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It's not about all humans living a decade more on average, it's about those with the wealth to afford it getting a decade more of healthy years, while the poor do not.

A decade more of time to earn more, build more, become more wealthy and pass that on to children who are then wealthier.

Damn, this would be a fantastic dystopian sci fi plot point.
Would you mind, by any chance, pointing out an example of the 10% you find really interesting?
While I in many scenarios in theory could agree with you, this portrayal is very disingenous unless you think Net Neutrality is somehow bad for consumers, because going off party politics on these issues, this WILL be bad.
> Apple was wrong. In Australia the law is clear and they've breached it. Take them to court and get your payout

Is the OP in Australia?
nobody would really care if some particular machine stopped serving some particular file.

Yes they would. Because such systems can only serve files that exist on at least one node, people who want to rely on such a system to serve a given file must run their own node to host every file they care about the availability of.

The topological properties of distribution are different, but the existence of the local cache to provide dependability is not avoided.
Is there a kind of walkthrough/tutorial about how to develop a little Lisp interpreter?
That sounds like a fun experiment.

PS: Sorry, I am a Java OO developper. But I like to learn :)
Interesting this went from HN front page to gone... it's not even on the front page of "Ask"?
Libdill, structured concurrency in C, v1.0 released
>As long as this version of android stays as open as regular android I think I'll be happy.

I can't seem to find a license anywhere. It does seem to include access to some Google services that the open source android libraries do not: http://i.imgur.com/IEZYLwN.png
Unionization is not banned in any state. Your link does not agree with your dishonest comment.

Right to work laws simply prohibit collusion between unions and employers to prevent non-union workers from working. They are no different than other worker protection laws, e.g. the laws prohibiting Apple and Microsoft from forming an anti-poaching agreement.
I think most RDBM systems have a way to pin a table or database in memory. The difference with the Microsoft solution is that it is a separate engine designed explicitly for memory. So there is no locking or blocking of pages. There are some other neat features as well, like hash indexes, but I have been able to push an 8 core box to ~80,000 inserts per second from a remote client, and over 200,000 per second for a test I ran on the host. I have not yet ran tests for express edition, but I will be interested to see how it performs.

To answer your other question, you have the option to either keep it all in memory (and lose on reboot) or commit the data to disk. In my testing I only saw a ~10% performance penalty for committed data to disk (granted we have extremely fast SSDs).
>I mean what superintelligence supposed to do?

Compared to every other life form on Earth you are super intelligence. This super intelligence thing has already happened once. Of course this spread of super intelligence has wiped out most large mammals on this planet, 10s of thousands of other species, most of the fish in the ocean, and is adding gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere.

You can't beat chess in one move because mathematics does not allow it. Unless this said ASI develops bending 4D spacetime (in which you could beat chess in one move with some new rules) then the game simply does not have a piece that moves that way. That said ASI can be just a little smarter than us, and put us to extinction like we did with the Neanderthals.
There's a difference between knowledge and intelligence.
Estate taxes and legacy-driven philanthropy play a huge role in the redistribution of wealth, so there is that.
Maybe they do a final motion adjustment on the receiver just at the video level. Seems slightly interesting. I doubt they've made any breakthroughs in compression. maybe eye tracking could reduce the bandwidth even further (though the latency in this case means it can't go as far as a wired installation).
Except there are -bin packages there.
> psychopathy isn't so much a disorder as a spectrum on which we all sit

I think you're getting a bit off in terms of perspective here. There's a huge difference between [words on a page] and [Human being I'm talking to]. I might well say something that makes someone on the internet cry, I might laugh and post pubbietears.jpg if they said my comment had made them cry.

If I saw someone crying in close proximity it's likely I'd stop and ask if they were ok (albeit i would also feel very uncomfortable and undecided on said course of action in case it's imposition).

I'm being artificially extreme but it's certainly true that empathy in most people will be more pronounced for a physical person than an online username (who, lets face it, may or may not be representing their reality).
How do you picture those files getting onto your computer?
Amazon is pretty good with billing disputes. They don't want the bad publicity of shutting someone down.

Source: I work for a startup who does not pay their bills.
>Cisco's networking hardware is still top of the line

It's really not though. The majority of their platforms are terribly under powered, and have very high costs per port.

Their only compelling platform at the moment, the NCS, uses a chipset made by a third party.
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>when people we convinced that machines could bootstrap themselves into contraptions that could move mountains.

With our modern construction equipment, we do move mountains.
I think it's not that they're uncurious but that maybe their lives are full of a routine that limits acting on it hence why I said they get swallowed whole by their daily lives.
It's a bit tricky because the Bloomberg article states different numbers. It's unclear what they mean with revenue (ARR? Recognized Revenue?).

But, let's take some of those numbers: $25M in Sep'14 (subscription revenue annualized => ARR), $95M in Sep'16 ("revenue" - let's assume it's ARR; recognized revenue would be even better) - that's very impressive growth.

If that continues slowly, let's say they went from $25M to $70M, then growth slowed and they grew to $95M and can get to $120M by the end of next year and grow from there - that's a lot of additional revenue to offset the burn.

Burning $88M per year ($66M in 9 months) after getting $250M from investors + probably a large credit line - even if they don't grow at all, don't reduce cost, that's cash for 3 years.

If they reduce their costs (let's say by $15M), make $25M more in revenue, then it's a $40M lower burn ($48M), and they would still have plenty of the $250M in the bank (+ credit line + what they had before they raised the round).

I'm not saying it's easy or that they are doing phenomenally well. I'm just saying that they can get it under control relatively easily compared to other companies that have high burn rates.
Curious as to your thoughts on official corporate surveillance on employees in context of this sort of she said/he said situations.
There's this classic by Peter Norvig (of AI a Modern Approach fame) about wrting a Lisp in Python...which also happens to have an amazing title :D

http://norvig.com/lispy.html

Edit: He also links to his Scheme interpreter in Java in that article: http://norvig.com/jscheme.html
I ended up making an account at twenex.org and looking at the games. It appears they took Haunt off of the games list. Anyway, thanks again for the help!
I don't think that the witch trials, which were effectively a small genocide against women, are a particularly effective metaphor for refuting manifestations of sexism.
Really interesting to hear reasons of downvoting. You think I'm lying or there is comparison?
Does anybody have a few examples of DSLs people make in a lisp (ideally clojure because I have worked with it a tad)? I've seen plenty of cases where people make a pseudo-dsl via optional arguments, but not seen this so-oft mentioned "yeah we just wrote a dsl for it because lisp" sort of deal.
You're not the only one being asked to stop. It's good that you didn't open the can of worms, but bad that you fed them. In terms of troll effects, that's not a lot better.
For example:
http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

But there's plenty more.
Two responses.

First: it does not demand absolutism. The point of the pledge is to exert market pressure on companies that are creating negative externalities. The idea is simply to internalize some of the risk they're creating. That market pressure works just fine whether someone quits the moment they discover malfeasance or whether they take the next job offer they get, 2 months later. From the perspective of engineering management, both outcomes are catastrophic.

Second: the pledge doesn't speak for everyone in tech. It speaks for the people who signed the pledge.
I absolutely agree, and generally prefer descriptive names over the silicon valley marketing focus group vomit the typical company name is these days.

That said, CoreOS was perfect. A name that is both largely descriptive, short, and doesn't pigeonhole the product into one static market segment during it's lifetime.

This? I will refuse to even bring it up in executive strategy meetings since it's such a horribly confusing name that will just cloud the subject being discussed in explaining what I meant.

Certainly a minor thing, but definitely a minor step backwards not forwards.
I agree I would rather see it piecemeal and/or hourly on some items. you want to knock it out of the park figure out how to do sales on commission for projects. although most people are cheap and completely under estimate cost of acquiring their customers.
Video Description:

>> "After my phone got stolen, I quickly realized just how much of my personal information and data the thief had instantly obtained. So, I let another phone get stolen. This time my phone was pre-programmed with spyware so I could keep tabs on the thief in order to get to know him. However, to what extent is it possible to truly get to know someone by going through the content of their phone?

In the Netherlands, 300 police reports a week are filed for smartphone-theft. Besides losing your expensive device, a stranger has access to all of your photos, videos, e-mails, messages and contacts.

Yet, what kind of person steals a phone? And where do stolen phones eventually end up?

The short documentary ‘Find My Phone’ follows a stolen phone’s second life by means of using spyware.

Although you’ll meet the person behind the theft up close and personal, the question remains: how well can you actually get to know someone when you base yourself on the information retrieved from their phone?"
I had access to essentially this, but chat transcripts between cam site sales agents and buyers. I mined the data to present an expert system that was integrated into a chat program, which became an extremely believable first line of defense against harassment and unprofitable customers. The system would manage numerous chat profiles directly, and once someone interacted positively, they and their conversation were transparently handed off to a live person who could finish the sale before redirecting to a person on cam.

The system handled both direct clients (i.e. from an adult ad on craigslist/backpage) and api-directed traffic (from porn sites). The volume of conversions went up by an order of magnitude for my client.

tldr; those chat scripts on porn sites are sometimes real; sometimes people are silently replaced by machines; sometimes machines are silently replaced by people
This is a serious problem.

My concern is people seem to think it only happens in previously (and still) male dominated fields. It happens everywhere.

I think the woman that voice their concerns and challenges are more abundant in the tech industry probably because the industry is more progressive and generally more educated.

Where I have seen ultra sexism has been in sales and finance. Extremely disturbing in your face sexism. Anecdotally the sexism in tech is sort of passive aggressive but the sexism in other industries is disturbingly direct (one could argue the subtle one being worse). My point is it is everywhere.

I hope the tech industry fixes it and becomes the leader.
Yes, my point is that it's completely reasonable to second guess stories we hear. It's a normal, everyday behavior and one which gets us closer to the truth.

Due to her not being drunk I give her retelling more credibility, but that doesn't mean she should be unquestioningly believed.
I think that could still be useful, because then it can be incrementally replaced with safe code more easily than if you had to interface between languages.
I absolutely agree with you about paying actual money for a full game. The problem with this though is I've been burned a few times buying a game, only to have it become free with in-app purchases later on: functionality that was previously included is removed and players must now periodically pay to get it back (usually in the form of some kind of temporary 'power boost' pack).

I guess the developers reasoning is they can get as many suckers as possible to pay for the full game after initial launch, then after a couple of months they squeeze more money out of it by changing to a pay-to-win format which hugely increases their user base.

It's a disgraceful approach and I certainly won't deal ever again with any devs who do this. Unfortunately, such devs don't really get much shaming so they probably get away with it.
>This name is conversationally awful.

This!

What are the follow on products? "Relational Database", "Distributed Cache" ?
Ending aging will not reverse this trend. Many people only have kids due to age constraints and its effect on fertility and the health of offspring, ie. much harder to get pregnant over 35, and chance of birth defects or other problematic genetic problems increases dramatically, even for men.

This will no longer be the case, so there would be no rush for either gender to have kids. You can focus on your career for the first hundred years, and then have kids. At worst, there would be a minor uptick in population while people get accustomed to the new reality.
If philosophy admits the existence of entities that cannot be sensed (which, granted, many philosophers have done), it is opened to all sorts of metaphysical horseshit.
In a sibling post you're comparing this woman's experience with a friend retelling a drunken story incorrectly in Amsterdam (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13193171)

Maybe you think your "Draw your own conclusions ;) / Just my 2c" baiting is super clever, but I think it's pretty transparent.
Maybe it was just my credit union then. It seemed excessive. It wasn't more than a car loan which I can do in about an hour.
But can we truly say that these for-profit, mostly un-regulated telecom providers whose mandate is to make money for their shareholders, will put that money towards "wear to the roads" and "upgrading the road system"? How many homes in America don't have access to Broadband internet? IN 2016?

Even more, how do we know that these telecom providers will only charge as much as is needed for the maintenance of the roads, and not just slap on more costs?

We can't even really blame the telecom companies for this, either, as they do have a responsibility to their shareholders to make as much money as possible, but in a monopolized market, as ISPs are in most cities in America, the government has to step in at some point to protect the consumer's interests.
It's kinda funny how that the blog link was posted to HN even before this Google one and still the third party Google one made it to the frontpage.
> This name is conversationally awful.

It's also entirely un-Googleable. Searching "CoreOS" would return you stuff only about CoreOS. Searching "container linux" will return you tons of other unrelated results, if you don't get carpel tunnel by the time you even finish typing it.
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Of course you can die your way out of it. What an absurd thing to say.
> We have to get rid of the idea that the default form of software is supposed to be a webpage.

You need to know why that becomes the norm rather than the exception. Ease of management, installation, upgrade, ... is really what drove those changes back to centralised server.

Solve those issues and people will go back to develop local application again. Actually, those issues are solved on mobile and every app store is testament to that.

As a side note, it is interesting to note that Cloud providers could be seen as the ultimate free software end game. Remember the "make your money on support, distribute software for free" ? Well that's what cloud provider are doing: they are just selling you convenience and support in a box on top of what is overwhelmingly free software.
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I think triggering in-game movement by some physical movement - it doesn't even have to map one-to-one to physical steps - does a lot to create a notion of control over what is happening, removing the queasy 'whole world is sliding around ' feeling.

After all, we learn to move our legs in circles to move forward (when on a bike), pull on a set of handlebars (when rowing), etc., without becoming sick over it.
The opposite is true. The stronger the employment market, the more market power labor has.

We can easily get new jobs. But we cannot easily find jobs that satisfy all the points I laid out above. Short exercise periods, for instance, are almost universal among tech startups. Companies can get away with doing that because right now, the interest in fixing that is diffuse, and the interest in maintaining the status quo is concentrated.

Straightforward fix: form a professional association, and collectively shun companies that screw over early startup employees with post-vesting clawbacks. We'll see how much longer khaki-clad sweater-bevested VC partners mouth off to the press about disloyal employees when the cost of employing developers for their portfolio companies (and theirs alone) goes up by 40%.

The more I think about unionization, the more I think 2016-2017 is an immense opportunity. A Chicagoan I'm not entirely fond of once memorably said: never let a crisis go to waste.
Those are nothing if not grounded in ontology.
http://beautifulracket.com/appendix/domain-specific-language...
You genuinely do not believe that Apple's engineering teams is "one of the best"? It is a pretty arbitrary measure, so where would you place them? Would they make your Top 10? Top 100?
While ML was the meta language for a theorem prover. Funny how these were side effects.
More control over your data, anywhere
Having google deleting your AdSense account for policy infringement makes you necessary not independent
In my opinion
By your argument all homes and house should have a 56kv 3 phase electricity supply

What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business
Also adding NodeJS:

* https://mykzilla.org/2016/12/01/mozilla-and-nodejs/

* https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2016-December...
Another one https://github.com/kanaka/mal (quite famous AFAIK)
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It's too long to really go into, but my personal "old guy" take is that this is yet more of the same cycles computing has always seen.

By cycles I mean the constant cycle between centralizing compute power and decentralizing as the economics and benefits shift between those two paradigms.

What is being done now on the "cloud" (yes, I hate the term) is simply what was being done with mainframe computing systems 35 years ago, only we have better connectivity and graphics to support the consumer version of it.

I expect to see a shift back towards individual "on-prem" devices at some point, but that will probably be another 10-20 years and will take a black swan (or multiple baby black swans) event no one here can predict to happen - just like no one in the mainframe days predicted the consumer Internet.

I absolutely agree giving control of the Internet to perhaps 10 total companies that have 90%+ of the content delivery traffic is a horrible idea with only one assured outcome.
Hmm, I guess I have seen datascript / datalog. My main question is more about how many articles seem to suggest that it's basically par-for-the-course in lisp programming to just make a DSL in your projects, so was wondering when that might actually occur.
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The kind of predictive statements that all physicists are making for quite a while now and on which all of our technological progress is founded.

If there were some other fundamental means by which reality might be modified besides the basic interactions we know, our standard model of particle physics couldn't work so well, right? So to our knowledge, interaction is the one and only thing that puts a thing into existence or not.

As a side note: that is also the reason why WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are a candidate for dark matter. The idea is that there might exist a form of matter that only interacts very weakly and thus it is incredibly hard to confirm its existence. Furthermore these WIMPs are massive (compared to other known elementary particles), so they might be out of reach of our particle accelerators.

These kinds of predictions follow from that.
Free-energy minimization and the dark-room problem
Did you notice a dip in your job performance?
If your bottleneck in reading text is in scanning words from the screen, then you either don't reflect on what you read or you're reading boring things.
I suppose that would be true if you think arguments are soldiers in favor of women or against them. You think I believe I raised a +1 for men, while you think I raised a +1 for women by mentioning a time they were victims.

In fact, I believe arguments are attempts to converge to truth. The fact that women were victims in 1631 has no bearing on this discussion.

RoderickDay made an argument that happened to be flawed (here's a more formal argument illustrating the flaws: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence... ), and his argument paralleled the Inquisition's arguments which were flawed for the same reason. Now that his incorrect argument is rejected, we can make better arguments and approach the truth.
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Sadly, most of the promo to be the initial trailer which is the one with people jumping and running, like what?
Growing up in Orlando, watching a shuttle launch was something we did outside. I think the only one I watched on TV was a day junior year we skipped high school and Phil drove to Titusville. He had a 72 Impala hardtop with the small block 400. We hung out in his sister's apartment drinking beer and watching the broadcast of Shuttle on the pad until just after lift-off. Then we stepped out onto the back balcony and there it was just a few miles away coming up over the landscape.

I was living in Gainesville (you can't usually see anything from there) and sitting in a morning sociology class when Challenger launched. I came back from class, flipped on the TV and there was Dan Rather and a talking head with a shuttle model. The thing I remember most was going to statistics class that afternoon and some student saying they couldn't believe it had happened and asking if it really had. I was kinda' stunned because I figured any intelligent educated person would know that blowing up is something rockets tend to do. Of course the big deficiency was in my model of other minds.
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$255 sounds extremely reasonable. That's much less than what most people pay annually for service.