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> Your hypothetical situation depends on the dimension of time

So do you include the future and the past? If you include the future it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine the universality of a principle. If you don't include the future, that means that it is possible for the universality of a principle to change. Then As soon as one person is born who doesn't share a principle, the moral character of that principle vanishes?

I'm not what point you are trying to make by bringing in the concept of the perfect circle. I don't see at all how this relates to morality. The concept of a perfect circle is not universally shared currently, and certainly isn't historically shared universally. Even if that concept were universal, it would not make imperfect circles immoral.
Maybe the wrong place but nowhere else to comment, what made the president hint on this in a _hurry_ to divert the possible only one motive?
Makes a statement at least.
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Well for one StartSSL charges to revoke certificates.
I feel there's some political agenda to this uproar. Librarians and/or librarian organization in Japan are have reasons for concerns as there are some movements in munincipalities delegating operation of their public libraries to commercial enterprises. This is causing bit of concerns for expecations of privacy for patron's checkout record.

Company called Culture Convenience Club, operator of large book/media chain Tsutaya, now operates some public libraries in Japan, which basically runs both a library and a book store in the premise; and patron can optionally associate their store card with library card, so each checkout from libraries would count toward their in-store point, I guess in return for the record they will keep about that checkout. (There have been some questionable book selection/discard policies some take as conflict of interest, but that's another story...)

So I feel, at least partially, they are using this as opportunity to increase public awareness of their position.
Compiling

#include <stdint.h>
uint64_t inc(uint64_t x) { return x + 1; }

With -O0 gives me:

48 83 c0 01	add $0x1,%rax

and with -O2:

48 8d 47 01	lea 0x1(%rdi),%rax

That is, both are four bytes.
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Touche, Prof. Carry on. ;)
I liked the article because it's really fun to stick with something like that, wrap my head around the math, and enjoy the exploration but the multi armed bandit algorithm was supremely satisfying to read. Simple, intuitive, logical, and with easy to tweak parameters. It doesn't get much better than that.
> They keep trying to push the idea that letsencrypt should be ran as root.

When you say it that way, it sounds like there's something untoward going on. ;)

From what I understand, the official client can bind to port 80 to do Basic HTTP verification. This requires root privs. The official client can also update many HTTP server config files. I guess you don't need to be root to do this, but it does remove a command line flag. LE is designed to be stupidly simple, but -as you've discovered- it does let more technical users run it in safer modes of operation.

> Except on my system the letsencrypt command did not work. It failed with an "Operation not permitted".

Odd. If I'm reading the code correctly, it looks like you have to have write and create privs to 'path', so it's odd that you wouldn't also be able to remove the execute bit.

Regardless, would you file a bug about this or -at least- bring it up on the mailing list? It's possible that this is user error, but if it's not, I expect that it's something the LE guys would like to hear about.
I like that you're trying to do some social good with your coding skills, and I respect that. I do have to agree that it seems a little immature. Maybe think about other ways you could use this same idea. For example, redacting the names, rather than replacing them, could show how much attention the media gives to these people.
Could the energy we get from the sun make it so that we did in fact reduce entropy in some cases?
Personally attacking the OP is rudely dismissive and doesn't contribute anything positive. Instead you could try giving constructive feedback.

> Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
When are we going to contribute BDR to PostgreSQL
So what is Sorbet, and is there someplace I can go to read more about it? You built it up through this entire (long!) post-mortem, but I feel kind of fizzled out after reading without some sort of capstone. Link me to it!
Recognizing that other people have different opinions than you doesn't stop you from preferring or advocating your own. Objective morality is nice to the extent that you can have an intellectual discussion and come to a resolution. More often you just fight it out.
I would think it is important to know the magnitude of the problem. Has the number of death from bacterial infections increased from 1 per million people per year in 1990 to 100 per million people per year today? Has it stayed the same? Has it actually decreased over time, and were just trying to be proactive? I'd don't think it is too odd to want to know.
IMF course looks interesting
https://www.edx.org/course/macroeconomic-forecasting-imfx-mf...

Sargent course looks pretty intense. IMF course looks maybe more approachable, uses Eviews which is a time-series-oriented statistical modeling package.
I found it a good reading on how the community has been adding all the foundation into postgreSQL for complex features
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law." The Categorical Imperative and its weaker brethren like the Golden Rule are remarkably widespread.
Similar to the dependency issues raised elsewhere, I wrote this script largely because none of my servers run python:

https://lolware.net/2015/10/27/letsencrypt_go_live.html
Completely agree that it's a complex issue.

After the last few news cycles around mass shootings, I started wondering what someone in tech could do to help, even just a little, as most of the solutions being suggested were on the policy side. It's tough to feel helpless.

Many organizations (including the National Issues Forums [1]) mentioned reducing the mention of shootings in the media to lower the notoriety of gunmen. Figured this could be a fairly simple way to help that cause.

[1] https://www.nifi.org/sites/default/files/product-downloads/m...
Highest margins in the company. Thanks for validating my choice not to buy an earthquake policy.
Based on how most government procurement of bespoke products turns out, they would pay far more than it should cost and get a product that doesn't work.
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Why so expensive? What kind of requirements do you have? I buy my SSL certificates for around $10 a year.
Whether a preference is universal is sufficiently impractical to ascertain with certainty (especially since you have said you want to include the preferences of people in the past), such that any belief about the existence of any universal preferences is inherently subjective.
This is a good idea. And it reminds me of how much stuff i need to actually finish.
> Half of this article is this woman seriously
> personifying her "robot" (robot or ipad on wheels?)

That's ... sort of the point of the article. The attachment the woman finds herself feeling to it and her identification with it. The last line of the article pretty much hits that home.

Next up: "What's up with Blade Runner? Half the film is about androids?!"
While I understand and partly agree, some (many?) spree shooters are looking to live on in infamy, and this is some small form of taking that from them.
Often the media gets the alleged criminals wrong, and then innocent people are harassed via social media. Even if they get the names right, people with the same name get harassed as well.
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One of the reasons they state is that ++ makes it harder for beginners.

I just taught ++ and -- to 1st semester students last week. There were no problems.
Can you port to Safari?
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Agreed. Like the idea, but the execution seems poor. Redacting the names seems like a simple, comparable and better option.
Related: http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
Not really... the wasted time is still all malloc() / realloc() / whatever under array.push(), and a half-decent callgraph profiler will catch that. array.push() will score far higher than it ought to, and the bulk of its time will be the reallocation.

Source: I've used oprofile, and later perf, to hunt exactly this kind of performance bug.

.

Of course, fixing a pervasive issue like that is much more tedious than just finding it. :-(
Bigfoot hunting in montana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfD7_J6lZY

The believers are everywhere...
Lets encrypt is for helping servers offer ssl encryption to people for free.
Well I am guessing paper copies are not as popular, printer became popular, and then well, not having paper at all became popular. But back in the day it was done a lot. And it was just an example of how some product turns into a verb. But we are not talking about a 20 year old company here. In 20-30 years will people be Uber-ing? I am guessing not. They somethingelse-ing....
anyone knows about a port to windows x64 environment ?
Genuine answer: http://www.amazon.com/The-Virtue-Selfishness-Centennial-Edit...
Ask HN: No internet?
So I'm going to ask a question which on it's surface, might seem a little crazy, but give it some thought:

How long do you think it'll be before a considerable part of the population opts to go without internet?

Again, I know it sounds a little odd, but between the increasingly harassing and monopolistic behavior of ISPs, the increasing push of restrictive internet laws, and certainly the increasingly invasive surveillance, do you think people will start to just say it isn't worth it at some point?
You might try a more neutral term like "violent person".

This was an interesting incident to introduce this around, because this is a rare female shooter. You probably picked that term without thinking about gender. But now you've got a derogatory name that refers to female anatomy, being applied to a female shooter in the screenshot I saw.
Safe place?
I'm looking into it right now. I just learned how to make Chrome extensions, but if Safari extensions aren't too much harder, I'll definitely release one.
The question is, might it make some positive difference, and how big or small might that difference be?
Well it could have been conveyed better by talking about how ignoring the names doesn't accomplish something or is an immature approach. A discussion could have been had. A brash response, along with an image of a man with his head in the sand, is disrespectful to the OP who put themselves out there to show HN their project.
You make a great point. I'll make an update to change the term to something more neutral.
Pretty much. We are completely blind to the other members of the micro ecosystem that are probably living happily on and around us under non-pathological conditions. There are theories out there that suggest that many infections are caused not by too many bad bacteria but too few or unstable populations of good bacteria (vast over simplification).

In addition, we actually have quite a bit of trouble culturing bacteria that might be pathological (our inability to culture them is quite related to our inability to determine their pathological status).
...and removing an incentive for prospective shooters.
I have been following WINE since it was still very early in the development, and it is amazing how usable it compares to its early days.

Combined with PlayOnLinux, in some ways, it's better than running Windows apps directly on Windows, as it can isolate one environment from others. (I can make the different WINE virtual drive to run Windows XP environment for one and 7 on another. It can even do 16, 32, and 64 bits, too -- real Windows can't do 16 in 64, though these days it's rare I encounter so much need for that.)
This Mother Jones article sums up the argument cogently: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/media-inspires-m...

It's not just murders. Australian media will often not report suicides to prevent triggering copycats.
It would fundamentally change the science case, not just slightly. You have E-ELT and GMT in the southern hemisphere. A major part of the TMT science case is its survey footprint in the north to augment these other 30-meter class projects.

Money is committed on the basis of time -- with the expectation that the telescope will be able to deliver the type of science that your institute wants to do -- so an institute doing astroseismology is probably not going to put in money to a spectroscopy project like 4most or weave.

Money is absolutely committed on the basis of expected performance. And part of TMT performance is its location.

I agree physically the telescope is not that specialized. But TMT the project _is_ that specialized.
> ...seriously--what can the hijacker do?

Introduce arbitrary code and data for your User Agent to execute and decode.

This can be something as simple as data alteration to mislead the target or disrupt his communications. However, if the attacker has some Sweet 0-Day Sploit, (or some old-and-busted 'sploit that works on the target's old-and-busted User Agent) they can MitM any HTTP session and use that sploit to do $SOMETHING_NEFARIOUS.

This isn't theoretical. The NSA slides spoke of active attacks against older versions of Firefox shipped in the Tor Browser Bundle. Similar attacks making use of WebRTC to leak data were proposed and fixed, posthaste.

An additional benefit of HTTPS is the reduction of metadata provided to passive attackers. (HTTPS sessions encrypt the names of the resources requested from the remote server. There are still ways to get an idea of what's being requested, but all an adversary knows for sure is that you're talking HTTPS to a particular web server.)
I get the "sexinesss" of denying the person the attention they wanted, but it doesn't help society. We need to delve into the "whys" and "hows" of the shooter whenever stuff like this happens.

If we don't know the person's name, or the context of the person it makes us objectify the person, and as much as we would like to do so... it actually doesn't help us strengthen the collective wisdom of society to prevent this from happening again.

Say the person's name.

Get to know his family.

Get to know the years before they became radicalized.

Understand why they believed this was right as perverse as their rationale is. This is the only potent defense we have against terrorists and their ilk: Grow your mindfulness about the human condition.
Not too neutral. Insulting to the Giant Douche but avoiding NSFW.
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It doesn't say without chemicals. That's what I read into it.
ignorance is bliss. here it's even self-imposed. what a win for us.
The binders are white (often partially clay), so there is white being added to the process.
Whatever you do don't say "Jehovah!" I'm glad Google has reverence for God.
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Yeah, it prominently mentions binders.

A variety of different binders can be added to the fiberized material to increase the binding strength or whiteness of the paper or to add color, fragrance, flame resistance, or other properties needed for a given application.
Why would you need any of this? These kinds of events are sad for the people involved, but probably not worth spending time trying to figure out, as they are exceedingly rare and not particularly dangerous compared to other more mundane ways to die and become injured.
Sorry to disappoint, thank you for reading though!

Sorbet is my codename for a soundcloud clone I'm working on, in super secret. I don't have anything to show for it, apart from the other projects listed in the post.

This was more of a cathartic, taking inventory or taking stock, semi-stream-of-consciousness-ohgodimdoingitagain

But yeah, the other projects which I detail are what I meant to showcase :x
How does name-calling violent, usually mentally ill people improve things?
The shooters in the San Bernadino massacre were Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. IMHO it's important to understand their background and motivations. Know your enemy.
Interesting to see the amount of disagreement with ajiang's post here on HN. "Giant douche"? Probably unneeded, it could just be blacked out with the option to reveal.

With that said, I too believe there's a certain level of infamy that comes with having your name spread across the nation. I'm sure there's a certain level of motivation that this gives to potential shooters, and if we can prevent that then I believe it's the right thing to do. Is it effective to block yourself? Probably not, but just the same I'd like to be able to say that I'm doing my part, however small it may be.
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VC stuff..
to understand why it happened. why it wasn't prevented. and maybe.. one day.. to prevent it from happening again.

should we also whitewash all of history's tragedies?
> I get the "sexinesss" of denying the person the attention they wanted, but it doesn't help society.

I think you have it totally backwards. If anything, it's "sexy" for news agencies to barf out everything they can know or speculate about the person. It lets them grab eyeballs, ratings, and fill airtime and pages.

In contrast, removing the "notoriety payoff" is the sober, serious, and "wise" approach for society. There's a huge correlation between media-obsession after a shooting-tragedy and another attack occurring soon afterwards. [0]

> We need to delve

No, "we", the media-consuming audience, emphatically do NOT need to do any delving. 99.9% of us will never have expertise, and even if we did would be unable to act upon it.

The people who do (sociologists, psychologists, etc.) are going to be able to get at the data anyway, they don't need to get their primary research from the 24-hour flashing-klaxon news-blast.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4&t=1m39s
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Just as the fact that we die from cancer is something we don't accept and try to solve. So should we try to solve death by bullet.
I think you can do this without providing a level of infamy too. That is, don't say their name, but also work to understand why this happened and work on solutions that help prevent this from happening in the future.
According to the NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/science/q-carbon-harder-th... The substence is "magnetic, fluorescent and electroconductive" so likely it's referring to the fluorescent property and it had an electric current running through it during the demo.
Thanks, and good luck to you with your projects :)
Another positive thing about him was that he was a genius, or at least incredibly smart. He scored in the top 100 in the Putnam while at Harvard.
Curious -- were you implementing the drawing algorithm by scratch? or were you using any libraries?
Ugh, at first I thought you were suggesting he change gunmen to something gender neutral, and I was right there with you, but please leave douche alone. It's a good word, it's not hurting anyone.
Good point. I should not devalue his work (nor Gates' or Ballmer's), but it is nonetheless interesting to think about.
Yes, all of what you say is true. It even goes beyond than that too, even on Windows, some games have become incompatible with Windows 7 or 8, but WINE can make them run on newer Windows versions as well :)
And yet, I've never heard librarians question whether they should be retaining borrower records. If I don't trust the government not to abuse those records, why would I trust some other group of civil servants? Why do librarians still need to know I borrowed a book more than, say, a few days after I return it? If they need analytics, why can't they anonymise the borrower ID?
What value is gained from naming them? What value is there in starting a mass media speculation frenzy about them, their family and friends? What value is there in galvanizing popular sentiment against the demographic groups they belong to, while simultaneously exposing them as potential role-models to other aggrieved/disturbed members of those same demographic groups? Obviously there are legal reasons that their names must be publicized at some juncture, but I can't think of any "value" in putting their names in the headlines.
> Get to know his family.

Problem is, the family could get in trouble, even if you are just a remote relative who had virtually no connection with the shooter for years.
I completely agree that Cryptography researchers should evaluate their work against their moral values. I feel the same thing about pretty much all engineering... I've been focusing on trying to design moral networking protocols.
There has been a lot of understanding of their rationale. And many have concluded it is due to glorification of the killers before them.
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"Say the person's name."

The murderer's names are Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik
How about a measure of depth of the defence pipeline:

total number of efficacious treatments available per million infections, plotted over time?
The million infections might need to be weighted by severity of clinical outcome.
A "douche" does not refer to the female anatomy.