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It says 2015 in the article URL.

This isn't a dupe by HN's standards because it's been well over a year since the article was discussed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Invoking religion in what should be secular discussions regarding public policy can definitely be perceived as pushing religion down people's throats. Imagine the opposite -- if every time a group of people were seen chatting about religion, someone walked up and quoted some famous atheistic reference?

However, I don't see an iterated discussion of this as a useful tangent for the thread to take, so let's discuss instead how religious philosophies of all kinds could or should have informed the believers of those religions in the issue of prisoner treatment. What leads to the dichotomy between religious messages of peace, and the warlike behavior of some adherents to those religions?
Why isn't anyone launching a torrent search site on zeronet? If zeronet needs a killer app to take off, this might just be it?
> They have TV, and the Internet.

Not often. Regardless, my solutions would start with chipping away at the disdain, indiffernece, and exploitation by privileged Americans. Wealth inequality creates a lot of the problems. Offshoring wealth to Ireland by Apple, FB, etc. to avoid taxes if you want to get even more granular.
What is this particular HN post supposed to be pointing out? This is a very old thread in a newsgroup about the usage of protected mode in the (traditionally 16-bit) de facto standard PC BIOS, but the link wasn't to the thread. Rather the link was to this one specific post.

Is the editorializing about EFI the thing that is supposed to be interesting here? If so, here it is in its entirety:

"EFI?? Intel has been trying to shove that down our throats for years. IMO it hasn't been adopted by the industry because it would require a large investment in infrastructure to get the ball rolling. You have to understand that a lot of BIOS development has gone to the Pacific Rim area where labor is cheap but excellent. Margins are so thin on motherboards the OEMs don't want to retrain their BIOS programmers to start with EFI when everything is working just fine with a traditional BIOS because each new project is leveraged from the prior. I guess after a while we'll all be assimilated into EFI by Intel, but yikes, that means I'd have to learn 'C'."

OK, and...? This is a mostly reasonable observation for a reasonably informed PC BIOS engineer to make in 2003, but I don't know what insight people on HN are supposed to get from it in 2016.
Because the same people who vote for harsher punishments and pushing costs onto the families of detainees are often only reachable by biblical quotations. If you refuse to talk to people, you're not going to get anywhere. Learning their language--in this case, the bible--is often what is required in order to reach them.

There are a lot of ignorant voters out there. If you want to make change you need to learn how to communicate with them, not just look down your nose at them.
For those interested in the actual paper as opposed to the news writeup.

Nature: http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/nm/journal/v2...

Scihub:
http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nm.4133
You just need a big enough ship.

A while back I had a plan for a science fiction setting: an intergalactic ship is approach Earth. The people who sent it thought big, and as a result the ship has at its core an enclosed star (a miniature Dyson Sphere) as a gravitational anchor and power source, and round it is orbiting a vast swarm of asteroids and habitats with a few million times the living space of Earth, inside which civilisations endlessly rise and fall.

The plot centred around this thing going to make a class pass by Sol in a few years at 0.01c, with the gravitational effects pretty much dooming the Earth; so the current lead civilisation sends some ships on ahead to evacuate the Earth. (Big ships. I did the maths.)

The story never gelled, but I think it's plausible that my ship would produce these effects.

BTW, if this turns out to be true, I want credit.
Inspired so much that you stole the name? That's embarrassing.
I don't think most people are as close to being "them" as you think. We're not teetering on a society about to collapse into sending a meaningful amount of people into prison.
> But maybe we shouldn't feel sorry for these people, who grew up in the richest country in the world blah blah blah ...

So, whites deserve nothing from the institutions of their own country, except the "privilege" to be permanently tainted by a kind of Original Sin, and neglected in favor of literally every other ethnic group? Got it.
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The galactic center is 100,000 lightyears away. Going from a location to another 1000 lightyears away via the galactic center would make the trip 200 times longer. A 10,000 year journey would thus take 2 million years. It's probably better to jump from point A to B, then.
Most poor people don't understand until it happens to them. At that point it's too late. This is one reason why poor people tend to remain poor.
is it too risky to host it on TOR?
Even now UEFI bugs are still a serious problem. And it was not long after this was posted that IBM sold the PC division to Lenovo for example.
It isn't even arguably treason, as much as GP would like it to even be a question.
I like your solution because it doesn't (necessarily) require a backend and would therefore be much simpler to implement.

There are several libraries that extract article text reasonably well. I believe browser extensions are written mainly in HTML/JS/CSS. Would the following node library suffice? https://github.com/ageitgey/node-unfluff

There's just the question of retrieval speed. I suspect simple HTML retrieval is an order of magnitude faster than normal page rendering due to ads, javascript, etc. So the client-only solution you've proposed might indeed be sufficient!
They probably have a ticket for it in JIRA, at the bottom of the backlog with other things that make people's life easier, because POs want insert_annoying_features_here instead.
I didn't say anything remotely like that.
Maybe, but even this still feels incomplete. Missing from this (and ironically missing from the linked article given that it's part of the blog's title) is the notion of concurrency. Whether a xx mS 99th percentile latency is good or bad depends very strongly on how many parallel requests are in flight. In a single-threaded situation where a slow response holds up all other requests, a few slow responses might be a disaster, but if it just means that an individual user has to wait half a second longer, it might be a non-issue.

I agree with the blog author's point that characterizing the entire latency distribution is more valuable than looking at an individual statistic, but it's difficult for me to understand how this blog post can say avoid talking about the equally important degree of parallelism. I'm probably a broken record, but I think Little's Law is one of the most under-utilized concepts in system analysis and design. http://web.mit.edu/sgraves/www/papers/Little's%20Law-Publish....
Been fooling around with it. The UI is very buggy (using iPhone). Despite this, it is attractive. I would like to see better support for doing purely text posts. Otherwise I don't see much of a difference to Instagram. I like the personas idea, but I'd like it to go a step further: say if I had a writer persona and wanted to have a nom de plume different to my own, that would be very useful.
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Perhaps it is a similar situation as cosmology at the time of Copernicus: his theory was manifestly worse than the existing "standard model", but was cleaner, more "beautiful". Getting his model to work brought about the revolution.
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Exciting times. I remember trying the Mosaic browser for the first time and thinking that it was at least as good as Gopher, and maybe better.

It was inconceivable to me at the time that it would become what it is now. Hell, the "blink" command seemed pretty cutting-edge when it was added to HTML (as a joke, it turns out). I never imagined it would become basically indispensable for conducting most business or that it would become the replacement for tv.
But isn't there more to the story here?

One of the commenters indicated that FB took down that page for being "violent in nature" (details not provided) -- not simply for its pro-GMO/Vaccine stance.
I seem to remember that the attempts at implementing the JVM in hardware haven't worked out all that well and the stack implementation was blamed for their inability to beat a software implementation on x86. I wonder if anyone here has more information or personal experience?
> Not often.

Actually, almost everyone in America has TV and internet access, including the very poorest.
I've been waiting for a stack computer with a GaAs CPU and bubble memory for I don't know how long!
There was a design for a high-ILP stack processor in the 90s: https://bernd-paysan.de/4stack.html but VLIW instead of superscalar.
Bike + basket wouldn't have helped? :(
May we never have any "funny" horses...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Car
Wasn't OpenFirmware a Sun thing? I thought that was how it migrated because a lot of Sun stuff made it elsewhere (well, before Oracle).
By "the entirety of it wrong" do you mean how you said earlier "Louis X had already abolished slavery much much earlier in the 14th century", only the timeline you point to says "However some cases of slavery continued till the 17th century in some France's Mediterranean harbours, in the Provence"?

As you know from that very timeline, abolition is not a fundamentally Christian idea. The Qin Dynasty and the Xin Dynasty both abolished slavery in China before Jesus was an adult.

As you also know from that same timeline, while the Pope banned enslaving the indigenous peoples of the Americas, he did not ban the enslavement of black Africans. Why is that, do you think, if his decision was based on the Bible?

What I think is missing from your analysis is the step from the "no Christians should be enslaved" to "no one should be enslaved."

The Bible does not prohibit the enslavement of non-Christians. That's why the Pope could have Muslim captives operate galley ships. That's why the Europeans could operate a slave trade of black Africans. That's why the Spanish could enslave the non-Christian indigenous Guanches. (Also from that timeline link you just sent.) That's why Christian theologians for centuries could justify slavery.

What Enlightenment thought added to the mix was the idea of universal rights: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed".

The hypocrisy of slaveholders talking about universal rights of all men was obvious even when it was first written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal#Slav... . (And no, "their Creator" here refers to the distant creator of Deism, not the Christian God.)

That philosophy changed the moral calculus. People should not be enslaved for the simple reason that they are people.

That's why, quoting again from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism :

> An abolitionist movement only started in the late 18th century, however, when English and American Quakers began to question the morality of slavery. James Oglethorpe was among the first to articulate the Enlightenment case against slavery, banning it in the Province of Georgia on humanist grounds, arguing against it in Parliament, and eventually encouraging his friends Granville Sharp and Hannah More to vigorously pursue the cause.

The "humanist grounds" is the influence of the Enlightenment.
Sure you did. Your third and fourth paragraphs essentially say, "These people, by virtue of being white Americans, do not deserve help from our country's institutions, because they are evil. Everyone else on earth is more deserving of help, and therefore, our country should give money to foreigners instead of its own people."

And people wonder where working-class rage comes from...
> empathy is an important skill

This. I get what the author of the article is experiencing and respect his process and conclusions (I empathize), but the one thing that bugs me is:

>> Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance."

... which can be taken to mean users are, if not evil, just stupid. I sense a lack of empathy here.

Could it be that your application just sucks? Maybe it's good or great, but from the details of the article it clearly seems like it was full of UI oversights and has potential for improvement.

>> The issue was that I live and breath code, and they don't.

This statement is telling, because code is absolutely irrelevant to the user and their experience. It would have been better if he claimed to breath UX not code, because his issues are with user experience, not code. This says more about his pride and his ego when it comes to his code, both which will only cause drama, which he admits to.

>> So we all (including me) need to calm down.

Yup.
Not your fault - not talking about your service specifically! My IP was banned by several other companies (I assume from a list that was purchased from a third party) like Hulu/Netflix because I was simply relaying non-exit traffic.

TOR and people who speak for the service often say that it's safe to run a non-exit relay. It isn't. It's tracked and punished. I know from first-hand experience.
Uber does not have meaningful network effects. Airbnb does.

A competitor would need to be more than marginally better to compete subscale, as Airbnb was vs craigslist or original vrbo.
> 5.) Lead paint was also phased out years ago.

And yet, as recent news reminded us, there's still plenty of it in Baltimore:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baltimores-toxic-legacy-...
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Doesn't really matter - it happens. I'm not specifically talking about the OP's service but rather another third party list that was purchased by other companies. My IP was banned. Whether it should have been or not is up for debate, but I can tell you I was confused for a week straight when I was getting cryptic Hulu/Netflix/Bank/etc error messages.
Spectral type isn't 1-1 correlate with the star estimated life. Depends on the star mass. Our Sun was one time a F type star.
The funny part is all the near future SciFi with kanji characters needs to have them replaced in a special edition with emojis.
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"...a thing that comes into existence once makes results on the basis of what is inside of itself from the past, and makes itself exist continuously by repeating its activities endlessly. A thing's very activities become the cause through which it makes itself come into being in the future."

Are you saying that a thing exists before it comes into existence?
That time will always have a place in my heart. An age where we were largely limited to a couple fonts, where Times New Roman was de facto, where hyperlinks were almost always blue with underlines, where quirky animated gifs were ubiquitous, where design and user experience was very raw and still undiscovered... it was indeed a simpler time!
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Odd, I walk a lot, I live near 4 drugstores, 4 supermarkets, about five 7-11, many restaurants, big stores like Macy's etc, all by walking 10 minutes at most.
You can ask the server to do it for you.
I live in Barcelona and most of the people are not happy. A simple math problem for you in order to understand why.
Currently with a top speed of 50kmh the average speed is 36kmh. Now reducing the top speed partially to 10kmh how fast will be the average?
Well, it can be argued that the traffic will shift to the faster streets on the periphery of the super blocks, so this streets will have to grow in order to be able to handle the traffic, this can be challenging in terms of space.

But what really pisses my catalan friends and colleagues is that the superblock will come first and accordingly the tweaks on the periphery. This will cause homongous traffic jams because of the construction works on the periphery of the superblocks.

So this is aimless activism, those who know traffic and transportation in Barcelona will agree that smart traffic lights will make a huge impact on car pollution. Together with Park and ride; offering a fast transportation to enter and leave the city would be amazing.
Get a new auditor. Reference this: http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor...
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Louisiana, its politics and law enforcement are basically a third world country. It's as corrupt if not more than the city politics and criminal politicians in Chicago and Detroit. Can't say I'm surprised.
This article covers things from a pedestrian's perspective, but it honestly looks like there may be benefits for drivers in this system too.

For one, this plan immediately halves the number of busy intersections along a given stretch of road (and reduces them to a third if multiple superblocks are built adjacent to one another). Yes, no intersections have been physically removed, but the number of vehicles using those intersections is drastically reduced. Traffic signals at those intersections can be optimized to reduce stop frequency/duration for traffic staying on the road meant for cars.

If you live in one of these superblocks, the last kilometer to your house may be slower but, if there are enough other superblocks along your path, your overall trip time may actually be reduced. Fewer stops also mean reduced fuel consumption and lower emissions.

Of course, a big issue is that some streets will now be carrying twice the traffic they were previously built for. Even if that traffic flows better, there may be problems. Making street-side parking on these streets illegal could increase the effective number of lanes available to traffic. After all, street-side parking should be plentiful inside the blocks, and the eventual plan is to build off-street garages.

I'm not convinced superblocks will be bad for drivers.
Does it actually work for that, though?
> very language lost erodes identities, stories, and diversity.

But they're lost because they've outlived their usefulness. Language is about communication. A language with which you can only communicate with a tiny minority of the humans on the planet is nowhere near as useful as a global one.

I'm not sure how I feel about linguists and historians who want to preserve a language in place. This gives them joy, but handicaps the children who have to allocate limited resources to learning a language that is pretty much useless outside of their villages or districts. You basically handicap children who were already born into poverty just so you can say you preserved a language.
It took me a little while to realize this was satire. But the thing that tipped me off was that the twitter API call didn't include any auth or request parameters, which was less believable than a tweet-liking dependency. Then the rest of the article makes it totally blatantly obvious.
It's a good thing of course, but it's also trapped-ion qubits, so this is not exactly something that can freely scale or be widely manufactured. It is in short, probably not the future of quantum computing, it's just another important step on the way.
There's an entire industry of companies and analysts willing to sell you that information :)
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In case the ;) did not make it obvious, this comment was meant to be taken as sarcasm.
SETI have some dubious criteria like that an alien civilization would emit at Hydrogen resonance frequency because is a universal constant. Any HAM radio operator or telecommunication engineer know well how bad is trying to emit anything on Hydrogen band because is full of natural noise.
I disagree with this statement, mostly because we have various examples in history depicting groups and organizations that were, for all intents and purposes, incorruptible.

The most recent and probably also the most well-known example of this is from the Prohibition era, when a federal law enforcement group referred to as The Untouchables brought down Al Capone and his criminal organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchables_(law_enforcement)

Each member of The Untouchables was hand-picked by Eliot Ness, the leader, for having an outstanding track record and extraordinarily strong sense of ethics. The result was a stunning success: Capone was simply unable to bribe, intimidate or otherwise blackmail any of the members. The group was instrumental in having him charged and convicted.
> if you keep demonizing a group, expect them to send an actual demon eventually

Best line I read on HN today. This explains so much about everybody... Thank you.
Honestly why should it bother anyone if prisoners are treated well? A video game costs nothing compared to other costs of incarceration. The only thing that matters is that people can be rehabilitated if possible, and isolated if not.

And the last people who should define punishments are victims of crimes, because our own instincts for revenge are wholly miscalibrated for modern society. I've had thousands of dollars of irreplaceable equipment stolen from me, some of which I designed myself, and yet I rationally accept that the perpetrators (never caught) shouldn't be strung up in the proverbial town square for all to see.
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When is the demo round and what equity does he have in the project?
Are you a system admin or some type of medical professional? I'm curious as to what jobs truly require uninterrupted smartphone notifications.
They probably don't, but I suspect that using WSL would significantly improve performance. In fact, it's probably one of the existing vendors of products like BlueStacks that will eventually do so.
Yes, will change the name soon. Please suggest a good one. Was thinking of BotGear.
I think you overestimate the density of stars in the universe. If I remember correctly there are typically a few lightyears between each star (on average).
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Corporations are just groups of citizens, all of whom have every right to donate money to anyone they want. Why would it be that groups cannot donate when the individuals making up the group can?
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Yes. Natural gas is absurdly cheap in most of the US, most of the time due to the facts that (as you say) most of it is landlocked, or stranded, or some form of can't get it to market because of the pipeline network; and that Aubrey Mcclendon leased up half the damned country and frac'ed it all as fast as he could, flooding the markets. We see periodic rises when the Northeast has a cold winter, but unless LNG exporting becomes a thing we'll be in the low single digits for another five or ten years or more.