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The meaning I derive from that statement is that terms like "government" and "the state" refer to things that do not exist in the collection of mass, energy, and quantum whatevers that we call "the universe"... they are simply concepts in the minds of people, and are not capable of interacting with "the universe" except through the people in whose minds they exist.

Thus it is never "the government" oppressing people... it is people oppressing people. Similarly it is never "the government" helping people... it is only people helping people.

The moral and/or ethical implications of this concept are significant, as it "pierces the veil" of the idea that the actors are somehow absolved from their actions because they are in the name of "the government".
We agreed one year of no Christmas Gifts. I brought a $100 bill. Gave it to my brother who passed it on to my sister who gave it to me, I gave it back to her, she gave it to my brother and he gave it back to me.

Next work day "Hey for Christmas both my brother and sister gave me $100 each!" So it works out ;-)

I'm like 0xffff2 I have a ton of things that makes house stuff go better like a ladder, hand tools I like electronics, bench full of parts and different tools. My partner is a quilter, so tons of fabric fills that space. There are two shelves with 4 totes of holiday decorations. And so it goes.

I have divested of lots of stuff, like paper books now reside as digital ones on a file server, a book case of movies and music are now stored on a few TB drives. We are pretty much devoid of small decorations that need to be dusted.

But unlike the University me that could move to my first few places with all I owned in my VW bus, the last move took most of a Mayflower truck.

Not sure how all of the things I like to do are going to fit into the Old Folks Home in a few years.
The private signing key can and should be stored only offline. It's presumably only used when new OS updates need to be signed, and as a result it's fine to require manual intervention during that process.

By contrast, putting a device with the modified firmware on the network and allowing it to be accessed remotely makes it a much easier target than the private signing key. A compromise still isn't likely, mind you, but that's a pretty damn attractive target.
Hi! So how does this differ from Idea Hunt http://ideahunt.io?
You react very negatively to an alternative opinion. I think it's a good and valid point considering the OP proposed the idea that knowing/learning/understanding AI will be critical.
One issue is what your time is worth. Few of us can travel long distances in Coach (say, Phoenix to Europe) without losing at least one day to physical recovery. If I can arrive rested and ready to get to work, that's worth money.
Being asked to do something based on someone else religion, that's what wrong.

> Yet, as civilized people, we can come to the understanding that even though I don't support something doesn't mean that I have to tell others how to live their lives or expect them to live their lives in a way that makes me happy.

Which is exactly what's wrong in that situation, they had theses seats but because they are female, they were expected to move.
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> So knowing that people do come here and go elsewhere for cacti we can assume other types of plants are susceptible as well

Yes, absolutely. Animals make the news more (rhinos, lions etc), but the plant groups of cacti, orchids and bromeliads are very desirable to certain collectors.

A $500 fine — and presumably a ban on returning to the USA — doesn't seem like much deterrent. That's not covered a fraction of the cost of the investigation, and is very small compared to the black-market value of the plants.
I'm not that extreme, but I'm always postponing the day I finally get a trash bag and fill it with everything I don't want or don't need and put it in the trash or sell it on eBay/give it to goodwill.

The favorite part of my house, is the micro studio in my apartment where I keep my electronics stuff (workbench with instruments) and various components like resistors, transistors, caps, inductors, switches, LEDs, glue logic, mcu's soldering stuff. Because I arranged it like it should be, with everything in it's own place.
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Ask HN: Is your salary above or below the market rate?
I know most of you are in SV but there are a lot of posters who work outside that area. This means that discussing salary numbers isn't always that useful.

I'm wondering if most people here are above the market rate for their area or below it?

e.g. someone might be below because they are in an early stage startup.
Ask HN: Does HN move too fast for 'Ask HN'?
'Ask HN' questions have only a few minutes to gain traction before they fall off the front page of 'new', otherwise they never make it to 'ask' and basically disappear.

I feel like this sink-or-swim system works just fine for regular posts, but for 'Ask HN' posts it can be frustrating to see them disappear so quickly. Especially when you consider that more time is invested into asking a question than posting a link.

Should 'Ask HN' posts be allowed to stick around a little longer somehow? One solution would be to give them their own separate 'new' page.
That isn't being cynical, it is a legitimate discussion to figure out what is too abstract, and what is helpful.

But when you start off with having "a duty to help seemingly enlightened people like me", you turned what could have been a productive point into a patronizing insult, so I'm not inclined to even have that discussion.
Some SEO guy once told me companies decide to buy these ads because it costs essentially nothing (b/c CTR is almost 100%) and improves the advertisers quality score.
I'm in Heathrow now, I can confirm... it's fine.
Is there any info on how much a Google contributor subscription does or does not affect the ad placement for search results? I've been considering signing up for that so I don't see as many ads, and opening up Google ads in ublock, but multiple ads above results on the top of searches would quickly become unbearable.
Where does one start with such thing? I mean, where do I read how to emulate CPU (or at least how CPU works, so I would be able to come up with how to emulate it by myself), how does PS/2 work, how to boot an image from BIOS?
> The Bridge War, also called the Red River Bridge War or the Toll Bridge War, was a 1931 bloodless boundary conflict between the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas over an existing toll bridge and a new free bridge crossing the Red River.

A battle between bridge trolls.
95 in the browser has already been done (by me): https://win95.ajf.me/

That uses Em-DOSBox, which is more limited than v86 (which the OP uses) in some respects. I think v86 is loading hard disk sectors on-demand, which is pretty amazing compared to Em-DOSBox which has to download a massive disk image. On the other hand, Em-DOSBox has sound support!

The Internet Archive has 3.11 in the browser: https://archive.org/details/win3_stock (there's also various 3.x games as well)

This also uses Em-DOSBox.
That's definitely a cause for what we're seeing out of Congress, but it's not related to what we're seeing with Trump. He is winning at the polls with his hateful angry rhetoric and it's pretty damn strange.
This is so delusional and easily refuted.

It doesn't matter that it isn't perfect as long as it works. Let's assume, this one example of finfisher's (IIRC) tools was used on a lesser infraction, I don' remember specifics. Why burn a good traffic encryption that the CCC would go to analyze? The use oftools that will cost more if a simpler, even faulty tool will still beat the target, is also debateable. And why are there capable programmers at the NSA, but none could be in the BSI or BND. We even know they use tools from the NSA, so where's the difference?
Isn't π a similar pure number?
And there are plenty of companies all over the world who operate profitably renting tools & equipment to homeowners.
Yes, it is said from my subjective point of view. I am not advocating for any state to spy on me, though.

It is interesting that you mentioned the state of Iran. They are, for example, responsible for the assassination of 85 innocent Argentinian civilians in '94, and I am sure of many other crimes around the world too. They did not have a police force or an army in Argentina. So, I think one should care.
oh the irony, Win98 was the MS "internet as desktop" release. Least favorite OS ever

Awesome project though!
I'm against censoring. What I read here: >>hatte ... von einem "lebensbejahenden afrikanischen Ausbreitungstyp" gesprochen - was von Experten als rassistisch gewertet worden war<< [1] should not be compared with how the term 'racist' has e.g. been used in the Third Reich. As I understand, it's a scientific method to generalize and the race is a factor (among many others) and one should be allowed to say such things without loosing the job.

[1] http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/er-hatte-sport-und-geschi...
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College is probably a lot more expensive than it needs to be -- do we really want to pick up that inflated bill? There has to be a better solution. I only went to college to get away from my parents (and party) for four years. I probably didn't need the excessive campus and amenities.
That really doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't care if foreign governments spy on me, they can't enforce law here, my own government very much can.
Google has a somewhat annoying tendency to release "new" interface versions for its various products that are far from feature complete, and only slowly add back the features the old version had - or sometime not add them. Presumably, they'll be added eventually, but only time will tell.
> I am surprised big box hardware stores do not have programs to rent out bigger ladders.

They do. I rented one several months ago to change some can lights on a 15' ceiling. They have basic power tools as well, though the selection is spotty from store to store.
I had to add some extra nginx config to make this work
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
Between this, Kubernetes, Marathon, Amazon's container service, the tooling is overwhelming. I really have no clue how it all fits together and what a complete setup looks like (dev -> testing/CI -> prod). I'm using Docker for development, but that's where it ends for me.
They do, actually. Home Depot has a large rental department. You can rent ladders here:

http://www.homedepot.com/c/painting_and_wall_equipment_renta...
Ok, we added the year.
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Problem, pi is not unpredictable.
Will this Ask HN become its own self fulfilling prophecy?
A fellow human being is someone who doesn't hate/fear women.

"Low effort" is the wrong way of looking at this; the moral compromise in caving in to this request is immeasurable.

Having sex with someone is also "low effort". That doesn't mean you are obliged to have sex with whoever asks.
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Super interesting. Looks like you think there are a wide-range of potential use cases (https://www.getstructure.io/use-cases) but will be curious to see who the early adopters are... thoughts about who jump in first?
What a surprise!</irony>
No, I meant some pigments won't mix well because of other physical properties. The only example I can think of from the top of my head is in the Quiller, Color choices. It is mainly concerned with watercolors, and some colors mix uniformly (so blue+yellow -> green) and some look like an emulsion (so not green, but yellow with blue bubbles inside). Which can be interesting, because the mixing of colors is thus done by the eye instead of the paint, and is in fact one of the major painting effects used by impressionists.
Depending on the brand they can have a strong odor difference. But sometimes it's tricky
> You may say "But nyquist says you can't transmit or receive frequencies at more than 1/2 the sample rate (40 MHz in this case). To a degree that is true. Some people thought it may be overtones, but what happens in reality something stranger happens. Everything you transmit is actually mirrored around 1/2 the sample rate (40 MHz).

For anyone interested this is called aliasing.

If you've ever noticed wheels going backwards in racing or train footage, this is exactly what's happening: the wheel's angular velocity is above half the sampling rate (i.e. the camera's FPS), producing a mirrored version which in turn appears to rotate backwards.
Historical posts are always welcome on Hacker News. Snarky, dismissive comment are not. Please don't post any more of those.
You've got this backward. Alpha is the fundamental physical constant: c, e and \hbar are the derived quantities. I'll quote part of another comment that I left on this thread:

> Now for a piece that's more interesting. The fine-structure constant (alpha) is the coupling constant that sets the strength of electromagnetism. This means that its value is the thing that matters in the equation: e^2/\hbar c. Each of the other values is a derived quantity. Further, to speak a bit loosely, only changes in alpha matter -- in the sense that if the speed of light (c) changes, but the other constants (e and \hbar) change in a way that keeps alpha the same, then you wouldn't be able to tell with an experiment that anything has changed.

> Contrast this situation w/ a change in alpha -- a table-top experiment would be able to detect the change (given that it's large enough, and we have methods of measuring changes on year-time scales that are a few parts in ~10^-18 (Rosenband, 2008)), as it would mean that physics has changed in a fundamental way.

> http://phys.columbia.edu/~millis/1900/readings/Science-2008-...
This reads like they've been acquired by Google and are integrating. Now Google just has to write the check and own music streaming.
Right now I can not disclose. But it is very different from ideahunt.io
Also, I think you have to assume a powerful adversary already has the source code, even if it is closed source.

The only way you can level the playing field between the likes of the NSA and us is to open source it.
The difference between Fitzgerald's intelligence and Orwell's doublethink, as I see it, is that Orwell's doublethink is when the conflicting ideas are understood as binary absolutes, held to exactly represent reality, while Fitzgerald's intelligence is when the conflicting ideas are understood as fuzzy approximations held to convey something important about the world without exactly representing it.

And, going further, I think the root of the danger found in Orwell's doublethink lies even lower -- the danger starts with holding even one idea as a binary absolute that perfectly reflects the real world. Ideas, particularly ideas which can be reduced to language, are more like Platonic forms, which elements of the natural world might fuzzily reflect but will never perfectly embody.
>According to Bernie, the world needs fewer people like me, and more people like the smart Yale student who majors in something useless, travels the world, and then graduates with $100,000 in debt that people like me should pay off via higher taxes.

This is either a cheapshot or a fundamental misunderstanding of Sanders' vision. Sander's policy proposals are designed to benefit the middle class and he isn't even proposing any changes to federal income tax for those households earning under $250k (which is plausible for the author becoming a millionaire over 15 years.) It seems more fair to debate the viability of his policies, than the goals.
We're working with several early companies in the industrial space, especially logistics and manufacturing.
Copying my comment from the other post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11160253), since this post is heading to the top

> Google has long been a thought-leader in this space, and this shows in the sophistication and quality of its data offerings. From traditional batch processing with Dataproc, to rock-solid event delivery with Pub/Sub to the nearly magical abilities of BigQuery, building on Google’s data infrastructure provides us with a significant advantage where it matters the most.

Big Data is the core strength of Google Cloud. Good to see this move by Spotify!

> What really tipped the scales towards Google for us, however, has been our experience with Google’s data platform and tools. Good infrastructure isn’t just about keeping things up and running, it’s about making all of our teams more efficient and more effective, and Google’s data stack does that for us in spades.

What I really really liked about Google Cloud is the ease of use. Spin up a VM, start Cloud shell, SSH into your instance, install a bunch of software and you will know what I mean. It's "Quality" Cloud.
You're right, IPFS does not try to address dynamic content. I don't speak for the authors, but I think their opinion is that doing so is out of scope. I think they expect the application to represent each piece of mutable content as a Merkle DAG, and have the application acquire each user's written version of the content from IPFS, merge them, and announce the "latest" version under a new hash.
I know it stays in fatty-tissue for a long time, but surely the fractional blood-content of THC is way higher 20 minutes after toking up than the next day?
I must disagree. Unlike it's predecessors, such as textz, gigapedia, and library.nu, (these are from before my time, so correct me if I'm wrong), library genesis is healthily mirrored, and everything is torrented. Any attempt to assail it will simply ensure its resilience in my opinion.
We need to distinguish XMPP as messaging for devices/servers or for people and so GCM is not an example of people friendly protocol. EA doesn't care about quality of their messaging.

There are no one large scale messaging that is not supported by at least one good vendor. XMPP started to die shortly after google disabled it's support in google talk.
They can harass you at will, just because a small percentage of the people they harass are into it.

How is that not an issue for the law?
I assume he reads digital books based on his uncluttered nature and gifting Kindle books is a pain because you can't schedule when it's delivered or create a redemption code. It's just immediately sent to that person's Kindle library.
You use that word, acquire. You mean steal. The idea that a terrorist organization is going to manufacture nuclear weapons is ridiculous.

But the solution to "someone might steal a nuclear weapon" is not "spy on everybody in the world" -- the solution is to secure the nuclear weapons. Which is a thing governments do that nobody is objecting to and that has nothing to do with mass surveillance.
Thanks everyone. You've given me more to think about. Unfortunately I'm still on the fence. Usually I'm a lot more decisive. I guess it shouldn't matter in the long run. But you know how it is, I want my new language to be perfect.
I think the same, and I'd go a step further. I don't particularly _want_ to get along with people who have no problem with abortion, nor with people who have no problem with torture. Why should I see being de-polarizing as something desirable? (And where can I move to?)
Ask HN: Is there a free/fremium hash table in the cloud with simple HTTP access?
I'm looking for a hash table in the cloud.

It should just have basic operations: get, set, and delete.

It should support basic auth over http. If it has a "freemium" model that is okay too.

Does this exist?
If not, would you be interested in it?
> What about multiple state adversaries? It would be hard as hell but it could be done.

Highly unlikely, there is too much money in play, too many processes to corrupt... Cryptography is usually made solid enough so that there are easier ways to break the system.

http://cryptoexperts.github.io/million-dollar-curve/#lotteri...

> what's wrong with nothing up my sleeve constants

It's not unpredictable. There are a million constants you could choose from if you wanted to make a backdoor. I think the badass paper is about that.
Ha, I expect so!

EDIT: I guess I lose either way, if it makes it to the 'ask' page it will disprove its own argument!
Ooh, I'm glad I scrolled down to see your comment identifying this (I generally avoid the comments section online unless it's on HN, heh).

I was taken aback by a lot of statements made in the article, which seemed to essentially state "I worked hard and it's not fair if other people don't have to, too" but in light of this his stance on the matter makes a lot of sense.
Minimalism is not a practical matter; it's a principle, a culture, and a mindset.

If you observe the amount of things people throws away when moving to a new house, you'll realize that how many things are needlessly accumulated. You can bet that the same things were really needed before buying them.

I'd say that the most minimal application of minimalism (this is the idea of the post) is to recognize in advance that one don't really need them.

Expanding the concept of minimalism, I wouldn't say you don't need much of the stuff you're mentioning, rather that a minimalist "clone" of you could enjoy and/or perform (depending on the goals) the activities you've mentioned, with probably half of the equipment.

Besides, there are only the two extremes of having plenty of tools, and living only with a laptop and furnishing.
You're probably right. It's a little over the top editorializing, but it's making the point.

I travel quite a bit, so when I come back it's a very stark difference for me. My wild guess is that it's the boiling frog situation: it's a slow change, but it effects a big difference over time.

On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot.
It doesn't need to be. The group you're using is part of the cryptosystem, not part of the key.
Not familiar with 'California style redistricting' and I'm curious. Have a short explanation or a link?
> Similarly, when somebody asks you the time, they are not attempting to turn you into a watch, they're just looking for some help from a fellow human being.

First, that's not at all the same amount of effort, they chose theses seats, they made effort to get theses specific seats.

Second, you are still free to refuse to give time, if you don't feel like it. I already did when it was late, I didn't want to get my phone out for safety.

A better example would be that you wear a blue shirt because you liked that color, and then someone asked you to change it to red because he don't like blue. He even have the red shirt with him, ready to exchange it. You really like blue but not so much red. Would you?
Why does altitude dehydrate one so? I was just up in the mountains (~7k feet) this weekend and I was drinking water constantly but still felt dehydrated.
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Although that's a very long shot, life in most parts of Europe was kinda similar before industrial revolution. Nobility had their own laws. Church had theirs. Jews were living in pretty much a "virtual country", both culturally and legally. Peasants were living in another totally different world with different rules. IMO French revolution and Holocaust were the ultimate endings of "virtual countries".

On the other hand, I totally support independent communities who could live on their own terms, as long as their rules don't conflict with other communities.
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