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> Apple is full of smart people. They could think of something if they had to.

Funny that is the _exact_ same argument that politicians have made about secure backdoors in communication software for use by "law enforcement only".

> free speech and privacy

Why is that doing wrong? The causality is based in Western humanistic moral belief. You simply should not force your morals on other cultures and countries.
Doesn't seem this stands to make money, so not many people will be interested.
>Money laundering is a fake crime and propaganda by governments with prosecutors unable to find real crime.

Absolutely true. I'm a convicted money launderer because I once used a chinese bitcoin exchange instead of an European one.

The wires from the Chinese exchange were nothing compared to the EU ones, simply the origin country was enough to justify my conviction.
I think it's possible, although sometimes it doesn't feel so. :)
I agree with you, but my point is that is impossible, because of said power brokers not willing to risk their power.
That you might exchange bitcoins for cash doesn't make international transfers an invalid use case. You don't seem to realize it but in many countries people who earn USD working for mechanical turk and the like end up losing %50 in conversion.

Purse.io lets you buy anything Amazon sells, just about, for bitcoin at a %5 discount (that %5 is not coincidence, it's the effective cost of credit cards.)
If all serials on cash were pervasively tracked, then we'd have and need such services. From criminals hiding their money, to a husband not wanting his wife to know he bought a gift at a jewelry store, everyone deserved privacy if they desire.

Money laundering is simply a term used by lazy prosecutors that can't find real crimes. Fundamentally it's criminalising the act of daring not to tell the government everything you do.

Not that mixing even accomplishes what criminals need - it leaves them needing a cover story for why they have so much Bitcoin.
Speaking more as an engineer than as a contrarian here: If that's your plan, you're going to fail at it.
>Inexpensive

Consumer-wise or manufactor-wise? I'm thinking the latter
I wonder if the Mt Gox parties et al who were robbed will be refunded their bitcoin, since there is a ledger, or if the government will just keep everything. How could a refund be accomplished anyway? Would one need proof of owning a wallet that was emptied?
Opportunistic omnivores that wreak havoc on wherever they go? Sounds like another sentient species I'm acutely familiar with. If you replaced "wild hogs" with "humans" the narrative wouldn't read much differently, but probably on a government/national scale. Do you believe our population be controlled by mass killings?
All of my objects used standard redundancy. My recollection is that regardless of object class, you will get a 405 error if you try to fetch an object that has been lost.

I didn't use SNS notifications at the time (which might only work for reduced redundancy).

So that left two options: find out when attempting to fetch the object, or run bookkeeping jobs against the object catalog to periodically spider the data and ferret out any objects that are lost.

The second option may be a tad nicer, but it is also more complex and more expensive and the end result is the same either way.
This coder doesn't really have a format, it's more a way of defining a format. It should be flexible enough to work with many existing binary formats, and endianness configurability would need to be a part of that.

Performance is not really a concern for this implementation. I would guess that the indirection from calling through all the Swift protocol methods will completely swap any cost of having extra branches (which will be predicted correctly about 99.99% of the time if there's a lot of them).
It does, thanks. So what would be a simple way to find out if Amazon, Tesla etc are getting capital. Would it be digging through their quarterly prospectus?
>It seems like the officer forgot to turn on his body camera while originally finding the drugs

FTA: "So maybe this was a reenactment based on a true story. This scenario, which is where I would place my money ..."

It's just a guess. And I'm not entirely convinced by the argument that (also FTA) "people in Baltimore City don't get prosecuted for a stash of drugs"; because right in the first paragraph, he says "A man was arrested related to this ... he had been in jail for the past 7 months." In other words, even if the police knew they weren't going to get a prosecution, they could have just wanted to punish this guy, or try and get him to "confess", or who knows what.
It shouldn't be a refuge to homeless people either. You go to the library to read, study, look at things on the computer if you don't have access to one. Everybody agrees that homeless people should have access to knowledge, but a library is not a place to sleep, bathe and deal/consume drugs.
When all the exchanges have KYC then it will be hard to hide from the law with Bitcoin. For example you buy $1000 of bitcoin on localbitcoins. But that guy is just a trader who buys them from an exchange. You do something nefarious with the BTC and they trace it back to an exchange transaction, to the seller who gives you up.
I failed a interview for a job I'd like to have gotten by trying to impress the reviewers with more handrolled stuff and nothing bloated. I asked and the folks who passed just used Rails. My submission was alternately perceived as underwhelming and trying too hard.
It's not that much harder for Android. In fact, with Anko, there's even more reason to pick it up for Android. The pain point in using Java is huge for Android because a lot of Android functionality adds more boilerplate.
Parasitic Programming Languages
Eol are important here

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so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens

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>> I feel like I've learned a new black magic to describe complex and ambiguous thoughts with clarity and simplicity.

Care to elaborate ? I sense BS
China to kill VPN thru 2nd firewall at Router
I am genuinely curious how you (and the authors of eleven poetry anthologies) can find so much meaning in such a short poem. I see that it has some visual imagery and definitely evokes the imagination (about farming for sustenance, I think) but I'm not sure if there's something else I'm missing.
I agree. There's no way NATO would bring Ukraine in now, since it would inevitably mean war with Russia for the whole alliance. Defensive alliances are tricky that way: the goal is to deter aggression, but if such an alliance looks to be coming but hasn't been set up, it can encourage aggression instead.

Meta: I noticed my original reply above got downvoted. I wonder why. I just stated facts, with no real tone of any kind that I can tell.
SparkFun posted a full tutorial on their machine few months ago.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/building-a-safe-crackin...
Funnily enough, the list of complaints was almost a perfect mirror of C++ dev complaining about Rust.
To me the most interesting part of this article is the part that nobody else seems to be commenting on: the ability to automatically invert a function, even a programmer-defined function. That seems magical! What if I define a hash function? How can it possibly invert that? Clearly there's something interesting going on behind the scenes, and I wish the article discussed what it is, and how (and when) it works.

Everything else in the article seems like plain old functional programming to me, with a little syntax sugar here and there.
I also remember LOAF - Linux on a Floppy

I'm not sure I even have any floppy disks laying around, much less a drive to put them in!
Hi, I wrote this article.

Some context I think might not have made it to the Hacker News readers. We use Kotlin at Pinterest, we were one of the two teams talking about the value of Kotlin when google announced support at IO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPzxfeDJDzY.

The article is meant to show the reasons we considered not to use it. The language is very similar to Java and we've written some about how even "the grumpy java developer" can learn it https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/kotlin-for-grumpy-....

We don't expect to be able to hire Android engineers that are familiar with Kotlin to the level of expertise we expect with Java. We do expect everyone to be able to work with any part of the Android code base and not be guessing at how of the concepts many android devs aren't familiar with work. If you don't consider the time for engineers to learn this, you are not considering some of the cost of adopting. If you think it's not that big of a deal, then go for it, we did.
Why is this randomly posted?
I think trying to argue specifically about climate change in the US at least - is dead - politics as such prevent the scope of change needed - that said - we as a planet should work more on sustainability - there are technological and cultural solutions that can be put in place, (mostly by private industry) to make the way we consume our planets limited natural resources more sustainable.

Carbon as far as I'm concerned has turned into a straw man preventing us on working on the larger (and more complex) problem of sustainability.

I think another thing to consider for a moment is, if we want a "western" standard of living for all people living on this planet, we either need less people, or we need to figure out how to use the limited resources we have a lot more efficiently.

Humans in the end will adapt to a warmer planet - the range of habitable places however may change - this says nothing to the other animals living here - they're not so lucky.
> No. Awareness of the realities of the world does not count as vile.

I didn't call the awareness vile. I called using that awareness (subtle difference) to justify actions that are a great many times worse, vile.

But well, if you don't agree, I suppose it doesn't matter.
There was a spam campaign for the last 9 months from the pro-centralization camp to drive fees up to fit their narrative that we needed centralization (bigger blocks). But that stopped when segwit became clear it would lock in, and not free transactions are clearing.

In the past several weeks I've done transactions for less than a dollar that cleared in the next block. (the cost is more to do with size than the amount of money-- $1m in a single address costs a lot less than $1m in 1M addresses)

Unfortunately due to the lingering effects of the spam attack, some fee estimation software is way off.
I've just been using this: https://shields.io/
Reading the article:

> In the imminent future, the Group will unveil a range of products based on neural networks," said Sofiya Ivanova, the Group's Director for Communications. "A fully automated combat module featuring this technology is planned to be demonstrated at the Army-2017 forum,

So there's no actual product yet, and there's nothing known about the future one except that there are "neural networks" involved, whatever it means. Clearly, there's enough information to make wide-ranging speculations!
I would pay a large premium for an iPhone that came jailbroken.
Aside from theft - of which the only evidence is money passing through the wallet of people associated with him - it seems that no crime was committed. Another attack on Bitcoin, and the war on drugs continues to kill more than the drugs themselves.
Thank you for replying to GP with a politeness I wouldn't have managed.

I hope he never has mental health issues or similar that result in homelessness.
Why are people upvoting this?

1) This is from 2012. 2) the link to the original Chomsky posting is dead, 3) it's hard to tell that only the part after the "———"s is from Chomsky, 4) once you track down a copy of the more complete text, which is an answer to a lengthy question (see https://medium.com/@behrangsa/noam-chomsky-on-new-atheism-12... ) you'll see it's missing the first paragraph.

That omitted paragraph is specifically about Christopher Hitchens. This is because the question started "The New Atheism and Hitchens". The URL I gave summarizes the exchange as "Chomsky answers a question about the new crop of writers advocating atheism and wars against “Islamofascism” in the name of secularism such as Christopher Hitchens."

This would exclude, say, a Dawkins talk about Mt. Improbable meant for people xexers points out are religious mostly because of their parents but aren't actively religious.
Fewer people.
With the Pier 80 shelter news story you linked to, looks like it was describing the situation back in February 2016, any news on running water since then? Can't imagine it'd take a year to fix. As for the following section of the article...

"But if homeless campers don’t buy the idea, the city could be headed for an ugly scene. If San Francisco police or Department of Public Works employees go to the campgrounds and order residents to pack up the tents and leave, and the residents refuse, what’s the next step?

Because video of cops and DPW workers rousting homeless people out of tents, with the inevitable shouting and confrontation, would go viral. It would be fodder for the far left fringe homeless advocates and could feed into the uproar about the SFPD."

If it comes to it, and people need to be forcibly moved on to a semi-permanent shelter, so be it. I don't see this as a reason to stop pushing forward with plans like the Pier 80 shelter.

EDIT: Looks like San Francisco's local government bottled it, the shelter was shut less than 6 months after it opened:

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/6/6/11870806/san-francisco-homele...
Honestly, I think the reason it gets included so often is that it is short and can usually fill out a page that one of Williams' longer and more substantive poems (e.g., Spring and All) ends on.

Also, it is one of the better examples of a type of visual/minimalist/free verse mid-20th century american poetry that is super approachable and understandable (read some of the Wallace Stevens stuff for the counter examples).

Plus, it is great for having "Wait, is this really a poem? What is a poem??" discussions in English 101 classes.

And, to be fair, if some random person wrote it, it would get almost no attention at all, but Williams really was a quite good poet. And while this little poem doesn't have much to it, what it has is nicely wrought.

Just my $0.02...
> What's the incentive for cops to plant drugs on people?

Paying people to catch criminals incentivizes them to create criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Neuromorphic Computing with Nanoscale Spintronic Oscillators
If history relied on those in power giving up their power, rather than people taking power away from them, we would be living in a very different world.

Political vs. technological is a false dichotomy. There are many other dimensions to the world. Personally, I think we need a monumental social breakthrough akin to the enlightenment to solve climate change.
Going from Java to Kotlin does have a penalty of learning, same as going from C to C++. I think going to Java to Kotlin is easier if you have Swift or Go as language experiences.
The real crime is tax evasion.
Maybe the other way 'round: I've heard that IBM designed their equipment to fit in standard elevators (whatever that may have been).
That seems much more like the story they want you to believe rather than what happened.
They are dangerous, as you say. If you had to choose between global warming and a new ice age, what would you prefer?
So with reference 2 I don't understand how you can be okay eating mussels but not okay eating eggs or dairy. If a hen naturally drops eggs and those eggs don't turn into chicks, they will rot anyway. And dairy involves no death. So why would one be "vegan" and eat oysters but not eat dairy or eggs?
It sounds like the US just got control of the domain, not the server(s).

Some reports that their other domain may still be up (btc-e.nz), but it just hangs for me.
A dead MySpace article from "The Official Noam Chomsky MySpace Page's Blog". Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20110727174315/http://www.myspac... .

Many others also have copies of that text.
Lot of consumer/prosumer-grade sports science gear syncs with iOS only via Bluetooth. It's annoying but I'm not about to reverse engineer / packet sniff their stuff to get it on my PC.
I feel like bias is the lazy man's argument: "As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information."

So FAIR is a biased news source, and we should disregard any criticism they present about any media companies. See how easy this is? Didn't even have to think, which I suppose is the appeal.

You've got bigger problems if you're forming opinions about Amazon based on the relative frequency of positive vs. negative headlines in the news(a metric which is literally the article's concern). Safeguarding the integrity of input sources is only a hugely important problem if you also outsource thinking and evaluating arguments to them.
Let me say a bit about where I am coming from. I see Rorty as an example of what I call a "pseudo-anti-foundationalist" Authentic anti-foundationalism holds there is a real independent reality, and we can say a great deal definite about it, we just can never describe it entirely or with a single set of concepts.

Rorty's Nietzschean pseudo-anti-foundationalism holds there is nothing definite out there and so we are free to make our descriptions as we wish. Many people like this idea because of the common claim that different cultures think of reality entirely differently, but that is not true. In fact there are enormous commonalities, and this is because there are real, independent realities that we all have to deal with to survive, like the necessity to eat, and what counts as food.

As for liberal democracy, I see it as based on a more authentic practical anti-foundationalism that was developed before academic philosophy got there. So for instance, if you can't capture all of reality with a single set of precise concepts, then you need to have lots of different people working on understanding it and contributing to making decisions, which is why you need free speech and various other characteristics of liberal democracy. Which is what Dewey, a much more sincere anti-foundationalist, said.

>It's been a while since I've read any Rorty, but I'm nearly certain that when he is talking about this he uses some language about "fate" vs "luck". Where we like to think that it was the fate of these western values to produce great societies, when really it could be, from an epistemic viewpoint, just luck.

Yes, that is an important point.
Odds are that it is a native module. That's unfortunate, but there is a plan in place to make a consistent native module API: https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node
But people don't rebel until some force was clearly threatening their survival. If people rebel only when their immediate survival is threatened by global warming, it will already be too late.
I bet Morgan Stanley can move their $10M pretty cheaply already.
Juan Carlos I of Spain. (Not exactly the same, but he could have had absolute power and chose to give that up)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democr...
The problem is that we have to make trade-offs between different types of pollution: https://www.euractiv.com/section/sustainable-dev/news/trade-...

So, your line of reasoning doesn't really work: if CO2 weren't a threat we would make entirely different pollutant trade-offs then the case where CO2 threatens to end life as we know it.
Rich people who want to move $Ne+6 around without using a bank is an important and common use case.
Aamzon isn't the #1 marketplace. They're the 9th largest retailer in a still very competitive space. Social media isn't important enough to regulate. Google Search is the only thing that could conceivably need regulation and really no one is demanding it right now.
Could I also suggest Tiny Core Linux [0]? It still seems to be in active development, and the ISO which includes the kernel, shell, and window manager (FLWM, based off FLTK) weighs in at only 16mb in total. It's pretty impressive, and its good fun to play around with in a VM.

[0] http://www.tinycorelinux.net
Physical cash is great for tax evasion and criminal activity.
Regarding closed classes, the all-open plugin ( https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/compiler-plugins.html#... ) may be able to help somewhat, though you'll still need to add an annotation to your base classes.
I'd be very interested to see if this works out well in practice.

We had the same hope for Scala - the idea being that the developers who were interested in using it functionally could do so in the more complicated parts of our application, but the 'rest' of the developers, many who were honestly either not capable or just not interested in picking it up, would be able to still use traditional Java.

Unfortunately, Scala just had too many incompatibilities: things like Options instead of null or to call a Scala method in Java would require some confusing method call like
new Function0<String> because that is how Scala converts to bytecode.

And collections and immutable types never really worked back and forth very well.

The final straw was when we had Thrift interfaces that simply broke if a project moved from Scala 2.10 to 2.11 without recompiling all the dependencies.

But if Kotlin really is completely compatible with Java without too many show stoppers dragging down productivity, this could be helpful for a lot of larger enterprise shops which contain a small subset of engineers who want and can use the language to improve things (or simply don't want to work with old Java code and will jump ship if forced to do so), but still need to keep things simple enough so that the rest of the team can still be productive.
> Google has to deal with some manufacturing issues related to their phones and tablets,

No. It was way before phone manufacturing. China wanted to censor google searches but Google did not approve this so at the end they pulled out their servers from China and hosted it in Singapore.
Those numbers mean nothing though unless, at a minimum, you're doing the same thing for other similar companies. For all we know, using the same methodology, one might find comparable numbers for other companies with, say, similar market cap.
That cornering case is the precise case I don't want a RWD car. "Just don't do that" is a really poor attitude to take, especially when you can't tell at what point the rear end will break loose.

I'm past the point in my life where I want the excitement of "will I recover this before I hit the ditch?"
Sounds cool.

I am currently managing hundreds of KVM VMs with libvirt, what would convince me to change to Minimega? Is this production ready?
That is a commonly held falsehood. It is against the law for anything other than postage-paid US mail to be placed in a mailbox.

https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/tx/2010/tx_2010_0...
I have a pet theory that there is some self indulgent delusion in not recognizing the real issue in order to preemptively take the high ground for an "I told you so."

In many multiplayer games for example, I've seen many support or healer character be the most toxic. By playing the non-fun helper healer, he or she takes the high ground to blame the rest of the team, oblivious that the toxicity is destroying the real thing that matters.

I sense something similar in some developers I work with and some in this proposal as well. Which isn't to say that technical experts giving technical advice and political experts giving political advice isn't good. It's just a similarity I feel.
Last time I used DSL, I believe it was running a 2.4 Linux kernel. I guess it still is, but it was slightly less obsolete at the time.

Another fun 2.4 Linux embedded distro is eMoviX — small enough you can put it on a CD with a movie, and boot the system off the CD to play it.
Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime