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>Case and point - our scientific progress has led us to create tools of global genocide. Technology has always been a double edged sword.

People never needed technology to commit genocide - there are plenty of examples throughout our whole history.[1][2][3]

If anything, now that a significant portion of the world has nukes, we haven't had two developed countries at war for perhaps the longest period in recorded history.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

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Case and point -> You meant to write "case in point".
Licenses, copyrights and trademarks have value only when there is actual change of someone getting sued. Who among the many Linux kernel copyright holders would oppose having ZFS module? Who would be willing to sue Canonical? Will Oracle object?

Eben Moglen from Software Freedom Law Center thinks its OK as long as the source is distributed and no proprietary changes is made.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-...

>In this specific sense, then, the conduct which falls outside the words of GPLv2 falls within the "equity of the license," or its "spirit." As all Western legal systems have known since Aristotle, literal interpretation of any legal material will sometimes produce unintended unjust results, which can and should be corrected by the invocation of "equity." This present issue is evidently an example in which the tension between literal and equitable interpretation is raised, and it is the consensus of the kernel copyright holders' intention which determines which mode of interpretation is to be employed.

Linus is one central figure among kernel copyright holders. When he has stated his interpretation and it seems that most other maintainers are not objecting either, kernel copyright holders' intention seems to be closer to the "equity of the license".
> we've marked Ghost 0.11 as a Long Term Support (LTS) release. We will continue to provide maintenance and security updates for Ghost 0.11 for the next 6 months.

What's the lower bound on labeling something "long term support?" If I recall correctly, Canonical introduced their LTS releases, which are supported for five years, to address concerns about their six-month cadence.
This is typically what keeps me from playing/enjoying multiplayer games. This isn't meant to be a "final judgment" on all MP games, but in general, the tendency seems to be toward min/maxing which leaves a lot less room for the experimentation and occasional accidental lucky breaks you catch where everything just falls into place.

I don't mean to suggest that for a lot of people, discovering and testing these min/max strategies isn't fun and satisfying (like solving a puzzle with the "perfect" solution) but it's not really for me.
Ask HN: What other entrepreneur forums do you participate in?
I admire this sort of decision making. In particular, I admire that he took the risk playing football in the first place but called it at some prerequisite level of damage he was willing to take. I'd imagine that is something he put a hard stop on before embarking on the career: "two concussions max then I'm out whatever".
Your core argument that football builds stronger camaraderie [than other sports or team-like activities] is unsupportable. There is no reason to believe that football is the key ingredient to lasting feelings of camaraderie. What if we just put high school students through a marines-style boot camp?

Also, everyone from the marching band still remembers marching through Disney World in 100+ degree heat in full marching uniforms. It was tough and it was a memorable bond we all shared.
Rust to write a microformats2 parser which I later will use to write a feed reader which understands microformats.
> A lot of the time

That was the case in the 90s, and hasn't been the case since. "Some times, that are so rare that people point to it and comment on it on forums", yes.
But you can empty the trash and they can't build your apps.

Also, when thinking about creating value, you need to think about scale. They change your trash and are limited by their physical ability and time. Let's say they saved you 4 minutes and changed 400 trashes, saving 399 other people 4 minutes. They've created ~24 hours of value.

If your app helps people save 30 seconds a day and did that for 100k people, then you created about 12 days more value.
Doom used game design principles though. At least Romero hints e.g. in [1] that was the case. ("Golden rule of level design: finish the first level last", classic horseshoe.) In [2] he lists other "core principles" (although it's a bit unclear to me if these were only explicitly formulated later.)

[3] is an in-depth writeup of the classic Super Mario World design principles. [4] argues the recent new Donkey Kong games has gone "beyond" these principles, and invented a new
multi-mechanic approach. I don't really agree that this is "better", but it's fairly convincing in that the principles are indeed there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6HlBa88js

[2] https://github.com/anttiviljami/romero-programming-principle...

[3] http://thegamedesignforum.com/features/RD_SMW_1.html

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHcE6B4OP4
Definitely Haskell, with GHCJS and reflex-frp for the frontend.

I've been using Haskell for most of my personal projects for a while and, over the last year or so, I've been using it at work. The overall experience is incredible. It's hard to isolate exactly why it's so great, and there are certainly some concrete annoyances (tooling and compile times, mostly), but the end result is still unquestionably the best programming experience I've had with any system.

It did take more effort up-front than other languages I'd used. There's still a lot of incidental complexity with bad error messages and tooling that's hard to setup and understand—although it's definitely improved over the last few years. And it did take significant effort to learn, largely because it's so different from every other language I know. But once I got over the initial hump it's been smooth sailing, and I'm always happy to spend some up-front O(1) effort for a long-term reward!

The codebase at work—written by a small team with different backgrounds and levels of software engineering experience, sometimes under tight deadlines—is still largely a pleasure to read and refactor. I consistently leave code in a better state than I found it, not because I am particularly disciplined but because it is so easy.

I also tend to work on my personal projects on a very on-and-off basis—more off than on, most of the time. I've found my Haskell projects to be much easier to pick up months or even years later as compared to my projects in other languages (largely JavaScript as well as Java, Python, elisp and who knows what else).
Well, I guess I'll never get my money back then. Darn :(
Unexpected takeovers make this much harder than it seems.

For example, Twitter's prospects on its own don't look so great right now. But if that induces you to avoid owning Twitter, you miss out on a quick profit (perhaps even a big one!) if some larger company decides to buy it.
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Intention of the copyright owners matters, see my other comment.
Exciting news!
Ask HN: Hosted dev friendly blog with custom domain support?
Hi, I've been wanting to start blogging for the past couple of years. I don't want to manage the blog myself for obvious reasons. What's a dev friendly (code highlights?) hosted blog platform with support for custom domains? Thanks.
That's interesting. Normally we hear rhetoric that mobx is unsuitable for complex webapps. What has been your experience vs redux ?
I'm not conflating them, but clearly software can be both researchware and open source. I'm not going to start distrusting tensorflow or scikit-learn, but I'm going to be wary before I invest time in a promising niche software package, regardless of whether it was actually from academia or not.
This applies to all flights. Considering that airline tickets are quite cheap, Amtrak lines are likely to be closing down outside the NE Corridor, and the TSA is just security-theatre at best, it seems like a pretty shitty thing to charge for.
This is by far one of the coolest things I've seen on this site.

Informative, engaging and educational. Would be very keen to learn more subjects through this method.
You have a remarkably rosy view of grad students and their relationship to software. All it has to do is produce output (I hesitate to say work) one time, on one computer, under some conditions that may never be documented, let alone reproduced. This is doubly true if the code just a step in the analysis chain and not the actual subject of the research.
You should check out Rocket League.
So, this is so weird. That link shows everything blurred. Windows 10, latest Chrome. [1]

1: http://imgur.com/XmquYMF
Too much sugar could increase depression risk in men, study suggests
Messenger platform: Built-in NLP
Recovering from my current backup solution is expensive, the additional cost is not worth it.

Remaking the entire pool is also a hassle and incurs unnecessary downtime.

Additionally, not all data is backed up, which I will loose, as this is not important data, it's okay to loose during a house fire, but not just for resizing the disk.

Lastly, this operation would likely take a long time, days probably, I'd rather just be able to just ram in another disk and be done with it.
Some AWS visitors:

Cliqzbot, VidibleScraper/1.0, CheckMarkNetwork, CCBot/2.0 (http://commoncrawl.org/faq/), linkdexbot/2.2; +http://www.linkdex.com/bots/

That last one is a "SEO platform".
Scott Adams – Show me a person who has followed this sort of reading path
backend: python, asyncio with aiohttp and other asyncio tools

frontend: reactjs

Actually I started @ https://github.com/amirouche/socialite

Because I can :)
Choosing between async web patterns
Bond interest is taxed at normal income tax rates in the US, not capital gains tax rates.
He's set for life if he keeps his expenses at $25k/yr. $1.8MM / $25k = 72. Even if he loses half to taxes, that's still 36 years worth of expenses in assets. If I had that much, I'd retire in a heartbeat.
The search API is limited to 7 days. You can get a 1% firehose feed, too, so you can tell the relatively frequency of hashtags and stuff. All this is free and you don't need user auth. User auth gives you extra rate limit increase (a separate bucket per user).

https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limits

The big number for app auth is you can do 450 searches/15 minutes, with up to 100 tweets each. So last 10k on "honey" is easily doable (it's only 100 searches) so long as those 10K are within the last week.

For everything else they want you to buy their Gnip product.
I wonder, why is it that the CEOs, directors, scientists and high ranking officers are much more likely to survive a war then the common soldier?
Generally, I touch type them with the standard fingers. I use a US keyboard layout and that might (or might not) have some relevance. I find better lighting helps...e.g. all those keys are harder to type in darkness so my touch typing probably utilizes peripheral vision. On the other hand, those keys tend to be slower and less accurate than ordinary characters, even with practice.

But practice seems to be the key.

Good luck.
I'm also trying to do the same. I now pocket a LOT of articles to read later and offline. Hell, I barely read anything on the computer these days.

Just pocket it all and have it sent to my Kindle to read later.
Just because they're paid a boatload of money doesn't mean they aren't slaves
> So yes, that is humanity, because this kind of thing is exactly what humans do: they curry for favors from government to get into protected positions to reap all the benefits.

FTFY. The problem you describe is a human problem that will happen in any system, capitalist, socialist or mix of the two. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Capitalism simply provides power in a normal distribution proportional to wealth. Socialism provides power in a power law distribution and the head of that distributions constitutes absolute power.
Happens in Scala too:

scala> 1+2+"="+1+2
res1: String = 3=12
That is the secret to happiness as far as I am concerned; measure your days by how much you've learned not by how much you have earned.

Interesting to know about the retirement 'vest' of 3 years. If he lives another 60 years that is a bit more than $1.25M.
But you did take one side's view in a condescending and divisive manner. The side you took is the one that divides people into a Red Tribe and a Blue Tribe, ascribes stereotypical views to each, and makes lists of attributes to categorize people into one of these two tribes.

People are quite a bit more complex than that, and these kinds of arbitrary binary divisions get in the way of finding common ground.
"Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. "

You cannot build a binary with CDDL code and distribute it as anything other than CDDL. Ubuntu is wrong and likewise you are wrong. Otherwise, riddle me this: What is the license of the ubuntu shipped kernel packages? Oracle says it's CDDL. Linus says it's the GPL. Which do you believe it is?
I hate threaded conversations, so that isn't something I even value.
Here? As in posting on the internet? Why not?
In this case, the software itself was the focus of the research. And this grad student still works at a very prestigious university for CS.

I've worked in academia (as a research assistant) before so I'm familiar with shitty grad student software. But going to the effort to document and present on the software without making sure it even worked? That seemed excessively stupid to me.
It's mortem, a latin word (accusative singular of "mors"). I can't think of any latin declension or any latin word that would have ended in "om".
Ford is expanding it's ridesharing service to New York City
Sure. Just pointing out that this isn't a "new algorithm that only looks obvious because of hindsight". There's an almost endless supply of problems, like this one, that benefit from automating the assessment task of human experts.
I think a distinction can be drawn between bringing up on HN the ability of an issue to become not just divisive but divisive along political lines, and the issue actually becoming divisive in society at large. Here we can discuss if it could be a political issue, what that would mean, what could be done about it, etc. That seems quite different that a discussion (on HN or elsewhere) wherein it has become a political issue.
Thanks for your comment. It wasn't a "magical thinking", well kind of. lol. Actually, I wanted to keep the post short. I think I need to change wording a little. By the way, your explanation is perfect.
Expanding on this tangent, it was closer to $300 in goods (as well as indefinite food and lodging for anyone in the tribe and a tacit assumption of military aid). Assuming just the tangible assets were invested in the most obvious way at the time, (dutch east india company being the most notable publicly traded company.) the dividend rate averaged 18% until 1796. If you compound with 18% for the first 170 years then 5% after, it would be more than enough to buy back Manhattan at it's current property value!
Since I have to wait for more than an hour to reply in a deep comment level, I will reply here to kbp.

>The confusion seems to stem from your insistence on using the word "original" to mean the pure Lisp described in the 1960 paper, despite the fact there was Lisp before that. It seems like it's mostly a disagreement about the meaning of the word original; I consider your use misleading.

Yes I should have used a different word and I am sorry for making a confusion. After this long discussion about the history of LISP, I can now come up with a better word instead of using "original", and also I have an updated view of the LISP history.

>As I said several times, The 1960 paper describes a pure subset of Lisp, I was only disagreeing that it was the original Lisp.

Great!

>I think we understand each other now.

Yes it seems so.

>It was nice reading some old papers I hadn't seen before :)

Definitely true and thanks for having a very long discussion :)
Every technology ever has opened the door to dangerous possibilities.

Caution is merited, but inaction carries culpability in the preventable negative outcomes solved in a potential future that we deny through fear.

And not disagreeing with your content, as I agree and think it's well written, but statements like "nice to look into the future and determine what the human being created would prefer, we can't do that" are part of what doesn't parse with me about this debate.

As with the anthropic principle, life has no a priori preferences. It becomes and then it is. Before it is, it doesn't want anything. After it is, it wants to be as it is. Because what is it is its identity.

There's a caveat for physical disabilities, and yes, that's a slippery slope as you've outlined. But how could one want to be another?

If I told you that I could make you smarter, right now, with 100% certainty and safety, but that afterwards... you wouldn't be you as you are now... would you say yes? Possibly, but I feel there's a certain inherent unease with that question. What happens to me if I become other?

My point being that this works in reverse too. If I am now as I was made, how would I feel about the choices made in my making? My assertion is that I wouldn't particularly care, because I am the result. So to wish otherwise would be to wish for the termination of my current identity.

If there's a debate to be had, then let it be one the social or individual merits of the actual change sought, rather than in making changes or not.
Currently starting a greenfield project on elixir/phoenix on the backend and react native on the frontend. To an existing MySQL database.
Unless you're a billionaire there are always going to be things you can't afford to do. For many if not most people, having enough passive income to live without having to work would be a dream come true.
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Title is wrong. Should be "How _not_ to launder $4Bn worth of Bitcoin".
Gattaca is unrealistic because (aside from being intended as mass-market entertainment rather than a scientific extrapolation) it is simultaneously too aggressive and too conservative: it envisions a world in which instant genome sequencing can be done effectively for free on a global scale (which, as cheap as genome sequencing has become, does not seem likely to ever happen unless non-chemical-based processes are developed) while organizations use solely genetic information far beyond its predictive limits (set by heritability estimates, which are noticeably <100% for traits of interest like intelligence) and ignoring the overriding phenotypic information, but puts this in a setting where there are no genuine consequences to any of this, no genetic engineering, no embryo selection, all of which should make the society unrecognizable. If the Gattacaverse's scientific understanding and control of genetics were really as perfect as portrayed, none of the events would happen in the first place - it is ludicrous to imagine a world of genetically-engineered von Neumanns walking around and still needing human janitors, for example. Its poorly conceived world is mostly there as as simplistic grade-school-level allegory about 'how you shouldn't judge a book by its cover' with a genetics gloss. Which is fine as entertainment, but where we're going looks nothing like Gattaca.
A family I grew up with has a net worth of ~$20B but it's layered through hundreds of LLC's. Easy to understand the truest wealth figures avoid publicity the most.

Two other families nearby hit the ~$2B range but you'll never hear about it unless you're floating on a boat when their name comes up.
In chrome: settings -> advanced -> content settings
People are afraid of "super intelligent" AI that can make itself smarter taking over the world. Well they didn't count on people becoming "superintelligent", making themselves smarter :)

Not sure how well these Chinese experiments will work out though. For some reason I doubt it will have the amazing effects they intended, at least in the near term.
What's happening is this

1+2 = 3

Then hits string

Optimiser changes + to String builder

So you get

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

sb.append(3);

sb.append("=");

sb.append(1);

sb.append(2);
Thanks for your comment. I mentioned System.out since I used it for printing.
" ... every Chinese family ..."

This is overstated. Plain IVF today in the US costs tens of thousands of dollars. As a result in 2014 it was around 1.5% of births. Some insurance will cover IVF but is more expensive and there are generally caps. Its only accessible to the relatively well off and that's unlikely to change in the short and medium term.

So even if development of embryo selection technology proceeds rapidly it would only be available to the super rich for quite some time.
That's opportunity. The network is basically being born into the right circles, which is pretty much entirely luck. A few people do break in through sheer determination and/or a lucky break with some contacts.
I think for most people, the answer is a resounding yes.
You seem to be conflating multiple issues here. As far as I know, nobody considers it money laundering to unwittingly accept money from illegal activities as payment. But I don't buy the idea that if I knowingly set out to conceal the source of ill-gotten funds then I've done nothing wrong. I've colluded with criminals to abet their crime in that scenario.
We are still in the "atomic age" - and will be for as long as nuclear weapons continue to exist.

Furthermore, right now these weapons just "sit around" - but one day they will be used again. All it will take will be a "brief moment" of insanity by a leader, and by the people he leads, to touch off the tragedy to follow.

Or...more likely...because we know it has happened in the past: It will happen due to a mistake, either by one or more humans misinterpreting what other humans are doing, or by misinterpreting the signals of machines (or machines sending the wrong signals, which are then interpreted correctly by the humans - though the signals are false).

This scenario is far more likely than sheer anger causing madness leading to tragedy - simply because it has historical precedent of happening not once, but multiple times.

Humanity will never be safe as long as these weapons and weapon systems exist.
I've been trying to do the same; what type of personal projects have you been able to use Haskell?, any recommendations on getting started?
Website making 2000 HTTP Requests is beyond ridiculous, doesn't matter if it is Facebook. Looks like they have architected it very poorly.
obviously, but part of that investment is increasing sales velocity to enterprises. It would behoove slack to grow and get more bigCos entrenched onto the platform - switching costs and employee preference can help them get a foothold on the market to beat back competition.
I was quite happy to discover how easily you can use Ecto to integrate with an existing database. I had to override a few things (e.g. the primary key isn't called "id") but it really worked quite smoothly.