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As the author of the 'diatribe', I'm concerned that a personal account of my experience with a programming language and my reasons that I'm lacking motivation to continue to program in that language has generated this type of response. Yes, it was personal. Yes, it hurts to be rejected. Yes, it's a part of life.

I felt that Rich's response was fair. There is so much frustration and pain in the search for perfection. He has given his heart and soul to the language so of course it was expected. I'm really glad he still cares so much for the language. It's rare to see such a raw, passionate reply like that and I know that the language is in great hands.
All fair points here; nothing I don't agree with. I'm not sure they counter what I said, though.

As an artist, most of my ideas are artistic and don't require money for the translation to value, but they still require time and skill. I constantly face the reality that I still have to make the art.

However we downplay ideas, it remains diappointing how many people lack them, and how often money undermines them.
Not to mention that implied in the quotation is being able to argue both sides of a contentious issue is important to being able to make a case strongly for the one you agree with. Totally irrelevant for generally settled questions like cannabalism, so the "utter destruction" was anything but.
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Missing: all of the other software on the host (including maven) and the OS itself.
This is an important point, but the comparison is difficult. Past advancements occurred in a drastically different time period - few professional scientists, for instance.

I don’t defend current peer review as optimal, but I can’t see an easy way to carry out a fair comparison.
Yes the leaving Facebook has helped so much or the exaggerated posts of how Facebook is just too evil are a bit much. It annoyingly ends up making me want to defend and like FB more. Even though rationally I don't want to do that.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that neither Zcash or Monero allow double-spends. Wondering what the context of that statement could possibly be. Any successful cryptocurrency must solve the double-spend problem or there's no value in the ledger at all.
There’s probably a 10:1 or 100:1 page view to transaction ratio, and a 10:1 or 100:1 api request to page view ratio

200k transactions is a crazy number - a normal second for amazon is probably a few thousand orders (4-5k). This is 20x higher.
They were light on the details, but what stops an OS from mapping the same physical page into two distinct local regions of the address space and implementing copy-on-write as usual?
People will prefer meals cooked by robots for the same reason they listen to recorded music. Everyone will have access to the best creations of the best chefs, instead of today where the closest you can get is watching them cook on tv. It will be a new media where artists can directly share their work with the world.
A tangent, but I find it interesting that they don't make any money from Clojure conferences. There are a few hundred attendees paying 500 USD/EUR, and they organise several conferences per year. I guess paying a few people's salary is good too according to the motivations expressed in the text.
"Hack Temple" is a cool name. Don't let PC get in the way.
(P.S. I am also Russian-American)
Small correction: not brain parasites, but specifically prions (misfolded protein that fascinatingly self-replicate). Kuru[1] (closely related to Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and Alzheimer's) was extensively studied last century in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea (which were practicing cannibalism as a funerary rite), culminating in the awarding of the 1997 Nobel Prize[2] for the discovery of the prion, a completely new kind of pathogen.

It's a fascinating story! NPR has a great podcast on it.

And for what it's worth, I completely agree. I was given two key pieces of advice by two brilliant professors in my undergraduate philosophy career:

- Always be as charitable as possible with your opponents' arguments: always assume they are taking the best possible position.

- And this goes hand in hand with the above: always be ready for the best possible counter to your own argument, making sure you have an appropriate response. Few arguments are air-tight, especially for controversial issues.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/whe...

[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1...
Just for the sake of solidity, would you care to have a citation there?
> Is that not against his own interests?

The effects of higher tax rates on Buffet's quality of life are entirely negligible. In the words-ish of Bill Gates: once you're eating $30 hamburgers, the extra money doesn't really do much.
I don’t understand the second part of the title. I don’t see anything in the essay to suggest it can or should go away.

The first part is probably solid: peer review is new. But older scholarship was performed in a very different context - few professional scientists, etc.

But the second part of the title, while provocative, makes no sense to me.
How is Azure supposed to be usable?
Their API is a fucking nightmare to use.

I'm trying to update a resource, and I need to provide:
* resource name
* resource group
* resource type
* API version specific to resource type

This includes using their recommended approach, via their god-awful PowerShell cmdlets (bug infested, obscure messages).

Like what the fuck.

And monitoring? How am I supposed to do that? You have to go through them to get metrics for most resources, and it's like they never thought it through - having multiple machines in an App Service gives you one aggregated CPU metric.

Am I missing something huge here? Please enlighten me.
I think the parent is taking about a third party, insurers who is taking money from a,b, and c.
That's not comment, that's the description of the function and of its arguments. That feeds automatically into intellisense, and ships with the binaries as meta data, and can be used to auto-generate the documentation of your library
This tweet suggests I’m probably off by quite a bit (overestimating amazons orders)

https://twitter.com/joelcomm/status/917229394212675584

That’s $3400/second in transactions for amazon, and certainly their average price/transaction is more than $1:1
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I'd love to see a tongue in cheek time series graph titled: "How Much Russians are the Enemy (by public perception)"

Feels like we are higher than the seasonal norm these days.
We made the transition from subsistence agriculture to now. 90%+ of the population used to tend crops.
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Don’t know but if you haven’t used Azure Gov “you haven’t seen anything yet”.

NOTE: am saying that Azure Gov sucks
Ironically there's some given in the article.
Mimblewimble [0] is a radically different approach to privacy and fungibility, making all transactions look alike.

[0] http://mimblewimble.cash/
Or for better sensors on the robot. There's no fundamental reason it can't tell if the drink is correct.
It reminds me of the scene on The Wire with the chicken mcnuggets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyg_v7Vxo4A
They're actually riding this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWquxfJPD0
Ah! I've been so spoiled by the moderation on HN that when I see an article that doesn't have e.g. (2014) in the title, I assume it's recent! You're absolutely right.
There are three activities:

- critical feedback on papers

- hypermonetization (and deleterious siloing) of works often produced with government grants, leading to primarily academics only having ready access to papers, whom don’t see the subscription costs as a burden to them.

- disseminating only papers meeting a threshold to maintain quality of the journal

Maybe scientists and academics should seek to create and use equivalent quality peer / committee adversalism but publish in open forum that operates based on donations.

Academia seems currently over-commercialised: industry getting cheap labor, undergrads going into debt and journals, law libraries and textbook companies making a killing by locking up knowledge behind a paywall. Research papers and case law should be available to the most people as possible for little or no cost.
Competition is good. This also looks like a neat browser for staging designs.
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Everyone complains about healthcare. It's a universal thing.

In New Zealand, everyone complains about healthcare, even though hospital care is free and doctors visits are really cheap. Everyone in the UK complains about the NHS, people in Canada complain about wait times at hospitals.
Pure speculation, but I bet it's a combination of:

* Lack of a windows machine to test on

* Forgetting to update the site when a Windows build became available.
The article compares bitcoin to the internet in 1994. I think that’s mostly accurate, except more like 1996 or 1997.

1. Bitcoin will crash.

2. The crash will affect Tech which is much weaker than it seems right now.

3. Bubbles always last longer than you think. Late 2020 sounds like when it will happen. That year is a president election. Also one the books that really Influenced Steve Bannon, “Generations”, predicts something called “the crisis of 2020”. Most futurists are catastrophically wrong, but that book has some very insightful things about it.
You're cherry picking one comment from one side of the story. That's not the picture I got reading the entire discussion.

For example somebody pointed out that the original copyright has actually been kept: http://websvn.kolibrios.org/filedetails.php?repname=Kolibri+...
Now we can seen how to implement a atomic transaction which is bank-safe
When people raise Animats' argument, the beneficiaries of the relative tax rate imbalance typically make an argument like: "Oh, you couldn't possibly increase the tax rate on interest paid. Any absolute increase in the tax rate will make corporations refuse to borrow, ruining the economy."

Animats was attempting to anticipate this argument with a counter argument: corporations don't seem to care what the absolute tax rate is; they only care what that rate is relative to the alternatives. So we should feel free to set all of those tax rates equal, raising taxes on interest paid.
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The unfortunate thing to me about Zcash is that privacy is opt-in. It would be like if Signal was default no privacy, but then you could enable it per message if you wanted to send something secret. Governments could just ban you from turning the privacy on and we've already seen this happen with TOR. Opting into privacy "raises suspicion", and we need services where privacy is enabled by default. Monero does this.
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As someone who has been into AI since the late-70s, I am impressed with the overall rate of progress in the last 10 years. The whole field was stuck from the mid-1980s to about 2000. This is called the "AI Winter", and it really sucked.

AI used to be tiny - 20-50 people at CMU, Stanford, and MIT, and a few smaller groups elsewhere. All the '80s startups went bust. Now there are real applications that work and are widely deployed. Many classic problems, such as reading text and handwriting, have been solved and the solutions widely deployed commercially. Speech recognition is getting good and is deployed widely. Face recognition works. Automatic driving is working experimentally. There are now hundreds of thousands of people doing AI-type research.

Each new idea in AI has had a ceiling. Machine learning has a ceiling, but it's one high enough that the technology is good for something and generates enough revenue to finance its own R&D.

Machine learning is basically a form of high-dimensional multivariate optimization in possibly bumpy spaces. That's a hard problem, but considerable progress has been made, and the massive compute power necessary is now available. This is great. It's not everything, but it's real progress.

We're going to need another big idea to get beyond the ceiling of machine learning. No idea what that idea is.
Well apparently long term spaceflight has permanent negative effects on your vision: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...
I like the pet where he says that paying taxes is to hard but then in the next paragraph talks about inventing a machine that can think like a human. Seems like a great guy!
Maybe I've missed the author's point, but you've also missed mine. The fact that the phrase "peer review" dates to the 1970's doesn't mean the concept wasn't in use before. It was just called something else ("refereeing" as someone else in this thread pointed out).

Also, the sharp discontinuity in 1970-1980 is suspiciously close to the wide-scale deployment of computers. Probably has a lot more to do with data-availability biases in the corpus used by Google to construct these ngrams data sets from the transition to digital in industry and publishing.
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I cannot find it now - but I am sure that he wrote somewhere about competing currencies and lateral inflation.
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I bet it's Java.
I've noticed this a lot in men's fashion. If you want a well made garment not covered in a giant logo/design, it's going to be more expensive.

I always assumed that, when it comes to logo covered clothing, you were getting a subsidized price in return for "repping" e.g. Nike.
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Thank you very, very much for that long and thorough answer. I need to read it through more thoroughly when I return from work. But sounds like I may need to re-think my holdings of Monero :)
I'm shifting my thinking on this in some very uncomfortable ways, but also taking a deep look at concepts of liberty, liberalism (and noting that not all societies are liberal -- Iran's delegate is refreshingly frank at least in that open admission), and the long and fascinating history of media itself.

Much of that is informed by the fact that media and expression in the West have been far less free and open than is commonly thought, and the institutions revered there quite often speak with forked tongues, or act with two faces.

Look up Orwell's "Politics and the English Language", or at John Stuart Mill's criticisms of the educational establishment (primary, secondary, and university) as organs of the establishment. I've been surveying various Chomsky lectures and interviews over the past few years, as well as his books and writings. Robert McChesney would be another critic. And neither of them represent the conservative right as Niall Ferguson does (I'm generally not inclined to agree with Ferguson, or much care for him, though he has a point here). Or Clay Shirky, who's also noted that the promise of bringing people closer together online ... seems to have fallen somewhat flat.

And that's before considering the various forms of censorship, surveillance, distraction, and manipulation that's been practiced now with the power, reach, and scale of the Internet.
Looking at the code I cannot find any finance related code (searching for the terms bond, swap, future). So it must be a communication protocol only but doesn't cover the products. Why not using a simple REST API then?
As I keep saying. Some people chuckle about Warhammer 40k Techno Priests. The only people in the warhammer universe with some chance to understand the centuries old compuer systems and machines. Other people work with legacy systems.
I know that some people feel that it isn't worth the paper it's printed on but I looked for FIPS 140-2 validated devices when I was looking for smart cards (for storing the private keys of CAs in an internal PKI). I'm not aware of any U2F keys that have been FIPS-validated (I realize that it is a very expensive and long process), though. Yubico's web site [0] says that validation is in process (for some of their devices) but it has said that for as long as I can remember.

I like and recommend the Yubikeys as well (not that my opinion is worth anything) and, other than that one "PIN bypass" issue in the OpenPGP applet on some NEOs [1] (which was inherited from upstream), I don't recall hearing of any issues with them. There may be better devices out there but I'm sure there are much worse ones that you could buy (as AGL just showed us) and I'm quite happy with my (~7!) Yubikeys.

ETA: "The YubiKey ... meets the highest level of assurance (LOA) requirements, based on NIST Electronic Authentication Guideline SP 800-63-2 ..." [2].

[0]: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/compare-yub...

[1]: https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-openpgp/SecurityAdvisory...

[2]: https://www.yubico.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Yubico_Whi...
I think the fact that there is no Satoshi means that 1. his/her/their vision is up for grabs and 2. whoever did create Bitcoin didn't want people continuously asking him/her/them what their vision for this is. It hasn't even been 10 years, why are we already arguing over catechism?
I'm not too convinced by this trend of hiding complexity - in this case we should expose the complexity and KISS instead?
What good is an immutable/hermetic build going to do if it's broken and you don't know here or how?
Speedtest.net also logs your previous tests, but you have to create an account/login to preserve them across cookie expiries http://beta.speedtest.net/results
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There are many, many BS papers because of the mass-production death-march researchers are told to produce, low p-value and sample size standards and

”Is Most Published Reseach Wrong?” (Veritasium, 2016)

https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q

Which is about an essay from 2005: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

This doesn’t mean adversarial and critical feedback are bad, it means dis/incentives, politics and standards need adjustments.
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Yubico do a short (but I think that's realistic) list of sites that specifically support u2f

https://www.yubico.com/solutions/#FIDO-U2F
I wasn't going to respond except when I got to the last part.

No, I don't own any Ripple and I don't care to pump any coins - even if I did why would I do it in an obscure comment thread on a forum somewhere lol.
I think the only way to make a dent into the browser market is to create the most secure browser and market it that way.
They've repeatedly said they want to run current software well, presumably including software that forks and does not follow up with exec (regardless of how ill-advised that may be; obviously opinions vary on this). Trapping to emulation on fork would seem to fly in the face of this.

That being said I'm still not sure how you can get all of fork's semantics out of this mechanism...

(For that matter various sneaky VM aliasing tricks ["magic" circular buffers mapped twice in a row so that any size and position block is contiguous, same file mapped in multiple processes with different (non-contiguous) memory mappings] are going to fail miserably with the virtual-addressed cache. It may well be worth not being able to do those things for the benefit of moving the TLBs, but it also flies in the face of "will run current software.")
You don't even have to invoke session.run for frontends that can JIT the graph. Tensor flow in Julia is not declarative, for example.
> the new iOS 11 network APIs are not supported on BSD sockets

How much of this can we attribute to technical incompetence on the part of implementers?

A substantial networking feature where BSD sockets don't "just work" is a very bad smell to me. It says to me that the code or concept may be half baked, like they couldn't bother to think it through or don't understand what good layering looks like.
It's just as possible to not use Monero's mix-ins as it is to use Zcash's transparent addresses. So no, Monero doesn't win here.
Thanks I have a Yubico key and use it with Gmail on Chrome, to better phrase my question: How do I use it with FF? (my main browser).
The Moon is a harsh mistress, covers the invention of an AI by a computer technician to free the colony on the moon. If you're interested in Anarchy and AI, it's a good book.
I cannot fathom that folks still can't parse DER correctly. It really isn't complicated.
BDFL?
What do you mean? I went to that thread and came out more confused than enlightened. And ya, I know they get stuff wrong from the news, I already said that in my original post, I wasn't trying to shill for them, I made that pretty clear.
shoot for the stars and if you miss, at least you've reached the moon.
I don't know exactly why, but when I was a kid, seeing the lane-changing machine was always one of the highlights of going on a trip to Auckland.
It is not down to 6 people forever not colluding. It's down to 6 people not having colluded at one point in time in the past, each having been scrutinized during the procedure, with post-hoc inspection of the software and hardware. If those 6 people decided at any point after the procedure that they wanted to collude, then it would be too late for them to do so.

Essentially they each produced a private key, and if each of them revealed their private key to the same party then that party could derive a master private key that would allow them to (among other things) mint Zcash for free (privacy wouldn't be broken). Assuming that any one of the 6 did in fact destroy/corrupt his private key without revealing it, then the collusion opportunity is forever lost.
It's pretty genius how they've turned ancient maintenance routines into prayers and rituals in order to preserve the knowledge and scale out the work force
if you find a link for this, I bet many of us would love to read it
> we include the ability to gain new heuristics and to cross apply the ones we already have.

Maybe our collection of hacks includes hack generation hacks (they cannot work reliably of course).
>Would you care if your private social network data was dumped after your death?

no?
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Not everyone's WiFi is that bad. I get iperf3 results of around 900 Mbit/s over my 802.11ac WiFi. When my internet connection drops to 100 Mbit/s, the WiFi isn't the bottleneck.
There's evidence the vision didn't include investors and speculators. The "generate coins" button in the old GUI depends on their absence. Even GPU mining made that button obsolete.
Is it just me or are more and more stories which look like fluff pieces for ZCash coming up on the HN frontpage? If they were a startup, I'd guess they were prepping for an IPO/acquisition. Most of them have titles with rhetorical questions, and come across as marketing pieces more than anything else.

Really weird.