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At least in Germany reflectors on the spokes are mandatory. And most tyres have a reflective strip built in, so the night-time side profile of a cyclist should usually clearly mark the shape, even if the cyclist isn't reflective.
> how many fabs in the world could produce the A10?

As long as it's more than 1, there can be a bidding war. Sure, timelines and service can be factors, but I suspect there's a minimum bar that has to be met, and any additional service or convenience doesn't factor into the price.

Sounds like manufacturers are catching on though: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-03/apples-sup...

> Not every supplier gives in. An executive who works with a major parts manufacturer says that Apple’s bargaining tactics tend to exert downward pressure on prices, leading to lower profits and margins. After months of negotiations, the company declined a $1 billion payment from Apple that would have required the supplier to commit much of its manufacturing capacity to Cupertino’s products. The executive familiar with these talks, who asked not to be named because the discussions were not public, says that while deals featuring $1 billion in cash up front are basically unheard of, his company didn’t want to be too dependent on Apple—and didn’t want to help it deflate prices.
I do agree that the UK spends less per head than the US does and gets more for it. But the USA has one of the world's most dysfunctional health systems. Constantly comparing the NHS to it, or worse, implying that people face a binary choice between the US system or the UK system, is a fallacy that ignores the highly capable and often very efficient healthcare systems in other countries. Which don't seem to suffer the same ills of the NHS.

It's also not the case that the UK vs US comparison is one of government vs capitalism. All healthcare systems have heavy government involvement and distortion of the healthcare market, and this is fine, because developed societies always choose these problems over the much larger problem of poor people being unable to afford healthcare.

PFI schemes have not been good value for money and were essentially a trick to hide the ballooning costs of the NHS from a population that can't treat the topic rationally. Unfortunately, too many people in the UK look at this sort of thing and instead of saying "wow our government is really bad at public procurement, we should give them less power" conclude something along the lines of "oh noes, they should have guessed that trying to buy things from companies would lead to disaster - the solution is a fully state run economy!"

All kinds of organisations manage to procure services and investment from the private sector, all over the world, every day ... without problems. PFI boiled down to a complicated kind of loan that let Labour do what it always seems to try and do: massively increase spending on the public sector without raising taxes. No surprise that they paid a very high interest rate for such a thing.
Google's Magenta is exploring generation of long-term structure in music. [1] Its demo song is fun [2]

[1] - https://magenta.tensorflow.org/2016/07/15/lookback-rnn-atten...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFBQDfPyjoE
Haha, yes.

It's a bit like Wikipedia or Stackoverflow. More and more "rules" get set up independent of the community, but "for the greater good".
I agree, just making the point that languages like Ada or Haskell also have features that make certain types of errors impossible in such scenarios.

Of course there are other types of errors that they still cannot avoid.
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>> following the laws of physics

The question is, which laws of physics, and are the interaction between those laws of physics, interactions we already know, or new ones we have not discovered yet?

Otherwise we might as well say consciousness follows the will of God.
Just replacing contractors with employees just means it's the employees milking the NHS instead, but now with the downside that they're unionised and hard to switch to an alternate provider.
Well what does it mean to say that Biology is applied Chemistry? To me it says 2 things. 1 - That there is no 'new' knowledge in biology. 2 - The important aspects of biology can be reduced easily to applied chemistry.

Evolution contradicts this, because it is a genuinely new idea. Some may say it is the ONLY new idea in biology, but that's good enough.

It's often quoted here that "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." You could extend this to "Biological science is no more about chemistry..."
In a lot of countries (ex. Belgium, where I'm from) that is not a decent income. Not even close. So you'd have to have a lot of those niche sites to earn a (self-employed) living.
> What good have mosquitoes ever done?

They are apparently an important pollinator of certain flowers, including the blunt-leaf orchid.
> cyclists tend to be more of a menace than cars

That must be why bikes injure 60,000 people per annum in the UK, and kill ~2,000. Then there's the ~40,000 deaths from pollution. Oh wait, that's the cars.

Maybe you need to rethink what you mean by "menace"? Annoying and inconvenient (even threatening) is not the same as deadly.
Mainframe is possibly the most offshored field there is in enterprise technology. There are masses of roles in India and to a lesser extent China and Phillipines where is offers a stable decent paying career for these countries. That's where the base-line and critical mass of roles are.
You have a really weird set of arbitrary lines in the sand.

So it's totally OK for a single doctor to make huge profits off the NHS when they charge patients for treatment, but if those doctors form a company to share the load and amortise overheads, then suddenly it's a terrible evil that must be forbidden?

And don't get confused by simple word changes: when a doctor turns up at a hospital and does work in return for a large paycheque he is very much "charging a patient for treatment". The fact that the charges come in the form of taxes and take a long route to get to the patient's wallet doesn't alter the fact that the money comes out of the patient's pocket and ends up in the doctor's pocket!
> but given that the gopher is the mascot animal for Go

As it still is for the Gopher protocol, which predates the Go language by a couple of decades.

Maybe it's because I'm a Gopher (the protocol) advocate, but this theft of the Gopher mascot by the Go community continues to irk me... :)
If the simulation theory is true, our memory, and all brain activity is done in the simulation (aka real world), but consciousness no. With no consciousness we could have a identical behavior, we would be intelligent zombies. Its cool to think that the world is rendered only when conscious beings see the world ("is the moon there when nobody looks?"). Or... are YOU the only one with consciousness? :)
Inded. The old RFCs are just the tip of the iceberg, and in the end you have to pretty much ask "What would BIND do?".

Zone master files are a great example of this. There's no official grammar and so there are subtle differences in the way different DNS servers parse them.

Its also easy to under-estimate and not notice for example, until you've written a lexer or two, that the grammar is context sensitive and ambiguous... so I'd almost guarantee that trust-dns can be made to interpret one differently to BIND, Knot, or unbound.
IMO except a few small sub-domains like neural networks, we have much more computing power than ideas for things we can do with it or people that can implement those ideas. Supporting people side of the business - salaries, benefits or offices are much bigger costs than machines, especially in SV.
My big hope in this regard is Rust, which has a very good track record if implementing good, usable, zero-cost abstractions.

If they manage to implement zero-cost futures [1][2], maybe they will also implement sime kind of zero-cost error handling abstraction (either via exceptions, or via some other useful abstraction for that purpose).

[1] https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/08/11/futures/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12268988
I grew up in NSW where cyclists were not allowed to ride on the footpath (even though nobody uses them on the central coast) and I always made sure to overtake using another lane or if the cyclist had his own clearance on the side to ride in.
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I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic or not. Machine learning has absolutely nothing to do with consciousness. From where people get that connection?
In terms of brain, it seems that the classical physics and electromechanics is quite enough — we don't really need to invoke quantum physics to explain the basic neurons (except as by proxy with all chemical reactions), and current progress with neural networks shows that these structures can indeed result in extremely complicated behaviour.
Which is why the bot ends up spending $3500.
This is cool. It also raises the possibility of adding tail call optimisation to JavaScript interpreters.

Anyone know if that would be feasible?
> I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic or not.

Me too. Sometimes one informs or inspires the other, but so far it seems that is about it.
Alternatively there is a Funtoo, a fork of Gentoo which blocks systemd.
By that logic online rock-paper-scissors is a game of skill too.
As per http://tutorial.ponylang.org/gotchas/scheduling.html it's a cooperative scheduler, which is disappointing.
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Yes, this is why recreating Doom on the Amiga was so difficult. I remember wanting to play a Doom-like first person shooter back in my youth and being completely frustrated because the performance just wasn't there. It took several years before anything even close became available and by that time the world had moved on. I really think this limitation was one of the reasons that the Amiga faltered; it was a terrific platform in almost every single way, but it couldn't do first person shooters worth a damn. :(
Which could also be a bot account owned by the site owner. That way they keep all the money and don't even have to buy the device.
That's not the point I am making. I am arguing that it's more difficult to go from idea to code in Rust because there are more programming concepts that one has to keep in mind.
Additionally, the syntax is not user friendly.

You are right regarding the C++ accidental complexity though. Issues like the one you highlighted tend to happen when working with pointers. They are very hard to detect during code review (I didn't see it), but I would have rejected the code at review anyway because it should be replaced by std::find. Taking raw pointers into containers is also not reasonable except for vector.
This is why I am skeptical about the job automation thing. We still can't get relatively easy stuff like this to work.
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That's probably the shill account.
Am I misunderstanding what uberTAXI is? It seems like the taxi sets the rate and runs the meter, uber simply forwards them the payment: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/3cl862/how_does_pa...

From what I've gathered, the old uberTaxi used to work differently, and that got banned in NYC, since the old version was using the phone as the meter.
Presumably fine? It's perfectly acceptable for any sort of vehicle to turn right after stopping at a red light in Alberta, Canada and I've never heard of it causing a problem.

I know that seems weird for people where right on red is illegal, but it's really no different than what happens at a stop sign.
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I agree with you. It certainly is following laws of physics (known and unknown) because everything is. It is a useful abstraction for a complicated system. However, it doesn't make it any less interesting for me.
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I was responding to a comment about uberTAXI which is AFAIK a service where uber sends you to an existing legal taxi cab, who then runs the meter as he sees fit, and then charges you through uber.
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http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/04/29/nanopc-t3-octa-core-cortex-a53-single-board-computer-sells-for-60/
It is! See the International RoShamBo Programming Competition: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html
Ada is a large verbose language where the verbosity actually gives you something (unlike, say, late nineties Java).
And if you notice, only the Amiga Boing Ball was in stereo. :)
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It's entirely possible that it's scams all the way down.

In recent memory, there was one penny auction site that was essentially a justification for a ponzi scheme, where people were buying thousands of dollars of "bids" (not using cc, but cashier's checks and money orders. i.e. non-reversable funds) because there would be riches of payouts on the other side.
English Dost- English Learning Redefined
English Dost, a promising startup, is an English learning app for Hindi and Kannada speakers. The app teaches you English by taking you through multiple fun conversations. You are asked to role-play a salesman looking for a job.

English Dost was founded in Bangalore by IIT & IIM graduates. The product has been featured in Google Developers Launchpad & NASSCOMM 10,000 Startups and has been recognized by the Chief Minister of Karnataka. English Dost has also been featured in CNBC Young Turks and the Times of India.

Website: https://englishdost.com/
Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluehat.englishdost2&hl=en
It's a nice book, and you learn alot.
Quite fun too.

Just ignore the religious stuff.
Consciousness must exploit growing entropy somehow - otherwise we'd be completely deterministic and consciousness (as an orthogonal consequence of free will) could not exist.
I've always been somewhat neutral on whether or not I own a house. I'd rather not live in a condo, however. I'm from Indiana (the only state I've lived in) and condos there were usually more expensive than a house or apartment with added maintenance fees. Some of them had minimum age limits or forbade children living there. You might own the inside, but you had rules like an apartment. I don't know if they differ in other areas.

The entire problem with the rent solution is this: When housing prices go up, so does rent. I understand SF has some rent controls, but those aren't going to help a new renter. Sometimes renting is actually more expensive than the monthly payments of buying a house. I only need a minimum of space personally, but I do want a safe and clean place to live. That is difficult to find in cheap (and some mid-priced) rentals.

And as far as space is concerned: This has just as much to do with regulation as it does with people's comfort levels. I don't know about SF regulations, but I know some places limit how many people can live in an apartment, especially if they aren't related. Lots of places limit what sorts of buildings can be built in an area and place minimum space requirements on the units. And other such things. The smallest of the places I know of - a studio or a rented room with shared bathroom and kitchens - are difficult for a couple and certainly not appropriate for a family. Some places child services will take kids away if they share a bedroom with parents, though this might not be the case everywhere. Still, lots of people do live in small housing if it is available.
Does human learning have anything to do with consciousness?
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I'm still stuck at why blue is blue.
Maybe look into joy2key or similar emulators which will map keys for you from your keyboard to a gamepad.
Ok, let me help. The Amiga has the ability to have bigger screens than the monitor can show at once. It can also move those 'screens' in any direction, and therefore show different bits of themselves on the monitor. Think of it like moving a slide around on a microscope, you can't see the whole slide at once through the eyepiece, so you move it around.

The Amiga can also overlay these screens on top of one-another, letting bits of the lower screens show through the transparent bits of the upper screens. For a real-world example, think of two clear plastic overhead projector sheets, one on top of the other. The top one is just the ball, and the bottom sheet is the grid. By moving the top sheet around, you create the effect that the ball is bouncing around the grid.

To emulate the ball rotating, the Amiga used one of it's other graphical tricks: palette cycling. The ball is actually made up of many thin strips of colour. Think of these strips as Colour1 to Colour30, all of the colours are painted white, except for a few evenly spaced red ones. To make the ball 'rotate' the colours assigned to Colour1 thru Colour30 are shifted one place to left (or right) a few times a second. This created the illusion that the ball is rotating, when in fact it's not.

All of this is done via hardware routines in the custom graphics chip, and uses almost no CPU time at all. It may not have been done how people think it was done, but it was still an impressive demo of the hardware regardless.

Basically, it's all smoke and mirrors, and please ignore the man behind the curtain.
Link to video describing said system: https://youtu.be/WTIXVS0620Y
How does one person spend 3500$ on a 180$ tablet: write a bot.

Each time someone makes a bid on your penny auction have the bot automatically make a pretend bid using a fake user. When people finally stop bidding, make a final bid from another fake user that has never bid before and win the auction for $0.80.

You don't even need the iPad!
Is it me or are marketing people and economists just incapable of not sounding like scumbags?

The "trap" that is the Labor Theory of Value may not be the most profitable but maybe it's the most ethical, both compensating the workers fairly and not ripping off the consumer. But why try to have ethical buisness practices when you could just exploit people's base instincts to maximize your profits?
> We know Google has its own CPU made from scratch, now new OS...

CPU from scratch?

Are you referring to the LLVM backend for a "new" lanai ISA that they contributed recently? That wasn't designed by Google (but an existing networking equipment manufacturer) and it wasn't a general purpose CPU (integer only, no hardware dividers, made for running a TCP/IP stack and not much else).

This new kernel/OS is a bit more interesting than that. This seems to be targeted at end user devices, runs on x86 and ARM and has got some kind of userspace with UI going on.

It would be interesting to know what this is targeted at.
See also BIND 10: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/208-The_Decline_and_Fa...
Spot on.
"We haven't changed the way people educate themselves, or socialize, or express their political opinions, in nearly the way that we will over the next ten years. And so the software is going to have to lead the way and provide the kind of ease of use, security, and richness that those applications demand."

State that 20 yrs later we are at the beginning for a lucky minority of earth population, but non-the-less right on target !
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Unless you are the person running the penny auction. In which case, keep sniping until people stop paying and then have a final fake bid to win the auction.
Care to elaborate on the hobby sites? I can't imagine these kinds of deals happening on Stackoverflow to just name an example.
I used to live in Sydney and commute daily by bike. Now live in Amsterdam and I've never have worn a helmet, along with what seems like 99% of the locals.

I now realise the helmet thing is mainly about cars and just the way one needs to ride in Sydney to survive. Lanes end abruptly, major pot holes in roads etc.

It's anecdotal but you get the feeling progress and freedom is not really Australia's strong point these days!
Or they could do like the do in the UK, and have the hydrants in manholes in the middle of the road or pavement, so they can't be blocked by cars and won't freeze or get damaged. The fire engines carry the above ground hydrant part with them and attach them when they use them. But then that wouldn't generate any revenue.

https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-the-UK-have-fire-hydrants
The penny auction site usually provides the bots, too. "$1 per auction, use this automatic strategy."
The problem with this language is that the very word "illusion" implies an observer.

To whom is it an illusion? And, what are the properties of this illusion? Can we make artificial minds that are also suffering from the same illusion?

The very fact that there is (let's suppose) such an illusion requires an explanation. Suppose the brain has somewhere encoded the idea of consciousness, but no "actual" consciousness. Why do we require the extra step of "actual" consciousness rather than mere "illusory" consciousness?

Of course the real explanation of consciousness will be both profound (beautiful, unexpected) and mundane (non supernatural).
> That must be why bikes injure 60,000 people per annum in the UK, and kill ~2,000. Then there's the ~40,000 deaths from pollution. Oh wait, that's the cars.

40k deaths from impact from car, or 40k deaths from pollution? The two are not the same. Cars produce a lot of pollution. So do offices. So do busses. So does the underground tube network. Impact from car I'm sure is cause for a lot of injuries and deaths, use the real numbers to make your point if you want it to be taken more seriously.

Here's an anecdote, since this already isn't an argument based on numbers and facts. I've never been hit by a car in London. In the space of a year, I've been hit by two cyclists and lost my takeaway dinner on account of a third.

Cyclists need to learn red lights apply to them to. Skipping through red lights, or worse, jumping onto the pavements at red lights to be able to bypass 'legally', all the while ringing their bells, is incredibly antisocial and does nothing to help build any sympathy to the many cyclists who get hurt and/or killed by drivers every week.
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Exactly right. Most of these sites have automated scripts that keep the bidding going until the item has received enough paid bids to be profitable before they allow the auction to end. Many others don't actually deliver anything at all - the script ensures that all items eventually go to shill accounts, and all revenue from bids goes straight to the bottom line. I know of one such site that sold for more than $35K on Flippa.
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Interesting it seems that running for a political office is a type of penny auction.
I can't forget a line from a PCGamer article on Deus Ex, quoting Spector on the development. Something about him sitting at his desk, almost banging his head against it while repeating "Why do we make things so hard for ourselves?!" over and over. This because of the complexities over interactions and player choices.
I'm not sure I can buy that it's an illusion. That seems too contrary to my intuition. But it certainly could be something very different than we think. There's still a lot of momentum behind older concepts where you substitute "consciousness" for "soul".

For example, you could find out that consciousness is a real phenomenon but that it's experienced by more matter than we think, but without as much depth or ability to express itself as the human neocortex. Or perhaps each of us has multiple consciousnesses within, but we can't sense it because they all share the same memories and have essentially the same desires and feelings. Who knows! But it could be substantially different than how we frame a singular, soul-like consciousness