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Exactly. His prediction was a pretty low number, only like double current minimum wage. The fact that he made that prediction is very scary. Think of how many things we've seen improve 2x in less than a decade.
I think Gawker was wrong, and deserved to be seriously damaged by this (and many other things), but lets not pretend that this wouldn't have hurt them if they weren't wrong. Defending yourself takes an enormous amount of energy, time, and money. If a billionaire hates you they can fund lots of lawsuits against you that would have otherwise never materialized. This would constantly drain you, even if you win, even if you win costs. Since the billionaire is just funding it, they don't even need to step into the court room to ruin your life.

In this case Thiel waited (probably) until Gawker had done something particularly bad (at least liability wise). That's good, but its easy to see what someone of his resources could choose to do with no apparent repercussions. Of course this is disturbing. The fact that our court system is abusable in this fashion doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about the individuals who might so abuse it.

The article took this case as proof and omen way beyond what it actually shows, but its not nothing.
There is a strong cultural bias for believing that everything is culturally determined.
> I am always impressed the building standards and systems in Germany.

Our German friend constantly remarks about how terrible the roads are here. And not even like roads that I'd consider bad (I-95 in New Jersey). Ones like GW Parkway that I thought were pretty good.
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>Congratulations on figuring out how a BHPH dealer works.

In the case of my sister it was a franchised Toyota dealer selling new inventory. Not BHPH. She signed a 3-year lease on a Toyota Corolla with a ridiculous money factor component because they got her to simply focus on the monthly payment, then financed it for 6 years afterwards (again, by getting her to focus on the monthly payment) at a ridiculous interest rate despite a FICO over 720 by simply not shopping around (she agreed to 9.5% when 3% was easily available from many retail banks and CUs).

When I showed her what she could've paid instead if she had any patience and simply run the numbers, she was incredibly upset. Not with the dealer, but with herself for not doing the due diligence. That's ignoring the fact that she could've just bought a 5-year old one, because a Corolla is literally a dime a dozen (350-400K units sold per year in the US at the time).

This is my point. If you simple appear ignorant and lazy (not in a bad situation), there are plenty of businesses that will use that to their advantage. If you are in a bad situation, it's just more potential leverage for them.

Yes, some franchised dealers do this with new inventory, even to people with good credit. If they think they can make an easy buck off of you on account of your ignorance, some will take the short-sighted approach (not trying to earn a repeat customer) and try to do it. If you throw up your hands they'll come back around and try to close the sale on amenable terms and offer it however they do, to make the sale.
There were plenty free men who had it harder and some slaves that led cushy life. Slavery is about not being a master for yourself.

Truth. There is a difference between privilege and power. When it comes down to it, we are all only slaves or free by degrees in this world. This world, as it is legally formulated, pretty much codifies Mao's observation that all power comes out of the end of a gun. This is not an exaggeration. It's literally how international law works.
Ask HN: Should I store my js/css bundles on localStorage for better page load?
What are the pros/cons?
Fairly consistently between .50 and .55 here.
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If it is an open source Project developed in the open, I believe we deserve to know why.
Possible, but just to be safe I've looked up your personal information and called the police in your area. They should be contacting you soon and hermannj314 can rest easy.
Sigh, that's an absurd way to measure. A "Hello world" is just that: a demo. No-one is:

1) actually making Hello, World pages that will go anywhere near a user

2) Using React in Hello, World pages (which they don't make)

3) Using Reactpack to build the React-based Hello World pages they aren't making
Weird. When I tried to just "type random" without looking at the keys, it was routinely getting me around 75%. I tried looking at the keys as you described, and my score immediately dropped to around %50 and was even below %50 for a bit. Then it crept back up to around %60 when I started talking to a co-worker while typing.
Cool site, but are there no English translations? Could be good for my (non-computer) language learning, though!
You still haven't made it clear who is running 'my' urbit programs and why they are doing that.

If they are doing it for free this won't scale. If I am paying them why don't I just pay someone to maintain standard software.

I find this very strange because I love all of the work on distributed and decentralized systems. I am normally excited to read more about a new approach, but I still don't understand what you are trying to do and feel like I am just being fed marketing terms like "The browser for the server side" wtf? Do you mean CGI?
Then we bring back gladiatorial combats and require all people over 90 and in good physical condition to participate. I'd rather die on the arena in combat, than waste away in a hospital bed.

More seriously, I rather doubt the entire world would reach immortality-from-aging once we manage to slightly improve cancer care. If it turns out to be a species-killer, the most advanced societies will die out first and the ones picking up the pieces will learn from their(our) mistakes.
He is a smart man, but that does not mean his morals are better.

He can do whatever he want's I still find it ironic since his stance is one of quite fundamental morals.

Him using his money in court to get revenge. Now imagine that in a private court he could potentially be primary shareholder in.
> Of course not being able to access a website you want (and censorship in general) is not good

Which is the same that the west does (they just call it "copyright laws").
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The biggest issue for VR is similar to that of Second Life: outside of gaming, it needs to seamlessly augment reality.

If the pervasive influence of social media in our times has taught us anything, it is that a platform that does interface with our everyday existence will never be more than a cool tech demo.

Off the top of my head, for success VR needs to provide:

* Virtual Conferences

* Remote Home Sale Walk-throughs

* Credit for remote class attendence.

* Remotely Shared Sports Viewing with Friends

Until the VR experience can supplant some of the activities above, I doubt it will take off.
It guesses what key you'll hit next. It has a naive assumption of when I will hit it next. (Eventually)
Work in progress is a fine thing to have on Hacker News as long as there's a way for users to check the work out. In this case there's a sample chapter, which more than clears that bar. In fact we've added "Show HN" to the title, because this is the kind of thing that Show HN is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The explanation of how it works says it uses 5-grams to predict the next bit, so if you use any sequence in which all 6-grams occur equally often, this won't be able to predict you at all.

Actually, an interesting challenge might be to construct a sequence that gives the Oracle as low a score as possible (is there a nicer simpler way to describe this than simulating the Oracle's code and always choosing what it doesn't expect?).
I have my smartphone in a case that is ruggedized, slim, and waterproof. I can have the case mounted in a RAM Mounts X-Grip clamp which is easily removed yet easy to secure to a pole, boat, bike, etc. I've had my phone over and under water capturing and transmitting live video and pictures. I've worn it on my person while streaming live video.

Don't I have a GoPro killer? The camera is on par with the GoPro save the fisheye lens and "ProTune" settings which I'm going to color correct in a video editor anyway. My phone has many mounts and mounting surfaces. It has video editing programs on the capture device. It is continually plugged into video distribution and social networks. And it has a much better battery.
That's the plan! Just a way to allow community contributions, provide incentives while maintaining the quality of content.
The name of that anti-pattern would be 2005. What kind of clown car outfit are you working for?
Got it to 0.5991561181434598 after a while (totally random would be "0.5").

Not sure how "free will" comes into play, if there was indeed free will, I could have freely decided to only press one, and the Oracle would have had close to 100% certainty.

Rather, what it measures is randomness or predictability, which is not the same thing as free will (especially "after the fact", e.g. after the choice is made).
Thank you :) I made it in gnome-paint, the shrubbery symbolizes okayish development practices.
Exactly, I have the same problem in Firefox - very annoying. I searched for a solution (turning the background black) but didn't find one yet.
The cc addresses work great with Google Inbox bundles. Thanks for adding that.
It's probably not too useful. Ideally it would reduce variance a bit, but probably not enormously. People don't really understand their own level of certainty, anyway, so that would be a confounding factor.

I wonder if it would be a better compromise to allow multiple answers. If I've narrowed it down to two, I guess one and then I have a 50% chance of getting it right. Instead, let me just put down both answers, and if I got it right, give me half a point. I think you'd get the same ultimate outcome as penalizing wrong answers, but with a bit less randomness, while maintaining comprehension. Maybe!
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Ask HN: What do you expect in an open source project website?
Hi everybody,

I am currently working on an open source project (https://github.com/rita-marylin-raquel/softbloks) and thinking to develop a website to present it.

My question is what would you expect as developper in such a website ? What are the information you would like to find and what information do you find useless in usual websites about software projects ?

Thanks for your answers.
"FFFFFFFF" or "DDDDDDD" are random sequences if they're generated by a random process, but we [note: I wonder who 'we' means] expect "random" to mean "frequently changing" or "chaotic-looking".

This might easily be more about formal education in statistics than about culture, though. I'd expect people from any culture we know about to have the intuitive expectations I mentioned -- identifying randomness with chaos.
Well, I agree that IA is a corporation as that is a legal structure. Technically a "company" has to be commercial in nature, at least if you go by the dictionary definition.

This is entirely too pedantic though, and it rather upsets me that people feel the need to down vote this.
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There is no system on this planet that cannot be at least somewhat abused by a person with a billion dollars in resources and no ethical constraints.
Some people like to look out for more than their own interests.

I moved from Australia to the USA because it's the world leader in technology, but if I was in ANY other profession (including starting my own company) I would have stayed in Australia.

The USA is great if you're in the top 1% or work in technology, but other than that there's little reason to migrate. That's why he's proclaiming that employees are basically slaves, general quality of life and job happiness for everyone else is far better in Australia.

And business success rates and the economy is doing just as well in Australia as it is in the USA. You can have the best of both worlds, you just have to look at the data instead of being stuck in ideology.

It's totally ok if you think the USA should favour the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else, but you're doing a disservice to yourself and your fellow Americans if you refuse to even look at the data or consider the possibility that there could be a better way.
>I can complain about something totally unrelated to a conversation of people being unwilling to use Facebook and expecting everyone to cater to them

OK yeah you can :)
And protects your eyesight too. I couldn't live without the 'Negative' Compiz plugin which I use as a workaround for the many applications that don't have a "Night mode".
Do you mean reader macros? Those are used to implement new kinds of syntax within Common Lisp's parser, the READ function. Even standard parts of Common Lisp syntax are defined this way, such as quote (') or backquote (`).

For more examples, see http://lisper.in/reader-macros/.
He he me too ;)
I'm guessing this: http://en.akinator.com/
Again, that's depressingly naive. If journalists call out Billionaire X for some bad behavior... Just buy the paper and fire those people. Or fund an endless stream of lawsuits to silence them.

That's the bigger picture here: Theil is trying to put a news outlet he doesn't like out of business. Even if he's totally justified the next 10 cases may not be but you can bet people will get the picture: don't piss off the SV billionaire club.
Nice, thinking out of the "meta-box" here?
Many thanks Harry. I hope they can help me on my quest to get a few new mattresses and a computer.
This means the algo only works in serial contexts, not in parallel ones.
What you're outlining is what people are worried about here - that uninvolved third parties with means can influence civil court cases they are biased against.

You could argue that this has always been the case, where the U.S. justice system has always been biased in favor of those with the wealth or the means, but does that really justify not pushing back against it?

Keep in mind that I'm not defending Gawker or sex tapes. If it comes down to deciding between a world where the sex tape with my best friend's wife can be published, or a world where billionaires can use their wealth in court to take out press organizations, I'm leaning more towards the latter.
We are rational beings, shouldn't we expect to have trouble being random? But wait, does that mean I don't have free will?! Aargh!
Of course, that's precisely what one would predict a user to do.
teaching should be a private affair. If you want supersmart kids, avoid sending them to the compliance system. Governmet intervention has to be minimized from now on.
Can this be used for game AI? I think it could. I wonder if people could apply this to games like Tennis? Or maybe to approaches to the basket in Basketball?

I am using KeePass 1.31's Random Password generator with minus and underline. The oracle is getting 59%. Hmm. Also, when I generate a 64 character string with two possible characters, KeePass claims I have 72 bits of entropy. Hmmm!
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How about one who really is dangerous - George Soros.

“I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god” or “I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.”

http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soro...
>The more you play, the more slowly this number moves, because each additional guess has a smaller effect on the overall average.

Not exactly, seems to be a running average with a specific window.
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Frankly: why would anyone even bother publishing this garbage?

It's obvious that "popularity" != cell phone call record frequency. (Note that age is a severe confounder -- the 50 year-olds in the study most likely did not even have cell phones at age 25...)
Isn't everything an advertisement in that case? This is something cool and technical and useful.
If you have a phone on you, a screen and direct manipulation will always win out. There's too high a perceived psychological barrier compared to being able to 'do it yourself' with your hands. The echo works because you don't have any device to manipulate, and often you're using it while shouting at it or are busy with your hands in the kitchen (and even then the majority of its current usage is timers and music -- the easier stuff that works decently well with voice).

If the watch itself has data (cellular or otherwise) and you don't have your phone, that's when there's some advantage to being able to do this. However it's unclear when that's better than having a phone -- if its about going on a run then dedicated fitness trackers might be all you need compared to a watch that has to solve all problems with a terrible and tiny UI.

There are many reasons smartwatches (not just apple's) have been doing poorly on the market -- it's a demand from industry rather than consumers, and the advantages have not been clearly communicated at all (the most personal device ever? compare that to the iPhone's you can email/web anywhere anytime -- clear value).
Because opening Apple stores in India isn't worth changing their whole production and supply chain.

Ford, Hyndai, GM, Toyota are all car companies. They're used to dealing with local production requirements.
Well, if your score is .4, a computer could predict you with .6 accuracy just by predicting what you will press and then guessing the opposite :)
Germany can also get away with more solid wall materials due to a relative lack of earthquakes I think. I could be totally wrong.
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>> This is when you're most popular, according to science

One study == "according to science"
>> What happens to society when laws can only be enforced by the wealthy? << Well, look around - we are in that society.

Years ago I was assaulted by former pro football player Ron Dayne in a bar in Madison, WI. He was pissed at the bouncer for making him wait in line like everyone else and took his anger out on me who happened to be in the front of the line by jabbing my eye three times, tearing my eyeball and covering me in blood.

There were about a dozen witnesses, including the bouncer, and when the police came and arrested him there was no real question about what happened.

It cost me a bunch in hospital bills and I had to wear an eye patch for a while.

After months of not hearing what was going on, I finally got the DA on the phone who told me that it would be hard for him to prove "intent" in prosecuting him... Seemed sketchy, if I shoot you with a gun, but don't "intend" to harm you is that ok? How about 3 rapid judo eye jabs tearing my eye? Or maybe it was that no one wanted to prosecute the hometown football star.

I tried unsuccessfully to find a law firm to represent me in a civil case and what I learned was that Mr. Dayne had every major law firm in town on retainer so that it was a conflict of interest for them to take the case.

I probably could have continued my search, but I was exhausted with what felt like an uphill battle in a big sports / football town.
No bluetooth on the Psion Revo :(
It's written in a browser running Javascript, so by definition is only works on serial contexts. Plus, the key switches on your keyboard would give you at most 2 signals in parallel (f and d).
That still doesn't look as nice as await.
It's not absurd because:

1) Whatever you're making, you're starting out with 177 modules minimum if you use React + Reactpack.

2) See 1.
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Honestly, you are either not intelligent or actively trying to distort my answers.

1) The 1st simply gives you freedom of speech. It doesn't matter if it is a gossip about someone.

2) I clearly was referring to the article exposing Thiel as gay ( his motivation for this). Because it clearly did not openly humiliated him, his overstated battle clearly shows an inflated ego.

Honestly, your answer and all the others sadly shows how rationality is just an "extra factor" when a "tech guru" is criticized. I expected more from this community.
The main take-away from this piece is that applying the wisdom of developed world tech to developing world tech doesn't work. This seems to be a special case of the mistake that always seems to happen when dealing with the developing world. That is, applying our models to their problems, instead of understanding the problems from the bottom up (which just so happens to be the solution Aaron proposes.)

Thanks Aaron for writing this, it is a boon to society when people share their hard earned wisdom.
I'm drooling now.

Any chance that stuff (doors and whatnot) is available for sale in or to the US? I'm in a crazy noisy American city with 19th century levels of noise isolation (literally).
If you're left handed, use your right hand. And vice versa. I scored around <= 0.3 consistently.
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Check out service workers, they are designed to solve this problem,

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

In addition to caching JS/CSS, you can also cache your main document so your app can work offline.
It's not a bad idea but it seems a bit sparse at the moment even in the languages it does support. Search for lambda does give anything about Java 8's lambda syntax, and search for annotation returns nothing at all.
The Python script at the end is fun to play with, for example:

$ python bitsquat.py google .com
foogle.com: is taken (64.111.126.107)
eoogle.com might be available!
coogle.com might be available!
ooogle.com might be available!
woogle.com: is taken (98.124.199.11)
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gkogle.com might be available!
ggogle.com might be available!
gongle.com might be available!
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gokgle.com might be available!
goggle.com: is taken (45.33.35.30)
goofle.com: is taken (192.185.39.34)
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gooole.com: is taken (98.124.199.61)
goowle.com: is taken (54.213.166.80)
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The only thing both of my girls (9 and 12) do on their devices (Kindles, iPod touches and laptops) is play Minecraft or watch Minecraft videos.

My wife and I wonder what kind of amazing positive effect playing Minecraft will have on their and their generations 3d spatial accuity. Is it going to create a large cohort of architects when they hit college age?
Thats why I said "kind of". Real direct democracy should have those 3 fatures:

-mandatory referendum each year (question added to referendum once enough votes have been gathered) - anyone avoiding taking a vote is fined.

-3 answers under each question - Yes, No and Not Voting (so people wont just cast votes for subjects they are not interested in)

-2/3rds votes needed to pass the vote (to avoid 51% vs 49% - votes that count are only yes or no votes, "Not Voting" is not included)

-Then once the system matures proper democracy should have vote strength system - lets say 3 stages. 1st stage gets 1 vote, 3rd stage gets 3 votes. Higher stage = less taxes and more votes. You work + do some community voluntary work + have no issues with criminal law = you are 3rd stage.
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