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Did you read the link I provided? Intelligent silicon life has good reason to believe that carbon life is quite a bit more likely than their form of life. Just as we have good reason to think intelligent silicon life is very unlikely.

My point is precisely that this isn't just random chauvinism, which is rather than being some sort of way-cool open-minded "whoa" opinion is really rather insulting to the huge number of scientists who have considered this matter very carefully. There are a looooooooot of good reasons to think carbon is the only possible substrate for life in this universe, and a lot (still italicized, but with fewer "o"s) of good reasons to think water is the most likely choice.
> There are no 'external incentives' other than access to higher/more expensive goals.

There are - living in a market economy requires nontrivial amount of work just to maintain what you have. Both individuals and companies have to work to balance out their operational (living) expenses; moreover, in case of companies, competition forces you to "aim higher" because not doing so will make your profit fall with time.

When you "win" in the market game, those incentives diminish or disappear completely.
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If you put the money in your own pocket it is yours. If you use it to reinvest in the company it can be lost. Clearly this is risk.

You call it reinvesting, and any form of investing comes with risk. I think you are missing the point here, he is not saying it is never smart just that it adds risk which is clearly true.
People that know me can vouch for the fact that as long as I am happy with where I live, I don't give a crap about things (I wear the cheapest sweatsuits I can find 90% of the time, I have no jewellery, watches, fancy cars, etc.) even though in my country I'm on the top 5-10% of earners. I bought an ok Mazda but could have bought a Porsche or Lexus with no problem. I got a 200 euro sweatsuit as a present, and while I appreciate the present, I get as much out of that as the 20 euro's ones I buy.

Having said that, my girlfriend is the opposite. She really likes material things. I see it in her eyes when she can put a nice pair of jeans (400+ USD) or her 2500 USD earrings that she truly smiles. She isn't a gold digger and doesn't want me to buy her expensive things (she has some money) but she loves and lives by branded clothes and items (I'm talking 330 USD tshirts, 5000 dollars bags) and the fact she can wear that makes her happy. I don't understand, but I come to accept that there are people that indeed are happy with material things!
Whenever I have had to work on an existing Common Lisp code base or even my own CL code that I come to after a time, I use dtrace.lisp [1], [2].

I just choose to trace the application package/s and not the 3rd party packages it uses, at least for the 1st run. Then I run any app feature that I want to explore. What I get is the truth, the pieces of code which have been executed to fulfill that feature. I then read the relevant source code shown by the tracer doing deep dive/high level reading as I deem fit. For complex features on a code base that is new to me, someone who gives me a high level overview helps, but even if not, the tracer helps me do it. I don't know but `dtrace` seems to be `detective trace`.

I haven't found yet more joyful experience of software visualization than a session with dtrace, especially when I combine it with live updating the app source code and see the change reflected.

Outside the lisp world where I can't do such tracing, well, I quirk!!!

[1] https://github.com/deadcode/Learning-CL--David-Touretzky/blo...
[2] https://bitbucket.org/dmsurti/dtrace
You didn't have a problem imposing your modelling of cities and road networks on others, did you?
And in those dense urban centers where not much space is used for parking, there is still an extraordinarily large amount of money spent on parking. Underground parking garages like you will frequently find in dense urban centers often cost close to $100k per parking space.
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It's basically a wrapper around a AWS Lambda function. So, Amazon is the one doing the care, planning, and implementation.
Yes, the same kinds of people who laughed at Stallman's "GNU/Linux" nomenclature are now apoplectic about Ubuntu's branding.

We know that Ubuntu is "Ubuntu Linux" and Linux is "GNU/Linux".
You can go straight to http://www.marcusdesieno.com/surveillance-landscapes/ to see those images. But I lack more information, like the url from those cameras, for example, to check how they look like right now.
The next few decades promise automation that all but removes the economic and geopolitical advantages of population. At that point, population becomes a liability. There are only two endgames: quarantine and subsidy. That is, you subsidise the standard of living for some "in" group and quarantine away the implied "out" group. Ideally, everyone is "in". Realistically, no way.
And this is exactly why, 2 weeks ago, I put Famipix for Schools online. Free for all schools and institutions:

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A door I can close when I need to concentrate.

Adjustable lighting so I won't need sunglasses. (My current employer got a bit carried away; I have modded my overhead lights with a warm yellow gel film to make it more agreeable.)

Coffee (or the means for making such) within easy reach.
Not to mention the Angular developers are killing thousands of React developers every year, forcing React developers to pay for their infrastructure, and polluting the ecosystem to the point where everyone's health is imperiled.

I mean, c'mon, I might enjoy flying a helicopter to work every day but I don't force every new apartment to have a helipad, or demand that we only have one home per acre because otherwise air traffic might get too congested. Nor do I complain when I can't park my helicopter for free at the store.
> We basically need to bring the hammer down

That's a surefire way to galvanize your opposition.

If you make the cities a nice place to live people will move there. If you turn the screws on them to try to control them they will go to war with you and you will lose.
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There is nothing that relates to trump in this article

please stop shit posting
I'm not sure I understand the impact of automation entirely. The article brings out some great points that I haven't considered at all
From what I understand, the main problem of the doll is that, as soon it is turned on, it pairs to the first Bluetooth connection it can? That means, if the child is using it without the parents, they can't know with whom the child communicates.

Once paired, the Internet-dependent functionality is provided by the device and the app with which the doll was paired. The attacks are possible because the hacker can provide his own "server side" handling (the doll being the client).

The doll has a built in microphone and speaker.

It's the app on the mobile phone that connects to the internet and "transcripts" the voice of the questions into something that can be processed by sending it to some servers. The iOS version of the app can do 3000 transcriptions before you have to purchase more.

http://myfriendcayla.co.uk/public/downloads/cayla_FAQ.pdf

From what I read, when not paired, the doll is offline but if powered it still "talks" and "listens", just without the processing possible through the app and the servers across the internet and for EU, that's another problem: are the servers in the EU or not, are they doing special treatment of the data as it's known the data are from minors etc.
As far as I remember, the picture was discovered by a government founded TV station.

There was a report and the picture was shown (I've seen it!) in a Swiss magazine. The website does not work anymore:
http://schweizmagazin.ch/news/336/ARTICLE/4283/2008-05-29.ht...

Ms. Merkel disputed the publication of this image since it would violate her "privacy rights".
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/a-377389.html

Otherwise, just google "IM Eirka"
https://www.google.com/#q=%22im+erika%22+merkel

On a discussion board someone asked if the German chancellor could be blackmailed if someone had this information? Answer from another user:"How? Everybody knows already she was working for the state security..."
I agree with everything you say, but I almost feel like SV needs to read this once a month just to make sure it is not forgotten.

Not arguing this should be the only business model, but an option that is considered.
There's possibly a good analog in data. A while ago it seemed very popular to talk about "schemaless" data systems, and I heard the perfect commentary: "If you think your data is schemaless, what that really means is you don't know what the schema is, and that's bad."

What people probably meant by schemaless: It's very easy for things to have a slightly different schema than they used to if that's needed. Things that don't all conform to the same schema can still be handled well. And it should be understood that sometimes you do need a better defined schema.

So my point? Don't focus on being 'leaderless' or 'structureless'. Focus on being flexible enough to allow new substructures in the company as needed. Make sure there's a system in place that allows people to coordinate with groups that don't have the same structure as them. And recognize when you do need a bit of structure to keep scaling.
“Episode 8: The Last Jedi”, is plural (German title is “Die letzten Jedi”)
The author is very sympathetic to the plight of the worker, but what about bosses? Where will their job satisfaction come from if they can't control what workers put on their desks?
I think there's a bit of a gap in the software ecosystem today in that there's no tool that lets semi-technical people like myself create simple applications, e.g. to read and write to databases. Bit like MS Access used to do.

Google Spreadsheets actually goes a long way (I've done some stuff using the IF function etc. in it), but obviously has its limits. So combining it with Python sounds interesting. Not sure if it's what I'm looking for, but I'll check it out.
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The proposal likely failed because it was too ambitious. The 2,500 Swiss franc a month level would have required doubling or tripling the federal budget.
DOS isn't based on Xenix at all. It's a clone of CP/M, and CP/M was its own thing for 8-bit CPUs (and later 16-bit).
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Nice idea! Is it iranian? Is there anything similar for Arabic?
Well UBI would naturally have to come along with greatly increased taxes on higher income levels, and property taxes would remain. I think the biggest issue of UBI is the transition period. How do you switch over?
How about you think, for maybe 10 seconds or more? Even the most well designed machine needs cogs. Most people are just a cog in the machine. The cog doesn't add value, it just makes the machine work. But of course those cogs are still needed and therefore employed.

Entrepreneurs build the machines. Everyone else is just cogs or highly specialised components.

Try looking outside of your little bubble once in a while. Just for one day pay attention to what the vast majority of working people are actually doing.
Quickbase does that, but the pricing model doesn't work well for all use cases.

Edit: DabbleDB was awesome, and easier to learn than quickbase. But Twitter acquihired them and shut it down.
> The DNA of having employees pay the company to work instead of the other way around?!? Of course, the BBC article wants you to think "DNA" as in "no CEO" instead of "workers paying a rent".

This is missing the point (full disclosure: I know several people working at Crisp and co-organise workshops with them in Sweden).

I remember hearing Henrik Kniberg talk about this at Oredev a while ago, and we ended up restructuring our consultancy firm quite close to their model in 2013. The idea is that you don't work for the company, the company works for you. It's applicable to consultancies, where everyone effectively goes and earns money on their own, but some shared overhead (such as accountants, paperwork, getting master-services agreements with banks and insurance certificates so you can do business) can be effectively shared by everyone under the same umbrella.

our model is not a 10% haircut, but that all shared costs are divided according to the proportion of revenue quarterly. the company also doesn't have a boss or anyone in charge (legally, in the UK, we have designated partners who are allowed to sign documents, but everyone has that right, so everyone is a boss and nobody is the Boss).

Our company is also not allowed by the statute to have any assets or own any IP, that all belongs to individuals. This is to avoid any conflict of interest and people starting to 'work for the company' in the future.

This model obviously wouldn't apply to companies trying to accumulate wealth/IP/assets and looking to create an exit by selling the company. But it works amazingly well if you want a lifestyle consulting business where everyone does their stuff.

Edit: typos
Great philosophy, bootstrap a profitable company and keep maintaining that bootstrapping way of doing business. I am reading Nassim Taleb's book AntiFragile, and am in the process of judging both organizations and personal strategies on the fragile/antifragile curve. BaseCamp is antifragile and that is a good thing.
I agree there's an element of "get off my lawn" about me - but it's backed by a genuine fear about what happens to people new to web development.

The impression given by looking around the web for discussions and tutorials is that you have to learn full client-side MVC. This is a huge burden to impose.

The other danger is that people are building sites using these stacks because they never learnt the simpler way to do things. All the complexity gets pulled in without question.

At least us old-timers have the experience to know when there's a positive cost/benefit ratio for all this tech. I'm not sure everyone will in the future.
Hey,

I'm building a way for people to immediately create real change in reaction to what they read on the news. This MVP is available as a Chrome extension on desktop and as an Action Extension on iPhone/iPad (so it works with all your news apps, like CNN, NYTimes).
It instantly shows you a crowdsourced collection of actions you can do in response to the news you're reading. Once you've installed it, you can try activating the extension on this link to see an example:
https://qz.com/892750/donald-trump-is-cutting-aid-for-family...

At this point, I need people who are willing to join as trusted moderators to filter through the crowdsourced actions, and also contribute their own. These people would ideally have interest/knowledge on progressive causes and organizations.

I'm also looking for general feedback.
You can respond here, or hello@getresist.org.

Thanks,
Johnny
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As of today, there is no case where the government has pressed the issue about modifying systems. They thought they had the perfect case with San Bernadino/Apple, in fact they are trying to pick the best case in terms of players in order to establish precedent, but they backed down because all of silicon valley rose up in protest. If Riseup became a test case for this it would be a big deal, this would be a legal fight that would bring armies of lawyers who have been dying to litigate this exact scenario, and sillicon valley would also get behind such a case (as they did with Apple). But the government isn't likely to pick Riseup as the target for such a case, they want someone big like Apple.

In particular, what you are talking about is a Title III Wiretap (in transit) order with an additional element of technical assistance that requires significant re-architecture that would expose massive take, or enforced lying (endorse a false cert). This would put a huge burden on Riseup, and significantly undermine their operation. A Title III Wiretap order can only be done in very specific cases, it is much harder to obtain one of these than it is for a simple search warrant, or subponea. In fact its so difficult, that in 2015 Google received 15 wiretap orders in total and more thaan 8k search warrants. Not only that, but the government must show they can do data minimization and there is a notification requirement (unlike a search warrant) where they notify the target after 90 days. The tighter particularity requirements built into the statute make this a very good position for Riseup to be in.
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While I am not a programmer, I gravitate to Hacker News the community seems to value smart, clear, concise, rational arguments, and sees through the BS. Because the community is intellectually curious, it is happy to discuss any interesting article that contains a smart new idea or perspective, which extends far beyond programming.

Link Quality:
Articles that are low quality and don't provide any new or noteworthy information are not upvoted by HN and as a result I don't need to take time and energy to sift through them. Almost every mainstream news site on the internet is half full of fluff, and the FB newsfeed is even worse. HN avoids this be having a community of smart people who care enough to vote, and also by not being captive to advertisers

Comments Quality:
Concise, rational, well backed up comments get upvoted. If I don't have a pre-formed opinion of a particular article I can turn to the comments to find the smart people who know what they're talking about, and then the best rebuttals right below. If I stay on WSJ I don't see that.

Diversity:
Not only does HN cover an incredibly diverse range of topics, but also a diversity of opinion in the comments. Most news sites are siloed by topic, and my FB feed is an echo chamber.

Procrastination Value:
Something about HN makes it the ultimate place to go when you don't want to do something else. Your brain gets a jolt from hunting through the list and finding something new and interesting to read. And it updates constantly at a similar pace to meet my procrastination needs. Plus the articles are good so I feel like I actually learned something compared with the Buzzfeed articles I might have clicked if I went to FB.
Yes, "foo".equals(bar) is useful in Java if bar can be null, but that's a different thing.
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"Microsoft are still always pushing new technologies"

And how much of it is actually needed? Considering only the actually useful parts of an OS, my impression is that Windows got saturated a long ago and the parts in later versions were just forced along in new versions due to reasons that have nothing to do with technological advance. My point is, ReactOS has only to become stable and reasonably good on real hardware to be successful. There is a lot of parts in the later Windows versions that only serve niches, thus being cruft for the bulk of users. Microsoft had to evolve this way due to its commercial nature, whereas ReactOS doesn't have to.
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Sadly, I have to agree. The first time you see an AppleScript, you think, wow, that looks great, can't wait to dive in. Two hours later, still can't get the simplest little things to work, start wondering if maybe I can do this with a bash script, or something else ...
Depends on where you live. There is a lot of variation in water quality in the US.
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Or like Annapolis, MD. Or New Rochelle, NY. You can get a lovely house in those cities within walking distance of downtown for less than what houses cost in the mega-sprawl Bay Area suburbs.
Not in New York it don't.
The salary cut is also problematic. If you create a maximum wage that is too low you'd have employers competing for a smaller pool workers without any way to incentivize them. I suspect a great many jobs would simply become impossible to fill (oil worker, trash truck driver, construction laborer, etc). Perhaps you can make the amount say one million annually (adjusted to the now inflated dollars) but that likely wouldn't curb inflation all that much as few people are paid that well and would destroy the very tax base that is intended to fund the basic income in the first place.

I'd support a move to a "Star Trek" economy but I just don't see how you pull it off.
Yep. That was it. I still have a copy. Amazing book - even if I'm not sure I agree with either of them on the nature of consciousness any more.
Would you say there are chefs and non-chefs? Or just people who have different levels of various skills?

Musicians and non-musicians?

Ballerinas and non-ballerinas?

Of course there are. Yes where you draw the line is somewhat arbitrary and will vary from person to person but there is still a distinction to be made. You can be pedantic and say "Well everyone is a ballerina, they just might be a really unskilled one." But someone who is very unskilled really isn't a ballerina.
Loved the bit about Building 20 at MIT. It really did embody the hacker ethos with its freedom even to rebuild the physical space to suit your project. Oddly enough, some of my German classes were in that building and I remember walking through the halls and ducking under bundles of cables that were running overhead to different labs where real work was getting done. It really was a legendary place and I'm glad I got to see it before it was torn down.
"Admittedly, it is hard for me to keep up with the latest frameworks/tools/etc without the context of being a full-time developer,"

It's impossible even if you are. It's probably best to understand this as an instance of the multi-armed bandit problem [1], and the mature full-time developer will eventually settle into an exploitation phase.

There's a lot of nuances beyond that we could get in to, but I think that captures the essence of the situation fairly well. Though I will mention that mature developers also develop the skill to successfully use the experiences of others to judge the payout probability of certain "arms" more correctly than a new person will, which the pure multi-arm bandit problem usually does not encompass.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
I like HN, but I still feel it was a mistake to call it that ("Hacker"). That's like calling yourself an expert, maestro, champion, etc. Sounds self-conceited and/or insecure.

And besides, it's more about figuring out how to make money than how things work. Nothing wrong with the former, it's just the name is a misnomer.