science" is a load of horsehit much more concerned with conviction rates than truth.
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The simplest way to avoid this (though it does require some guesswork on your part) is to always open those suspicious sites with incognito mode. If when you click the button it asks you to log into facebook (don't) you would have been clickjacked.
I don't think that the author assumes the causation that you mention.

He says that growth is composed of two parts. One part depends on energy production/consumption and the other part does not -- If you don't like the causation ''energy consumption implies growth'', his theory still holds if you assume that the second part is more important than the first.

Because our ability to be energy-efficient is bounded (even if his numbers are imprecise it's difficult to argue against this -- as our stuff cannot be more than 100% efficient), it means that the part of growth that does not rely on energy must take a disproportionate share of the total growth if you look far enough into the future.

It precisely seems to me that the assumptions he makes are remarkably minimal.
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i want to point out just one thing - the problem is not in banks per se, the problem is merely in the expectation that interest rates have to be positive ;)
>returning HTTP status codes and messages in XML, WTF were they thinking

You're giving me so many ideas right now for a follow-up post.

>but vCard and iCal as well

The group construct is bad, the syntax is bad, but other than that, I never had to implement or parse it properly. Vdirsyncer is mostly passing strings through.

I suspect that this part is much harder to replace than CardDAV and CalDAV, since it's not just a file structure with a ton of bullcrap on top of it. For that reason I currently have those file formats in the remoteStorage folder structure i'm syncing to, but it's still a step forward. I might switch to jCard and jCal, but I don't think it'd be worth the breakage.
Judging from what you read and hear about Mexico it seems to be trapped in a downward spiral degenerating every aspect about its society and government. It's absolutely disgusting and revealing to watch documentaries like "Narco Cultura" and about their eating disorders [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/america-fattest-obese-un-14...].

You want to grab that country by the shoulders and shake it to its senses. But then again you (or whatever is left of your body) don't want to end up hanging upside down from a bridge somewhere ...
For whatever it's worth, he was clearly not posting substantively. Perhaps a reminder would be in order?
Nominal GDP growth and real GDP growth are very different things, and it's the latter people are referring to. If it was only nominal that mattered, we could have a arbitrary economic growth through inflation.
Thanks for clarifying.

> an attacker can keep sending forged messages until it decrypts successfully

There is simply no way for an attacker to find out if his forged messages decrypt successfully besides having full control of the recipients machine. The padding oracle is useless in this case.
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Ugh, this one again? Another person who has decided it is easier to go back to SOAP than properly learn the technology that they want to rip apart. And then to keep reposting the same damn story is just sad.
I didn't notice that JMAP includes calendars and contacts. Looks good!

Personally, I'd prefer a dumb storage with a generic API over yet another custom protocol/API just for these data formats alone. Worked great on people's local drives before the Web, and I think it should work similar on the Web.
Futurism is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism
And the article is not related at all, despite the (misleading) title.
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What can be said? The mob is irrational. When they hear of a child dying it doesn't much matter who, what, how or why, somebody's got to pay.
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Consensus may have been the wrong word to use, but I've heard the same as you, that backups are a weak point in iMessage security, and a very plausible way for LE to get access.
Actually, you don't need information sets to handle games with chance nodes. Standard MCTS works just fine for those. (Don't use a bandit algorithm at the chance nodes, just pick randomly.) Information sets are only needed if you have uncertainty, either because players make simultaneous moves or a player doesn't know (or forgets) the complete state of the game.
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> Do Hoffice or your "hosts" need any sort of professional indemnity insurance?

You are talking about public liability insurance (in the UK), as I understand it's not required but it's a good idea to have this if you have members of the public (clients or otherwise) visiting your home office - some home insurance policies even include it.
The point I'm trying to make is that JSON is generally easier to parse, therefore theoretically faster to parse, even though XML implementations might be faster at the moment.
Well, I find it difficult to imagine, what laws of nature would apply to economics?

The best and most resilient example I know is the Black-Scholes equation - a framework to model option prices - based on a heat diffusion equation. Thing is, now it's never used with its original assumptions, but rather with a bunch of fixes. Oh, volatility isn't constant as we thought, let's add stochastic volatility. Oh, stock pricess are fat tailed and don't behave according to a geometric brownian motion, let's add discontinous jumps. Not to mention, that nobody uses historic volatility anymore. A hack of hack of a hack. So much, in fact, that the original elegant theory has just become a sort of convention, how everybody does their calculations.

I really don't understand the argument that laws that have been proven to work in one domain should work in another. I think it's a kind of quantitative mysticism.
> Hey, I didn't say one was worse or better but merely suggested some arguments as to why one might dislike that signature.

pekk asked what was wrong with the syntax.

> Clearly, as you demonstrate, the syntax described can be shortened—but it wasn't.

I didn't change the syntax in any way.

> And by the definition being tied to the implementation I mean that it's not possible to write, e.g.

'k.

Is that actually used? Global type inference I could see, but that seems odder.
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Yeah, Bloomberg View has no idea how real people in real world live and work. I remember reading an article a few weeks ago with the premises that income - equality is okay because we have these superman productive individuals.

They also love china/japan/asia bashing which is okay but after a while it gets old.

I still read it the same way I find fox news to be interesting.
I wish you had replied earlier (at least 9 people thought to downnvote the comments before a reply.)

Why does he feel immune from Mexican violence? (i.e. please give me a plausible answer.) It seems absolutely rampant there, people are literally - no exaggeration - murdered there.

(Obviously the reason for a throwaway account is because I don't want to associate even two steps removed with violence in Mexico as well as, for example, the knee-jerk downvoting.)

Secondly, did you click the video? (I link a specific spot.) It's hard to judge due to the distance and the fisheye distortion, but how far do you think those two ATM's are? Why do you think an iPhone won't connect with them? (Even from much closer)? If the signal is weak, as opposed to being in the gadgetry next to him, then why do both bluetooth connections show up instantly, as opposed to one after the other, given the huge distance?

I now realize he has a large established reputation - though I don't have time to review all of his past writing. It's too much to review it all.

I would like to know why he can pick up a weak bluetooth transmitter from deep inside an ATM and under a massively attenuating circuit board, from far outside the nominal bluetooth range - which are figures for a purpose-built transmission enclosure, not being hidden under a circuit board, and then put inside an ATM. It simply does not seem plausible to me, and I would like an answer. I've worked a little bit with wireless equipment (not much) and the video does not seem realistic to me.

Further: bBlatantly exposing a well-funded mexican crime syndicate also does not seem in-character for anyone. What makes this guy so immune? Why are there no steps whatsoever to protect his identity, even while in Mexico? He reports a meeting with 6 employee (no photos included, including after blurring their faces) any one of whom could have reported his meddling to an associated syndicate, before his stay was even over. Wasn't he scared?

These are specific objections I have, and I'm sorry I don't have time to review his entire reputation and history; Lance Armstrong had never once tested positive for PED's while winning 7 Tour De France titles and having a good claim to being possibly the most-tested athlete on Earth; Bernie Madoff had been the Chairman - literally the Chairman - of the NASDAQ. Yes, the whole stock exchange. He also had an operation going back 30 years, was a preeminent community member and managed the endowments of several charities.

So please don't appeal to authority, and instead answer my two specific questions. Also, since his exposure, anyone found such a transmitter themselves?

I find the technical facts he proposes to be entirely plausible.
Would be not that bad if read at normal audiobook pace.
> Conventions are as important as syntax when it comes to legibility of a language, so phrasing “M” as “Action” seemed a fair comparison.

But the conventions are whatever we want for a resyntacting no?

> However, concision is not the goal

I was answering a comment putting concision forward as reasons to dislike the alternate syntax.
What I loved about WebDAV is that it let me edit a file on a remote server using my personal PC. When I wanted to save to the remote computer, I just saved it.

Is there a good replacement out there?
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If you spoke to your friend 10 - 20 years ago, then he was right. Perhaps he imagined faster and more catastrophic dynamics, but inflation-adjusted Oil has been going up since 1998 [0]. If you had taken his advice and invested in oil futures in 2009, you could have become rather wealthy :)

Of course, there have been impressive price fluctuation (One happening right now). But it's kind of expected in a highly complex system where technology, politics and financial crises interact in rather unpredictable ways. On average, I still think the trend is UP (and the "fracking miracle" will be a short lived spike). Peak Oil will happen (but predicting the date or dynamics inside a 20 year range is just as hard as predicting the timing and depth of a financial crisis).

[0] http://inflationdata.com/articles/charts/inflation-adjusted-...
/r/linux is schizophrenic. On the one hand, posts about new game releases for Steam are voted up and (Steam) gaming posts are quite active. On the other hand, they're badgering every single FOSS project which is trying to make money without begging their users for it (see the recent posts about Firefox). It's crazy.
SFTP, or really any other file protocol. I guess it comes with its own quirks but at least it's faster.

There used to be a remoteStorage FUSE module, not sure if it still works.
This is why I advocate that software authors package their software for a variety of OS's in their native format. Yes, technically anyone can use Ruby gems or Python eggs or wheels or whatever Go calls their packages, but practically if I can apt-get/brew/emerge/rpm your package, I don't care what language it is written in. It is more effort but it makes a big difference in adoption IMO.
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It's possible to detect whether an element is visible using window.getComputedStyle(). Why don't Facebook do this? Because it's slow. And measures like this can cause problems on the page. They want their button integration to be fast and low impact, so they would rather handle a couple of abusers (which they're quite good at) than inconvenience a large number of sites.
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To those downvoting - what are you watching? You missed Hannibal Lector, and all of the Zombie apocalypse things.
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Prions can be quite resistant to heat so I would still think twice about this meal.
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Here's a little list of useful learning material about Docker I put together for myself, hope it's worth even for you.

Getting started with Docker (course) https://cloudacademy.com/cloud-computing/courses/getting-started-with-docker

Docker: advanced concepts (course) https://cloudacademy.com/cloud-computing/courses/docker-advanced-concepts/

Official Docker Guidebook (guidebook)
https://github.com/kencochrane/docker-guidebook

Continuous integration with Docker Deployments: the players (write-up) http://cloudacademy.com/blog/continuous-integration/

Continuous Integration with Docker deployments – Part 2 (write-up) http://cloudacademy.com/blog/continuous-integration-docker/

Orchestrating Docker (Ebook)
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Docker security: making sure you get it right (write.up)
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I believe hard AI is going to be a lot more problematic to map out than we currently might think. I believe we're in for a push-back against overly-intrusive computer monitoring, which should slow down AI development. I also believe that "intelligent", "kind", "moral", and "useful" may also be much more mutually orthogonal than currently believed. Finally, mankind really needs to work through the period where mid-level AI could either exterminate us or love us into extinction. That's going to take some time to work out.

But it's all just guesses, of course.
Since our energy consumption has grown exponentially in modern industrial times, most of the energy consumed has been during the age of oil. Further energy is not the only dependency modern civilization has on oil.

You can't glibly dismiss Goodstein's analysis. He addresses this belief (canard) that we have hundreds of years of coal in the ground, or that the resource limitations which restrict the future of oil do not also apply to coal. To replace the energy, fuel, industrial and agricultural uses of oil, coal consumption would have to increase by at least 5x, with catastrophic environmental consequences. Goodstein also points out the unreliability of estimated reserves, which in many cases are political rather than scientific.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(disambiguation)

Futurists (from future studies) refer to the field as futurism, futurology, and future study. See usages https://www.google.com/search?q=futurism&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&h...
But then you can't make a statement that the growth is bounded, unless you assume that "everything else" is bounded as well. And that's a hefty assumption.

I've understood the energy argument as central to the article. Hence the "causation" in my original comment.
What about samba/shared folders, ftp, or even sshfs if you are a unix user.

If you like Emacs, there is Tramp, and I know Vim has something equivalent.
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Well someone's life is about to get "interesting".

Hope they do not live in the USA.
well, theres /bin/audio/* in 9front and sb16, ac97, intel hd audio and various usb soundcards are supported. listening to music on my thinkpad all the time. it also works fine on "newer" thinkpads as well like x230. everything is supported, including wifi, native graphics, sound, gigabit ethernet, sata and even the build in sdmmc controller. and yes, 64 bit kernel, 16gb ram works.
To be fair, MS Word is two letters, a space and a word.
I work in IT, in an office with about 60 people. Two women.

That prediction came true.
Well, I am an optimistic person :).

Summarizing, I see this problems with Hoffice:
1. Zoning problem, ie. legality of work-from-home.
2. Tax and liability of the host/guest - who is making an income or profit here?
3. Is this a business or not?

On the whole, this idea is quite not regulated and might be that everything is on fringe of law or in a gray area.

On the same time, indeed, wish good luck to Hoffice. I hope the have attraction and this might be more common than we think.
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opece.eu

This is an example of likejacking website.
The text is in romanian and it's says it's donating an apartment via a contest if you fill that form.

The "Trimite" (Send) button is where the like jacking occurs.
This is awesome for exploring an API. And, apropros of nothing, nice example site choice. :D
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