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After an earlier HN discussion extolling Finnegans Wake, I read the book (and read several guide books, and listened to it on several versions of audio), and I have to say that for me it was an epic waste of time. I hate to brand myself a philistine, but want to provide a counterpoint to people who say the book is so funny and a grand experience.

I recommend reading a couple pages [1] to get a feeling for Finnegans Wake - it's amazing the density of concepts Joyce crams into words, with multiple meanings in almost every word. I kept thinking the book would make more sense if I kept reading, but no, it's like this the whole way through. A few things get better, for instance, the initials HCE constantly appear, so in the first sentence you should get an aha feeling from "Howth Castle and Environs". But that's a pretty small payoff.

If you enjoyed the book and found it hilarious, more power to you. But as someone who likes challenging books and put a lot of time into Finnegans Wake, the book didn't do it for me.

[1] Finnegans Wake is online at http://finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm along with detailed notes, but unlike Shakespeare, looking up mystery words doesn't make things any clearer.
Ah, yes, there are no signatures in x/crypto/nacl. There's https://github.com/agl/ed25519, however it will be slower, as there's no assembly.

Edit: oops, looks like signatures were added 2 months ago (https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/ed25519/). (I guess it's the same agl's code). There is a detached version (Sign/Verify).
The article was written in 2011 before many of the follow up studies questioning Jaeggi's initial findings were published.

While I think the evidence available today had muddied the water relative to what people thought after Jaeggi was first published, not all avenues have been covered (e.g. do people in knowledge I industries who are more motivated to increase iq try harder and as a result achieve better results). In my opinion, if you can spare the time, there's little to be lost from trying n back training. If it does work for you, the upside is tremendous. Anecdotally I tried it and came up with novel solutions to problems I hadn't previously cracked within a few months of training.
I agree with your sentiment, but ultimately Governments are the ones allowing and enabling it.

Again, the key focus of the Spanish investigation is not into whether Google rationally took advantage of "loopholes" -- but whether they made false representations as to their business structure and the activities of their local subsidiaries.

See today's El País article for an explanation of the authorities' reasons behind the raid.
Slightly simplified: Each and every CA that's trusted by your browser is capable of issuing a certificate for every single domain on the internet. A certificate is basically nothing more than a document saying "StartSSL has verified that the certificate you're seeing right now belongs to the owner of google.com", with some crypto sprinkled on top.

The only thing that's preventing you from getting a certificate for any domain are software checks implemented on their end. If one of these checks fail (i.e. because the methodology is broken, or there's a bug, or they can be bypassed), you can get a certificate for any domain.
You can represent percentages as a fraction. No need to multiply by 100.

99/100 = 0.99 = 99%
On the other hand, it's an incentive for countries to do what it takes to increase the wages of their citizens. Ie minimum wage laws.
> (To the anonymous downvoters, note that it is illegal (and not just a civil issue) to falsify this kind of statement in some states.)

Can you say more about this--can you give some example state laws?

Note that Google apparently is comfortable leaving the video up on youtube with the "Paid for in part by the NRA" notice intact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8punyPP-bs
Panama Papers showed a significant fraction of EU officials stash money in low tax havens. Icelands PM resigned as a result. The Panama Papers was a leak of terabytes of documents from a legal office who sets up these corporations and accounts.

Ironically the USA is a top tax haven due to anonymous shell corporations you can create in several states. Lots being stashed here due to anomymity and economic safety.
Thats my point - now it's arbitrary and decided by the company who can setup whatever scheme necessary to transfer profits to where they are least taxed. Making it arbitrary for some companies how much taxes to pay in a country obviously isn't a good thing.

Maybe what it all comes down to is that it makes more sense to tax transactions and charge corporations for services (e.g use of roads) that are tax funded.

To avoid doubly charging companies that do pay taxes for profits one could charge fees for use of infrastructure and count taxes collected against those fees.

Companies like Google and Uber that use public infrastructure could be charged for it, and unless they paid enough taxes they'd owe the difference.

How much of the internet infrastructure Google should finance, or how much the cost of Ubers road use is will be somewhat arbitrary of course, just like the current situation - which is the lesser evil comes down to whether one is more comfortable leaving arbitrary decisions for tax authority bureaucrats or enterprises.
We need language really to exchange thoughts in one head to another head, in a slightly richer manner than an ape can.

To "think" we don't really need language (the oral kind the non- deaf think they are thinking in).

Sign language among the born deaf, if allowed to develop without a need to learn spoken languages of the non-deaf, would be clear evidence that thought underlies oral language. And words (that stuff produced for your ear) need not be the only way to think.
If renters wanted to pay more, they could probably have this deal with any number of landlords. It's not common because renters aren't looking to own a part of that house/apartment, they're just looking to get by until they can actually own one themselves.

How is it better for them to be forced to put money into that residence rather than in a savings account that'll go toward the residence they actually want to buy?
There's no perfect programming languages. This is why you need a language that you can morph yourself at will depending on the project and task at hand, without waiting for standard comitees or benevolent dictators, and then waiting for implementers, hoping that they'll get the new features right and compatible between them.

Hence you want Common Lisp! A modern homoiconic and metalinguistic programming language that you can (if you need to) change as needed to more easily solve your current programming tasks.
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Streisand effect would be desirable in this case because then everyone would know it wasn't actually the NRA that produced the video and that it isn't an official position of the NRA.
Crypto is indeed hard to use.

https://www.nds.rub.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2011/10...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte_(virus_writer)

I don't know what "highest level" means, but I'm not convinced that Guccifer 2.0 is unusually skilled.
Google Analytics works fine and dandy on static sites hosted on S3.
Nope, those are ASICs. They aren't USB-connected, though. They are mostly antminers from bitmain.com.

Motherboards aren't used for CPU mining, but for controlling GPUs that mine Ethereum. There aren't ASICs for Ethereum.
Your "temporary" criteria is not yet available in the 1.0.x version of Semaphor, but the very near term roadmap includes retention policy per channel/conversation, with settings like "N days" and/or "N messages". Then Semaphor uses ephemeral key rotation to match the retention policy (i.e. both the messages and ephemeral keys are destroyed as the retention expires.)
Partly, but partly its just that all regulatory frameworks naturally tend toward complexity.

First, the legislature often decides that raising or lowering specific taxes is a good way to encourage some behavior or other (i.e. mortgage tax deductions or extra taxes on cigarettes). Most of these are actually pretty justifiable individually, but eventually you end up with too many exceptions and special cases for any nonspecialist to keep them all in their head.

Second, there's a huge body of caselaw and regulatory rulings that crop up around the actual tax code. Dozens of courts somewhat haphazardly decide that this weird edge case counts as income, but that weird case doesn't. Again, almost all of these are pretty reasonable taken in isolation, but you end up with a swiss cheese of arbitrary and contradictory rules.

Finally, wealthy entities will inevitably try to game the system. They will try to find a few well-intentioned but poorly thought out edge cases and alter their finances to try and intentionally fit a huge percentage of their income into them. By the time this happens, it's often very difficult to fix without hurting the innocent bystanders that the edge cases were put in place for in the first place.

Wealthy individuals and companies do lobby for favorable tax provisions, and politicians do sometimes pass laws specifically to benefit those entities. But the reality isn't that simple. International tax law is an emergent phenomenon, and it's really only going to bend to systemic incentive changes.
But are they unable to count, because their language has no words for numbers, or does their language lack words for numbers because they don't count?
And yet try only evidence that the Norse ever made it beyond Newfoundland is pseudo science (or as Samuel Eliot Morrison said, 'scandiknavery'). Even if they did, it had zero impact on the future of the continent.
Unethical != Illegal. If acting in an unethical manner causes a company fewer liabilities than acting ethically, which choice do you expect them (an amoral entity) to make? I expect that they'll keep pushing boundaries until it starts costing them.
Yes, they can all do the same job and for all practical purposes they don't have any difference in performance. Just pick whichever one you prefer. If you become the next google then you can start worrying about the performance of your server-side language.
No, an elephant needs a larger brain to run its larger body. Humans have enough brains to run our bodies, plus "extra" with which to think, in a manner of speaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
There have been unconfirmed transactions that got into a block after a week. All it takes is for one node to keep it a little bit longer. Also, if the node re-broadcasts it, other nodes might put it back into their pool.
And it exists in Saudi Arabia, Iran to name a few of the larger Muslim countries.

And how about people that are homosexual. Right, death penalty in 11 Muslim countries.

It's entirely possible that also homosexual people would have used this dating app.
Screeps seems similar too. https://screeps.com
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And now we're back to the same problem we have with the 90 day window.
Look, I love the pictures, and the spirit of the endeavor. I don't so much love this:

>Draken Harald Hårfagre is actually not a replica, rather a real-life Viking ship built based ancient Norwegian boat building techniques dug up from the history books and archaeological findings

So... a replica. A very faithful replica, made with care to historical accuracy.
Mark Cuban disapproves of this comment.

http://www.businessinsider.com/shark-tank-fight-over-pavlok-...
There is a lot of shared memory between renderers and the browser.

Your 208MB might not be additional, but a big subset of it could be shared with the renderer/gpu process.

If you want to know where the memory is going you can go to about://tracing and enable the memory-infra category.
Not many alternatives:

1.) Run your own SMTP infrastructure. Setup SPF/DKIM/DMARC. Realize your outbound emails still don't always reach their destination. Also you have to fight inbound SPAM.

2.) Use gmail or Google Apps. Things just work. Cede control to Google.
This is cool, but beware of enormous success becoming too salient - most employee #1's will have a less successful ride...
Don't confuse people with the truth, they don't care. I would also like to point out there are limits on parity which this video appears to push such as "finding a likelihood of confusion."
Sure it is. But Universal Health Care in the US isn't gonna happen anytime soon, so this is what we've currently got to work with.
On the other hand, phones do not need to be rebooted often. And if I'm upgrading my OS the stupid thing is going to make me wait 20 minutes while it precompiles every app, so screw it I don't care if I have to spend 40 seconds inputting a password.
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A third option, of equal merit: We may learn to apply existing theory more correctly and more adequately in a novel configuration.
That's how most places handle it in my experience, but it does depend on the scope. I've received some from large companies with big legal teams and then our hosts' legal counsel gets very involved in the process. Given this is the NRA, it might have to do with that, or it could simply be some overzealous staff member.
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Yes but the point is that if their main HQ is in another European country they can't avail of the repatriation laws unless that country has similar laws. Of course many EU countries have lower corporate tax levels than the headline US tax rate, but not all. I'm more concerned though about the race to the bottom in terms of corporate taxation than any EU/US competition. Interesting discussion, thanks.
Assuming the lots are the same size, which they generally are in many areas (lots are resold), a 60% increase in house should be ~60% increase in price, not 4x or 10x.

> 1000 sq ft houses that sell for $40k
> because nobody wants a house that small

a 1000sqft house in Palo Alto would sell for >$400K just for the land.
It would be a "teardowns", and a $40 house+lot would be converted to a $300k 2600 sqft houses -- quite reasonable, so the explanation lies elsewhere (access to employment, entertainment, educations?)
Well... that will cure your C. Diff.
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Correct. What you can do, however, is prevent their answer to that question from being better than a coin flip. This is why we should run a separate experiment to gauge the effectiveness of the voice modulation.
There's no "logic in theory" and "logic in practice" there's just logic and people failing to apply it in practice.

If you can't come up with a small, stable interface between the the 20 applications and the shared component, then you don't have 20 applications + a shared component, you have one big app that is painfully maintained as separate repos across a large cross-sectional arbitrary boundary.

If the history of the project is so interdependent as to be singular (everything is changed in lockstep across repos, effectively a single history) why not have a monorepo? If versioning them under the pretense that they are independent modules costs you so much effort, why do you labor to do so?
I'm skeptical that learning new things in the same domain will achieve meaningful cognitive growth. It feels like the Sudoku analogy in the OP except your are continuously tweaking the rules and symbols of the game. It's challenging, but it is sufficiently challenging ?
Remind me how the correlation between openness to experience and IQ test scores suggests that seeking novelty might possibly increase your cognitive potential. I think I missed that part. With the same kind of "reasoning" I might have to write an article claiming that you should take lots of psychoactive drugs and have more sex to increase your cognitive potential, because there are positive correlations between these things and IQ scores. Also, if you want to get smarter, listen to the bands on the right of this chart! http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/ ...why? Because correlations, of course! Much scientificful.
Reward is finite. Risk is infinitesimal. No-brainer.
Rational actions can be deeply unethical.

It might be rational to hire a big team of tax lawyers to find loopholes.
It might be rational to launch PR campaigns to misinform the public about your tax affairs.
It might also be rational to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on politicians and blackmail them. Or bribe them, or otherwise corrupt them.

UK tax law is complicated partly because the large accountancy firms have become deeply entwined with the policy making process [1]. This is used as a way to introduce and then milk advantage from the complexity. This goes way beyond just playing the tax game by the rules.

I do think the government has a responsibility for allowing these abuses to occur. That doesn't make the abuses OK though.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/26/accountancy...
If that's the case, is it fair for founders and VCs to take such a huge stake, considering all of the actual work is done by the other people who work there?
Options from HN: Go to a coding bootcamp, accrue significant assets.
T-Mobile and Sprint might be evil companies, but what incentive do they have to collude to protect a status quo under which they don't make any money? You're not just accusing them of being "bad companies"--you're accusing them of being irrational.
Ah right. It is patented, but the most common application of SRP can be used for free.
> stop caring about being right

There's 2 ways to take this statement. The first is the way you took it, in that you care to only say things that are correct.

However, most people (especially "toxic" ones) are more focused on not being proven wrong than on being correct in the first place. "Being right" to them is having everyone think they're right, even if they're actually wrong.

They eventually show their attitude by saying things like, "He never implements my ideas." or "He doesn't take my ideas seriously."
Precisely - if you're relying on no one to be able to reverse engineering the "secure enclave", you're already in deep trouble.
None, really.
I'm not advocating or commenting about the morality either way. I was just saying who I thought it probably was based on who was targeted and what was disclosed.
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In that scenario Amazon would possibly suspend your entire account, or suspend all access to S3 (if you didn't respond). Or even if they only suspend the bucket in question, unless you're splitting apart your customers into their own buckets, the same issue applies where other customers go down because of one customer.

I think it's better to work with a smaller company in these kind of instances. Larger companies like Amazon are going to just do whatever it takes to make the complaint go away. They don't want trouble.
Just don't use a password so weak it can be bruted for your FDE and you're fine. Treat it like most existing software-only solutions like TrueCrypt, not like a magic black box that can make a 4 digit number into a secure password. Even if the hardware were "secure" it still wouldn't be advisable to rely on it as a successful reverse engineering of the hardware could still result in a bruteforce attack on your key. And while that may be high effort and expensive, it's certainly not impossible. Never trust a half measure, this sort of TPM/Secure Enclave approach is a half measure.
Right, but it may reboot at the most inopportune moments, like after the battery runs out, and where you may not have access to the 20 character long master password which is impossible to remember.
Yes, I completely hate some of their decisions on UX/UI

But even with it's flaws, it was always reliably there when I needed it. Had to administer some linux servers with windows machines back on my internship days, and man... that was horrible.
Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to reduce their tax burden to the lowest possible levels. Assuming the tactics they embrace are legal, they are doing exactly what they can and should.
Yes, exactly this. It does feel like something of a straw man argument that the author is disproving (though perhaps it's one that he encounters often).

I think the obvious and un-controversial position is slightly more complicated; language is not required for thought, but like most (every?) other activity in the brain, it affects thought.
The states I've checked all have a law against misrepresenting the origin of a political advertisement that advocates (even indirectly) for/against a candidate or party, and sometimes ballot measures are included too. Some of them are more strict than others, this is from Texas for example:

A person commits an offense if, with intent to
injure a candidate or influence the result of an
election, the person enters into a contract or
other agreement to print, publish, or broadcast
political advertising that purports to emanate
from a source other than its true source.

It's hard to say this is a traditional political advertisement. Whether you could convince a judge that an ad purporting to be from the NRA (and presumably making Republicans look bad) is intended to influence an election is questionable. If they had included mention of Hillary or Trump in the video this would be pretty clear cut, but as is it's harder because the link between supporting or attacking candidates through political entities they do or don't support without actually mentioning them by name is a case law issue.
The people who own the backyards aren't the renters.

Support your local YITBY group.
I always cringe when I come across this type of Snowden branding. Can't put my finger on the reason.
Being standard doesn't mean it's not shitty.
Because we want to allow specialization to increase efficiency. Rather than the nail company selling its nails to hardware stores and the screw company selling its screws to hardware stores, it's more efficient if they both sell to a supplier that can then sell to stores - it means only O(N) rather than O(N*M) different relationships to maintain, and the nail manufacturer can concentrate on its core competency of making nails rather than having to employ a bunch of people who know how to get their products in stores.
Have you read Baez's post that I linked? It's way more harsh than my comment. "Mumbo jumbo", "Failed a course in quantum field theory and then smoked too much weed"...

Also I'm getting seriously creeped out by the amount of EmDrive non-skeptics on HN. Maybe we should make a poll whether 0.999... = 1, and then say that anyone who insists on the correct answer is "condescending".
> I (think I) absolutely do think in a specific language. I don't know if I do so all of the time -- there could be times when I don't and don't realize it -- but most of my conscious thought does definitely take the form of words, and sometimes even a well-formed internal dialog.

You are mistaken. Your internal monologue is a side effect of your thoughts; it is not your thoughts themselves.
In that model, our model is the universe.
I really wish technical people would explain what they mean when they say AI, and quickly name which algorithms they're using. If they don't, it's just clickbait.
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Do you know that it isn't? Do you know that there's not?

You call DominikR's statements "misinformation", which amounts to a claim that they are false. You're every bit as much on the hook to substantiate your claims as he is to substantiate his. Please do so.
Trademark :(
Properly regulated monopolies are the most efficient form of a market.

In fact it is quite the opposite of what you're imagining.
It's a pretty crappy deal. It was only accepted because otherwise these people would be sitting on worthless shares, waiting for an exit/IPO that doesn't look like it's coming anytime soon.
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