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> we will probably be able to afford a basic income or something like that. That would be a good times.

It would indeed be good times, but even if we are able to do so, will we be willing? There are a lot of things to sort out economically, politically, societally, psychologically, etc

For example, if it is "fair" for society to take 50% of the earnings of the class who owns all the robots, is it also fair for that class to ask (just for example) that those earnings aren't spent perpetuating a lifestyle of another class who tends to not shower, sleep on the sidewalk, pee in stairwells, yell at people on the sidewalk, etc. And if it's an underlying mental illness problem, then that person is taken off the street and treated, against their will if necessary?

This is just a simple contrived example, you can imagine all sorts of your own scenarios across the spectrum of human activity, add in cultural variances and issues of international immigration for extra fun.

But in all of these, if what is asked of group (a) is ok, but what is asked of group (b) is considered a "violation of their basic human rights" (or whatever), which I expect will be the case (see current day Europe), I think this utopia is much further away than many think.
Does this proposal not suffer from the economic calculation problem?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Oh yeah, I totally agree, the examples for the IO monad match up very well to what can be done with Promises. My point was more that this is the case because the IO monad is the canonical black box monad: All you can do with it stems from its implementation of the monad interface, and so anything that behaves like a Monad will look very similar. This is tantamount to saying that Promises have a potentially useful Monad instance (which I am completely in agreement with you on).

The point about continuations is also a very interesting one, but I think again, stems from the same idea: Almost any monadic interface can be simulated with continuations.
Licecap? https://github.com/lepht/licecap
I saw your presentation about project FiFo in Erlang User Conference 2014. I asked you what does Joyent think about it, you said they're cool with it (gave you a t-shirt?). At that time, however, Smart Data Center was not open source.

Do you still work on FiFo, even with SDC being open? What are the main its selling points compared to SDC?
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It is also worth noting how the author doesn't mind the landfills as long as they are in rural countryside. You know, where I grow my food and raise animals for their meat, not him.
The routers that most of us use are also essentially black boxes with unverified software that could be spying on us (e.g., via some back-door known to its manufacturer, your ISP or the FBI). And if you think that a reputable company wouldn't distribute malware with their product, you've already forgotten about Lenovo's little stunt.
Less Space taken up by parked cars may mean more space for people to live. Though SF real estate will likely be insane for the foreseeable future any way you look at it.
I have no desire to buy "fame", but I do wish Twitter wouldn't correlate the number of people I'm allowed to follow to the number of people that follow me. I frequently hit their cap, and am forced to scan my following list for accounts that have stopped tweeting. This seems like a poor way of handling that scenario - you penalize the person that is still using the service that actively follows the constantly evolving network of users.
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Have a large number of tests, let the law of large numbers rule (eg let 1000 random people borrow each type of car). Have a think about whether there's some bias between the manufacturers built in and adjust your sampling accordingly. Make the data available to scrutiny.
BBC collaboration to build multilingual media monitoring system
this site often has the lowest price panels in usa http://sunelec.com/
Although the tabloid could hardly have framed this article in a viler way, what Brennan actually wrote is reflective and poignant and deserves to be read. If there's another URL we can switch to, we'd be happy to (I tried but couldn't find one).

If you comment on this article, please be charitable and please stick to what's interesting about it.
Yes, why? I get to choose the behavior of my property. My computer is my property, even more than your idea is your "intellectual property". So, why can't I block ads? Ads are all lies anyway.
There is an Internet meme going around that purports to show a German serving size one step larger than extra-lage, called "American." I have no idea if this is real or not. Can any German/European HNers confirm or deny?
I think this really depends on someone's stage of development for a particular issue. I'm coming from the frame that, there is no "standard" maturity for an "average" person. Each of us have pieces of ourselves that are in different stages of growth, and not necessarily because some of them got "stuck" somewhere. It is what it is.

For some people, on some issues, there is a need to assert themselves. I've met people for whom, some issue, left them feeling victimized, helpless, and hopeless. There's a shift that happens when, such a person drops that sense of victimization, and develops the sense of the initiative, of agency, of being able to make choices. For a lot of people, this idea that you can make choices (as opposed to merely taking options presented in front of you) is life-altering.

Likewise, when you are used to making choices and having an effect on the world, all sorts of things now come up. This includes the asshole (someone acting from entitled superiority), the jerk, (someone acting as if surrounded by idiots), and so forth.

As one of my friends put it, the "ego" -- and by that, I speak of "the acquired self", or "the conditioned self" -- likes to take credit for everything even if it is not the source of everything. That means that even humility, modesty, charity, mercy can get hijacked by the ego. I've met people, even meditators, for whom, the ego hijacks the spiritual development that comes out of their practices.

One of the things the ego can hijack is that very capability of making choices (real choice, not just taking one of the options). We have long associated the acquired self with this idea of making choices, but making real Choice ... the ego actually shies away from it.

It's similar to how most people don't actually want real Change. Real change has much more to do with death. People tend to seek out novelty, instead -- apparent change that doesn't really change anything deep down.

One of the things I've been working on in the past week or so in my meditation is the relationship between posturing and posture. Posturing happens as a result of clashing egos. In some cases, maybe it is just one person thinking they need to posture, while no one else is participating. The noun "posture", though, is neutral, associated with "martial arts stance", or "yoga asana". I've found through martial arts, there is a particular feeling that comes from wanting to win and overcome the other person, which leads to becoming physically unbalanced, and then the other person exploits that. My desire to win and submit the the other person is the seed of defeat. A lot of work went into being sensitive to balance and imbalance ... to seek out balance within myself, to upset the balance in my opponent, to correct postures and structure of the body, to learn how to break all of that. It's only in the last week that it dawned on me that posturing is accompanied with the same kind of imbalance in the emotional and social dimension, and that by simply by dropping things to the ground, the desire to win an argument disappears.
With efficient optical sorters, some pure plastics where fetching as much as aluminium by weight. I'm guessing the plummeting oil prices may have had an impact here though.
But is this not the way things are almost now?

Kids of all stripes are forced to study once they get home until they go to bed. Go to bed, wake up and go to school (you better get straight A's) then go home and study. Adding in more time for studying? We'd have numerous studies on the pros and cons of this method.

I'm sure one could point to a time period in our past where people would think that the way we live now is 'dystopia'.

There could also be novel ways to use this time.

For instance, it would be kind of cool to study while sleeping, maybe some math or science or art or history. Then during the waking hours, instead of studying more, I'd love to do something with that knowledge, stuff that you can't do while you are asleep. Like experiments, make a software program that does something, draw some art that mimics a particular period. Utilize that knowledge and expand on it but in a more hands on fun way.

My $0.01.
That 350k might go up once we have self driving cars.
F7U was an unusual design (cf F35 thanks to the USMC's S/VTOL requirements), and its development period was quite lengthy for its time (though nothing compared to some programs these days including the F35). The F-9F first flew less than a year earlier and was already serving in Korea in 1950, the F-7U finally made its carrier deployment in 1955 and it didn't stay in service for that long afterwards.

I'd point out similarities to teething problems with the F-35 -- the first time the USMC deployed it, didn't they find that the exhaust would damage deck plating, which subsequently had to be strengthened? Didn't happen when Harriers are taking off and landing...
Tht sounds like a very bad idea. When buying a car, you already have to make a tradeoff between performance, practicality and environmental impact, but at the very least you have discrete choices and you know the car will be usable. If remapping the ECU at will becomes standard, what is to stop manufacturers from basing MPG figures on a map that does 0-60 in 40 seconds? Where would you draw the line for the definition of misleading consumers? Or what's to stop rednecks from constantly running sky-high NOx and CO2 emissions?
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On an affordability (cost vs earning power) basis, houses are extremely expensive everywhere in Canada - we are on the same trajectory the US was with their housing bubble, but about 2 years behind - the difference is, ours never burst, and we have surpassed the peaks attained in the US.
That doesn't sound expensive
"That opportunity to make your own meaning is an incredible one if you choose to accept it. If you don't, it's not, and depression/nihilism results."

This is not true. There are meditative practices where you end up passing through depression and nihilism, but those are still forms of the ego trying make itself known, clinging to it's existence. This is similar to the Five Stages of Grief, where you are not yet at acceptance and equanimity.
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That's a consequence of using impulse-constraint contact simulation on ragdolls. If you use spring-damper contact simulation, the motion is better, but the compute cost is higher. Impulse-constraint simulations have instantaneous velocity changes, which looks wrong for large objects. I call this the "boink" problem. Here's what it looks like with nonlinear spring-damper contact simulation.[1][2]

I did those animations back in 1996-1997. Havok licensed the patent rights from me, but switched over to impulse-constraint because it was faster and could be done on the 32-bit FPUs of game consoles. Spring-damper simulation has a reputation for failing badly under high forces ("Trespasser", an early Jurassic Park game, was a disaster because of this), but I figured out how to fix that. (You have to use nonlinear simulated springs, and then, having created an insanely stiff system of differential equations, figure out how to integrate them. This can be done well, but it's hard to do it in fixed time, which is a problem for games.)

Havok didn't do too well in their first years. They overexpanded, more or less went broke, a new group of investors and management took over and downsized, and a few years later the new investors exited by selling the company to Intel. The founders didn't come out of it very well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHqEwk7YHs
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaWIHc1VLY
It's a good start, but the solution is based on the default behavior of HTML/CSS, that is to position text in the middle of the leading. Text should sit on the baseline. There's a sass library that solves this problem nicely: https://github.com/designbyjake/sassline

Works even better with Tim Brown's modular scale library: http://www.modularscale.com/
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I realize H5 and H6 aren't used that much, but the sizes for these elements are absurdly small for me. I cannot even read them. Perhaps consider a minimum font size as the size of paragraph text and stop going with smaller text and consider some other way of styling (e.g. replace bold with italics or regular weight).
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It appears to be an excerpt from Ms. Brennan's memoir, approved for republication for the Mail: Chrisann Brennan, 2015. "The Bite In The Apple: A Memoir Of My Life With Steve Jobs"
Don't like Java? Try COBOL.

Then you will like Java.
I apologize if I gave the impression I was claiming otherwise. It's just context for the discussion.
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We did tunnels like you mention in Boston 15 years ago. The results have been great, but the costs, schedule, and construction hassles were a massive challenge to public consensus.
You seem confident of the licensing terms. But, you really have no facts to back up your claims so it's entirely speculation and most likely very incorrect. To suggest Sun wanted a measly 25 million for a perpetual license was silly. Sun wanted a piece of the pie and there was no way Google was ever going to let that happen. Oracle failed to assert their VM patents and so their copyright claim on the SSO of 37 Java API's was their last desperate hope of clawing any compensation.

Android is the reason Java is the #1 programming language. I hope Google transitions to another language and leaves Java in the dust. Google is responsible for making Java relevant in the consumer space and Google is also going to be responsible for making it irrelevant thanks to Oracle.
If you're retired or can work remotely, and don't mind missing out on all the culture and activities available in a city, sure you can move to a cheap house in rural Canada. The difference is, in the US you don't have to, you can have both in many places. Low affordability, like in San Fransisco, is an anomaly in the US, in Canada it is the norm.
Nihilism is still a form of depression.

Things are not permanent, yes. All things arise and pass, including nihilism and depression.

The folks I know who are truly in equanimity and live in the present, are present in the moment, are among the most vibrant and real people I know. When they laugh, they laugh, when they grieve, they grieve. They are fearless in their love, even knowing that all things will pass.
I've been pushing my current company towards Google cloud because of the billing. Sure AWS is great with reserved instances etc but in our environment I don't know what we will look like 6 months from now in terms of instances. With Google we'd be burning way less cash with our 100 or so instances.
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slightly unrelated, is there any way you guys could add the ability to create multiple instances with the same settings using the web interface?

I'm able to do it on aws but with google cloud I have to either run the command line or manually start every instance
While lot of people are thinking about how the self driving cars will effect commute specially to work. We really don't know how the workplace is going to change. I think the conventional workplace is ripe for change. Will there will be more need to commute to work as opposed to more remote working with say virtual workplace with better virtual reality. Obviously some of the jobs can't be done unless you are physically present, but I am would like to think these jobs will get lesser and lesser. If I have to go to workplace lesser, I as well might leave far off from workplace. Also with self-driving cars will be lot as stressful as driving. I would assume self-driving cars will give us the chance to work farther from workplace. And less dependent on near to prime location.
I'm pretty sure anyone working at Google knows how to put ads on a free service but in any case, I saw a lot of people calling for a paid option in the period between the de-featuring for the botched Google+ roll-out and actually closing the service down. That would have been a natural approach: free version has ads with some sort of “Pro” option to remove them.
Heheheheh :-)
I was literally just thinking about this a couple days ago as a way that things might reasonably develop with mass surveillance, while going horribly, horribly wrong.

Almost can't believe it's real.

If they go ahead with this, what is next?
And not a single surfer showed up!
The funny thing is that there is a mathematical symbol for assignment, the left-arrow, "<-". At least it's used widely in algorithmic notation to show assignment- and also in R.
I agree that the easiest detection system is to look at engagement of tweets...I have a few thousand followers and I average about 2 to 5 favorites/retweets...so if I see someone with 50,000 followers and less than that average, I get a little suspicious. But most people don't think to look at this...and news outlets are quick to jump on what seems like a valid tweet from a valid account. The reason why we don't see much of this happening is because most of the people who buy followers probably aren't hoping to do anything particularly malicious or disruptive.
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-invasive-blossoming.html, which points to this.
You don't even need to trust me, use the compiler's own "time-passes" flag to see a breakdown of where the compiler spends its time on any code you wish to feed it.
the 3h can be included in the job time, so you only stay 5h at the office
The impact will be very wide, and certainly not limited to real estate, although there will be huge effects there to be sure. It's a transformation not less significant than the development of the Internet itself. Cars will not have to be heavily built to withstand collisions, we will not need controlled intersections, highways will be able to have fewer lanes, roadways and bridges will be able to be of lighter construction because of the reduction in vehicle weight, speeds will be able to be much higher than they are now, enabling fast travel between cities, etc. It's going to be huge.
Sounds like a good massage therapist could have done the same thing without the patina of bullshit.

The essence of craniosacral therapy is moving the bones in your cranium. That's the top part of the skull which protects the brain. In adults, those bones are fused, and no longer move; they're still distinct pieces, but the only time you're going to get any flexion up there is if your skull has been fractured.

So any massaging of that region isn't being done to move the bones, it's being done (whether the practitioner knows it or not) entirely for the benefit of the muscles, which is what helped you.
I'm curious if you use ad blocking? Why or why not?
* For some families, it's no longer necessary to have two cars -- the car can drive itself back home for the other person(s) to use during the day. Or neighbors could even share cars.

* Centralized parking at the neighborhood level for cars to be out of sight and charging while not needed. Services could be built off of this concept to handle cleaning, maintenance, etc.

* Reduction in need for street parking in busy areas. Cars can drive themselves away to "orbit" or be parked while the owner is shopping/eating/etc. This allows for alternate uses for the space ... bike lanes, or just better pedestrian zones.

* Smaller lot sizes are possible for homes if driveways and large garages are not needed/downsized. Smaller parking lots for apartment/condos are also possible. This makes denser real estate developments possible, especially in suburban areas.
Good question. It does, but public goods always have this problem. We currently address the problem by granting temporary monopolies on intellectual property so prices can be established for it. This is replacing one market failure with another.

Think about it this way: when humans invent new ways to live healthier lives, we limit the access to these inventions for at least 20 years. Isn't that crazy? Everyone could be living with the benefits of those ideas twenty years earlier, but in order to incentivize the creation of those ideas, we explicitly delay progress.

Instead, we could just pay for intellectual property as a society. This introduces a new problem of deciding the price to pay, which is what merit capitalism solves. An individual picks her own price, then decides how much others have to pay to remain part of her society of people she rewards. That is, if you don't pay her minimum contribution, then she won't do work for you or sell you products, nor will she work for people whose justification for their reward is that they've rewarded you in the past. Your rewards are cut out of her economy, which makes rewarding you less valuable for every other human. There's one less place for other humans to go to get rewarded for rewarding you.

Does this lead to the optimal price of public goods? There's no proof that it does, but I don't think such a proof is possible. Intellectual property leads to the price that monopoly power achieves, which clearly isn't an optimal price. In merit capitalism, society will iterate until their prices achieve a level of progress they collectively find desirable.
> Also I don't want tax dollars to pay for someone to study poetry for 4 years for free.

I do. Society needs poets.
How about "free tuition for everybody, like they used to have in California."
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The fun question is, if somebody invents one, and it's found in nature later, is that sufficient prior art to invalidate the patent?
Grossly misleading. You're measuring the build time of an optimized build, which is not what developers are building during routine development. Optimized builds deliberately trade compilation speed for superior performance.
Veedrac "points out" his likes and dislikes, that doesn't mean his likes and dislikes are "The Truth".

When Veedrac dismissively tells you - "pidigits tests whether you have bindings to GMP" - you should ask why he hasn't told you that the measurements can be different even when all the programs use GMP; you should ask why he hasn't told you that the measurements also show the difference for the same language implementation when programs do and don't use GMP.

etc etc
This sounds like too wide a gap between design and current state of technical aspects, such as higher yield engines and control systems. These were times when design had sort of a life of its own. I guess one can look at the Tomcat as the alignment of a similar design with a technology that can carry it.
Yes, it does. I had a question about a billing item and they answered a few days after.