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> However, the result of his hoax was to give a freakin' big stick to them as want to attack those ivory tower eggheads with things like, "a majority of published research is wrong, and given that academics inhabit a very rarefied and solipsistic reality rather different from most of us".

This is just my own opinion, but I think you are 100% wrong here and the reality is precisely the opposite what you're claiming. The weapons used against science by the current anti-intellectual climate are the same ones created by the postmodernist/poststructuralist crowd that Sokal was trying to expose as frauds. His only crime was being too little too late. Even some figures in that sphere admit that things like the Strong programme laid the foundations for the current bad-faith attacks on science. Here's Bruno Latour:

"[they] are using the very same argument of social construction to destroy hard-won evidence that could save our lives. Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?"

Claiming that Sokal was the problem, instead of the guy fighting the problem, is a pretty cruel twist on top of our current mess.
Ask HN: This CNN video says US Intl traced DNC hack to Russian keyboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-GuADLoA8

at 0.49, it says US intelligence traced the hack back to a specific Russian keyboard. It makes no sense how can any one do that? You guys have any idea?
/Revolutionary/ and absurd. Love it.

How do you plan on dealing with libraries? They offer similar services for .10c/pg?
I'd like to propose "Zero Access", as in zero access to the plaintext.
I feel like this implies that the rich hoard money under a mattress. Most money held by the rich is invested in some way or another.
What's preventing them from using a free service like BitBucket Pipelines to do these builds?
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I concur. I don't expect that to convince anybody, but a post needs an opening, and this is as good as any.

Regarding unique_ptr and move semantics, I used both quite a lot on a recent project (VC++/clang/gcc) and have been pretty pleased with the results.

It can be quite hard to make things copyable sometimes, but it's usually easy to make everything at least moveable, so where in the past you might have had to use a pointer (leaving room for error) or a smart pointer (more coding, slow debug build, annoying in the debugger), you can now just always have a value.

And unique_ptr is good for documenting ownership; I used it for stuff that gets passed between threads, but of course there are other options. You don't get any useful compile-time checking, but if you get things wrong then it does at least go pop at runtime in an obvious way... which is better than nothing. (As the saying goes, C programmers know the value of nothing! And that's why we appreciate it so much when we get anything better.)

My two takeaways from the experience:

- moving as a language feature is far more useful than copying... I suspect (though without having thought through it especially thoroughly) C++ would have been heaps better if it started out with move semantics only, with copying being only by convention

- Rust has moved further up my todo list
Well Star Wars is the rare top 0.1% of works to become so successful.

I don't think derivative works should be protected personally. Is the world really better off with only George Lucas being able to make Star Wars movies? The fans would say no, I imagine.

Creators should be protected from pirates. Movies require a ton of money to make, and copyright protects their investment. And gives an economic incentive to create new works. Protecting derivative works doesn't really increase incentives for new works much. But it heavily restricts what others can create on it.

That said, it would be trademarkable. So you wouldn't be able to call it "Star Wars", or advertise it as canon. Or put the famous logo on it.

I read once that ancient Greek plays had lots of crossover and common characters that everyone knew. I think an alternative world without derivative work protection would be pretty interesting. Some of the best works I've ever read were fan fiction. They are technically illegal, and can never be put to print.
Smart electricity meters can be dangerously insecure, warns expert
Financial experts recommend people amass at least eight times their annual salary to retire.

How exactly does this translate into 25-30x annual expenses (assuming safe withdrawal rate of 3-4%) ? Let's say that taxes eat 25% and these "experts" assume no mortgage (so, what, another 15%? 20%? of gross salary). Eight times will still only cover annual spending of ~30% their gross salary. If these people are spending 50% their gross salary (not unlikely given the abysmal savings rates) they're still in for quite a shock.

low interest rates have diluted investment gains

This is also quite the non-sequitur given the consistent bull market of the 5+ years. Interest rates go down means bonds go down and money moves to stocks. Interest rates go up means bonds go up and money moves out of stocks. In neither case do investment gains get "diluted" by interest rates being either high or low.
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Why US only? Is it a timezone issue?
I don't have a dog in this fight, but why wouldn't this apply to the US, for example? Sunny with a chance of drone strike and subsequent white wash, for example. Have you followed the elections lately? Or the riots in various cities? Or the record-breaking murder rate in Chicago.

Seems weird to me to bring this up here.
I don’t know that an algorithm and a data structure have to be equivalent representations of the same thing to be isomorphic. In the case of the algorithm, is it the code that must be equivalent? Or the runtime behaviour?

The runtime behaviour of the ‘whirling regions’ algorithm clearly is not an equivalent representation of the two-dimensional array representation of an image. However, the runtime behaviour of the quadtree algorithm exactly matches the quadtree data structure.

This is my proposition: That what matters is whether the algorithmic behaviour is equivalent. I would say the same thing about `binrec` matching a binary tree.

...Or at least, I would have, up until today. I am open to being disabused of this notion.
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In my market, Uber undercuts the established taxi businesses.

People clearly have a higher valuation for a taxi ride than what Uber is charging because they've been paying the higher price and are still paying it when they choose another business other than Uber to ride with. Once Uber has driven out the other options, thus the need for competitive pricing, why wouldn't they capture that lost value?
How wonder how much you could learn about a person based on the ads they get served?
I used to be a paying customer (years ago, things may be better now), and I had many issues with CPU getting stuck at 100% for long stretches of time, or uploads/downloads would transfer a bunch of data, or would be slow, things like that.

Then, one day, my account got full, and I couldn't delete anything unless I got some more free space first (see the problem?). I believe support gave me a few extra GB just for the deletion, but that didn't work either and I decided to stop using the whole thing. That's when I switched to attic/borg, which is much superior for my use case (backups).
Judicata is a start. You can search California statutes and case law.

But lexis and westlaw are the tools needed for serious research.
"Isomorphic" literally means "of the same shape".
So anxiety - aka constant stress also causes a learning disability?
Because when we have Google for Law, lawyers are obsoleted.
>And the reason people initially used Facebook, Skype, and WhatsApp is not that they were easier to use or better. It's advertising. Notice how all of these are proprietary software made by companies with the means to advertise their software? You can bet people would use GnuPG, Diaspora, and XMPP if they had been advertised by companies like Facebook and Microsoft.

I know quite a few non-techies who use VLC, Firefox, LibreOffice, and other OS advertising-less projects. The difference is:

1. Facebook, Skype and WhatsApp solved problems others didn't and became big. Now it's too late to fight.

Had Diaspora been around before FB, and as easy to work with (put name here, picture here, password here, friend here. You're all set up. Let's go), or XMPP been around before Skype (which is a very old program in internet time), or Kontalk,Signal, etc. been around before WhatsApp (find friends by number, not by username), they probably would have taken off (at least to some degree).

Google came late onto the Desktop scene (Chromebooks) and are not successful while the incumbent (MS) is good.

MS came late onto the mobile scene and failed, while the incumbent (Google) is good.
Thanks for the clarification. This doesn't apply in Japan at all? I admit I am mostly porting over what I know about the Chinese concept, and based on a few anecdotal conversations with people I know who've spent significant time in Japan, assuming this was a piece of cultural heritage they shared. Since this is an embarrassing mistake to make if no such concept exists, I appreciate the correction.
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As a lawyer I've thought a lot about this (and if anyone is working on this and wants to talk get in touch). There are two reasons:

1. Reasoning in law relies on complex language semantics, both in statute and case law. Take for example a court decision that says "in the circumstances of this case I do not agree that John v Doe applies". That can be expressed a million ways and I'm not sure our natural language processing can replace humans yet in this area.

2. There is a lot of copyright problems that need to be overcome. Companies like Lexis and Westlaw own the rights to a lot of decisions and even statutes and can paywall the . This is slowly changing however, for example in the UK recently the courts took back the rights to publish decisions.
Sounds like the perfect excuse to ensure repeatable builds.

You send the build task to n different builders, and compare outputs afterwards. You could evwn send n build commands and call it done once you receive k<n identical builds... and you've pretty much solved the reliability issues with builders
Go: Standard package layout
Your experience is completely at odds with my own, I've always found senior management, politicians, and the wealthy to be very approachable and friendly, this even includes my teenage job at a rural Waikato abattoir stuffing pig colons into bags in the offal room. I guess your experience shows that there are elitist pricks everywhere, but to be honest if I had a boss that didn't treat me as an equal then I wouldn't work for or with them.
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Casetext is a startup working on that, at least for case law, which is the more difficult body to gain efficient access to in the US:

https://casetext.com/

I'm not associated with them at all, other than once emailing the founder best wishes.
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I think the Core-Y processor 4.5W TDP would be too slow for many. I've never tried one though.
Yeah agreed. For the record, they're clearly marked as sponsored posts. The URL is even marked as "paidpost.nytimes.com."

Here's an example: http://paidpost.nytimes.com/cole-haan/grit-and-grace.html?_r...
My brother who is a lawyer said Westlaw and LexusNexus have the unfortunate problem of being 99.9% accurate but the original source material still sometimes needs to be pulled because of errors during import such as a dropped comma which can change entire meanings of a law.
I thought the same thing as you, but it seems that at least some TB3 devices work with TB2 hosts, e.g. the LG 5K display: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207448
>The reason that americans do not embrace these things is that, for the most part, the United States still has a very, very flat social hierarchy. If you put Joe-6-Pack and Larry Ellison into a room together, J6P will still hold his head high and demand equal treatment and respect - from both Ellison and other third parties.

And that -- the mere demand for equal treatment and respect -- is the only kind of "flat hierarchy" in the US. In every other way, that is, in any way that actually counts, Larry Ellison and Joe 6pack are so different in assets, life prospects for them and their kids, influence, power, etc, that Larry might as well be Louis XIV. Heck, there are European nobles that are more approachable than US businessmen or third rate Hollywood stars in pragmatic terms. So, this flat thing is mostly a founding myth of the US, than any kind of reality.

>But J6P intuitively knows something else: asking for favors alters that relationship and establishes an explicit power balance (as opposed to the implicit one which was obviously there to some degree).

Good wages, sane work culture, vacation days, etc are not "favors". Those are rights. Nobody handed them down to the Swiss people, much less the rich.

That people would think of them as favors to be asked from the rich, as if those are Kings, once again shows how little flat the US system is.

What would be actually flat(ter) would be to have the people enjoy more of the freedom, security, etc that the rich do.
It would be a good idea to make a wiki, since the laws themselves aren't very readable.
There is a very easy way to hedge against the risk of world wars and revolutions: spread the wealth around so they don't happen. Pay much higher taxes, especially inheritance taxes, and think of it as anti-communist insurance.
What makes you think TAI<->UTC mapping functions are easier to update and synchronize between systems than the time itself?

Quite a bit of experience with timezone databases would suggest it's actually not that easy to update this kind of data globally and easily and short notice.
Why is it racist? Can you give some facts?
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It's "LexisNexis"... it's not referring to the nexus of a car company. :)
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It was worse back then. But that does not mean stupid money is not running around these days.
As far as I know, the steam engine didn't replace anything that used to require human thought. A mechanical loom isn't replacing human intelligence either. Yes, it replaced a human performing an action, but humans brains weren't exactly racked with figuring out how to sew or weave.

Think about the word "artificial" and the word "intelligence". If it used to take a human thinking and reasoning about something to perform a task but now a computer is doing it, that is by its very definition, "artificial intelligence". A steam engine or mechanical loom don't replace human brains, they replace human hands. Which is why I said "cognitive load".
>Looking into the culture from afar, it does appear to be more than just the repercussions of 'red scare' tactics.

Then again, the US had one of the most progressive and vibrant worker rights and union movements in the world (fighting for child labor, the 8 hour week, women's work, immigrant rights, etc) -- until about the 2nd World War and the Red Scare.
It does not seem ethical to hold a person accountable for not following a law, if they do not have free access to read that law and the various ways the court has ruled to how that law should be applied.
An overengineered solution for a trivial problem. All you'd need is 3 functions. No reason at all to use Akka.
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I'm conflicted on falling standards for IPOs. On one hand, it's unfair for the exponential gains of pre IPO stocks to be restricted to "accredited investors". On the other hand, retail investors are entirely unfit to judge--and prone to be exploited regarding--the nuances of unprofitable companies. My hope is Twitter's resolution will be clean, so as to avoid polluting the 2017 pipeline.
I'm a NYC native who spent some time in San Diego for work. I was just reminiscing about the weather there. I spent many weeks there over the course of a year and had nothing but perfect weather to contend with. And the food was great.

I'm not sure I could live there, however. The downtown area is limited and a little run down. It also seems like you have to drive everywhere. The salaries don't reflect the cost of living. The IT market was a little anemic, but remote work could make these last points moot.

It's worth a visit all the same.
Everyone should be conscious of B12 and be supplementing. It's dirt cheap, and crucial to proper brain function. Last time I checked something like 40% of Americans are deficient or borderline deficient but less than 3% are vegan.

Humans don't get B12 from dirty water and trace amounts of dirt on vegetables like we used to thousands of years ago and a lot of people aren't getting enough from the meat they are eating. B12 from meat is usually coming by proxy through the animal because farmers typically supplement the animals with it too.

B12 is an issue for everyone.
My argument, as given above, is that we should have a environment cost table when discussion what action individuals should take to save the environment. Starting by reducing those actions that has highest cost and then go down the list. Status quo it is not, through it is an argument in favor of bikes and remote work rather than diet changes.

Amazon deforestation is clearly a problem, and in the same way that IKEA stopped using wood that they got from that deforestation, so too can other markets that benefit from deforestation. There could be national bans or consumer boycotts of beef produced on cost of amazon forests, which would be a niche solution for a niche case.
I'm not sure why your comments got downvoted. These are questions I have been asking for the past few years. I haven't come up with any satisfactory answers, other than that I see a lot of people strongly holding onto some narratives that don't seem to be working out well for people. I have not seen anything close to a satisfactory answer, though I see a lot of people making the attempt.

To address some of the other comments in this thread: this idea that someone has to earn the right to live has not, historically, been the norm. Pre-modern societies tend to lean more towards values emphasizing community rather than values emphasizing individuals. There is a lot to say about this, philosophically, when you start looking at how modernity changed things.

One of the weirdest notions of modernity is this idea that humans are at the apex, with the implicit narrative that what is current will always be the best. Human brain achieved higher intelligence than any other living organism on earth, therefore humans are the apex predators. During the colonial era, the colonial powers considered themselves civilized ... and everyone else were savages, somehow lesser. Now, there are certain ideologies (democracy, free market, capitalism) that are considered as the apex.

There is something very broken about modernity. I'm not suggesting pre-modern notions are necessarily better. I do think this narrative of 'being the best' has blinded our modernist sensibilities, and we have yet to find a satisfactory answer beyond modernity.
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Did you ever think teleporters could be the basis for an argument against souls?

Holy shit, this is brilliant. Wow. May you post more?
Where in Los Angeles? There is no easily found information regarding the location.
I'm glad you enjoyed him and I'm sad he's gone.

But you're misremembering as it's not an argument against souls, it's an argument about what constitutes identity. You'll notice the article about it on Wikipedia has no mention of the word 'soul':

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox
Montreal in the summer is really incredible. It feels like a big city with all of the amenities. I've never been there during the winter, but thought of several feet of snow makes me not want to live there.
Wouldn't it be worth repeating the experiment controlling for different factors at the very least to rule out some of the "many possibilities"? If there are "many possibilities" for why something is happening, by definition we don't know why it's happening. Science says repeat the experiment until we know why it's happening, or at least until we can't rule anything else out.
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