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> I feel that that the article often mixes cause and effect.

That was also my impression. I certainly agree with your observation that it is the ease of distribution which influenced the development first and foremost. It doesn't really take a prophet to point out that stuff which is predestined to become "tap water" will be tap water one day.
Mass markets (and thus the pop music industry) have always wanted to sell stuff in huge quantities. From a business point of view, I see rock and roll more as a starting point of an iteration that aims at perfecting the generation of pop stars than a revolution. Shows like American Idol demonstrate that we have arrived. However, meanwhile people slowly get sick of casting shows.

So by borrowing some marketing vocabulary you could say that a star became a cash cow and now turned into a poor dog

I am not sure how things will pan out in the world of physical goods, though. While it is true that we will increasingly be able to manufacture stuff ourselves there is also this need for exclusivity. People enjoy owning iPhones and Beats headphones because they are portioned out by some sort of authorities.
> Demanding that all code be open-source

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the requirement for 3rd party review, and it seems to be a common oversimplification here on HN. There is some precedent for auditing important code without any intention of open-sourcing it:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-opens-transparency-c...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-china-security-audits-ns...
> Locality (as opposed to non-locality) is a strange concept if you think about it. Because how would different points in space "know" to run the same set of equations?

I'm sorry but I don't understand your point, can you explain it further?

Also one weirdness of QM is not only that it is non-local, it is that it is non-local allowing instantaneous remote 'interaction' BUT without allowing to send information instantaneously (not faster than light).
Actually someone did

>>Do you prefer Chris, Christopher, moot, mootykins, or some other nickname. (In public obviously).

>Chris IRL, moot online.

https://archive.moe/q/thread/176519/#177568 (Warning, may be very heavy to load.)
There’s a classic argument against this:

“Death. Destruction, disease, horror. That’s what war is all about, Anan. That’s what makes it a thing to be avoided. You’ve made it neat and painless. So neat and painless you’ve had no reason to stop it.”

— Captain Kirk, A Taste of Armageddon, 1967¹

① https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
The cheap ones are usually bought used anyway and might need repairs, you're free to upgrade the brakes. I'm usually limited by road traction, not my brakes, though, and they're as cheap as it gets. Proper maintenance is more important than expensive components.
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I commute in Berlin by bike. I'm reasonably fit and on an open road I can average about 28km/h for a couple of hours. In the city though my average speed is about 18km/h because of traffic lights. There are very few people who overtake me on my commute. I don't see how you would manage 20 miles (32km) in less than 90 minutes without running all the red lights and riding like these madmen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhaGzAnEOd8
One of the most disturbing biases Ive noticed on the tech scene is ageism. IMO it is far a greater threat to innovation,discovery and advancement than anything else out there except pehaps for sexism and racism. Unfortunately it is widely encouraged.Dont succumb to to its false message.
There is no reason why you cannot be innovative at any working age. Many important discoveries have been made by people who have utilized experience and turned it into a force. arsalanb says it best: "... You are bound to fail or succeed based on your execution skills and hard work, and not whether you get accepted into YC or not...."
As a 39 yr old on the same track as you I say "Go for it."
You don't need a publishing industry for that; you just need book reviews.
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The point is not the focus on their local history, but the exclusion of other peoples' history that enabled their own history in the first place.

Generally, the view taught in schools in the West is that "civilization" as we know it developed pretty much linearly on the axis Greece - Rome - Medieval Europe - Modern Europe/North America. Sure, there were some other civilizations in some obscure places like South America or China, we are given to understand, but they don't really count, they didn't have any lasting impact.

What is all too often neglected is that history doesn't work as simply as that. Greek culture developed in interaction with ancient Persia. Rome was also influenced by places like Carthage in North Africa. The Middle Ages in Europe weren't known as the "Dark Ages" for nothing - compared to contemporary Arabia, it looked pretty barbarous. (Arabian influences on medieval Europe are many and varied, ranging from architecture to food and weapons.) In 1793, the envoys of the first British diplomatic mission to imperial China were still viewed as "barbarians" [1].

Of course it is entirely justified to focus mainly on your own history. However, the danger of focussing too much on yourself is that you forget the achievement and importance of others, leading to unwarranted nationalistic pride.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macartney_Embassy
IO, Maybe, ST, STM all being monads gives you the same sort of benefits that you get from Int, Float, Double, Integer, Complex all being numbers.
I donate to people, but is forcing (violently if necessary) other people to do the same ethical? Aren't there better ways?
Another problem is they may violate licenses by not distributing source. We may end up with forked versions of the kernel and other major components, with useful new features implemented and no corresponding source. (Note: I have no evidence that this is happening).
Why exactly homelessness is a problem?
>Why not ask Google to make their search engine code public?

You could ask for the code to be open in applications where it can directly kill the public, eg. car and aircraft controls, and not elsewhere.
When they test the efficiency of new cars, it's fairly obvious that it serves only as a comparison between different cars, and it does not translate to real world experience. I really wish that companies was required to perform the tests with a car only as it is sold to the customers.
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> But somebody who is 10 today, will likely have a life
> expectancy much longer than the 80 years

Turns out there's a _highly_ developed and mature prediction market for this called life insurance, and they disagree with your assessment.
uname -a | grep Linux

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>Happened twice in the last century. Even South America was the least affected, but it wasn't unaffected, and it's not like they'd generate a huge amount of trade (compared to EU/Asia who would definitely be involved).

Well, okay. But we traded with (and made a hell of a lot of money from, frankly) the combatants until we entered the war.

>Out of the 10 worst stock market crashes, 8 happened during WW2, 7 during the period where the US wasn't actively involved in the war.

Temporary crashes in the stock market are just noise. Long term investors won't even notice. If a few traders go bust? Meh.

>True, but at that point the consequences are a "fait accompli", history, and unchangeable. You don't ever want to get to that point if you can avoid it at all.

We've done it before. Twice.
Nice find. Yes raw data will be more useful. Especially, with Amazon's Pay-Per-Page for Kindle Unlimited, if such data is available, it will be interesting to see how authors reverse engineer this process to achieve maximum page views (and completion rates)
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Mortality in People with ADHD [pdf]
Right now the pass payments are processed by Stripe so I doubt the same could happen.
I was trying to explain this to my boss the other week and after a little wolfram alpha came up with it being a lot less than the number of atoms in the universe but a lot more than the number of stars.

Seemed close enough.
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The original Red Flag Linux is ended in 2014, due to fail to get government subsidy. This is recorded on both Chinese and English wikipedia. And in later 2014, another company bought the remnant of Red Flag Linux and continued publishing it till now, though I don't know anyone still using it.
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Man this article has the most pointless and annoying use of Animated GIFs. I want to read that uname line, damn it, what's the point of animating the typing in of it? Over and over again in a loop?
Apple blocked CNNIC CA months after MITM attacks
Actually it's the other way around. Because of translation invariance we have the law of conservation of momentum. Because of temporal invariance we have the law of conservation of energy. Every symmetry gives rise to a physical conservation law, from which forces can be derived.

See Noether's theorem.
A very good article! The author does a great job of painting a unified view of world history within the confines of his length restriction. Of course many things are only touched upon, and many others omitted entirely, but he certainly manages to broaden one's view of cultural and political history, and shows how the histories of different peoples interlink and influence each other even today.
If you need that flexibility I think Go is much better solution.
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Not So Fast – “Happy Birthday to You” May Not Be in the Public Domain
That may be true, but I'm skeptical. Most of the advances we make are in causes of death that would lead you to die before you're at an advanced age - extending someone's life from 45 to 90 is a matter of stopping them dying from a disease or a cancer. Extending life from 90 to 100 is a matter of mitigating ageing processes where your body literally can't support itself any more. The two things (curing disease versus curing aging) are two very different realms of medicine. We've made a lot more progress in the former than the latter.

I don't doubt that it will happen, but I do doubt the timescales involved. Possibly children alive today will benefit from these advances, but 'most people alive today' seems unlikely.
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Well, there isn't much to explain really. Physicists have long had an "intuition" that says that non-locality is somehow a strange concept. However, intuition is often misleading. So I'm flipping the "argument" around and I say that it is more intuitive to think of locality as a strange concept, and to think of non-locality as something which is more natural.
Mathematical model suggests London Underground may be 'too fast'
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> .. is forcing [...] ethical?

In a democracy taxes would be considered ethical, by most. Even for redistribution.

> Aren't there better ways?

There could be. Do you know any? Use your vote.
>In your example, your ISP has allocated you well over half the bits in an address.

The reason for that is because as of IPv6, DHCP is is no longer the standard way of getting an address. With IPv6 autoconfig each device assigns its own /64 address (either based on MAC, or randomly generated), thus subnets smaller than /64 are simply not practical for most use cases.

Having a /56 means you get 256 distinct subnets to assign as you please, just like you did with 192.168.0.0/16
You're saying we have access to the premiums on a 70+ year life insurance policy for a 10-year-old, or at least a reliable proxy?
I can't say I've actually read the EULA, but they do have a nice Privacy FAQ, which I assume is nearly as legally binding: https://support.google.com/work/answer/6056650?hl=en

"Google processes your data to fulfill our contractual obligation to deliver our services. Google’s customers own their data, not Google. The data that companies, schools and students put into our systems is theirs. Google does not sell your data to third parties. Google offers our customers a detailed Data Processing Amendment that describes our commitment to protecting your data."

Another way to look at it might be, given your data is one of their biggest assets, it would be foolish to sell it.
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I like this way of visualizing probability as a series of random variates of the distribution in a timed sequence. After watching for a while, your mind can get an intuitive notion of the probability without having to parse numbers and functions.
If a car manufacturer want to add flavor to their software which follows the very strict regulations of GRAS, then why not? If someone want to add different lights on their hubcaps, or maybe a voice controlled assistant inside the car, then they are free to follow all the regulative hoops in order for that isolated unit of additive to be declared as safe.

The legal fallout if Coca Cola claimed rat poison as GRAS would be nothing less of major incident. The expert panel that they are required to hire would likely go to jail on fraud. The documents to the FDA would be proof of intentional deceit, basically guaranteeing that who ever submitted it will get the harshest punishment available to the court. All of it would be enough of a deterrent that companies only do this for the most critical company secrets which they are 100% sure is safe, and everything else can be inspected by the FDA. A pragmatical and reasonable method to make life critical products as safe as possible.
I was on a YCF panel on Monday talking about HN and got to interact with the group, and I loved them. Everyone I talked to was bright and enthusiastic.

But I think you're more likely to get answers to your questions here if you repost this during daytime hours California time.
I'm a clinical psychologists who work with ADHD patients and others who procrastinate.

Many believe their self-worth is tied to personal accomplishments.

This trips you up because procrastination creates a negative feedback loop where the lack of action creates anxiety that increases inaction.

If you can't follow the mantra that you should "forgive yourself" because it feels to corny it might be easier to think:

The most effective thing for me to do right now is to forgive myself because the time I spend beating myself up is energy wasted.

This might be less elegant then just simply forgiving yourself but it might work.
Well SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Taxes) exist in many areas for roads and schools. Why not put it to a vote. However before succumbing to yet another tax why not have the current expenditures of the local government examined to insure the money they currently get is not wasted, especially on pet projects.
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> are forced to move to an area they can afford

And what about the people who can't afford to move in the first place?
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I remember reading something about how one of the biggest hurdles of tackling homelessness is dealing with those who were made homeless through a history of mental illness. If someone suffers homelessness due to mental illness, I'm sure that chucking them in with a bunch of other homeless people in a shared home isn't going to fix the problem, so it'll be interesting to see how these people will be treated.

$100m isn't really a lot, but if that money can be offered to help people that need more than money and a roof over their head, it could do some genuine good.
Homelessness and people being vulnerably housed are useful indicators of poor availability of mental health treatment; of poor availability of drug and alcohol treatment; of a lack of rehabilitation in criminal justice; of predatory and aggressive debt chasing; etc.

There's a lot of misinformation and stigma around people who are vulnerably housed (often along the lines of "they did it themselves") so by by creating a culture that helps homeless people you're helping a potential future-you.
Volkswagen CEO resigns amid emissions scandal
They were suspicious when a unix terminal (telltale sign you might have accidentally installed linux) popped up so they did some forensics!
It is also important to note that Microsoft is not offering shared kernel on Azure using their new container technology because they believe it is too insecure. Microsoft might be a special case because their kernel has an especially large surface area. But I think the current cloud providers that are providing shared kernels are walking a very fine line when it comes to security. Seccomp obviously mitigates this problem and probably puts you in a better position than using a hypervisor if you lock things down very aggressively.
Actuarial student here.

Mortality improvements are important, but immaterial in this context ;)

I think that this should be taken as more of a qualitative illustration of the uncertainty of life, as opposed to a quantitative measurement.
I believe you misunderstood the last sentence of my post, since we seem to be in agreement. I also say that most people alive today will probably not benefit from the advances.
You can bang out the same semantics in anything Turing-complete, but syntax is still important.

I can't think of a way to say `(html (body (p "hi")))` as clearly in pure JavaScript.
> ...while multicast is useful, there's probably ways to implement it without sacrificing 1/16 of the entire address space.

It's far too late for that now. :( Perhaps if IPv4 multicast were more widely used on The Internet the large carve-out would look more sensible to you.

> That range isn't general-purpose IP space.

Yeah, that's a true statement. Just remember that "reserved" has a particular meaning when it comes to IP address ranges. :)
Nobody uses it in China. Dell installs it on computers just because a computer without an OS is not allowed to sell in China.
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I guess there is a difference between "Company X" has my data, and "Anyone can buy my data from Company X".

I wouldn't like if my ex could go and buy my location data of Pebble. Or my boss, or a burglar.
I really like this. It takes the human element of guesswork out of the equation. Need to do bloodwork? Perform this test and if anything comes back positive, do a different and more thorough confirmation test.
There are two sorts of wealth - private wealth and public wealth. Private wealth is your nice house, your fancy car, your money in the bank. Having lots of private wealth is great and it means you lead a comfortable life. Public wealth is the society you live in. It's the quality of the roads you drive on, the cleanliness of the streets, the safety you feel walking around a city.

To be happy you need both kinds of wealth. If you live in a big, expensive house and you drive a Ferrari, but there are parts of the city you live in where you don't want to go, then you aren't living a rich, full life. There'll be a constant reminder of how there are people worse off than you, and that will make you feel awful.

People who are homeless effectively make everyone worse off. Helping to fix their problems makes your own life better.
The origins of “stay hungry, stay foolish”
No. This libertarian idea that people would give more if they weren't taxed is utter bullshit. As is the idea that every human is an island. We're all in this together.

The charities people give to? For the most part, it's acute and visible charities. Very few people give to the same charity again and again, over the course of decades. People also give to attractive charities - kids with terminal diseases is a much easier charity to raise money for than mental health in young adults. Same with animals - people care about cruelty to dogs, but they don't care about cruelty to voles. And while you haven't said it, another libertarian refrain is that people would donate more than they get taxed, which is obvious nonsense, because nothing is stopping them from disposing of that extra money.

Anyway, if you don't want "violent" (stupid bloody redefining, that) taxes, then move to Vanuatu. It has good weather, happy people, a small government, and the army is so small it's also the police force (fewer than a thousand people). There's no income tax. Of course, there's little comparable in the way of infrastructure or services, but you'll get to live the libertarian dream of hiring your own garbage collector instead of having one violently forced on you by the incompetant apparatus of the overbearing state.
And so we come full circle, back to waterfall.
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Utility is the underpinning of rational choice theory, which is what neoclassical economics is based upon.

Neoclassical economics definitely does make a pretense of being scientific. As does Marxism.
>I think the Volkswagen episode shows that we need better emission testing mechanisms.

Code is not the problem - in this case code is just one possible loophole out of many possible loopholes.

The fix here is to make sure that corporate officers who break the law and cause significant harm are jailed and/or stripped of any profits they accumulate as a result of their actions.

This will not happen because we've set up a culture where the higher up the pyramid you are, the more you gain personally and the less you need to worry about being punished for being a bad actor. Convictions do happen occasionally, but they're exceptional, not inevitable.

You're not going to fix that political/economic problem - which is a direct outcome of free market ideology - with code review.
The article mentions that NeoKylin may be based on a recent version of Fedora, which has me confused. Isn't NeoKylin derived from Kylin, rather than Fedora?
How hard is it to design a PIN lock? There have been so many bugs of these nature in the last years, and probably before...

And the only solution is to disable Siri, instead of having a "Disable Siri from the lockscreen and make the lockscreen just a fracking lockscreen."

EDIT: I know, the simplest things end up not being so simple when you look at them closely and try to add a few features. Apparent simplicity in software design is often deceitful.
One of the problems is briefly touched on in the article - human ingenuity finding new ways of waging war. From the Japanese Kamikaze to more modern forms of "hybrid warfare" currently being waged by Russia in Ukraine. Western leaders don't fully appreciate quite what hybrid war is yet, so wargames can help play out ideas about it but if you don't know what your opponent is actually conceptually capable of doing it is very much in the "free game" end of the spectrum and not necessarily of any assistance.

Humans are far more complex than mere games can compute. Many WW2 strategy games have to artificially adjust forces involved in the Battle of France in 1940 because rational AI players should not be beaten by the Germans.
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I think a better approach would be requiring that developers (and their managers and testers etc.) working on software that could kill or injure people if it malfunctioned have some sort of a professional license, that would be granted and revoked similarly to how medical and engineering licenses are granted and revoked.
There's not much to be changed, just make donations voluntary. People are better off deciding where to spend their money. Politicians can ask for it, and spend what they get. Obviously (judging from approval ratings) they will need to make more articulate arguments. Resources would be better spent.
Storing 1TB of data will cost $5/month, or $60/year. Amazon Cloud Drive offers unlimited storage for $60/year.