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Someone should just edit the title. It's not "emac's" it's "emacs"! The name was originally derived from "Editor MACroS". Here is the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
I don't know why so many people make the point that hierarchical structures are how the brain works. Graphical structures are how the brain works. The hierarchical structure is how the physical world works (you can't put the same shirt in two closets), and we have an unfortunate habit of trying to force our brain to work the same way, but it's an impedance mismatch.

Unless I'm the only one that is frustrated that you never know where to find vegetable oil in the grocery store. Is it in the cooking aisle near the flour, or the condiments aisle near the vinegar? Seems like every store chooses differently since it doesn't make sense for them to put it in both places.
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I've had zero problems with the server (like memory leaks or random crashing), but the iOS app started complaining when the server was roughly 3 months out of date. To stop the errors there I had to upgrade the server code (which was itself pretty simple). That doesn't meet your criteria, but I've find it pretty minimal by my standards.
It's not that we should abandon logic. But logic alone is not sufficient. It's very powerful but has a weak spot: it cannot create new ideas. We have to do this illogically. But once we have an idea, we can use all the power of logic to explore it. Here both parts are essential.
Which DCs would you recommend?
Yes it is fairly ridiculous. Which is why an open protocol / non-closed environment would help solve this.

Yeah, IRC is from the 80s and is lacking some modern features, but at least it was a fairly unifying chat system in its day. No one company owned it, most people could use it trivially, and there were many different clients out there to suite one's taste.

There's still a market for wrapping a protocol in a nice web app UI and hiding the complexities from the user, which is why this closed chat systems trend is getting frustrating.

Can't different chat services communicate with each other easily, without the need for a bridge?
Interesting, after the fact people say it was easy. Before, every expert and the DeepMind team said it was going to be hard to win.

Is this a cognitive bias?
Have you tried evil mode with vi bindings? The good thing of org-mode is that it runs locally and through ssh, but any task outliner tool is useful to organize thoughts or tasks.
Thanks for posting this. Throughout this discussion about Apple, The FBI, Tha All Writs Act, etc. I've been saying we have already had this discussion some 20 years ago and the key point made then is still relevant today. If you create a key for Government, the Government cannot prevent bad actors from using those keys.

The only thing of substance to this discussion that has changed since then is we have multiple robust open source cryptography implementations, which ensures that if the DOJ can lobby congress to make some laws requiring back doors or key escrow, that only criminals will have access to robust cryptography. And it will likely kick off a cryptography arms race, which will only make their job more difficult than they are saying it is already.

I doubt however the Legislative Branch will give them the laws they want. The last thing our legislators want is to make it easier for the FBI to spy on them.
I have the same thought. Heck, voice and video chat, file sharing, even primitive forms of 'integrations' (in the form of IRC bots and the like) have been around for many years at this point.

I remember the Yahoo messengers and the MSN messengers of yore having a majority of the features that I see in the modern chat clients. It really perplexes me that these new chat services are apparently worth so much money.

Yes, you took some trends and put everything into a convenient package. Is that alone worth billions of dollars? The actual technical innovation is minimal.
Chin believes that the best solution is to create urban autonomous zones that are reserved for low-speed self-driving vehicles.

Keep It Simple Stupid.

I too believe this could be an easier way forward, not only technically but also regarding insurance and liability.

However, I feel that a better first step is to conquer the really boring driving on highways etc. with autonomous driving on reserved lanes.
Ok, cool. The price just seemed low.
Not only vice profits - we could also funnel the 10s (100s?) of billions spent on the drug war each year into the same.
Recursive improvement.... it plays and learns from itself.
> The only thing that changed in the situation was how people perceived her gender

Absolutely not, the "observer" (i.e. herself) is in a different position and probably in different state of mind.
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What do you propose we do with those professions where we can't have blind auditions? Pull a number out of a hat and enforce those quota?

It doesn't matter whether the number you're enforcing is 50-50 or another number. The whole principle is wrong. It's anti equality. The whole point of feminism used to be that we shouldn't care about gender where it's not relevant, and instead treat people as people.

It's utter nonsense that you could use the same argument against women's voting rights. Not having voting rights for women is completely opposite because you're discriminating based on gender. My whole point here is that we shouldn't discriminate based on gender. Another problem with this world view is that virtually nobody ever cares about the fact that men are overrepresented as garbage collectors and enforcing gender quotas in those areas. It's plain old sexism masquerading as justice, and it's doing a disservice to both women and men.
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Now what you want it foot pedals. 3 for emacs and another double pedal for parens. Configure using M-x drumkit.
How about built in support for collaborative editing: https://twitter.com/juretriglav/status/710191077102395392 (they're just now working on this). The internal document model supports OT, and the collaborative feature is based on the Google Wave model.

In the very near future there will also be NLM JATS XML support (a standard format in science).

To address the verbosity: if you're looking at the output HTML, you're looking at the wrong place. That's just a rendering of the internal model, which is very succinct and semantic indeed, e.g. in XML: https://github.com/substance/lens/blob/d18d2c6353db8d97649b9...
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OK, with the hindsight of a good night's sleep I admit that the bit about giving away TensorFlow does sound a bit tinfoil-hats on.

Let me rephrase that then: I can't possibly hope to know why Google is giving away free stuff. I can certainly know that they don't do it out of the kindness of their hearts though.

That said, I am indeed very concerned that Google is trying to shape, not only the market, but the science also, to suit its own interests. That could be really bad for everyone, including Google; if research stagnates, they too will find themselves unable to deliver on their big promises about ever speeding progress.
Machine learning. Very broad and educational. It'd take 15 minutes, then 3 weeks to learn Swift, and then all you'd have is another language you're familiar with. Actually scratch that. Go long on machine learning WHILE ALSO skimming through Swift docs such that you'll be familiar with both.
An interesting point. There was a similar issue with SMS (federating with big telcos), and Whatsapp (among others) did a nice job of routing around that (by piggybacking on SMS). It's interesting to think about how a genuinely open player might route around that.

For example, suppose you want to send an IM to your friend. You believe in XMPP or some other open/federated protocol, but you don't know which friends use the protocol. Piggyback off email. Note that identities are backed by email. Also, if any identity-providers refuse to join the federation, then route through a trusted fallback service (Trent.com). Pseudocode:

function send_im(toEmailAddr, messageText) {
// See if the user's domain already supports OpenChatProto.
if (nslookup(toEmailAddr.hostname, 'SRV', 'OpenChatProto'))
return OpenChatProto.deliver(toEmailAdrr, messageText);

// If user's domain doesn't support it, see if the user has
// registered+authenticated with a trusted third-party.
var proxyAddr = http.get('https://trent.com/proxyAddr?email='+toEmailAddr + authCode);
if (proxyAddr) {
return OpenChatProto.deliver(proxyAddr, messageText);
}

// If the user doesn't exist in OpenChatProto, then
// fallback to email.
var emailText
= messageText
+ "To continue this discussion in real-time chat, go to:"
+ "https://trent.com/setup?email=" + toEmailAddr + authCode
+ "To block messages from this person, go to:"
+ "https://trent.com/optout?email=" + toEmailAddr + senderEmail + authCode
+ "To opt-out of all messages, go to:"
+ "https://trent.com/optout?email=" + toEmailAddr + authCode

Email.deliver(toEmailAddr, emailText);

}

Note: It's most efficient if members of the federation agree on the identity of trent.com, but it's not required. Any outbound MTA could use a different Trent, but that fragments the brand and identity databases.

This feels pretty obvious, so maybe it's already being done or I'm missing something...
I've developed a heuristic that any web project posted to HN that mentions its size in the headline is probably a half-assed copy of something with better documentation, developer-mindshare, browser-support, testing, bug fixing etc.

Size and therefore speed is important on the web, but it seems an easy mental trap to optimize it at the expense of the other important things.
Very nice. I am considering giving it a serious try but an important "feature" to me is the ability to export bookmarks in order to avoid vendor lock-in. Any plans for that?
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Ugh, I have a bad typo in the first line, and unfortunately can no longer edit: "not math" should have been "just math."

But that doesn't seem to be what you're remarking on.

I'm not sure what you see as the problem with my argument. Some people, if private messages were read by people around them or by their local law enforcement, could be sentenced to death, in certain jurisdictions. For "crimes" like being Christian, Muslim, atheist, Gay, etc.

How is that a good thing?

How is it a bad thing that people want to protect themselves with encryption?

Or if you're saying you get the argument and I'm just doing a bad job of making it, yes, maybe so, but maybe it's a hard side of the argument to take. Any suggestions on how to put it better?

Or maybe you're saying it's entirely the wrong argument to make, tactically. I'm still not sure why. Having not heard a reason for not making this argument, I think it's good to make it because it seems to be discussed too little.
I did a psych/neuroscience comajor about 20 years ago, and I remember comparitive neuroscience, showing that in general, as the animal's brain gets more complex, so does intelligence. Parrots and crows were recognised as outliers to this trend - they showed intelligence that bucked the trend, given the complexity of the brain. They're not the smartest animals around, but they do buck the trend in terms of neural complexity.
I think the problem is that while the consequences of encryption on society has enough pros and cons to be gray, the sides that people choose are not at all gray. One side wants a backdoor and the other side doesn't. There's absolutely no way to draw a compromise on that. What does meeting down the middle between these two sides even mean? Law enforcement will always want as much power and legal protection as possible. It's the people who may or may not yield. It's the people who are going to budge on this issue.

I also think that the effect sizes on the pro vs. con debate of encryption has been overblown, and that it will be many years before we get a body of literature on which to anchor claims of magnitudes in our debate.

That being said, I think that leading the discussion on anti-encryption with discussions of terrorism and child porn is dishonest on its face. They're dishonestly exaggerated in effect size, and terrorism is the worse of the bunch, as the war on terror has costed mountains more than terrorism itself, both in money and in life. Unfortunately, these are often the top discussion points for any encryption debate.
I agree that he didn't mean it in an arrogant way, didn't think he had all the answers, and was asking big questions. He was all about integrating multiple methods, including commonsense knowledge like CYC. But it's hard to get commonsense knowledge methods funded by the current "benefactors of AI".

Here is something he said to me in April 2009 in a discussion about educational software for the OLPC:

Marvin Minsky: "I've been unsuccessful at getting support for a major project to build the architecture proposed in "The Emotion Machine." The idea is to make an AI that can use multiple methods and commonsense knowledge--so that whenever it gets stuck, it can try another approach. The trouble is that most funding has come under the control of statistical and logical practitioners, or people who think we need to solve low-level problems before we can deal with human-level ones."

Maybe (I'll venture a wild guess) it's just that investing in statistical AI research currently makes more financial sense for the goals of the advertising industry that's funding most of the research these days... You're the product, and all that.
Someone I know had this for the earlier part of their life (till about 35). Mostly, it was a defense mechanism, against extreme nervousness, anxiety, and "out-of-placeness."

They're much much better now. But will still let loose when extremely stressed out.
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Is there a way to make Sonarr work with a single download folder? Sickbeard also did not officially support it, but you were able to make it work with enough configuration and scripts. That's the only reason I still use it. I just have two big folders (watched and unwatched) and a hotkey to move stuff between them. It's simple and I don't need to use a mouse. I wouldn't want to give this up.
The fact that people consider forced advertising defensible at all shows you just how far skewed toward corporate interests the zeitgeist is in general. Imagine if most content sites got most of their revenue from sms spam. Would that be defensible? Would we dare to say that using tools to avoid that spam is tantamount to theft? It's a very comparable situation. It's sad that so many sites have hitched their fortunes to bad business models, but that's their responsibility to fix.
Can someone explain why people still utilize Usenet over BitTorrent? I'm sure there are good reasons, it just seems like a bizarre anachronism to me.
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Robert Virding gave a short talk on LFE at ClojuTRE last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvCBTpnlqs8
Are you serious? He provided the email Twitter sent. There was no indication of a negotiation or clarification there. Maybe you need to work on how you communicate.
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Interesting to note that this works out to roughly $700 per employee per month, over a ten month span.

$250M / 10 yrs / 12 months / 3000 employees = $700 per employee-month
Interesting. Could explain why the different wiring produces the same computation.
No upload element. Obscurity keeps it out of the targets a lot of times. Though DMCA requests definitely have a strong reach into Usenet now.
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> Start using AGPLv3 like you were supposed to for the better part of the last decade

What if I care about freedom zero? AGPLv3 is incompatible with freedom zero.

I'm not sure you can criticise other people for failing to care about ethical consequences when you are casually prepared to throw away one of the core principles of free software.
Surely the lesson from Amazon is that you can get by for a long time without making loads of money, as long as you don't make stupid decisions, and get rid of the consequences of stuff that didn't work out before it hurts you.

Twitter makes decisions that people on the internet grumble about and make blog posts about and yes, even post on twitter about, but they still keep using twitter, which is all twitter cares about.
Re-read the headline:

> Walt Whitman's Letter For A Dying Soldier To His Wife Discovered

Just make sure you separate the middle part- Letter For A Dying Soldier To His Wife- from the rest.
Have you seen the animated cat paw that automatically swipes over to some other dank maymay somebody's posted while you're trying to view an album?
I make a lot of jokes and incongruous juxtapositions and things like that, I hope not anywhere close to 'disinhibition' mentioned in the paper. But it makes me wonder how much laughing at a joke is appreciation of a witty idea vs how much of it is a social contract where you say something mildly interesting, laugh, and other conversation participants laugh.

It's still a genuine social exchange, but the point is that humor has empathy as a key component, and it helps us bond. If you were to convey the same concept in a tone of anger or disappointment, most listeners won't laugh. So maybe humor and rants are two sides of the same coin: socialized salience.

But like any other social contract, it can be abused. If you frame a sentence in the cadence of a joke or rant, you're expecting the listener to respond. If you rant for a very long time, people stop listening. If you make jokes 24/7, the social activity of joke-telling is no longer a two-way street, and people stop laughing. If you deliver nonsense like a joke, you may get the knee-jerk social laugh, but not the witty-idea laugh (unless nonsense is the witty idea). If it's inappropriate to bond in a situation, and you tell a joke, you might not get a laugh, let alone an acknowledgment.

For various reasons, patients described in the article only have pieces of this whole system, and struggle with the social aspect or the witty-idea aspect.
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I was responding to "Big companies should not have the ability to destroy small businesses just because they changed their mind about something." as a general statement, since it was phrased in a general way.

> It's understood that a company could stop offering some data that a company is dependent on altogether, but I think it's substantially less likely than a company threatening to terminate access to data that already exists (which is what happened here).

I'm not sure sure. There's regular griping on HN about Google cancelling services, even though they are generally beta services, because people expect them to offered. Some of these people griping are people that built products on Google APIs that were discontinued.

> Of course it's ideal to have a contract with a company that guarantees access to the data stream for a reasonable chunk of time, but the reality is that unless you're already a big shot, platform vendors like Twitter aren't going to give you the time of day for something like that.

A contract? Maybe not. But if they have a clearly defined deprecation policy, that's a start. And if you are paying them, well that's a lot better, since they are incentivized to keep it going because of your (and hopefully others') money.

As for the rest (access to public API), I'm not really interested in arguing it, as we likely agree more than we disagree. :) The only caveat is that direct consumers of the API often don't behave like regular public users, and that may put a strain on the system and degrade performance for everyone, causing real problems and the need to spend real money to fix if you still want to allow unfettered public use.
I don't think someone at Apple looked at Amazon's pricing table and Google's pricing table and decided to move to Google.

Very like sales teams of Azure, Amazon, Google must have done the mating dance for few months sharing their future plans etc. Very probably government's stand on encryption could have been one of the things that were discussed.

Some people must have played golf together and eventually made some decision. Also, very likely Apple will be well invested in all these three players and will remain so for a long time.
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One of the reasons I like Reddit: It's Imgur without the Imgur UI or "imgurians".
We could achieve shorter term limits, but if the problem is persisting political opinions that may not represent the people, then it may make the problem worse. :/
A form letter saying "Contact us if you have any questions" politely implies "We don't really want to hear your questions and no exceptions will be granted".

If they don't wish to communicate that message, the message should end with at the very least something like "We don't want to terminate a popular service in error, so please contact us today to tell us more about it."
I agree it was very novel and useful. But in my mind it seats somewhere between a technology preview and a project. Most weird stuff happens to applications that get new features, get redesigned, get new aspects that weren't accounted for before.

You can cut out a lot of security issues by defining ahead of time what you're going to support, writing only that, and never doing anything else. New, small code rarely has terrible design flaws if there was a good plan ahead of time (and djb had an AWESOME plan) and you write it by yourself. Now if you live with a project for a long time, and actually maintain and extend it - that's would be even greater achievement. Postfix went in the similar direction as you mentioned and started around the time qmail got stable, but still lives.
Given the original theme for the MIT SICP lectures was magic, I think some kind of hand motions would be more appropriate.
I used the cached script and after installing the various Python libs as it complained got it working. A neat little kit. Now I need to make it always running and listening for my command. "Jarvis?" "yes, sir?" "Jarvis, <commands>"
To have it awaken and process follow on commands.

Only process when the double Jarvis exchange has occurred. And then keep on processing, waiting for more leading "Jarvis, <command>"

Putting this onto a RaspberryPi would be cool.
Could even train it verbally. "Jarvis, 'let's try something new'"

This is such a cool little simple toy with great potential.
That doesn't really make a difference to my point if it's done prior to getting, or waiting an acceptable time period for, a response.
Oof, that page renders really poorly on mobile Safari: http://i.imgur.com/bCxvJmO.jpg
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I was confused by the + signs, I read them like "plus" (is this a common use of this sign?) until I read the scanned letter, which was surprisingly easy to read. The signs looked much more like & ("and") than + to me.
CocoaPods was throttled not shut down. Twitter has an history of shutting down access to its API without notice or warning when a project becomes too popular.
> That would be irritating for us contractors. We would have to learn new interfaces and apis at the same rate of JS frameworks.

Heaven forbid cloud computing move beyond the current 1960s "You only buy from IBM" model, especially if it's "only" benefiting the customer.