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Absolutely true, if you have the source code, which is trade secret. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bluespec is like Haskell that compiles to Verilog? Seems pretty neat.

Any such thing as circuit decompilers? In my imagination, they look like as huge boxes with tunneling electron microscopes inside, where you input a chip and it outputs source code.
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The article says Israel only added crypto after Hezbollah used the unencrypted feeds against them on the ground in real time, it sounds like their threat model is not necessarily about NSA intercepting and eventually crackig the encrypted feeds.
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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has a research project called CAUSEE where they have tracked thousands of Australian startups to find out how many got funded (a very tiny percentage of all startups), what they were planning to build, whether they succeeded or failed, how quickly they got going and so on.

Their justification was that too often we look at successful startups and then do whatever they did. Which isn't always bad advice, but there's the danger that it might be like looking at lottery winners to see what they "did" to make their win. How do we know that the stuff that those startups did actually made a difference?

For example, the CAUSEE study showed that (in Australia) retaining a lawyer is a good predictor that the startup will fail. Accessing any government service other than the R&D tax concession is a good predictor of failure. Writing a step-by-step business plan is a good predictor of failure.

But that's a bit Australian-specific. Is it the same in the USA? Is it the same in Europe? Is it the same in developing nations?

Should YC Research study scientifically what makes a startup successful in different economies? It would tie in nicely to YC's other work!

It would also help guide investment (and government policy) if we had hard data on what works and what doesn't.
Resources allocated to interplanetary redundancy enhance the survival of the people "over there" at the cost of you being more likely to die "here." I prefer to amplify the chance I and my loved ones survive, instead of splitting 4's at the blackjack table. Also, you shouldn't be sitting at the blackjack table.
I'd agree -- as someone living in Europe, the idea of grocery shopping by car itself is already pretty luxurious.

Worrying about the distance between car and fridge sounds silly when most of us are used to walking half to one kilometer (.7 miles) to the nearest supermarket and taking everything back by foot. Several times per week.

Not to mention that many apartment buildings don't have elevators...
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Attaching a file to a task causes issues though: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/issues/8
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> Delete non useful (history, astronomy)

Where to start? If you knew your history, you would realise that attempts to "reset" the education system generally go hand-in-hand with barbarism or huge social disbenefit. How on earth do you "delete" a whole area of human knowledge without burning books, killing people, or otherwise restricting our freedoms? Because free people will choose to study anything which takes their fancy, and there's no practical (humane) way to stop it, or any reason to.
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Although there will be people not agreeing with this, it is what I do know through my personal experiences and observations, and I will say it: today most of the whole world revolves around fear. Not the entire world but a big part of it.
It is enough to look at the wars still going on, look at the children dying of starvation still on our Earth and you will know we as a whole are far from been with our hearts and minds in the right place.
So what do I do?
I first start with myself, and then when possible help others. I look at myself and I try to understand what I am. My fears and my loves. And I do my best to live in a such way that I do not harm anyone nor myself although sometimes might be hard. There are ways to do it, sometimes not simple ways, but there are ways. I do my best to understand and know that I am a grain of sand in the Universe yet I am a wonder of creation.
Thank you for asking, if I would have your abilities I would invest in programs which help us as a whole to understad the simple truths of fears and loves which has conquered us and leads us from been what we are today: a global nation living on a planet where children are still dying of hunger and wars are killing people.
I can not point to a particular program but that is the direction where we I know we supposed to go first. Not on Mars, not on Moon, not on Venus, or out of our galaxy.
Good luck.
So the fate of a conversation is shaped by the people who are most likely to know absolutely nothing about the topic at hand (or they would have contributed to the thread).
Letting the state control it allows for more control and it is less profit oriented as social issues are taken into account.

In which ways do State-run lotteries take social issues differently than privately run ones? I'm not talking about the application of the lottery tax, as private lotteries could be taxes as well.
If you have sure-fire evidence that this is indeed 'crackpot' then you should bring it forward otherwise you're offering an opinion minus pertinent observation or support. Perhaps I'm wrong but why should that be interesting enough to post here? Most of the British newspapers including the Guardian and Daily Mail provide an outlet for such comments.
Most if is is basically just an SQL type query on a text file.

Awk actually has a fairly simple learning curve for queries like this, one can do stuff similar to this after a couple hours of playing around.

EDIT:
I couldn't find the tutorial I used but the digital ocean one seems like a good brief intro that would get you 90% of the way to understanding that awk command. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

I agree that awk, sed etc look like line noise at first!
So the problem is that they don't use scientific method.
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Alternative education systems and their effectiveness - which can be applied to 3rd world countries as well.

Self organized autonomy - what if me and my friends buy an idland and declare it a new country, with technology oriented infrastructure, such as driverless cars, automation of government facilities, alternative currency to money? How can we sustain it?
Transparent lobbying fond that would be used for the interest of majority.

Currently in US there is a problem of buying political power that is hard to counter with standard democracy instruments (e.g. voting). When the specific political problem is discussed (like finance regulation or incarceration rates) there will usually be some corporations or interest groups that will have much higher incentive to lobby for a specific solution than average citizen. Also, they have much more resources than average citizen. This means that in long term there is a trend of political decisions that are not in the best interest of majority of population (you and me).

How to counter this? We can wait until ~50% of population realizes that this is a problem and votes for someone that will solve it. Or we could start a fund that would work relatively transparent and in those cases would lobby for solutions in the best interest of majority. Fond would be mostly financed by community (donors) - people that realized that the only way to tackle this is to group. Most of us have high incentive for making better society and together we have a lot of resources...so let's use it to make our societies better.
Philosophers of technology. People whose mission is purely to facilitate a conversation about where we really are and what should be done next, and are given the backing and platform to work on and diffuse radical messages within a context different from existing organizations.

Everyone's chained to a reliance on borrowed ideologies of yesteryear, sometimes repackaged to fit the times. There are small whispers of other ideas, but they take so, so long to enter the public sphere.
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While I don't have the ability to work remotely I do have some time to spend with my kids. Nine years ago I left a bank compliance job that sucked every last bit of energy and time out of me to go work at a University in IT. At the time my kids were 8 and 13. Most weeks I work a reasonable number of hours and have some flexibility in time off, time shifting and other ways to take care of them. My oldest is 23 now but still lives at home. I am so grateful she does and we do lots together. My youngest will turn 18 in two weeks and will go away to college next year. I spend every effort I can to be with her this last year. The time goes fast. Don't let it slip away.

Oh my kids tell me that I was a total grump when I worked at the bank. I was so tired all the time I was short tempered.

Give your kids a hug and spend time with them.
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> How can you compromise your own citizens for the sake of other countries

You don't! Not collectively, not en masse, and not universally. MANY citizens win.

And even the people this hurts, they likely are better off because things are so cheap. Would you rather be unemployed in 2016, or 1916? In 2016, you likely have TV, a mobile phone and the internet.

The problem is usually in specific areas - geographic locations. A huge part is likely the unwillingness of people to move. Even in the midst of the GFC, mining towns in the midwest were booming.

> many videos of Milton Friedman defending free trade,

And the example he used - Hong Kong - is EVEN RICHER now. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=gdp+per+capita+hong+kong&...

Free trade DEFINITELY hurts people, but on the whole, makes life better for almost every citizen.
If you can't find 20% of your wasted time in your normal day-to-day work to direct to something more useful, then you are in the 1% most productive office workers.

Or you need to invest in automating some of your grunt work, so you can do the same work in less time. Laziness is a virtue.
Could you (or someone better informed) give a brief summary on the drawbacks of event-machine and the plus-sides to removing it as a dependency?
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What makes you so sure you know best? What if everybody within the organisation did this? Why wait until you've pissed people off enough to get fired, rather than leave and find somewhere that can accommodate your great ideas? Shouldn't be too difficult if they are so good. Or even better, start your own business where everyone gets free rein to indulge themselves as they please.
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Is this even possible? Should we think outside the box and see if a more tractable formulation exists? Or should we just accept that approximate numerical solutions are what is possible and concentrate on efficient software and hardware?
I was heavily downvoted for snarky and spiteful comments and ultimately hellbanned as I tryed to pack up my cynicism in elaborate arguments. The downvote privileged are pretty vigorous about protecting their privilege.
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It does the same on iOS, except silently. If you were already complying with the Exchange rules (i.e. PIN or password, as required by your sysadmin), you might not notice anything.

If you want a license to implement ActiveSync, enforcing Exchange policies is a mandatory part. Some licensees sidestep that by giving you option of enforcing Exchange policies at the app level, instead of device level, but they have to enforce it nonetheless.
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> Why quantity over quality?

Reminds me of Seneca's De Brevitate Vitae[1], an essay about (as the title suggests) the shortness of life. He argues that what matters is not how long one lives, but what he accomplishes and/or how "well" he lives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Brevitate_Vitae_(Seneca) (english translation in External links, worth a read if you have some spare time)
Asteroid mining & Spacestations/microgravity habitation.
> It sounds a bit arrogant to automatically assume that what you've chosen to divert your attention to has merit

Why? When you are knee deep in solving problems for an organisation you will often have good insights.

If you can't take the time to investigate these insights then you wind up a low productivity grunt.

Unlike the OP I am upfront about needing control over my workflow. If you need to micro-manage... no problem... I'll find a new job.
> This really makes it sound like their team is inexperienced with DB design

Huh, can't see any obvious relation between PL and DB design. Your comment makes it really sound you're inexperienced with constructive commenting anyway.
I appreciate your comment. I keep an eye on other projects' progress, and I agree that few last months were active in ESP8266 community. Is my observation right that many changes in NodeMCU (finally upgrading from 0.9.6, switching from Lua to eLua) happened after original Chinese guys creators of the projects stepped back and let "western" guys do more maintenance?

Regarding hardware support in MicroPython (first hardware protocols, the specific hardware devices), it's coming - Damien did a lot of work on that preparing to the Kickstarter, and some of it already seen in the KS video. Mind that MicroPython runs on many platforms, and providing portable and consistent API is one of our top goals. And that requires good design work, from many people (to cover different usecases and PoVs), and that takes time and committee-stuff ;-). But we now have solid foundation, so further progress is imminent.

All in all, we always welcomed contributors (and have almost 100 of them), and exactly want to reach critical mass of functionality for ESP8266 port, so it made good sense to come by and contribute gazillion of smaller things people want ;-). So, please keep watching our space!

Regarding ESP32 - one of my concern is to avoid typical situation of moving target, when software never works well enough, with constant promises that next generation of hardware resolves it, but vicious cycle only repeats. Otherwise, I guess it's fair to say that all active projects are going to support ESP32 too!
Most of the early electronic computers didn't change the world, they only prefigured the chances and mechanical computers I think wouldn't have been able to come through (you can't really make a mechanical home computer or smartphone).

On the other hand, they would have provided computing power almost a century before electronic computers, who knows what roads could have been taken that weren't open to us with the power of human computers?
I couldn't agree more about funding SENS related research.

I think focusing on extended lifespan misses the point though (although it's a nice side benefit).

The diseases of old age cause more suffering than everything else combined.

Seeing people I love deteriorate to a state of constant suffering is unbearable to watch. Seeing signs of ageing in myself hammers home just how helpless I am to do anything.

I don't understand why AI safety gets more attention. We're already facing our own personal dissolution from natural causes -- a real and tangible existential threat which is already claiming people in the most torturous ways possible. To be brutally honest, I'd rather die quickly in an AI takeover than suffer decades of chronic pain and dementia... and one of these scenarios seems a lot more likely than the other.

Let's get real, take responsibility, and do something about ageing.
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> WTF you use Firefox?!?
> Go download a real web browser, like Chrome, and try this again

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> Yes, that's right, at least at the source of truth on the server.

I assume the server holds human-readable issue id's, but clients do not then (until they are pushed to the server).

Do you assign just random guids to issues on the clients and then issue running issue numbers to them once they are on the server? If so, if I enter two issues on the client side with a reference from one to the other, how do I enter the cross-reference before I have the (server issued) issue id for either issue?
it's not quantity over quality, they are directly proportional to each other, maybe, if meassured in absolute terms. There's an optimum and quantity is hampered by lack of quality.
> the gap between the highest and median employee — inside an American corporation has increased from 30:1 to more than 300:1. This is the very definition of a zero-sum game

That's not the very definition of a zero sum game. For that to be true you would need to prove that 1) had the ratio of ceo to employee earnings not increased, all of the money that didn't go to the ceo would have gone to the employees. And 2) that increased ceo compensation was not caused in any part by company valuations rising and CEOs' corresponding equity compensation increasing in value.

Both of those are, on average, much more false than true. 1) The vast majority of savings from decreased ceo pay would be retained in the business or distributed to shareholders. 2) CEOs making more than employees because they have more equity only happens when the "pie" actually gets bigger (which is the very definition of "non-zero sum"). The employees wouldn't have gained everything the CEO lost - it's not even close to being zero sum by definition

As far as tech companies having more employees with more equity, my guess is that it has more to do with them being younger and early employees still having equity

Snapchat and tinder are absolutely thousands of times more valuable than being a principal in a troubled district! What kind of tortured social justice metric do you use to argue otherwise? Genuinely curious to hear that argument

Just because you don't find certain projects useful doesn't all of a sudden mean that everyone working on them needs to drop what they're doing and become a city planner

And it's especially ironic coming from a professional writer! Should he drop what he's doing to try to be Morgan freeman in "Stand by Me" because some fraction of people don't think his writing is valuable?

There were a couple other very unconvincing, phaux-moralist points but I need to get back to working on my "9 Reasons Why Paul Graham is Even More Evil Than We Thought" article
Intel's worth in $61B, I think buying Intel would be better option than reverse engineering Intel chips for that much money. But I do get your point.

I think that money would be waste. While money is important human potential is the far more important thing. If we look closely a lot of governments,people claim that they will build a world class university which will soon be among top 10. Rarely anyone succeeds and lack of money is not the reason.

Same is true for cities. A lot of governments and countries have tried to build next Silicon Valley or next NY but none has succeeded. I do not doubt China's potential to create amazing things, but this sort of plan probably wont work.
That must be satire.

Either that or it's the best demonstration of why techies often totally miss the point when talkng about social issues.

Not knowing enough, but believing they know everything best.
If only everyone within most large organisations could do this!
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If you understand evolution, then you know it requires variance and combination. If you standardize education, therefore reducing variance, regardless of your selection strategy, your pool of excellence to choose from is reduced. Therefore standardized education diminishes variance and therefore amplifiable excellence.

We need less jacks of all trades and more specialization. You must choose on their behalf, or give them the choice to choose what to not be good at. When is the last time you actually used historic precedent for a decision? How deep is your actual knowledge of history? And could not being excellent in knowledge and action towards today's problems be superior to overlearning about problems already solved?

No matter what suggestion is made in regards to optimizing the education "system" you will find the naysayers that are emotionally invested in learning "all the things" so i mentioned history and astronomy, i could have closed my eyes, pointed at a syllabus, been as likely to find at random yet another suboptimal topic, and i would have in the end only substituted your pro history comments, for pro whatever else comments.

Better and worse exist. Wasting time exists. If you measure what the average or median or whatever measurement you care to use human, and see what they have used and will use of what they've learned, you will find that what you're being forceably literally by law required to be taught isn't what you need to make a living, or be a good person, or have greatness in your life. Its often babysitting hidden under the guise of progress. How can one support a static educational structure in a progressing and more rapidly progressing real world?

Also, you didn't really think I meant to delete history? I hope. That would be the opposite of education would it not? So as to avoid confusion, lets ammend it to "replace rarely used trivial knowledge for commonly useful fits lots of places knowledge, and specialization." When have you last needed to make a left turn at mars and missed your turn? Perhaps you don't need to know the order of the planets from the sun after all?
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The last section is meant to be ironic. The rest isn't. I'd be curious to hear what I've missed. I've addressed every concern that I've ever heard on this topic, and it is a favourite topic of mine.