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Lem didn't have a very positive opinion about most sci-fi writers, except for one in particular:

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm

But that one particular sci-fi writer had some harsh things to say about Lem to the FBI, and Lem's criticism got him kicked out of SFWA:

http://english.lem.pl/faq#P.K.Dick

"[...] What is involved here is not that these persons are Marxists per se or even that Fitting, Rottensteiner and Suvin are foreign-based but that all of them without exception represent dedicated outlets in a chain of command from Stanislaw Lem in Krakow, Poland, himself a total Party functionary (I know this from his published writing and personal letters to me and to other people). For an Iron Curtain Party group - Lem is probably a composite committee rather than an individual, since he writes in several styles and sometimes reads foreign, to him, languages and sometimes does not - to gain monopoly positions of power from which they can control opinion through criticism and pedagogic essays is a threat to our whole field of science fiction and its free exchange of views and ideas. Peter Fitting has in addition begun to review books for the magazines Locus and Galaxy. The Party operates (a U..S.] publishing house which does a great deal of Party-controlled science fiction. And in earlier material which I sent to you I indicated their evident penetration of the crucial publications of our professional organization SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF AMERICA. [...]" -PKD to FBI

Why was Stanislaw Lem expelled from the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) in 1976?

The following quote from J. Madison Davis' book on Stanislaw Lem gives an answer to your question:

Lem has always been critical of most science fiction, which he considers ill thought out, poorly written, and interested more in adventure that ideas or new literary forms. (...) Those opinions provoked an unpleasant debate in the SFWA [the "Lem affair"]. Philip José Farmer and others were incensed by Lem's comments (...) and eventually brought about the removal of the honorary membership(...). Other members, such as Ursula K. Le Guin, then protested the removal (...) and the SFWA then offered Lem a regular membership, which he, of course, refused in 1976. Asked later about the "affair," he remarked, that his opinions of the state of science fiction were already known when he was offered an honorary membership (...). He also added he harboured no ill feelings towards the SFWA or U.S. writers in particular, "...but it would be a lie to say the whole incident has enlarged my respect for SF writers".
Thanks! Yeah heh.. it turns out the spacing and kerning is probably more work than the lettering.

I've also been looking at this long enough now that I often can't tell what looks "normal" anymore.
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Obligatory plug for Browsix (http://browsix.org), "Unix in your browser", which already provides concurrency via Unix-like processes and IPC. Processes can communicate with sockets & pipes, and run on separate WebWorkers. (Also, you can directly run complex C/C++ applications that expect a Unix environment.)
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> > there's nothing wrong with that either (they have the right to fund or not fund what they want)

> There is a limit to this.

Yes, that would be why the words immediately following what you quoted were "The problem is if Google dictated Slaughter's actions".

> For example, I have the right to ask you for money. I have the right to report or not report a crime I saw you commit. But if I tie those two activities together, it becomes blackmail and is illegal, despite no single action being wrong on its own.

No,it becomes blackmail when one action is dependent on the other. Two actions occurring in proximity to each other do not mean they are linked. It's entirely possible the crime wasn't known about until after someone was asked for money.

This is part of the problem. People are stuck in the "if there's smoke, there's fire" mindset, and we aren't sure if we're just seeing fog.
Look into kops as well - great setup tool for well designed deployments.
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Works for me on Firefox (on Ubuntu) with a jpg. I tried uploading a favicon.ico file and ran into the same issue.
Microsoft was recently one of a group of big companies (including IBM) that were looking to hire a blockchain programmer.
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What kind of switches? If scissor switches like the old UltraX then take my money. Or even better keep that dial and take half as much of my money.
Their logo [1] is pretty much a copy + 45 degree rotation of Feedly's logo [2]

[1] https://www.appsunveiled.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Floc...

[2] https://s3.feedly.com/img/partnerapp-description-feedly.png
In case anyone wonders how long ISS could survive completely unattended - it averaged 1 debris avoidance manouver per year before 2011 and 4 in 2012. Its orbit is around 400km which is low enough do decay slowly, but boost burns happen only every few years. Both of those events are planned months or years ahead.

NASA must have decided there was no real danger to the operators apart from some longer shifts and sleeping in the office. Otherwise, even without the backup ground control, ISS wouldn't be in any significant danger if disconnected for a few days.
What you want is SVG. You want an SVG output of the actual, full, page. With text embedded in SVG properly, of course.
True, keeping your enemies in the dark about your true capabilities is a useful strategy (unless it is a doomsday device, then you should tell the world). Strategic leaks of misinformation is one way to go about it.

Also low-quality exploits could be made on purpose to be intentionally found. The victim finds it and then thinks they are in the clear, while the a more sophisticated real exploit is lurking undetected.
There are some small-ish congresspeople, but I wouldn't call any of them harmless.
I take it you don't work in high assurance security. You should be more paranoid!
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They'd definitely cause more damage, however.
> Washington already won me over [partially] due to not having a state income tax and yet having infrastructure comparable to my previous high-tax state

Same thing happened with me. I moved my company from Illinois to Washington because of Illinois' draconian taxes and Washington's comparatively business-friendly atmosphere.

Of course, then things started changing in Washington and I've since moved my company to Nevada. But then, that just proves the point about American mobility and state government competition.
You basically give up on science then. Maybe gravity doesn't work the way it does and it's just highly advanced aliens messing up with us. Maybe there's a teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. Maybe I'm actually an alien trying to confuse you so that you don't find the truth.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and all that.
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Which is probably why they have no idea that the user experience is irreparably broken to ensure privacy.

The same criticisms exist as since Zerocash was just a white paper.

I will say that there is the possibility that they can make the optional opaque transactions the more ready option, but you can look at the blockchain and see that nobody uses those addresses. Zerocash is just a bitcoin clone if you don't use the opaque addresses.
For the historical record:

> It is not almost totally forgotten

That should, of course, have been "now", not "not".
How is this #2 on HN?

A wireless, chiclet, non-mechanical keyboard from Logitech. Is HN being manipulated like other social media?
This post is not meant to be a critical piece addressing the issues people have with AMP. That's not the goal here. The goal is to show the reason why we serve AMP content and the tech behind it.

There's a lot of conspiracy theories and misunderstanding about how AMP works in the community. AMP is by no means perfect, but its dangers are greatly exaggerated. If you don't trust Google's CDN, no one is forcing you to use Google. The benefits for non-tech users (e.g. my cousin in a 3rd world country with a 2G connection) are there and are clear.
What picture are you seeing that on?
If you read towards the end you will see his motivation for writing - his brain cancer diagnosis in November 2015.
TL;DR: No. Just from the rule of journalism about asking a question in the title.
Keeping in mind the "most programming jobs developers are interchangeable" ? Either be very good at php/css, or be good at, something else. That is more rare. Say, low-level java/c++. And find a job at redislabs/scylladb/elasticsearch/etc.
Scalpers and bots are such a big problem. The recent Super NES pre-orders were a total catastrophe because the scalper bots overloaded the servers and took down/glitched out Target, Walmart, Gamestop and Best Buy's online stores, the pre-orders sold in seconds, pretty much the only people who got pre-orders were scalpers, and they immediately turned around and posted their pre-orders on eBay for 3x the price.

I'm open to any attempts to try to limit rewarding these jerks for bad behavior, and hopefully it'll convince others to also find creative ways to limit them (like Nintendo. Mainly Nintendo).
You're missing the point. "Hashing" isn't the interesting word in "truncated hashing". "Truncated" is.
Right, but this time is different, guys.

You have to complete FOUR capitalist missions, before you can get the next key for your ticket quest.

It used to be FIVE, but now it's FOUR. Made easier, for your convenience.
For real... Tnx!
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The stated objection was that if people don't have to work, they'll choose not to.

If that's perceived as a problem, we already have that happening right now and aren't doing anything about it -- a complete confiscatory estate tax would solve it, though!
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It doesn't happen automatically on BEAM - you still need to explicitly spawn your processes.
From the article you linked: "The ECB says the €500 banknote remains legal tender and will always retain its value."
You're not alone. I'm of the mind that it doesn't matter what the license, state of the source, or whatever, I'm here to get things done, not quibble over trivialities and semantics. When I can see the source for something, I call it open source. If the OSI has a problem with that, I invite them to explain to me how my definition affects their goals in any way, shape, or form.

I like the OSI. I use a lot of stuff that they endorse. My 3D printer is OSI certified (or whatever the proper terminology is). But I use my printer to solve problems, and it being open or closed source doesn't really matter, so long as it helps me solve problems.

I like the FSF. I use a lot of stuff that they endorse. One of the operating systems I use is FSF certified (or whatever the proper terminology is). But I use this operating system to solve problems, and it being open or closed source doesn't really matter, as long as it helps me solve problems.

I like Microsoft. I use a lot of stuff that they make. One of the operating systems I use. . .you get the idea.
While I've always loved the Infocom games, I was partial to Magnetic Scrolls: The Pawn, Guild of Thieves, Jinxter and so on.

Magnetic Scrolls games came with a little bit of graphics (or, in the case of the later Wonderland game, a whole graphics environment, including a visual inventory you could drag stuff around in), and also had a more sophisticated parser. For example, if you had a green bottle and a brown bottle you could do something like:

> put water in bottle
Which bottle?
> green
The green bottle is now filled with water.

This also worked with modifiers in-sentence ("put water in the blue bottle"), and it could handle complex sentences like: "go southeast and get the harmonica and the bottle and then get the knife that is on the table and use the knife to cut the sandwich".

The internal data model was also more abstract, and therefore more flexible. For example [1], if you needed to cut something, you could use anything that was sharp enough, because the data model didn't require a specific object. If you had a knife, you could cut a rope, but if you also had a vase, you could break the vase, then use one of the shards to cut the rope with.

All the Magnetic Scrolls games are playable today on many platforms through Magnetic [2], and you can find the files online. The original Magnetic Scrolls developers were able to recover the old source code from tapes [3] and will be remastering the other games, and releasing the code. A remastered version [4] of The Pawn came out recently for multiple platforms, including mobile.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/4760332/In-my-opinion-...

[2] http://msmemorial.if-legends.org/magnetic.php

[3] https://strandgames.com/blog/magnetic-scrolls-games-source-c...

[4] https://strandgames.com/games/thePawn
Again, this can only work if a quite strong parallel economy develops, where everything is in BTC. Well, for that to exist, it needs to get to a comparable level of a real state economy, and this is pretty damn hard. That, in order for you to have a stable exchange rate when you need public services, like health services or to pay taxes. Otherwise, just having always to exchange your BTC in the de-facto currency so you can do your daily stuff, that is just not money. You can call it whatever else you want.
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So why was pumping ruled out? You(the non-lactating spouse) can feed pumped milk with a bottle.
That's a good question but I don't know the answer. The reports we generate don't use js so I've never needed to investigate.
There are plenty of examples in history where the majority opinion changes, even with regard to deep, long-held ideas. In any case it's reasonable to support a policy on principle, even if it's unlikely to be implemented.
Dude, don't know what the ad hominem is all about, but if you have rational arguments to dispute the studies by UC Davis or the methodology behind Lebrero's bug count analysis, I'd love to hear them.
They aren't using proof of work.

The person of using "blockchains" is to have a transparent ledger.
My wife is a pediatrician who recently wrote a letter to the Washington Post about this. While she routinely recommends breast feeding, she pointed out that the many costs, or even just personal preference, can justify formula instead. For instance, maternal stress alone probably has a big impact on child welfare. As a result, the weird undercurrent of shame for mothers who don't breastfeed is unwarranted. She sees mothers who are brought to tears because they can't breast feed, when in reality it shouldn't be a big deal, even if it's just a personal choice.
I'm really hoping Nintendo will screw these people by releasing a huge number of units at release, but I suspect that if someone wants one they'll just have to pay 3x. :(
That episode's premise is probably the most plausible one in near future. Even if public services arent tied to such scores there's nothing preventing one private company to use a score from another private company to deny you service. I know this is how credit scores work currently in the US (which I find extremely strange and disturbing as an immigrant) but maintaining social scores is much more dangerous than credit scores.
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Yeah BUT you can bet your last dollar or euro that they will ask questions if you show up at a local bank with a few 500 euro notes, 20 years from now. Lots of questions and reports to the police will follow.

And they will not be accepted as "legal tender" to settle drug /illegal deals, so they are out, in a way.
I think Rammstein is/was doing the same for their concerts.
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Sleazy. Then again, par for the course for modern Google.
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Nonsense. You make judgements based on the amount of evidence available. To simplify a bit, the more favourable evidence the more likely you think something is, and you make decisions accordingly.

My point was basically arguing that you should always factor in the known limitations of your current knowledge, whereby if you know there's limitations to the knowledge you can't just assume that the knowledge is representative of how things are.

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and all that.

What part of being agnostic about something do you think involves believing extraordinary claims??
> First, lambda calculus isn't a language -- at least, not in the typical sense.

There are common ways to express lambda calculus expressions in order for people to communicate those expressions with each other, which is very much a language. After all, we are talking about the language of SQL here, not the mathematical concepts that lie beneath the language. Don't confuse what SQL is able to achieve with the way SQL is written. We are discussing only the latter.

> The problem is that any new SQL would just be a new mapping for the same underlying relational algebra.

And general purpose programming languages map to the same underlying turing machine. That hasn't stopped us from coming up with variations in language to improve the developer experience, even if they are all quite similar at the end of the day. Let's face it, if you can program in one general purpose programming language, you can program in them all. There are no real differences between them. The only thing to learn when switching languages is the grammar and idioms of the language. The underlying mathematical theory never changes.

You could just as easily say "Welcome to the new C, same as the old C." And yet, the new C has proven to be quite valuable when it comes to developer productivity and happiness. There is very much room for the same in SQL land, if someone was ever motivated enough to look for it. I maintain that NoSQL becoming synonymous with unstructured key-value/document data stores has killed what motivation there may have been though.
This is one of those instances where citing to Wikipedia will get you the groupthink rather than the facts. Many studies show no link between breastfeeding and development, once accounting for various confounding factors: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/03/... https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/no-significant-l... http://time.com/9917/sibling-study-shows-little-difference-b... http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/13/breastfeedings-role-in...

From a 2017 study:

> RESULTS: Before matching, breastfeeding was associated with better development on almost every outcome. After matching and adjustment for multiple testing, only 1 of the 13 outcomes remained statistically significant: children’s hyperactivity (difference score, –0.84; 95% confidence interval, –1.33 to –0.35) at age 3 years for children who were breastfed for at least 6 months. No statistically significant differences were observed postmatching on any outcome at age 5 years.

It is extremely difficult to perform good studies about breastfeeding in the U.S., because breastfeeding rates are highly correlated with other factors. For example over 90% of babies in California are ever breastfed. That figure is around 60% in West Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Breast feeding rates also vary dramatically by race (black mothers are far less likely to breastfeed). Breastfeeding rates are also much lower among younger mothers and single mothers. So it's very easy to design a study that shows nothing more than that kids of wealthier, white married couples tend to be healthier.
Question is, was it worth it? Weren't there easier ways to increase Digital payments? Better ways to make people put money into banks?

Was it worth killing people? http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/17/day-9-demonetisation...
Does it really? I'm genuinely curious during what time period you think our government would've reacted differently. This got me thinking, how would people expect different countries to react to something like this?

By making that tweet he's impersonating a government agency and passing it off as an official document. If he hadn't posted that tweet I'm sure he wouldn't have anything to fear.

EDIT: I looked up the relevant law: False Impersonation of Federal Officer or Employee [0]. It doesn't seem he got anything of value, so it's unlikely he could be charged. Although I'd be surprised if he didn't at least receive a stern conversation from a government official.

[0] http://www3.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/508
TLDR: Just explains Dijkstra's Algorithm (example, Java code).
> That said, I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would definitely use Go for that. And honestly, that's basically the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not the best server side system ever.

Really interesting. I can imagine others would refuse to give up on the thing they'd worked so hard on. But Dahl has the self-awareness to just step back and say "huh, guess this isn't so great after all".

Huge props to the guy.
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Ever heard about Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle"? The purpose was to collect specimens and chart coasts -- purely descriptive. Even the idea of predictive natural science was a little awkward in the face of the religious concept that God created the world as-is/will-be.
Shareholders decide what corps do. *But you're right that some tech companies are doing this new model where founders reserve control of boards and in that model you're right, it's a fundamental shift.
It's not really that stable, but it can hold for a while.
Wish I could upvote twice.
Now this is the kind of information that should have been in the article. Thanks for sharing!
Normal people absolutely care. They however do not have the tools or know how to.

Just look at how many people were behind the facebook lawsuits in Europe to see that those are not developers.
You mean, before the 90% of the global population that doesn’t speak english as first language goes online, right?

Because the #1 use case for this isn’t emoji, but sites such as bücher.de (I originally had a link here to the site, but HN punycodes that: http://xn--bcher-kva.de/ ) (which nowadays had to redirect, because the URL displayed in punycode made people believe it was a phishing attempt)
Yeah, I find that pure functions (or pure functions living in immutable objects) makes my code immensely more composable and easier to work with (i.e. more adaptable and less expensive to own). If some business requirement changes I can recompose and tweak existing code without reading every line of code to figure out what side effects may unintentionally get triggered.
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This is pretty simple and I don't think it's nefarious. Android WiFi is used for two purposes, networking and location. The main WiFi switch toggles the networking function and the main location switch toggles its location fuction as well as other location providers such as GPS and cellular location. If you want the main WiFi toggle to also affect its location function then that's what the "Always allow scanning" setting is for.