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Historically, the luddite concern was that technology would replace humans with no consideration for what society would do with/for those humans. This was, and assuredly still is, a valid and pressing concern.

Technologies (outside of military) are rarely regarded as intrinsically bad, but very few administrations over the millennia have felt comfortable talking to their citizenry about how they're going to approach massive social and economic changes.

This is in part a failing with governments throughout history, but doubtless also a sad indictment on human nature (difficulty with short vs long term plans, concerns over wealth disparity, preference for inherited social expectations / status quo, etc).
They used a format someone else defined. I don't know why you think that's hypocritical. It's not like defining a new file format is especially hard. If the format hadn't already existed, they could have created their own equivalent format. But since it does exist, it seems perfectly reasonable for Nintendo to re-use that format.
Ask HN: Easiest and least painful way of adding Lets Encrypt?
I have a Debian box (LAMP) with some legacy PHP sites where I want to put Lets Encrypt SSL. What is the most painful way of doing that without disturbing any site that's currently running on it ? Is there any tool or script which does most of the job so that I don't have to fiddle a lot with Apache/PHP config and risk to break something ? Thanks
That doesn't prevent your doctor from prescribing it off label. It wouldn't be covered by insurance. I received it off label and the shingles vaccine off label.
White people talking about the time they survived with no electricity for that night like they are the world's greatest warriors. Just unreal, zero self awareness at all.
That one is easily dealt with: "Our robot surgeon reduces the fatality rate by 98.5%. Our study of the remaining fatalities suggest we can reduce them further. We hope to reach near-zero fatality rate within the year.

Don't even speak of the bug. Just state what matters: this stuff is better than what we had before, and it can (and will) be even better. This may prevent talks about killer robots.
Someone like Amit doesn't need money; by the time you get as highly placed at Google as he was you will be wealthy. I believe that Uber has interesting engineering challenges but likewise have doubts about their profitability.
This article doesn't say, but the paper on Nature does. 4.2K. So, no, it's not any higher temperature than existing superconductors.
Also, learning information about individuals: Big clients, competitors, employees, critics, journalists, politicians, etc. etc.
"Number of characters gives little information about the complexity of a program. Functions is a better metric."

When the human genome was sequences (it was a ten year project), lots of pseudo-philosophers predicted the number of genes that would be found, with numbers ranging from thousands to millions. The genome in hand, we found about 25000 genes, which make up a few percent (1.5-3%) of the genome. We then looked more closely, and now we can't even agree on the defintion of "gene" anymore, which is one reason why I can't give an exact percentage.

It turns out that one gene can produce more than one protein, or sometimes less. There are lots of genes whose only function (assuming "function" is even well defined) is to regulate other genes, a bit like a program could have functions of higher order. We're slowly grasping the fact that we have no idea how complex the genome and the machine interpreting it really are. Number of genes really is no metric at all.
My understanding is that he was legally forced to hand over the encryption key and all the data. The FBI, then, could have read all messages that were available on the server.

He shut down so that no additional mail could be sent and read.

It's unclear to me how much mail was kept on the server. Only unread mail? Anything in your inbox? Everything?
I can finally get my old mail back. :)
A small reply to all the comments.

Nope a social problem is by definition a social problem which by definition is applicable to all industries. Men will always want women and idiots will always treat women with disrespect no matter if they are programmers, doctors, footballers or dancers.
You don't solve the problem by attacking the tech industry. It's a matter of education, mental health and society principles.
I kinda of agree that you should start from somewhere, but this somewhere should be the schools and the family.
Author of that project here, it's the other way around - I'm using the absence oft aliasing to turn mutable Rust code immutable, which I can then embed in Lean. But you're right that ownership (ie, affine types) per se doesn't help.
> The financial services world has its own strong identity, handles massive amounts of money, and will not necessarily be in awe of your cool startup. When I was at Bloomberg, I used to cringe when startup founders would show up in hoodies, essentially destroying their credibility before the meeting even started.

Who wants wall street awe? Who cares about credibility? Run a goddamn business, not a fan club. If you cared about image, you wouldn't talk about what people wear. It's completely irrelevant to why I'd use your product.
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By the way, Scientists studying the rift don't attribute this event to climate change:

> "This is probably not directly attributable to any warming in the region, although of course the warming won't have helped," says Luckman. "It's probably just simply a natural event that's just been waiting around to happen." [0]

[0]: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/16/509565462/...
Why bother? Who knows how much work it might be to get a physical copy of a 20+ year old game and the hardware to dump it.

It also might have been outsourced and the developer just took a lazy shortcut.
Definitely. And I wouldn't be surprised to see more methods papers from movies going forward.
No. NES files as used today contain a few dozen bytes at the start which are used to tell emulators a little bit about the type of hardware that needs to be emulated. This header appears in the ROMs that Nintendo is selling. Nintendo would not have invented precisely the same header as is used by unofficial emulators by chance.

Note that no one is claiming that this is illegal on Nintendo's part.
I would argue the biggest downside to encrypted email is the sender, recipient, date, and size are known to all intermediaries.

First of all, sometimes knowing who you talk to is more important than knowing what you say. Traffic analysis lets you draw all kinds of conclusions.

Secondly, there are two parties, so double the chances for rubber hose cryptography. An opponent can approach either party and ask for details, so both parties are trusting the other can't be broken by the opponent.

Of course, we should all be encrypting everything anyway, no point in giving out free message bodies.
If they actually did what this video is suggesting, it's interesting, but there's nothing actually wrong with it. Yes, Nintendo says that third-party emulation is something they disagree with. But Nintendo isn't a third party. They actually own the system and games in question. If they actually did download a ROM (and I'm not convinced they did, they could have used the same tools and produced an identical ROM), while they say it's illegal for the ROM provider to provide said ROM, it's not illegal for Nintendo to use the ROM since it's their intellectual property.
I've owned two Asus Transformers: a T100 and a T200. Both beautiful convertibles, the T100 build quality is imho better having a sturdier keyboard and being more solid overall. Anyway the developing experience on the Intel Atom is far from optimal. I do fullstack web dev and some Java on Android; VMs on BayTrail (either with 2 or 4 gb of ram) are a pain to use, everything is slow and simple tasks become very time consuming. No real multitasking with 4 gb of ram, Chrome will start to kill background tabs as soon as you open Photoshop or similar.
That said I've recently bought a refurbished Thinkpad T430 for about $300. Best purchase for my productivity: runs Linux very well, is fast with an i5 and 8gb, is silent, the keyboard is very very good, ssd is fast, build quality is among the best you can find.
Try a Thinkpad, you'll love it.
Gee, if only we could execute code on the client! That would be very empowering in this situation.

I guess it's not possible, then.
I don't think their position is safe but I'd probably bet on them or google winning that market over anyone else.
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Nobody's suggesting that they chanced upon the same header. That's ridiculous. The suggestion is that they're using the same tools to rip the ROM, and/or they're just re-using the format because it's a pre-existing format that does the job.
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Replace WSJ with Netflix, would you suggest he share the link then? Many of us live of SaaS but complain about it when newspapers do it.
I am curious if you or any of the other Elixirists(not sure what the community is called) spent time learning Erlang first or jumped right to Elixir? If yes would you recommend spending time with Erlang first or is not necessary? I guess I don't know if there is an Interop similar to Clojure and Java.
Oh geez I forgot all about tripod doing that. That's one of the places I originally cut my teeth with perl. That and Matt's script archive (though I was quickly fixing or rewriting those as I learned)
What constitutes a publishable paper depends on the subfield and journal/conference.

There are many computer science papers discussing the usability, implementation, application of tech ologies.
Did you install or buy it?
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Trello blows. Sorry, it does. It seems more for show than actually getting things done. Functionality was sorely lacking for me.

Last year I tried to do my first Android app, a Trello widget and found the functionality of the REST API lacking too, and there was no way to use the Trello credentials from their own app not interface with it well. After some exchanges with their dev team I basically gave up.
I'm more saddened than anything. Rubin's lab is dedicated to studying Spinal Muscular Atrophy - the leading cause of infant death in the USA. My cousin died of SMA and it was absolutely devastating for my aunt and uncle. If Rubin's lab is destroyed by this, even if justified, it is a setback for SMA research. I wouldn't call it awesome.
The person who replaced Amit as head of search (John Giannandrea) is the founder / CEO of Metaweb and creator of Freebase -- aka what became Google's Knowledge Graph. Google using more ML in search doesn't mean a KG isn't also useful for query understanding.

And KGs aren't mutually exclusive with ML -- e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04844
I can think of four reasons for Oracle staying at Solaris 11.x instead of planning a new Solaris 12 release:

1. Some enterprises have a general policy of only running versions N and N-1 of software. The release of Solaris 12 would trigger a review of Solaris 10 in those environments, which would accelerate the trend away from Solaris. (The Solaris 10 to Solaris 11 upgrade is particularly disruptive due to the switch to IPS packaging and the networking changes, so migration to Linux is of comparable complexity.) Immediate loss of legacy support revenue for both Solaris and SPARC hardware.

2. Solaris 11 support is promised until at least 2031, or 2034 if customers pay for extended support [1]. A new release would just add another stream to support with at least 15 years of overlap.

3. The old SVR4 packaging was so slow and Live Upgrade so unreliable that new releases were required to stop patch bundles from getting too unwieldy. IPS is much faster and safer so it is more technically feasible to stick with the same major release.

4. I'd tend to agree with Adrian Cockcroft that the interesting things are happening elsewhere now [2]. There may not be enough reason for customers to upgrade. Oracle can avoid the story of a failed release by not doing the release in the first place.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-ha...

[2] http://perfcap.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/open-letter-to-my-sun...
This is all ridiculous. Download, index, and process your mail locally. Problem solved.
Indeed, I'm wrong. The second link (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/a1d8453e184dfd8...) I referred to is something like "Third party resources" (TPRs) which again has nothing to do with services.

The first proposal you link is not anything that needs implementation.

Please, respond to my technical answers. You're not. Listen to your own words.
As written in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13447493), one has to give away too much personal information without clear reason.

I would suggest to use https://posteo.de instead. They offer anonymous payment by post (I'm just a happy user).
The business with the cert was just the final outcome. The initial mistake was making and selling snake oil. It is possible for someone to innocently do this, out of inexperience and ignorance.

Over time, though, it's become increasingly clear Ladar Levison is just a snakeoil salesman who misled his users. He's never acknowledged he did anything wrong. Don't fall for his posturing about 'Freedom'.
We tried to get a trait hierarchy for numerical right four or five times; it's really hard. So yeah, you have to use num or make your own at the moment. It's true this is less than optimal; it's just not an easy problem. For just abs it should only be a few lines of code to make your own; three for the trait, and five times two for the impls.
Raspberry Pi imitator has GbE, 2GB RAM, and 4K video
For comparison, the German stellarator has the following stats: 250ms cure plasma duration. 150 shots in two months. 1.1 billion euro construction cost.
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Well, if you have not logged in since they started recording traffic and until shutdown, chances are your password is not compromised and emails are still encrypted. But no way to be sure.
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There are basically no barriers to "publication" on arXiv.
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Exactly. In fact, you'll seem to meet only extroverts, because half of them are introverts pretending to be extroverts, because society tells them they're otherwise worthless (to varying degrees, but it's always there... in the West, anyway, particularly North America)
I'm really sad about the fate of Reia. It could have been the OO like language that migrated millions of developers to concurrent functional languages. Potentially much more effective at that than Elixir, which looks like Ruby at a distance but it's very different when one sits at the keyboard.

http://reia-lang.org/
I used to use a competitor, https://www.oneperiodic.com/products/handsoff/. As far as memory serves, it had some kind of rule sharing, but I didn't like it at all (why would I trust rules made by someone else?)

One possible way to do this well would be displaying information about how many people blocked/allowed. Then maybe following the crowd if it is converged enough, e.g. ≥1k votes with ≥95% same decision. But, this might be technically and socially challenging (people who care about this level of privacy may not want to share their rules; you need to make sure that no malware developer can game the system; people need to trust in that).
Apple files $1B lawsuit against chip supplier Qualcomm
Exactly, I don't see the problem here. It's their intellectual property, they can do whatever they want with it. Just because somebody else dumped it from a cartridge and uploaded it, doesn't mean they own any kind of copyright or anything--Nintendo still does.
Only if you leave juicy content in the unencrytped subject.

Also, "What? subjects and recipients are unencrypted!?" -- Every User Ever
You have an accurate assessment. It is the prisoner's dilemma problem: Do what others are doing & do it first. Or have them do it get, bet bigger and acquire you, and you'll end up doing it anyway.
If you can write something useful about the results or the things you discovered or developed in the process, sure. (Not in every venue of course, but in many)

I don't know enough about the specific subfields involved here to guess where and if this specific example would likely pass.
You are are not biased just experienced with the tools. Huge thanx for distillery.
Depends how much you overclock your mathematician.
I explain myself a lot better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13447734
If (note well that "if") Rubin's lab is fabricating data, is it still a setback for SMA research if Rubin's lab is destroyed? Or is the fabricating data already the setback for SMA research, and removing the fabricator is... maybe not a step forward, but at least stopping stepping back?
Perhaps more charitably, because she has no known history of having done so, and her talents in the acting profession are not generally considered directly transferable.
For natural language, yes.

But log files tend to have a very different distribution of whitespace.
I have quit my long-term position (remote contract) with less than $2.5k in the bank about a month ago.

It wasn’t much of an impulse move. Thought of it as a last-resort measure to motivate me into building projects of my own, with subsequent evolution into adequately priced freelance consulting and bootstrapping own businesses. The alternative would have been remaining at that position with bare minimum pay, no portfolio gain (strictly internal company projects), no growth or career advancement potential, no security or insurance.

Bad:

– Quitting itself was poorly planned and resulted in ruined connections with ex-colleagues at the company and unnecessary stress.

– Initially experienced fierce drive and got a lot done in a few days, but now the focused vision is gone. I regret not having changed something in my life to make motivation a non-issue prior to quitting.

– Returning to my pretty much third-world country after nomadic lifestyle is depressing, and so is the likely necessity of living with parents. Nonexistent real-life opportunities and networking potential, even if somewhat cheaper food.

– Doesn’t help that people close to me in life think I got fired and didn’t make the tough call myself.

Good:

– I remain convinced I’m better off, all opposing opinions be damned.

All the luck to you!
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I'm a big fan of decoupling the historical relationship between having salable labor-power and having an income that can be exchanged for goods and services. If the productive economy can go Full Robot, I think that it should, and governments should start planning how their people can get goods and services as opposed to getting jobs.

That said, I think it's fair to expect displaced workers' countries to take the lead on adaptation strategies for their own voters. Some displaced crop pickers are eligible to vote in the US but I think that the bulk of them are eligible only in countries outside the US. Undocumented immigrants don't bother me but neither do I feel like it's the responsibility of Americans to provide temporary foreign workers, documented or not, with jobs in the US.
Doesn't hotdocs do this?
Would it be safe to say your opinion of Steve Jobs is similar?

It is plausible that Steve Jobs had some input to the iPod beyond requesting the work, and artistic feedback. But it's definitely more likely that he didn't.
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Uber is a middle man that takes money from existing and potential cab drivers' pockets, puts it into their own, and artificially reduces consumer costs.

Cab companies aren't innocent bystanders, but the drivers generally are. But All Hail Uber anyways, I guess.
This. I worked with a lot of law firms in my previous career (finance) and in my experience it seemed like they generally went out of their way to reinvent the wheel -- even with trivial things that should be standardized like non-disclosure agreements.
Suppose the person who illegally ripped the ROM also altered it in some way. Does this constitute derivative work, with that person holding partial copyright to the result? Or does the illegal copying preclude such possibility?
There's code in there that Nintendo didn't write and thus doesn't own. The .NES header which tells the machines how to set up the machine state.

Basically, this means Nintendo is selling code it didn't write and has no authorization to resell. Doesn't matter if the game is theirs or not, the specific code added which they are using for virtual console is not their property.
So they're done, right? Why should we not immediately un-trust their root?
There's nothing legally wrong with it, but it's hypocritical for them to benefit from services provided by hobbyists while at the same time vilifying those hobbyists.
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Do you have a source for these claims?
Midway downloaded a ROM of Spy Hunter to get access to the game's sound effects for a pre-smartphone mobile port, and then had the ROM site shut down for copyright infringement.

Happens all the time.
None of that changes anything about the fact that they regularly publish half-truths or outright lies, though. As is the case in this situation.

There's a big gap between theory and practice.
How common are Ultrasound machines with digital output on the field ? I guess there are models with DVI/HDMI/DP in catalogs already.
The time is past for hand-wringing and self-flagellation. Articles like this are just a distraction. Only direct action matters now.
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