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To say that all morality is relative requires unreasonable assumptions

Moral relativism is invoked almost exclusively by people trying to justify their own actions, after they find that many object to their actions.

Faith has proven itself wholly unsuited as arbitrator of morality. Maybe it's time to give science and logic a go at it.

Any evidence-based system would be better than any system that ignores evidence. We have scientific evidence that the psychology of hate is tangible and specific in how it manifests. We have literally thousands of years of observations and ruminations on this topic, including the teachings of the major world religions.

Culture and society can be surprisingly good at dealing with largely invisible and quite subtle psychology. (Example: love/lust/dating -- Average people are actually quite sophisticated in how they perceive and deal with this.) But societies and cultures are constructed in such a way as to make group psychology around group membership invisible. Group psychology is part of what societies are made out of so the products of group psychology are promulgated as truth.

It's no accident that two different activist movements that are praised for their moral understanding -- those of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. -- were effectively structured around the prevention of pathological group-think and othering. I think a subtle societal understanding of such group-think is the last great barrier to humanity's "Waking up from History."
Agreed. The quality of journalism at The Intercept is really pretty disappointing and often (as here) smacks of ax grinding. Most importantly, the article gives extraordinarily thin support for the claim in the headline, apart from bald assertions and a handful of similar ideas from other people.

In addition, I'm no Trump fan, but I'll also add that this is very misleading, and only true in the most useless sense:

The Intercept:

> His spokesperson later clarified that this exclusion even includes Muslim-American citizens who are currently outside the U.S.

The Source that the Intercept itself links to to support this claim:

> Asked by The Hill whether that would include American Muslims currently abroad, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks replied over email: “Mr. Trump says, ‘everyone.’ ”

> During a Tuesday morning interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," however, Trump clarified that American Muslims would still be able to travel freely under his plan.

> "If a person is a Muslim and goes overseas and come back, they can come back. They are a citizen, that is different," Trump said.
Even at that, it was not the 'chokehold' that killed Eric Garner. It was being placed on his stomach, with his arms behind his back. It's difficult for anyone to breathe in that position, and _very_ difficult for someone of Eric Garner's size.

Do we actually know whether that was the case? It seems like he might just died from a stress induced heart attack. The preliminary report said that he died of cardiac arrest in the ambulance. I never was able to find a full copy of the final medical examiner report. The summary of the final report was that he basically died of everything, which was not at all helpful.
That's because the design was procedurally generated by a computer!
You've just described IPFS: https://ipfs.io/
Replace the police with robots? No thanks.
I can't tell how much of this is "quantum physics" and how much is "mathematical theory that also arises in quantum physics".

As in, I doubt their construction allows "building something" which then allows solving a conventionally unsolvable problem. With new physics you may be able to build machines that can compute more; however I don't think they are talking about such physics here.

But, they do quote: Marian B. Pour-El and Jonathan I. Richards. Computability in Analysis
and Physics. Springer, 1989.

M. B. Pour-El and J. Richards have earlier results:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00018708819...: The wave equation with computable initial data such that its unique solution is not computable (1981)

http://philpapers.org/rec/POUTWE: The wave equation with computable initial data whose unique solution is nowhere computable (1997)

The Spectral Gap authors seem to call these results "easier" (page 8 at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04573v2.pdf)
Building solar farms above the clouds for uninterrupted power
OP: It hurts so much when I run into walls.

Everyone else: Stop running into walls then.

OP: But they are so shiny. I think running into them is the best way forward for me. Please keep me a trick that allows me to run into them without pain.

Everyone else: Eh..
>We will just live while AI will thrive.

Why let them thrive uncontested? What's stopping us from using our own resources for self improvement of our mental facilities. I don't necessarily want to be a Jupiter Brain, I'd be willing to settle for a intergalactic iron man suit with brain enhancement, interfaces, or reworks.
The label applies to both. But just one gained seats in May.
One big difference is that placebo effect doesn't make any sense for blood tests.

You want to cure your cold with placebo? Sure, go ahead. But measuring cholesterol levels or detecting HIV with an inaccurate test is a real health hazard, and a liability for the company.
Excellent post. Would you have a recommendation on a resource for learning about reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces? In particular, I'm interested in learning more about how they are applied to data analysis. I've been reading about them in a very theoretical sense, but very few math texts provide "real-world" examples of how they are used.
What does HIR/MIR mean ?
There's already a $15 Allwinner-based ARM board shipping now with similar specs, the Orange Pi PC. Quad-core (but only 32-bit) processor, 1GB of RAM, pretty much identical hardware video decode and GPU, 10/100 Ethernet, 3 USB ports, various expansion ports, thermal issues if you run at the advertised clock. (Why do I suspect the Pine has thermal issues? Take a look at the Kickstarter FAQ and how they carefully dodge questions on cooling.)
This is a good idea for a blog post! The way we have set up the system ensures that we requeue upon failure and concurrent updates are not an issue.

We are eagerly waiting for Lambda VPC support!

I'm happy you're interested in this sort of stuff; shoot me an email, let's chat :) michael@segment.com
You'd have to be insane to commute two hours each way. At that point you're not even living in the bay area anymore, you're living in Sacramento or Modesto or Santa Cruz. Affordable (relatively speaking) housing is available within walking distance of a BART stop if your standards are realistic, and plentiful if you expand your radius to a 30 minute drive.

So back to that trade-off. Cost of living in San Francisco is 60% higher than cost of living in Los Angeles. Do you want to live in SF at least 60% more than you want to live in LA? Then it makes sense. Your standard of living will be lower in SF than it was in LA, but that lost happiness will be offset by the increased happiness of living where you really want to.
The cryptographic proof strictly verifies whether or not the currency is authentic or counterfeit. There is no implicit value in the proof. In fact, there is a cost to calculating the proof.

The value is in the willingness of the person holding the i.o.u. to honor that i.o.u.

A "perfect" cryptocurrency provides two of the three requirements of currency (a means of transferring value, and a unit of measurement of that value) but it does not (as no tangible or conceptual thing ever will) provide intrinsic value for the exchange. Value is subjective. Gold is useful today, not so much tomorrow. Gunpowder is useful to you, but not so much to me. Given that it has been debunked that currency arose out of trade and barter (i.e. currency with intrinsic value has replaced items with trade specific value so as to be more fungible), well, where is the value then?

Trust is the value. You trust you can, once your currency is verified, exchange it for something you value from someone. If that person does not trust that the currency you are offering will be able to be tendered elsewhere,,, then no exchange, because the currency is of no value to them.

What if everyone stops using U.S. dollar bills tomorrow? Does my bank account morph into some other value that I can use? Is it tied up in some vault of gold at the US Treasury? No. It becomes a worthless number on a register somewhere. But, the bartender at my local watering hole might vouch for me that I had that much or that I made that much money or that my credit was good. Trust = Credit

Without trust there is only trade and barter. Without the ability to trust that the future will have value in it, I'm only going to go with what is right in front of me right now. And a proof, it's interesting (I loves me some math), but, most of the time, I'm not going to say it has some sort of intrinsic worth that I'd trade, say, you a burrito for it.
In most cases, there is no "default licensing fee." Mechanicals in music are really the exception rather than the rule. (And this is probably less of an issue with music than elsewhere in any case because of the royalty clearing organizations.)
I'm loth to special-case that for just one site (besides which it would feel like responding in kind). But putting it in all links would be overkill.
That's a complicated question. But I'd start by pointing out that the taxi laws certainly don't have the consent of the governed behind them. If they did, Uber would never have taken such a big chunk of the taxis' market share.

When the laws do not respect the people, the people will not respect the laws. That's not a statement of moral value, it's a statement of fact.
> Suppose you're testing for something that only occurs in 1% of the population or less. What if the Theranos test just never returns a positive? Then that test is "99% accurate" compared to the "normal" test.

Understanding statistics is very important here: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/11/the-controversy-over-the...
This is allwinner, notorious GPL offender. NO drivers for GPU, NO drivers for hardware video acceleration.

In case you are wondering how serious are they(pine) about software support here is a hint:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/Ze_UhiO0...

http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/491-need-help-on-pi...

TLDR: they plan to maybe send TWO boards to developers...
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> I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~~ Thomas A. Edison

> A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ~~ B. F. Skinner

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Based on your question and comments, I'd actually suggest you reach out to your friends in the community who know more about the tools that you think you need. They might be able and willing to get you up and running with those tools, so that you can move forward.

For example, I'm fairly junior, but comfortable with testing once there's a framework in place. I've been through this enough that I've reached the point where I can get a basic Jasmine or Mocha framework up and running on my own, but recently ran into a problem where I needed more than a basic set-up. I mentioned it to a coworker and he said I needed Webpack. When I expressed concern about spending time learning and setting up Webpack, instead of working on my application code, he volunteered to get Webpack in place. As I learn more about Webpack, the process of setting it up for my next app should be less intimidating.

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I love this meme - http://i.imgur.com/5mAUQj2.jpg - If you're a programmer, you've certainly experienced both states. While I think I run about a 1:1000 ratio, when I've spent a significant amount of time on the right, I try to remember the sensation of being on the left and I know that each mistake is one less mistake I can make and therefore moving me toward the left.

And one last, very relevant quote...

> Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ~~ Benjamin Franklin

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Yeah, me neither... but I don't think blaming commuters like ryandrake for advocating their lifestyle is the answer. Different people have different priorities. You wouldn't sneer at OP for working 60-hour weeks (it's glorified in the valley), but that's what a 40-hour work week with a 4-hour daily commute amounts to. I dunno, maintaining a separation between work and home can be healthy.
pretty funny how sometimes the agents move away from the planks like in a "The Prometheus School of Running Away From Things" fashion
That same party has had their candidate make the run-off rounds in the presidential election. (Chirac v Le Pen, 2002)
FWIW, my personal experience has been about 90% success rate. They have a pretty specific case that they don't support, and it's almost always with old systems. My use case was rewards program based, e.g. a gas card. I now am able to carry a two slot wallet with my driver's license, Coin, health insurance card and my ATM card (which would also work on Coin, but they cautioned about machines with "auto" feeding. Obviously, YMMV and I'm in a major city, so it might not be as useful in the sticks.
C. Learning C is like being dropped on island and having to learn all the skills necessary to survive. After you master C, you go back to civilization and enjoy the simple life conveniences again, while being able to see through them at the real, crude and dangerous reality.

After you learn C, go to Rust. Rust will just teach you more than C++.
Also more importantly, the FN is eurosceptic, or more precisely keen on France sovereignty.

Since the crisis, Euro skepticism sentiment is quite strong in Western Europe. The handling of the Cyprus, Greece, ... has split in people mind Europe, the region and Europe, the political construct. So even people very pro Europe as an identity are against Europe as currently implemented ( that is quite striking in my circle of all expats friends ). Parties like the FN are boosted by the traditional extreme-right voters, the traditional eurosceptics now joined by those Euro disappointed.

ISIS and the refugees is yet another botched handling by Europe (regardless if you want to help or want to keep them away, the handling is a disaster). The anger of the attack followed almost immediately by an election has probably tilted the balance for a lot of people.
Stop rushing yourself. It takes time to build up skills. Keep learning. I've been at this for 20 years, and even I have gaps and frustrating days. You'll get better. Just keep improving every day.
The President has the authority to suspend entry of any class of aliens for any length of time, for any reason. [1] Jimmy Carter did exactly that in 1980, disallowing Iranians entry into the country, and for similar reasons. [2] That's only the most recent historical example.

[1] 8 USC § 1182(f); see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182

[2] http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261062/carter-banned-irani... ; see also http://www.snopes.com/jimmy-carter-banned-iranian-immigrants...
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Can a browser REPL-connected Cursive auto-complete based on the browser environment?
As a senior engineer it is partially your task to "make something happen".
> the consumer now has their fingerprint tied to payments

FUD. This is not how Touch ID works. Fingerprint data, which is not a fingerprint image to begin with, more of a hash, is stored on the iPhone's A_ chip itself. It cannot leave the device, ever.

Other posters have addressed the remainder of your incorrect claims.
Sure, you can get a big house cheap in the midwest. But then you have to live in the midwest. Is that what you really want? Living in cities, especially SF, is expensive because people want to live there. A high standard of living in the suburbs might not make you as happy as a lower one in the ciy. And while maintaining a high standard of living in SF is extremely expensive, maintaining a comfortable lifestyle on an engineer's salary is still perfectly doable. People tend to make lots of money and spend it all on things that don't really make them happy. If you want to live in San Francisco or New York or London, then just go do it.
I agree that use of "good" is questionable here. One would think that without the skills mentioned, one wouldn't be a theoretical physicist at all. (Is every person who lacks these skills a "bad theoretical physicist"? Only in a vacuous sense.)

That said, I think we should interpret "how to become a good theoretical physicist" as "how to gain the competencies that are expected of s theoretical physicist."
It's not wrong, it really is slow. It may be different in other places, but in the US it is slow. Still depends on the store (besides network connections there are tons of different hardware setups), but it is never as fast as swiping.

In terms of speed from fastest to slowest: Apple/Adroid, swipe, swipe and sign, swipe and PIN, dip and sign.
I disagree. Trust is what makes systems efficient and effective. People who trust each other can cooperate together without expending resources on protecting themselves.

Consider Bitcoin - the cost of that trustless system that barely works is mind-boggling waste of electricity. Or look at layers and layers of bureaucracy people create; a lot of it exists to mitigate the problems of lack of trust by creating a system that doesn't depend on actors to be benevolent.

It's true that systems based on trust are fragile - malicious actors can abuse them, and if there are enough of them, the public trust will collapse and the system will go to hell. But that's only an argument for why should we fight for ensuring trust. Why we should punish defectors - the liars, the cheaters, the abusers. Because we need this to be efficient.
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It's hard to get graphics working, but on the other hand you can actually boot upstream Linux in headless mode on the older Allwinner boards right now. Debian Jessie even officially supports the older ones whereas they're unlikely to ever add support for the Raspberry Pi because it requires a binary blob to even boot.

Unfortunately, this is using Allwinner's new A64 chip and I don't think the unofficial sunxi community that provides open source support for their hardware has even looked at supporting that chip yet. Also, whether support materializes depends heavily on how much the companies that are selling boards based on it care about open source, and well...
This is akin to trying to stop crime by changing the high school curriculum. We already have civil and criminal legal systems that even police are supposedly bound by. Why not fucking apply them?
> Therefore morality has a logic of relativity.

Your syllogism equivocates on the concept "observation" and does not follow. The "observation" of measuring velocities and the "observation" of self and others to derive a moral principle are not the same concept or cognitive process.

> Morality can be the same way. You can be a moral realist and still acknowledge that apprehension of morality is observer dependent. Then the game becomes figuring out the rules of relativity for morality.

Moral discussions are not a "game" since lives and, ultimately, civilization hangs in the balance.

>That is, figuring out how to communicate moral perceptions and judgments between people.

But by rejecting any objective basis for morality you throw out any possible means for agreement. Moreover, your position assumes two things that the radical Islamists do not share; the value of a human life (in the here-and-now not some fantasy world) and that reason, not guns, are the means for resolving disagreements among civilized men.

How do you deal with someone who not only doesn't share your moral "sentiments" but wants to actually kill you? Is there some basis to compromise in this case? Why do we shoot lions and bears instead of trying to reason with them? Is it moral for you to kill a fly in your house? What if I disagree and claim all life is sacred and you have a moral duty to leave the bugs alone and I am willing to use my guns to protect them from you? On what grounds could you possible oppose someone like that if you really believe morality is relative (i.e. subjective)?
The author of the submitted website is a native speaker of Dutch, but his English looks fine to me (a native speaker of English). I think his choice of emphasis, which I didn't try to reproduce when I submitted the website here on Hacker News, makes the point that people can become mere amateurs or even cranks[1] about theoretical physics unless they prepare carefully. I have seen a few examples of theoretical physics cranks[2] over the years.

[1] I mean "crank" in the second sense shown at the Merriam-Webster dictionary site.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crank

[2] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/in-physics-t...

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/01/10/a-profound-misu...
But it isn't just the 20 minutes, it's the transaction costs of transportation and interrupting your day. What if you choose to travel from a couple hours away, or even very far away?
More Tweeters want to punch Donald Trump than vote for him
Since people complained about the article title, we changed it to more neutral language from the body of the article.
It's really astonishing that the credit card companies thought that mandating a much slower process was going to work. Should be a huge boon for Apple/Android Pay though.
This is awesome! More engaging than reading, but not full typing code on your phone.
I had no idea American police were trained like army recruits. It explains a lot.
Note that you can "save page now" on the Internet Archive -- via web, API, or bookmarklet -- that would increase that % quite a lot.

There could even be an integration into Delicious or WordPress. Wikipedia is working on a bot for external links in their content.
I don't require police to martyr themselves. My own problem with the Garner homicide is that I don't think they needed to tackle Garner at all. An even more cynical view is that they wanted to tackle him, wanted an excuse to act violently, and cultivated that situation hoping for that end (not necessarily that they wanted to kill him, but they wanted an arrest, and were game for a use of force). I don't know the whole truth of it but I do know that the basis of it was tax evasion, not an imminent threat to public safety that needed immediate detention at all costs.
Wait, it has Gyro? I've had it since October and didn't know this.
The BNP have been replaced by UKIP.
> So the sentence should be the unprecedented electoral success of an extreme right wing party in France?

Its not even clear that the particular results are tied to the attack. While the connection seems attractive to draw, it leaves out consideration of the fact that, while the result was unprecedented for this particular kind of election, FN won a unprecedent success in a different set of French elections last year -- being the leading party in France in the European Parliament elections (following a series of successes in France municipal elections earlier in the year) and securing more than a third of France's seats; it seems a lot more like the FN is just having a surge of popularity that predates the attacks by a least a year, and that that was the source of the results earlier this month, rather than the attacks led to the results this month.
What is the purpose of the signature, anyways? Mine never looks anywhere close to the same as before, and most of the readers at the bad grocery store next to my apartment just select seemingly random pixels anyways when you touch it.

Is this seriously a security measure? Even if it did matter, it's on the back of the card anyways, for someone to copy!

Why not just get rid of it?