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Yes, you have the gist of our approach in the 60s and especially at Parc in the 70s. And the Doug McIlroy parts of Unix also got this (the "pipes" programming and other ideas).

What I called "objects" ca 1966 was a takeoff from Simula and Sketchpad that was highly influenced by both biology, by the "processes" (a kind of virtual computer) that were starting to be manifested by time-sharing systems, and by my research community's discussions and goals for doing an "ARPAnet" of distributed computers. If you took the basic elements to be "computers in communication" you could easily get the semantics of everything else (even to simulate data structures if you still thought you needed them).

So, yes, everything could be thought of as "servers". Smalltalk at Parc was entirely structured this way (and the demo I made from one of the Parc Smalltalks for the Ted Nelson tribute shows examples of this).

It's worth noting that you then have made a "software Internet", and this can be mapped in many ways over a physical Internet.

And so forth. This got quite missed. In a later interview Steve said that he missed a bunch of things from his visit to Parc in 1979. What was ironic was that the context of the interview was partly that the SW of the NEXT computer now did have these (in fact, not really).

To be a bit more fair, big culprits in the miss in the 80s were Motorola and Intel for not making IC CPUs with Chuck Thacker's emulation architectures that we used at Parc to be able run ultra high level languages efficiently enough. The other big culprit was that you could do -something- and sell it for a few thousand dollars, whereas what was needed was something whose price tag in the early 80s would have been more like $10K.

Note that a final culprit here is that the personal computer could not be seen for all it really was, and especially in the upcoming lives of most people. The average price of a car when the Mac came out was about $9K (that according to the web is about $20K today -- the average price of a car today is about $28K). To me a really good personal computer is worth every penny of $28K -- I'd love to be able to buy $28K of personal computer! One way to evaluate "the computer revolution" is to note not just what most people do with their computers in all forms, but what they are willing to pay. I think it will be a while before most people can see enough to put at least the value of a car on their "information and thinking amplifier vehicle"
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In my experience, it has always been easier to pirate movies and TV shows - especially in the last few years.
Netflix only had a few of the shows I watch, I had to get HBO Go for the rest. Now Disney is pulling everything to their service.
You need multiple services, each with their own apps. Good luck on a 10Mbps connection. Getting DVDs is impossible less than a year after release.
With CouchPotato, I find the movie on IMDb and click a button to add to to downloads. Sonarr downloads new episodes of shows just hours after release.
Even Stremio (think PopcornTime, but better) is easier to use than most streaming services.
Didnt you think for a minute of your precious time that you had perfect opportunity to teach them a lesson and burn some of their money in the process? These scumbags dont exist because we dont have laws strictly prohibiting what they doing - they exist because only very tiny fraction of people they tried defraud will do something about it.
But even with legal distribution you're going to want to have limits - no selling to children, for example.
The most recent crisis is due to overprescription, yes, but that didn't mean that e.g. heroin wasn't a problem before.

> So you say, well in that case someone will make them dirty and available for a price. Punish the illegal seller and prosecute all suppliers who knowingly sold to someone not registered. Prosecute any and all corruption related to making and distributing the product illegally.

Which is exactly what we know from experience has never worked. Why do you think you could make it work?

The outcome is to drive up prices until it becomes sufficiently profitable for sufficiently brutal syndicates to take on production and distribution.

How do you think we ended up with the amount of death and misery the drugs trade causes in the first place?
How do you think that would go over with the sailors? "Government awards military contract to foreign company."
Did anyone notice that SpaceX launch streams stopped showing on HN's frontpage? That's a testament to their work; we all treat both their launches and landings as normal now.
Probably not. Unlike MS, which is an autoimmune disease, ALS is not autoimmune. The exact cause is only known in some cases, but it seems to stem from problems with the machinery inside the cell, not an aggression by the immune system from outside the cell.
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It's kinda funny and pragmatic at the same time. Soon tanks and planes will be controlled this way too. It will be much easier to train all the gamers for war in reality.
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This will solve zero problems for actual web users.
Theres an entire market for high-end gaming controllers, from both Microsoft[0] and other manufacturers[1][2].

I had a chance to try out the Elite - they feel great, very solid build. The requirements for gamers might be a bit diff to what a submariner would require - but I could imagine the Navy would prefer the sturdiness of these high end controllers and that gamers prefer wired and low-latency.

[0] https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/controllers/...

[1] https://scufgaming.com/s/xboxone/

[2] https://www2.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-controllers/razer-wi...
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,

Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle,

Out of the Ninth-month midnight,

Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander’d alone, bareheaded, barefoot,

Down from the shower’d halo,

Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,

Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,

From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,

From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,

From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,

From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,

From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,

From the myriad thence-arous’d words,

From the word stronger and more delicious than any,

From such as now they start the scene revisiting,

As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,

Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,

A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,

Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,

I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,

Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,

A reminiscence sing.

(First verse of Whitman's Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking)
> things that public transport is a poor substitute for

Largely because public transport is underfunded in London and, of course, ridiculously hampered by the car traffic.

Try getting a bus down the A2 in peak hours or at the weekend. It's often quicker to walk. That's why people end up getting cars and ... making things worse for everyone.
All these complaints from the ad industry feel like an endorsement for Safari
I have observed that people that I knew many years ago and that use weed daily, now have psychological problems.

I know it's not a scientific study, but it have changed my mind. Years ago I though that weed was mostly inoffensive.

Interestingly, I heard an expert to comment that the weed of now it's not the weed of then, but many times more powerful because the plants have been selected for it.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck
Not many would be interested in an un-designable web. It bares no comparison to what browsers are capable of delivering for UX currently.

What you are suggesting then, a non-comparable browser experience, already exists and has for years, yet to no avail. You would get niche technologists and die hard enthusiasts only and the rest of the world would trudge happily into the future, DRM and net nutrality distant memories.

What you and I want, what HN and friends want, is not even a debate most realise is happening let alone that it affects them and will affect them profoundly in the future.

The masses are deciding what our internet will look like for they comandeered it years ago.
You still have gut bacteria in the small intestine, and they're probably as important as the ones in the large intestine. I can guarantee you that without both the small and the large intestine, you do notice a difference (but unfortunately for reasons more serious than just not having the bacteria). Glad you're adapting well to living without the large intestine!
That's because they refuse to make it seamless in a way iMessage is. Or Telegram. Both of those will work on several devices, have dedicated clients, synchronize messages and iMessage will transparently use SMS (on all platforms).

Signal does nothing of the sort - it's impossible to backup conversations, they won't sync to a new device, it won't work on a tablet, it's SMS support is buggy and incomplete and their desktop client is based on a dead technology (and limited to a single machine without SMS support). It also doesn't offer anything over builtin SMS/call support like Telegram does. To top it off, it hijacks SMS store meaning you can't even use OS-based software to backup at least SMS conversations.

I can't give Signal to non-tech users and just say "hey, use this instead of SMS", because it won't work and it'll lose their conversations. I can do so with iMessage.
1GB per hour isn't enough if you have a big screen (I use a 100" screen with projector). Not even Amazon encodes video well, they have particularly poor colour quantization that ends up filling the screen with blotchy seas of uniform colour; Netflix has the best encoding settings IME.
ah! i was thinking it might had been related to usability... nice one thanks :D
Can I add the amount of required permissions to the conspiracy theory? For a privacy-oriented app, requiring access to EVERYTHING is what has kept me away so far.

(Or maybe there's a "Signal Lite" I'm not aware of?)
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http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_426298-De-Lorean-T-40.html made my day
It's a backup. I've heard from retailers that the failure rate on the chips is much higher than it is for swiping.

In Australia you pay for fuel after filling up, and one fuel station owner is dealing with an average of a driver or two a day who is unable to pay for fuel.

They don't carry cash, the chip/EMV is failing and they don't have the mag stripe linked to a facility since they're often debit cards.

Apparently the failure rate on phone based payments is also high(er).

It's one of those issues I wouldn't have considered before speaking to retailers.
> Spinning up Ceres to provide internal gravity ...

Spinning a rock can be done over long periods of time. In The Expanse, it was a decades-long project, that earned the Tycho Corporation some serious engineering cred.
UK police are using detection dogs that can sniff out USB drives
Correction: its the loss of _American_ net neutrality, places such as the EU for example already has enforced net neutrality for all members.
You're misrepresenting money creation. It's not arbitrary.

The government is trading money they create, for some type of asset - in the case of QE, it could be government bonds, or other things. i.e. taking bonds 'off the market' and putting currency 'on the market'. Some day it will will reverse.

Ergo - that currency is 'backed by' an asset, i.e. government bonds, or other securities.

Obviously they have to 'create it' somehow in order for it to exist, but it's only created in exchange for assets, which are held by the central bank.

'Money printing' or 'arbitrary money creation' is when governments/central banks create money out of thin air for whatever purpose.

When a government 'prints money' to pay of debt to some other country - that's just 'printing money out of thin air' - the newly minted currency is not 'backed' by anything. This will cause hyperinflation as the value of each 'dollar' is backed by less and less, worth less and less, i.e. failure.

At some point, the Fed will release those QE assets back into the market, and take dollars out of circulation - i.e. it's monetary policy, not just printing willy nilly.
It has a one minute minimum anyway. And does it not help? Let's say a deployment strategy has a temporary increase in instances so it can transition to a new version of the application. If your deployment takes 5 minutes, you're only paying for 5 minutes worth of extra instances whereas the hourly billing would get you for an entire hour. Am I completely misunderstanding something?
I agree.

Back in the dark ages, when the battle of www vs Gopher was still on, I sided heavily on the side of Gopher because it didn't get in the way of the content. Gopher was a means to navigate the maze of content and most of the content was textual, postscript and neatly typeset. You could sit down with it and read it focused or print it out.

We've regressed to the point where 5KiB of text comes with 2MiB of crap, meaning a noise to signal ratio of 26dB which is insane!

Really Gopher is dead though. We could do with a fresh start. A search engine like WAIS, a menu system like Gopher and a standard document format that allows you to get quality content on everything from your e-reader to paper without having to read some fucked up ebook flow layout conversion. And not postscript. Something you can author by hand.

I've even had enough of building things on the web. It is a horrible horrible thing to have to do. I envy system programmers who never see the pain of trying to keep a very large web application secure at even a basic level.
That only shows more people trying drugs out, it doesn't show a total drugs consumed amount (by weight/dosage or similar volume metrics) increase.
Imagine a old dam. It's in poor condition, with cracks here and there, letting some water through. Its maintenance is extremely expensive and seemingly useless, since for ever crack that is fixed, a new one appears.

Now some guy shows up and says "this dam costs us too much and we are failing to fix it. Let's just blow it up!"
The limit is 1460 - the IP and TCP headers occupy 40 bytes.

Out of those another 63 are consumed by the HTTP headers.

The full TCP payload is only 1226 bytes though, and the full HTTP payload 1163 bytes. The decoded HTML document is 1546 bytes.
No. Netflix is way easier for me than torrenting. I've never pirated music, but I watched a few of torrented movies. However since the ITMS, Netflix and Amazon video become available in my country I never bothered with torrents. I don't even have torrent client on my computer.
We should all move back to gopher. Seriously.
Anyone who would wield the bullshit that is a software patent against facebook in a lawsuit deserves to lose licenses to everything.

Fact of the matter is, it's just posturing. Software patents are utter bullshit and the facebook license clause reflects this.
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Thank you so much! I finally found the car from Wolf of Wallstreet that I'll buy.
With risk of derailing this thread: As somebody in the industry I don't think the sales have been underwhelming. I'd say they are almost spot on with what people in the know were expecting, and higher than expected on mobile. People that were expecting CV1 to be the iPhone of VR were irrational.
I wish someone would do the same for LiveScript.
The pizza is probably produced by others, in the spirit of the gig economy. That way the company can defend any lawsuit.
I think he's referring to this classic article (or one of its follow-ups): http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
A huge proportion of US soldiers (20% according to some sources) also used heroin while in Vietnam, giving rise to one of the more interesting studies of addiction related to heroin [1] that also taught us a great deal about how to kick addictions and change behaviors (the short of it being that a change of environment makes breaking habits far easier)

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/02/14443179...
especially growth stocks that don't pay dividends.
Yes but thats a very small example of the market.

When we are looking at the generic market, nowadays people go to a store, look at something and then go on their phone to see if they'll find it cheaper anywhere else, as local stores tend to overprice stuff to make up their marginal costs.
Agree, that's a pity. Instead of having one top language, we will have 2 "now-incompatible-great-languages".
I think solid professional and creative applications are more likely to support the slow, steady growth of VR and avoid everyone judging it's success or failure purely on the whims and unusual economics of the games industry.
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Yes, it is clearly in wordpress' best interests to spend all that time and money to preserve their very important right to sue facebook for violating wordpress' software patents in the future.

/sarcasm
I think this is great! It allows people using an existing coffeescript code base to transpile to the latest ES.

My question is: Why would you adopt coffeescript in a new project?
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It's funny because it took philosophy centuries to see that—and even now, the scientific method is showing limitations; its too difficult to perform in the social sciences and the less rigorous method of extracting trends off big data also often has great value.
You too!

The reason that I said I'd like to see where it's written into statute is that I can't think of a reason why it would be legal. It sounds like driver folklore rather than law.

Having a speed limit that can be exceeded simply for overtaking (rather than by emergency services) means the practical speed limit then becomes "the limit + 5" in traffic, which increases the chance for collisions (for no reason I can think of).

I'm of course open to being shown otherwise! I couldn't find anything searching for "Texas passing speed limit" or variations, but my license is European, so I'm not sure where to look.
So where do i find the top 250 list?
> Punish the illegal seller and prosecute all suppliers who knowingly sold to someone not registered. Prosecute any and all corruption related to making and distributing the product illegally.

So, in other words, keep failing in exactly the same way as we're failing right now?
I can't help but feeling that Moxie's opinions about federation is nothing more to protect is business interests, which is to sell the Signal protocol to chat companies like Google and Facebook/WhatsApp.

Matrix/Riot is a good example of a federated chat protocol which supports all the latest and shiny things you could find on a chat service (cross-platform, E2E encryption, audio/video group calls, multimedia content, etc) and which is also very easy to use and which has great UX. I would say that Matrix/Riot is even more feature complete than Signal.

I get that the guy thinks non-federation makes things simpler for himself but the way he argues against federation is nonsensical.
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Sure, but I still don't get it, what makes it a 'modern' Lisp, since much of the stuff has been part of Lisp decades ago... Especially if you look at Guile, the manual looks frightening - an implementation which has no clear language design, but accumulates stuff from SRFIs, R6RS, R7RS, own stuff, ... often similar things in multiple different ways - just look at error handling and its multiple variants - none looks really compelling.
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Wouldn't sbrk kind of get in the way of ASLR?
Theres a loophole in Australian regs that I recently noticed. With a foreign card on credit, you can swipe and OK past the PIN prompt with no PIN. Most merchants don't know they are supposed to sign and verify after that.

Of the dozen times i've tried it i've been prompted once to sign - and in that case the card had no signature on it and the merchant waived it away.

I'm in the process of figuring out the scope of this issue and how to fix/report it - I think the solution will be for terminals to enforce prompting for ID/signature
> The recording industry was very hardline with DRM, until one day Apple decided they won't support DRM anymore in the iTunes Store. Thus no music is purchased with DRM from any of the major e-tailers.

This is not comparable in my opinion. Music was bought, downloaded, stored locally and used on countless devices - from your living room setup, your NAS and media center, to portable players or your car. It made no sense to restrict that kind of content to specific software like iTunes.

A Netflix stream doesnt face the same problems. Compatibility isn't an issue here. Most consumers will never run into problems with Netflix' DRM.

That said, of course if it was possible to buy and download movies for permanent offline viewing, similar to music purchases, it would be absolutely necessary to provide that content DRM-free.
This is very interesting, and I particularly like the causal test of inducing sensitization to the antigens present in the bacteria through exposure. It's probably the strongest causal link you're going to get in humans (you can't infect them with the bacteria to see if it induces nerve damage for real!).

The problem here seems to be that this doesn't measure how feasible it is to reverse the tendency for the immune system to attack the nerves. Even if you erradicate the causative bacteria, once the immune system has started to attack the nerves, it's possible that it won't stop. Maybe the presence of the antigens (the proteins that are attacket) in the bacteria is needed as the trigger that starts the attack, but once that's gone, the low level presence of the same antigens in the nerves might be enough to sustain the attack. On a more optimistic note, maybe the erradication of the bacteria leads to a lack of simulation that causes the aggressive cells tow ither and die. This must be tested experimentally.

If the autoimmune ttack doesn't stop after erradication of bacteria, maybe a case can be made for aggressive prevention with testing for those bacteria periodically, ,especially in families predisposed to the disease, and prompt erradication once they appear. Maybe there are correlations between diet and the presence of such bacteria, which we can exploit.

I think the long term impact of these studies will depend on how reversible the "state of war" between the immune system and the nerves is.
Thanks mate this is great info. I'll read up on servo when I get a chance.