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Offense is not an argument, nor is it rational; it is essentially a form of the "appeal to disgust" fallacy:

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

Where we get tripped up is in applying the Golden Rule, because everyone's Golden Rule is different, and different standards of "decency" (note: also not an argument, also irrational) exist, across time, space and culture.

So the question is, do we always act in such a way that anyone who could be "offended", wouldn't be? The problem there is that I could claim offense at anything (since it is irrational), nobody could disprove that I am offended, and thus use it to shut down arguments. For example, if we were discussing Jesus from a historical context, and I belonged to a religious sect that forbade discussion of Jesus in a non-Biblical context, I could justifiably claim offense, and those who kowtow to inoffense would have to comply (or most likely just take it elsewhere).

On the opposite end, if we allow anything offensive as long as someone (anyone) finds it inoffensive or valuable, we risk alienating a good portion of the readership. For example, an in-detail review of the particulars of a rape, or gory photographs of a murder scene.

I personally would prefer HN lean toward the latter, but that is because I have a thick skin and I realize that even me arguing for this does not rest on rational grounds, merely "consensual irrational" grounds.
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> This whole "shades of grey" leads to the blackness that destroys people and civilizations.

I'd argue that seeing the world in black and white is what destroys people and civilisations rather more.

Many of the worst abuses of history have come from black and white thinking (people with black skin are not people, jews are not people, people without my political beliefs are not people).
Usually farmland is zoned only for farmland use. You need an inspector to approve any building, and it must be related to farm use.

In Oregon, here's the list of allowed uses of farmland:
http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/215.213

You could probably install solar panels for the purpose of powering your house and farm equipment, but you couldn't install solar panels everywhere and sell the electricity to the public:

"Utility facilities necessary for public service, including wetland waste treatment systems but not including commercial facilities for the purpose of generating electrical power for public use by sale or transmission towers over 200 feet in height."

It's not just a local thing: Maybe there are places where it doesn't hold, but the government wants to ensure the US isn't dependent on other countries for food. So it puts restrictions on the farmland to ensure that there's always enough food available.

OTOH, if by 'farmland', you meant 'desert in Nevada', I can't imagine anyone would care if you bought it up and installed panels there.
Academia and "the arts" have never been solely about the collection of knowledge for knowledges sake. Generally academics and artist have had patrons of some form who pay for a specific project, which is used to subsidize the academic's other endeavors.
History definitely falls under this umbrella, first with kings wanting their accomplishments recorded for posterity. Academic military history grew out of the practical need to study tactics. Since that need is much declined, so too are the universities offering course in the field.

You still have your collection of purists who study for the sake of study, but the number who do it because they are seeking to apply it to current issues has decreased.
I voted for the Gresham Dollar.

For all the platitudes you see on Facebook and LinkedIn about being innovative, it's surprisingly rare. Everyone is scared. They only dream of moon shots when they already know the happy ending.

When people actually stand up and try ideas like the Gresham Dollar, they're attacked instead of supported. When they say "too ambitious" they just mean "ambitious in any way". They'll be scared until it works, and then they'll love it and swear that they supported it all along, and post some platitude about it on LinkedIn.

They'll get in your way, maybe even try to stop you, Suncho. Don't let them. Keep going.
You've just posted an example of the recency illusion.
I don't see a way to link it directly but the layers on this map can be adjusted to show the many wind and solar projects in the US:

http://www.eia.gov/state/maps.cfm
I wouldn't use it for super important services.... But, I hear OVH/SoYouStart have decent servers. Their support & uptime are pretty shoddy at the best tho.
This seems pretty mealy-mouthed. They don't want to give up "stealing is always wrong", and they don't want to give up "stealing to survive is okay", so they redefine the word "stealing". They're basically saying "stealing is wrong, and if it's not wrong, it's not stealing".

(They clearly do not agree with user stronglikedan.)
'In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;

But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."'

:Rudyard Kipling [0]

0 - http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
Its SEO/Click-bait 101 unfortunately. It is sensationalisation of something to make it sound more interesting.

Next it will be "See what crazy change to solar made energy purchasers sit up pay attention!"
Amongst other "useless" pursuits, Shannon built several machines to play board games, justified as part of his interest in artificial intelligence. See a quick summary here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/143233/claude-shannon-man...
Could an income for all provide the ultimate safety net?
Google’s self-driving tech will be in 2017 Chrysler Pacifica
Don't need any more proof that transferring BTC from a block that Satoshi controlled. Don't need reams of explanation or blog posts or anything else.
Well, as it only supports TLS 1.0 and SSL 3 (C grade on SSL labs), plus looks like it's running an old version of Web Forms, I think you're probably fine. :/
> Discursive ad hominem, yawn.

What kind of environment do you partake in discourse in that this kind of condescending contribution is acceptable? It sounds like you're taking your cues from the Comic Guy from The Simpsons. "Tu quoque? yawn".
> except if there is another move in the works that we don't know yet

Exactly. He has promised to release more evidence, and for all we know, by this time next week there will be incontrovertible evidence that he is Satoshi beyond all reasonable doubt.

Maybe he's releasing the evidence in a trickle because he's loving the attention, and he has some PR team advising him this is the best way to get it. Maybe he's doing it because he doesn't give a f* and enjoys reading about how "he's not the real Satoshi" and then he says "here you go, it's me". Of course, maybe he's not the real Satoshi.
I would buy a Tesla for this feature alone. Allergies in the summer are terrible, especially when driving through rural regions.
Manual memory management can be done safely and economically. This really is as simple as "the thing in the loop which has agency is the human, so the buck stops there."

And a bug is still a bug is still a bug. This is not even a single point of failure; it's an ecosystem failure.
If the owner installs malicious malware they're doing the exact same thing that happens when an employee clicks on an email containing a malicious attachment. Which amounts to social engineering and having informed users. I want to be clear, this isn't an argument against better privilege management. It is pointing out that the symptom is what is being exploited in this and many other security scenarios of this nature. For example, I recently was going to install a major department store's application on my phone to access some specific account features. The application wanted access to nearly _everything_ on my phone. I cancelled the installation and wrote an angry letter to the company. But the reality is that most people would just click "OK" and start using the application without ever thinking twice. In the situation described better privilege management does nothing because the user wouldn't use it correctly. (Another real world example is the "Brightest Flashlight" Android application that was collecting data and sharing it with advertisers.) We can go on being paranoid about these types of "attacks" but the reality is we need to have 1. better informed users and 2. software lifecycle processes and distribution mechanisms that don't allow attacks of this nature to make it into the wild (which I believe ST does)
These kinds of discussions always make me think of this story:

"A Scottish miner was walking home one night with a bunch of pheasants he had poached from a local landowner's estate when the landowner appeared and demanded that the miner hand over the pheasants. "Why should I hand them over to you?", asked the miner. "Because this is my land and those are my pheasants", the landowner replied.

"OK", said the miner, "where did you get the land from?" "From my father", said the landowner. "So where did your father get it?", the miner asked. The landowner replied: "From his father, who got it from his father, and so on. This land has belonged to my family for 500 years!"

"Well", the miner continued, "how did your family get it 500 years ago?" "Oh, they fought for it", answered the landowner. "OK then", the miner said, "take off your jacket and I'll fight you for it!"

NB I first read this in The Poor had No Lawyers - described as "how this country was stolen from its people":

http://www.andywightman.com/poor-had-no-lawyers
Oh good, we can whine about this instead of talking about the issue at hand. This is HN constantly now, the top comment is some nitpick more or less totally unrelated to the topic.
I came in here to complain about this same thing. Just implies a timeline much shorter than 16 mos.
Yes. The simplest explanation is that Gavin was not tricked, Wright is really Nakamoto, but he's intentionally not releasing real proof to the community yet (despite providing it in person to Gavin).
Food is the private property of someone else. Pay for it or ask for it for free.
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Yeah, it's possible to write flawless code. The problem is that it doesn't happen in practice. You know, where people are actually relying on this code that "could be flawless but isn't" so they can run businesses, maintain privacy, etc.
> Agreed -- I think we should, as neediness increases, lower the penalties per a judge's discretion, but I don't think we should ever completely eliminate the criminal aspect of theft.

We certainly complete eliminate the criminality of intentional homicide when there is sufficient need. Seems to me, that the case for doing so for mere theft of chattels is much stronger. (Also, note that this is separate from the issue of whether or not conversion of chattels ought always to be a tort creating a debt for compensation from the taker to the one deprived, which should be resolved through whatever system a jurisdiction has for the resolution of debts and which may requiring repayment when the taker is capable, with interest, unless the debt is qualified for discharge, e.g., through bankruptcy or similar proceedings. But that's a different issue than criminality.)
No, solar installations have doubled every 2 years, which would be inline with the price dropping in half every 2 years, too.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/22/exponential-growth-globa...
I'd say C is more of a symptom and exacerbating factor of the cultural failing. C makes it easy to achieve performance and time-consuming to achieve correctness.

When the people funding the work (and this includes people donating their own time) can see performance issues but not correctness issues, guess which ones get fixed?
The problem with peddling guilt is that not everyone subscribes to it. I pay taxes, and I expect the needy and the poor and the sick and the hungry to be taken care of. If anyone should feel guilty, it should be the government leaders and the people that don't hold them accountable for the duties there are tasked with performing.

I think stealing is wrong, no matter the situation and desperation. However, I also believe that the supermarket (or whoever was stolen-from) has the right to compassion for this individual. And if you ask me, I believe people are generally good, and most would forgive the transgression without hesitation.
Seems to me that the entire blame should go to the system itself. The system is broken, and everything you're seeing here is a symptom of this disease: lack of good advisors, exploitation of adjuncts, lack of tenured positions, etc. But there doesn't seem to be much agreement about what exactly is wrong with the system and what can be done to fix it.
But can it be improved with a "just?"

"See what crazy change to solar just made energy purchasers sit up and pay attention!"
If you're on mobile GPU chipsets the latter is actually more common(CPU/GPU being in the same memory space).

That said it doesn't really change a whole lot, each platform has it's own unique performance characteristics and I don't think you'll ever correctly represent that at the API level. APIs tend to move much slower than the hardware platforms that power them.
This is very exciting, thank you for building this.

Quick question on your sample codes, if actor is capable of receiving async messages, then channel is basically redundant, right?

What is the use case on using both, it looks like I can consume messages directly from the actor. I am not clear on that.
An elementary treatment of the Feynman sprinkler
There are penalties, they are just relatively marginal.
In arid regions with a low crop per acre yield it's beneficial right now. If the farmer has the money to finance it by himself it's almost certainly beneficial. But ofcourse it's better to just put them on your roof. In Germany and The Netherlands most farmers have solar panels on their (quite large) barns.
This hardware looks great and the specs are bang on. How well would this run Kubuntu?
As a layman, I love history. I love hearing the stories of people in extraordinary circumstances. I get the same feeling from fiction, but with history? I know these things really happened. It's not all just in some author's mind.

Having said that, I get tired of military history, and I understand how many people view it as a gun-nut, testosterone-fueled endeavor. It's a bad rap, but it can look that way from the outside.

I think the problem here is drama. So much of human drama revolves around one bunch of people being violent to another. That sucks, but if you want incredible stories that make you question your values and wonder what you would do, most of the time you're listening to some kind of story involving battles.

Assuming no danger, I'd love to have been with Edison at times, or Teller. I would love to have listened to Jefferson giving the first State of the Union speech, in person. Anne Frank still makes me shiver.

But in terms of over-the-top, how-the-hell-would-you-handle-those-emotions, can you imagine being on the first boats ashore on D-Day, as we saw in "Saving Private Ryan"? Watching a fully-equipped Roman legion go into battle, as was in "Gladiator"? Being in Constantinople and seeing the First Crusade approach? Seeing the Mongols raise the flag outside your city? Being part of Pickett's Charge?

In a lot of ways I like the other stories much better. They make for great long-form novels. But the military and battle stories can punch you in the gut without any prep. If you love history, it's extremely difficult to stay away from them.
Cold showers will not leave you as clean. There's a reason you wash your dishes,hands, and underwear on hot water cycles.
I don't think it's even true without market distortions. The whole point of BI is to give people without adequate income some means to support themselves. In other words, it changes the compensation to our hypothetical woman from $0 to $X,000.

At the margin this will certainly cause people to drop out of the workforce. Heck, as I get closer to having enough assets saved to be able to require, I'd probably choose the pull the trigger on that decision sooner.
I would need to see the actual data on that because that is definitely not my experience with social programs in the US. There is money in the federal programs for the US even not counting private organizations and states.

You don't actually have to provide income information when you first sign up for commodities programs these days (it is required later), and EBT provides a fair amount.

Shelter is the bigger concern than food for US poor. We really need to look at the whole idea of housing. Training money is there, but its pretty useless without proper shelter and transportation systems.
I want to second this. I'm in the middle of this course right now.

It has a lot of theory, which may not be terribly interesting if you just want to learn to build a compiler, but it's complete and the language you're building the compiler for has a little bit of everything.
Does anyone know what is the possibility/progress of having full fledged compilers and interpreters running on Chrome OS in the future? Or is that never going to be reality, because of the goals of ChromeOS?

It is a great OS, but very light on software development options.

I know there is always Crouton or a native linux install, but out of the box support would be awesome.
Go's compiler is written in Go that was automatically converted from C.
Anyone else get the CloudFlare CAPTCHA for the diceware link?

Ironic if John's blog caused more checks for that site.

https://www.rempe.us/diceware
Given that the vast majority of solar costs are upfront, and that the lifetime of a solar install is greater than 20 years, how would future cost reductions help with a project that's starting soon?
Wow, nice strawman there.

Isn't it enough evidence that laborers back then could buy a good property in the city for 2.5 years of work, and now you'd have to get a very good salary and be lucky to be able to afford the same in maybe 20, 25 years?

But given the way you've attacked me, I don't think anything I write here will change your mind.
Yes, but they now opt out of other things. Such as nullable variable references.
Runway clearance - the wing droop at the tips is low enough to possibly hit the runway lights (usually below 18" high). They remove them for high speed taxi tests, and for the actual flights they temporarily replace the "high" lights with mid-height ones and install the wingtips.
Isn't this the country that "Ladri di Biciclette" came from?
It's also because the job market has changed. I can no longer get a job for life like my grandfather did and have a fully paid off house and car in my 20s.
In the Dorian case, the same account also posted a warning that Satoshi's account was compromised around the same time.
> There is no such rule in the U.S., although a lot of people mistakenly assume there is one.

There certainly is such a law. It's not something to be proud of.

> In US law, public accommodations are generally defined as facilities, both public and private, used by the public. Examples include retail stores

> Under United States federal law, public accommodations must be accessible to the handicapped and may not discriminate on the basis of "race, color, religion, or national origin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_accommodations
I think the problem is partly with unsafe equipment, and partly with people that in seeking to go just a little faster, or get a little more of a thrill, make things quite a bit less safe for all those around them. To some degree, we all do this in different parts of our lives. People tend to vastly overestimate their ability to sustain high output, if not in one area (defensive coding) then in others (driving, procrastination, etc). Some of these affect the people around you more than others.

To clarify my original comment somewhat, I was talking less about general speeding of a few miles over the speed limit, and more about those people that are going significantly faster than surrounding traffic and weaving in and out of it to advance (puddle jumping). I do not enjoy having my chance of an accident increased my many orders of magnitude because of someone else's (impossible!) sense of competency, and I think that's very relevant in these discussions.
If I get an invite to lunch, I'll make that my one-meal-a-day. If I don't, I'll generally wait until around 5-6pm before either hitting a friend up for dinner or just going to grab whatever I feel like eating. My social life isn't good enough that I often get lunch and dinner invitations on the same day, I'm looking forward to solving that problem when it becomes one.

Long-term IF essentially made hunger a non-issue for me. I believe something neurological happened where my vagus nerve system got decoupled in some way from my CNS brain. I get hungry, but it's easy to ignore and to make my decisions on socially-practical grounds rather than the purely immediate.

Yesterday I had called up my business partner for dinner in my car right as I was about to leave. He didn't pick up, so I started driving. I get a few blocks down the road and he calls back, accepting my invitation. I did not mention that I was already in my car and hungry, simply drove back home. It was another two hours before we finally sat down for dinner. None of it bothered me, the hunger just went away when I willed it to.
This was designed for the enterprise C#/Java developers. Anything this monstrous can only ever be fully appreciated by enterprise devs.
Do I?

I don't know, it doesn't look like things are much different. There's still lords and there's still servants.
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> But I'd venture a guess that lots of organizations have to find that middle ground between building constantly vs remodeling / improving the foundation.

> I'm focusing a bit more on devops

Shiny object syndrome can affect all fields.

A dev story: One of the new projects at work is an invoice automation system. For whatever reason, the initial design called for Redis as a key value store, and pgsql for their relational data. Ops already supports a ton of services on a shoestring budget, and Redis isn't currently on the list. I only found out about it when I saw a PR documenting the dependencies; they're now researching whether Postgres's hstore is compatible with their needs. Unconstrained, it's easy to end up with lavish designs that spread ops too thinly.

An ops story: Containers is the big one some ops members won't be quiet about. AFAICT, it provides us no real advantage over VMs, and we're likely to deploy containers on top of openstack VMs anyways. Of course, we deploy a number of open source apps like Drupal, WordPress, and MoinMoin that would need to be re-architected to support things like immutable infrastructure. And it's not like the dev has time to support those, they'd be busy auditing and fixing their own software.
You clearly have a fantastically lucrative career in annoying-headline-writing ahead of you.
Wi-Fi named 'mobile detonation device' grounds plane
What makes you think the Finnish law prohibits discrimination based on "any broad category"?
The solution to this is to bill people separately for fixed transmission & distribution infrastructure, capacity, and electricity used. Ideally electricity used and fed back into the grid would both be constantly re-priced as well to reflect supply and demand.

FYI - most regional utilities in the US are publicly owned, not private, so I'm not sure who "the big energy companies" are.