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> Idea finds evidence in its favor[...] Shouldn't conclusions be drawn from all evidence?

Actually, idea finds new evidence. It was already drawn from evidence (I don't know how solid), and now it has more evidence.
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Petitioners brief does a great job by making it seem like moving the words from the end to the beginning was the only change. But note that Congress changed it from "for venue purposes" to "for purposes of venue under this chapter." Now it's "for all venue purposes." The latter suggests at least a clarification about the intended scope of the residency definition.
Really? I haven't many people to have claimed to have gotten an "insane" financial advantage from the stock market, yet alone HFT. I've met a few but none of them had such a positive reaction that it seemed worth investing a significant amount of time.

Any advice?
The problem with personal perspective is its inherently myopic...

What Nassim describes can be considered a luxury event similar to going to a Renaissance fair to some. Your daily life is far more amazing than it was even 20 years ago. Here is my day:

wake up to the sound of an alarm synchronized to a global satellite network with ~100 nanoseconds of GMT. turn on a light source powered by nuclear energy produced hundreds of miles away. put on clothing made of synthetic fibers that keep me warm and dry on a winter morning. heat up a food source, processed and irradiated of bacteria, enriched with extra nutrients and vitamins, using microwave energy. sit in front of a bank of liquid crystal displays showing 18+ million colors at 4k resolution. Read 20 different news articles from around the world while drinking my coffee, which was shipped and processed in a global trade market. made using water that was pumped to my house, going through ~10 different filters to remove toxins.
Now that I'm done with my coffee I'm preparing for a weekly HD video conference with 20+ people around the world to discuss new technologies we have to prepare the network infrastructure for. I'll then spend time analyzing TeraBytes of data stored in a cloud database that is updated in realtime. The meeting was about how that dataset will be PetaBytes by next year and ExaBytes soon after.

If predicting the future 200 years from now is arrogance, then saying nothing has changed is hubris. We are still trying to convince some people that evolution is real. That makes it hard to even consider the idea that we can predict the path evolution and technology will take.

prediction and evolution rely on one thing, probability. Someone else in this thread brought up the Fermi paradox, the ultimate 50/50 split. After accepting that, you are either an optimist or a pessimist. A pessimist will never accept odds better than 50/50 cause failure happens. So be it.

The probability that your, or ANY individual's, prediction of successful technological evolution is very low. If you are an optimist though, the probability of SOMEONE's vision of the future out of EVERYONE's ideas being a winner is near 100%. THAT is the power of survival of the fittest. THAT is why trans-humanists call this inevitable. We are optimistic of our chances. But we have to be open to new perspectives and adapt.

I will embrace these technologies when they are available to me. I will even attempt to contribute.

But I will also still enjoy drinking from Phoenician meal technology with friends. And paddling across a lake in a native American river craft. And chopping wood for a campfire in the forest. I like camping during my vacation. My daily life will continue advancing forward. You don't have to forget the past to live in the future.
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I thought it was super cool when I found out you could overload operators in Julia. I wonder if you could re-create some APL-like syntax that way.
I'm all for legalized marijuana, I just wish we could do away with smoking it in public (and cigarettes). I have no problem with it but the smell.
Do companies hire people without experience in a specific language?
I agree with this article but I think that unnecessary complexity is always under threat of being replaced by simpler solutions.
I do appreciate the message that everything is always more complex than it seems once you start digging into it though.
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> On another note, every state should ban election advertising from anyone outside the state

How is this not a first amendment violation?
Same problem, now there are hundreds of apps to learn to navigate through. Some might show you a map some won't, some will have bugs, hidden fees etc.
To the layman I am fairly confident they will have no idea what journaling is and why they may want it. Many people would probably find it useful if it is a more or less seamless thing that happens. I know in the past I have updated the wrong number and would have liked to see the change history.

The other thing which I think will be a barrier to entry for most people is having to export your contacts/calendars and import them. For android couldn't you get the contacts permission and copy them? Obviously that should only be an option as depending on the privacy level of the user they may rather import only.

Final question is do I just use my normal contacts and the app catches and saves all my changes or do I have to keep importing them or do I have to just use the etesync app?
There are two options. The pre-paid desk upstairs or the official taxi desk downstairs where it should run on meter (you pay 2myr for the privilege of using this desk for tiny bit of blue or red paper). Either way both should be regulated, safe and not a rip off. The taxi desk upstairs often with a single operator has long queues as tourists seem to asking for sightseeing advice, their horoscope, and then wanting to pay in cent coins (that's guess, it's annoying, KL is terrible airport, after almost as long as flight taxi-ing from runway to gate to queue another 40 minutes is not my thing)
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>because I'm genuinely in agreement with Peter Thiel's argument that technological progress is actually decelerating relative to how it was moving 60 years ago

Is it possible we just covered most of the low-hanging fruit in the 1800s and 1900s, and now the only remaining discoveries that are really ground-breaking are the really difficult ones, hence the slower rate?
Nuclear weapons disarmament is a political problem, and Musk primarily works within the realm of engineering. Besides, game theoretic arguments can be made against nuclear weapons not being much of a threat at all.
I see many comments here about the health and social effects of smoking marijuana and there's of course a very valid point in each of those discussions - smoking (anything) is not good for your lungs and smoking around unsuspecting non-smokers is disrespectful (and gets them high, because weed smoke is active even in the air!).

But there's another angle that I'm curious about: the mentality shift that it will generate in society as more and more people start using the herb - for recreation, medication or as an industrial plant.

It's a very powerful plant, people have been using it for thousands of years, because it grows everywhere and has lots of industrial uses.

And of course we've all been indirectly influenced by it: by listening to the music, lyrics, books or movies created by artists who were high.

It's a great companion for both the consumption and production of all types of entertainment, from videos to video games, design and even coding !

So in a way it's even more useful today than it has ever been, which is why, sooner or later it will get legalised in a lot more places.

Like so many things, if abused, It's addictive and makes people lazy and demotivated, but the value it brings to its users ( and indirectly to the huge information and entertainment (and food!) industry) is quite high :)

I'm just curious how will society change after, say, 50 years of legal weed ? Will we still be trying to fight wars or will everyone just chill down, smoke the herb and play their sitars in peace ? :)
War gets replaced by the threat of war. You fight a big, awful war, and everybody hates it so much that there's political will to make everyone put down their weapons and focus on peace.

War equalizes everything. It turns princes into paupers and paupers into princes. Enormous amounts of stored wealth simply evaporate and everything becomes the communal property of the state.

You see this cycle all throughout history. Wealth and inequality build up, people complain, threaten war, and to allay them the elites throw a few ladders out. This creates not just elite families, but elite sections of society.

Once you have sections of society hating each other, then you have the makings of war. People constantly worry about it, but we're still on the downswing from World War 2.

Unfortunately we have not yet reached the point to where war threatens human survival. Nuclear weapons are just not powerful enough.

What I am hoping for is that humanity has figured out the trick of de-escalation. That the US can project power all across the globe is a huge improvement. We can bring overwhelming force to any situation we find ourselves in. Instead of worrying about war, we now worry about our special forces personnel. Huge win.

This keeps any one side from really gaining the power to threaten the broader peace of the region. Sure, right now we're not all that great at driving political goals through force projection, just look at Iraq, but we should get better at it over time.
> radioactive nuclear reactors

A non-radioactive nuclear reactor is one that isn't working, surely?
Well MAD kind of accomplished this in the cold war, not that it was a good situation.
> urban landscape and population density.

Interestingly, flooding is made worse by low density housing, like suburbs.

Forests, meadows, wetlands, they all act like sponges. They soak up recent rainfall and release it slowly, or just keep it. Cut that down, replace it with suburbia- concrete roads, short-grass lawns, nothing that holds much water for long but instead does it's best to get it into a drain and then a river system immediately.

Instead of a continuous flow that varies mildly, it's all or nothing. Bone dry, or biblical.

Most cities have realized these problems now, but have decades of poorly-thought-out development already in place.
I don't think we can say that Brazilian CompSci is oriented towards embedding. I studied at the university where Lua and Céu were created, so my personal experience is biased towards such languages and yet, I don't remember us focusing on the embedding part.

Our REBOL experience was also not related to embedding but towards expressiveness and quick prototyping.

I think I expressed myself badly, when I said "Brazilian, not Czech", I was just referring to myself, as a new non-Czech datapoint :-D, Red is not Brazilian.
> bugs that have been very difficult to find, as they were 'fixed' by side effects of assert statements and hence didn't show up in debug builds.

In those cases, the assert() was used incorrectly. However, that's not a reason to include the assert code in release builds.

In a similar way, source code will often have troubleshooting code such as:

#if _DEBUG // or #ifndef NDEBUG
std::cerr << "inspect size: " << invoices.size() << std::endl;
// more debugging-related code ...
#endif

Just because some programmers mistakenly put unintended side-effects in between the #if_DEBUG/#endif doesn't mean we want that code in the release builds. The purpose of assert() and _DEBUG is to not include them in release builds.
Thanks for the clarification.

Maybe its just me, but nowadays I am not feeling any better about that either. :-)
J.D. Salinger, Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, John Kennedy Toole - these are just some of the great novelists who found massive success at their debut and simply couldn't repeat it.
It isn't just the view that matters. When you take into account gardens, housing would increase biodiversity.
Oh god yes. This is one of the reasons i switched back to Go. I wanted simple cross compiling, it was really important to me, and OpenSSL is just too commonly needed to run into problems for me.
I'm not sure what sense of diversity Israel lacks.
Medical marijuana user here, next time if you feel comfortable recommend to the user they grab a can of Ozium before going to public venues.

It completely takes the smell out and replaces with a lovely lemon smell.

I use this at work as well as in public venues and it keeps the marijuana odor from disturbing the public (at least I have stopped getting looks and the occasional nose wiggle, as well as my parents who don't smoke have told me how the marijuana smell doesn't seem to be there anymore when I visit).

I do apologize most of the users I know are respectful about how they enter the public while taking their medication.
So I'm reading that LASEK still cuts a flap, just a thinner one than LASIK. It also appears to have a longer healing time than LASIK[0].

It does appear to have fewer complications with the flap, since it's a thinner one, and less chance of hazing.

[0]http://www.the-lasik-directory.com/lasik_lasek_chart.html
I started with History of Sexuality because the topic interested me most. I think Discipline and Punish is the canonical starting point.
> Do we refer to code or computers as "Machines?"

I do, sometimes. I don't know where I picked up the habit, to be honest, but it might date back to the eighties or nineties. (I know I'm not the only one)
> This makes no sense, unless you were a kid why would you have to get your glasses "re-done" every year?

I don't know about the parent poster above, but my vision is slowly but consistently getting worse every year, for the last five years now. I get my glasses "re-done" each year because my prescription has changed (gotten slightly stronger) each year, and it's cheaper to get new glasses than to re-lens old ones.

If I didn't stare at a screen for 60 hours a week, minor prescription changes might not matter so much. But since I do, wearing a prescription that's only slightly off can still cause some headaches or eye pain.
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It's mass social engineering, shaping how we interact on a primal level, with clicks/views as the guiding metric. And there's diddly squat the common man can do about it.
Thanks for the feedback!

1, 2, 3 and 4: definitely doable
5: tricky, probably impossible to do reliably
6: doable
7: without any manual interaction this could end up looking spammy. If you're happy with that, it could work.

Also forgot to ask what platform people would prefer: Android, iPhone, Windows, OS X or Linux? Platforms like Messenger and Slack are probably out of the question unfortunately because the bot would have to be querying Google automatically, which is more reliable from your own IP.
I hadn't heard that; NewEgg carry's the fight on, though.
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Well the argument is obviously is going to be centered around semantics if I'm responding to the claim that an artist isn't an artist if they don't make art in the right way.
It's kind of sad that "the largest commitment of resources ever made by any nation in peacetime" is still only about a third of what we spend every year on war.
Oil prices are essentially capped at $60/barrel for the foreseeable future due to unconventional extraction techniques -> was not long ago oil production was thought to have peaked. Solar power can be economical without subsidy. Robotic and minimally invasive surgery. Battery cost becoming viable for mass-market cars. Gene sequencing. Sensors for pennies. New materials (cheaper carbon fibre, metal alloys, semiconductors, graphine/carbon nanotubes). Most of the things mentioned as 'first half of 20th century' coming to the next 5 billion people.

For aerospace, how about affordability of a ticket over time (Ryanair vs Concorde)? Space travel: number of journeys per vehicle or time astronauts are able to spend in space (was minutes in early space flight, unlimited now). Transportation speed is a straw-man, the industry optimises for cost not speed.
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Unions are a way of concentrating the power of labor.

All power corrupts. The observation proves nothing about unions specifically. If you take away power from unions it just goes and does its corrupting somewhere else.
That's not substantially better then "easier" technology - i.e. something non-invasive but advanced, like contact lenses with a lightfield display and wireless power.

But if you're going to be interfacing with the brain, then there's a lot we can do probabilistically - i.e. deliberately inducing different parts of the memory centers of the brain to promote recall, targeted to the patterns of activation at previous times.

Modifying the production of neurotransmitters or being able to deliberately dampen some would also lead to some interesting possibilities.
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It has gotten twice as cheap (if you look at average ticket prices adjusted to inflation) from 70 to now. Also point about concorde - it's more fuel efficient to fly slower (look at drag coefficient [1])

So from point of view of affordability and mobility for general public - it's good progress.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_transport#/media/Fi...
You're looking at throughput numbers, but Optane appears to be solving a iop / latency problem.
I got LASIK, and I had stable vision. It's saved me thousands of dollars now.

Not everyone is as careful and/or inactive as you :)

I've lost more pair of prescription sunglasses at the bottom of the ocean/lakes within a few years than you seem to have owned in total over the course of a decade. Basically glasses to me meant $500/yr in replacements due to breakage or losing them in various situations. Yes, completely my fault and preventable - but just not who I am. After beating myself up about this for years, I just realized I have better things to do with my brain cycles than keep track of glasses.

For me LASIK was an amazing quality of life improvement, and while I didn't do it for the financial benefits it's certainly paid for itself a few times over 6 years later.

Edit: This is also completely ignoring the pita of keeping your glasses clean throughout the day. I know from experience most people aren't bothered by dirty glasses (ugh, this is super distracting in meetings for me) but I cannot stand it. I'll replace cheap sunglasses that get a single scratch on them it's so distracting to me.

Plus stuff like being able to do things like buy 10 pair of knockoff sunglasses for $15 vs. a $200 prescription set. Or being able to actually watch 3D movies that don't completely suck. Or go off-roading and wear a mask comfortably. Or go diving. The list goes on. For those who can't wear contacts, I can't imagine not getting LASIK if it were an option.
Costco is very pro-consumer. Management will not stock an item if they feel it's priced too high. Their Kirkland Signature brand is also pretty good quality I've found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#Sales_model
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I recommend the book 'Flight' by Christopher Kraft. It's a quick read, and a really enjoyable history lesson about the development of the US space program.
And filing in Texas is the same for patent prosecution. The plaintiffs know what to expect: interpretations from the bench that heavily favor them.

It's not well developed law when the decisions are so disproportionately weighted towards one side of the courtroom.
I have universally been told that a phone call is the most effective way to communicate with your representatives. I have no sources to cite, but this is based on conversations with my representatives' staffers as well as door-to-door petition-type people.

Anyway, here's the link to find your rep: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

Side note: if you're ever going to Washington D.C., you can make an appointment to meet them. They aren't always available, but they will typically at least have a staffer give you a tour of the capitol, which is pretty sweet.
I suggest using the contact link at Ycombinator https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/ rather than asking on Hacker News.
> ...a social issue should be solved with social/legal means, not technical ones.

So, say my AR software needs to scan an environment in order to function, but the law says that I cannot scan a particular "excluded" surface (e.g. a face), how do I determine which surfaces I must exclude if I cannot scan them first inorder to discern between a public surface or a protected surface? The law needs to regulate developed technology, but by the same token, technology must be developed to enable compliance with and also enforcement of the law.

It seems to me that the solution is a joint legal/technical one. The third factor is the willingness of humans to comply with the law. The fourth factor is the ability of citizens & government to enforce the law. To see where all of this could lead, we just need to look at what happened with the utter failureof the "do not call registry" (1).

1.) http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/05/rob...
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Give the doorman the $50 he was trying to hit you up for and get on with your life. Welcome to New York.
The smell of Cheetos will never have influence on your health. Smoke does.
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