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As long as wars are fought by humans, friendly fire incidents are going to happen. No amount of training will eradicate it.
Your comment is a nice example of the frequent misunderstandings concerning bitwise reproducibility.

My article argues that infrastructure tools (compilers, runtimes, ...) should ensure bitwise reproducibility, making it possible for a programmer to define a computational result exactly through a program's source code.

This does not mean that we can't have different algorithms. It doesn't even mean that no compiler could ever re-arrange operations for optimization. The latter could well be enabled through a compiler option.

All I am asking for is that infrastructure tools leave all these choices to the programmer.
Nah, it’s just realistic about the extent to which most users will want to repair their devices …
> * The thing that links all these incidences is not low or high tech but the American military. Clearly its pilots, soldiers, staff are not trained properly.

No, the thing that links them all is war - it's incredibly messy and people have been killing the wrong people in wars for as long as men have been fighting.
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You made a categorical statement - "putting entries in the block chain is not a taxable transaction. As far as we can tell, that's wrong. It'd be different had you written "putting entries in the block chain isn't always a taxable transaction".
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> Say, a presidential election could be influenced by a company deciding it won't allow ads of candidate Y or Z etc... or Donation campaigns won't be able to afford a market price of higher ad prices.

That is a perfect example of why adblocking should be on by default for everything. It'd solve that problem instantly.
>I'm not sure I buy the contrast between old computers and macbooks. The smallest replaceable part on a MacBook is the entire MacBook (excluding any wired or wireless peripherals), but the smallest in a normal computer might be the CPU. The CPU cannot be repaired except by replacing the entire thing. You can't repair a CPU or a MacBook, so it seems the the only real difference is how much it costs to replace the broken part.

Only, from my experience at least, the CPU is the LEAST likely part to break. If it was the most common or a usually broken part your argument would have some merit.

Besides, he also talks upgrading. An old laptop HD that has 1/4 the space and much less speed than a modern hard disk but can't be replaced, is as good as broken, even when it's not. And then there's also memory that people want to update and can't.
Err. Keep in mind the OP is from Colombia, is interested in entrepreneurship, and has big dreams. And s/he is probably young. Can we all leave the cynicism for later in life? If you think someone's dreams are a mistake, let them try and fail.
Buses in London used to have signs saying 'No Spitting'. They don't have them anymore, but not because it's now OK to spit on buses. You don't make rules against things that nobody does.
i may not always agree with spolsky, but there are a few pieces of his that i found very thought-provoking, and which have stuck in my mind. one of them is the "ben and jerry's versus amazon" post:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

it may seem like it doesn't really say anything new or insightful, but i have found it very helpful to have the distinction made so clearly, and to have a concrete epitome of each type.
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>What’s the point of making something repairable generations down the line when nobody is going to still want it because you’ll be able to buy 10 new ones that are each 100 times better for the same price.

If you're buying stuff for your 1995 laptop, yes, you have a point.

If I want to double the memory of my 2014 laptop and can't, because it's soldered-on 4GB, OTOH, I'm hosed.
I'm assuming that if we invest in the future, production will be higher than if we don't. Do you believe this to be false (i.e., do you believe that all possible investments are receiving optimal resources)?

I'm also not sure what the federal reserve has to do with anything, or why you believe the fed can't raise rates.
Yes. As do NoScript and Self-Destructing Cookies.
Even more ironic seeing how Java was supposed to not allow for buffer overflows
Vegetarianism in India is partly driven by religious and cultural values. That article does not link vegetarianism with malnutrition.

My city has a flourishing expat Sikh community who are largely (though not exclusively) vegetarian, they are for the most part robust and successful individuals.

To categorize vegetarians as intrinsically at risk of health issues needs evidence before I'll buy it. And I say this as a meat eater.
You can resolve this in basically every language by reworking your code in smaller pieces, and simply returning from a loop. Jumping left and right should only be signalling that you are Doing It Wrong (tm)
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Second time in a few days I get to recommend Adam Curtis' documentary Bitter Lake (available on iPlayer in the UK).

One of its themes is that simplistic tales of good versus evil are an issue with the recent US (with their UK side-kick) wars.

It touches on this issue, though without specific talk of sexual abuse. It does suggest that the "police" were basically just a bunch of warlord militias and so when the west turned up and started helping them, they were immediately seen as part of the problem not the solution by many of the locals.
> What’s the point of making something repairable generations down the line when nobody is going to still want

The parent comment said that this would become more relevant as Moore's Law continues to lose effectiveness.
I said it wasn't "the thing." I meant it wasn't very important. You're also talking about likes. People "like" brands. They don't follow them. Following refers to people following other people, without friending them - this is Twitter.
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I did virtually the exact same thing - except my first reaction on seeing the fake HN was: "Why the heck am I logged in as pg? Security hole? This ought to be fun, let's see what kind of things he can do in here..."

Took me a while to figure out that this was actually a fake :-(
I think it's just the Hacker News layout filled with randomly generated content. I don't get the point though. Maybe playing with some text generation algorithm?
I seriously would like to know why did not they implement a limit of characters on that field.
I'm still rocking my 2009 Thinkpad after passing on my 2007 model (too heavy for my tastes) to my kids.
Germany was winnable because after the fighting U.S. and other allies we're willing to occupy the area with huge number of troops for 50 years. Also Marshall plan.

Korean war was winnable for the same reason. Huge numbers there. Even today. Here you can see the long tail of Korean war. http://www.heritage.org/~/media/images/reports/chart5_1.ashx...

Vietnam was not winnable because general population didn't support such high numbers for occupation. There we're practically no U.S. troops left for the last two years of the war.

Since Vietnam U.S. cannot use draft. So U.S. can only conquer one, maybe two countries while keeping Korea and Europe under control. But that leaves those troops bound on foreign soil. Which in turn limits U.S. power projection and therefore cannot be the long term solution.

Wars have not changed. DoD just would love to find a way to win wars without the ensuing occupation. And that's unlikely to happen.
https://www.xkcd.com/292/

Sorry, I had to.
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Given that military funding is likely the main reason this amazing tech might see the light of day, I'm not so sure.

Also, that GPS in your phone? You can thank the military for that. Not to mention the foundations of the internet, among many other technologies that have had massive impact after transitioning into civilian hands.
Well, let's call that out then--folks should be honest that they buy un-repairable hardware at least partly because they enjoy having an excuse to get the latest model two years down the line.
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No, the "individual rights" are declared by UN. And ratified by Afghanistan, as another commenter noted.

I think you are trolling.

(This would probably not be deleted, I'm hellbanned. Too easily trolled.)
Why did YC not buy ycombnioator.com too? Isn't that a phishing risk - like www.gmail.com and www.gmai.com?
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First of all this practice has nothing whatever to do with Islam> This has been pointed out to you several times already and your persistent linking of this practice with that religion is at this point a pretty obviously deliberate slur. Please stop. Secondly, considering whether a practice has unwilling victims is a perfectly reasonable objective measure to apply when evaluating a practice. As a matter of fact, the kinds of abuse we are discussing are illegal in Afghanistan and are widely considered illegal and immoral abuse in the Muslim world, so your argument lacks merit because it is based on several false premises.
I'm on the 3443CTO revision of the X1 Carbon. The "carbon" part of it is starting to fall apart, the palmrest creaks and I really should have bought it a week later when the i7 with 8GB of RAM was available - 4GB and an i5 feels restrictive (what a sad statement on current software optimisation)

Oh, and you can only get ~6 hours of battery out of it with very particular settings and a specific power management driver in Windows 8. Otherwise it's 3-4 hours at best.
FaceTime serves me well.
I am not thinking this through but since cos is monotonous between 0 and pi/2, you can avoid the square root by squaring the numerator and still have a good similarity indicator. This is going to eke out some performance with a short tweak.
Yes. You are advising that these practices should be accepted, and therefore imply that they are acceptable and therefore in some way legitimate.
Absolutely!! Let's worry about that :/
> Islam forbids 1- homosexuality, 2- rape.

Like all religions Islam says one thing and its contrary. consistency has never been a strength of religions. Some muslims say that only homosexual acts are forbidden , as for rape , I'll let you read the quran and the hadiths again.
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Does it have to be the US? What about Berlin or Paris?
http://www.bamf.de/EN/Infothek/FragenAntworten/BlaueKarteEU/...

In a nutshell, if you find an employer willing to hire you for a regular paid high-tech job, you will get a work visa, aka "Blue Card".
And the MIPS is based on a 90nm process vs the 32nm of the Sandy Bridge they tested, while that is relevent to what you can buy, it says nothing about the intrinsic properties of the design.

Intel has had a massive advantege in fabrication for a long time.
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This is nice, but a better measure of string similarly is an edit count based measure. See Levenshtein distance for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
I just made a mental note not to click on any wired link in the future.
Is it a buffer overflow? - I suspect the OS is killing the LockScreen task due to memory exhaustion from the length of time it takes to trigger the bug.
>>I think that would be something I'd like to experience

So what prevents you from exploring I2P? I think this network is exactly what you need :)
You can search for a precise phrase using quotation marks. You can also prevent Google from returning assumed synonyms of a word by putting that single word in quotes.
> precisely knowing when an app is running and when its not seems inherently dependent on the app [...] How do the init systems you mentioned tackle this?

In systemd's case, it provides an API so that the app can explicitly say "I am now ready to receive requests", among other things.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.ht...

(I've also found the related watchdog functionality very useful -- once you tell the init system that your daemon is ready to serve requests, then you can also tell it every time a request is completed; then if you go for say 10 seconds without serving a request, init will assume that your service has hung and kill/restart it. I've seen a small number of daemons do this for themselves, but that number is nowhere near 100%, and even those who do implement it don't do it as well as systemd does.)
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Do you have a link to that discussion/paper, sounds intersting
Even if you cannot easily get a visa to work here (as some of the comments mention), you could still write apps for the US market, I guess.
It isn't nearly that simple any more and hasn't been for quite a time.

The Windows security model is not the broken mess it once was when properly used so the key problem is user behaviour particularly home users running as full admin, installing random crap without thinking about it (or simply not knowing any better), just clicking through any warnings they do get, and so forth.

If enough of that sort of user migrates over to Linux and kicks it into working the way they want (i.e. the bad way they used to work under Windows) you'll no doubt see the number of effective exploits balloon massively.

Jeff Wayne's Martians were right:
"The problem is, of course, the humans."
The American wake up.
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"That impacts the cost of providing an apartment and removes apartments that are marginally profitable from the market"

It doesn't remove them from the market, because the new (higher) property tax must be paid whether the landlord continues to let the property, lives there herself, or sells the property to a new owner.

If we were talking about an increase in the income taxes levied on rental income, then your thesis would hold. In this case, as taxes on rental income were to rise, so would the additional benefit of renting vs. living in the property myself. At some point, it flips, and it becomes better for me to just live there. The post-tax rent just isn't worth it compared to the benefit of me (the landlord) living there.

However, a property tax which is fixed with respect to the use of the property (rented or owner-occupied) and, if applicable, rental income, would not have the same effect. The annual property tax must be paid whatever happens, and it is a sunk cost that everybody must pay. It does not affect marginal decisions (buy vs. keep; rent vs. owner-occupy).
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This is the future you chose.
Sounds like you are not going to see your phone again. I am sorry for your loss.
I start with the principle, "your freedom ends where my face begins" following this acts that involve harming another human are unacceptable. I.e. rape, genital mutilation, forced marriage etc can never be cultural issues to me. In my opinion they are always wrong no exceptions.

I consider myself lucky to live in a country where the laws (mainly) reflect my own stance on many of these issues.
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I feel like people don't take advantage of how easy it is to create a simple user interface for a Drupal site. Create a new page for the user on login that lists the most frequently used functions with another link for advanced functions. That said I die a little every time I see the markup D7 produces.
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So, we agree that basic microeconomic theory would suggest that property taxes which are independent of {actual usage, actual rents received} for a particular property. Right?

You think the assumptions of the model don't hold, which is a reasonable belief. Can you point to any empirical evidence that might help us disprove the theory?
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Unfortunately, I've come to see such articles with immediate suspicion.
> But I think you underestimate what many people are willing to put up with as their daily protein source.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not even about putting up with anything. Real meat is cheaper and tastes better.

That's two reasons to keep eating meat, and depending on your beliefs it's either one or zero reasons against.
Is that da Vinci method a bit like interpreting I Ching hexagrams? Put some randomness in, add some constraints, and interpret it to your current context. Should be a similar creativity enhancer.
As much as I like that idea, there are two basic misconceptions about that.

First, the contractors are self-employed and therefor compete with each other. In a union, employees do not really compete with each other.

Second, because the contractors compete with each other, they are liable to competition laws. A "union" in this matter would be a cartel and thus illegal.

Although, a state could and should introduce regulations that strengthen the interests of small contractors.
> or directly contacting the surface with an instrument

This is more challenging than you might initially think, as conventional multirotors can't easily generate the forces you need to place a tool/sensor against a vertical structure.
Though contractor can not unionize workers of a certain industry can unionize.

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

Workers can also unionize according to craft.

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

The point of the article was that in some cases the judges have ruled that the "contractors" should be employees. And then if that's the case then they should be able to form a union.

I however was making a general point and not a specific point. Corporations and employers obviously want to force everyone into a freelance sort of position with no job security. There are numerous benefits in it for them. Someone has to do something to fight this. Because they do hold all the cards in this case. And they don't really need employees.

Uber's long term strategy of automation, which is what this is about in the long run, will essentially destroy the industry. In the long run that's really what you are dealing with. This is just one shot in that battle.
Interest-ed scientists are concerned with those things and are looking for (or founding) organizations to facilitate the research, be it megacorporations or academic funding/institutions or vc.
Hang on, if I search for "sausages" does Google only return sausages, or does it return chorizo, hotdogs, bangers etc?

What's the difference between "sausages" and 'sausages', or does this not make sense for single words?
NT has a neat feature for essential processes: you can tell the kernel, "if I ever exit, for whatever reason, panic the system and reboot immediately". There's little room for error with a system like that. It wouldn't be that hard to implement this feature in Linux too.

(Of course, you need to have special privileges to mark your process as critical.)
"Already patched" isn't really as meaningful on Android as it is on, e.g., iOS where the average user can expect to (and frequently does) update their operating system.

How many phones are still vulnerable to StageFright?
I suspect that will change as tourism becomes more widespread.
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Here's such a show, but with a small group of scientists, and more modest scope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Science

(It was excellent!)
That's not as secure as hibernation, because someone who can break into the running device can at least read all your new mail and if they aren't using an ad-hoc e-mail protocol or implemented it carelessly also read all mail and probably get the e-mail username and password too.

This also only really works for software specifically designed for this mode.

EDIT: it can actually be mostly secure if the client public key is sent before locking and then the encryption is done by the server: the attacker would only learn the number and timing of new messages and their size (assuming an ad-hoc protocol and very carefully implemented software).

It's also sort of possible to do it with generic software by simply dumping HTTPS TCP traffic to disk and decoding it once the system is unlocked (although it allows a MITM to fill up your disk unless the ciphersuite allows authentication with a key that doesn't allow decryption).
Dammit, you beat me to it :)
Hangouts actually works pretty well for business uses. Give it a try.
https://appear.in is free and does not require any installs or account creation.

(disclaimer: I'm an engineer at appear.in)
I, too, did this. >.<

"Wait, how did Hacker News get opened twice?"

...

"Eh, I'll just close this one." (You can guess which one I closed. :P)

[One pile of middle-clicking later]

"Wait, ycombinator is defaulting to opening comments now?!"

I noticed the "ycombniator" shortly after that.

I wish those links were real :(

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_198.html: "Git 2.0 changes push default to using only CSS3 - No more remote work work: An adventure in civic hacking (scienceblogs.com)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_210.html: "Show HN: Farmly – find anyone for anything you want and keep the Olympic germs away. (nowthenapp.com)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_208.html: "Twitter will pay for anything [Product] (skullsinthestars.com)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_184.html: "Ask HN: Angry/hardcore rock music to code the summer away, stuck for ideas to practice/exercice a new UI designer/programmer (NYC)"

- http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_190.html: "Is GTK+ the real reason people are startups using? (blog.cto.hiv)"

My responses ranged from "they're doing what to Linux now?" to "that one sounds cool..." to "that's true..." to "...of course I'm clicking that" to to "hm... well they must be going for an Indian motif".

And somewhere in there I was like "wow, /r/titlegore meets HN."

I'm very dense though. This was really well-made! :D

I still wish that 4th link was real. Like, I have a different taste in music, but I'd so reply to that. lol
You're right, but the KeyStore API isn't even exposed to 3P apps. AOSP, however, does use it. May be the Framework could use the state of the KeyStore (which would be set to "locked") to detect a breach?
This might be an interesting reply: https://www.fairphone.com/phone/ - it's not exactly a clunky brick, and it's completely modular and user-serviceable (at the level of modules, anyhow). Apple didn't pare down the openness, they designed it out. They've been actively hostile to user servicing since the toaster mac (that you couldn't even open without a proprietary tool).
If this theory is true, then there should be some category of goods where the poor spend more than the non-poor. What category of goods is it?

http://www.bls.gov/cex/2014/combined/income.pdf
"But phones will remain vulnerable until they're updated with the latest software patch."

So never then.
I think the problem is the people who says my dream is the change the world.
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No. The character distribution of those two strings is massively different. You'd have to tokenize the long string into words first.

EDIT: If I understood correctly and the vectors are normalised, it would match 'house' to 'hiusehiusehiuse'. Which may or may not be desirable.
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Are you talking Cloud Cap style turret gimbals? If so I'd be interesting in hearing more, as we're always on the hunt for more payloads for our larger (20kg) fixed wing aircraft.