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> excuse me if my life experience has made be a bit biased.

I appreciate the breadth of your experience, but I think that you're overlooking the context of modern systems languages. :) The systems languages of old were wedded to their intended operating systems (indeed, the motivating product was usually the OS itself, with the language being but a necessary feature (Unix/C is no exception here)). As history ran its course and those OSes fell by the wayside, those languages were naturally marginalized (did there even exist usable Mesa/Modula-2/etc. compilers for Unix?).

Rust is different because it is not beholden to the fate of any single operating system. Not only is it cross-platform by intent, it has hitched its cart to a world-class retargetable backend for the dominant systems languages of today, meaning that platform availability will never be a problem.

There are still plenty of reasons why Rust could fail, of course. But Rust does not require the OS vendors' permission to exist on their platforms (well, except for on non-jailbroken iOS, anyway), and the Rust devs are not especially concerned with those platforms integrating Rust into their kernels (though I'm sure they wouldn't mind).
I instantly noticed a Three.JS / WebGL animated background. Sort of neat. I think it is by Jono Brandel: http://about.jonobr1.com/
Ok so can I wear my "I told you so" t-shirt tomorrow ? ;-)

Results are in, no far right landslide as announced, in fact, no region won so far.

And everyone else is busy dislocating their own shoulder slapping themselves on the back.

See? Works everytime...
Unfortunately the residents of Chelsea seem adamantly opposed to taller buildings, in the few areas where they're not already prohibited by zoning or landmarking. West of Tenth seems to be the only area where taller (10+ storeys) seem to be accepted, even as they box in the High Line.
He's not talking about finite state machines but just state machines. He even says, right at the beginning, that Turing machines are state machines.
There's also lzip, which apparently uses a similar compression algorithm as xz but is apparently built with partial recovery of corrupted archives in mind (so more useful for long-term archival or backup storage). It's made by the same guy who made ddrescue.
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It's true that BNF grammars can define non-regular languages, and so can't be parsed with an FSM. I wouldn't expect Leslie Lamport to have overlooked that fact, though... Skimming, I think what's being described are infinite state machines. FTA:

"For example, a BNF grammar can be described by a state machine whose states are sequences of terminals and/or non-terminals. The set of initial states contains only the sequence consisting of the single starting non-terminal. The next-state relation is defined to contain <s, t> iff s can be transformed to t by applying a production rule to expand a single non-terminal."
i think the point of the comparison is that the magnet is a few grams, and the earth is trillions upon trillions of kilograms.
Because the government fund these loans but doesn't care about the quality. Private supermarkets aren't funded by the government.
Student loan industry is a moral hazard.
A related issue is "If electricity and magnetism are so strong, why do we feel the effects of gravity more?"

To see why this is the case, let's look at magnetism first. Every magnet is composed of a north pole and a south pole. If you split a magnet in two, you get two magnets, each with a north pole and a south pole. You never get a magnet with more "north" charges than "south".

This means that the "north" and "south" portions of the field right are always next to each other. Which also means that when you go very far from a magnet, the net effect of the magnet is zero. Because the two fields cancel each other out.

So we should expect that magnetism doesn't have many practical impacts on our daily life. If you're close to a magnet, you might feel it. But if you're far away, you won't be able to feel a magnetic field.

Electricity is a bit different. The positive and negative charges can be separated from one another, unlike magnetism.

This means that when electrical charges are separated, there is a force pulling them together for differing charges, or separating them for similar charges. The net effect over time is that most objects should be electrically neutral. Because the charges will naturally come together.

So we should expect that electricity has an impact on our daily life. We should be able to tell when the charges are separated. This occurs only for a short time, until the charges move and cancel each other out.

Gravity is different again. There is no "positive" and "negative" charges with gravity. It's all positive.

This means that when two gravitational bodies are separated, there will be a force pulling them together. The net effect is that all objects with "gravitational charge" will tend to clump together.

So we should expect that gravity has a huge impact on our lives. We should always be able to tell that gravity exists.

Note that these conclusions are independent of the relative strengths of the forces. Magnetism and electricity will generally have net zero impact. Gravity will have net positive impact.

If gravity was strong, like the other forces, then gravitational objects would group together. A lot. Which means that the universe would end up as one big clump of matter.

It's only because gravity is weak that we have gravitational objects which are separate from each other for any extended period of time.
You can sue in small claims court, which doesn't require a lawyer.
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The idea that everything can be integrated via AR is fantastic... it's the next step from IFTT. The challenge is replacing everything you have with IOT versions that can be connected to these apps and hoping those things won't go obsolete in a couple of years. Technology is moving so fast, not everyone can catch up, thus there are no standards.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Super Memo and P. Woźniak's studies on spaced repetition in this thread:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMemo

https://www.supermemo.com/help/faq/memory.htm
How can I browse the different sorts of things I can learn? The different flash card packs available.

I don't see it on your site or on Anki's.
What new possibility does this bring to the table? Connected devices concept has been around like forever. Sure it looks cool (like flying cars, or those impractical UIs from minority report) but how does this make things more convenient? I just was put off by how this guy makes it sound like he came up with all these concepts. "Imagine you could ... " ==> all the things he mentioned with this phrase are nothing new. The only thing that's novel in the video is the UI and I was pointing out how he talks as if it's his new UI that makes all these imaginations possible, but in fact in my opinion it's actually worse than existing solutions (just looks cooler).
This news is pretty shocking.
Historically, though, wood structures have been built (intentionally or not) such that the wood is dried by the heat escaping from within. Modern wood structures are paradoxically designed for energy efficiency, which is in conflict with the above. You can't have an efficient building where the interior heat escapes constantly. Since we're still in the early decades of this paradox, modern wood buildings tend to be designed to be water-tight, and when that inevitably fails the structure is destroyed.
Your mindset is still bound to capitalism. Socialism is the answer in this kind of scenario.
The API usage is very inefficent when using it for every feature-flag in an app. If you could call the API with user-ID and group and it returns all the feature-flags active there would be a far greater use-case.
There's good reason to suspect that when AGI appears, it will quickly be developed to clearly super-human capabilities, just from the differences in capability between species that we are very closely related to.

Bostrom and others makes an argument that the difference in intelligence between a person with extremely low IQ and extremely high IQ could be relatively very small related to the possible differences in intelligence/capability of various (hypothetical or actual) sentient entities.

There's also the case of easy expansion in hardware or knowledge/learning resources once a software-based intelligent entity exists. E.g. if we're thinking of purely a speed difference in thinking, optimization by a significant factor could be possible purely by software optimization, and further still if specialized computing hardware is developed for the time-critical parts of the AI's processes. Ten PhDs working on a problem is clearly more formidable than one PhD working on a problem, even if they are all of equal intelligence.
All the programmers in silicon valley are above average.
I'm trying to figure out how helpful their service. What percentage of the transactions are coming from there?
I wonder how well it describes participation in politics.: It rings true: Only 1% really thinking about the world and creating new ideas, 10% thinking critically about what the 1% say (but letting the 1% define their options), and 90% following the herd.
Not true. You can go unzip an apk and for one resources.arsc won't be decoded, classes.dex won't be disassembled and any xml file will be in its binary axml format.
"We lost another one to Apple!"

More accurately: "We lost another one to Apple... because they pay tip top of the market salaries."
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I think I'd prefer it over office politics, though: it doesn't happen behind your back. (Not that that's a choice anyone has to make.)
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I take your point, and I do that with new hires myself.

I'm compressing things for comic effect, but I promise you the core of the story is true - I got suckered in by wonderful promises, and interviewing in the industry hot spot I was in is going to involve significant time and cash outlay.
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BTW: how are duplicates normally handled on hacker news? This - 5 dups for this - looks odd https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rome%20roads&type=story&sort=b...
It's smaller than the ARM2 (first commercially available ARM), which was 2.5µm according to http://everything2.com/title/ARM2 .
This is exactly why modern corporations love open spaces so much - so that people would get flooded with irrelevant sensory distractions and be more creative!
An earthquake that shuts off water to a whole city seems just as liable to render uninhabitable all those concrete buildings (assuming they don't outright collapse). Wooden structures seem more likely than concrete to survive the initial quake, even if they're less likely to survive the resultant fires, so it may be a wash in the end.
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>It worked best by "switching off the screen", i.e. typing without seeing what you type (either by literally switching off the screen, or by putting the font to same color as background

That's really interesting. Have written to get stuff out before but there is always the reading, writing, rereading, editing flow that kind of makes it a pain. Going to try 'switching off the screen' next time.
I guess it still wouldn't compete with silicon chips. So what is it competing with? The market that's currently using FPGAs and development of silicon ASICs?
sigh

Of all the Reddit trends, pun threads are the worst.
So have you ever managed to get a TN or H1B Visa opportunity in the US?

Everything I hear sounds so anecdotal it's hard to get a grip on what matters. Hopefully the more applied years helps too (I have 6). Still, it sounds like getting in may be a matter of strong-arming through law/lawyers.
See this issue for possible reasons https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/382
Good advice. Thanks :)
I regret nothing.
indeed. `tail -qF` has been muscle memory for me for as long as I can remember.

if you have long lived sessions tail'ing logs that get rotated (or truncated), forgetting -F is a good way to eventually end up confused, ctrl-c'ing, and finally cursing.
Two things:

1) You're saying this because you're intelligent. But because you're intelligent, you're also less likely to turn to a life of crime. You can make money honestly and you have a lot to lose if you get busted. Crooks tend to be uneducated and ignorant.

2) It's easy to keep a secret that only you know. But there's usually more than one person involved in a crime. Are all of your companions in crime going to be as careful? People just can't resist talking. They want to brag. They want to tell their friends and loved ones. And as time goes on, people let their guard down.
I'm not saying you're one of them, but I imagine there are people out there who would say exactly this while also "investing" in gold, and the irony tickles me.
Exactly! That's why I suggested wood buildings might be interesting. Lots of the apartment buildings in Manhattan were solidly built in the late 1800s or early 1900s and are not going anywhere.
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I'm not sold. The whole IoT thing fails miserably in story-telling. Until now, I have yet to read/hear/watch one compelling example. Who really cares if my chair is connected with the light so that I can get the best light shedding angle? who cares if my refrigerator is connect with my micro-wave to de-freeze meat according to my online menu?

Maybe I'm too old for this. There are millions of important things to be solved by computer and internet, yet big-names like Google and MIT push this typical high cost, low return technology, for what? to sell chips and standards to factories?
Am I the only one who would have really appreciated a trigger warning?
I've also gotten on Angel's List:

Me: "So, the salary range for this position starts at 130K?"
Founder: "Yes, that's the salary you'll recieve..."
Me: "..."
Founder: "once I get funding."
click
Is reading also the preserve of those who are not over-worked? If you have a good job and are not stressed about losing it (and not getting another) are you more able to find the time to read, and also to immerse yourself?

I know when I'm stressed I have a hard time focussing on say reading an interesting biography, even if achieving immersion would help me overall.
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clyang, thank you :)

We are glad that we can help you.
You don't sound "pained", you sound complicit.
You simply spray for termites at the base. I believe most houses in tropical climates in the US get sprayed yearly as part of a basic termite insurance policy. I believe I was paying $110 every two years for my house in Florida.
Jaron Lanier is quoted here, but his compelling (to me) arguments on this topic are not aired. I recommend : http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai

As the gentleman says, a lack of Autonomous Agents is not the thing standing between humanity and oblivion. The conspicuous surplus of super empowered agents (as in "I could leave this room and 80 million people would be dead 40 minutes later") is.

As for the Royal Society stuff. For the record it's not learning, and it's not the machines, I can say it again if anyone bothers to listen. Although given that it's not what will get news print or sell books or get on telly I am pretty sure that no one will.

Ho hum.

(edited 'cos I forgot a bracket, which was why I gave up c)
The fridge magnet would not be able to do this without the surface friction of itself and the object it is attracted to.
We had a very bad experience with from this. When Avast first deployed this feature they broke all websocket connections. We had a lot of angry users. It took Avast a good few months to fix it.
I don't see what value that adds to the discussion; why do I care?
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This is important because it represents the next step in allowing regular, non-technical (but increasingly tech-familiar) consumers to set up and maintain their own networks and systems.

Setting up a webpage to control a network of lights, monitors, garage doors, thermostats, cameras, etc. might seem simple to you and to most of HN, because many here are familiar with the hardware, the languages, the ISA's, the basic device networking principles and best-practices that make these things work. You are in the very small minority of the 300m people in the US and the 7bn people in the world. For everyone else, visually dragging and dropping will be a much easier way to visualize and set up networks.

This product is not for you - it's for the vastly larger market outside of computer scientists/embedded engineers.

When you can demonstrate this value prop to the mass consumer market, under the MIT brand nonetheless, big companies like Audi will start to pay attention because they see an avenue to market an increasingly heterogeneous product (luxury sedan) to the rich, older folks who buy these things based on cool new features - automated avoidance, tying volume into acceleration, "Intelligent Drive" [1], projected HUD [2], etc.

As we see from the video, Audi has granted this researcher access to APIs that would be completely inaccessible otherwise. This is another key - API access. Could you control the features in your car through a webpage? No, because you don't have access to your windows or your stereo, unless you do some intensive and illegal hacking.

M2M and IoT has been contained mostly to the realm of industrial/auto applications so far. So once big companies start to see the consumer market opening up through a simpler, more intuitive interface, they might start opening up APIs to new machines and products.

Of course, allowing access to these APIs opens up a whole new can of safety worms...but that's going to be an increasingly large issue that we will have to deal with as we continue to integrate software and connectivity into new products.

[1] https://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/technology/videos/detail/titl...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg3mmfVILRA
This isn't really a "Show HN", since there's nothing to see here without signing up for the newsletter - it's more like "HN, please sign up for my newsletter without knowing anything about it". Maybe you could provide a sample issue of the newsletter on your site that people can read without signing up first?
Sometimes that's the case.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/25/police-raid-deposi...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2066470/Safety-deposi...
Using the term philosopher for researchers in friendly AI is not derogatory anyway. Much of the interesting stuff that has been written about AGI in the last decade is absolutely philosophy, in the same way that the more concrete pre-industrial thoughts on space and the celestial were philosophy. Philosophy and science go hand in hand, and there is often an overlap when our fundamental understanding of a subject is shifting.
I'm going to approach this from a professional chef point of view. For the home cook there isn't much you can do. The way to get good at it is following Dave Grohl's advice to get good at playing the guitar or drums, suck at it for a long time.

After a while I forget what the exact temperatures are but I have them written down on an index card in my recipes folder.

In the restaurant, there are some things that need to be memorized. First and foremost is the menu, every new employee needs to memorize it and it is hard to do. I worked 3.5 years in a restaurant that changed the menu every Thursday night. Nobody had a clue what was going on until Wednesday the next week. The second thing is the wine list and which dishes go with each wine. For the bartenders, they need to memorize 100s of different drinks. Both the cooks and the wait staff need to memorize the ingredients as many customers are allergic to nuts, dairy, and shell fish. Who doesn't know that there is lobster in the paella?

A restaurant will have 30 - 40 recipes and memorizing them greatly increases the speed of the cooks, a lot. However, many restaurants consider these trade secrets and like the fashion industry a recipe can't be copyrighted. The restaurants I worked in never really kept the recipes a secret because few people had the skill to implement them correctly. That paella recipe isn't a big deal going back to what I said earlier that the most important thing was sucking at making it for a long time.
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Huh? Process Monitor works just fine for me... at least for read-only interception. Don't know if blocking/rewriting syscalls works, though.
love the equity one. imagine asking "what is the expected value of the equity?", getting a number, and then saying "ok, pay me that when it vests instead of giving me the equity".
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It also deduplicates based on a rolling checksum (similar to rsync). Pretty cool archiver.
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Actually, No. 4 may be the reason why so many startups fail or never make any profit at all for years before failing anyways. But don't mind me, business plans aren't cool.
The Guardian asked Steve Tuttle, Taser's vice-president for strategic communications, if he felt that staff should disclose their employment when reviewing reviews of the documentary. He told the newspaper, "Are you fucking joking? It's a free country and they can do what they want."

I can only imagine what the VP for impulsive communications might have said.
It's probably unfair to pin all the sexism stuff on startups. If you've ever been to a big company, you'd know that the pink collar workforce idea is way worse. There are a lot of women in junior or administrative positions who can only really interact with their bosses and immediate peers professionally but whom the entire organization, from CEO to lowly PA, tries to hit on.
Historically the fires have been often even more hazardous than the quakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#...

Something like 30% wood might be the best. But it creates interesting problem, who gets to live in a wooden building? Who gets to build one?
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First of all, wealthy people typically have multiple properties, in different places. So it's not like they are going to be homeless if they lose their villa in Florida. Second, they probably already risk hurricanes and tsunamis. Third, the predicted sea level rise is about 1 meter (if we don't count the land ice, which is unpredictable), so you can probably deal with that on one house (but much harder on city or nation scale). In short - if you're rich, you're still better off than others in case of global catastrophe, so there is little you can make in preparations. But I am an expert in habits of wealthy people, this is just a guess.

I agree with Steve Pinker, but if you actually read the book, it's not without caveats. Regarding attribution, we can somewhat attribute the drought to climate change (because we know from models that there is expected to be more of it) and so the conflict; it's not the sole cause, but it's a factor. I have no doubts there are going to be more mass migrations due to climate change.
Posted the exact same quote just a second after you... I'd expect to read that in The Onion rather than as a real response from a company executive. Wild.
process monitor doesn't work by intercepting system calls, there's a specific API. it's co-operative.