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> India has a huge population. They all need jobs to support their families. So the local gov't has it covered.

Yup, completely agree.

> Would you prefer three of those five people being engaged in a riot and the other two, on gov't payroll, beating the shit out of them?

To clarify, in this scenario, are you saying that there are three unemployed people rioting and two other people on a government payroll (presumably po-po?) who are beating the shit out of the rioters?

Honestly, _ideally_, I'd want to see universal basic income so that people who don't have jobs don't feel the need to riot. I'd want to see everyone's basic needs supported.

Having said that, that's my idealism showing and I don't know how this would realistically work. My background in economics is weak to put it simply and I don't know if this could scale to a population the size of India's.

> Mr. Rushdie has a book with short stories on that.

Taking a look at his bibliography[0], he's written quite a few novels, any specific one(s) that you'd recommend?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie#Bibliography
Interesting choice of example, considering the relative level of regulation between the aviation and automotive industries.

The use of "autopilot" in aviation is not without controversy, and there are a number of schools of thought on the spectrum between "it saves lives" and "it dumbs down pilots and kills people". FWIW, the FAA at least requires a functioning autopilot (or "automatic altitude control system") when flying in RVSM airspace, or the altitude where most commercial jets fly, so regulation is on the side of automation here.
Whatever, X is network transparent "enough" for me to run all applications I care about remotely, and I do it all the time.
It will be equivalent to society if the private company persists with their subsidized prices. Consumers will stop reaping the price benefits once the private company becomes a monopoly, and changes their prices accordingly.

You can say, well, the pie is fixed and it's just a matter of who gets a bigger of slice of the pie. Consumers or VCs. Is is it equally good to "society" if consumers get a smaller slice of the pie when the private company charges monopoly prices and their owners benefit?
I think this is like an MMA fighter asking "Is MMA a healthy occupation to have?"

Of course not. You have to make tradeoffs in life.
The author is using a Thinkpad running OpenBSD. I don't think macos or linux kernels expose battery info as kernel state.

Also, thanks for using ag. :)
Such expectations would have little to do with Lisp. Even one with a garbage collector can run out of memory. How quickly that happens and how it handles it is just a matter of how good of a garbage collector you have.
You can't know how surge pricing actually works, because Uber's algorithm is proprietary. It could work in theory but not work in practice - people usually report they can beat surges by walking a block or switching to Lyft, and maybe drivers don't care about a 1.2x price surge or can't hear about it in time?
That's strange.

McCarthy describes a mark&sweep GC.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/node4.html
Back then there weren't really ML libraries to speak of, you had to write your own. Though Symbolics did have a neural network tool and framework they sold.

And you could certainly do things like shuffle lots of data easily for more hardcore processing. For example, Symbolics didn't just have a Weitek floating point accelerator option for their systems, they had vector processing boards for them too that you could use from Lisp. (And even a GPU, the Framethrower, that did full-frame HD with 2D and 3D acceleration! S-Graphics is amazing for the time.)

Also, a lot of AI work back then was focused on symbolic processing. That's largely been eclipsed by the more math-heavy approaches these days but symbolic processing is still around, for example in tools like Cyc.
>If this is smart, I'd hate to see dumb.

Well, 2017 is right around the corner.
Some industries appear to operate on the "burn out model", take game dev or managed IT services firms for example.
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Could you touch on why many worlds is more parsimonious than pilot wave? I'm not sure that I understand that reasoning. Is it because a given "universe" is locally simpler? Would it be accurate to describe the comparison as an infinite number of universes (separated via some higher dimension) vs. a single universe that is holistically connected throughout spacetime?
Sure but all the talk about cars on HN usually is about how ready for the road they are.

Also I don't think police are going to be too happy about a vehicle that is going to be probabilistic about pulling over. Nor would I really be happy about that in the back of an ambulance.
Coal town Trump voters come to mind.
Keep it as simple as possible but don't try to make it simpler than it really is.

Programming languages can make things more complicated and having worked in C++14, python and VBA i can tell you that VBA does not come out on top even though it is seemingly simple. Compared to python VBA lacks so much ecosystem and language features that you will have a hard time to even parse XML, process loosely structured data and serve it via HTTP.

Looking at python vs. VBA and C++11 vs. C++03, I'd say that programming languages have generally been moving in the right direction.
Probably a bit off-topic: I always get frustrated with C++ because `if` is not an expression, you can't do conditional initialization under RAII easily.
Burned out of a developer/manager role at a web agency here in Melbourne, Australia. Took 3 months off with no income and exclusively read books that inspired me. Started a development company of my own with no money. Got enough work to employ a junior dev and mentor her up to (close to) mid level. Six months later, we're in a local shared space working on some fun projects, with enough cashflow to begin work on our own product, with a rule that we don't work more than 38 hours a week.

I count myself lucky.
Could this connection to the rest of the universe be considered conceptually similar to a form of entanglement?
I saw somewhere that they were using custom built hardware modules to break AES keys, some kind of FPGA thing. It was cheap to build and extremely fast since it was specialized in doing just that.
> Is that a comercial product?

What does that have to do with anything upthread? This non-sequitur is shifting the goal post: your initial challenge sounded like it's something that cannot or should not be done - yet it was.
You are mistaken in your belief that arming the losing side in a civil war 'helps' anything but prolonging it.

What those people need is humanitarian aid, not billions of dollars in Tomahawk missiles and AR-15s.
I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something akin to, "Show Microsoft's images on my lockscreen" or somesuch similar.

It wasn't clear there might be ads there.
If we made contact with aliens, how would religions react?
This is some serious FUD, pretty standard for Newsweeks bitcoin reporting, which included harassment of Dorian Nakomoto.

This is probably an unpopular opinion on HN, but let's face it, P2P protocols like bitcoin are relatively easy to disrupt for nation state actors, especially the US!

For a relatively small cost, the blockchain could be flooded with bogus junk to DoS. The bootstrap mechanism could easily be MITMd to netsplit new nodes. Those are just technological mechanisms off the top of my head, which assume a perfect hypothetical cryptocurrency with none of the teething problems that all of the actual cryptocurrencies have.

ISIS could come up with "Terrorcoin" (which is the underlying vague threat of the article) but without any mechanism to transfer those coins to a fungible real world currency, it's useless anyway.

Go home Newsweek, you're drunk.
The definition is:

"any vehicle equipped with technology that has the capability of operating or driving the vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring of a natural person..." [1]

Seems like Uber is right as long as their cars can't function without drivers, which is probably true.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/d48f347b-8815-458e...
Read the OP I was responding to. Their initial comment was about having to bail out of your provider, and their claim was that bailing out of your provider is easier when you're on bare metal, so I countered that that isn't true at all.
My thoughts exactly

If Qualcomm thinks they can pull the same crap with proprietary modules in the server space and living 'off tree' they're in for a big surprise

Let's see what happens when a sysadmin can't apply a security fix or a needed upgrade to the kernel because Qualcomm's "proprietary driver" has not been updated
I've seen this hypothesis before. What I haven't seen is anything more concrete than "I heard about a guy who knows a guy who sold the pspice license that was used to..."
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So you're advocating instituting social apartheid ?
I'd be interested in mass producing these phones and measuring distributions of times before a phone is stolen in different cities in the world.
The anti-opiate Naltrexone does something to the nerves that basically stops people from drinking. Gold is a treatment for... rheumatoid arthritis, iirc. When treating with gold, it's easy to cross the line from "enough" to "toxic".
If a business is welcoming such regulation, it's probably already doing it right and trying to keep out the competition that's undercutting them by doing it dangerously. Really, if a restaurant owner didn't want his customers getting sick, he'd give them hygienic food without the need for any regulation.
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I have a question about wave function collapse, especially tied into many worlds. Let's say that a photon in the double slit experiment could travel straight to a detector, go at a 15 degree angle, or go at a 30 degree angle. Those 3 particles exist simultaneously, leading them to interfere with each other. Does the straight particle "split off" from the other universe right when it reaches the detector? Are the two angled photons left in the "original" universe in a partially collapsed wave function? When does the wave function fully collapse, when the longest possible path has been completed? If I point the double slit at The Great Void, is it possible the wave function would never collapse because the particle would never be detected?

Note: I understand that a wave function of just 3 photons or photons that travel in straight lines could not cause an interference pattern.
With our grow module https://goo.gl/0sClyv some crops are already cheaper today. It is difficult to compete with 500 acres but there are some aspects we should consider - food mileage, food waste and indirect damages of intensive farming are growing and mostly because of that the food prices are trending up, same time the cost of local/organic/urban farming is going down, at some point those trends will meet. I don't think we'll get rid of intensive farming but some important crops will be grown in urban farms soon because of the cost.
It's a full time job. If you want it, run for office.
How many could you do before? :)
Have you been to Berlin? It's not hard to believe that the modern kebab was invented there.
You might be interested in googling Suite B. It lays out guidelines for encrypting government data up to the Top Secret level. If you dig a little bit, you can find guidelines for auditing crypto implementations and also for handling/generating key material.

Briefly, Suite B is AES-GCM, ECDH, ECDSA, and SHA2.

Edit: autocorrect
Nothing is 100% effective, and there will always be a long tail and diminishing returns on any economic organization, such as the NSA.

Additionally, there are simply too many unknowns to say that they're not doing a good job, and I think that's the nature of intelligence work. Lots of secrecy makes oversight and external efficacy judgments difficult to make; there's just not enough data.

It's like trying to say that a chess player is doing poorly when you don't know the size of the board, the number or types of pieces on either side, the positions, or really anything but an incomplete glimpse at the captured pieces of both sides. And they don't want you to see those pieces either, so even that is probably incomplete.
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First, no, that is not true. Second, no one is trying to prove causation here, so it is irrelevant. Third, the existence of more violence is enough to justify avoidance, so causes and correlations can be left to policy makers and sociologists.
I worked in MSFT in two different teams. In P.*BI the culture was quite toxic at times. The management can be very rough and political. Re-orgs every now and then. Biased promos. Plenty of people burnt out and left.

When I joined web diagnostics, it was a whole different experience. Nicest, smartest people I worked with. A different culture focused on building great products users love and helping people grow.

Microsoft is a great place to work with very interesting problems to solve if you're in the right team. If you are interviewing at MS, really ask about the team culture and dig deep into it.
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What about Square? I'd love to see BTC integration there.
I think that M-expressions are quite interesting but I'll just make a few concrete points here.

> if we want (quote x) it looks as if we have to write: ... quote[x]

I think that you could just write X in that case. Uppercase text was for symbolic atoms.

Also, you didn't mention conditionals:

M-expressions:

ff[x] = [atom[x] → x; T → ff[car[x]]]

S-expressions:

(defun ff (x) (cond ((atom x) x) (T (ff (car x)))))

The semicolon and the infix arrow have the benefit of reducing the need for parentheses in that case. And you can avoid writing "defun" and "cond".
Pros:

- Finished my first large and reasonably complex project at work (5k+ LOC, 95% coverage). Already in prod.

- Left my job to build my own startup. Created the website and then realized that the hard part had just begun.

- Read books on a lot of new technologies(Android, React, DRF, basic lisp). Also finished From AI to Zombies, wordly philosophers, men of mathematics etc.

- Really understood things such as opportunity cost, ROI, market size etc. Rip-offs and doing copy pasted work doesn't seem like an easy road anymore. Slava's post[1] helped me understand this.

Cons:

- Reading about all the new technologies wasn't too useful because I haven't implemented anything in them yet. Have plans to create small apps/websites to cement my understanding but keep procastinating on that

- Was briefly fascinated by stock market investing. Spent a month reading books on them and bought some stocks. While none of them has tanked, I later realized the returns would've been higher just focusing on my work.

I have given up my bschool admit to learn more and do startups/freelancing. Also have resolved to stop getting distracted by stuff so easily. Let's see how it all turns out.

1- http://www.defmacro.org/2015/02/25/startup-ideas.html
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If you live in SF and want to help, here's the link:

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Apartheid is a top-down system, where segregation is mandated. What he is suggesting is the bottom-up approach, where people can segregate themselves if they want to.

Although in practice this still produces segregation on a large scale, as in e.g. "white flight" in US. But then again, attempts to counter such things by forcing people together - like forced busing - didn't exactly work well.
I'm not trying to critique your english (and thank you for sharing this comment), but for everyone who can't figure out -- desing == design. I really thought desing was a verb but just couldn't figure out what.
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I haven't yet done any React Native, but it seems to me that hypothetically, you can share or not share as you go down the component tree. I can imagine dedicated layouts per platform, then shared widget clusters, then dedicated low-level widget implementations.
my god, if those aren't fake, that's hundreds of cubic feet of 100 VEF bills.
It may be worth noting that author J Alex Halderman is the professor who has done the most recent work on publicising the dangers of the probability of Russian hacking of the US election.
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I find #2 rather amusing and incorrect, at least as far as the "beer hour" part goes. I'm 55, my youngest is 24 and married. It's all the guys in their 30's that have to pick up their kids. Those of us with grown kids have tons of time, it's the 30 somethings that have kids to pick up.
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>Why is enabling our species to be interplanetary often a harder sell than the prospect of trading years of your life for a small chance that you might exit with a few billion dollars?

Demand and supply people. The answer is very simple. No matter what amount of wishful thinking you may undertake, if you don't satisfy that simple principle of demand and supply, it just won't matter.
I prefer open spaces. Mostly due to sunlight and the social interaction. It feels more collaborative.

Although I should say our whole team works 1-2 days from home. Different people, different days and we're very okay with that.

We also like to leave developers who have headphones alone and only talk to them over skype/slack.
Leah McGrath Goodman, I could almost swear I've seen that name before somewhere. Google... oh yeah, she was the one who did that story about that Japanese-American guy being the inventor of Bitcoin, the one that turned out to be a rather irresponsible fabrication.

Looking at this story, the first couple of paragraphs talk about a nonvirtual currency created by a bunch of racists. Why? Does that have anything to do with Bitcoin? As far as I can tell, no, it's just an attempt to smear by insinuation.

Then it starts into "but terrorists". Stopped reading at that point.

I'm not saying Bitcoin doesn't have flaws. By all means let them be discussed fairly and with intellectual honesty. I don't think this article is the place to look for that discussion.
He also blinded the public key behind two different hash algorithms[1] for display as an address (RIPEMD-160 & SHA256). The public key of an address is only revealed in the output script when spending funds held by that address. Thus, with proper wallet behavior surrounding address reuse, your EC public key vulnerable for a short period.

Now, the private key must be secured properly, but that's the case with any crypto system.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1...
>I imagine restauranteurs who welcome food safety regulations may do so out of a genuine desire for the restaurant business not to sicken the public.

If that is the real reason then maybe, but for instance where I live it is doubtful that that is the only reason. There are so many rules we have to comply with as a restaurant that blatantly point to protection of big companies that go under the name 'satefy' that I for one do not welcome them at all. 1% of those rules would prevent to sicken the public, the rest is just to protect big booze, meat, fish etc vendors.
Thanks for saying exactly the same thing that's come to my mind over and over again. I would totally roll my own crypto on top of an existing cryptosystem if I could and if someone with this much computational power was in my threat model. That way I would get the best of both.

Same goes for hashing by the way: I'd totally stack multiple hash functions on top of each other too. But in this I'd only stack cryptographic ones that have not yet been broken; I wouldn't roll my own.
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Achievements:
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- maintained the healthy relationship with my gf without blowing it as I used to

- learned advanced algorithms in my free time which gave me a hole new set of tools (which I probably might never need In my current job)

- quit many bad habits regarding food and drinks

Fallbacks:
- failed to improve my polish language skills

- the move was quite expensive and I failed to rebuild my savings completely
Exactly. You do not need regulations for that if you have laws against poisoning people in place already.
IIRC in M-expressions, uppercase meant an atom. You'd write X instead of quote[x]. QUOTE was introduced only for the eval function working on the S-expression form.
> Unions implemented this policy because companies were wiping out older workers because they were more expensive in terms of wage and healthcare.

This is essentially what GP is saying. Unions kept the expensive older worker at the expense of firing the younger workers. If the workers they keep are more expensive, then they have to fire proportionally more younger workers to make it up.
How does this work compare with libdill[1]?

[1] http://libdill.org/
How would you start?
My point is that everything can be faked. In the end you have to decide who you trust to pass the judgement, unless you are capable enough to make that call yourself (and that option is just not realistic).
Started in late February, I only managed 2.5 repetitions at that point :)
To be more specific, US used to be more lax about involuntary commitment. And then it was discovered that all too often, people were committed for no good reason - sometimes due to negligence or pseudoscientific BS, sometimes deliberately.

Furthermore, once people were in the system, they were often abused themselves, and it was very difficult to get out, even if you were actually perfectly sane.

So committing someone involuntarily became much more difficult as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_...
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I think you mean - you can always reparameterize things to have a 'pilot wave' around. That doesn't mean they're 'there', really.

I would think that the 'default' interpretation would be excluding them, since (clearly) they're not necessary (evidence being: interpretations without them exist). That would be the definition of superfluous, right? Unless they give different experimental results somewhere, which I'm pretty sure in't the case.
I don't know this. And I don't care. I don't self-identify as anything near a "Python programmer" and yet I've written, modified, read, and debugged (and put into production at times), let's say 100's of thousands of lines of Python since the late 90s. Not a ton, perhaps, but I certainly feel qualified to write it.

I'm forced to maintain (or deploy) other people's Python code all the time. Personally, I would rarely choose it for a team project I have to maintain (if the choice is mine) because I've seen most teams commit the same annoying type errors over and over in every dynamic language I've ever used, including epecially Python. I've worked with much more competent Python programmers than myself who still do this.

But if I was on your team, I wouldn't complain and my code would be somewhere between pretty good to great. I would help the team ship that Python and ship it well.

I'm not sure what this rant says more about: me or this 'range vs xrange' question?
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