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Messenger is fine and useful, I have deleted the app and all my likes and stuff from my account though.
>What is an 'objective opinion'?

Look, things like murder or pedophilia are unabigiously evil. So it's not out of line or particularly dangerous to say that a person who engages in one of those activities or supports/defends those who do is unethical and possibly even evil.

Extending the life of humans? That's not objectively evil. It has not been clearly demonstrated to be a negative on anything. In fact there are plenty of arguments that it could fix a lot of problems we have. So to come out and attach a label to someone who dares work on such a thing, before we even know what it would mean is dangerous. I feel like society, at least a larger portion of it, understood this in the past. Your creating taboos. Things we don't dare talk about or explore because we fear having our lives destroyed by twitter lync mobs and the like.

>Are you saying that it's a bad idea for people to boycott businesses, or that boycotting businesses shouldn't be allowed?

No one should force you to have to shop where you don't want to. But what you actually want to do is knowing as "mobbing" in Europe and it's generally illegal (at least in some countries). The issue is one of power. With twitter flash mobs and so on today, you can quickly destroy someone's life with this kind of behavior. Most people don't mind if what that person is doing is obviously unethical but this thread is applying this to things that are completely unsettled. No one knows what will happen if we extend life because it's never existed before.

>what is comparing someone to the Hitler youth?

I appologize. This was certainly well over the top but please understand the context of what I'm saying: Hitler was able to come to power, in part due to people behaving this way. If you said something critical of Hitler, certain people took offense. They felt Germany had been in a bad way for a long time and this man was doing something about it. Why would you question him unless you wanted to destory Germany? So they started supressing thought. If your paper was critical of the Fuhrer brown shirts would storm in, trash the place and assualt people. As we know, eventually there was no one left to say anything eventually.

I hope you can see the parallel here: people felt their view was sufficient to begin censorship. It wasn't made illegal to question Hitler, it didn't need to be. Society had effectively shut down such behavior on their own.

>As opposed to (objectively?) determining if something is 'objectively unethical'?

Live and let live. There are people out there with different views than you. Some of those views might be down right offensive if you really thought about it. But society has always been this way and until recently we still managed to avoid getting so polarized about it and trying to censor everyone.
It would be interesting to have a line or two about the differences and potential synergies with Upspin (https://upspin.io).
The core of the problem, a lot of paragraphs down:

> we have strong evidence that supports our hypothesis that the adversary gained access to our [DNS provider's] credentials through the compromise of a third party provider

> A factor which possibly helped the attacker was that the password had not been changed since 2013

> We chose our DNS provider 18 years ago when 2FA was neither a consideration nor a possibility
That there are three outcomes does not mean they are equally likely.

Oh, and additional possible outcomes (IMO both more likely than yours):

4. the company disintegrates into complete chaos and goes bankrupt before the year is half over.
5. the remaining employees self-organize and the more ambitious among them end up doing exactly what the middle managers were doing before.
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It's more than just for the average westerner, but also for the average human, isn't it?

According to this, the absolute number of war-related deaths around the world has been decreasing for decades now. This is especially amazing since we've been experiencing a massive population increase since WW1.

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Wars-L...
Sure they can.

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An example - as a 1st year grad student, I had to review a number of articles in 'top-ranked' journals, just because my supervisor preferred to dump it on me rather than bother to do it himself...
The problem is though: Facebook is so big, they will pay every ISP in the country to be apart of the "free basics" package. The've even already done this in India and other developing nations around the world with https://internet.org. This will be free, or the lowest cost internet plan. So with net neutrality gone, Facebook has it easier, not harder.
this isn't just an issue of capitalism, pollution in communist countries was as bad if not worse as controls were either non existent or just ignored.

it mostly occurs because industries move faster than the science to study the effects of the by products and the desire by politicians to push economic growth and in some cases self enrichment. then the next generation down gets the results and ends up fixing it provided their method of government allows for it.
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That makes no sense whatsoever. If I can buy everything in BTC that demonstrates that something happened very wrong that makes USD untenable for basic, or any kind of, transaction.
Well, Corbyn's story isn't quite that simple. He's reshaped the official opposition into something dominated by a tiny segment of the population with outlier views, and set things up in such a way that from now on the sort of MPs who actually won votes in non-safe seats won't be ideologically pure enough to be selected. Thus guaranteeing a hard-left Labour whether it wins elections or not in perpetuity. Before Corbyn the party wasn't left-wing enough for some, but it did hold power for a long time, so it was clearly acceptable to many.

As for it being "non crazy", that is surely your own political filter at work. Corbyn and his allies routinely do and say crazy things. McDonnell was caught on video saying "I'm a Marxist" and then when questioned on TV, he said "I'm not a Marxist". When the questioners pointed out that he'd said the exact opposite, on film, and anyone could find it on YouTube he doubled down and claimed he'd never said that! So anyone can go see that the man is willing to baldly lie about his own political beliefs.

He also keeps getting asked how much his spending plans would add to the national debt, and he keeps saying he doesn't know the answer because it's irrelevant for him to know, on the grounds that however much his plans cost they will pay for themselves. This didn't just happen once, it keeps happening. He's shadow chancellor! And as for Diane Abbott's grasp of numbers, well, let's not go there.

Finally, McDonnell also talked about how elections don't work and how he wants to seize power through insurrection. Every so often a similar statement crops up: he talks about using violence to achieve his political ends. Not surprising for a self-avowed communist.

In the US, the Republicans and Democrats at least pretend to care about the costs of policies, even if it's often a bit of theatre. And I don't recall any US politician literally threatening to overthrow the government in violent revolution. Labour has dispensed with the theatre entirely, its shadow cabinet happily and publicly revels in not knowing or caring about the cost of anything they propose.
> the cheapest method, which usually involves dumping it into the atmosphere and/or water

The ironic thing is that we behave exactly like bacteria and animals and all other life, which have no choice but to expel their waste products directly into the environment. Properly adapted ecosystems have mechanisms for recycling all waste.

The difference with humans is threefold:

1.) We are too many, so the capacity of the environment into which we expunge our waste products can no longer handle the volume of waste we produce, forcing us to handle it with industrial processes.

2.) We produce waste types that the environment has no natural recycling mechanisms for, such as plastic, metal, and thousands of industrially produced chemicals, not to mention nuclear waste. We have only barely scratched the surface for recycling some materials, and the rest we literally just dump into giant holes or the oceans.

3.) We are busy destroying all the ecosystems that would naturally support us and recycle our waste, not only through loss of habitat, but mass dieoffs of insects, fish, etc.
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Check out the bitscope blade http://au.element14.com/b/bitscope for another take on this. You still need most of the peripherals, but it makes for a slightly neater setup.
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It's more likely we'll see a reduction in benefits like company health insurance or bonuses to offset a rise in salary. It won't get you from 60k to 100k, but I can see how one might squeeze out 15-20k from this.
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Well, at least they do wrote some code for simulations using MPI which is nice
I saw a few cases of "Hey, lets spend XXX USD for cluster of <RPI/something else>" and after that "Well we can't actually code anything for that so leave it rot/run BOINC to make it useful for anything at all"
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> you'd have to explain why Whatsapp has been (and continues to be) the dominant network in India

you have to pay for each sms in India so people preferred watsapp which was free for unlimited sms.

The interface is simple even my mom understands how to use watsapp without me explaining how to use it.
Let’s get something straight: H1B is not an immigrant visa. It’s a temporary work visa. So the idea of “H1B Immigrants” is wrong and represents an abuse of the program. Someone who intends to immigrate ought not be using the H1B.

Really there should be no path to a green card for H1Bs.. that is against the purpose of that visa. Get an EB3 if you intend to immigrate.
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The discussion around the Facebook "map" (Zuckerberg and the Imaginary Cosmopolitan [1]) is my personal favourite.

1: http://zuckerbergreview.com/zuckerman.html
"Watershed moments" are those that cause everyone to take something seriously instead of beliving it couldn't happen to them. It's about people's reactions.
> The voters elected a Republican government. That a Republican-led FCC would err on the side of under-regulating telecommunications companies is about the least surprising outcome you can imagine.

Even less surprising as the GOP has been opposing Title II all along, and a GOP FCC is how ISPs got moved to Title I in the first place.
So you are suggesting some of H1B slots will stay empty?

If they're not, what's the problem? The best performers still got their visas, and USA got the top talent.
It doesn't cause early terminations but it certainly does cause errors.
Boyd and Vandenberghe will have a monopoly in anything optimization related if they keep on...
Just my 2c from SQL standards perspective:

> “Every [SQL] data type includes a special value, called the null value,” “that is used to indicate the absence of any data value”.

(http://modern-sql.com/concept/null)

For the Boolean type, null = unknown:

> Note that the truth value unknown is indistinguishable from the null for the Boolean type. Otherwise, the Boolean type would have four logical values.

(http://modern-sql.com/concept/three-valued-logic)

Although they are very closely related, I believe the general `null` value (for any data type) and three-valued logic (null for Boolean) should be separated (that's why I have two articles).
Because dutch news outlets always contact them for quotes, because they only know one security company. I'm pretty sure they are not the best.

I tend to find it disappointing to see a security company use google analytics on their site and leak their visitor information to a big data third party.
Actually is the gene is too efficient at killing its offspring, it will kill its bearers before it can spread, and if it's not lethal enough, the population will just deal with it.

At 25%, it should allow the gene to spread in the population, but whether it's enough to eradicate the population depends on a lot of thing (the environment, how old the individuals die, etc.)
Ok, but you could do a better job than traditional VCs, just like what you did with the original program. So: better alignment of interest between founders and capital providers, better terms and so on. Just like right now YC does not have exclusivity in the early stage, it could be a viable alternative, and if that viable alternative has better terms and other intangibles it could easily work out as a win-win for both founders and YC.

Demo day would then shift down the road to series B and later.

Anyway, that is just speculation. Thank you for taking the time to answer me.
> We are too many

Almost all natural ecosystems are death-limited, usually through some combination of predation, disease, or starvation. This was the case for humans up until about the 19th century. We've killed our predators and have to a great (but not total) extent achieved victories over disease and starvation. But if we're not to become death-limited again we must become contraception-limited.
Why does this apply to one group of people (private industry) but not the other (govt) ? Both are money-seeking.
I certainly hope so though I haven't tried it myself. I've managed to get the sessions, routing, fs, etc working just fine without any additional configuration, but of course there will be some quirks during the actual Wordpress installation which I haven't explored yet. Maybe next week I will try it :)
I don't like the marketing BS from WD, especially the part it is calling itself a company using 1 billion cores a year. Let's be clear - those 1 billion cores run a single type of application - controller firmware. It is not remotely comparable to the rich set of applications run on devices such as smartphones.

Why smartphone makers don't call themselves 1 billion core company? Because they have more interesting stuff to say and more exciting products to show.
*Edit: exceptions :)
The knobs don't just sound good on the surface, they provide real value and are critical to many large scale distributed deployments including multi-petabyte data systems I have been chiefly responsible for.

The idea that people won't understand the ramifications of temporarily-reduced availability, or intentional requests for data that could be slightly inconsistent is kind of silly to me. If your data engineers do not understand the basics of the data systems they are working on you need different engineers.

Spanner does not simplify anything. It is just the old poor relational data model that has been replaced by the aggregate data model in any system of substance.

The real value is that you get an RDB some of the time and then you wait until they bring the system back online to get your RDB back.
Is it just me, or does the board go asymmetric way too fast?

This may be a UI issue...
This is kind of an absurd article. Even assuming that the numbers are right and that Uber managed to get out of most of the shares since they were due to Lewandowski, and assuming that the value of those shares have dropped (which is NOT how you value a deal- it's valued by the share value at the time, not some random time later). Let's see the opposite side of the coin:

Having bought Otto for basically their 90 employees and putting Lewandowski in charge of their entire AD operation what do they have now? Lewandowski is gone, Delaunay is gone. They have a massive law suit on their hands from Google, and the IP is almost certainly unusable or atleast significantly diminished in value.

Now their engineering group isn't run by anyone they acquired from Otto, most of the good engineers have moved on and in a competitive environment where time to market is essential this disruption has probably lost them a year of development time relative to their competition. That's not even considering their competition was already way better funded. Their remaining employees are facing down the prospect of their shares dropping in value with no one to sell to and huge taxes from when they vested.

This was probably make or break for Uber in the AD space, and it was break. After this, any smart CEO would be looking at trying to get acquired by one of the other AD companies with their key value being the existing user base and supply/demand technology.
I like the idea,

I'm miss one thing:
the minute someone says "I'd buy 100NIL for X ETH", the IFO becomes an ICO no? We just added an extra-step.
Government doesn't exactly have shareholders. Although campaign funding is tending that way.
I’ve read reports of fargate startup times around 45s. Not fast, but not terribly slow either.
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Strawman. Anti-BigGovernment != Anti-Environment.
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You personally can't change your government, you only have one vote. Many voters together can change it.

That's not really different in the EU.
Stuxnet was a virus that was sent in. It's not the same as direct remote control.
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https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716630-not-go...

For engineers like me who went to the US in the mid-90s on H1B, spouses were not allowed to work. The US government changed it, to be in sync with other countries that allowed American employees' spouses work in the host countries.

This new move will have an effect on the spouses of American workers abroad, since host countries will retaliate as a mark of protest.
Ask HN: Will you buy the new iMac Pro? Why/Why not?
I am thinking about a new daily driver and am interested in real life considerations and pros/cons.

If you buy or plan on buying it: What will you use it for? Why choose it over a PC Build or HP/Dell/Lenovo/... Workstation?

If you are choosing something different over an iMac Pro i would love to hear from you as well.

Thanks!
Are you serious? With all the allegations of election fraud you seriously think it's okay to go to the voting station without identifying yourself? Do you have any idea how crazy this sounds to the rest of the developed world?
This looks like a small sub-set of org-mode to me.
I like their homepage design and the logo very much.
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> Yes, people are quick to forget that Obama's FCC was not anxious to implement these rules and did not do so until the very end of Obama's term, presumably because they knew it wouldn't hold up very long and by getting it done in the administration's final gasp, they could keep it as a feather in their political cap

Nothing but damn lies.

Obama's FCC set up the Open Internet Order in 2010 (to formalise the informal 2005 rules which had been judged no basis for governance), they moved towards Title II following that being mostly invalidated by the courts in 2014 (the courts ruled that the 2010 rules couldn't be applied under Title I), the new rules were proposed in May 2014, the public comments period was opened in July, closed in September, and the FCC passed Title II rules in February 2015.

> pass the burden of "net neutrality repeal" onto the next guy.

What burden of net neutrality repeal? There was no burden because there was no requirement to repeal NN.
I was impressed with BigQuery. Everything from the interface, to the UDF support, to the high quality libraries.

CloudSpanner sure reads like magic beans intended to solve a problem people don't have anymore.
> Regularizing insecticides and pesticides will most definitely increase the costs

It will decrease costs but also decrease yield.

If only one farm does this, they lose money.

If it's imposed across an economy and imports of non-compliant produce are taxed, then the reduced yield drives up prices. This is effectively the EU approach.
What do you think about other blockchain related projects, like exonum or eos?
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Sure, but in reality those go hand in hand.
Thank you for taking my question seriously.

I don't agree, but I appreciate the expanded perspective.
> I'm always surprised that folks on here don't think about the future of last mile connectivity being wireless, instead of wired.

Many people have and have tried, wireless last mile has been attempted hundreds of time since 2005 (and the end of mandatory line-sharing).
> I'm asking questions to learn something from the discussion. Currently, my opinion is that regulations are necessary, but perhaps they aren't, and I would like to hear why.

Trying to recall what they taught us in business school. Regulations of the kind I think you mean (i.e. ban pollution) are one way to combat externalities, but there are others, in theory.

Econ. researchers stipulate property rights as one way:

If I own the river, and the right to fish in the future, my incentives will shift toward not polluting today. If the river is public and I have no guarantee of future yields, then the game theoretically smart thing to do is pollute as much as I can get away with.

As always, the devil is in the implementation details.

Pre-emtping useless word thinking: I am aware that "property rights" can fall under regulation, depending on definitions. If that bothers you, feel free to s/regulation/bans in the paragraphs preceding this.
> It’s become a widely accepted mantra that experiencing a cyber breach is a question of ‘when’ and not ‘if’.

An excuse right off the bat and quite poor one, especially since it is a security company.
There is a damn good incentive to uninstall the app. By going to mbasic.facebook.com in your browser instead, you use much less bandwidth and you get to use an adblocker (in Firefox, at least), to help weed out most of the nonsense FB throws at you.
It's worse than that. You don't just need the information - you need a prevalence of individuating information as well as lack of other (non-relevant/ distracting) information. The panel at the blind audition does not give you any new information - it just removes some of it, and that seems to be enough to break bias.

Making lots of money out of stock trading is rather easy in the presence of clear and relevant individuating information about all entities that are being traded. So is any decision making. That does not mean that in real life, "decision making" or "stock trading" are simple problems that we shouldn't be concerned with.
I was off Facebook for years, but a few years ago I got back on it. It's just junk food for the brain.

Before I deleted the app on my phone recently, I scrolled through my feed for about 5-10 minutes with a simple test: if I encountered something that genuinely improved my life, I'd keep it installed. I didn't. I can (and do) get my news and politics elsewhere, the comic strips I follow I'll figure out another solution for, and if I want to see photos I can log in through the website whenever the urge hits me.
Citizens may be thought as the shareholders. Anycase what does it prove ?
I believe E2E means that data is encrypted and decrypted on endpoints and nothing else. It doesn't imply how the keys are produced or who else knows the keys.

But I was thinking about a scheme, where the key is encrypted with a passphrase (that user's ought to remember) and kept on server. You fetch the blob, decrypt it (server can't), get the key and thus are able to decrypt the existing data (message archive).

This lowers security, but adds a significant convenience of being able to recover history if the only device is broken or lost. Which may be important for casual users.