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He is such a inspiring legend, shining beside Edward and the other fighting friends, for freedom and a better world.
I love Aaron for his spirit and the mission he lived.

For anyone, who hasn't seen the documentary [1], I can recommend it!

Good to be remembered to some of his goals:
„We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks.“ [2]

[1] https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/the-internet-s-own...
[2] http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamju...
Governments and more specifically democracies evolve over time. They benefit from all the ones that have come before them and failed. It could be that the inevitable conclusion of any democratic society is a last ditch power grab made by the unlucky person standing in office when if all falls apart. It's happened quite a few times before, and I don't see any reason why this time around would be different. I for one welcome our new overlord Trump and look forward to the new government that forms in his wake.
At first my lawyer offered me a job to help with computers. But later said no because her husband takes care of the computers and has to do it a certain way.

I don't know how they are set up for backups. I only know they use XP and Vista and ClamAV looking at their desktops.
I believe it depends on how they raised the seed round. If it's $2M in debt (with a $6M cap), then technically the value of the company has not been determined yet -- and won't be until there is a proper priced round. This affords them some flexibility... but they still need to determine the Fair Market Value of the options.
Speaking of the evolution of the eye, recently I began reading the book The Vital Question (Nick Lane), and incidentally, last night I closed my reading on a discussion on that exact topic.

Allow me to quote [topic: 'The missing steps to complexity', page-45]:

"In The Origin of Species Darwin made the point that that natural selection actually predicts that intermediates should be lost. In that context, it is not terribly surprising that there are no surviving intermediates between bacteria and eukaryotes [e.g. plants, humans]. What is more surprising, though, is that the same traits do not keep on
arising, time and time again -- like eyes.

We do not see the historical steps in the evolution of eyes, but we do see an ecological spectrum. From a rudimentary light-sensitive spot on some early worm-like creature, eyes have arisen independently on scores of occasions. That is exactly what natural selection predicts. Each small step offers a small advantage in one particular environment, with
the precise advantage depending on the precise environment.
Morphologically distinct types of eye evolve in different environments, as divergent as the compound eyes of flies and mirror eyes of scallops,or as convergent as the camera eyes that are so similar in humans and octopuses. Every conceivable intermediate from pinholes to accommodating
lenses, is found in one species or another. We even see miniature eyes, replete with a 'lens' and a 'retina', in some single-celled protists [e.g. amoeba]."
I don't think they valued Tor specifically. They did value scientific research, which is what Tor was at the time. Like most research work, it got dropped once they had a working proof of concept. The State Department picked it up years later.
It's an "original" in the sense that Netflix has produced some content in the series.
Thanks. Reaching people like this was exactly my hope.

It is easy to preach to the choir. It is much harder to produce an argument that can reach people who don't alread agree with you.
Your statement is true-ish, but not true enough.

It is true there are more local minima, but they're generally pretty equivalent. In fact, in high dimensions, saddle points are a much bigger problem than local minima. [0] The fact that optimization works on these large, non-convex problems is kind of a marvel, and raises really interesting questions. (mostly "this shouldn't work this well unless there's some kind of regularity to these problems that makes them nicely behaved"). What this says about evolution I neither know nor care to speculate (above my pay grade).

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2572

Yes, the backpropaganda can get annoying.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I don't trust jack from the Android store unless I already know the vendor.
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Apple has to develop new products in order to keep returning value to shareholders.

Apple self driving electric cars might be the thing, Apple will have their own car dealers for them as well.
Rosetta was cooler. I have an old Mac Pro running some process that was never upgraded.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
Private frameworks have never come with headers (on either OS X or iOS). This change only affects linking, and it only means that you have to create the .tbd files (just a list of available symbols) for ld to use manually - or use dlsym or other workarounds.
I guess any sort of trouble with the iPhone is an extremely minor thing in the grand scheme of things.

What to do about it? I can't presume to know what they tested and rejected, but screen orientation control needs to be independent of screen orientation.
This really is a horrific security flew. Hard to believe that software made specifically to protect users and their computers, opens up the floodgates and serves their passwords on a plate.

I wonder has much damage such a flaw has caused?
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Bring back the old 8-bit (C=64, Apple][) machines? Seriously. I know all the above comments are valid - site license lockdowns, iPad 'unprogrammibility', etc - but there's something to be said for no permissions, no network, nothing where you can really make Something Bad(tm).

There's something to be said for those old machines. Basic was a good learning intro and assembly is still valid today. I remember Logo too.. I'm just chomping at the bit when my kids are old enough to dust off the C-64 and start diving in.
I've often wondered about things like this, I've wondered if improving medical technologies like this end up disadvantaging the poorer countries. If by increasing the life span of the wealthy west we pull more resources away from the rest of world? It seems as we get better at keeping ourselves alive we require more and more to do so.

I have no idea if I'm even close to correct in my speculation, but I bring it up as the Gates foundation investing in this seems to go against my hypothesis.
He was a pretty argumentative guy, but he was right about so much. He genuinely put his heart into what he believed in. Without him (and Lessig), SOPA easily could have gone the other way.

He didn't deserve what the justice system did to him. Let's be honest. Almost no one does.

Aaron is definitely missed.
This. I grew up in rural Norway, and our elementary school playground was (and still is) right on the edge of the forest, with no fences. And we're talking a proper 200 square mile forest, with mooses, deer, cliffs, marshes, lakes, rivers, the lot.

I ran away from school into the forest once; came back after a couple of hours. Got a stern talk and a note home.
Yeah, it's more ridiculous because of they specifically naming it the "secure browser" API.
It sounds like you have to swipe to get in but not to get out. That's how most security doors I've seen work.
I encourage everyone to take time today to reflect on Aaron's legacy, and on how we can use technology to make the world more just, more open, and more fair.
I agree, but: consider that menus cost screen space, which is also at a premium. (But wait, a keyboard takes half the screen. I give up.)
Huh?

Emacs, Guile, and the common lisp in this project have doc strings?

What implementations are you referring to, and what features do you think they're missing?
But they had a picture of a peach!

I really fucking hate this trend of requiring that an image be next to the opening paragraph of an article. It's fucking asinine.
I argued with Aaron a lot. He changed his mind a lot. When he didn't change his mind, it was almost always because I was wrong. In that way, he was the humblest person I have ever met.
If I'm understanding your question correctly, that's been in there from ANSI CL. For example, when defining a function, after the lambda list, a string will be interpreted as a docstring and stored with the function definition.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_docu...

(defun test ()
"A test function"
(+ 1 1))
=> TEST

(documentation 'test 'function)
=> "A test function"

You can statically analyze source code to pull them out, or ask the Lisp image for them, etc. Is there something missing?
A Swartz is more closely related to general government overreach like Snowden or Katherine Mitchell; people who saw a system that needed fixing. Comparing A Swartz with Gardner is a somewhat unfair comparison for Swartz.
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What worries me is how hard it is to get in to rescue someone who got lost in the rush after everyone else was evacuated. It's not that easy to break through panes of glass.
Yes, and the tax on that is a fraction of that... which is a small cost compared with cost of recruiting. remember the cash from excising the options goes back to the company so it's not really a cost (you just have to pay tax)
This is exactly the reason why Playa's building Terms of Service that are friendly to developers. I got tired of people building great apps, only to have the platform shut them down, or worse, blatantly rip them off.

Our platform promises never to compete with anyone building working products on top of the platform. I want people to do well, grow a business, and build something with their time that works for them.

Playa is made by hackers, for hackers.

I asked for feedback on some of these concepts a couple of weeks back, add to it if you'd like and help lay down the foundation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AgYQ3f61Yrk_HXSbdZtCRyiu...
There's also: Project OSRM: https://www.project-osrm.org/

and GraphHopper https://graphhopper.com/

And for the UI, you can use https://github.com/perliedman/leaflet-routing-machine

all of which you can self-host using OpenstreetMap data.
I would be more comfortable on Twilio but Plivo is legit.
US military still SHAckled to outdated DoD PKI infrastructure
We're not on our first government per se in the US. When you look at basic, constitutional law & the ... mores of how elections work, there's generally a "revolution" about every fifty-eighty years. I'd call the last one at around 1965-1968.

We're much closer to the British model - we consider the law actually independent of the government proper. The government depends on law, but there's a quite specific set of interfaces for government to change law. This model is not only surviving but thriving, around the world.

I don't know how any modern state, post-WWII, survives without a security apparatus. Perhaps it not be the one we have now, but there will be one, should a government failure happen. It takes very little for the government security apparatus to encourage ratting out dissidents as was done in the Soviet Bloc, effectively drafting every citizen as part of the security apparatus. So the present size of such a thing, pre-collapse may not have anything to do with what it looks like post-collapse.

But so far, the basic framework has survived ( knock wood ). There are disturbing parallels with the period leading up to the failure of the Whig Party in American history. But there were self-destruct mechanisms built into things then that aren't apparent now - I can't imagine receiving news of a whopper the size of the Dred Scott Decision today. But perhaps my imagination fails.
It's all there with libraries, if you hunker down. I came from Perl so yes it's harder.

Library-wise, CL-PPCRE and SPLIT-SEQUENCE are your friends, along with a bunch of the sequence operations in the ANSI spec, and finally, you should get comfortable doing some string stuff in LOOP going char by char or word by word.
We are posting on a forum community created by Paul Graham.
I would love to see a compare-contrast between Superpowers and Phaser. I've used Phaser in the past and found it to be a good tool for some game projects and pretty frustrating for others.
Great point. Another anecdote. When I was in 4th grade, we had a class that had 4 TRS-80 Color Computers in the back. The teacher told us, "You guys can play all the games you want on them. You just have to write them first.". That kicked off my love of technology and computers. We learned how to code in ColorBasic, and since we only had 4 computers for 20 kids, we did most of our coding on paper. To this day I still feel most comfortable sketching algorithms or system flows out on paper before firing up the IDE.
A few years ago our management had a healthy portion of kool aid and demanded that we land a few systems to Linux zOS containers.

It was awful and we discovered why a few days in -- running our workload on a few VMs on my crappy corporate laptop in VMWare smoked the mainframe.

I guess it's better now, but it seems more like an Oracle license laundering scheme that something anyone would choose to run.
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Just wait until he discovers video game console emulators :)
i wonder about the evolution from 5 to 6 (along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge)
The answer is: it's very complex and subtle, and it varies by country. OSM'ers have been all through this is this is what brought about the ODBL.
Rule #1: Abandon any site so crappy that it can't be made to work after enabling 3 scripts.
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You and I have similar ideas about the future. ;)
Yes, but solitary men are mistrusted around children in public

Example: your at the grocery store when a young child wanders around the corner and starts pulling items off the shelf onto the floor right in front of you. A woman could stop the child, ask "where are your parents?" and carry the child to fjnd the parents. A man better back away and ignore the child lest somebody call the cops.
Does one end up paying double taxes in such a case? Because you're "getting" the money to buy the stock and then immediately buying the shares--is that first step technically income?
For those interested in commemorating in person, there are events planned in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, NYC, and SF https://info.thoughtworks.com/celebrate-aaron-2016 and Seattle https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/celebrate-aaron-swartz-2016
Why do you think you have to lose money to attempt to build a side project?

I built one in my spare time over about a month, with a specific niche market in mind, and my first customer ready to purchase. It was profitable, not counting my lost leisure time, from day 1. A few years in it's not made a ton of money, but it's still profitable every single month without fail, because even one customer will maintain that.

I have not touched a line of code in ~18 months.

"They didn't come" to my project, either. The niche needs non-adsense sales, and my partner failed me on that front. Still, I didn't spend a dime.
Not northern Michigan, but there is the University of Michigan's "Mcity" near Detroit: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/23020-u-m-opens-mc...
This is a great trend that I'm seeing a lot of YC companies do. Early Exercise + 83b is an absolute must for all seed stage companies.

I really like the notion of helping employees exercise their options too with cash compensation and it's something we're looking into too at Pachyderm as we just started hiring.

What's the legal structure of that cash repayment? Is it a bonus or can the company just pay the exercise price themselves and that's that?
You hear promising things about Cancer treatment and yet we couldn't save this man.
Loved this. They are also creating a tool for those actually designing rounds:

"Like what you saw? Send some social love and encouragement for Venture Makr: a full editor to create your own rounds with custom valuations and equity distributions. Turn the knobs on your own creations and see how scenarios might unfold differently."
I've been doing challenging interactive web development since 2000, and it used to be really, really hard. It's so much easier today to create things I could only dream of back then.
The ideal with self-driving cars is that they're basically a fleet of taxis which are either constantly moving or parked in some central garage.

Airplanes deal with far worse sensor icing conditions every day. It's a problem that needs to be considered, but not a terribly complicated one. Cars have had heated windows for decades.
I agree. I think that in the earliest stages, startups should consider "bonus-ing" out the employees to exercise their options early. I'm wondering what the consequences/disadvantages would be for the startup.
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The relationships (tofu, plastics) are often fairly weak, but measurable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens#Effects_on_Huma...
People love cocaine too. It doesn't mean you have their best interests at heart in selling it to them. Modern commercial pop music, like junk fast food, is the product of a profit-driven corporation using psychology and focus group research to push your pleasure buttons without actually providing you with any nourishment.

The worst thing about both kinds of products is that they destroy local diversity and teach people to consume things that are worthless at best and actively harmful at their worst.
I disagree with you that fewer APIs would be offered, but for argument let's run with that.

Is it possible possible that the increase stability of those APIs still offered would be more valuable than the less stable but more numerous API environment we have now?
Don't forget that it would probably be a stronger effect in more populated areas, so on the surface you'd expect it to hit inner cities more.
That's a little dramatic. Change the example of an apartment eviction is too distracting -- when I worked retail, vendors would lease end end caps.

If some jackass took the display down, an auditor would find it and we would get sued. The customer had recourse.
I don't think it's right to use historical numbers on terrorism to do a cost/benefit analysis of whether surveillance is worth it. The technology of today is vastly empowering, and that power can (and eventually will) be used by terrorists to inflict casualties orders of magnitude larger than what we've seen in the past. While the NSA currently seems ham-fisted, I do believe that we'll have to accept greater government scrutiny and less personal privacy in the future.
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Apple is removing private APIs from the iOS/watchOS/tvOS SDKs
>Philosophy is quite useful in defining ... quantum physics

Could you point to a good treatment of this? My experience with people waxing philosophical about quantum has almost always been negative, to the point where I regret the conversation ever taking place.
You can do whatever you want. If your FMV is much higher than the strike, the bigger problem is the tax bill.
Uber's Advanced Technology Center [] is in Pittsburgh. Having grew up about 1.5 hours north of there, that is a good area to test snowy conditions.

[] - http://www.uberatc.com/ (which seems like a unofficial site but I can't find anything else)
Yeah, that's like 6 gaming rigs when I built them. Not bad at all.
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Haha ok dude.
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It would have to be (meaning the first step is income)
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It takes years for a new build format to be widely used.

There are many more important thing holding up wider adoption before the lack of distributed support becomes a issue: Windows support, how hard it is to get working on ARM, etc etc.

TensorFlow is it's own thing.
Please stop posting this story to Hacker News.
Probably that there is something seriously sociopathic going on with police, prosecutors, and Judges that handle drug cases.
Thanks for asking.

In the case of danger/damage to human lives a la direct physical injury, there should be a much higher standard.

It is why there exists murder in the first, second, or third degree; with very different punishments.

There is a 'minimum standard' that must always be followed.

I guess you will disagree, but to compare a programming design error in an antivirus product to the Therac incident falls outside normal deterministic logic, and would make actually my point. As someone who has made software for many years, it is not reasonable to expect a Therac or NASA level of diligence.

This is what courts have upheld as well.
Two courses I've found are very good for Neural Networks & Deep Learning are Karpathy's CS231n from Stanford[0] and Nando de Freitas's Deep Learning class from Oxford[1][2].

Been through parts of both and they seem really good. That said, I'd bet that both of these classes would be a lot more meaningful after either Hastie's class (listed here) or Andrew Ng's course.

[0] http://cs231n.github.io/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6Wd9FR--EfW8dtjAuPo...

[2] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2014-2015/ml/
Writing as a practicing Catholic, I'd say that your tone sounds too peremptory, but what you're saying is right. The Church, at least, isn't in the business of second-guessing the fossil record -- and besides, there are two contradictory Creation-myths in Genesis anyways, so they must not have been meant to be taken literally. (The Church traditionally allowed and encouraged two or three different ways of understanding Biblical texts figuratively; insisting that the surface meaning is the only meaning is a Protestant thing.)

For the curious, look up _Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?_ by Guy Consolmagno SJ and Paul Mueller, which discusses this and other science-y subjects.
Check on personal finance sites for references for Financial Planners or Financial Advisors. If you only want tax advice and not investing/budgeting/estate planning, that should be cheaper. (I looked on reddit.com/r/peronsalfinance, but didn't immediately see any listings of advisors.)

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> Why is any other business obligated to help you invest in building your own business?

They aren't, but most businesses are regulated to prevent them from screwing your business.

If were renting a property for my burger stand a fast food giant could not buy the property and evict me without notice.

Common carriers from shippers to telecoms are regulated. Banks and lending are regulated too. Many businesses are regulated. Sure it slows things down, but it also creates stability.

I do not know what fair API use looks like, but some kind of regulation seems likely. Likely the kind of thing in the article will fall into grey areas.
Interestingly, driver aids have been implicated in causing more severe winter accidents, eg. this [1] 100-car pile-up in Sweden a few years back. Basically, people don't understand that the ESP lamp flashing means "slow down or you will probably crash". Drive an old, RWD, no electronics car and you'll be more aware of dangerous conditions. 100% non-overridable self-driving cars may someday fix this, but things will probably get worse before they get better. Humans being humans, they will think the car is overly cautious most of the time, and put it in manual because they're running 5 mins late.

The more interesting question about the automated car is "can it do a Scandinavian flick"? They should come with a dedicated button for that.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21035634