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It's not a zero sum. If my opponent is also rational and unpersuaded by emotional pleas, then we converge to truth more rapidly.

I recently got around to reading Scott Aaronson's Complexity of Agreement: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/agree-econ.pdf

One of the predictions of this paper is that rational Bayesians sharing information will a) rapidly converge to agreement and b) after making arguments, will often switch sides. An individual's position in an argument will look like a convergent random walk rather than a gradual concession in a negotiation. Of course, real life arguments rarely go this way [1].

But when reading this, I was struck by the fact that in some rare cases I have engaged in arguments that move this way. In every case I can think of, the other participant in the conversation was either a mathematician, a philosophers or a lesswrong reader.

[1] One rare exception to this is real life arguments about what a stock price should be. Yay for market transmission of information!
Thanks for pointing this out. It also covers all the objections discussed elsewhere here (e.g. that some professions are fine-grained, others lumped together, and that two categories were omitted for being too huge and vague).
If we assume time travel is possible which is quite a leap already, why do people fixate on things things having to keep their fixed point in space relative to... well.. relative to what? Frames of reference can really complicate this.

Perhaps time and gravity are related in a manner that means as an object travels through time it maintains position relative to gravitational influences (and local ones affect it far more than others due to the inverse-square relationship) and maybe the effect is strong enough on each part of the travelling body that it maintains orientation relative to those gravitation influences too (so the car not only stays on the road but conveniently wheels-down as well).
OpenSUSE is my prefer Distro as it seems to get new but stable just right.

Also the MOST under used Linux tool out there is https://build.opensuse.org/ The openSUSE Build Service is the public instance of the Open Build Service (OBS) used for development of the openSUSE distribution and to offer packages from same source for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise and other distributions.
You're parroting a textbook example of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Maybe "real Christianity" is as you describe, but the majority of practicing Christians in the real world are just as bigoted and awful as the majority of everybody else.
Installed Ubuntu 11.10, had no tech calls since...

Now I would rather advice to go Debian w/ Mate desktop. Debian testing is stable and very reasonable, Mate seems golden middle between XFCE/GNOME/Cinnamon.
> The manpower doesn't exist to verify these details.

No, but that's not the point. The point is having yet another data point they can use to incriminate you, regardless of the actual crime they decide you must have committed. Say, you declare you'll stay at this hotel for a week, but actually check out after a day to [go sell drugs || see-sight in another city]; if they decide you must have been selling drugs, even though they can't prove it, they can get you for lying on your entry paper.

The more laws and regulations you have, the easier it is to punish anyone regardless of whether they can prove bad things actually happened. It's a degeneration of the "Capone" approach, and it's extremely common in authoritarian regimes. The fact that this sort of pointless law is becoming quite common across the EU is a worrying trend.
On the nontechnical side I would add that since D is a lot older, keeping up with changes is a whole lot less challenging. Its stable enough that one can put it near the money without worrying too much about breaking changes.
Nearly all the Twitter mentions of it I've seen lately were people talking about the price rise.
This is false, a lot of things are seasonal or weather related.
Can anyone defend Linus' version as better communication than Eisenberg's?
Nice tools, but...

While these are all helpful tools, most (but certainly not all) of these are performing functions that are already available from the built-in developer tools on Chrome.

And IETab is rather pointless if it's only available on Windows, because Internet Explorer already has (rather decent) developer tools built in and can render older versions, but it's still not as accurate as running a virtual machine with the actual IE version. The real IE bugs, such as CSS selector limits, are not represented by the renderer.

I would be very disappointed to see a professional front-end web developer using all of these extensions while ignoring the built-in options.
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This is an idea that needs more traction. It would solve so many problems that our society is struggling to solve such as poverty and equality (to some degree at least)

There should be more debate about this and at least one country should approve it, it is encouraging to know that the swiss are seriously considering it...

One can only hope...
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Commodities are never virtual, always real. The ultimate source and sink for the commodities that are traded (oil, pork bellies, coal) are actual producers and consumers. Many traders do run warehouses or other storage facilities, so that excess commodities can be held and sold later at a higher price.

It's not stupid that they are in the same system, it's in fact required.

Also, I would expect that commodities traders place massive buy/sell orders all the time -- they make money on small deltas * large volume.

The story may very well be apocryphal, but as other commenters have mentioned, there are many stories out there of traders failing to exit their position before the delivery date and having to "take delivery".
A friend of mine working as a transport economist produced used modeling and projections to estimate things like traffic congestion, road usage, miles driven and so forth over the next however-many years (this was in the late 90s and the effects were striking -- as in bad). His boss was startled by them and said "what about the effects of the internet and virtualization?" "That's what you're looking at."

A whole lot more stuff is being delivered to people's doors today than twenty years ago.
yes it has: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd
And OMG yes. So many lawyers.
I thought that finally I can see example of Linus being abusive. This was not it.

Linus was attacking the work and ideas and cursing them. He was not attacking the person who wrote the code. Cursing is not abusive by itself. Cursing is emotional emphasis.

I would not want to work in a environment where strong emotional language used to criticize your work is considered abusive. If conflict over ideas and work does not make your blood flow, you don't care.
Pyramids are built of concrete - low tech technology (fire+water only) know for thousands of years.
Nobody will try to pull that shit again for quite some time.

The "Constructive" version will be handwaved by submitting the same code again and giving literally any deflecting excuse like "You're just afraid of using new technology like this function.
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When I was 17, I was super enthusiastic about Linux. I read a bunch of stuff about kernel development. Linus' attitude was very well known and presented as an amusing thing. Glorified even. I remember reading some of his emails with a great deal of schadenfreude.

Now I'm really glad I never pursued that. I work in a field where all the leading figures are absurdly nice and respectful. Reading Linus' rant makes me appreciate that more.
But do you not feel offended when you are the one who came up with the idea?
Just to expand on nursing, those 2 are actually really different jobs so they need their own category. A CNA needs a 3 month program/night school and that's it, for an RN you need to go to school/college for 4 years. There are far more CNAs then RNs but some CNAs do end up becoming RNs so there's that.
"Abuse"

ITT: Grown adults being little bitches.

This is why the next generation will be so fragile they'll be unable to take any sort of criticism. God help us.
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I can very much recommend this. Keep starting it up every few months and having days of fun with it again. Combat is really polished! Actually, the entire game is.
Funny how the author "will moderate comments" and the only comments left are those who uncritically agree with them.
Hi,

I don't post much, but I read a lot from the content here and haven't seen too much written about choosing a cloud provider for a SaaS Startup.

It seems to me a critical decision in the life of a startup, that if you get wrong, can cost you at least a few months of catching-up to get back to your initial pace.

Does anyone have any similar experiences to share ?
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Man, I've never had a problem with a broken iPhone screen. I worked for months on a pretty large construction site breaking up concrete while dropping my phone fairly regularly and it's still aces.

Obviously a stronger screen would be great, but a case does wonders if you want a functioning phone for now.
I disagree. D is an improved C that does a lot of the same things as C++, but in order for it to be a better C++, it would need to start with C++ as a foundation and build on it. D has more of a scripting language feel to me.
The weather does not cause prices to change. Traders do. The weather can be an influence on supply or demand economics, but price fluctuation at its core is not a natural phenomenon by any means.
To be honest, Linus' rants is making a better point for me. I really feel his pain with overflow_usub, and i feel nothing when reading rewritten version.
Better to collectively track which domains are serving malware (aka 'This Site May Contain Harmful Things') than pick a particular CMS.
My take on it was that the non-abusive rewrite would be much more useful to the submitter, as it lays out the issues. The original just make Linus look like he's lost it. Glad I don't have to work with him.
I will try without the condescending tone of the other commentor:
Why does this not increase the possible damage a meltdown would cause?

Or does it increase the possible damage, but the security is high enough that the expected damage is lower than storing it elsewhere?
Freedom of opinion and expression also means people can point you out as being an abusive asshole. Goes both ways.
I don't know, I don't believe Europe is really doing a bang up job of preventing suicide either, but I will admit that I don't know much about the situation, I'm just hypothesizing.
Does it include React Native too?
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Why on earth do I need to "feel his pain" rather than just understand the issues at hand?
They... should be offended? Because it was a bad idea that ruins the Linux Kernel. Kernel development isn't for everyone.
> Completely irrelevant and not true in my opinion.

Hardly, when talking about brash/abusive behavior in the context of an industry where women are underrepresented, I think it's plenty fine to mention that there might be a connection to be made.

> the gender of the poster makes no difference

Eh, I don't agree. It's well-observed in social sciences that men are given more leeway to be abusive than women are; one example is how often words like "abrasive" or "bossy" come up in performance reports: http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias...

Or just look at our popular media: how many male antiheroes on TV have enough audience to support them vs. women antiheroes? For every Walter White or Doctor House or Tony Soprano, how many unlikeable women are there? Roxane Gay writes about this pretty well. http://www.buzzfeed.com/roxanegay/not-here-to-make-friends-u...

> Does the gender issue really have to be shoehorned into every story?

Per above, I don't think it's "shoehorned." And I think it's fine if we talk about it more than we currently do, because there's plenty to suggest we don't talk about it enough or are insufficiently introspective about it.
It's officially run as a pyramid scheme in all marketing for the last two iterations at least.
The top post on HN is about bitcoin's price rise[1]. So there seems to be no need to add another post with a separate discussion about the same issue.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505362
Why is it that people who support Linus' tirades and mention freedom of speech, etc get so incredibly hurt when others exercise their own freedom of speech and point out how abusive they are?
Would be nice to have an up-to-date, in-depth list of all arms of the Murdoch media empire...
Here's a starting point: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSngE68UcAA1mn5.png

#BoycottMurdochMedia !
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Only the camera position is required to get good alignment, lens and zoom level is fixable in photoshop, just crop and scale a bit.
Many but not all; and this override usually depends on all parties agreeing at all stages.
I had the same feeling about the last bit of the article. Drama for no reason. I would be glad if the tech community focused more on tech than on shitstorms.

Some people are just too sensitive. If you don't like how Linus behaves, then don't deal with him. Noone forces you.

But why post an article on your blog which is associated with Mozilla including a gist of collected swear words? At least Linus didn't engage in some meta-drama nonsense.

unfamiliar: I don't agree though that this makes Linus a unstable person. In fact I'd say if people can't swallow some swear words, then they are in turn not emotionally strong enough.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492282

Wasn't it throughly discussed, dissected, analysed and debated in that very recent topic?

The only new input this post beings is one more opinion among the many in that other HN post. Should it be considered a dupe?
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She does almost everything in the browser, user support is a breeze, automatic backup, updates, etc. Cheap.
Shanley Kane criticised Linus and got her and her family's addresses posted, death threats, rape threats, and other horrific abuse. If you think gender isn't an issue, you haven't educated yourself well enough.
Isn't that an incredibly tempting figure? Almost like the result was picked because it almost has to be commercialized?

You'll get various war stories about what it really took in practice for satellite XYZ, but geosynch satellites burn along the lines of fifty or so m/s of delta-v per year for station keeping. To a first order simplification its true that you launch a geosynch comsat into space and it stays over the same general point on the earth for infinite time, blah blah but in practice there is always slow drift and impact of solar winds and lunar gravitation and whatever, so its not actually motionless and requires continuous, eternal, fine tuning.

Anyway using a couple hundred watts to completely eliminate the stationkeeping thruster fuel completely seems a fair enough trade...

And yes I know stationkeeping isn't a perfect continuous demand for thrust all year long, etc. Still, its interesting, and of the right magnitude, more or less.

I don't think it would be terribly useful for human transport, true. But its suspiciously right at the mass, power, and thrust values required to be commercially viable for comsat station keeping. That's either incredibly lucky, sometimes the universe does smile on us, or ...
Non-attachment, experience, maturity, and a host of other techniques.
And also: http://www.gobolinux.org/
This reminded me of the "Humans need not apply" video, which I strongly recommend, if you haven't already seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8172461
You are right, "unconditional basic income" would be the better term, in my eyes.
It depends on where you think we are on the technology curve. If you go by projections based on the rapid advancement of the aerospace field from 1940-1970, we're about 20-30 years late on having regular hypersonic flight between DC and London. Same story for things like fusion.

AI as a field plateaued somewhere in the 1970's. Much of the recent innovation has come from applying existing, understood techniques to ever more amounts of data (enabled by faster processors, and data sources like GPS and digitized map data). But it's possible that AI that can code programs will require fundamental leaps in the field. In fact it's quite probable--we don't even really understand what such an AI would look like. At least with things like fusion or hypersonic commuter travel, which are still far away, we understand roughly what the solution would look like, we just face massive engineering challenges.
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>Nobody will try to pull that shit again for quite some time.

Watch me! (not really, but if I wanted to troll Linus, rants like that would serve as encouragement)

Also using the compiler builtins is the most secure, most readable, least error-prone and fastest way of implementing overflow checks.
The /package directory sounds sort-of like what GNU Guix and Nix do. They have a "store" directory (say, /gnu/store) that works like a content-addressable storage system. All store entries are associated with a SHA256 hash that uniquely identifies the build. There's no SAT solver needed because package recipes precisely describe their dependencies, all the way down to the bootstrap binaries for the system. There's also no global /usr that prevents multiple versions of the same software from existing on the same machine in a sane way. Users can manage their own "profiles" which are symlink forests to a set of store items. Each user can choose their own set of software without needing root privileges to install it and without fear of breaking another user's environment. Furthermore, users can manage arbitrarily many profiles and even create temporary environments (perhaps in a Linux container if you're into that) to perform one-off tasks or hack on a new project without polluting any profiles. You also get transactional package upgrade/rollback.

I'm one of the Guix hackers, and we're about to make a new release announcement today, so I encourage you to check it out: http://gnu.org/software/guix
To play devils advocate

>In one of the talks by Linus he spoke of a developer who felt suicidal because Linus didn't want to include some work this particular dev had done. Linus didn't cut the shit short when he should have, he let it drag out too long, which is why he acts the way he does now. It's a defence for him and the developers in the community.

What is more, people remember abusive posts and will remember the mistakes.
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Linus doesn't deserve to be in his position. Technical merit doesn't excuse being a horrible manager of people.
A person wrote things that some other people find morally objectionable. Some other people think the thing that person wrote was not morally objectionable. Now someone "considers" the thing "indefensible" in their "personal opinion." Hacker News asks for intellectually stimulating topics; this one isn't.
Linus's rant is literally entirely based only on why that is wrong.
Can you (the person who wrote that this code would "ruin" the Linux kernel) explain in as much detail as you can how it would have ruined the Linux kernel?

I'm curious about how much people take what Linus says at face value.
There's no reason that anyone would need to be emotionally strong enough that in a company with adults in which the focus is working together on technology, they should expect to get sworn at a few times as an acceptable interaction with their peers.
When I think of Gateway, I think of their lawsuit against Alan Clegg over the domain gateway.com. Clegg registered the domain in 1990 for his consulting business, back when Gateway was known as Gateway 2000. A year before Gateway 2000 changed their name to Gateway in 1998, and then went after Clegg for trademark infringement. Ultimately Gateway lost the lawsuit and settled out of court with Clegg but I'll always think of them as a bully.
Yes. The link for this story adds less than the average comment on HN in the previous discussion to the overall conversation.
Basic income, guaranteed basic income, basic income guarantee, unconditional basic income, guaranteed minimum income, minimum income guarantee, and a few other things are different names different people have used for the same thing. The definition you provide is what all those terms often name, but the terminology "basic income" alone is not universally accepted as the standard label for it. Additionally, some of those terms have, in some contexts, been used for things which don't meet that definition.
It might be selective perception, but I get the clear impression that this idea is currently enjoying ever increasing traction.

Google Trends seems to confirm this (although I don't know what caused the initial spike back in 2005 or 2006)

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=basic%20income
People use "natural" or "baseline" to refer to the price a commodity returns to after a bubble burst. Though, price movements are more chaotic than that and you can have short term spikes, swings from external effects ex: natural disasters, short term 'bubbles', and demand from things like tax policy changes so "natural" is somewhat vague.

So, the implication is it's what happens when you remove short term and artificial effects.
> Does the gender issue really have to be shoehorned into every story?

There are some people who believe it needs to be brought up more, even in places where it's off topic, because raising awareness is easy and historically it has been an effective strategy to move the needle on public perception.

Linus isn't celebrated because Linus is a famous programmer notorious for being quick to reach for the poison pen, Linus is being celebrated because he's a man, or so the story goes.

I agree that gender isn't relevant to Linus's behavior. The door swings both ways on abuse, after all. Humans of all gender identities are equally capable of being terrible to humans of any gender identity. But if the author's gripe is with the public reaction to it, it sort of makes sense why they would bring gender up. Namely: strategic political reasons.
Because them some people think it's still ok to go with the broken code

That's cultural differences 101

As a simple example: in Canada one might say "please do not feed the animals" in a Zoo. In some other places, for the message to have the same effect it must be as such: "It is expressly forbidden to feed the animals! Those being caught doing so will be expelled from the zoo!"
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You misunderstand this passage. It doesn't mean you can open your mouth and say any stupid thing and no one can do anything about it. You can get fired. You can get your account removed from Twitter. People can complain about you on the internet.

Oh, and don't paint Brendan Eich as some kind of victim of the free speech police. He actively participated in trying to deny a large class of Americans the basic freedom to marry whom they wanted. And people decided they didn't want someone with that record running Mozilla.
But then I don't care, according to the GP...
yup, hindsight...

I never had a problem with a phone screen breaking until the 6 plus. My OnePlus is bulletproof.