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> I think that your comments are mean and inconsiderate. I agree that appealing to the authority of Webster on the question, "what is love?" is capricious and demeaning.

Does it have this to be this complicated for you? I have been being as considerate as I can of human suffering while engaging with my fellow humans being here asking them why they are so reluctant to question an emotion/feeling that brings so much pain, as is evident from Jesse's post, all throughout human history.

Most people have no qualms with seeing love as a feeling, especially while they mourn in the death bed of their love one, or grief over the loss/rejection of their love object. These feelings are real; they are not merely "thoughts" or "acts". Suffering is a feeling experience.

When you redefine such a core emotion/feeling to be an act, it renders all conversation around it void. From here then there are only two courses of actions: cease conversing, or establish a common ground of understanding before proceeding. I find it somewhat odd that you seem to grasp that a "feeling is not the word itself" (implied from the linked YouTube video) and yet have trouble seeing a feeling as ... a feeling.

Feelings are not thoughts. Feelings are not behavioural acts.

I experienced no "sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour" (which is what capricious means) or intended to demean anyone - as my responses have been no more than a simple pointing out of the above fact.

On the other hand I have random strangers on the internet making uncivil and pretentious remarks such as "You don't understand. You're actually stuck. You can't see it because you're stuck." ... all because I question a cherished feeling?

> To reconstruct my point, I meant that, for example, when you say, "I love you," make 'love' a verb in the present tense in your mind. Love willingness and with abandon. Notice, by the by, that the way that we use the word "love" in casual conversation is often as a verb, not a noun. You never say, "I happiness you" <=- that syntax doesn't make sense for a feeling. And love isn't one. I submit that the impetus to misconstrue a beautiful act as an emotion is mostly a commercial one.

Have you not ever felt, for example, affection (a gentle feeling of fondness or liking) towards someone without necessarily involving any behavioural act or thought? Have you not ever grieved over the loss of someone you loved?
Then you can replace the namedtuple with a custom class in the future.
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I didn't make any claims about the things you are talking about, only that it was more fun. Which it was. It's boring now. I used to go poke around, following random links just to see what was out there, encountering all kinds of oddball pages which represented nothing more than some person's individual gift to the world, and it was fascinating. It was fun to watch it all grow. I felt motivated to contribute, to share my own pages full of whatever information or opinions I happened to have. Photos of interesting places, stories about cities I'd visited, didn't matter; it all seemed like it was worth sharing, because that's what the web basically was.

I don't find that anymore. Homepages came and went, blogs came and went, and if there's still a thriving web out there beyond the big commercial sites, I don't know where to look to find it.

I still have my personal site, and I still post on my blog occasionally, but it increasingly feels like calling into the wind. I'm not going to just switch over and post all the same stuff on some big commercial site; fuck that. The web was awesome when it looked like it was going to be a new way for humanity to talk to itself; now it seems like little more than another way for rich people to make money. It does that very impressively, but who cares? Rich people always had ways to make money and will always find more; it's not very exciting when they turn yet another collaborative community project into a profit center.
by the same guy who wrote this??
http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N7/yost.html?comments#comments
Your phone likely has a L4 microkernel running the radio. There are millions and millions of microkernels out there running all kinds of things, going where Linux fear to tread.
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I'm a tiny bit confused. Is dotty scalac rearchitected or is it new PLT-research/paradigm that will be able to compile scala ?
Ive been trying to think of an effective way of regulating these sorts of contacts through legislation, and what you're describing seems like the simplest route. Simply have the public draft the standard contractual templates on behalf of consumers/employees/tenants that companies/employers/landlords are constrained to use.
This is why saying 5 of 3 is better than 5 times 3.
Mac OS X is based on the Mach microkernel. I would think that counts as real-world use.
I can't imagine that any late investors into Madoff's business had even a chance at a positive outcome. Assuming the lottery ball machine isn't rigged, there is still a chance that your numbers could come up.
Well. The collision detection and jump physics are rough in many places (which seems weird for a game that obviously employs an actual physics engine), the controls are awkward, the level design and graphics are uninspired, and there is frame lag when I shoot. The player is slow and floaty. The English is strange and there are numerous misspellings. I feel like this might have been enjoyable with controller support (which it apparently lacks) and better responsiveness. I would hesitate to even call this a prototype at this stage - it's a mediocre technical demo at best.

I think your game needs to look, sound and play much better than this at a minimum to even be noticed in the current, supersaturated indie game market, much less to convince people to invest in you. That your profile says you have yet to complete and release a game is not going to fill anyone with confidence. If this is what you can do in a month, I would much rather you released a decent game every six months or a good game once a year.

Good luck.
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as an aside, how is Mach doing these days? I suppose the most visible use is OS X and I assume Apple's engineers have evolved it greatly to keep up with the times compared with the earlier versions of OS X?
BPF is actually a tiny virtual machine (!) language designed to run securely in a kernel.

This is very different from iptables, where everything has to be expressed as a rule ("policy") with a set of fixed parameters that match a packet. iptables has a way to jump around in the rule set ("chains"), but it's not quite Turing-complete.

In Linux, BPF has been generalized (as eBPF, "extended BPF") to work not just with networking, but the kernel as a whole, though I'm not sure how extensive the set of available tracepoints is at the moment.
> Despite the ongoing scandal, the district attorneys take the position that it is not their responsibility to help identify Dookhan or Farak defendants. They lack the budgets or resources to do so, and—as they have argued in oral argument in the Bridgeman case—prosecutors have no special duty to notify defendants that their convictions might have been obtained with evidence that was falsified by government employees.

Mildly nauseating.
> To drag someone down, you often have to sink lower than they are.

We're not talking about person-to-person mud-slinging, here.

The author is performing a useful public service by explicitly identifying the consulting company. This kind of bad behaviour is endemic, but very easy to dismiss, without specifics.
> If I'm making 18k working a crap job (been there) and I get a 30k basic income, why would I not quit the next day?

Because if you keep the crap job then you make 48k and if you quit then you only make 30k. You are confusing welfare with basic income.

In any case Basic Income would not be at 30k, much lower. More likely $11k as that is the poverty line. The point is to prevent poverty which results in a much higher end cost to society.
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They are a problem now. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is a one sided contract. Can you ever envision a contract solely drafted by one side to be beneficial to both sides?

The only contradictory 'evidence' is talk about why it's better; that is, companies claim it's an easier and cheaper process. They fail to mention that what they mean is, it's easier and cheaper to them.

As a consumer, I want the laws to be written by my elected politician, don't you? Sure, there's a lot of unfairness to it. But I can't imagine a selfish corporation, one that keeps claiming their only loyalty is the the share holder, will do much better.

Just one example. You know VWs recent emission scandal? In the USA those people signed not only an arbitration agreement, but one that disallows class actions. You won't hear the problems that arbitration is causing because those problems won't make it to a court of law to be a problem.
How about creating serious penalties for prosecutors who use falsified evidence, regardless of how it was obtained or their knowledge thereof. Our society, for whatever unfathomable reasons, places special trust in prosecutors (and police), trust that is placed without cause, reason, or consequence for it to be broken. Thus, we can expect much steeper penalties when things go wrong. If prosecutors faced the threat of jail for messing up cases, they'd be more careful. How about a day in jail for every day that is mistakenly assigned to an innocent person?

The argument that they need immunity is total bullshit and in no way reflects their actual job. In fact, removing immunity is the only way to make prosecutors accountable. If they are not 100% sure of their conviction, then they shouldn't be convicting. Really simple logic. If you can't do your job within the law, you're not doing your job, you're just a criminal (as most prosecutors are morally). Same for police. These two groups of public servants should be held to higher standards than the rest. For even minor offenses, there should be long jail times. It goes without saying that when offenses by prosecutors or law enforcement are investigated, special outside prosecutors and investigators are necessary.

Truth is, the solution is simple but it will never be implemented because no one in the US law enforcement/justice system cares about justice. The buck no longer stops anywhere. We have given these people such power that they are essentially all-powerful. It is beyond comprehension why our society would trust the scumbags who get jobs as prosecutors and police officers, usually the stupidest, meanest, most horrible people you can imagine that just can't find work anywhere else and tend to have superiority complexes. These are the people we trust with life and death and then we wonder why thousands of innocent people are locked up or why our system is so fucking racist?

In America, solutions are simple, well defined, and actionable. Too bad no one who can act on them does. I think that is likely a huge reason for the decline of our society. The solutions exists and are obvious to anyone with a middle school education, yet we can't seem to enact any of them. Is it any wonder that the people in charge of justice don't care (and admit to not caring) about justice itself and who gets wrongfully convicted? Actually no. The nature of the power given to them almost dictates that they will abuse it. The sad part is that the people accept such an unjust situation and are satisfied with reciting cliched mantras like "the land of the free" all the while being enslaved by an incredibly unjust system.

Then again, most people affected by injustice in the US are either not white or poor. For all intents and purposes, from the point of the US justice system, they might as well not be American citizens. That's how they're treated anyway.
The farmer has never been "on the side" of the pigs and cattle. In precise analogy, the state has never been "on the side" of the people.
Thanks! We changed the URL to that from http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2015/10/23/dotty-compiler-boo..., which doesn't give as much info.
Maybe this depends on jurisdiction, but here in the UK these kinds of agreements have legal weight but there are also various consumer protection laws that can trump them if the terms are unfair or if the agreement doesn't disclose certain important information in a suitably prominent way.

Contrary to what the cynics are saying elsewhere in this discussion, those consumer protection laws are actually growing stronger and adapting better to the electronic age as time passes, at least here and apparently across Europe more generally. There were some big changes just this month, in fact.

An interesting experience we had while preparing terms for a new on-line B2C service was being advised by a lawyer who is actually a barrister (i.e., one who does courtroom advocacy) rather than the more usual solicitor. Our lawyer was very strongly in favour of using plain language and of having important but potentially non-obvious or unexpected terms prominent and near the start of the agreement. In other words, he was very keen that the agreement really should be written how you would hope these things would be written. His argument was that if brown stuff ever actually hit the fan, it's going to be up to a court to interpret the agreement, and that court is going to do so in a reasonable way based on what the parties involved thought they were signing up for. As such, it's less likely that a court would uphold some sneaky term hidden on page 974 that no normal user would ever have read, but if you have something unusual and it's clearly spelled out and prominently highlighted within the first few terms then it probably would stand up unless there's some strong legal argument against it (such as being automatically unfair under the consumer protection laws, for example).
Yeah they should just get back to eating witches, like before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai_people#Cannibalism
So, I guess all that drinking finally succeeded in killing off that one memory I had about... something...

Too bad I have no idea what else got taken down in the process.
Counterpoint: just add ?share=1 to the URL when you submit it to HN
Not totally true, based on everything I've heard FD is a pile of crap that chugs, crashes, and can eat your file. Mind you that hasn't stopped it from remaining on top for now, but I would not be surprised if it stops being the default in the next 5-10 years.
This is a corrosive practice that should not be socially unacceptable. It allows many people unfamiliar with the internals of an industry to live in a kind of "filter bubble."

There are many situations, organizations, or cultures where certain bad behaviours are an open secret, but largely unknown to anyone outside the context.
The craziest thing about this is that the perpetrators of these crimes do not seem to be "using their beliefs as an excuse to kill for other reasons." Rather, it appears that long-held beliefs in witchcraft are the reason why the perpetrators are killing. They sincerely believe they're in the right when they burn those women alive!

Warning to readers: the article contains pictures of crowds in villages watching as women accused of witchcraft are tortured before they get burned to death. It's shocking, disgusting, and disturbing.
That's a slippery slope which is bound to harm innocent parties. Large corporations would just love to get letters of marque and reprisal, let's hope that it is not authorized by Congress anytime soon.
The very next sentence which the article doesn't bother mentioning limits the scope of Snapchat's rights under this worldwide perpetual blah blah grant.
hmnn..good one, but should also mention the methods of linkedlist like E peek(),E poll() ,E peekLast(),E pollFirst() etc
On the high side, actually.

In many cases you'll need to get your code reviewed by an external team, and oftentimes their SLA for one round of code review is 24 hours. That a.) incentivizes big commits and b.) sets a floor on the latency of your commit process.

My long-term average at Google was 5 commits/week, max was IIRC 24/week, and min was 3 months to get one commit written, reviewed, and approved. By contrast, when I'm coding on my own for my startup, my long-term average is 20 commits/week, max was about 14/day, and min is about 1/day.
I think a lot of the common idioms passed around about microkernels stem from the old Torvalds v. Tannenbaum argument [1]. It wasn't that Torvalds was right and Tannebaum was wrong. It was simply that Tannenbaum had reliability and theoretical correctness in mind, while Torvalds was concerned with performance. The less context switching you do, the more performant your computer will be. We can take this to the extreme and look at OSes like TempleOS [2] where EVERYTHING runs in kernel mode. Most people prefer a bit more reliability, and so modern desktop kernels are generally hybrid kernels (with the notable exception of Linux which is, of course monolithic). I don't think there's any real technical reason a microkernel couldn't work on today's hardware which is many orders of magnitude faster than what we had in 1992, but a hybrid kernel is always going to be faster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...

[2] http://www.templeos.org/
This isn't just a matter of a few rogue employees. Seen in light of http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc... it looks like deep, systemic corruption. Notice how there's no mention of any of these labs processing blinded control samples? That's the root cause of the problem. What they're doing isn't science at all.

I'd like to see someone try the legal argument that evidence from a crime lab can't be presented to a jury unless it has reasonable quality control procedures.
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You can inherit from a namedtuple:

class Person(namedtuple('Person', 'age weight height')):
def is_adult(self):
return self.age >= 18
Sure, I think you can attempt to correct for if you know about them, but that's still extra work, and it's still compensation that you can over or undershoot. And then of course they don't really teach this in public schools, so most people just aren't aware. I do think we're doing an okay job in some areas, like pilot training, the scientific method, etc. But we're doing a terrible job in other important fields, like politics
You think the authorities tortured these people so bad that their only recourse is to wait for them to die / kill them all before closing to hide the evidence?

I wouldn't be surprised.
Immutability.

Both in a "eat your vegetables" sense (it's good in general to have immutable data structures where possible, that's one cause of bugs eliminated), and for practical reasons such as using them as keys of dictionaries, and as elements of sets.

You can also _inherit_ from namedtuples, in case you want to add methods.
Unless you think Bob was causing accidents every thousand miles, I don't see how Google cars are "several orders of magnitude" better. Leaving aside the good-weather/known-roads aspect, of course.
Apple's XNU is de facto monolithic in nature. It simply reuses OSF Mach primitives to build the BSD Unix layer next to it. Mach IPC is used primarily for service discovery these days, I think, what with launchd being responsible for being the bootstrap server, which maintains name-port bindings for Mach services to call into. This is a side effect of Mach port namespaces being internal to tasks, and hence not having an intrinsic arbiter. In contrast though, the Hurd decentralizes this activity by just assigning a bootstrap port for the client making the RPC call to rendezvous with the server or library in question. These days, OS X seldom uses Mach IPC directly, but rather via XPC.

Mach had a surprising resurgence in interest over NextBSD implementing a ton of compatibility layers and mangling Apple sources in a weird, misguided attempt to make FreeBSD the new OS X. We'll see how it turns out.
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You can subclass namedtuple:

class Foo(namedtuple("Foo", "a b c")):
__slots__ = ()
def abc(self):
return self.a + self.b + self.c
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>I don't invest in startups; I work for them

OK

>plowing the proceeds of that work back into startups

So, you receive only cash for your work? No equity?

> seems like bad diversification to me

Ok, so you are invested in startups or tech companies then (if not, what are you diversifying from)? [Note: we have now contradicted claim 1]

>So no, I don't have an ulterior motive.

Maybe. I'm still not convinced that you aren't an investor though.

>Retail investors should get exposure to [x] through carefully managed funds that own lots of [xs], not by trying to pick individual winners themselves.

Said every fund manager ever [who, note, try to pick individual (for some definition) winners].
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no windows version :\

but looking at http://www.arachni-scanner.com/blog/help-us-test-windows-sup... they seem to be working on it... (some months passed already though..)
I would probably even annotate that method with @property. :-)
XNU (OS X's kernel) doesn't really use Mach as a microkernel. It supports user-mode device drivers, so you might call it a hybrid microkernel, but practically speaking, it's a monolith just like Linux; everything of practical relevance (file system, graphics, most disk and networking I/O) runs in kernel mode. Some parts (high-level USB, Bluetooth, power management, etc.) run as user-space processes, but they talk to kernel-mode device drivers.

(XNU was inherited from NeXT, which was based on Mach 2.5, which was actually not a microkernel at all.)
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By itself, this accomplishes nothing but giving themselves moral cover. It's just words; there are no consequences. Consider:

* The message is clear: You can do these things, we'll let them slide at the time, and much later, too late to have any effect, we'll issue meaningless condemation and policy. Does anyone doubt that the next time a President or other authority in the US government faces this choice, they will disregard the APA completely and assume they will go along?

* There is no punishment for the perpetrators. These people planned and aided the commission of viscious, brutal crimes on a mass scale. They are sociopaths and should be in prison, the same place we put the Nazi's, rapists and mass murderers.

* There is no concern for the victims. There is absolutely no mention of them, inquiry into the effects on them, attempt to help them, or restitution. It confirms the government's effective position that, as "terrorists", they are sub-human and their rights and welfare can be disregarded.

So many people lacked the courage to stand up to the criminal and immoral acts of the US government at the time. It remains one of the most depressing (literally, de-moralizing) experiences of my life.

EDIT: I should add that the APA may have taken other actions that address my concerns. I reworded some of the above to address that possibility.
Yay, like locked named ranges in a basically-just-a-clunky-functional-programming-environment spreadsheet. :)
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"...the Google cars look like something one buys for their four year old niece or nephew. "
They really are quite ugly. I believe that will impact adoption rate.
They're not helping torture anyone right now due to a lack of demand, so it doesn't matter what their policy is. If they're needed again, they can quietly repeal or carve massive semantic exceptions to this e.g. is it an interrogation or an interview?
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