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> everyone involved in allocating and spending the money you give to build and supply that natural gas pipe is also selfish and short-sighted, and is much more likely to try to enrich themselves over providing a good service.

The point where the money is allocated to one goal or another is when someone donates the money altruistically. They are hopefully trying to be less selfish and short-sighted.

Sure, the implementors will take some profit, but so will any business to which the recipient could give the money.
> I'm sorry, you do not get to blame me for the continued existence of capitalism. That's just ridiculous.

If you choose to participate in harmful systems, you are in fact partially to blame for the harm done by those systems, and simply staying that I don't get to blame you for our doesn't change that.

Incidentally, criticizing ads isn't a criticism of capitalism: capitalism could exist just fine without ads, and in fact I think removing ads would make capitalism drastically more likely to yield the positive results capitalism purportedly yields.
Sure. FPGAs, or any IC, could contain subversive/backdoor hardware placed there by a sophisticated actor. For that matter, so could ostensibly passive components like connectors, ports, flat ribbon cables... now that we have sophisticated circuits that can be powered by stray magnetic waves (RFID and its advanced friends), so can components not connected to power, such as cases, clips, screws. It is a fascinating thing to think about, actually, and I don't see how 3D-printing every single thing around you is a realistic solution.

And considering that regular color printers (inkjet and laser) have all been backdoored for ages - they print mostly invisible constellations of dots into every page which identify the individual printer - I would say that backdooring a "silicon printer" is also a definite possibility.
That sounds a lot like the Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
What's the selling point for residential rooftop solar versus buying industrial-scale solar from the power company?
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May I ask you how you did the jump to self-employment? Did you build up your network while working for a salary and then switch to your own company? I know I'd love to be my own boss, but it seems tough to find enough clients in order to pay yourself a salary.
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The trans rate grew by a factor 10 over the last 3 years. Surely a non-zero fraction of this growth comes from new users.
It's quite feasible. State of the art FPGA chips are typically manufactured in third party fabs. These are primarily TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and UMC. I'm guessing Intel's acquisition of Altera will result in a more "trustworthy" FPGA. In a nutshell, if a state actor can access the fab, it can insert a backdoor.

With circuit design, fully independent verification has not been solved yet. The primary reason is that fabrication, especially at lower process nodes, is extremely complex. So even if you had a "3D IC printer" at home, you still need to trust the manufacturer of that printer, as well as the manufacturer of the key components of the printer. Taking that even further, you need to trust that each of those components was manufactured by a trusted fab. It's turtles all the way down.

If I were to design such a printer from scratch, I would have a consortium of known companies oversee the design of the first printer and all of its components in a closed environment with 24/7 surveillance. All circuits would be fabbed using a manual, low volume process. Once the initial printer is complete, all the circuits of subsequent printers would be fabbed using this root printer. There are shortcomings with this technique too, but it's probably the best way to go about doing it (with current tech).
You'd need some serious power to get the subterranean ones and the shielded ones.
What about Divinity: Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity and quite a few other crowdfunded games that were released and are good?
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Is there an easy way to remove a clock from Android? How about OSX?
Looks very "Out of this world" like
> Nuclear explosions can kick up a huge storm of stuff into the atmosphere -- that's part of their point.

I've never read that. It's easy enough to do, but the (planned) usage of these weapons (outside of hitting the enemy's heavily hardened targets on the ground) tends to rely on airbursts.

I don't remember either side relying on nuclear winter strategically. The logic of MAD is terrible enough to serve as a deterrent even without maximizing dust in the atmosphere. I remember the disarmament advocates warning of nuclear winter, and the warmongery types minimizing its liklihood.
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Leeerooooy Jenkins! Seriously, this has been going on forever, and the number one rule of trolls (and griefers are just trolls, as the piece points out) is don't give them attention or the reaction they're looking for, and they go away.
How do dimples in golf balls affect their flight?
I'm at a loss as to how I could successfully explain the difference to someone who is clearly full of shit and doesn't himself understand the difference.

There's really nothing to explain: You quoted a contradiction. You then typed the non sequitur "law of excluded middle"; I take it we were supposed to infer that the quote is false because of excluded middle. However, the quote is false because it is a contradiction, not because of excluded middle.

I can alter the quote so it is false because of excluded middle:
> did not demand
> the request is currently not "optional"

(Feel free to send BTC to 1L941R7SdDRGrVhgckCLABWuabQrniZTtP.)
That one did kind of hit me, too. Wow, we're almost into the second decade of this century. Huh.
The point I failed to make is that high (double digit) employee turnover is extremely common in game dev, especially at low ranks; and unlike Blizzard, CIG is not an exceptional place to work at.

If you want to see what "people jumping ship" looks like, you should be directing your eyes towards Zynga: Constant layoffs, extremely high turnover including the executive level and plummeting revenue. Nothing like CIG.
It someone wants to invent a microscale CNC machine to make it happen, I won't complain. :)
I stopped playing Minecraft on a public server because of griefers. While this guy can rationalize his antisocial behavior as "people need to lighten up", it's not really appreciated by others, who often invest their mental concentration to the game.

Maybe there should be some sort of general gaming account (say Steam could have that), like a credit score. People who troll others would be more likely paired up with other trolls, if they so much enjoy company of "lightened up" people.
Short answer: It varies.

Sometimes in math the history provides helpful context and motivation, and when people leave it out it makes things confusing. I'm not going to elaborate on this because I assume most people here already agree with this!

But sometimes the modern way is so much cleaner and better, so that even if you do want to learn the history, everything will probably be easier to understand if you learn the modern way first and know in advance what truth it is that they were working their way towards. Sometimes the historical way is just awful.

(When I took representation theory in college, the professor thought it would be funny to at one point show us the original definition of an irreducible character. Nobody should ever have to learn representation theory in such a way!)
> I think it's probably more condescending, and certainly more harmful, to assume that extreme poverty bestows upon the global poor some mystical ability to make optimal spending decisions that for some reason doesn't apply to comparatively wealthy people in developed countries entitled to access heavily-funded collective healthcare and social insurance systems.

That's not what I said.

Fundamentally, I'm saying that personal choice in itself is a value, a value which is being overlooked by most aid programs.

Low income males spend a disproportionate amount of their money on cigarettes, but that is different from a statement that low income people will spend aid money on cigarettes.
Thanks, I wrote this!

It was a bit of a different time, when docbook was the way to publish, when Itanium was the 64-bit architecture, things like go and rust didn't exist and we used bitkeeper. But most of it is still relevant, and despite acquiring 2 kids since I started still have some ideas.

Yes yes, it's not Alan Turing-esque computer science. I have taught algorithms and data structures courses as well as operating systems courses to "computer science" students and this is more the second obviously. You gotta know both!

All I can say is that being a professional now for some time, anyone who knows this stuff is welcome in my team, no matter if we're bit banging hardware or writing JavaScript. When you have some concept of what's happing underneath, you write better code and, more importantly, are a better debugger.

I'm mostly cloud-y devops-y these days ... But when your CI triggers a kernel panic or a crash in some low level libray, it's nice to be able to go digging and send a patch upstream to fix it :)
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your suggestions about calling out urgency and indicating the non-response action are great. I really appreciate when people do this.
His research details that 59.5 per cent of gamers have intentionally trolled

That's actually higher than I expected.
A fork in the road
You put a word in quotes that appears nowhere on the page.

It's a useful technique in the procedural generation toolbox. Hardly ridiculous at all.
A good book about time management is Momo, by Michael Ende. It's a children's novel about a time-saving bank that comes to town and provide a service whereby any time their customers save can be deposited in an account to be paid back later with interest.

The townspeople become more hurried and efficient and remove the things from their lives that give them meaning, and pretty soon everyone is rushing around and miserable, because they don't have any time for anything. The bank of course is a ponzi scheme.

(reposted from my reddit comment a few days ago on the same article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(novel)
Apple computer filed a patent for that:

http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/apple-gets-patent...
>but treating them like the scammers they are would be a good change the the SERP ranking algorithm.

Scammers? Your comments lead me to believe the exact opposite.
Owner and major shareholder of a public company here: This guy is not using the same metrics a trader uses. It's night and day. One more thing, the way you structure your cap table including the float, can drastically affect your market cap, up or down with out having anything to do with the net asset value of the companies holdings or valuation on revenue, growth or users.
Diamond square is often swapped out for Perlin noise in terrain generators. They give very similar effects, but Perlin's method is a little more flexible along certain parameters(e.g. arbitrary offsets, zoom-in) while diamond square has more control over the nature of features at different scales, which can be used to make terrain more or less noisy.
hehe, its already here. But for the record, I don't get a job due to my organizational skills and email responses - much more about energy, tech skills and having fun ...and at least plausibly driving towards results for the project.
I agree with most of the bulleted points on your list (automation, not free trade killed most jobs), but for transgendered Americans, using the bathroom is far from a luxury. It's a constant threat, it's fear of being beaten to a pulp or murdered. Calling the ability to safely use a public restroom without threat of violence is extremely privileged on your part and it costs a lot less to protect these people than fix those HUGE problems you listed. There is no good reason to ignore helping these people just because there are larger, systemic problems to address, kind of a false dichotomy you set up there. I don't want to throw around an accusation that you are being cryptotransphobic with this, but please do re-examine your privilige and ask yourself why you are conflating basic safety for transgendered people and "urban elitism," ESPECIALLY because trans members of our society are most likely on the fringes or in the lower class.

There is also another way to look at this that doesn't involve social justice and privilege examination. The problems you listed require ACTIVE solutions. Big, active solutions. The kind of solutions the Democratic party, and this really pains me to say, is too much of a clusterfuck right now to deal with given their internal struggles and, yknow, the entirely red government. Now, this red government on local levels as been aggressively targeting LGBTQ communities and trying to dehumanize them and strip them of their rights and safeties. The republicans are taking first swing at this, so all the Dems have to do is create REACTIVE solutions, which is a helluva lot faster and easier to do. Trans people under attack in public? REACT with legislation to protect them and fight to repeal legislation meant to attack them. These are solutions that the party is able to do, so it is what they are publicizing and what is being covered and discussed. Now that Republicans control all of government, there really isn't much for the left to do at all on the federal level, so the most they can fight for during the next four years is protecting civil liberties under an openly homophobic and LGBTQ hostile government.
Been a long time since I heard Leeroy Jenkins.

Not giving them attention doesn't work if they are racking up millions of views on YouTube. There is a demand for it so someone will supply it for some e-fame. Tragedy is a cornerstone of comedy but we're in a strange time where empathy rarely travels across ethernet cables and making fun of someone carries little social repercussions on the internet. Until social dynamics change online trolls and griefers will always be close by.
Backdooring the device itself is equally hard/easy as any other form of IC. The question is, with what? Because it doesn't have a fixed function it's almost impossible to set up any specific subversive behaviour in advance without knowing what might be run on it.

The most likely attack would be an override of the code protect/security fuse/anti-JTAG features. But that's only useful when the attacker has got hold of the device and is probing it.
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"A Short Cartoon about Time" by david firth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idCFV0KF4uo
Fake your own Internet death.
I agree that trusting the manufacturer of the fab would constitute a potential attack vector, but if the fab was capable of reproducing itself (in conjunction with other tools, of course) then persistent subversion of the fab would be analogous to a trusting-trust attack. And just like trusting-trust attacks can be satisfactorily mitigated (e.g. via diverse compilation), so could a trusted hardware toolchain eventually be produced. The question then is just whether such a thing is worth the large effort. :)
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Shame this is neither FOSS nor standards-based... Matrix-based HN chat would be awesome :) (i work on matrix so am probably biased though :D)
https://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuiti...

This website does a really good job explaining complex calculus ideas to me. One of which is 'e', where the history and its origins will help you understand why it behaves the way it does. Without this context, 'e' is just some arbitrary number that you have to memorize. This is solely why I believe that history of math should definitely be taught.

Finance is also another area where history should be taught since ideas like continuously compounded interest was a recent development, and it's history explains why anyone wanted to compound continously.
Neat. I remember my days on Something Awful Forums and many did the same thing for various integrations. Ten years later the technique still works.
But GeneralMinus, for example, probably isn't that good at playing the game. He's excellent at poking exactly the people you mention - the ones who take it so seriously.
For AAA games, it's mostly in-house engines. Frostbite for EA games. Call of Duty games use the IW Engine. Bethesda uses either idTech or something geared for their RPGs.
EE.SE took a skeptical view of home IC fabrication: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/67598/how-ar...

The short answer is that there is no known way round the very nasty chemistry, requirement for clean room, and so on.
I read somewhere that Bill Gates' wife forced him to read at least one general magazine every month because he was completely disconnected from reality. He only consumed financial books and magazines and never watched the news. He used to find famous people in parties and events and never recognise them or know why they were famous.
Sources in case people are interested:

About the ToS change blocking refunds:

http://dereksmart.com/2016/07/star-citizen-this-war-of-mine/...

About the staffing issues:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/fe...
It would not be an free software.

> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all
> (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it,
> including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby
> mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

Theo de Raadt cvs@openbsd.org mailing list, May 29, 2001

> The JSON License
>
> This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data
> interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but
> adds a clause mandating:“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”
> This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The
> restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus,
> the license is nonfree.

Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)

Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)
I think you're underestimating the cost of building a fab by several orders of magnitude.
I think that forwarding them to their profile page, which is under their control and public is totally reasonable. It means less work for you and no less control for the users.
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I did the same and I have zero regrets.
Maudslay's maxims:

- Get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish, then you will probably get it.

- Keep a sharp look-out upon your materials: Get rid of every pound of material you can do without. Put yourself to the question, ‘What business has it there?’

- Avoid complexities and make everything as simple as possible.

- Remember the get-ability of parts.

“It was a pleasure to see him handle a tool of any kind, but he was quite splendid with an 18-inch file.”
> Because it doesn't have a fixed function it's almost impossible to set up any specific subversive behaviour in advance without knowing what might be run on it.

This is precisely the essence of my question, given that I have little knowledge of FPGAs and have no real clue how much each reprogrammed circuit has in common with any other. :)
This is a hypothetical far-future question, I'm not here expecting anything like this in my lifetime. :)
But science is literally the only way we have of explaining anything. Yes, many 19th century opinions are now known as incorrect. But how do we know that? Because later science showed that ovaries don't work that way and so on. And while Clinton's campaign was unsuccessful, arguing the merits of various strategies that could have been taken is clearly a form of social science, not an alternative to science. If "scientism" is a real thing there have to be answerable questions that not addressable by science.
We have thousands of years of history with a huge range of causes. But, there are a large number of famines across all economic systems.
expose themselves to significant psychological/social risk

Sounds too extreme. Criticism like "you are comparing apples to oranges", isn't the same being a political dissident or losing a loved one.
Perhaps it's useful to approach this from the other side.

Say I want to be able to communicate with HN members via email, so I include my email address in my profile. clap.chat makes it easier for clap.chat users to send me email using the email address in my profile, though ideally they want to clap.chat with me. I don't want to use clap.chat. If I don't want to use clap.chat but am getting invitations to use clap.chat, the burden to deal with that is now on me, be it with a filter, or perhaps adding a note to my profile. Perhaps clap.chat includes a record of people who have opted-out.

All of these methods parallel the behavior and handling of spam. Whether or not there's daylight between these types of invites and spam depends on one's perspective.
On a similar note, efficiency is good but if you run a perfectly efficient operation then you're extremely vulnerable to disruptions. If all you care about is beating other competitors so as to be #1, then of course you want to be as efficient as possible, just as a professional athlete orients everything around the exercise and practice required to excel in competition. That's great, but it also has pitfalls - specialization can result in inflexibility in changing circumstances, and if you operate close to the envelope of capability all the time then a small mistake can have drastic consequences.
"Euler went to Russia and yada yada bridges graphs"

I know little of this history, but is there any link between him going to Russia and him solving the seven bridges of Königsberg problem?

I'm asking because I don't know whether Euler ever visited Königsberg and because Königsberg is in Russia now (renamed to Kaliningrad after WWII), but was in Prussia at the time.
No way. Fodder for good futures, inspiration in the present.
I was very interested in Clojure and studied it for awhile. I liked it a lot, but had a difficult time becoming proficient with it. Part of it was the tooling (I tried learning Emacs and Clojure simultaneously when I should've only focused on Clojure), but my biggest hurdles were the syntax and understanding the error stack traces. They just seemed way too opaque. This really slowed down my progress. On the flip side, when I picked up Elixir, I became productive very quickly. Studying Clojure actually helped a lot here because I was familiar with functional programming and immutable data, but Elixir's familiar syntax and easier to understand error messages made it much easier for me to grok. I've since built a few things in Elixir and have been very happy with it.
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If you just need a lot of heat, then you can use the sunlight directly by focusing it with mirrors:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvbj3O_yt8

* http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/this-s...
The raw resources alone - not considering the labor and technology - required to build a fab and maintain it are so staggering that I just can't see that happening anytime soon.

Besides, the fab itself isn't the issue. Rather, the equipment used during the fabrication process itself are the weakest link, so to speak. Further, if we consider the feasibility of insider attacks, the people who maintain the fab are potential targets as well.

So, I think achieving what you propose would require: 1) access to an immense amount of resources, 2) the capability to self-manufacture the tools required to manufacture ICs, and 3) an AI that can operate the fab.

The third point alone is so far off that I'd conclude it's going to be impossible for a long time.