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I know personally my body has (seemingly) felt fear independent of my mind, and I have heard other drivers talk about this too. Typically this happens when you (think you) know you can execute a corner flat out, yet your foot lifts off the throttle just a bit all by itself; is one example that springs to mind.

I wonder how climbers overcome this?
I’m not aware of any countries they’re outright banned from. But regardless, every company faces regulatory challenges at scale. I don’t see why this is any different.
According to Musk's tweets( which is arguably a weak measure) Tesla is more or less right on the verge of being cash flow positive and won't need more money raised. Don't discount the billions in shorts that have a lot of power to bias the public.
> I’d love to search this database for the details of top people at privacy-violating companies and publish them.

Who defines "privacy-violating"? Jumping into the mud because you feel aggrieved just makes you look like a pig.
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there was a House episode where someone was diagnosed with naphthalene poisoning due to termites in the walls. so following occams beliefs, we could also have lots of termites in space too. ;-)
Of course it was a bad decision. Like I say, I wasn't there when the decision was taken, but I don't think it was suggested by anyone in the tech team. Instead, what I imagine happened, is that, like in the (completely speculative) dialogue in my previous comment, someone who had no idea about what a for-loop is decided they're dangerous, asked if there is any alternative and when one of the techies present blurted out "recursion", the management person figured out it's better than for-loops.

I commend your skepticism, of course, but I don't think that's so hard to believe. I'm sure we all have stories of non-technical managers making stupid decisions based on complete misunderstanding of computers and programming languages and principles, after a quick explanation by a technical person.

I mean, imagine trying to explain recursion to someone who doesn't even really get for-loops.
>in a country like the one I live in, where money by design tends to trump just about everything in importance

That 'just about' gets overlooked to an extreme degree. How much money makes up for being autistic? From having a learning a disability? From a history of abuse?

And even if the sociologist are looking at all the right factors, once we are a single level removed from them lots of those factors are dropped from the vocabulary and not picked back up. For example, sex is often brought up in regards to some issues, but completely dismissed from others. Other issues are considered to minor to be worth mentioning, and while that may be true for any single one, someone who suffers from multiple such small ones can end up being declared privileged despite the combined effect of multiple minor issues completely eliminating privilege granted by others.

How does a wage gap and expectations of putting children before career compare to having a law preventing genital mutilation? How much benefits stereotyped to men are to be canceled out by someone with a gender neutral name who sounds female over the phone? How does being white, tall, and handsome compare to auditory hallucinations?

The 'normal people' discussion of privilege is an abstraction of what privilege actually is, and it is a very leaky one. That some can choose to ignore those leaks and the impacts of those leaks on themselves does not validate the abstraction as a good one worth using.
Was an easily-guessed password the source of this breach?
> I know and I don’t think these are always good things.

Maps and folds do make structure explicit though. For example, it is very easy for a compiler to vectorise a "map" operation. Folds will always terminate.

> The debuggers I have in corresponding IDEs are already built, they are sufficiently high-level for domain specific code.

But does your debugger allow you to visualise the intermediate steps of an arithmetic expression? Does it understand Iterables/Enumerables and allow you to capture and inspect them? Can it handle concurrency and parallelism, or help you make sense of callbacks for non-blocking IO etc?
My point is that the debugger is simply not as general purpose as most claim it to be. It sees the world word-at-a-time and only allows you to step statement-by-statement. It does not understand the composite data structures or control structures that you have built. This is less of a problem with low-level code, as typically there is limited abstraction. But it will be a problem for any sufficiently high-level abstract code (functional or otherwise).
It still isn't an example of bias. It's just an example of Twitter not having clear internal policies and coordination for dealing with sensitive issues.

Which, frankly, has been an issue that plagues them on both sides of the political divide.
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>There's approximately 1 atom per cubic cm in space.

How do you figure? I'd think gravity would cause it to clump up, and draw it toward massive bodies.
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There's another comment here in the article explaining the reason he was removed was at the request of the people who owned the property.
Interestingly, this would apparently be a problem with Alcubierre drives from what I've read. The bubbles of spacetime around a ship would wind up "collecting" stray particles as it travels, then releasing them in a massive energetic burst when the bubble popped, probably annihilating anything in its path.

I've sort of decided one of the possible solutions for gamma ray bursts is just starships exiting to realspace.
> average rents in Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne are about AUD$2600/month (~USD$1900)

Melbourne and Sydney maybe, but Brisbane is drastically cheaper. When I was studying in Brisbane a few years ago my rent was in the ballpark of $300-400 AUD per week for 2-3 bedrooms, even at the higher end of $400/w that's only $1700AUD/m. You can even buy a two bedroom apartment for under $300k in Brisbane, compared to the $1m or more the same would run you in Sydney or Melbourne.

In contrast, when I graduated and moved to Sydney for work we lived a similar distance from the city as we did in Brisbane and yet were paying $500/w for 1 bed and much less total room.

I suspect Darwin, Perth, and Hobart are similarly cheaper. Generalising and saying all our capitals are expensive is incorrect, though I can understand why perceptions are driven by what happens in Melbourne and Sydney since nearly 50% of the population lives in one or the other.
Interesting, but is there some context for why this is being posted, or was it just a random Wikipedia article that seemed neat?
Wondered about that too. Apparently Apple Pay does use the same artificial CC number with each payment (maybe only with the same merchant?) so it's still possible to have your purchases tracked over time, even if they don't know who you are.
Arbitrarily defining someone as mentally ill in order to take away their chosen way life is an age old strawman.
> All else being equal, it's better to implement things in libraries rather than bake them into a language.

I was in the extensible languages camp for so long. Now I believe that widely used stuff should be part of the language. The reason is that people love to write libraries to scratch their own itch, but it takes a whip to make them write libraries that work together: use consistent naming, accept and return the same types, avoid overlaps in functionality, etc. It's just nobody's job. Except if you call your collection of libraries a "language" and try your best to harmonize them. That's what a language should be. Being minimal is no virtue.

My favorite example is Unicode: the best languages are those that bake it in and force everyone to use it. Or exception handling: you could give people the tools to build their own error handling mechanism, or you could build one good mechanism (with deep language integration, stacktraces etc) and force everyone to use it. When everything uses the same kind of strings and the same kind of errors, programmers can focus on what matters.
First word of the sentence was "imagine" my dude.
Not with a big graphite shield - single molecules should just ablate it. However should you hit be unfortunate enough to hit one of those dust specks which are out there... big kaboom.

The whole thing is also a case for building spacecraft with as small a cross section as possible, less chance of hitting something large.
>This makes me sad. People working on open source projects get nothing. Sometimes they get some money. Sometimes they get some fame. People who don't build anything, but find a hole, they are heroes, they get prizes, they are worshiped.

I think you've misunderstood what's happening here. Zerodium, the company mentioned in this article, is an exploit broker. They buy vulnerabilities from researchers, then sell them on to government intelligence agencies. The entire purpose of their business is to undermine the security of the tools we use.

Bug bounties are a response to this trade in exploits. They incentivise researchers to publish vulnerabilities rather than selling them to spies. They're a necessary evil to keep zero-day vulnerabilities out of the hands of oppressive regimes. It's not nice, but that's just the world we live in.

Large companies that rely on open source software have started to understand the importance of financially supporting OSS development, largely as a result of the Heartbleed crisis. The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative has created a secure financial foundation for critical open source projects.
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recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15134903
Facebook? Equifax? Ad networks?

Basically anyone who profits off user data and makes it difficult/impossible to opt-out.
How well does it handle merging PDFs? I’ve not found an efficient way for merging many small PDFs in pdfbox/itext without cranking up memory settings.
>Imagine some mentally ill person decides he wants to be at one with nature on your property...

Imagine some mentally ill person decides he doesn't want to be one with nature on/as your property.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
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Ah, my bad, I should have noticed that.
I wouldn't replace loops with recursion, generally speaking. It's probably at least as hard to write and understand explicit recursion as it is a for loop, and it's still fairly prone to off-by-one errors.

Explicit loops have a use, as does explicit recursion, but in the vast majority of cases, I use higher-order functions, like map, filter, flatmap, and fold.

The real problem is choosing tools that have more power than you need. This increases the surface area for potential bugs and it requires future reader to parse more code that's just there for plumbing.
Science is miraculous. I couldn't even imagine being able to figure that shit out.
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Just wanted to say it's pretty sad a company like PillPack even has to exist - it shows we're on WAY too many fucking pills.
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I doubt anyone is working on Shumway. Its in the Firefox graveyard.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...
Yeah no the problem with that is that it's adding a variable to this discussion that does not apply, is not relevant and begs an arbitrary emotional response based on a hypothetical mental health problem-when mental health has been used for quite a long time as an excuse to deny people their rights to life and land.

I'm not going to play 'let's pretend' and step around how ugly your hypothetical is, "my dude".
Though its job is mainly to capture deuterium, I presume for propulsion. (In a fusion process? This is where Star Trek veers off into literary freedoms with the dilithium crystals and what not.)
Imagine your children are in high-school and you are still doing their homework.
The point of this article is "making everything ourselves." What you're describing only applies if the traditional manufacturer/sales channel/consumer paradigm is maintained. I'm proposing to think further outside the box than that.

For an example of what is possible: you can buy Arduino clone hardware on eBay direct from China much cheaper than anything from authorised suppliers.

Any successful "making things ourselves" community (consider Pure Data as an example) is self-supporting and doesn't expect support from manufacturers/creators. Similarly, such a community spreads awareness without marketing investment.
grease is slippery so what if it helps them move faster
An exposed elasticsearch server does not equal personal data though. It can be used for anything really. I have two systems that use ES and none of them for personal data.
Taxes yes - in addition to occasionally checking tax calculators I know what our after-tax income is in both places.

Commodities - not in a rigorous fashion. I know we have more at the end of the month. If it's because we just buy less stuff that's OK with me. As I mentioned, we save a lot just not having to own or operate a car; we walk or cycle most places. Health insurance is also far, far less expensive (about 2500 EUR per year for a family of three), and even if that was "included" in my pay in the US, somebody was paying for it.
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Better/Other ways to exit VI/vim:

* ctrl+z; kill %1
* Open a new terminal and ignore the one with vim running.
* ZZ
* Pull the power cord, erasing any sign of it running.
* ESC :q!
* ESC :wq
* ESC :exit
* ESC :quit

Of course ESC and :q usually works too ;)
It doesn't bother me because clearly that is the point of signing up for the accommodations! The whole idea is they allow you to do it if you pay the fee.

I know, you're thinking McDonald's doesn't "let" you eat a burger if you pay for it.

But a burger is a commodity, and easy to get and McDonald's isn't taking a risk letting you into their place.

This person is absolutely dying to run a bookstore for a short time and he gets the opportunity.
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How does one propose this 'law' without violating many of its own rules (#10 especially)? It smacks of snobbery.
Could be a feature, depending on circumstances. :-)

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I understood. That was just my thought about the whole situation where you can earn on finding bugs, not on writing reliable software.
Ok then ignore that part of my comment it doesn't change much.

Anybody wanting to live on your property, whatever their reasons, who you didn't invite there, is probably not gonna be ok with most people.
> Zip, fold, map, reduce, filter, sort, reverse, transpose, permute, concat, any, all, max, min, cycle, take, ..

Cool, so if that's all we should just use those. But wait, what about those dozens of megabytes of data, should we really zip/transpose/concat them? We should use non-strict evaluation then...
Well more specifically it's one of the longstanding arguments against SaaS as a concept.

It's a tired tune to say that RMS was right, but he was. Letting people be controlled by software is not a good idea for pragmatic reasons that go beyond mere morality.
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This is a great "growth hack" to introduce that service Cake. The story is really good too, but what immediately caught my attention was: "what is this cake thing?". It looks good btw, did anybody else know about it?
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This is hardly surprising, given what we know of how violently the universe was created. When a massive explosion occurs it propels matter everywhere. Some debris is large but there is plenty of dust.
You are wrong again. You still don't understand what can be protected under "trade mark" or trade dress.

The infamous Coca cola bottle (16oz) is far from generic. Their bottle design is not driven by function (ie, maximum capacity, minimal materials required to make one, anti-slippery, etc). We can tell it apart from other soda bottle designs precisely because the bottle's curvy contour is purely "ornamental" and unique. The Coke's bottle therefore can be protected by "trade mark" -- although the EU has however has stricter standards and has refused to grant it.

Their 8oz soda can design however is utterly generic and they differ very little from generation to another. It's difficult to tell it apart from other soda cans -- not without the white logo and red background which is also trade marked -- because it's functionally necessary to come to that design to achieve maximum volume capacity and minimum materials used. This shape/design of the cans therefore can not be trade marked.

Your earlier comparison is absurdly flawed because once you mask prominent non-functional (or ornamental) features (with 3 tapes), what you end up with is a generic rectangular shape which can be attributed to any mobile device, which has been around much longer than Apple's birth and certainly not created by Apple.
I fell into cybersecurity after doing some consulting to a major department of the government of Canada on machine learning. While there I was shocked at how bad things are. FVEY may be the pre-eminent alliance in the cyber domain of war, but defence is so much harder than offence if the situation isn't rushed. This didn't really dawn on our political leaders until recently, but they don't really know what to do.

So I started methodically learning cybersecurity. I ended up writing this comment about a year or two in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12788910

> It's surprising how bad cyber security is, but so much of it is right there in the pages of this [U Waterloo textbook]. It's like finding out you can buy a Patriot missile for $250 and some spare time in the evenings.

Over the past two years I think the world is starting to understand where we are headed, but there are no easy solutions. Many of the problems we have are the same ones we've had since the dawn of the NSA. Computers need operating systems. Operating systems are really fucking hard to make completely secure, let alone completely secure and borderline useable. If you think $500k for 0days is high you ain't seen nothing yet. When autonomous systems run everything or when greater numbers of Wall St traders start realizing what they can do with an 0day and some outlying put options we're going to see 0days worth tens of millions as the arms race heats up.

The problem with cybersecurity tools (and AI / autonomous systems) is that it's all dual use. The same tools you probe your own server with are the same ones you can probe others with. Worse—we can't even control the export of attack tools because it's all essentially just data. You can't stop people from memorizing code snippets or facts.

Even so, we need to instil fear into people in the West. We need to limit who they're legally allowed to sell the vulns to. Allied states: Yes. Defence interested parties: Yes. Some cybergang: Fuck no. We need to deny travel visas to the direct family members of other individuals in unaligned states that sell 0days to the worst actors.

It won't stop malactors from getting these bugs, but it will make it significantly more expensive for them to do so, and at the end of the day war and crime are economic concerns as much as they are political.
For more on the UK approach, see the long saga of Stephen Gough, the Naked Rambler.

And sometimes naked plane rider, which is rather asking for trouble. Rambling yes. Naked on a plane, please do not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gough?wprov=sfla1
Thank you!!! So basically a frisbee traveling at light speed :)
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This dude again? This story is totally false. This old man sometimes visit civilized town, got money from his sister, to purchase modern civilized items. It's not so isolated at all. It's just a weird old man.
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That's not what the term "strawman" means. What you mean is it's an excuse used to oppress people, and that may be true but you'd have to give supporting cases. (Certainly it has been the case for LGBTQ people being oppressed in the past, even currently in some countries.)

Mental illness is also a real thing and a real problem, and people with serious problems who need medication often live outside the bounds of normal society. But that issue is not going to be solved here, and I think it's a distraction from the actual topic because the reality is he was on other people's property where he wasn't welcome.
> I think it because high-level languages are closer to the problem domain (or our thinking)

Mostly agree.

> same for recursion

I don’t know about you, but in my problem domains loops are closer then recursion. Also loops are closer to my thinking. YMMV.

> Not pleasant experience when you have hundreds of objects

No one forces you to design your OO apps this way. When you only have a few objects, or when you only process them sequentially, there’s no need in complex OO model, a functional or procedural code will do fine.

However, there’re apps where there’re hundreds of interacting objects, such as a web browser.

> For desktop at least it's definitely not "a couple of megabytes".

On Windows it’s usually (=for apps linked with default settings) 1 megabyte.
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Almost everything is built on the work of those that came before.

The way projectfu describes it shows a clever but clear line of problem solving from 'we have x and we know y, how do we figure out z'.

Still miraculous, of course.

I think it's inspiring to see that it's not too different the fundamental problem solving process that many of us use in our daily lives.
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I'm thinking it has more to do with spread than concentration. Trace amounts distributed over the entire universe, vs trace amounts in a localized area.
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Genuinely curious about what would make this stealing? Isn't it just playing the crypto game better than the competition? What makes it criminal?
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Reminds me of the banishing of Chongo from Yosemite.
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And could people, who are giving me negative points, write something about what's wrong with what I wrote? The number of points for the parent comment jumps up and down.