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> Soros largely caused the problem

No he didn't, Soros exposed the problem of pegging a currency to an exchange rate they couldn't hold; a problem created by the Bank of England. You seem to think quoting an article you just read is educating me, it isn't; I'm a trader, Soros billion dollar trade is legendary among traders, I've known about it for years and you're clearly not educated in what he did or what it means. The problem here was the Bank of England pegging the currency, not Soros profiting from their inability to maintain that peg. The bad guy here is the Bank of England, not Soros.

And no, the Koch's are evil because they actively spend enormous amounts of money doing everything they can to destroy the political process and suppress votes, destroy the planet and deny climate change, and just generally prove themselves to be utterly disgusting and repugnant human beings who only care about maintaining their own power. They are the literal personification of the evils of excessive wealth.

Nor are the Koch's by any standard champions of the free market. The Koch's are crony capitalists eager to spend their billions messing with the political process to gain favor and legal protections for their businesses. This isn't championing a free market by any stretch of the imagination.

You won't find Soros doing that shit. Shit you're trying to sell his trading as being bad precisely because you can't find much else to call him bad for despite the fact that his billion dollar trade is in no way him being bad.
The point is that it wasn't just blatant oppression, for oppression's sake. As people like to pretend because it better serves their victimhood narrative.

Neither were Europeans acting in a purely altruistic manner of course, nobody ever does. The Africans had a choice in matters as well, they chose to cooperate for the most part because they felt that was in their best interest. People always like to take the agency away from whoever's 'victim' story they are telling. It's demeaning.

Two entities interacting, pursuing their own interests, resulting in mutual benefit. That's called symbiotic.

Sure you can drill down and find good and bad, you can't have one without the other. What's the balance between the two?

The main point and the absurdity of these discussions is that people so often try to say that the descendants of the colonizers are somehow to blame for the present state of the descendants of the colonized, whatever that may be, when it is crystal clear that without the European intervention the descendants of the colonized would be in a far worse state today.
Female monkeys can be conscious of the ongoing situation you know ;), plus it could be the other way round as well if not for the centuries of 'I is man, so I is provide for family' prevailing expectations.
This is an extremely loaded question. With that being said I think it's obvious that any languages with weak typing and a dynamic runtime will be more prone to hidden errors. Compilers are getting much more impressive in how they can catch common errors for static languages.

So those languages that try and protect the programmer the most will generally produce better code.
I'm happy to hear you like the shirt. A friend of mine (not an OpenBSD committer) rendered this shirt with a few hundred lines of python.

So... one way to get an OpenBSD hackathon shirt without actually attending a hackathon is to design a shirt!
This way, you don't have to kill anyone. Which means you likely get to wear the shirt outside of prison :)
Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian for insulting Erdogan
I recall an episode of The Simpsons where Flanders says something to that effect; I assumed that it was a parody of creationists rather than an actual, common belief.
Finally some good research on LSD in humans.

Very interesting finding about the increased connectivity to the visual cortex. It certainly vibes with my anecdotal experience -- the whole visual world just seems more meaningful and 'in focus'. Tripping in an art gallery can be a real treat :)
> Sign up and we'll let you know when it's done

You can't put "Show HN" on landing pages/email signups. There has to be something for people to actually play with. When it's ready, come back and do a Show HN then. This is all in the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The problem is that most of news in itself is and always will be junk. Profound messages do not owe their value to novelty. If you take the time to read the newspaper and instead read a book about, I don't know, calculus, every day, you will lean much, much more.
This is the best looking fork that I could find, I haven't tried it yet. https://github.com/Aeon/instagram-ruby-gem
I hope Facebook gives write access to a volunteer to merge some of these pull requests.
I wonder if the whole API is slowly on the path to deprecation.
This is the shirt I would kill for https://www.eff.org/files/images_insert/defcon20-script-kitt... If you have one in medium please let me know what transgressions I have to commit for it.
As my sibling poster mentioned, 64 (or 16) cores is for the coprocessor. The coprocessor has an architecture halfway between a traditional CPU and a GPU.

Linux does not run on the coprocessor itself, so your coprocessor code runs on the bare metal and has no access to the POSIX APIs, or any existing libraries, really.

Finally (this was the deal-breaker for my project, after I bought a bunch of Parallellas!) the Epiphany has only something like 8mb (not gb!) of RAM. All 16 cores have to share that. (The main CPU has access to something like a gig, but the bandwidth bottleneck between the two processors is unacceptable for trying to randomly access main memory from the Epiphany.)

If anyone is still not scared off, I have two extra Parallellas lying around still in the original packaging. Ping me at afishionado@gmail.com if you're interested.
So is there some super-universe version of HN where people are arguing about implementation details of our simulated reality?
And the Cartesian verison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon

There's a long and rich history of philosophers restating this possibility.
Yes, he's Whiskey.
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Yeah, but the 'you' is clearly referring to a male (who the females are going to 'perform the successful monkey ritual with), so the target is a male reader.
Law practice is ripe for “Uberisation”
My first reaction is to agree, and wonder whether we're homogenizing our music culture the same way we're homogenizing our food culture.

That said, I think all hope is not lost. I took guitar lessons from a local bluegrass musician, and, through him, have learned of a lot of little local jam sessions (I live in Raleigh, NC and bluegrass is one of the local music styles around here.) Through dropping in on these jams, I've heard a lot of great music, both passed down and original, that I'd never hear on the radio. Ask around, there might be something local/live/non-radio where you are.
Thanks for the suggestion, will check it out. I have been looking for a different answer than the usual 'yeah life is meaningless, which is why you make the most of it'. Hopefully something more nuanced and existential crisis relieving.
Looks like someone got their hands on a sample to throw in theZoo. Also, live malware sample warning! BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THESE.

hxxps://github(dot)com/ytisf/theZoo/tree/master/malwares/Binaries/Ransomware.Petya
...in a warm climate, on level ground. Anywhere else and range drops, recharging happens routinely.
I don't know much about the wedding process and hopefully won't have to deal with one for a couple of years but this sounds dope!!!!
I'm sure those living in Timbuktu were writing books about how the English living in London at the time were barbarians in capable of learning to read or write.

You're sure about that, even though there is zero evidence whatsoever for it?

Also, nowhere in this discussion has anyone said that anybody was incapable of learning to read or write. But rather that this was a skill imparted to the Africans by the Europeans.
Banks making mortgages did not pay for appraisals, sellers did. So prosecute the appraisers and sellers.

Banks did not falsify borrower income, borrowers did. So prosecute the borrowers.

Why blame banks for other people's lies? Or do you think that banks should be responsible for the statements of all parties in any transaction they underwrite or engage in?
I read that on the GitHub page but I am still having a hard time imagining that those changes weaken the function enough to become attackable by a genetic algorithm. According to my intuition even relatively weak cryptographic functions should be pretty hard to tackle by genetic algorithms due to the complex structure of the search space with many extrema. Maybe I will have a closer look tomorrow, I am starting to get really curious.
I disagree with the opinion. Apple had complied with the law and is just in their decision not to compromise their security protocols, nor do I think they should bend to the FBI's whim. The alternate would have repercussions, "Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks." http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/answers/ There are already several companies that sell hacks to the highest bidder. http://time.com/2972317/world-war-zero-how-hackers-fight-to-... (sorry for the pay-walled link). The opinion that Apple is compromising its security in the long term due to the FBI's use of a 3rd party hack is not true; in fact that aspect is only news because it is a PR war. It is highly unusual that the FBI made this type of information public. Their hack is likely limited to a specific vulnerability. To the extent Apple has legal ability and technical capability to promote customer privacy, exercising those abilities will continue to be the optimal approach to promoting customer privacy.
But what's the poooiint..
Sorry, I guess I've been living under a rock. What's the context for this?
I don't quite understand the reasoning in the start which seems to boil down to;

Content/Media on the web is bad and people are dissatisfied.

How exactly do you reach this conclusion? I mean we can all make huge assumptions about the opinions the average human have on the quality of media, but I don't think that qualifies as any form of factual commentary.
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Most of the content stored on hidden services may very well be illegal but AFAIK most Tor traffic isn't for anything stored on Tor, it's for content on the internet at large. That's like saying that most PO boxes without a real name are used for illegal purposes. It may be true, but that's only part of the analogy. I'd say the analogy still stands.
If you are wondering "How could an isolation transformer ever get past QC with abraded or nicked insulation?", you might find this video interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEJn74Z3wHk
They all have stupid fees of one kind or another; the trick is figuring out which ones you can easily avoid. The only fee I personally care about is the annual fee, since I never do balance transfers, cash advances, or leave a balance on my card after the end of the month. I get an Amex annual-fee-free via my Costco membership (sadly, soon it will expire when Costco goes to Visa-only), and an annual fee-free Disney rewards Visa through Chase (which will come in handy this fall, when I do another Disney cruise).
It was taught in a private Christian school my ex-girlfriend's daughter went to. Saw it on paper even, they weren't ashamed. Also seemed to be very against evolution and considered that to be the devil whispering in your ear.
If you would prefer, you could replace 'blackface' with 'speaking ebonics.' I'm sure that would be a real hoot. Eveybody, laugh at the white man pretending to be a black man who can barely speak understandable English!

I wonder what kind of political statement that would make...

A caricature is 'a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.' Blackface absolutely qualifies. Pretending to speak another language/dialect for grotesque effect absolutely qualifies.

And yes, if America had a large group of people who would put on black hoods, and stand on metaphorical soapboxes, shouting about how Texans are destroying the country, how they are rapists and thieves, and they should be sent back to <Wherever>, I'd have a problem with that, too. For some reason, though, this form of racism doesn't seem to be particularly popular...
That's whitewashing the banks' participation in a scheme that everybody knew was corrupt. The quality of the mortgages was several ranks lower than presented. Its arguable the banks knew that. If you know other people are lying, and pretend they aren't, you are complicit in the lie.
The point of it all is it all. If you suffer from existential doubts, it just means you're existentially confused.
Rrtr – the next React Router
OpenBSD hackathons are why I'm so bummed by the corporate-sponsored "hackathons" that are often organized at my university: instead of improving a major open source project that is of use to everyone (including people in academia), it's mostly about "please test our API and show us the cool thing we could build with it". I absolutely adore the focus that OpenBSD hackathons have and how they benefit the whole community.
If you meditate for emotional stillness and spiritual depth, then there is no reason you can't seek happiness and awareness from a girlfriend or a psychedelic drug experience. Or from both at the same time.

You could meditate alone for a thousand lifetimes and not experience love. Saying you can endogenously experience psychedelic states by meditation or Kundalini yoga sounds nice and ideal, but it is only partially true. It can only show you glimpses.

Whatever this world is, it is here for us to enjoy. Proclaiming the answer to enlightement is living an ascetic life without luxury items, smart attractive people or drugs of any kind is silly.

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." - Alan Watts

(Obviously Osho didn't live an ascetic life. He meditated enough not to need MDMA but not Rolls-Royces.)
No current jobs available! Can you share your email address? Are you guys interested in hiring interns this summer ?
That's a bit over the top. Any mid life crisis that is one essay away from happening is pretty close to happening regardless.
Deciding to End Your Start Up = Quitter
> the tablet itself is an abomination

Yes, but I find myself strangely impressed. I like to imagine someone walked up to an engineer and said "So, I just told client $foo that we can provide a tablet version of our PC software. They need it by end of week. That's not a problem, right? Because the CEO is fully on board with this..."
This is a great idea. I work at an electronics retailer and teenage girls go crazy for Instax. I bet this will be even bigger.
Seems conferences are quite a controversial thing these days.
Our entire universe can be represented as a collection of bits of information. The real question is whether that information can be compressed or not. If it can be, that means you could store our universe digitally, if it can't, that means it has to exist in analog. If you can store it digitally, then it almost certainly is somewhere.

I remember reading about how NES and other cartridge game systems are harder to emulate than disc-based systems like the PSX. The reason is that cartridges are more than just flat data storage, they have chips and other electronics on them that screw with the emulation.

I'm inclined to believe (and I believe it's actually been proven) that quantum information is incompressible, that would make any algorithm that would simulate it to have the same time and space requirements as the physical system.
> You seem to have issues with reality

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Here's an interesting thought -- suppose the algorithm used to simulate our universe is not bound by the resources in the universe. Let's also say that our simulation results in the people in our simulation simulating our universe.
In this case, who is simulating who? In every possible way you could observe them the two universes are identical.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Lambdaconf_incident

> In March 2016, the organizers of [LambdaConf] announced that they would include neo-reactionary Curtis Yarvin on the program despite widespread protest.

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http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/sjws-urge-programmi...

> LambdaConf, an annual gathering of programmers in Boulder, Colorado, has faced calls from social justice warriors to cancel a talk by Curtis Yarvin, the developer of the Urbit programming environment, due to his political views.
Well... yes. There's more to it than that. The author pretty much stopped when he could keep going further.

A lot of our identity is attached to these meaningless rituals and games. However, the one constant in all of it is Awareness. It's here that when one starts trying to find just "who" is aware that things get interesting again. It leads to some place much deeper and goes beyond the existential dread.
I started reading that one once. It's been 9 years..
This is a submarine piece for Medium, but I found this paragraph to be poignant:

“I’ve been working on publishing systems on the internet for my entire career, which is coming up on 20 years now,” says Williams. “When I stepped back from operations at Twitter, I thought, OK, what’s next? There was no longer this need to make it easy. We’d checked that box. It’s easy to create a website. It’s even easier to send a tweet. But it turns out it wasn’t the case that more information would automatically make us all smarter as individuals or as a society. There was still something missing and broken with the system we’re relying on to get our information, that told us how to understand the world.”

It's easy to agree with this based on the media we encounter today, but this state is not an obvious result of the introduction of the internet. The network has changed our culture, and continues to change our culture, in ways that we don't yet fully understand.
See my comments. It almost seems designed to fail, to "prove" how preferable supercharging is.
Even ChaCha8 (similar to Salsa8) so far is infeasible. The problem is that the randomware used a modified Salsa algorithm that uses 16-bit words instead of 32-bit words. This demolishes the algorithm, and is not a standard modification.
OCaml in Operations
Well that's disappointing (not at all on your part, but on the part of the current format), but completely understandable considering how freeform YC seems to have encouraged these applications to be.
The recent 'Panama Papers' leak shows that it is indeed practical to steal 2.6 TB of data.
The author's arguments about lack of currently available content are his most valid. But for the rest of the piece, I can't help feeling he's playing a game of "no true Scotsman" with us. Does VR need to be totally immersive in order to be viable? And if so, how do we define total immersion? (To use the author's phrase: "enter into virtual worlds." How do we define that?)

This author, along with many others, seems to believe that VR fails if it is anything less than the Matrix. I'm not convinced that's the case. My strong suspicion is that this generation of VR will be evolutionary, and not revolutionary -- an enhanced presence, if you will, adding to (but not replacing) the state of the art in console gaming. Perhaps we'll see some immersive adventures in filmmaking, television, sporting events, concerts, and so forth. But it's time we stopped looking at VR as an all-or-nothing proposition. There may well be a commercially viable middle ground between the clunky "VR" of yesteryear and the Star Trek holodeck.

The current hype cycle has engendered this inevitable backlash. What we need now is neither hype nor hate. We need progress, and progress is often iterative. We will need to accept the warts and all of the current iteration as it develops and becomes more and more.
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How crazy -- I'm vaguely familiar with Curtis' work, and would have never known (or cared) about his political views until the people looking to "no platform" him gave him a platform.

Streisand effect, people.
I'm not accusing the person you responded to of it since he clearly doesn't know that much about the history of trading, but there was certainly a whole lot of "evil Jew broke the bank" innuendo around Soros's trade as well. Soros couldn't have broke the bank by himself, there were billions of additional dollars pouring into the short since it was long clear that the BoE couldn't maintain the peg, but only Soros is singled out.
A controversial speaker and subsequent protests, what is inclusive and what is right. Open Bazaar vs Safe Space debate of the Conferences.

For an average person who is interested in functional programming this is a side show, but since we all are now about "Culture", this is one more phase of Culture wars.
It's a way of sponsoring community-led crypto research.
Hail the maintainers – maintenance is more important than innovation
I didn't even work out what the Oreilly shipping was since it required me to login and go right to the end of the ordering process.

I tend to avoid ordering books from Amazon too since they charge $5 per book plus $5 per order which usually makes them uncompetitive. Strangely enough I end up ordering most of my books via the Book Depository which is owned by Amazon anyway.
Indeed this is normal. Apache Camel produced such huge stack traces they refactored the routing system specifically to reduce AsyncCallback usage and shorten stack traces; at one time Camel would dump traces thousands of lines long. However, pointing this out doesn't actually address the question; is there a performance issue indicated by these huge call stacks?

I've wondered about the question myself when encountering incredibly long stack traces while troubleshooting Java systems. I've also wondered if there is some more general dysfunction indicated. I've see impressive stack traces in C and C++, but nothing quite like what I've found in Java. What is the experience of C# programmers?
> I do look forward to going back to Cuba some day, and hope that Americans, as they discover more about this society, are respectful of their history and culture and contribute to the next phase of this awesome island.

Dream on ...
Much of the constructed meanings that we create are as artificial and illusory as the masks we put upon ourselves, and the rituals we run through.

Things, events, forms arises for no reason other than for it's own sake. That's not a cause for depression and nihilism. In fact, if you were able to clearly see that, this dance of things arising and passing, created, sustained, and dissolved back into the ground of being -- then you'd see the most beautiful thing you could see.
The unfortunate reality is that if you become a suspect that is good enough to burn you at the stake for much of the population. The same with rape really. Once you've been a suspect or, even worse, accused you are basically screwed.