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Prejudice is stronger than the market. We had a market economy in the US for two centuries before social change forced businesses to stop categorically excluding more than half the potential workforce (women and black people). Prejudice caused businesses and schools to exclude people like Jews in the grounds that they were too successful.

In this case, the bias against people returning to work is based more on prjokections about what will happen than anything concrete. Those projections, in turn, are based on traditional notions that once a woman has kids and has become a mother, she can never again be relied on to prioritize work. That ignores the basic fact that parenting is only really time-intensive for the first couple of years.
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Agree, yet it's not an either Mars or Earth question. Judging by priorities of corporations (making money, of course) it will certainly be both Mars and Earth.
>Do you know what a power imbalance is?

Yes.

>You think having your life controlled by a corporation is a sign of a free society?

When it comes to me signing a contract that some corporation would like me to sign, I have complete, inviolable power to NOT sign it. The power over my signature is 100% mine.
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Certain Linux live CDs usually have a read only filesystem and are useful for tasks where you don't want to leave a trace, and everything is flushed from RAM after use. Ubuntu, for example, allows a user to try out the O.S without installing and is a great way to 'trash the hotel room' and then shutdown leaving no trace of your actions. Any files you create, for example will be wiped, and the kernel is exactly the same when you restart the system cleanly. Just to be safe, I would recommend booting from read-only media like an actual read-only CD so nothing can persist.
"using a computer" are the operative words. The engraver is only thinking physical automation. But the computer handles most of the work they used to do before automation. The "engraver" only makes a few easy design choices, hits Enter, and mails it from what he himself describes. That also seems less of a "profession" and more of a trade, if anything.
Sure, I would enjoy talking with you. My email is in my profile.
If establishing a colony on a different orbital body is just a vanity project, then what isn't?
Login password perhaps (at least plain text version of it), but account info (including cookies) in a browser for example would be accessible, as well as anything on disk.
Are the Foreign Service List and the Biographic Register still published? A quick search only yielded editions many decades old.
Yes.

Read my other comments for a more nuanced view discussing how it would play out in the real world, with changes relegated to particular networks and trade groups making deals for systems under their control.

But the only groups that should be able to authorize decisions about other people's things (free of liability or possible prosecution) are groups under collective control, ie governments.
Sartre has a better explanation of this "nobody purpose" anyway.

Even wikipedia's summary is a better explanation than the author's (emphasis mine):

However, Sartre contends our conscious choices (leading to often unconscious actions) run counter to our intellectual freedom. Yet we are bound to the conditioned and physical world—in which some form of action is always required. This leads to failed dreams of completion, as Sartre described them, because inevitably we are unable to bridge the void between the purity and spontaneity of thought and all-too constraining action; between the being and the nothingness that inherently coincide in our self.
Sartre's recipe for fulfillment is to escape all quests by completing them. This is accomplished by rigorously forcing order onto nothingness, employing the "spirit (or consciousness of mind) of seriousness" and describing the failure to do so in terms such as "bad faith" and "false consciousness". Though Sartre's conclusion seems to be that being diminishes before nothingness since consciousness is probably based more on spontaneity than on stable seriousness, he contends that any person of a serious nature is obliged to continuous struggle between:
a) the conscious desire for peaceful self-fulfillment through physical actions and social roles—as if living within a portrait that one actively paints of oneself.
and
b) the more pure and raging spontaneity of no thing consciousness, of being instantaneously free to overturn one's roles, pull up stakes, and strike out on new paths.
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Ask HN: Any decentralization projects compatible with the current web?
E.g. everyone is reinventing domain names. Namecoin has .bit, Ethereum has .eth. Both require installation of a special software on the client computer (or in case of Namecoin that can be the usage of a specific third party DNS). That means that a lot of potential users are lost; every device has a browser, not the blockchain software though.
Has anyone tried to register {TLD}.{ccTLD} and then offer it as a second level domain instead of the new .{TLD}? As an example, .et.gl ("Ethereum Global") is available at the moment. The advantage of this approach is that the domain (some mywebsite.et.gl) would resolve on any device using the standard DNS. And if the client is installed locally we can use a blockchain or whatever instead to resolve it.

The client blockhain app then can have a web interface available at client.et.gl that would be a local (127.0.0.1) service if you've installed it. Or a centralized hosted multiuser system otherwise (yeah, users who don't care about decentralization will have to trust it).

In other words, there are a lot of people who build their own walled gardens of reinvented wheels. Is anyone working on a decentralization project with compatibility with the current web (read: usability) in mind?
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>> I see only one truly worthy alternative - education

I strongly agree - but education in regular sense - schools, etc probably won't do. We maybe need something closer to the training Buddhists monks get in a monastery, a training that deeply changes the structure of their mind, and instill them with deep compassion and caring for others, eclipsing at enlightenment.

But:

1. Buddhist monasteries aren't scalable - they fit only a rare few, they take too long, and are very hard. And it seems that with science/tech we can create something better.

2. Once we have the tech - it isn't trivial to use it. People fear messing with their brain. How do we prevent abuse. Making people too relaxed and compassionate may make them less fit for the 21 century. How do we integrate this. How do we convince everybody .etc.

I feel like this is THE biggest question of our current century, because once this can be offered mass scale, human nature changes deeply - and everything changes with it.
knowing absolutely nothing about patent law, I'm surprised that tiling window managers are not considered prior art or would at least mean this idea is not novel.
I am scared to sell anymore on Ebay given these stories. How can you protect yourself if you are selling a high priced item?
I've been using Magnet for a while now. It seems much more stable and efficient than Spectacle. Hopefully it will not end up on this chopping block as well. http://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
Lord...the pie analogy. The OP thinks there's a limited amount of pie, which is a novice error. The pie itself can grow while remaining proportional, which is another scenario he didn't consider.
> All changes to the class graph are also stored as changes in text. Every class has a textual representation. You can load an earlier image and replay this. This is basically like loading Lisp code into a Lisp image.

I forgot about that. The changes files is more like a log file, though (e.g. if you change a class multiple times, the changes file will have multiple versions of that class in it). It is generated as a side effect of manipulating the object graph in the image. The normal development is not to edit the changes file and then load it (which is how I usually edit Lisp code).

> This is like Lisp. The Lisp code manipulates the runtime class graph.

Agree.

> > But that is not the primary representation of the code.
> The primary representation is text. That's what the IDE presents you when you edit the method.

My use of 'represention' is wrong here, I should have stuck with source.

For the body of methods I agree with you. For the class graph, the source is the object graph, and the IDE has multiple ways to present it to you. The textual representation is but one representation (generated from the object graph). You can e.g. also display the class hierarchy as a hierarchical list. To manipulate the source, aside from editing text, you can also use commands to rename a class, or delete instance variables in a list view (if I remember correctly in Cincom). And yes, you have similar things in Slime, but then your image gets out of sync with the textual source.

I don't think there is a clear line between development in Lisps and Smalltalks, though. My experience with (Cincom) Smalltalk was that it was much more image based and not file based. That had the drawback that e.g. editors, diff tools and source control were reimplemented in Smalltalk (often slow and buggy). An advantage is that e.g. debugging is more tightly integrated: it is trivial to implement an undefined method inside the debugger and continue, in SLDB adding an undefined method is slightly more clumsy (e.g. the debugger wouldn't know which file to put it in). My experience with e.g. SBCL, LispWorks is that it is much more text/file based. I start from text files and evaluated (parts of) them. Every once and a while I restart the Lisp image and reload from scratch. But you can find Smalltalks that are text based (e.g. GNU Smalltalk) and Lisps that are more image based (e.g. Symbolics).
> But what's new? What's your favorite new upstart project?

A few:

- https://hypothes.is

- https://genius.com

- https://www.ethereum.org

- https://thegrid.io

- https://neocities.org

- https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
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Read the patent. I'm not aware of any TWMs implementing the kind of grid interface Moom is using.
> Fixing the environment is an orthogonal issue.

Not at all. If we, as a species, don't fix the environment, we aren't going to be around long enough for space exploration to become technologically and economically practical.
My point is that consent is a sliding scale. Armed robbery is at an extreme point on that scale.

For a less extreme point, consider your manager asking something of you in a personal capacity. There is clearly a problematic imbalance of power there. For a slightly worse example, consider sexual harassment. This is not o.k. due to the power imbalance.

In general, consent given under duress isn't valid. It seems facetious to say there is a sharp line where duress ends and 'fair hardship' starts.
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I got this message on a system which has a Core i7-4510 CPU; this is not on the list of systems with "vPro" technology. I've seen referenced as another name for the vulnerable component --- but given the marketing-spawned confusion around Intel CPU nomenclature, I can easily imagine someone (perhaps me!) getting confused on the point.

Search for "vPro" systems here: https://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=proce...
I don't think there is any proof regarding Windows.

However, NSA is strongly suspected of (known to?) having backdoored the Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom generator by inserting into the standard numeric parameters which allow cracking by those who generated them (i.e. the NSA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

This algorithm ended up in certain Juniper firewalls and a year ago turned out to have been covertly re-backdoored by unknown actors who replaced NSA's parameters with their own.

https://rpw.sh/blog/2015/12/21/the-backdoored-backdoor/

There was also another low-tech backdoor in these routers, again not clear who did it.

Snowden documents show that they have a budget allocated to the backdooring of cryptographic standards and products:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-r...
Serious question: How do you get the energy (and other resources) back to earth in a way that is cost competitive with extracting them here? If it costs more money, people will use up what's here before they import the resources from Mars.
Not sure why you think we need Nobel prize winners, but we do need more scientists in politics. I think that would greatly help scientific discoveries to shape policy and legislation. Since the last election, there have been some efforts to recruit scientists:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/thanks-t...

http://whowhatwhy.org/2017/04/22/imagine-congress-filled-sci...
There's tons of R and Python code in scientific computing that's not being replaced by static languages. Anyway, dynamic languages have been around since the 60s. This debate is very old. Trends in one direction or another swing back and forth. If you're going to mention Go, Swift or Rust, what about Elixir or Julia? They're new languages, too.
I tried starting a business selling those 30 day WoW subscription cards as I came on to a box of them for fairly cheap. I sold most of them, then one person falsely reported me of fraud and that was it, my paypal account which had all of my profits in it was frozen and I never managed to recover the money. IIRC I had close to £300 and I never found out what happened to the money; I imagine paypal just took it as profit despite every buyer giving me positive feedback up until that point.

I was considering starting a marketplace on Amazon last year as well with a friend, just selling basic Chinese made goods but it sounds like things like this are rampant there too, and honestly I'm seeing a lot of sellers on Amazon lately that are scammers, so I'm beginning to lose faith in Amazon as a consumer as well.

If I'm going to try and make a business from selling goods online I would want to run my own ecommerce shop using shopify or something similar.
Absolutely, but I'm more talking in the initial patent approval than the litigation afterwards.
A kid born, raised, and educated in a modern western country will generate far more economic value over its lifetime than it cost to raise and educate it. If tomorrow it was found that all the 18-35 year olds that will ever be born have already been born, what do you think would happen to the stock market? It would crater--stock prices are built on the assumption that there will be new generations of consumer to sell and advertise stuff to.
Why do you think the direct participants in the market are primarily humans? There are many automated, non-HFT strategies participating in the market which want, and benefit, from having a time resolution much smaller than what humans can perceive.

Also, to your third point -- as a market maker, more information is strictly better than less information (as a corollary, shorter time resolution is better than longer time resolution). Any time I have less information, my predictions are worse, my risk goes up, and I have to either quote less or wider, making liquidity worse and hurting other (non-HFT) participants.
I did read the patent but I don't understand exactly what moom does. If a tiling window manager defines a set of inputs for defining grids and moving/resizing windows on that grid, where is the difference?
You can legally use the Community edition for paid software, as long as your company has less than 5 employees and makes less than one million $/year or something like that (read the license carefully).

Check the license and usage here https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/
>If someone enters into an unenforceable agreement, they should be freed of it speedily and inexpensively. Maybe the terms of the agreement are such that its' unenforceability is non-obvious; but it is ultimately the one bringing suit who should bear the cost of wasting everyone's time in that case.

Unfortunately, the Democratic party in the US has fought tooth-and-nail against "loser pays" tort reform for decades.
On the micro level that's my experience too. Though I suspect at the macro level competitors with more flexible​automation will win more business. Assuming a competitive market.
I'd like to see these compared to privoxy.
I half agree with Gates.

To me, sending probes into space deepens our understanding of nature and over time that knowledge will benefit humanity. But sending humans into space is really just an exercise in human vanity, like climbing Mount Everest or placing a person at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

For the cost of sending a man to Mars we could send out two probes - one to Mars and one to Europa. Wouldn't that be better for science and humanity?
Could someone with the appropriate CS background give a summary for layperson programmers? I understand matrices and transforms but what is 'solving' them?
Non-coercive population control, especially through the increase of economic and educational opportunities for women and the distribution of free, convenient contraceptives.
It is astounding how many people don't read the license. You can legally use VS Community in your company for paid software as long as you have less than 5 employees or make less than one million per year.

See https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/
I wonder if Levi's jeans were more profitable than the average goldbug
1) Intel ME. ALL Intel x86 processors for a long time have shipped with a second, closed-source processor on the same chip. This is called the Management Engine (ME). This processor has in theory complete control over the other one as well as its own ability to communicate over the network as long as the computer is connected to power even if powered down, with no way to check or control it securely.

2) AMT. These Intel processors may have a service enabled called Active Management Technology (AMT). Intel says that AMT usually comes disabled by default on "consumer" hardware (but Intel is not too specific about what this means, e.g. prebuilt only or CPUs you buy at the store?). AMT is like a remote desktop feature for the CPU. It allows someone to log in remotely and control the computer or diagnose problems, no matter what the "main" processor's state (even powered off).

3) The vulnerability. Suprise, AMT turns out to have a serious security vulnerability that allows a hacker to take control of the PC.

4) Uncertainty. It is difficult, due to Intel's vagueness, to figure out whether one's CPU even has AMT capability and whether it is turned on ("provisioned") by default. This is compounded by the fact that it is turned on or off by the motherboard BIOS settings but there are tons of motherboards from tons of manufacturers and it's not clear which ones support AMT, whether AMT might be provisioned on a motherboard that does not have any menu option regarding AMT, etc. The chances of motherboard manufacturers relasing information about this, let alone patches, for all their motherboards from the past 8 years, seems slim.

4.1) Linux. In particular, Intel has released a handy "detection guide"[1] that only applies to Windows. Macs are presumably "consumer hardware" only, so that mainly leaves Linux users out to dry.

Please correct me if I missed any details above.

[1] https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26755
A lot of people also forgo carrying a smartphone completely for privacy reasons
Did anyone read that code before using it? :)
Never mind me, I misread how this function is used.

Apparently this code was copied from stdlib, including a different directory traversal bug on Windows:

https://bugs.python.org/issue26657
Well, unfortunately, the features most important in Lisp and Smalltalk are not memory safety, GC, dynamic linking and reflection.

Which is one reason Java is a shitty language. It may be popular, "a blue collar language" but it's not sitting on some apex of programming languages, and it's certainly not Art. Which makes sense if you consider that the vast majority of programmers working today are not artists or craftsmen, but little more than commoditized manual laborers. I also include the "engineers" working at such perceived bastions of engineering excellence as Google here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14066898
Recently? They can be compensated, up to a point. We can change this mess.
Not only is the topic out of date, so is the method of fighting ads and tracking.

I find DNS based network-wide "blockers" far more effective and resource friendly. They protect on all of the devices in your local network and they even stop the in-app adds on your mobile devices.

https://pi-hole.net/
(yes, you can run it on a VPS and share the love but about a million or two Chinese might decide to take a piece of that love pretty soon. Run it on-site.)
I'm assuming you meant GPL? I've got good news for you then, the next version is going to be under a BSD license: https://github.com/xxsds/sdsl-lite (currently unstable!)
As long as the resources are not orthagonal the problems are not orthagonal. Meaning the money and effort shooting rockets could be put into fixing the environment, the "defense" problem, and all kinds of suffering and death.

One could argue that space could give us a shitload of resources to solve those other issues.

On a related note I would like to plug the meme that "humanity" as a whole is worth shit; what matters is the qualia of actual humans and then other possibly conscious beings. I don't care whether there are humans somewhere in space if we down here die from nuclear holocaust, global warming, aging or hunger. I am not "humanity" and neither is anyone else. We are all individuals striving to survive and not suffer, and sure we can cooperate in that endeavour and create superorganisms to aid us - but the emphasis is on "aid", which is not "enslave". I shit on any superorganism building meme that does not put actual humans or consciousnesses first.

EDIT: typos
Yes! I strongly agree and your definition of education if very close to what I had in mind.

I also see Buddhist ideas as one of very few hopes of real change in the world. Yet, as far as science goes, the best it can do is help spread these ideas (internet, which we already have).
Personally, I don't believe in brain-changing tech for the near future at least. It will be always up to the individual so go sit in the corner and do some meditation/self-improvement. That's not scalable indeed.
I was always told not to read patents. If it can be proven you're aware of a patent prior to releasing something that infringes it, you get hit with extra penalties. See [1] and [2].

[1]: http://www.dresan.com/blog/2011/04/05/i-dont-read-patents/
[2]: http://endsoftpatents.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patent...
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Could it be not as basic as just wanting to get into history books? Being mortal and leaving your mark? At that time, what does anything matter? You shoot for it, burning money, killing people and such and in the end you die. I do know some people think like that so why not your president or the president of nkrrp?
I've never sold anything on eBay/Amazon because of this. For used items I'd just try anything like Craiglist, Gumtree or alike.
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