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> We currently have treaties against militarizing outer space

Note that the United States is effectively repealing its obligations under the OST [1]. It was a silly assumption to begin with. Where value be it will be gotten from.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2262...
> Furthering financial privacy increases the protection that the politically disenfranchised

Wow. This isn't even supported by any of America's notable civil rights successes of years gone by, whereas the entire history of political corruption is enabled by the wealthy's use and access to opaque financial instruments.
Your anecodote is not good because it doesn't jive with a very high volume of other anecdotes that can be seen on the Internet. So maybe take a look around?

Anyway, for my own anecdote - I have a five year old Dell XPS L502X that has an Optimus style video card in it - Windows 7, 8 and 10 run beautifully on it with no drivers problems. Meanwhile, any Linux distro I've tried to install directly on the hardware just barfs itself.
C and Python APIs of CPython are really just difference faces of the same thing. Due to the internal use of tuples some of the Python behavior is governed by related C behavior.

For example:

> Another conflict between the Technical and the Cultural: there are places in Python itself where a tuple is used when a list makes more sense. When you define a function with args, args is passed to you as a tuple, even though the position of the values isn't significant, at least as far as Python knows

This is the C behavior of tuple usage being exposed to the Python side. If one explores the C API it becomes clear that an implementation detail of C is being exposed to Python.

> The Cultural Difference is about how lists and tuples are actually used: lists are used where you have a homogenous sequence of unknown length; tuples are used where you know the number of elements in advance because the position of the element is semantically significant.

Here the Culture has moved away from the Technical roots of Python and now they're at odds. On the C side tuples are not* just used when the length is known ahead of time - tuples are not always immutable on the C side.

The context is important if you really want to understand.
An Analysis of the Impact of Brexit on FX Markets Using Quantum Computing
> what resource

Ideas. That crazy nuclear experiment you want to run? Fat chance in Montana. But on the far side of Mars? Why not.
Darpa moves ahead with plan to put anti-missile lasers on drones
I would question whether tax-obviousness outweighs convenience.
Yes. It seems the user executes an attachment that's a PIF file (a type of shortcut file) that writes out a PS script to the temp directory and executes powershell.exe to run it. The point of highlighting PS in the article appears to be that previous distribution of this malware used a different mechanism, not anything wrong with PS itself.
I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in-place. Windows 7 was installed (several years ago) using a clean Windows ISO, I have no OEM/bloatware stuff installed.

I do have iTunes installed which apparently was the issue for some users. Others have also reported the getting the crash without that though. But I don't intend to try uninstalling it and see if that resolves the problem, I connect the Kindle so seldom that the work-around will do for now.
A bit of a strawman argument here.
Pokemon Go Ransomware attacks as Windows 10 app
Yep. There's nothing about PowerShell in particular that enables this attack apart from being able to execute code. Granted, it can do a bit more with the system than cmd could, but that's about it.
I don't think anyone is considering banning cash. More likely, you'll one day find that merchants may refuse to accept cash, or provide change, the same way that many merchants today refuse to accept credit cards. And honestly, that is their right. As someone who's had to collect rent from roommates, I refused to accept cash from them. It's too much of a hassle/liability for me to deal with. I think that a law requiring all merchants to accept cash is government-overreach frankly.

Regarding negative interest rates - this is something that sounds really scary, but actually isn't. We aren't talking about a hard asset like gold - we're talking about fiat currencies. Every time your government expands the money supply and triggers inflation, you're losing money. If you try to prevent governments from setting negative interest rates, they will just pump up the money supply and make you lose money through inflation instead. There's little point in banning negative interest rates, unless you're willing to ban monetary-supply-expansion as well. And unless you're a hardcore Ron Paul libertarian, I bet you've never protested governments promoting moderate inflation.

Regarding anonymous monetary transactions, I agree that there is value in this. This can also be accomplished through cashless transactions. All you need is an aggregated prepaid debit card service. You buy the prepaid debit-card using your regular bank account, and then use that prepaid debit card to conduct anonymous transactions.

The one upside of cash is minimal transaction fees. It always annoys me that Visa takes a 1-2% cut from every single transaction. It effectively makes us all 1-2% poorer in the process. But this is a market-solvable problem if the government took adequate steps to foster competition, and ban anti-competitive tactics. We've already seen many attempts recently, such as Apple Pay, to undercut the credit card companies fees, while still allowing cashless transactions.

Overall, cash is a pain to deal with. If I never had to touch cash again, I'd be a perfectly happy man. I don't think the government should take steps to discourage/ban the use of cash, but if private merchants and individuals decide to abandon cash, the government certainly shouldn't interfere with that decision. The current benefits of using cash can certainly be replicated and had, even in a cashless society.
> i feel i should always be doing something else.

You are doing something else.
Probably something similar to Breakthrough Starshot

http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3
Tyler may have talked about this elsewhere, but this post was written by Alex Tabarrok.
I'm not the parent, but I've used both (Chef more heavily - going on 6 years, and I'm certified as a Chef trainer).

Your assessment is roughly correct, Ansible is definitely easier to get started with, and if you just want to manage a small number of nodes that you have SSH access to, it's a good choice. Chef has a larger ecosystem, and a different communication model (VMs under management communicate out to a Chef server over HTTPS, no need for inbound ports to be opened). The tradeoff is a slightly longer learning cycle. I'm biased towards Chef because it's what I know, but having spent some time with Ansible it's a good choice for some use cases.
Well, we neither nuked Russia pre-emptively nor had a nuclear war. Hardly "black and black".

I don't really want to address this suggestion on its merits - there's too much moral hazard. It reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb sketch "Kill the poor". But apparently simply expressing incredulous horror that one would even suggest such a thing isn't done around here. So, with difficulty, here I go:

So you make these "calculations" (though they couldn't have at the time) and pay the moral cost - you "nuke Moscow". Population at the time, about 6 million. Congratulations, America is now regarded as the most evil country that ever existed, its reputation eclipsing even Nazi Germany. The heinous act can't even be blamed on a demagogue, or economic strife after losing a world war - it's a cold institutional decision. And then what? World peace? Really? America is the only country with nukes, and doesn't abuse them because you know, apart from nuking a few cities unprovoked it's basically good-hearted, hah, and everyone lives happily ever after? Fat chance! Probably Russia will get nukes anyway and instantly use them on America - it's not like you've destroyed the whole country. Or perhaps you do somehow manage that, with more than just nuking the capital. Now you're an incalculably bigger mass-murderer, and the entire Eurasian continent is flooded with starving and bitterly angry refugees. Everyone in the entire world is angry at America. World peace? Hah. I won't go on.

Violence begets violence.
There's always another breakfast.
Physicists discover 'apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics'
An equation that works as a limerick
It's pretty simple: build a highway and it will saturate. At this point it is only a matter of when total saturation starts (7am? 6am?) and how long total saturation lasts.

Since development follows highways, you already know where transit needs to be. Caltrain already closely matches 101 on the peninsula.
> forgoing the advances made in C++ and Dlang

Which ones are those?
> we'll need to think in terms of millennia, not lifetimes

I don't think it's safe to assume the maximum human lifetime is a constant in these discussions.
How do you measure complexity?
There are several ten thousands of Chinese characters, but the vast majority are rarely, if ever, used. If you know say 3000, you'll do quite well reading most things.

(In Japanese, the topic of the original article, the situation is somewhat better, as mostly only a fairly well defined subset of about 2000 characters is used, next to (two) syllabaries and the Latin alphabet).

Knowing only 250 or even 1000 characters is quite unsatisfying, though. When you read a newspaper, it'll read like this: "At the meeting yesterday, president <someone> said that it is of great importance to <something> the <something>, otherwise surely the <something> will <something> down. <someone> suggested a possible solution, though, by bringing the whole country together to <something> for the future and implement a better <something>."

Sure, you understand 90%, but that's not really cutting it.
This 24-Hour Aphex Twin Megamix Is Mind Blowing
"Much fintech 'disruption'..." revolves around eliminating slack and incompetence of the low grade employees. Once you've tried services of an average investment banker, and paid 1% entry fee,1% exit fee, and 1% annual maintenance fee, you'd see fintech needs in a different light.
LEOcoin Foundation Releases Full White Paper for New Token
If you'd like a very complete answer to this question, http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/
Mycelium May Roll Out P2P Tumbling Soon
Its been done before on alot of services especially on the gaming software steam with in game ads there is a way to block this in the future but it would vary with each service
Anger management tips
Smoking weed in Spain is legal since a couple of decades. Selling a small bag is illegal, but this isn't really enforced as it's hard to prove that the bag was for selling and not for self consuming.

Usually police will turn a blind eye both for selling pot and selling beer, unless anything goes wrong and somebody complains.
Nothing to Fear Except the Fear of AI
Fair enough, I found parent's comment flippant because it suggests that HashiCorp's generous open source work is popular due to some hype conspiracy.
I delivered my only-born to college two days ago. I miss him already. And we have had many days together much like the one described in the article.
Biscotti? Scone? I'm sorry but does everyone in the USA eat dessert for breakfast?
Lyft was seeking as much as $9B in a buyout
DEFCON media server
"RAII,deterministic destructors,move semantics, shared_ptr and allocator" ?
Ah, that's a great clarification. I wasn't trying to be argumentative in my response, I was sincerely trying to determine what you meant. I'm glad you did, because your comment is great. Thanks!
Yes, we use the hell out of Terraform, Consul, and Vault - they're wonderful to work with
I guess I'm never to actually “get Lisp” to appreciate its syntax.

>Aside from the prefix ordering, Common Lisp’s syntax is already a bit more elegant because you can set arbitrarily many variables without repeating the assignment operator over and over again:

; Have to type out `=` three times
x = 10
y = 20
z = 30

; But only one `setf` required
(setf x 10
y 20
z 30)

I utterly fail to see the aforementioned elegance, although I certainly can't miss the line where it happens.
>If you were the gubment and you wanted to maybe trace these fuckers would you maybe try to chum the bitcoin waters to see what wallets are used for any liquidation of the bitcoins later?

The address of the auction is public. Sending more bitcoins to the address doesn't make sense. The only way it would make sense to send Bitcoin to the address is if you waited until the Bitcoins had been spent, and send a bit of dust to the address, in the hope that their wallet spent it along with some other Bitcoins.

The more likely explanation is that somebody is messing with the people observing the auction. By my count, there are only two serious bids that follow the rules set out by the shadow brokers.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315814
It's not untrue to say that Japanese society as a whole does have a culture of Confucian orthodoxy/heirarchy, ie. people do not 'rock the boat' or 'aggressively agitate for change'. This means that tradition survives well and a cultural premium on internalizing discontent and preserving outward peace rules the land. Urban zoning is probably one of the areas most affected by this cultural property. That said, in my mind even traditional Japanese urban architecture is pretty well optimized for high density, itself largely based on Tang Dynasty Chang'an in China, arguably one of the greatest periods of multicultural tolerance and philosophical debate in the history of the planet (terminus of the Silk Road, vast exchange of ideas).
Speaking of unfortunate naming, there already exist a neural network package called PyCNN, which binds python to the neural network library CNN, named so, because it is a neural network library written in C++.

https://github.com/clab/cnn
I don't think there is a solution! Though you could leave the house for some frivolous thing, or work for a few hours and call it quits.

Then again, if it isn't detrimental to you and you enjoy it and stuff, why stop?
Yes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/15/break...
There's a huge gulf between having plans to do something, and actually doing it. Moreso when that something has never been done before.
Last change is 3 years old. That means it is quite dead. Also, so many libraries but no Maven :(
> a human would with less information.

I'm arguing for the case where the human as NO information.

Let's say, there's a bicycle/motorbike somewhat behind your cars.

For a human driver, it can be seen in only one of the 3 rear mirrors at any point in time. Unless it's slightly behind-left or behind-right (e.g. to take over) in which case it's in the dead angle and can't be seen at all.

By turning his head and using the mirrors, a human cannot see most of the 360° around a car. There are obstructed angles, not to mention that the human can only look toward one direction at once.

The self driving cars with 360° vision can see things that a human couldn't. It has a chance to react where the human didn't.
Of course a full on nuclear war could cause hurricane force winds and fire storms. Does anyone really know how far that could spread? There is a lot of vegetation in close proximity to targets, and in places little to stop a fire spreading for hundreds of miles through crops and forest.

Also, you would have to deal with the fallout from the nuclear power plants that have just been mixed into those hurrican force winds.

Humanity may survive but the effects could be felt far beyond the blast radius of the bombs.
Is that still around?

And damn I miss Computer Language magazine, and the covers, and the awards.
Does Australia have an open access requirement? Some people at institutions requiring open access preferentially submit to journals where that is the default. That said, they could have submitted to eLife if that was the case.
I have never felt 'too good' for HN at all. That's one of the reasons I loved it in the past- I can pick almost any link and look at almost any comment section to find information that's over my head and the content and conversations were challenging and force me to learn- and I loved that. At a certain point I felt that it turned in to a bunch of mean girls, and I left. I sincerely wanted OP to clarify his comment, because it seemed to be saying something poignant I just couldn't understand it. I see how my phrasing seems insensitive.
We are very interested in making Rust more learnable, and are taking active steps to make it more so:

1. I am re-writing the book with the knowledge we've gained watching people try to learn Rust over the last 18 months. For example, compare https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ownership.html to http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch04-00-understanding-owners... ; The former version takes a rules-based, theory-heavy approach. The new version uses a concrete example with Strings, a common thing that people new to Rust struggle with.

2. Error messages are being overhauled across several axes https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-com... IDE integration is also being worked on.

3. We created a dedicated "beginners" channel on IRC, it's been a rousing success so far.

and hopefully more things in the future.

> If I just want to quickly get something done

I think one of the big differences between Rust and C is this: in C, you can quickly get _something_ done, but it quite possibly is not the right thing. In Rust, you have to get the right thing done. That's hard at first, but gets easier over time. By now, I get stuff done more quickly in Rust than I do in C, because I rarely fight with the borrow checker, and Rust's other productivity advantages come into play: numerics, cargo and crates.io, etc.
Yeah, what I really wanted from Rust was basically OCaml without the GC. Or C++ with a proper module system, no preprocessor crap, some pattern matching and type inference, and a more reasonable syntax. Rust started that way and then the safety stuff took over the type system.

I can roll with it. It's probably worth it. I'd love a job programming in it. But it's not entirely the dream I had.
It wasn't a bet - it was insurance, and his payment was the premium to underwrite that insurance. Of course the banks who wrote him the CDS failed to price the risk appropriately...

It's like you are arguing that life insurance is a bet.
And I'm tired of people underestimating feloniousness of communism.

Just for your information: communism, as in Soviet Union, accounts for more victims than Hitler and nazism. They might not have built gas chambers, but trying to deliberately starve the whole nation (Ukrainian) to death isn't much better [1].

Unfortunately, at some point of WWII Stalin became US and UK ally, so still some political correctness prevents West to freely speak about communism and it's crimes.

So all things considered communism actually is "the worst thing ever" and nazism is a close second.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
There's a good overview--albeit a much more pessimistic one--of Fordlandia in Bill Bryson's book _1927_.
Agreed, anything performance sensitive - and a lot of apps are - is worth the shot.

At the same time, you have to be aware the ecosystem is far from being mature. I am trying right now to use MongoDB and the last Ecto adapter seems to not be compatible with the other libraries.
There are actually no emacs mail clients that I could get to work :-(. So I used mutt for a while. Nowadays, I answer all my email on my phone, when I can bother to sort through the deluge of spam at all.
Maybe I misunderstood what you're talking about then. Rust very much did not ignore those things. In fact, Rust has (most of) those things, but with stronger guarantees, and/or putting them more core to the language.

(Allocators are the asterisk here, those are still a work in progress.)
in uninteresting enough resource wise to be passed over by anyone else out there

If you have a nuclear fusion technology that can burn tritium then the moon is VERY INTERESTING INDEED.

If you have an automated means of sifting the lunar topsoil for it, it would be the investment of the century to send it there now and let it chug away while the science on Earth catches up. Of course you would also need a means to prevent anyone from taking it from you, which is almost certainly why noone has done this...
> Earth has still millions of years of habitability

The lower bound is probably 600m to 1bn years. By then the sun's luminosity will have increased enough to eventually boil off the oceans. To get over this hump we'd need to sequester or condense atmospheric water vapor. That'd push our planetary survival time out to about 3bn years.
I have two video cards (a slightly older one for Linux).

audio was the hardest thing to get working smoothly... I have two soundcards, pass one through to Linux, and have a 5cm cable from the output into the line-in of the second card, which has hardware mixing so comes straight out the speakers with no pulseaudio involvement.
needed a few registry hacks too (which I can't recall)

quite a few people report success with HDMI audio output, but my monitors are too old for this, so I haven't tried it
Maybe the stress of not having a job makes it less enjoyable?
Tiny nitpick, but supporting desktops to demo a location-based game seems odd!
Reverse engineered Source code of GEOS 2.0 for the Commodore 64
I think (know) that a child would be totally into wearing pajamas all day, and eating second, third and beyond breakfasts.