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Human norms evolve, they're not a fixed thing. Sometimes that evolution is a slow process, but change is nearly always a possibility. In the case of torture, have you noticed that torture is predominantly done by the police and military? Why do you think it is that torture is relatively rare in the general population but more common in the police and military?
Source? See nothing about killing oneself as path in the Tao Te Ching.
The Github Audio [0] posting from a few days ago immediately made me think of John Cage. I think he'd have a ball knowing that so much of today's music is algorithmically generated, either based on "user taste" as in smart playlists, or "aleatoric" sources (which Cage called "chance operations") like github events.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635247
This whole thing explains why things like trademark law exists: It codifies who "owns" a thing, and who is merely a derivative of it. If someone owned the libreboot trademark, there could not exist a state where GNU claims it owns libreboot, and Leah claims she owns libreboot. It would simply be whoever owned it, and then the other party would be free to fork.
Why not host it on an always online raspberry pi ?
>very high-performance C++

C++ does not automatically mean "very high-performance". A lot of users get worse framerates than with Minecraft (not everyone, though!), and the entity/"mob" code used to be insanely slow, at least a year ago.
Were it not for the monk's Buddhist training, he would not have sat burning so calmly.
It's for carbon capture and storage, as a mechanism for slowing climate change.
I can understand why many would fail to see the value of this or classify the practice as morbid, most of the people here are from a capitalist upbringing. Here you are taught materialism is eveything. The idea to disconnect from the material and ultimately release yourself from your ultimate possession (your body) is an interesting spiritual practice undertaken by many ancient philosophies. In fact, in India, there is a law that prevents devoted monks from fasting to death for that very reason.
>While I am a firm believer in free speech what I find fascinating is that they paint offensive and disgusting content as humorous and worth debating.

plenty of people seem to believe in free speech until it's used in a manner they don't like, you have to take the good with the bad.

>A fourth thing I found interesting was that the solutions to the 4chan problem were financially motivated rather than technically.

hiroyuki has a history of proclaiming dire financials in order to scare users into giving him more money

it has long been alleged that he did similar with 2ch and niconico before selling the data of pass users, which is why he is no longer involved with either site.

http://roninworksjapan.tumblr.com/post/151338674506/hiroykis...

i'd argue that 4chan hasn't been free speech friendly for a number of years and has been dying primarily from poor moderation.
The big problem with it is this:

"to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do."

This is essentially an open door that can later be slammed shut in the faces of solar installations that are leased at a discount to the homeowner on the fact that excess power can be sold back to the grid (net metering). It could also be taken so far as to allow power companies to charge extra fees to individual solar users for not using "enough" power to pay their "share" of the distribution system costs (utility poles etc).

I wish there was a way to vote against this and let them know exactly why.

Its a nearly perfect example of a classic political ploy: Enshrine a common sense right that everyone already defacto has (and would be crazy to vote against) in law, but slip in some weasel words that nullify that right in practice.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. I've seen two separate communities completely fizzle out when rules were posted. These were smaller communities, with 20-50 people, though, and not reddit-size communities.
In this case, I think "one genuine axis of control" would be a good place to start. Of course then you have to debate what constitutes genuine. But it's worth stating that we're not talking about "freedom to do whatever you want" which is the common straw response to declaring a moral right to freedom.
I grew up with migraines. Frequency ranged from once a week to once every few months, with the average being 1 or 2 a month. Mild ones left me sleeping near the toilet. Some were so bad I truly believed I would die, even though I would tell myself I've been through it before..

Then I moved to California (from Oklahoma), and I haven't had a migraine since. In OK I would also get these strange allergy attacks where my nose wouldn't stop running and my head would be stopped up for a day or two, to the point I couldn't concentrate enough to work. Those stopped after I moved as well.

The "allergy level" between the two states isn't significant. OK is a little higher, but not huge. So I think my issues may have been related to specific flora, although doctors never suggested anything like that. I think my favorite line from the blog is:

> Although migraine symptoms have been described since antiquity, doctors still struggle to understand their cause.
>Surely the most numerous users of Tor are Americans and Russians downloading pirated media and porn.

Tor is extremely slow and laggy. It would be excruciating to try to watch a pirated video over Tor. Same with porn. Unless it's significantly illegal, both those activities would be better done over a VPN. As far as I know, no one has been arrested for just downloading pirated content.
That it's much harder to date/make new friends once you're done with school is hardly a new phenomenon - it was true when I started working 15 years ago, and it was probably true 30 years ago too.
> Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed.

I think Cage would've been totally unimpressed with our technologic "mastery" of the control of sound. His work revealed that the control of the structure of sound was approaching a cul-de-sac (hence his boredom with Tschaikowsky/Bruckner/Stravinsky) and therefore a very limiting perspective on what is beautiful/emotive or even what it means to be "music".
At first I thought it didn't work for me neither in Firefox 49.0 nor Chromium 51.0 on Fedora 23.

One has to first press one of the "GAME A" or "GAME B" buttons, and then press the "JUMP" button.
I think there is a small chance of any modern phone catching fire. I saw a news article about the same thing happening to a new iPhone 7. The first batches of note 7 were defective so they had a higher chance of combustion. I'm pretty sure that's not the case with replacement phones. This is just some sensationalist "journalism".
I have a friend who keeps lots of money in bank accounts, too. He is aware that he could be investing it, but he just doesn't seem to care. It appears to be half "everyone is expecting another financial crisis anyway, if you buy now you're buying high" and half "I just can't be arsed".
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Agree, havent tried etsy yet.

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Machine learning deserves its own course. It should be in the 200 to 400 series.
CS101 (Intro to Comp Sci) should cover the fundamentals of how computers work, Boolean algebra, how to program in at least one (imperative) programming language and a survey of applications of computers as well as a survey of advanced course offerings. Machine learning and the course offered for it should be mentioned as one of the applications.
In 1962, I bought a book, "Thinking Machines" by Irving Adler and studied it. I did not actually see a computer until 1967, when I wrote my first program in Fortran IV. Most of my career has been spent writing code for embedded systems and machine learning would not have helped at all. My last job involved writing VHDL for FPGAs in embedded systems. I am now retired.
But if the rules are strictly enforced, then people generally stick to them.
A mechanism, maybe, but one so expensive, ineffective, and impractical as to be fantastic.

Splitting CO2 will always require more energy than was released in making it. Where does that energy come from? They say solar panels. Because of course they do. But why would you burn fossil fuels to make energy, then use solar panels to turn CO2 into batteries? Why not just use solar panels in the first place? It would be far more efficient.

Also, we put about 10 Gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. 2.7Gt of that is carbon. Just how many batteries are you planning on making from that? Does each person on Earth need half a ton of batteries?

Who's absorbing the astronomical costs of making batteries with atmospheric CO2, rather than with any of the sane carbon sources just lying around?

This plan is nonsensical. It's like solar roadways. It's stupidly expensive, and it just won't work. It's another bogus project dreamed up to make use of green tech research grants that will never see the light of day.
It's the contrarianism version of an appeal to authority.
Interestingly - StartCom's free certs used to only have 1yr validity - one I got last week is good for 3 years. Cynical-me suspects they're doing that to improve their chances of sitting out a limited 1yr timeout. It'd be almost indistinguishable from a death penalty if all their existing client certs expired while they were unable to renew them - I wonder how long they've been signing certs for 3yrs instead of 1?
You can't slow climate change by expending more energy... that's not how entropy works.
Understand there is a ratio of 10 men to 1 woman on every dating website.

Any criteria that reduces the number of choices is good for women as it makes their lives easier.

"Well, if I meet someone online he has to be as good as possible right? They are so many men here."
This is in no way sensationalism and comparing the unconfirmed single iPhone fire in shipping to a bungled recall in which replacement devices are still defective is a false equivalency.
I interviewed for Seven Bridge.

Very interesting company. They had a typical white board interview process.

What they were doing didn't seem that technically hard, and they were more concerned about prior credential ( like most bioinformatics company ) instead of what you were able to do.

They also seem to think JavaScript is not worth their time :( The problem they gave me was algorithmic and I just used the tool that was available to me. They apparently write most of it in C++ due to "Speed".

The only reason I even got a face-to-face, even though I didn't even has a Masters Degree was due to having done the assignment better than their Phd candidates ( their words ).

This piece seems like a submarine article for their proprietary platform.
Isn't there an angle here to how scared people are of the IRS though? Isn't their image a bit related to why this scam was possible.
Out of interest, is Sourceforge any better under the new management?
I forget the man's name, but he died a couple of years ago and was an amateur chemist who used himself to test a bunch of different psychedelics that he discovered. In one case, he swore that him and his wife spent an eternity within one second. They were looking at a clock and the second hand was frozen, they both confirmed this happened independently of each other. Take it for what it's worth, but the mind may control time.
I had that, but with verbal aphasia. Couldn't form sentences. It was super scary.
I don't have enough data to make anything but FUD from it.

There are many reasons that someone could change their mind and decide to take different actions than they have before. Either way it is clear that some form of 'bad blood' has arisen and that things are now divisive. Unfortunately I don't know who I can side with on this issue due to the lack of data.
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Well, that's their problem. If they offload it on me, I will be much less inclined to complete the form/purchase/etc.
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Professor Tim Bell (University of Canterbury) is real big into this. He made CS Unplugged (http://csunplugged.org/), a program for teaching CS at school without using computers.

It is aimed at school children, but it's a place to start.
Well, it is true, of course. But I sometimes think about 2 things:
- Somehow, we are working more [1] while not earning significantly more, and we do while progress promised us shorter hours in the past. Hence I guess the phenomenon is just getting worse?
- My father (I'm originally from Italy) dropped out from school when he was 16, and many of the parents of my friends had a similar experience. We never have the impression they strongly shared our views on the issue. Like, maybe they also experienced it, but they still reject the idea it is a general problem and simply attribute it to weak, singular case and so on. Not sure.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/18/news/economy/bernie-sanders-...
Wow. The judge of these cases is the father of the lawyer for the patent trolls. This is so fucked up.
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A few steps on the {lambda way}
Web browsers give everybody an easy access to a plethora of rich documents created by people mastering their languages, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP... What is less known, web browser can give everybody a small window to write HTML/CSS/JS code and so add informations to web pages.

Writing HTML/CSS/JS code being rather complex and at least tiresome, intermediate syntax, like the Markdown syntax, have been created to make things a bit easier. And it's exactly what people use in blogs and wikis. A wiki is a web application which allows collaborative modification, extension, or deletion of its content and structure. The best known of wikis is Wikipedia, full of rich documented pages written by people supposed not to be web designers or coders. Everything works well but looking at the underlying code shows a very obfuscated text, difficult to write, read, edit and maintain.

In fact, the Markdown syntax is not intended for writing rich documents. Works have been done to build enhanced syntaxes in order to unify writing, styling and coding, for instance after desktop tools like LaTeX, PDF, web tools like CURL, LML, Skribe, Scribble, SXML, LAML. But these tools are definitively devoted to coders, not to web designers and even less to beginners.

Hence the lambdaway project ... in http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=quick3 .
Counterpoint:

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

- Commonly attributed to Dijkstra.
Prolog is a really good query language, in terms of expressiveness.

However, once you start bolting on side effects, like I/O and asserting/retracting facts in the middle of queries, all declarativeness flies out the window and you're left trying to explicitly juggle the implicit branching and control of the program counter to try to keep the system sane, bringing in more and more of the complexities of imperative programming. Optimization also basically requires wresting control of the program counter back from the abstract system into explicit programmer control.

It certainly works as part of practical real-world systems, but I wouldn't necessarily want to write a large, behavior-heavy application purely in Prolog. For large in-RAM data, but light on behavior stuff, fine. There are certain data analyses that are much faster to develop in Prolog than imperatively, and going multi-language can save a lot of programmer time compared to writing everything in $TRADITIONAL_LANGUAGE purely out of inertia.
Could you recommend any good books that would supplement this course? Also, why does this course seem so weird. What's with the "communication" assignments. Also, what's the deal with his project "genesis." Really interesting stuff. I hope I get a chance to pick your brain.
URL: http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=quick3
There's an AppImage available which you can use to install it on any Linux Platform. I'm not sure how updates work for that though

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/Typora/0.9.19.glibc2.1...
Many solar systems need batteries in the first place though. Of course, whether it is actually feasible to get the energy needed solely using solar panels is a different matter.
The Tao Te Ching is a book about daoism that entered into a religious practice that was already happening. It is not the only book, there is also (for example) the Yinfujing. Much teaching is also done orally.

Read any book about Daoist monks in China and you will surely come across some of their suffering and other antics. The ending of the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a popular reference to such a suicide.
Instead of learning one language every year, learn new programming paradigms. The logic programming paradigm is not implemented by many languages, so, might be interesting to learn.
Is Prolog good for assignment problems (assigning guests to rooms or people to beds) when there are soft constraints?

I asked twice on StackOverflow [0][1] and had the question declined each time.

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36148764/weak-rules-in-pr...
[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37610341/assigning-people...
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It is worth noting that the 1/e secretary problem solution is optimal only if your goal is to maximize the probability of choosing the single best secretary.

If your goal is to do expectimax optimization, as decision theory would dictate, you should make a decision after reviewing sqrt(n) applicants. That's assuming a uniform distribution of utility among secretary choices. If the distribution is non-uniform, another heuristic might be better.
Thanks, that makes more sense.
The 'classics' of Taoism you read in college (Tao te Qing, Chuangze) don't cover a LOT of what monks do in practice. I assume those are the books you are referring to when talking about 'classics'
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No, it's approximately the same. If you get your electricity from 100% coal your emissions will be about the same as a gas burning car.

Most places don't use strictly coal for electricity generation though.
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IIRC, the best thing to do was to apply clustering to the rows/columns (k-means and hierarchical both worked, but I think it was hard to find the appropriate tree height for hierarchical clustering) and then to apply seriation: http://innar.com/Liiv_Seriation.pdf
I don't think so. People let delivery guys in so they can deliver something. They don't let delivery guys in and then leave them wholly unsupervised to do whatever the hell they want.
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I think it's pretty reasonable to let two consenting adult parties enter into a short term agreement to provide a ride in exchange for a fee. An Uber driver doesn't have to show up to work in the morning - they can look at the rate on offer at the moment and decide whether or not they feel like driving. You could be an Uber driver for 1 hour a month if you wanted to. It is about as independent as a contracting relationship could possibly be, and I see no reason for the government to interfere in that extraordinarily simple, non-coercive relationship.

If you don't like Uber's terms, just don't drive for them. If you only feel like it's worthwhile to do so when the fares are high enough - wait until they are, if enough people agree with you, then the fares will rise on a permanent basis.
This is a really good course, but the one that requires a lot of background in probability and some background in linear algebra.

One of the objectives of this course is to prepare students for research in Machine Learning.
The submission title should be corrected from BiOS to BIOS.
If you let the markets do their thing, you'll get a combination of actors focused on all timescales: some trying to get returns this year, some over the next 5 years, some over the next 50 years.

However, sometimes the actions taken by those seeking 1- or 5-year returns actually decrease the total amount of returns available over the 50 year horizon. This is a tragedy of the commons situation, and it may behoove a government to step in and remove the incentives for the short-term investors so that society can reap an overall larger profit.

Whether this is one of those cases I do not know.
Yes I imagine most people in the future will need a significant amount of batteries. For the home to store energy when the solar panels are not receiving sunlight e.g. Powerwall. And also for the car, phone, tablet, laptop etc. Batteries are going to be an increasingly critical part of the power lifecycle.

And solar roadways do work. But at least in current incarnations are better suited for pavements, open areas. And it may be expensive but that's only because we don't ascribe costs properly to fossil fuels e.g. carbon tax, health tax etc.
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That chance seems elevated with the newer Samsung devices. I haven't seen anything close to this for other hardware manufacturers.

The S7 also has had several reports of fires. A family member of mine woke up to her S7 screen completely burned through. A quick search reveals many similar cases.

Samsung has been slow to acknowledge the severity of the issues, which has led to customer support requests via press release such as this article.
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This was posted earlier but was flagged (why?).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667962

Reposting.

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/allmail

Github: https://github.com/akemimichiko/allmail

Magnet link: <magnet:?xt=urn:btih:489b0cef1d7d49fe5ae2ae8cc2f0708b8286cbb3>

Please share.

More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/56h0s3/they_just_blocked_dropbox_in_turkey/
Asbestos is similar to cigarettes i.e. it's based on chance.

You can get lung cancer as a non smoker. Or you can not get cancer whilst smoking a pack a day for 80 years. Each cigarette and similarly exposure to asbestos merely increases your chances.