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Is he saying that because other animals also seem to exhibit free will, and because some humans appear to be more impulsive than others, that makes it possible without a "supernatural ability to transcend the laws of nature"?

Buried in the article, rather than in an introductory definition of the terms used, is the line:

"for some, a really free will is one that is not determined by anything – one that stands outside the causal chains of nature. Such a person might feel cheated when offered instead a set of capacities that we share (to a degree) with cats and chickens."

Surely there's nothing at all novel here. We've long known that other animals have varying degrees of autonomy.

I also don't think that any determinists would argue (or even ever have argued) against the existence of this kind of free will. Just that it is only free if you also accept that Bertrand Russell's table is "oblong, brown and shiny, to the touch it is smooth and cool and hard", and choose to go no deeper.
That article was rumor/speculation a couple of days before this (the actual announcement). Good discussion in both places, but this one has the better info - thanks for keeping this one up.
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Very few. Seven in total last year I believe. I hired an exceptional Data Scientist from Moscow for a London based startup on a Tier 2 visa. He had a PhD plus a number of years of commercial experience and was being offered an outstanding salary. Technically, he could have qualified for a Tier 1 visa but the process involved was a nightmare. It was genuinely easier to bring him in on a Tier 2.
I guess we could have some kind of web of trust system instead. But are there any web of trust systems that actually work in practice?
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The comment there by Anonymous:

"Reminds me of this: "The Hostile Email Landscape," by Jody Ribton http://liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape/

In summary: Start sending email from a new mail server and the established players will likely mark it as spam. Market captured."
Second this, but Joel Spolsky said it much better http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
I'll take your word that Afordable Care Act is eroding "quality health insurance plans". I have seen the rates, and they all seem outrageously expensive.

What I have seen is Insurance companies just finding loopholes, and doing what "for profit" insurance companies do; make money.

I don't know how the Affordable Care Act is making things worse.

The insurance companies were greedy, selfish bastards before the act? I don't think health care would have magically gotten better with time?

As to Obamacare. No it's not what he originally wanted. Politically, he needed to amend his original bill. At the time the Rebublicans pressure was palatable. He knew it was this, or nothing. An election was comming up, and he knew he wouldn't be able to get anything through next congress.

I'm not a fan of Obamacare, but we were cornered. It was this, or nothing.

I do believe we need to document our complaints about individual Insurance companies, but that will probally never happen. Why--because it's one of those subjects we don't like to think about.

I don't have an answer to the problem of horrid insurance companies, and medical institutions/individuals that overcharge us. I would be the first one pulling the cord on Obamacare if someone could get a better alternative through congress. I don't see that day comming soon.

(To the Doctors/Institutions that don't abuse their power; you have my highest regard. To the ones that accept a medi-cal patient every blue moon; you have my highest regard. To the ones who are just in it for the money, or blame everything on the Insurance companies; some of us see right through the lie.)
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Or just surf.

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Warning, don't marry a wife who writes authenticity is overrated or a wife whose main interest is power. The hypocrisy is real in one of our most prestigious institutions, and in many others.

Therefore the wise man declares: he who is guilty of the country's sin may be the priest at the altar. He who is to blame for the country's misfortunes, is often the Empire's Sovereign. True words are often paradoxical.

Tao Te Ching, chapter 78.

http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/daodejing78.php
"EV certs are going to be the only ones that get the 'green' chrome in browsers anymore."

Are there any facts to back up this claim?

Edit: This is what HN looks like in Firefox 38.0.5:
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img4/RsbN6Rsn61k2IMN/12/12_l.png

Sure, the background color is white, but there's still a padlock icon.
Technically, yes however employer 2 would still need to jump through significant hoops as the individual visas would still need to be transferred. It's easier but not easy.
I don't think this is that surprising. A lot of those firms would already have large-ish engineering teams already but managing the complexity of the mail servers is just not a good use of that resource.

Mail is a mostly solved technical problem, and having 'better' mail servers than the next guy isn't going to put food on the table any more.
> it took me just a couple of hours
> to learn how the process is handled at StartSSL.
Well, if something takes 'just a couple of hours' to learn i'll happily fork over some money to ease the pain. You can get certificates for $10/year nowadays.
Uh, what the fuck? Seriously? This guy was both facing a higher THEORETICAL maximum than Aaron, and got a significantly higher sentence than Aaron could have ever received.

And no, Aaron was definitely not "threatened" with 50 years. Where are you getting that from?
Legally I'm sure there's something in the TOS or contract that allows them to access the data if necessary.

Realistically, the number of people who can actually access customer data such as email and documents is probably quite small and heavily audited. Even accessing scrubbed telemetry data is probably audited.
A good DBMS includes a bunch of integrity-preserving measures to deal with data corruption. No reason not to run your DBMS on ZFS as far as I'm aware (edit: at least if the workload does not trigger excessive fragmentation), but I'd reserve the word 'negligence' for, say, not using an appropriate backup solution.
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> Wishing this guy 50 years just because "that's what they threatened Aaron for" is the kind of attitude that is going to keep the US prison system as horrendously inhumane as it is today.

On the contrary, if we apply the law equally we might see some push for reform from current groups that consider themselves basically above the law.
Or just auction of the visas to the highest bidders. Or let in anyone who surpasses the average native in education (or tax-paying power).
At astronomical timescales even Earth's life is just a blink of an eye. It's not at all unlikely that life on other planets happened, is happening or will happen somewhere out there. The odds are just pretty good that we'll never be able to find out because we not only happen to be in the wrong place to observe it, but also in the wrong time.

That's pretty depressing IMO.
Where exactly did they threaten Swartz with 50+ years?

Lying is a very questionable way to push your political agenda.

"he just downloaded medical journals from the campus networking closet" isn't very accurate either, he broke into a server cabinet and actively evaded security measures to download medical journals.

Keep in mind that he wasn't even ever sentenced, which makes him a REALLY shitty poster boy for US legal system abuses.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-scan...
One letter away from something completely different. Anyone ever thought about renaming this? I had to look twice...
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E-mail software is not complex. It's all based on a simple line-based text protocol. The stack is also pretty simple to learn if you spend an hour on it.

The administrative headaches range from general user woes to networks that don't want your mail or have various ways of handling it, and you regularly have to address new and unusual problems. But this has nothing to do with the stack or protocol. This is because not all mail is made the same, not everyone does it right, and spam is really god damn annoying.

Don't run your own mail server unless you want to find out what makes BOFHs cry.
waiting for the "rust is an acceptable ml" blogposts!
>You have absolutely no respect for your elders, do you?

No, I have no respect for people that offer analogies via obtuse references and then look down on you for not getting it.
You never know if there is backdoor and someone might be reading all the emails.
I feel embarrassed while reading your comment as a Rust proponent... Promoting Rust is great at times, but this particular article doesn't really have anything related to Rust. It is true that Rust was much influenced by OCaml, but the influence is not to a degree of calling it a "dialect". I'd say F# is much more likely a dialect of OCaml.
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And then imagine the same thing but you're not playing the game. That's what happens when you have massive exposure (ie work at a company) without doing anything to manage it. Diversification is good.
> The fact is whether or not we have free will is largely irrelevant.

I think perhaps more proper would be to say, whether there is an underlying determinism or not is irrelevant (and that's what Dennett is saying). Free will (as in freedom) is relevant.

And about that question, it's quite easy to:

- Build a deterministic system on top of non-deterministic one. Just take a lot of indeterminism and average it. For example, we do that with computer gates, which are deterministic, but built on very non-deterministic (random) behavior of atoms.

- Build a non-deterministic system on top of deterministic one. Take a pseudorandom generator and keep the seed/algorithm for yourself. For example, we do that in operating systems, where operating system itself is deterministic but each application lives in non-deterministic environment, because it doesn't know what other applications or processes are running inside the system.

So just going from atoms to applications, we switched from non-determinism to determinism and back!
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Agree here.
BBC shuts off iPlayer to UK VPNs
Within only two years of the Data Retention law getting passed in 2008, it was already being declared unconstitutional in 2010.

How come after almost a decade and a half the Patriot Act still hasn't reached the Supreme Court? Or the FISA Amendments Act passed in 2008? Even the new USA Freedom Act is still much worse than what the German Data Retention law allowed in 2008.

http://www.dw.com/en/german-court-rules-data-storage-law-unc...
> Start sending email from a new mail server and the established players will likely mark it as spam. Market captured."

Oh because it most likely is?

Oh and I wonder why people use gmail, between having to use tools that are absolutely user unfriendly and a hosted solution, the option for 99% is clear.

(However I don't advocate using gmail/google apps)
Actually, it's two letters away. PilloW
English drives me crazy and it's my native tongue
The curving of the blades I don't think is intended to support faster blade speeds at all, but rather scoop air more efficiently. Computer modeling has enabled designers to develop much more advanced blade designs.

And BuffloBagel is right, I got that part wrong. I think what I was trying to say is that a turboprop supports faster aircraft speeds than a traditional engine. But yes, the propeller remains subsonic.

Unless you're experimenting with madness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H

Edit: So apparently the Tu-95 does have supersonic turboprops. But I think it's the only production aircraft with them. Also, it's loud as hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95
surf (best with tabbed) is another webkit option: http://surf.suckless.org/
Portugal has a Golden Visa scheme, which "gives foreign investors who spend 500,000 euros on a property ... the right to live in Portugal ... They are also free to travel around all the EU countries ... and after six years they can apply for Portuguese citizenship" according to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26636829 .
> At astronomical timescales even Earth's life is just a blink of an eye.

Age of the universe: ~13.8 billion years

Life on earth: ~4.1 billion years

That's a decent chunk, not the blink of an eye.
I've heard good things about Digicert
You can buy one right now from India.
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Show HN: Programming basics with Swift, free course
Hi everyone,

We've recently released a free course on programming fundamentals with Swift. It's meant as a prep course if you want to learn iOS development but have no programming experience.

I know most people here won't need programming fundamentals, but I'd appreciate any feedback. What do you think of the material and structure of the course? Presentation?

The reason I decided to make this course was when I looked at other materials for learning iOS development, they fell into one of the two categories:

1. Targeted at programmers, or at least people with some prior programming experience. This is cool if you do have programming experience, but problematic for beginners.

2. Targeted at beginners, but completely unrealistic. Things like we will teach you to become an iOS developer in 4 weeks, no coding experience required, etc. They mostly just fiddle around Interface Builder and glance over a few programming topics but leave you confused and unable to build anything on your own.

So this is meant to help the situation. I strongly believe you need to understand programming basics first before going into details of a technology, and there isn't that much material on that topic. The stuff that is out there is mostly for Python or JavaScript, which is cool if you want to go into web development. But for iOS apps, you then need to switch languages while you are still struggling with basics, which just makes it harder and more confusing.

The link above is for the youtube playlist for the course, but you can get access to it through our website as well, and to also get the source code:

http://bit.ly/swifty-jr
Not really, Pornhub was launched in 2007, at that time they were not that many other prominent tube sites, Youporn had been around for a bit longer but Brazzers was pretty much printing cash at that point and growing insanely fast.

They did not do it to reply to the competition and revenue was sure as hell not suffering, they did it because it was the future and they saw it as such as well as a great way for them to funnel sign ups to Brazzers and other paysites such as Moviebox.

By then they were already a dominant force in the market and moved on to acquire most other tube sites to apply the same model as they did on Pornhub.

Also last time I heard advertisement on tube site were still the main revenue stream for them, might have changed now as I've been out for a few years.

Source: Was Lead Developer on Pornhub and Back end dev on Brazzers before that.
How do you know it's the exact same behaviours? Maybe there actually is a difference in behaviour? Your quite does sound plausible.
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Yes, finally. I've been awaiting this moment from the first announcement. Happy they made it (:
"dwb" is also webkit based but more minimal (Support for Adblocking, among other things)

http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/
In fact, if you're a non-EU national, the easiest way to get into the UK is to marry (or be in a civil partnership or in a long-term relationship with) a (non-British) EU national. The paperwork is simple, cheap, and although it's not exactly fast you get a temporary certificate within a week or so.
A legendary animal.
There's many ways, all obnoxiously complex unless you go back to a CA-ish voluntary trust model.

Keys as addresses (I2P, Tor hidden services, CJDNS) fixes a large part of the security problem, then on top of that you can add your choice of address translation. WoT style individualized trust webs? Trusted lists of name assignments DNS style? First-come first-serve á la Namecoin?
>Realistically, the number of people who can actually access customer data such as email and documents is probably quite small and heavily audited.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/30/google-rep...

Realistically, Google had no idea who had access to their customer data back then.
Because it doesn't settle with having as many single points of failure as the number of CA entries in your root CA list, they are getting multiplied over and over.
I'm not sure why the article focuses on hiring people from Silicon Valley... Mostly people hire externally to the UK to reduce wages but in CA wages are roughly double what they are in London, let alone the rest of the U.K.
Arguably though wildcard certs are a bad hack on security, as it binds multiple distinct endpoints to a given keypair.

Given the occasional implementation weakness, and key recoveries, I would much rather bind only one key to a name.
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HN is not a support forum. Please look here instead: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/welcome-to-lets-encrypt-...
Allowing multisignature models would at least drop the single point of failures, by being able to require verification from multiple CAs. In combination with certificate transparency and DNSSEC+DANE it would add much stronger security.
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Does anyone know any good GUI OCaml IDE for Mac (something like RStudio)? Because the plugins for Eclipse and Intellij aren't very good and ocaml-top doesn't seem to work.
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Why are there multiple intermediate certs? I don't know the details of the standard procedure.
Morphic is a bit the 'Lisp' of UI frameworks, learning it is valuable on its own for the insights it brings. In comparison, most UI frameworks (barring McClim) are virtually identical (gridbag, Model-View-Something).

related: As the Javascript object system is close enough to Self, of course someone thought of making a morphic for the browser: http://lively-web.org/welcome.html
It's always a different stock. If you do this with Enron, you will lose 100%.
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Chrome text editor supports vim and emacs mode, but is not configurable
The text editor that google chrome devtools uses (ClearCode) has vim and emacs modes:
https://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
https://codemirror.net/demo/emacs.html

Unfortunately there is no way to configure codemirror in chrome without recompiling the browser from source.

Related issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=249254
We've recently been cleaning up our keyboard shortcut implementation in DevTools. The end goal is definitely enabling customizable shortcuts and we're definitely targeting those step-wise debugging usecases. Star to get updates: http://crbug.com/174309
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In short term trading your profit/loss will be probably random. Saying that some day trades make money is like saying that some people might flip a coin and hit heads 20 times in a row. For a big enough group of people it will happen.
Unless you are high frequency trader - then you make money every single day.
For the first, the README says it's logic.py and not nway_logic.py that has the article's code. (The latter is a generalization that was actually written first.) logic.py was extracted from the text, and the transcript tested against it.

I've just backported the renaming to Constant into nway_logic, and that example should work unaltered now -- thanks!

For the second, the interface to the decision diagrams does not use variables with names, as explained under 'Systematic succinctness' and demoed in make_alu_inputs() -- I aimed for the simplest code that shows the ideas. But I think you're right that bdd.Variable should've been called something different from logic.Variable.
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Then by this logic one could argue, that locking them away for 30 years is not unfair because it is also predetermined by the state of the universe at this given time and there is nothing other people could do but to sentence the killer. Free will or no free will the argument goes both ways.
Is there any suggestion that regions of brain communicate wirelessly (or "chemicallessly")?

I always thought brain waves are only artifacts of the flow of electrons within the brain - a moving charge creates an EM field. In the same way one could talk about "CPU waves" - EM emissions generated by electricity flowing through the processor.
can you sign a cert for SSH? I know that you can add the SSH server public key fingerprint as a DNS record and sign an openSSH certificate with your own private CA but are there any public CAs who will sign SSH certs and would the ssh client even trust anything other than a manually added CA?
I've dated a few accountants, and my mother was one. You'd probably be surprised what's in their spread sheets.
Mail is a commodity now. It would be like trying to program your own switchboard or run your own phone lines,
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I saw some handicapped guys modify regular Segways to have these knee high, hands free controllers years ago. They went all around the Los Angeles Industrial tools conference without using their hands. It was brilliant and made the segway seem like an extension of their legs.
They could weave among all the people with ease and you didn't even know they were on segways until you got close to them.
And in the UK; it's a risk to free, universal health coverage, or will somehow result in mandatory contracting out of services for an increase in cost and reduction in accountability.

The NHS isn't perfect, but the US system is a nightmare that must be defended against.
The more likely scenario is a penalty for flying under the control of open source software.
It's right here:

> But the caffeinated nectar was not nutritionally better than the plain nectar. In effect, Dr. Couvillon said, caffeine “causes the bee to overestimate the quality of the resource.”
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We hire outside of the UK to have as broad a talent pool as possible. People cost what they cost.

What this article is actually about is tier ii visas being gutted to pander to the right wing anti-immigration lobby.

Tech employees are jumping ship from this country left right and centre already - the EU is important both as a hiring pool and a market, and when the UK leaves, so will a big chunk of the tech industry.
The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is consistent with local realism.
Hi, I'm Ross one of the developers at Force12io. We've done a blog post with more details about the tool.

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