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I understand why some people use Facebook, but I've managed to avoid it and have never heard someone in my real life express happiness that they made a different choice. It always seems to offer benefits in theory that don't pan out. Mostly it just seems to make people unhappy.
> Your average sedentary middle aged guy is going to gain weight if he eats more than about 1500 calories per day.

That's not true. The average middle age man (say 50 years old, 5'9", 160lbs) has a BMR around 1600 calories, and unless he's bed ridden will burn around 2000 calories per day.
I'd rather have a lottery system, like jury duty, where ordinary folks who are qualified could end up running the country for 4 years. I trust ordinary people way more than psychopathic politicians to do the right thing.
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And spoliation is illegal.
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Our economical model could be wrong. We could end up in equilibrium in terms economic size and technology, and be stuck there for centuries - like China was until 1800 and like North Korea today. (And like fish in the ocean - they are not moving to land any time soon)
somebody wrote an api to allow you to read NY Times articles for micropayments in terms of satoshis [1]. You currently need a 21 Inc bitcoin computer to utilize the api but still neat to see someone is working on it. Unfortunately I can't link right to the app because it's not it's own page but search for NY times and it's written by a guy named Casey O'Neill. here's some example output

Welcome to the New York Times Top Story!
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home
world
national
politics
nyregion
business
opinion
technology
health
sports
arts
fashion
dining
travel
magazine
realestate

What section would you like to read?
travel

36 Hours in Savannah, Ga.:
By INGRID K. WILLIAMS
Yes, there are live oaks and elegant squares, but also innovative cuisine, a lively bar scene and a lush 30-acre park to stroll.

Copy the following link to read the full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/travel/what-to-do-in-36-hours-in-savannah-georgia.html

You just sent 5000 satoshis to:
1JkFJmvm7cKg1ZwXyvF5vRGi9m5qXWu8Qn
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Thank you for reading the New York Times today!
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[1]: https://21.co/mkt/
Yes and no. You can definitely run arbitrary C code on AMD's GCN ISA if you're so inclined (and I expect every other modern GPU, but I know less about those...). There are all the usual assembly instructions, there are pointers, you can implement a stack, and so on. That doesn't mean that arbitrary C code will run fast :)

To fully use the computational power of the GPU, you have to make use of its parallelism. That means dealing with the fact that you can have hundreds or thousands of "waves" (things with a register file and a program counter) in flight simultaneously, and each "wave" corresponds to many (in AMD's case, 64) threads in the conventional sense.

It is the last part that makes the biggest difference compared to regular CPUs, because it changes how you have to think about control flow. If/else-statements must be compiled in such a way that the wave goes through both branches if the threads in the wave branch differently (if all threads branch the same way, you can of course skip the other branch).

The first part makes a big difference as well, of course. GPUs care far less about single-threaded performance, so there is no out-of-order or speculative execution, and the memory latency is high. When a wave has to wait, the latency is made up for by scheduling another wave instead. That is, there is a high level of what is called "hyper-threading" on the CPU.
Google Contributor allows for this with a scalable price discovery mechanism (auction, you vs. ads). I've gone from never paying for the NY Times or Washington Post to paying them $2.51 and $3.24, respectively over the last year.

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Sounds like this has absolutely nothing to do with the technologies and everything to do with the developers.
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This has mothing to do with authoritarianism. Upholding the law itself is important. If everybody ignores the law all the time you'll have a pretty shitty society.

The Brazilian people have a clear option, vote for officials who have no problem with communication encryption. The solution is not to circumvent the parliamentary democratic process.
Censorship laws, mainly. China wants to block out huge portions of search results, and Google doesn't want to do that.
For what it's worth, on Unix writing to stdout (including flushing a buffer) can fail in an extremely common situation: your process was piped to another, which exited before you called flush. (This also causes you to receive SIGPIPE, but Rust blocks SIGPIPE by default.) For example, `head` exits after the requested amount of data was read, and `less` exits immediately when the user presses 'q'. Since neither of those is an error, if you want to be well behaved, you should probably either ignore write errors or (preferably[1]) check for EPIPE in particular and respond by silently exiting - not panicking, which writes to stderr.

Not sure how well this generalizes to your broader complaint. One could argue that in general, you really do need to think about errors to write good software, so even if languages with exceptions make it slightly easier to write of code that doesn't, that's actually an antifeature because it encourages sloppiness. But maybe that's overly punitive rather than pragmatic. Still, I don't think the answer is exceptions.

[1] preferably because of course other errors are possible, especially if stdout is redirected to a file on disk - but then, in a quick and dirty program, if you ignore errors, you're doing no worse than umpteen million C programs that call printf without checking the return value.
You're a crazy motherfucker, but variety is the spice of life. Props for that. I'm going to stick with heat for my showers and leave cold for when I'm skiing.
> If they have no presence in Brazil, how did they get shut down in Brazil?

Blocked at the ISP level.
Difficult to prove and illegal. Like lots of things.
storing data for 1 billion users and maintaining consistency is a pain the butt operationally. Whatsapp isn't storing the data. If they are, they're spending hundreds of millions on servers for data they can't monetize easily without alienating all of its users.
Actually runit can do parallel startup (runsvdir tries to start all services in parallel) and can handle dependencies between services [1].
And there is at least one distribution that actually uses runit in this configuration [2].

[1] http://smarden.org/runit/dependencies.html
[2] http://www.voidlinux.eu/usage/runit/
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Another, bigger long term effect: everyone is either A) becoming extremist in their political ideas or B) just won't talk about politics at all.

Edit: I've been moving towards B myself.
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Co-Founder of Brightwork here. Just wanted to address the classification of "Yet Anothers" because I feel like the summary YC put next to our name may have done more harm than good when it comes to what we actually do.

Brightwork is an API Developer Platform. Meaning we built a platform that enables Developers to see usage data, performance information, as well as cost projections of their APIs. No other API Management platform offers this level of granularity.

On top of the aforementioned feature set, we also allow API swapping in which Developers do not have to re-code or re-deploy their application.

We're also offering pre-bundled APIs to enable fast prototyping so Developers can focus on the front-end design rather than the cumbersome task of standing up a back-end which can take some time.

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> python doesn't have a good programming model to even begin to address those concerns

This isn't even close to true. Anything JavaScript has to express logic in the face of asynchrony, Python has too. There are a half-dozen asynchronous web servers written in Python.

There's not as much of a culture of writing APIs that way in Python because it's generally a terrible way to program, and threads/OS processes are good enough for basically everything except HTTP servers with absurd numbers of concurrent connections.
In order to compel her to obey the orders of the court.
Bed ridden or has a desk job. From a calorie perspective it's probably not much different.
It is an extremely inefficient jobs program, an extremely inefficient research program, and an extremely inefficient aircraft.
As he said: do one thing, and do it well.

It /is/ a pretty good wealth distribution program, though. If you count dollars distributed, not number of recipients.
> Exercise has nothing to do with weight loss. Caloric restriction also doesn't work without consuming the correct fats to satiate your appetite. As you age there is no amount of exercise that will allow you to maintain the amount you weigh in you 20's or 30's. It will all depend on your diet of the correct foods.

What? Every one of those points are wrong.

* Exercise has a modest effect on your energy balance (assuming we're talking less than an hour a day - if you're running marathons then the effect is much bigger). You can out-eat any reasonable amount of exercise but it still has a significant effect.

* Caloric restriction works regardless of your macronutrient balance, if you eat fewer calories than you burn then you will lose weight, that's not just biology, it's the law of conservation of energy.

* Aging doesn't allow you to mysteriously break the law of conservation of energy either. You will find it harder to keep the weight off but by controlling your energy balance and engaging in regular exercise you can absolutely maintain the same weight you maintained in your 20s. (As a single data point, I weigh the same now as I weighed a decade ago, and 20kg less than I weighed 8 years ago.)

It's true that sticking to a reduced calorie diet is more difficult if you eat some diets than others, maybe that's what you meant?
WhatsApp and Facebook are in fact still separate companies. Just making this distinction.
From a technology standpoint: they are a chemical additive, we are a nanotextured surface. Microban (Triclosan) can only prevent the bacteria from growing, we prevent the bacteria from adhering.

From a business standpoint: they don't own the product supply chain, they simply provide one component to existing chains. Nice for getting to revenue but not for big growth. We make (or intend too) the entire product, an application that is anti-microbial and can be placed on any existing surface, and for polymer based products we'll nanotexture those ourselves.
How many people has Macbook?
So how many people has Macbook?
If you think harder you will realize that is false. The rule of law itself has value, and we can only live in a lawful society if we respect all laws and change them via established processes. Otherwise someone may decide that your favorite law is "idiotic" and you will have no recourse.
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Have you seen him in interviews or descriptions of his companies? He wants notoriety with benefits it can bring or he's screwing around with people. Those two are reasons for epic levels of bullshit all over the globe going back thousands of years. Should always consider those. Also, realize sometimes you won't understand the Why of what people would do and focus on the What/How/Evidence. That helps with the stranger ones. ;)

One intuitive moment I had in first story I read was how one person asked his wife about it. If she knew he was Satoshi, she'd likely have a neutral, cautious, or irritated dismissal of the claim. Instead, I think it said something along the lines of her smirking and walking off. More like a wife reacting, as usual, to a husband's bullshit she's seen 100 times that isn't worth further consideration and the fact the person asking hasn't figured that out yet. Maybe my mental bias but her reaction stuck out a bit to me on top of more solid evidence.
I wouldn't quite say that's an RFC, it's just an issue in the RFCs repo. Typically people use the issue tracker in order to represent RFCs that they would like to see written, sort of a wishlist.
just a passing thought, would this happen to have anything to do with privacy and surveillance concerns? seems oddly suspicious this comes after WhatsApp announces end to end encryption
Same. Early fight out of DEN and am just seeing this (and packing) now.
No.

I'm actually really tired of these types of articles that use "Look at all of this academia I can source" to brush over harmless idioms and quirks of mundane behavior while extracting some kind of borderline-histrionic and overarching conclusion of what it says about us collectively reinforcing further why behavior needs to "stop".

No.
Self mutilation might not be the best option. I think you'd be a sub par legal advisor.
but there is no other way to actually show causation. You can't 'look at' causation. You can look at a million chess games, you'll never be able to see the rules themselves. All you see is correlation between how the pieces move in every game and from this you can try to figure the rules out, if any exist at all.

So while weak(!) correlation does not imply causation, strong correlation pretty much does. It's how the scientific method works. We can't look behind the curtain and take a look at the rule sheet.
Is it just me or has gitlab issued a lot of critical security releases lately?

I'm not sure if this is because they're particularly open about these things or because their product might be particularly insecure.
TTIP leak could spell the end of controversial trade deal, say campaigners
Perhaps the motive is simple.

Ever watched an episode of the show COPS where someone is wanted on a bunch of warrants and is going to jail for sure and goes on a high speed chase because hey why not right?

Maybe this guy is destined for the same thanks to his tax frauds, and is on a PR joyride.

I mean what's the downside?
> Your having LEOs violate your rights and go thru your belongings

the TSA smurfs are NOT an LEO! They are roughly the equivalent of desk clerks dressing in clothing designed to confuse people about this. They neither have the rights nor the competence of an LEO.
This is a bit different. There are some accomplished programmers, software architects, etc. who don't have CS degrees, I think it's fair to say that they are in the distinct minority. On the other hand, I suspect that, among the top tier of journalists (admittedly difficult to measure), the majority--perhaps the great majority--do not have J-School degrees. There are better (e.g. Columbia) and worse journalism schools, for sure. But it's not the sort of prerequisite that other professional degrees can be.
I like the Cadwolf idea as well, but I'm unsure about the architecture and what the founder thinks is possible.

For example today I can say I'm.building AutoCAD in the browser - what does that mean? Am I implementing the CAD algorithms in Java on the server... Or am I somehow interfacing with AutoCAD running on the server through RPC?

The founder claims he's working on version control - this means that the state of the CAD tool can be captured in version friendly formats : what is that format? I get worried when people invent too many things at once
It'd be fun to recreate http://competinghypotheses.org/ in a more modern technology.
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There's a Finnish expression for this: you can see, but you do not look. For example, it's accepted that everybody in a sauna is naked, but you wouldn't go ogling at somebody's genitals -- even if they're the opposite sex.

It's "wilful privacy", if you will: as long as everybody respects the privacy, everything stays private, even though it takes only one person to break the illusion.
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We just recently figured out a way to move forward while bootstrapping, so that's a huge relief for us.

However, there are several areas where funding would help us grow a lot faster:

* Mushroom media R&D: we can run a lot more experiments simultaneously with a research-grade facility to experiment in (i.e. not my kitchen/garage).

* Once we're ready to scale, manufacturing will take some capital.

* Funding will enable us to work on the project full-time.
Really? Because Uber and AirBnB seem to be doing a pretty good job of using technology to get around laws.

edit: Actually here is a REALLY easy answer. What about Pirating and Torrenting. Do you really believe that this peer to peer technology hasn't massively helped people get around copyright laws?
There is a big difference between bed ridden and has a desk job. We can calculate that difference to some degree of accuracy using this equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%E2%80%93Benedict_equati...

For a sedentary office worker with no exercise, to maintain weight he should consume 1.2xMBR. With a BMR of 1600 that means he should consume a bit under 2000 calories per day.

It takes a good bit of energy to move 160lbs around even if you're not purposely exercising.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Myriad Database

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/filling-i...

VUSes that actually could be clinically significant are hoarded, and conversely, some companies claim to know that certain VUSes are not based on their own proprietary data that no one else sees/double checks. meanwhile the actual data comes from patients, who are left in the dark

That's just cruel. Comparatively, at least CS gets math formulations
Yep. We used to do both, but that was convoluted, so only Rx now.
The wiki page is surprisingly good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Design

You'll also need to know what Proof of work is, explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system

See also https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Introduction, or the rest of the wiki, or the StackExchange site.
I wouldn't recommend hanging out on Facebook, but if it puts you in touch with lost acquaintances that can be valuable.
Lol. I save my outrageous comments for face to face conversations. I'm a tad psychopathic. I like the reactions. I once suggested that black people were dumber than white people. This is widely demonstrated in IQ tests. The common argument is that these tests are culturally biased. But I think that's a sly misdirection. A more direct explanation would be that IQ is a function of well-being. Black people are oppressed. That and the history of slavery has left it's mark. I also imagine the inclination to reflect on their own oppression has a significant cost on the expression of IQ. Even if they were no longer oppressed.

I don't feel that these comments are racist. I think we live in a competitive and compassionless society. Oppressed people are usually less useful. Black or white. The problem is that it's so easy to see if a person is black or white. So if there's a correlation then anyone can apply a "filter" using the measurable trait and select for the desirable trait. This furthers both the oppression and the effectiveness of the filter. At the time I was trying to explain why I thought Affirmative Action was necessary even though it was fundamentally "racist".

Anyway... Since making that argument several people have asked me if I really think black people are dumber... Ugh. No. I think oppressed people are dumber and that black people are more oppressed. It is apparent that we need to talk about these things but I'm often frustrated by accusations of "racism". I don't know if anything can really be done about it. Identity is just something people are always going to be sensitive about. I've gotten better at reading my audience.

EDIT: Or maybe I can't read my audience. Lol. I'm honestly curious what's wrong with this thinking? Why do explanations of the world always have to shy away from this innate domination loop? Do we need it that badly as wannabe capitalists? Affirmative Action is totally necessary for exactly the reasons I've suggested. Racism exists because humans are greedy. If any measurable trait (height, weight, age, race, gender) slips in correlation with our ideals we become prejudiced against it. Without intervention the schism just widens after that. It's the natural social mechanic. This is how so many people can act out oppression without being conscious of their hand in it. I'm actually trying to be a good human being. Albeit one who thinks political correctness serves oppressors and not the oppressed. :/
How many people have macbook? You can just estimate that number by checking Apple sales numbers or by estimation from macbook vs pc usage across people
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Physical beatings, not so much, but difference in attitude, definitely. To boldly caricature, in America it's all about how every child is a special snowflake whose antics must not just be tolerated but encouraged; while in "Europe" (France), children in adult spaces like restaurants must conform to adult rules or be punished.

Edit: Hmm, that came off snarkier than I intended. I didn't intend to imply that either approach is necessarily superior, just that surely there's a happy medium somewhere between the two extremes.
I would say that might be a side effect of a more fundamental shift – that of social networks making us more stupid (unintelligent?) and unable to coherently defend ideas in real life.

On the internet, it is easy to type out long comments, cherry-pick and refute the ideas of the person on the other side, and sometimes be incredibly rude to them. But performing the jugglery of coherently defending your point while talking frankly, without being rude, in person, is a skill that seems to be conspicuous by absence in Americans today. I have noticed way too many people recently who post 200 things on Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/Instagram, and yet are unable to keep up a decent conversation for more than five minutes without uncomfortable silences or pulling out their phones.
Do you hire iOS interns who use Swift or is it mainly Objective-C?
B seems like the way to go, unless you feel like you're in a position to effect some kind of real change. B also lets you forge the widest social and professional network without engaging in friction that probably doesn't need to exist in social or professional settings.

The other thing that's emerged is C) Outrage addicts and D) Trolls. They don't care about the politics, may not even have much in the way of firm politics, but they're bored and maybe not entirely sane; and now with the internet, they have a global platform.
The thing that convinced me of his insincerity is that his website has right-click "protection." And it alert()s if you press ctrl-C in another hamfisted attempt at "copy protection". What genuine computer expert does that, let alone in 2016? Especially one who has thought seriously about cryptography.
maybe the question is, "How many people on HN have a macbook?"