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Ask HN: What is the price of distraction?
Modern life is filled with distractions. It started with news papers, radio, telephone, television and the now biggest of them all the omnipresent internet connected smartphone.

Is there a hidden price for all these things?

What is lost, when 95% of your young generation is preoccupied with distractive/addictive content 24/7. What is lost when they are robbed of their idle thoughts...

Distraction from what exactly? I hear you asking.

Distraction from oneself, if I may say so. Time spent in thoughts of their own creation and fancy.

Where did all the great ideas of the past came from. Where did that initial spark, that made the great philosophers, the great poets, great writers, great thinkers and great revolutions/reforms came from.

How many of those would have been lost, if those people had access to a television or smartphone from their infancy?

Would these great talents have emerged no matter what?

One last question.

If you are offered a chance to take smart phone and internet to a time 300 years before with one catch. You will lose the works of Einstein, Shakespeare, Beethoven and all great people of the past in the present day, but you get to make the lives of a million people better, because they can have google maps for easy navigation, Facebook for chit chat, youtube for cat videos and porn.

Will you do it? The question is not meant to imply that taking those things to the past will make use loose all those creativity. But instead, it is just to put in perspective the conveniences things we perceive as essential and losses that we are too oblivious to...
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> arguably the most important right now.

But for very specific uses, right? DCNN excel at image and video, but are DCNN also common for other tasks?
Opportunity cost is still a cost. If he was not working on the project he could be billing clients for that time
To be honest it feels like "advances" in computers have been speed, cores and little else. Ever since the abandonment of the last non-PC platform. It might get interesting again when ARM is directly competing against x86 - but that's due to the advances of handhelds/phones.

Lots of cores is all very well, but a lot of applications still can't utilise them that well.

The last time computing hardware felt exciting was late 90s, or early 00s when there were half a dozen graphics players, SPARC, PowerPC, 680x0 and the odd strange idea like NeXT, transputers and BeBOXes.

That we care more about the case, the interfaces and the coloured LEDs says we're firmly past the innovation era.
With conscription the third option, not going to jail and not joining the army, has been removed forcibly. If I intend to work on my farm but get conscripted I don't get the choice of staying. I will have to leave against my will.

Hey choose between joining the army or jail time! It's your free choice so it can't be against your will!
> But how is "dark matter" not magic?

Because the theory made predictions that were then checked.

> instead of looking for a better theory, we decided the observation was wrong

Except they didn't. They looked for a better theory. In fact, they considered multiple different theories. And the dark matter theory was the one that fit the observations best.
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Reading this list, I was tempted to rename the hierarchy thus: Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Master. Maybe I'm playing too much Skyrim…
I think you could have waited with the announcement until monday :)

Anyway, seems interesting and I'll check it out.
> How many recent (or non-recent) news stories are there about an epidemic of LSD addicts or mushroom addicts?

Not sure how you mean that question. You cannot get addicted to LSD - even psychologically you cannot get addicted really. LSD is too heavy and simply won't work if taken too frequently.
I was shocked to read in that article that MS Visual Studio still does not support the full C++11 spec, which is now over 5 years old. What? I don't use MS products at all, but this really surprises me. Why are they so far behind?
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> Yeah, seems like Intel's been cruising easy.

I don't know, their plans have stalled (tick tock is gone and buried), Iris is being killed and their rollouts are complete shit-shows (even ignoring Xeons, there were 9 months between the availability of the first and last Skylake mobile parts). Maybe that was intentional because there's no competition (it's not like AMD is much of an option these days) but that seems a bit odd.
India and Pakistan should have done the same over the sloppy border line in the north done by the british, crossing natural rivers. A constant source for terrorism.
We should all strive for "Free as in freedom, not as in beer".
I have been wondering the same - where the fuck is Labour?

Where in UK politics is the voice of social progress and individual freedom?

It seems to be too busy tearing itself to pieces over idealogical minutiae to be any sort of useful opposition.
Society has changed hugely due to two key innovations, one physical, one social: contraception and consent. From those all else follows.

People kept trying to explain their reasoning against same-sex marriage but failed, which almost everyone sensible takes to mean that line of reasoning is now invalid. I never heard an argument against it that was even coherent, other than the pure theological command ones.
Dark matter is pretty well defined within a particular model, not magic. You can take lambda-CDM, a very simple model, run a simulation, and compare it to observations.

I can't really comment on why MOND is magic. That seems a bit unfair, it's just a phenomenological modification of F=ma, and can similarly be simulated and compared to observations.
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The distinction you are drawing is between Strong and Weak AI. Weak AI is any sort of useful application of computation. Strong AI is solving the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) problem.
They can easily look at the RAM of the VM and get the plain-text encryption keys for SSL or VPN or whatever.

I'm absolutely sure by now someone has written a program to automate this, and to be honest I expect some governments already force some companies to do this.
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You need this laptop. You just never knew how bad until you own one.
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Absolutely. It's a (possible) optimisation that is either based on evidence (seems likely, because DJB) or hope. Actual behaviour is impossible to predict on untested platforms.

My assumption is that DJB tested this locally and found enough of a speedup that it was worth it, considering the very low added complexity and risk of major degradation / defects on untested platforms.
> The whole of your second point is ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Theory, yes. Conspiracy theory, emphatically not, sorry for the misunderstanding. I have no ill will towards the RISC-V ISA and no disagreement with SiFive's operations. Like others here I was just trying to figure out the huge disparity between the CPU clock speed and the onboard memory, in my case with sorely insufficient understanding of the field.

> It is perfectly reasonable to do enough formal verification to ensure that your chip works first time.

Oh, okay then. That's really amazing, I didn't know that :)

> Linux is not going to "stress" your chip more.

Like I said, I'm a bit ignorant here. I was just thinking along the lines of how eg an i7 with faulty L2 cache could be re-designated as an i5, but in this case they're not sure what's faulty, etc.

There's also the fact that CPUs do have errata... (?)

> And nobody deliberately cuts out a viable market sector unless they've got another product to put in it.

Absolutely! What I was saying was that I theorize that this is a first-run design and that another chip was going to follow up. I'm increasingly confident I'm wrong about exactly why (eg, now I understand about the RAM problem)

> On-chip SRAM is just expensive in terms of area. It's comparable to what you get on Cortex-M devices. There are no chips with enough onboard SRAM to run Linux. You can't really run Linux without an external DRAM interface, and then you have to find somewhere to put the DRAM.

I see. Mmm :/

> People keep forgetting about this on the Pi because the DRAM is stuck on top of the SoC package.

Has a look at a picture oh wow so it is, that's amazing.

> Sure, maybe if this is a success they'll pay the licensing fees for a DDR3 interface + MMU, or write one themselves.

Hopefully this run is an incentivisation to get some support for that!

> I think you'd also want at least 600MHz for Linux, 320 is kind of slow these days.

Hmm, that's quite true, yeah. (It's kind of sad how speed-hungry the kernel is nowadays - I have a 32MHz PDA with an OS (EPOC, precursor of Symbian) that draws draggable windows on a little monochrome touchscreen LCD, I can fling the windows around faster than the crystals can update :D)

I would absolutely buy a 320MHz Linux device with an open-source secure boot story though. Text communication doesn't need a snappy CPU.
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Let's assume a psychoactive vodka dose of 10ml and a typical dose of 100ug LSD:

Then the respective vodka dose would be 10ml x (320'000ug / 100ug) = 10ml x 3200 = 32000ml = 32 l

Obviously vodka would be deadly at an amount way below 32l.
The way i understood the GP is that Japanese has the benefit of having its own writing system so you won't get so easily lured into mapping sounds to back your own (assumedly latin script based) language. Use that as an opportunity and avoid the Latin alphabet altogether.

When learning French you don't have that opportunity so you're going to keep having to remind yourself that not a single character in a French word sounds like what it does on your native language.

I've seen this in action when learning Finnish, a long time ago, in a class full of expats. Most Germans had serious trouble with the ä, which sounds entirely different in Finnish than in German. They would consistently pronounce it like in German, which made them sound ridiculous. The rest of the class, whose native language alphabet didn't contain the ä, got their pronunciation much closer to the real thing. I can only imagine how powerful this is if not a single character, but the entire script, is different from your native language.
> Lots of cores is all very well, but a lot of applications still can't utilise them that well.

Right, which is the real issue I think. It's not that we can't make faster computers, it's that we've run out of good software use cases, just like the limiting factor on how good videogames look is no longer how good the engine and rendering are but rather how good the artists can make the textures and models.

There is still innovation going on - intel's recent hardware transactional memory support is very exciting - but for the most part we simply already have more CPU capability than we know what to do with.
Apple did not "fork" anything, and certainly not OpenBSD. Their core OS (Darwin) was developed by NEXTStep. It reused chunks of the original BSD (from which FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD were all forked at one point or another) mostly for I/O interfaces, but the actual kernel architecture is very different.

AFAIK Apple are are not involved in OpenBSD at any level, nor do they donate to any OSS project; they just maintain a few selected ones.
The Perl One-Liners book is great. I learned so much from it. You don't even need to have done any real Perl programming to get a lot out of that book, but if you want to learn Perl it will help you as well.
Assume that if someone has physical access, the machine is compromised.
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Definitely ignorant on the subject, but are there ANY nations that would meet that requirement? I would assume any that are savvy enough to detect tor AND care about it would probably not just say "Oh you crazy kids. Be more careful next time"
If that's truly the case, then all societies everywhere have a permanent and insurmountable Lake Woebegone ( where all the children are above average ) problem.
> Note that people still find sandbox escapes against Chrome anyway. Yes, sometimes they use the OS, but due to how the sandboxing works that's to be expected.

Google developed special architecture to make browser safer. Other vendors did nothing, they just wait until exploit becomes public and patch the code (and yet they call their product "secure"). Google also motivated Microsoft to allow disabling potentially vulnerable kernel library. Google since long ago has their own PDF viewer (so people don't have to use Adobe viewer) and their own Flash plugin. As a result on contests like pwn2own exploits for Chrome are the most expensive.

Regarding Tor I am not sure if JS is really necessary for a secure network. You don't need it to read sites like wikileaks bit it provides a large attack surface and it might be better to have it disabled by default.
I generally use Pocket for my to-read list but anything I read goes into Pocket. Then if I want to keep a read article for future references I archive it in pocket and delete it otherwise.
> This looks like a pretty standard offering for 'orchestration as a service' - Essentially hosted Kubernetes/Swarm/Mesos (or whatever orchestrator they're using).

It's not hosted. The hosted web-ui thing will probably include some premium features or some enterprise installation deal, like Ansible has with Ansible Tower.

> They say they'll make money on support, but what makes them qualified to provide support for MY particular system?

Github doesn't offer support for developing YOUR application, only for issues related to using Github.
Oh, I see. That makes sense.

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the many-core design!
It's because it allowed free thought man, and the man doesn't want people to think freely...
Not been considered for debate yet. The response was triggered by 10,000 votes.
> how viable is an open-source, publicly-auditable secure boot implementation?

Depends if you trust your fab. I suppose you can take random samples and decap them at considerable expense, but then the public has to trust the auditor.

> I think there is a very noteworthy amount of money in building a truly securely bootable reference design.

I disagree. I think there are two critical problems with this: firstly, getting the community to agree on what they consider "truly secure", and secondly getting enough people to buy a system that is (necessarily due to small production runs) slower and more expensive than comparable Intel or even ARM.

If you're willing to trust a manufacturer you can buy secure-bootable ARM devices today with OTP key regions that boot Linux (e.g. iMX). So the market for the proposed "open" system is only people who are willing to trust you but are paranoid enough to not trust one of the existing manufacturers.
Considering few people here seems to have heard about Smartisan before this thread, I think we can agree that this sort of donation works very well for publicity among geeks.
May I ask what does MOO stand for in your comment?
Iris isn't being killed. The new macbook pros are using Iris, there's a few NUCs with IRIS, ideapad 710s, a few sonys etc. Don't forget that the IRIS parts are a half cycle behind the non-IRIS.

Basically once intel supply catches up with demand, bugs fixed, 1 rev of silicon after production, BIOS tweaks, etc. Then intel starts pulling wafers out of the supply, adding a extra chip inside the cache for the extra GPU memory bandwidth, and starts selling the IRISs.

I'd expect the Kaby Lake Iris to be out in q1 or Q2 of 2017.
It look really good!But couldnt make it work with opera :(
Not an exhaustive list, but the best resource I've come across for a number of these topics is this course http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html

It's terse but comprehensive, and the exercises have been a pleasant source of a-ha moments. There's a more recent version of the course offered, but I haven't been through it.
Five Enlightenment philosophers? That would be hard for me, too. Probably because I don't know which philosophers count as Enlightenment period.

In decreasing order of confidence: Kant, Voltaire, Hegel, Rousseau, Nietzsche. How many points do I receive?
As a fellow Brit, I agree and it also feels like the timing of this was conveniently done while Brexit was going on and the US election. I think we're all fatigued right now which isn't fair.
In disbelief that you would want to memorise stuff that can be found by googling. :)

Heck, I don't know em. Rosseau? Anyway, the ignorant people may be quite proficient in stuff you'd be surprised at. But I agree the literacy rates ARE frightening. Maybe technology will fix that one day...
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(Is it not 100,000?)

Genuine question - has anything ever happened as a result of these petitions? When it has been debated, has there been a meaningful change afterwards?
I can sort of understand that, given that how many research findings are invalidated later on (or cannot be reproduced). Also, I don't need my GP to be aware of the latest cancer research when all I got is the common cold.
It is not ignored. It is biased into a structure that gives more weight to how people in smaller states vote.

Yes, states used to really be a thing.
Often the reason you see the same job posted continuously is due to the company hiring multiple people for the same role.

If you got no response the last time, the best thing you can do is identify a relevant member of the hiring team on LinkedIn and send them a polite email asking if they had an opportunity to review your application (include a copy of your CV again just in case).

If you hear nothing back from that follow-up then you've successfully identified a company you don't want to work for!
Whatever happened to progressive jpg? You can get graceful degradation for free by just encoding your images that way
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The F.D.A. today has approved further clinical trials into the use of MDMA to treat PTSD:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html

We can only hope this sort of research will continue to be done, elsewhere if not in the US.
Device trees needs to be written to match the hardware, compiled and supplied to the kernel. So not really as nice as "boot this kernel on any hardware".

Device trees are needed because manufacturers did not create self describing hardware.
Remember kids, if you want any otherwise bizarre law passed, take a note from GCHQ and NSA: use the words "terrorism" and "pedophiles" in the text as frequently as possible. Then it doesn't matter how bizarre the rest is.
I don't think Germany is much better...
So I tried it. It seems like almost anything is going to require designer interaction. The logo I ended up with has such low contrast with the background I would be embarrassed to even present it as a mockup, much less treat it like final product. I couldn't get logos in containers, which seems obvious, and very simple to do from what you're already doing. The color picker is suuuuper dumbed down, it'd be nice to see some true color palette options in the vein of Coolors (many other examples exist but that one is representative of what is doable pretty easily and light years better than picking shades of yellow). I could imagine giving this to someone and having them play with it for 30 minutes to get an idea of what they like, but right now unless they want a company name in a single color format (and even then many color options have no legible results) you aren't going to finish anything there.

Do you plan to allow editing the stroke color independent of the background? This is the most immediately problematic issue for me, because it means I cannot get a high contrast logo in any light color. Maybe I missed a way to do this?
Wow HN got no sense of humour today.
The pressure is being Labour party leader. Labour PMs don't want him to take any more unpopular positions, and he himself must know now that he has to lead the party first and be principled rebel second.

I like him as a politician, but Labour needs a leader that can unite both sides of the party that the leadership contest and the referendum exposed. Even if Corbyn wants to do this, the view now from the outside is that he can't.
Is there any way to read these responsive sites on mobile when they are cut off by the column margins?
They donated over 300k USD to OpenSSL in 2014: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2014-Dece...
Well, there is a lot of code from *BSD in Android, for example libc.

OpenBSD: https://github.com/android/platform_bionic/search?q=openbsd
Well the second site you posted has the following masthead: "NEW WORLD ORDER / WORLD WAR II / CONSPIRACY / ECONOMICS / NEWS"

Like you say there are lots of sites about Schiff and the Russian Revolution. I'm not surprised you didn't post them here since they have urls like strangeside, jewishracism, judeo-masonic, communism-explained and so on.
What is it that doesn't work? I actually installed it on my own server and use it on Firefox mostly.
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Maybe we simply hit the point where CPUs work well enough to serve their purpose and where the physical tradeoffs make it impractical to extend Moore's law.

Proper credit: Maciej's observation, not mine:
http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
This is basically national security letters with oversight. Which is part of the problem. When any of the major democracies introduces a law like this, it normalises it for the rest. Which then gives encouragement to the more oppressive countries. The whole world seems to be in a race to the bottom.
It just so happened that slave states were lower in population. As slavery waned in terms of population, a mechanism to equalize this was still seen as needed.
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If the host is compromised HTTPS isn't going to save you.
Cancer tends to be "the last thing that kills you" in much the same way your keys are always in the last place you look. A significant amount of cellular regulation is devoted to preventing runaway cell division, and sometimes in long-lived and large-bodied organisms those defenses eventually give way.
In more detail: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
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"Lupa is a very fast and thin wrapper around Lua or LuaJIT."

"It complements Python very well. Lua is a language as dynamic as Python, but LuaJIT compiles it to very fast machine code, sometimes faster than many statically compiled languages for computational code. The language runtime is very small and carefully designed for embedding. The complete binary module of Lupa, including a statically linked LuaJIT2 runtime, only weighs some 700KB on a 64 bit machine. With standard Lua 5.1, it’s less than 400KB."

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lupa
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