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> I think you missed the part of my comment that mentioned me being in a computer store

Not really. You mentioned Linux, you should be able to right click.

> probably the best way to go about it would be to set up a firewall or similar and try to kill all outgoing to microsoft.com

It wouldn't be.

1. I don't want to kill updates.
2. I'm more interested in whether I should trust Microsoft. If the telemetry sends how many times I opened built-in whether app and such then I suppose I'm fine with that. I'm also fine with online searches in start menu if they can be turned off, as well as services related to Cortana if they can be turned off. I wouldn't be okay with Windows scanning my computer and sending telemetry on what third-party software I use or documents I view. There were articles on the internet that were later debunked, but I can't seem to find something well sourced on what exactly is going on beyond tutorials on how to turn various knobs.
See reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547983

Most countries where there are more than two parties are smaller. Just like in the US at lower level elections independents and other party members might win.
TBH it'd be even more powerful if Snowden could not receive the prize: "Western Europe is now at a point not reached even under the Third Reich."
How about a different solution to prevent the problem in the first place - A chrome extension to warn you before loading that tempting facebook link that you are about to spend (statistically) x minutes on Facebook.
I actually bookmarked this and some other HN posts with this news to see what the commenters have to say regarding this type of news on HN. I completely agree with you that this is the wrong place and HN should focus primarily on tech with some exceptions that might not be directly related to technology but might be of interest to technologically minded people, and it is a thin line but HN users should be vigilant with moderating its contents.

When a major event such as Prince's death happens, you just can't escape from such news because they are everywhere on the web anyway. Posting it on HN like in this case looks like a simple Reddit-like karmawhoring.
I dunno, how would you feel about putting it on your CV? Like calling a business Smelly Bottom Industries would be funny and populist, but people who actually worked there would struggle to take pride in the fact.
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Beautiful site. Nice images, definitely gets the subliminal point across.
For those who had the opportunity and pleasure of meeting you personally, the day the news broke out was a black day. You are a person who makes a deep impression, your thoughtfulness and very balanced view and how you articulate them. I now read your writings and find them even more compelling: sharp observation and bravery to spell the truth out.

Death is coming to all of us. We all die. Death of some, however, will be a big loss. You, sir, are among them.
To be fair, you folks aren't doing research -- you're doing residency program scheduling. And domain expertise is more important for your product than any sort of theoretical knowledge of science or medicine.

To found a company doing scientific research, it helps a great deal not just to have a PhD, but to to be an established researcher in the field you're commercializing. Most scientific startups founded by outsiders are...transparently bad.
Valve is basically doing what Wizards of the Coast has done for decades. I remember there were lawsuits arguing that packs of Pokémon cards should be illegal under gambling laws, especially for children. I can see the point, although I don't think such lawsuits will actually win.
The book this article is excerpted from ("Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions") looks interesting; I'm thinking of buying it. Has anyone read it / does anyone have an opinion about it?
This article is good food for thought in a year dominated by two strong "outsider vs the Establishment" candidates in the US, populist rise in all the European elections, and the entire Brexit issue. We are confronting a lot of areas where the "will of the people" differs from "the will of the people who know what the fuck they're talking about." this raises a lot of questions about "democratic-ness."

executive powers originally designed for extenuating circumstances are being used on one side and the other: to select delegates in an election, to get around a stonewall Congress in Washington, to name a boat in England. Where they aren't used, there is pressure to use them: to avoid a Brexit disaster, to stand up for a comedian's right to free speech in Germany, to respond to terrorist threats in France and Belgium.

I have to wonder if this is the Internet doing to Democracy what it is doing to Capitalism : breaking fundamental assumptions of how the world works. Information and opinions work very differently, now. We are part of much larger social herds, governed by different forces, with much faster (and more selective) information transfer. Populism is a different beast today than when Berlusconi ran in the 90s. Maybe it's time you disrupt democracy.
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It's more like we shouldn't trust a third party closed source software for a task that is supposed to be done in a secure way.
The forced landing of Morales' plane was probably one of those moments I felt most ashamed to be a European. It was an absolute disgrace and nobody seemed to care.
> it's very doubtful that anything short of a Supreme Court ruling would prevent Norwegian authorities

Considering how international laws are now completely ignored by our imperial masters (see Abu Omar, rendition flights, the raid on Kim Dotcom, etc etc), I would say it's very doubtful anything short of a couple of panzer divisions would prevent any US-friendly authorities from helping out.
Economic (and other) incentives matter. They matter so much that even if some thing is "common good", you may have to pay for it.

Farmers produce food and have property rights to their products; they can then sell food (or donate). Companies produce new plant varieties, and they have intellectual property rights to their products which they can sell (and sometimes they donate as well).

If you cannot have IPR to new seed breeds, there is less economic and other incentive to create new ones, and you'll have less development of technology.

And the very reason that mankind has less hunger today than it has ever had (in proportion to population, and also in absolute terms in hundreds of years) is development of technology.

(By the way, farmers generally don't get wages; they get earnings, like companies do.)
Meh. How many software licenses have "not guaranteed fit for any purpose whatsoever" or along those lines. In the US litigation is king and you guys need to cover your legal asses.
I've noticed this repeatedly in these vast, sweeping future-of-the-economy outlook pieces. The writer is keen to point out everything that means that the current paradigm is bound to shift, but they never take the time to stick their neck out and postulate what it's shifting into.

That said, I did enjoy this article.
TL;DR Yes, but as someone else mentioned, the real question isn't if Go is suitable for Fintech, but if it's suitable for your team and the specific problem you are trying to solve.

I work for a startup called Mondo - we're building a full-stack bank and currently it's almost entirely in Go. However, this is a function of our architecture - we provide an API which our apps and frontend (some using react) communicate with. Behind this API are >100 microservices which comprise our application, and Go works exceptionally well for this type of architecture, as it excels at network services.

In your case it seems that you're building a web application, so Rails is going to be easier to build out a prototype, hire for, and has taken care of a huge number of your concerns already at a framework level. There is of course nothing stopping you from splitting out functionality later into smaller Go based applications, but I doubt at this point speed of code execution should really be a concern - if you're building a new company you need speed of product execution, no?

Regarding functionality, Go will do everything you're asking for:
- CSRF can be handled with middlewares like Gorilla's CSRF package: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/csrf
- Postgres with the standard database package, or other packages on top
- Third party APIs such as Stripe/Dwolla/Braintree will be fine
- If you're looking at integrating with other (older) parts of the global financial network (eg. is there an OFAC checking service with a nice API?), then you may find other languages would be easier for these tasks. In our case we may end up abstracting some of these with services in other languages that already have libraries to interact with these systems, and then providing a nice internal API our services can interact with.

So, Rails has a huge number of framework level features which may help you move faster as you develop your product. But, yes, Go is perfect for Fintech applications, we're building a bank and love it.
There's a system that, in my opinion, is even better (fairer, less prone to corruption) than sortition, and that's liquid democracy (a.k.a. delegative democracy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0_Vhldz-8

The idea being, you can let people vote on your behalf, or you can vote directly, and you have the freedom to choose between these on an issue by issue basis.
And what's wrong exactly if the name appeals to every 5 years old in the country? I think /that/ is inspirational -- how better to get kids interested in the science than having them following that boat adventures over the oceans?

I think refusing that name would be not just be 'anti democratic' -- it's just be very un-british, because as a foreigner, that's /exactly/ what I'd expect the british to come up with as a name, just for a smirk, and that's something I like about them!
> My other objection is that Boaty McBoatface, somehow represents the will of the people. No it doesn't.

Realistically it's the will of 4chan and Reddit, which is nowhere near as noble-sounding as "the will of the people".
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In the spec[1] there is a definition of an "object container file" which includes the schema, and is the default format used whenever you save an Avro file. You can even use it whenever sending Avro data through the wire, if you don't mind paying the extra space cost.

[1]: http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/spec.html
They don't allow end-users to generate keys for games - that is restricted to the publishers or game creators (in smaller cases).

The keys on those sites are generally sourced from physical copies in cheaper regions (as mentioned in a sibling comment), cheaply sold bundles (Humble Indie Bundle, and other similar sites), and other such sources.

You could possibly make an argument for gift-copies of games[0] being resalable, or games that can be added to third party systems (ME2 gives a CD key that can be added to Origin, for example) though the latter would be limited to one attempt per-game per-account.

[0]http://www.g2play.net/category/24773/factorio-steam-gift/
Intelligence is useful, so evolutionary pressure has increased it in humans, dolphins, corvids, octopii, etc. Perhaps it just takes time for the pressure to give results - and we just happened to be first?

But it may be that some particular evolutionary pressure or circumstance is required to get our kind of intelligence (ie the problem is demand, not supply). It's been argued that exchange (trade) supplied that pressure. It requires intelligence, and therefore amplifies the value of intelligence.

So, when corvids start to exchange, just wait a few million years, and we'll have some homegrown alien intelligences.
According to Wikipedia, several Spanish ships have been named after him.
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I think it has a lot of explanatory power. From what I've seen the main reason people don't care about who's in charge is because they think all the candidates are basically the same and none actually represent them.
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Then why are Argentinian farmers using Monsanto seeds?

In reality, they know these are so nice seeds that they want to use them.
On the problem of wasting time browsing - I stick to a rough Pomodoro style principle. Coffee in the morning while I spend 20 minutes gorging on the sweet sweet stream of fresh info from HN/Reddit/Feedly/Twitter that surfaced while I slept.

Anything that looks interesting but requires more than a few minutes to chew on (like this, today: FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone) I bookmark.

Throughout the day I take 10mins break for each 50mins of work, I don't go to these sites again, I just work through what I picked out in that first 20 minutes.

Gets the thirst for news out of the way and allows you to procrastinate, in a sense, "productively".
Because its still shiny enough...?
Running as root within a container means your still running as root on the host as well for the underlying process. If there's a security issue with containerization, you'll end up with root on the host.

Running as a non-root user in the container is an extra level of protection and follows the principle of least privilege.
(Author here.) So far as I can tell, it's not that there are known, specific things that one can do to break out of a docker container as root; it's just that the space of possible things you can do is larger, so there is more surface area for you to attack. So, following the principle of least privilege [1], you should avoid running as root, if you reasonably can, and in most cases it's not that hard to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
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Ethereum is a public blockchain platform with programmable transaction functionality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
A prof I know at Berkeley won't let anyone in the Ph.D. program unless he can secure funding for them. He's in a humanities major, though. Maybe in STEM profs think they can land a job to pay it off.
There's no such thing as a half-Christian - you either accept it all or none; there's no cherry-picking. A suicide of any form is a sin - among Catholics as well and in some other religions, too. People had been terminally ill in the past as well, but there's always a chance - even a minuscule one.
The question seems flawed, as having an AI making decisions only based on visual information is basically confusing how you get the information (visual) and what information the AI get (only limited information, similar to what the player has). Two different problems that can be solved completely independently. The first problem makes no sense for a game (how intensive would be the computation), while the latter one could be very interesting, since it would rely on designing the AI more like a natural player. The catch however is that it's a "could", in itself there is no reason to imagine such AIs would make the game better in any way (over "cheating" AI's).
I am taking it that you don't travel anywhere. Last I checked, every airport does a TSA check. People simply don't trust each other. One cannot simply remove this checks. Just ask around you, how many people will board a plane with no police check of fellow passengers?
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Not if bureaucrats are in charge of sailing it...
Just checked what the four most popular game of all games on twitch.com are.

At this moment they are, in order of viewers:
- Dota 2 (in-game gambling, 3d party sites for cashing out)
- Heartstone (game revolves around in-game gambling, no 3d party allowed)
- League of Legends (only 3d party sites!)
- CS:go (in-game gambling, 3d party sites for cashing out)

So from only looking at the very top games 3/4 involves heavy use of in-game gambling. Them being popular competitive games it's natural that e-sports betting is available for all of them. In 2/4 it's trivial to cash out in the other two's you'd have to sell your account.
At this stage I'm certain one of three things will happen if the US can get a hold of him:

1) he will be secretly disappeared in a way that gives the US plausible deniability.

2) he will die in an "accident".

3) he will be taken to trial and put away for life, most likely in solitary confinement ("for his own safety").

It is obvious nobody actually cares about the activities of the NSA and their legality at this point. There has been some bad PR around it but all in all the American public hasn't revolted and the allies are still under control and don't want to risk it. Also, to this day, Snowden is routinely referred to as "a leaker" and US politicians' calls for his death and branding him as a traitor have been met with nary any criticism.

At this point it's no longer about what secrets Snowden can reveal, it's just about neutralizing what the US government (as in: politicians and state officials) considers a threat to its interests (as in: their interests, not those of the nation). And to make an example of him, obviously.
Yeah, science careers kind of suck. The problem is by the time you realize this you have probably invested quite a lot of time already.
If spun right the PR benefits of calling the thing Boaty McBoatface are huge.

You could do merchandise, books, characters, You could have Boaty McBoatface sale up to the ice caps to look at why they are melting.

It's not like this is unusual we had a Childrens TV series here that was massively popular about talking trains and talking helicopters.

I think they squandered a massive opportunity because they don't understand how the internet works.
hhahhaha then this was made for you XD
What makes you think he would be brought before US courts if he were kidnapped? Given the US intelligence services' track record it's far more likely a kidnapping would result in his disappearance -- alive or not.
>My point exactly - your brain skips right over reckless or accidental and goes straight to malice.

No, I was just trying to illustrate that the analogy is absurd given the context. Snowden was not unwitting and made explicit choices that had consequences, regardless of underlying motivation.

>Not my intent, just pointing out the use of the phrase betrayed a thinly veiled hope for some federal pound me in the ass prison time.

Agreed. Though, on the bright side the incidence of rape is probably nonexistent in a place like ADX Florence. You unfortunately just go crazy from solitary instead.

>This was already well known, supply chain security isn't a new concept. The consumers were the only ones surprised by this revelation.

Yeah, but it's still solid confirmation that a specific actor is doing a very specific thing—one which involved extremely sneaky custom hardware modifications with very fast turnaround times.

>The Italian police used this technique to identify 22 individuals alleged to be part of a CIA snatch team, in 2005.

This is actually apples and oranges. Cell phone surveillance has been around forever, and the Italians were leveraging the cellular networks in their own country at that.

What I'm referring to is automated co-traveler inference in foreign countries to protect friendly personnel. In other words, analyzing massive amounts of data in real-time to detect previously unknown persons based on movement alone. A prerequisite for doing that is first compromising the entire telecommunications network of whatever country you're operating in.
I am reasonably familiar with how science PhD's get funded, having worked with many of them. Who fund PhDs in literature or sociology (or any subject that is unlikely to pay for a job in the "real world").
>PS: I find it amusing to be down-voted just for translating the text of the law. I swear didn't write it, lol.

This is probably because quoting the translated law looked like attempting to intentionally obfuscate.

The very point is that IPR can be defended by using some other name for it than "patent", so quoting a piece of law that says what cannot be "patented" is not relevant when the rights are granted by some other law - and in the case of Argentina they should be, because it is signatory to international convention that obligates it to have such a law.

Seed rights don't have to be protected by "patents". For instance, in my country, the name (translated to English) "plant breeder's right". It has its own piece of legislation, and it is in many ways like a patent, but it is not called a patent. In the US, the same thing is called a patent, but that is just terminology.
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Tell that to india, which has 6 National parties[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_I...
You say "at best a handful" like there isn't a meaningful difference between "2" and "3 or 4". The US is deeply unusual in their persistent two party system. Germany probably has nearly as many voters (given higher registration and turnout rates) as the US, and certainly doesn't operate as a two party system
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(Author here.) That's a good question. In this case, the main benefit I was after was easy setup of consistent development environments. We have in the past (and still do) use vagrant + ansible for the same purpose, but Dockerfiles are a lot simpler, and people have been less afraid of changing them vs. the slightly crazy ansible playbooks.

It think it's worked pretty well so far, though we have had a few difficulties:

- Particularly in the early stages of development, we've been changing dependencies a lot, and that requires a lot of image rebuilds. They are very consistent, but also a bit tedious.

- For those of us on macs, using docker machine for development hasn't been all that great, because inotify doesn't work for automatic code reloading (watchify, nodemon, etc.). However, they're hard at work on that with the new Docker for Mac.

I'm hopeful that technologies like kubernetes will make it easier to deploy these containers, too, but I haven't really got there yet. Maybe another article some day!
Lots of talent available and no issue hiring but then we pay 30% over market.

If you pay market rates then you only get the people actively looking for work or your company is so obviously amazing that devs will take a risk on you.
And of course Athenian democracy would be oligarchy to modern democrats, who think that more than 10% of the population should be enfranchised...

Agree with your point that it doesn't really help the discussion to treat obscure and easily manipulated online polls on trivia as actual mass expressions of public will. I mean, it's about as valid as the poll Redditors brigaded to try to prove that nearly every American would vote for Sanders.
I think the point the article was trying to make was that 'our kind of intelligence' is neither a single, well-defined entity - for example, the author points out that chimps might be more 'politically' intelligent than ourselves - nor is it likely to be one thing that made us into what we are ("Thinking seriously about evolutionary cognition may also help us stop looking for a single magic ingredient that explains how human intelligence emerged").

If this hypothesis is true, other species might not necessarily display 'our kind' of intelligence, even given time, because they are in different contexts than ourselves, and introducing a single phenomenon (say, trade), is then unlikely to produce beings who think similarly to ourselves.
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