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That is not true freedom, because it still works within the confines of the law. No, true freedom would mean it it impossible to have anything be anything other than public domain because there would be no one to enforce IP.

The free software movement with its copyleft licenses strives for this kind of freedom, but having been yet unable to eradicate IP law, essentially uses it to undo itself. "My creation rejects intellectual property and so must everyone who uses my creation."

It seems contradictory because it is, and it is very self aware of that. Because licenses like the gpl aren't an end in themselves, they are simply a crude attempt to mimic the idyllic end game: no copyright law covering software at all.
The problem provided in the article and Bertrand's paradox don't seem to have "more than one answer" to me. The problems are incomplete and ill-posed. Taken to its extreme, it would be like asking: what is the probability that more than 1,000 unobservable universes exist outside of our own? So little is specified that you can't even begin to calculate a probability; the question is meaningless (particularly since there's no way to test your prediction, even in theory).
Thanks for the example. Can you compare Hakyll to other static site generators?
Your 'share on social media' sidebar hides the close button for your 'sign up your newsletter' sidebar.
Finally! Somebody did the sensible move of adding more housings in urban areas.
I find venmo kludgey and irritating compared to square cash.

It's more of a pain to sign up for, you have to manually ask for your money, they publicly transmit your transaction history to the world and it's not obvious that they do so. They also send you 'anti-fraud' emails if you make joke comments about your terrorist sandwich.

It's like a paypal, but worse.
Is it dark intentions when the nature of a company is to make as much money as possible? The banks want house/land prices to go up so that they can charge one as much in interest as they can get from one's income, whilst making money on any land/property capital appreciation that they have. This is just capitalism surely.

My solution - nationalise the mortgage lenders and cap the mortgage to a 3 * multiplier of annual earnings.
A quote from that link:

"Pure is still alive, but don't expect a lot of changes. It's stable and useful. It will never grow into a full-blown component library with tons of features. It likely will remain close to its current form for some time to come, with only minor bug fixes. Right now, there are some bugs we want to fix, but they are small bugs with the Pure website, not with Pure itself.

We'll probably have to revise the roadmap or the expectations for the year.

The YUI theme generator is gone now that YUI is gone. The guy who supported that piece left Yahoo about a year ago.
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My thoughts exactly, as far as I'm concerned, pure is basically done. I feel like bourbon/neat already fails the simplicity test, since it's two parts for some reason.

[EDIT] - yeah I just took a look at bourbon/neat, and I see now, it's for people who prefer SASS? outside of that I see what you mean (by comment)
It will probably involve a similar roll of controllers, plus supervisors/representatives from operators of all DNS root servers[0].

[0]:https://lwn.net/Articles/647459/
Ask HN: What Do You Think of GEB and the Emperor's New Mind?
I have a feeling a lot of people think the second is quantum-crankish in places (I'd agree).
Let me approach this from a purely historical angle;

First; to make the broad generalization that "everyone lived in small self-contained communities" is frankly laughable, assuming the statement isn't taken out of a context that constrains the "everyone" in that quote. Yes, we didn't have the megacities we have today, but you certainly couldn't say "everyone would know who was dating the baker's daughter" somewhere like Pompei or Tikal.

Secondly, even if you want to argue the cities case, national/international trade has existed almost as long as established civilization. It would have been VERY easy to move among trade lanes and find a new home, if your "anonymity" had been compromised in a way you didn't like in one place. Starting with a truly clean slate in the modern age is FAR more difficult; I'd argue that we've been slowly shrinking the degree of anonymity one can re-achieve. (there is good historical precedent for movement via trade if you look at, to pull one example off the top of my head, certain trade-oriented tribes in central-south native american culture. They would regularly spread out to other small groups in which their past was as anonymous as could possibly get; there is good record of american settlers traveling with them to embed themselves in the admittedly small tribal cultures, but the size alone does not moot ones ability to seek anonymity.)
SEO URLs usually contain a summary of the content of the page. The URLs are literally content. You can plug the URL into the browser and get all the content the person has looked at.
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Businessmen hire scientists and engineers, not the other way around.
It's worth reading the rest of it too.

Specifically he feels that the way Vint Cerf argued may have been applicable to his culture but many others less so.

His point was that privacy was present in many of these cultures before the advent of cities and that cities did not simply invent privacy out of thin air.

That said I think a lot of this is misconstruing on both sides.

My personal opinion is privacy and an expectation of it existed well before cities or even towns and that what really come with cities was anonymity. Which is a different concept entirely.

I think it would be fair to say if you sent a rider or a pigeon so a trusted advisor you had an expectation others would not hear/read your message, this is true of the postal system and one would expect of telephone and Internet communications.

However, things get really rough when cities happened. Because of the rise of anonymity law enforcement needed new powers to actually find perpetrators of crimes. As such some privacy was sacrificed in the name of making our communities safer. Mostly in the form of allowing law enforcement some limited wire tap and post interception powers.

Unfortunately this didn't map very well to the Internet because of the nature of the 2 mediums. Intercepting someones written and spoken communications between another human is one thing. Being able to spy on what is effectively their thoughts and interests is entirely another. The bandwidth and expression of the Internet and the rich mediums we have built on it are greatly underestimated by the frankly out of date politicians and policy makers of today. They don't realise how much damage they are potentially doing to the future of such a promising system.
It's (claimed to be) rubbish because thinking otherwise can be seen to weaken the privacy-champion's position. Many people have an instinct to "circle the wagons" around their personal ideological position, afraid to give an inch in case it becomes a mile.

I also think like Vint Cerf, that privacy is an artifact of modern society. I also think that since modern society is the one we find ourselves in, that privacy should be aggressively protected. Privacy is more important now than ever precisely because we're an urbanized and connected society.

I have never had a problem with an investigator hanging out somewhere writing down license plate numbers. But take issue with always-on automated license plate readers scanning where everyone is all the time. It's a difference in resources.

And to go full Godwin, the Nazis were far more effective with IBM's help.
Therefore, he is a sociopath.
I keep hearing that, and yet everyone I know despises creating anything on a mobile device, and everyone I know still owns a PC as well as a mobile device. Mobile device sales are massive because you need a new one every 2 years, because the old one sucks so horribly. I can still run Windows 10 on my 7+ year old computer and it works just fine if I'm not playing games or doing video editing.
See Europe for a stable alternative. Humane people, sane governments, sustainable development.
> despite our best efforts it cannot be detected but there's vast amounts of it.

But we have detected it, to the best of our present capabilities. We've measured how much baryonic matter are in formations, calculated how much mass is needed to keep the structure together and spinning, and come up short. That shortness is dark matter. It's sort of evidence by absence. There is something there that has mass but doesn't experience EM forces.

Either that, our our theory of gravity is wrong on a very fundamental level. On proposed alternative, that describes the motion of some stars without missing any mass is MOND: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
After seeing so many overpriced standing desk solutions, such as a cardboard box for $250, I'm not interested in following something like this to launch without some kind of general price tag.

It may have been mentioned in the video, but if it was and not elsewhere on the site, why have the rest of the site?
So how is this logically different than the replacement of all CAs with a single one?
Why? are computers going away or something? If that happens we have bigger problems than no jobs in the tech sector. The world has collapsed at that point. If it doesn't happen then guess what... there will be jobs in the tech sector. The may be hard to get but there will be people working them.

On the other hand, 120K a year JS developers with two years experience... there might be not so many of those sometime in the not so distant future.
Treat this article with skepticism. I think the journalist has badly misjudged the current consensus in the field when they say:

"There are still a few die-hards who do not believe in hooperons. They suggest that if an ensemble of millisecond pulsars (dead stars that rotate hundreds of times a second) were buried in the Milky Way’s middle, that might do the trick."

The way I hear it, a population of new point sources is a better match for the Fermi data than dark matter --- the excess is "clumpy", indicating point sources, when you would expect a dark matter signal to be diffuse.
Ask HN: Non-localized email addresses OK?
Our startup is making our first foray into another country. We've just finished setting up our .com.au servers and we're starting alpha testing.

I'm curious to hear international folks' opinions about email addresses. Is it reasonable to provide email addresses like support@example.com, or should we parameterize* those to instead refer to support@example.com.au on the Australian site?

In case it makes a difference, this is for medium-to-large contract B2B work.

* Perhaps I should have said "parameterise" ;-)
You obviously missed my point. I did say I did not want to say I disagree with you, really. However, your writing style, with excessive links and references about a subject which was not discussed comes across as nutty, no matter whether one might agree with you or not. When I said to dial down, I was referring to your style, not your actual content.
A similar one is the Sleeping Beauty Problem

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

I agree with the other two posts that problems like these are very uninteresting from a math point of view.
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The article isn't quite as positive as the headline makes it sound - it includes the statement that "it's not all going to be built."

But it's still good.
This is novel. You scrolled to the bottom without reading the top. The top of that page is very clear:

"ALERT

Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi)"

Then it references The Communications Act of 1934:

"The Communications Act of 1934

Section 301 - requires persons operating or using radio transmitters to be licensed or authorized under the Commissions rules (47 U.S.C. § 301)"

But wait, there's more! 47 U.S.C. 302b. reads:

"(b) Restrictions
No person shall manufacture, import, sell, offer for sale, or ship devices or home electronic equipment and systems, or use devices, which fail to comply with regulations promulgated pursuant to this section"

(Emphasis mine).

Have a read of the Communications Act before you get into trouble.
Too much of the world is driven by technology for 2001 to ever happen again. There will always be a need for good software engineers until computers can program themselves. Think outside of the silicon valley startup echo chamber.
> Which gets you what against the NSA, BND, and mass collection?

A step away.

> Nothing by itself.

Not so.

> Solving these problems is a tad more difficult than merely using Linux.

True. But it's swallowing the red pill, just something you have to swallow to know how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Some hipster jest rediscovered capitalism. A system built on constrained mutual greed. It tends to make the big get bigger. Not only old style industries like farming and banking but new ones like sftware too.
> My current comment had nothing to do with the superiority of systemd...

Agreed. I never said otherwise.

> Please do not take an attempt to get people to try out a cool Linux desktop and make it into a systemd vs openrc war.

I did no such thing. If I had had other examples of your habit of making statements about the technical superiority of a particular thing, then either failing to back them up with concrete examples or walking back your assertions with the statement "Oh, well the technical side of that doesn't even matter to me anyway.", then I would have used them. :)

It's a pity that you mis-read my request for technical details about the technical merits of Fedora's new SAT-solver based package manager dependency resolver as a commentary on the state of Linux init systems.

> ...you are take a fairly innocuous statement like...

Context is everything, friend. :)

To the remainder of your comment:

* If you're not familiar with other examples of a given class of software, then you're not qualified to make unqualified statements that a particular instance of that class of software does something better than all the rest.

* Microsoft's Office Open XML format is an ISO standard. That doesn't mean that it is any good or that the process that standardized it is without flaw. :)
For those who use private trackers, it would take awhile for this to get whitelisted.
I can imagine a Neal Stephenson book which makes a number of 50 year jumps into the future and explains how this ceremony becomes more and more religious in nature. Toss in a few dramatic changes based on either fanciful ideas of new ways to compromise the process or in reaction to actual attack attempts (or successes).
I'm unsurprised to hear you say that.
If clients use the com.au domain on the web, the mail addresses should exist there also, because you can bet someone just remembers "contact@companywebsite", but an alias (so support@example.something ends up at support@example.com) is probably fine. It might look different once you start providing support for different countries with different languages.
That people are contributing free work for someone else (Epic) to make money off of. Yes, I think they're suggesting to put that effort towards an open source engine, or towards a company that will reward you in some way for doing said work.
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I've used quite a few other (pay) MOOC services; subscription based, pay by class, free, etc...

Pluralsight, Udemy, Lynda, Coursera, Code School, Stack Skills

I've also used some small independent ones as well (Bitfountain is just one example).

The thing I would be really curious to see (but unfortunately don't think we will see any time soon) is how the profit numbers stack up on these different pay models.

For the subscription based services I will pay a monthly fee for no more than one service at a time and I will make heavy use of it during that time period. This is what I did with Pluralsight, Code School, and Lynda. Got a subscription and used it for awhile then canceled when I was done with the material I was interested in or I didn't have enough time to spend for it to be worth the money.

I also cap the value at about $50/month max. Not that Udacity has bad content, but there is great content on the competitors too. I can sign up for Pluralsight + Lynda + Code School every month and still have money left over to buy some courses outright on Udemy or Stack Skills.

In total I've spent a lot more money on buying courses outright from sources like Udemy. Originally I was looking there for some specific technical classes, but they have so much variety I have spent more money on things like art, photography, and design classes.

Wow... I went off on a bit of a tangent there. Anyway; really would be interested in seeing how much money is being made by these different services as well as seeing percentages/dollars of how much of that passes through to individual content creators etc...
Look up the Communications Act of 1934, specifically 47 USC 302a:

"(c) Exceptions

The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to carriers transporting such devices or home electronic equipment and systems without trading in them, to devices or home electronic equipment and systems manufactured solely for export, to the manufacture, assembly, or installation of devices or home electronic equipment and systems for its own use by a public utility engaged in providing electric service, or to devices or home electronic equipment and systems for use by the Government of the United States or any agency thereof. Devices and home electronic equipment and systems for use by the Government of the United States or any agency thereof shall be developed, procured, or otherwise acquired, including offshore procurement, under United States Government criteria, standards, or specifications designed to achieve the objectives of reducing interference to radio reception and to home electronic equipment and systems, taking into account the unique needs of national defense and security."

(Emphasis mine)

That's a very clear exception.
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/docs/2010/fullreport.pdf
I curious what you mean by "everything but the end product". Care to elaborate?
Zbg Xyz proof of work steganography. Heliox 2010.
You have missed lostcolony's point. This sub-thread [0] should make it clear to you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10482564
Local elections matter. You can make real impact.

'A quick backstory: More than a year ago, a previous city council approved a plan for the North Bayshore that allowed up to 3.4 million square feet of net-new office space, but no housing. That stirred passions from housing advocates who said approving such massive job growth without adding nearby housing aggravated the Bay Area's commute patterns and encouraged suburban sprawl...
Voters agreed, and a pro-housing council majority was voted into office last November' http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/11/06/mountain-...
A simple fast hybrid pattern-matching algorithm
I dare anyone to comment?
> How does the rest of the world manage instant transfers?

The same way the US stock markets can do 5 billion trades per month in realtime, with technology: technology that costs money, wipes out a major investment revenue stream, and necessitates cooperation between competitors. Does it surprise anyone that the EU pulled this off and the US is the farthest behind?
This was talked about a lot on the last DNSSEC story on HN. I don't have a link to the story but this site was linked to from discussions.

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

DNSSEC does seem pretty unnecessary at this point for security. It hands more power over the internet to fewer hands, whilst not providing any improved security.
Can you sue a website that misrepresents you?
A new Shelley poem
You can use nix to do your package management. It has many features and advantages (build speed, deterministic build environments, language agnosticism, etc), but specific to what you brought up it makes it trivial to declare a runtime dependency of package A on package B, and guarantee that as long as package A is installed, that package B will be as well, and be accessible to A. I believe it's pretty popular in the Haskell community; I do all of my Haskell development with it and use it with Python at work, where it's slowly starting to gain traction at my company.
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer". Albert Einstein
Very cool. I suspect that much better compression is possible in principle (not that I'd want to implement it) using an openings book or game database and an engine. The idea would be to first record the opening played in the game and the move number at which the game deviates. A lot of work would need to go into figuring out the optimal opening-book size. Then, use a deterministic chess engine with predefined parameters at each move, and record which move number on its suggested list was played (e.g. the top move, second move, third move, etc) with a fallback to manually encode the move if none of the top 8 or so moves are played.

A more sophisticated version would use arithmetic coding, with the predictions of the next move initially coming from an opening book / game database, then coming from the engine. The idea being that most games you want to compress are at a high enough level that the engine gives good predictions ... perhaps one could even tune the engine's parameters for better results. But again, like I said, it doesn't sound like fun to code.

A separate comment: I wonder if the time efficiency issues mentioned are really that severe? Since the problem is so small/finite.
> The group may be appointed in a number of different ways, though I suspect it'd be mostly down to standard job hiring, with some key positions appointed by government. If it helps, I imagine it'd be similar process to how judges are appointed.

Isn't that more or less how we get the membership of the US Federal Reserve?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System

Also, it's not clear what "not being part of the government" means if some positions are politically appointed. I suppose you're saying new ones can be appointed but old ones cannot be removed, but then that either makes it a lifelong post (which sounds worrisome as they'd be a prime target of corruption) or someone else decides their removal (based on what?).

> Any attempt for a non-elected body to control how money is spent opens up a whole host of potential problems. Instead, it is the government that would decide how new money would flow into the economy, i.e. what that new money was spent on.

I'm having trouble understanding this because the sentences appear to contradict each other in part.

> Let's put it like this, if you wanted to game this particular system, how would you do it?

I'd have to understand it better, first. But in general, a corrupt person would divert the supply of money to flow to them or people who would give them kickbacks (buy their stuff, hire their friends, etc.). They'd divert money away from whatever groups they did not like (political, religious/atheist, minorities, you name it). They'd use control of supply to direct flow to favored media outlets and away from those critical of them. I'm sure there are plenty more evil things to do that I haven't thought of, as well.