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> You need to start with compassion and an attempt at understanding otherwise you won't get anywhere.

-aidos

> ... looking down on any group in society as a whole unit is wrong (and unproductive).

Unless they think enabling homelessness causes homelessness? You don't know omniusaspirer. He or she could have been homeless at some point. He or she called for a national comprehensive solution and increased spending, but that's not good enough? Do we need to be feelings police and check privilege this aggressively? Why would you alienate potential allies in the fight against homelessness?

And, for what it's worth, I have lost family members to homelessness. And not due to a lack of compassion or resources. There was more than understanding, there was love, and it wasn't enough.
Hopefully, the Volkswagen events may make people think rather more about what is going on in their voting machines.
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That's really strange to me! Do the Germans not have some analogue of "Happy Birthday"?
For small businesses it does. There's a huge cost to be compliant with the regulations in medical and aviation space, so you don't see many successful startups and not much progress as a result. We are still flying WWII rockets and use crude antibiotics.
>there are people literally born into a situation that they have no control over

And similarly, Omniusaspirer (along with every other person) was literally born into a situation that he had no control over. So you can't make any judgements about his character, right?
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> I have a SDR and a Raspberry Pi. Do you think it would be capable of running ShinySDR?

This issue[0], though specifically discussing the BeagleBone Black, suggests it might suffer on a pi (based on a quick comparison of their specs).

[0] https://github.com/kpreid/shinysdr/issues/17
I think you could have worded it differently to ignite a more positive discussion but, as you say, let's put that aspect to one side.

I'm sure you're right in so much as, people are going to make their situation as workable as possible. If you can easily choose an environment that makes life easier, you probably will.

If the city has 'excellent resources for the homeless to both survive and "get back on their feet"' you have to ask the question, why isn't it working? Maybe it is? Maybe it's just not working fast enough?

Maybe the most productive thing to do is to look at this population of humans and say - what do each of them have to offer to make society better. How do we harness that in a positive way for everyone. Like I said in my other comment – I don't know anything about homelessness so I can't really discuss the solutions in any detail.
I agree those are interesting questions not directly addressed by Surface Detail.

However, on a related topic the novella A Colder War by Charlie Stross has a particularly creepy ending if the idea of virtual hells bothers you - the idea that an intelligent entity actually enjoys running simulations of minds and exploring the ways they can end:

There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

Vernor Vinge hints that transcendent Powers can sometimes do similar things with the minds of lesser entities:

"This innocent's ego might end up smeared across a million death cubes, running a million million simulations of human nature."
I'm not a native English speaker, but I don't think I have ever seen "on accident" used on the Internet. Do people really say "I did this on accident"? It just sounds wrong.
Surprisingly this is featured on PH. http://www.producthunt.com/tech/the-submit-list
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>some ECU code(not safety relevant, thankfully) //

What parts of the running of an automobile engine aren't safety relevant?

Sounds like "oh we made the stock for that shotgun from cheap, brittle plastic as the stock isn't safety relevant; how were we to know that it would crack and embed itself in someones shoulder?".

You're right that the primary issue here is deceit but the issue of closed source code in such systems is how that deceit was possible [edit, should probably say "facilitated that deceit" as the deceit would still be possible, just harder and move discoverable with open source]; and that leads to questions of safety as if companies will screw over the environment against the democratic legislation then they're unlikely to be mindful of other morally negative consequences.
> Same goes for monads. If we have N data types and M functions, instead of writing N×M implementations, we can write just N monad instances + M generic implementations.

Bear with me for a bit, because I still don't get it (although I'm not the OP, I share the same doubts). In OO terms, if you have N types and M functions, with M different behaviours (function code), you aggregate the N types into an inheritance tree that makes you write 1xM functions (one function against the ancestor of the N types). If you have 2M behaviours, you aggregate the types in two different inheritance hierarchies and then write 2M functions. What expressiveness advantages do monads provide against this OO scenario?
> Homelessness is a lifestyle for majority of homeless people

Can you please elaborate on that? Can you back that assertion that the majority of homeless people sees/chooses homelessness as a lifestyle?

It's interesting (and appaling) how a lot of people think along the lines of "if it was me I'd be hustling to get out of it, so homeless people are either lazy or like it", not being able to empathize or understand the severe emotional hit you suffer when you're out of food and shelter, two very basic needs. Even more so because a lot of accounts describe formerly successful people getting sucked down a vortex of hunger, poverty and exclusion...
> That's a lot of power - why shouldn't we know how it works to make sure they're not abusing it?

That's a double-edged sword here. The current problem with search, and one of the reasons the exact algorithms stay undisclosed, is not Google. It's your average Joe the small business owner, who sees no problem with poisoning the Internet with spam and fake websites, just to gain a competitive edge. There's even a whole industry (SEO/SEM) serving such Joes, that specializes in extreme "meddling with search results". As long as Google maintains some control over it, it can tweak and twist their algorithms to counteract the manipulation, or even explicitly penalize biggest offenders. Take that control away and the Internet will go to shit.

Search is a common resource, and it needs to be managed. I'm far more willing to trust Google than a mob of hundreds of millions "entrepreneurs" trying to one-up one another at the cost of everyone else.
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That's what retirement funds are for.
The main advantage of OSS is for developers and power users, who are able to understand, modify and engage with the software itself. From the pure end-user point of view, it doesn't have this advantage.

Then there's the question of "customer acquisition". Low-commitment people don't seek out the best software, they have a range of options thrown at them and they pick one. Hence the current business model for startups: take people's personal data and sell it so you can spend the money on advertising your free service to them.

"You can't compete with free" is a double-edged sword: libre non-exploitative software has to compete with "free to play" software that charges with your privacy and exposure to adverts.
Some fields are more capital intensive than other. It is much easier to launch a mobile app than an oil refinery. It does not distort the competition between companies who have to follow the same rule book.

I understand where you are coming from but you need to have a minimum threshold for software that is going to be a matter of life and death.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I wonder why Amazon doesn't support some form of prepaid service. I feel that it's really a deal-braker for me for buying s3, these kind of horror stories scare me away.
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More than that, It's very interesting to look at one of the (numerous) metal subgenre and see how the various band are mapped, defining tendencies in the subgenre. It works very well in power and doom metal, in particular.
How does one example ever prove or disprove anything?
I do the exact same thing. Glad I'm not the only one with a strongly visual memory that works that way.

Incidentally, this may be one advantage of PDFs over other formats. Responsiveness be damned, deterministic paging is also an important book property.
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Regulations are not what is responsible for us flying WWII rockets and using crude antibiotics; they're responsible for those rockets not exploding too often or those antibiotics not killing us in most painful ways imaginable. Rocketry and medicine are hard.
See Cordwainer Smith's "War no 81Q" for a sci-fi exploration of this.
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I think this is all just getting a little pedantic and picky (if you see my other comment to Omniusaspirer you'll see I'm trying to be more productive).

But in response to your question – I fail to see where I'm making a judgements based on a stereotype. All I was saying is that it's dangerous to form a narrative based on stereotypes.
I like it.. but at first it the header portion looked like just an image or image/slider. Maybe it should be full width, needs other that a white background or the 'Signup with Google' button made larger.
Society doesn't exist in this context and therefore it can have no assumptions. You are dealing with individuals. Individuals with limited time, energy and maybe even limited social abilities.

If someone reads as aloof and disinterested, how are you as an individual going to disambiguate between them being scared of social situations vs them being truly disinterested? Always remember that the other side of the social interaction is another person with their own inner life - they aren't just the particular face of "society" that is presenting itself to you.
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> Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually likes Angular.

Why? You're obviously not the only one, considering Angular's immense (and deserved) popularity. The simple fact is that popularity does not immunize it to having some problems. Angular is great, but it's hardly perfect. The issues with scope (gone in 2.0), the complexity of directives (also gone in 2.0, I think) are well known and being addressed.
Yeah, I don't really believe it either. There's already formulaic writing (ideal number of plot twists, etc.), so there is precedent.
> So you have zero sympathy for the fact that this creates an unequal playing field?

I have, it creates an unequal playing field between you as a company and me as a user. It reduces my ability to adapt a product to my needs. It reduces my ability to learn from it. And yes, it also reduces my ability to reverse-engineer it, improve it and then become your competitor. It stifles progress.
Leanpub also does this.

I keep looking at GitBook as well, although I don't see much on there I'm interested in reading.
> let the market decide...

Are you talking about a market with or without a regulated strong copyright law?
Goodreads? And some critical reading skills to pick out the shills?
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I'm not a big fan of Basecamp. I find lack of support for code snippets and specific issue tracking make it inferior to GH Issues and Trello.
Totally, or maybe SEP could just contribute to Wikipedia
Fabric exclusively uses the Paramiko SSH library, which means that it can't use any of the newer OpenSSH ciphers and is kinda slow. Ansible can use either. In my opinion, it's easier to work with than Fabric, too.
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Wouldn't that be like giving someone a logic-puzzle and have people ... watch them do it?

Doesn't seem like a competitive spectator thing at all, and I'm a coder myself.
Probably a bit of selection bias. Conservative companies are more likely to use Java, and less likely to offer remote working.
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In India, where I live, you can get a good bicycle for about 5000 INR or ~ $76. And for the few years I owned a bicycle, I never had any issues with it. Mine cost ~ $46.

I don't understand why bikes in US are priced so high.
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Given the abysmal state of lower and middleschool historical education, merely teaching the kids some basics is hard enough.
You joke, but there are lots of Node devs using websockets in simple CRUD interfaces simply because "HTTP is too slow".
He's generalizing based on human nature.
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See original series Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon".
This is a biased modern American perspective: if you're lonely or have no friends, you're probably depressed because you 'failed' in life.

For me, and many others, loneliness is a blessing that has helped me do things most ignore: exercising, reading about Philosophy, developing ventures,etc. Plus, I'm never 'bounded' to my social circle and have resided in 11 countries.

By the way, I look like an innate salesman. Always smiling, making jokes, building a network, etc. Still, I'd rather be on my own.
I'm pretty sure they fixed it. I don't remember whether that was already in the original discussion of this story or a little bit later, but I remember the comment that one can't use it anymore as an attack tool since the feedfetcher behaviour changed.
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History shows us that "3rd party review process"es turn into paperworks games, with all of the effort going into making sure some boxes are ticked and no effort going into actually thinking about the code. Especially for large code bases operating in complicated domains where the effort required to really understand both the code and its context is at about the same order of magnitude as writing it in the first place.

A 3rd party review can reveal horrid practices, but it's hard-pressed to make any sort of guarantee, no matter how soft.

We know how to do better than "process". Software verification techniques are approaching economical. If a piece of safety-critical software is going to put lives at stake on every road in America, it's reasonable to ask the creator of the software for a set of formal specs that is concise enough it can actually be reviewed by experts, together with a proof that their software meets that formal spec.
I am from Denmark and frequently drive in the largest cities. The main problem is not breaking the law as such, but the tendency to completely disregard the surroundings - in the last 5 years a lot bike with music as well (though this can be compensated for with proper use of your eyes). A lot of bikers doesn't look over their shoulder when biking past a connecting road. The majority does not defensively try to determine if a right turning car has seen them and just assume it has. Some are all over the place and bike on the left side of the cars. There are a ton of other examples I see on a daily basis. They do it simply because it's more convenient to them.

Bikes and cars share the road, yet a great many cyclists act like they have priority. E.g when stopping at the red light, all cars waiting to do a right turn should have the right wheels close the the curb, and cyclists should queue up behind the car. They however almost always try to get past you, even jump off their bike and walk on the sidewalk if they have to and some give you the finger in the process - how dare you be in the way of how they think it should be?

No matter how much motorists break the law, they're not putting themselves in nearly the same danger. Not even close.
I think you're looking for Core Wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html
Another related sci-fi pointer and one of my favourite books:

Stanislaw Lem's 1987 novel "Peace on Earth" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel) ).
Ahh Im 16 hours late to the party,

What's helped me deal with procrastination is, to keep a backwards list of things I have done.

I used to make a timetable, plan my work ahead, and always end up not following it.

I then did it the other way around, now I think about the work I have to do, just pick it up and start working, once I am done with my work, I write it on a notebook I carry around with me all day.

Its now like a part of my life, I even write down things like, "had a shower", "bought bread". I have noticed I have become really productive compared to the person from around 7 months ago. I am really happy as a person, and when ever I have a doubt if I have done enough work, my note book is there to tell me how much I have done.

I guess this is one of those carrot and stick things in this case, a self-governed carrot and stick I guess.

I think most programmers can relate to this feeling when you consider that amazing feeling you get after a whole night of debugging and seeing it run beautifully. I feel like this backwards list is also something like that. Looking forward to seeing that book fill up is making me do the work, and seeing all the work I have done lets me feel accomplished.

And I don’t get to be disappointed by plans that never worked out.
How has this not been hit with a million DMCA claims and erased from the internet yet?
I would argue that what you describe as loneliness is not loneliness, but being content to be alone.
6 cats, 2 dogs, one wife, no friends, what more could any insane homeworker ask for?
>Yes, your argument was like my parents saying I shouldn't complain about something because there are starving children in Africa. It's like saying that we shouldn't complain about smog in the air in LA because the smog in Beijing is even worse.

Nope, you misread the argument. What you're missing is that the harm in both cases described in my argument are to the SAME people (blacks), at the same era.

So, to adjust your examples, it's like your parents saying "you shouldn't complain about something" because there was something far more serious going on at your househould (e.g. you shouldn't complaint about not getting an iPhone for Xmas, because your father was just fired from his job".

Or that we shouldn't complain about smog in the air in LA when there's a tsunami of radioactive waste coming down Santa Monica. We should focus on solving THAT first.

>Your statement is that it's to "better focus on its really bad characterstics" That's not correct. The focus is on how to improve things. If the video were all about what the KKK did in 1965 then what am I supposed to do about that? Sit here and feel guilty about things that happened before I was born?

If the focus is on how to improve things (to which I agree) then we should try to improve things that really make a difference. As developers we know that from profiling and Amdahl's law.

Fixing (or fixating on) the film issue wouldn't make an iota of a difference for blacks. Exposing (no pun intended) the problems with seggregation and Jim Crow laws at the same era, would make much more difference.

And its the same when we're talking about history. At best the article is a curiosity: "back when they routinely lynched blacks and they couldn't even get a room at a hotel or eat in a restaurant with whites, film wasn't really tailored to their skin tone either".

That's nice to know when you have exhausted the other historical issues with racism. If not, it's mostly useless trivia, compared to what people should know about the era.
I have about 3% of my net worth with LendingClub. Returns have been 8%. I use the automated investing tools and don't focus at all on the number of defaults, etc. Just let the algorithm work for you. Realize that you are basically lending money in unsecured loans, so I wouldn't let this become a huge part of your overall assets. I might go up a bit higher to like 5% of total net worth. I like that LendingClub returns are not too strongly correlated with the S&P 500.

I would not even bother starting without $5K or so. Since the minimum investment is $25, you need a large number of loans to offset any harm a few defaults can cause.

One word of warning: HN folks might have a tendency to get too geeky with the hands-on tuning, creating their own special lending rules to optimize returns. I would say don't bother. You are better off writing code for money and investing what you make.
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There have been plenty of attempts to reverse engineer Coca Cola - and some came pretty close.

However the major part of Coca Cola (and its flavour) is in the recipe - the technical process that yields final product, not the chemical composition of the ingredients.

I don't have a reference handy, but I am going to present you with an analogy for french fries. I hope you can understand my point from that case (which is even more illustrative of the phenomena I am trying to highlight).

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-h...

There are plenty of fields where the Car Companies can compete - and software quality should absolutely be one of them. Therefore killing DRM does everybody a favor.
> This means we're stuck with a compiler nobody ever heard of that contains known (and unknown) bugs that can't be fixed because that would mean losing the certification.

This is why regulators should embrace formal methods as an alternative to process-heavy regulation. They're actually measuring ground truth, and today are not that much more expensive after accounting for all the costs associated with certification processes.
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> You can be quite content being alone. Loneliness is what happens when you feel socially isolated.

It seems like this was accounted for.
This is amazing! I wonder how it would compare to the algorithm that Spotify uses to suggest music to users. I've always found Spotify's recommendations to be very tightly banded and think they could benefit from more genre-hopping.
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https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc is far superior.
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You've completely ignored all my arguments and made a counter argument... =S

To address it, I think that when you say "creates an unequal playing field between you as a company and me as a user" that's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. When I say playing field - I'm comparing two potentially competing software companies (one just happens to have a mechanism to physically separate you from the code you in-effect use)

You have no ability to learn from Google even though you use their search engine - you can't reverse engineer it or improve it. Does this upset you? (again, you will probably ignore my question)
The problem is that models rarely replicate reality for very long. I live in a particularly troublesome bit of London and they used some mathematical analysis to optimise traffic light timings in the area and celebrated that it was as success. That was premature; it's measurably worse within two weeks after people realised that it was a better route and promptly clogged it up.