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My argument was purely theoretical. I fully agree that analog computers currently have more practically attainable advantages over digital computers. I'm also less confident than most people of quantum computers ever overcoming the practical problems, some of which you mentioned. But I do not doubt that the physics itself offers superior computation, even if we may never access it.

> we are able to measure real numbers

I disagree with you here. I like to believe in the Church-Turing-Deutsch thesis, which implies that reality is ultimately discrete and real numbers are nonphysical. The example you give, time, is indeed a real number in our best models of physics. But this is mostly because we don't know how to quantize it yet. It's one of the biggest open problems in physics. That said, the outcome could indeed be that it is a real number and CTD is wrong.
Slightly related: FM transmitter with literally only 3 components: http://spritesmods.com/?art=avrfmtx&page=2
There’s not actually that much of a safety net. And the figures quoted below are largely unchanged 4 yrs later.

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/miserly-newstart-keeps-unempl...

I think the real issue with sustained high levels of immigration is that most immigrants end up living in one of two major cities, Sydney or Melbourne. Melbourne is on track to have a London-sized population by mid-century - but that’s of course based on estimates. Which as the article points out, were completely wrong by three decades in 2005.
“Python is much more flexible.”
> drop trade all together

Are people prepared to give up their iPhones? Actually, never mind that, are they prepared to give up Taiwan?
Australian GDP tanked between 2013 and now. It's a recession by definition. This is trivial to verify.
How do you mean puzzling? 2580 is straight down the middle on a normal pin pad. :)
Can you compare the quality of living in such a city to the Australian standard?
> I work with Chinese companies on a regular basis,
> I never give THEM access...

I've clearly explained my stance with Chinese companies. Ie. Companies from China.

I've never mentioned anything at a personal level in my original comment. That's your mis-interpretation. Sorry.
If you analyze your own writing you will realize there are implicit beliefs in your thinking that are not trivial to have:

-You believe ideas are properties. IP means Intellectual property.

-Ideas could be stolen, like any property, that is you take ownership of something letting the original owner without the ability to use it.

Europe and then US were developed copying and improving on the ideas of others. E.g Romans looked at people with mining knowledge and conquered them to acquire the knowledge(and the mines). They did the same with Greece. Toledo's steel real origin was a secret so Romans would not conquer them.

Europe benefited from ideas like powder manufacturing and improved over that creating dynamite. They improved over compasses making them suitable for sea navigation. Original compasses from China were terrible.

Britain copied the ideas and knowledge that lead to industrialization from the Netherlands, who had taken it from the rest of Europe, being at the end of a big river.

Then the US copied from England. Native Americans were exterminated as they could not copy the new ideas fast enough in order to defend themselves.
Angst is always swelling. 25m or 25b.
So the concerns of people quoted in the article can be ignored?
> If there are infinite numbers, and all numbers have a name, then there must exist a number called door, another one named airplane, because at some point you would run out of numbery names, I don't remember what she said, but she didn't answer the question.

Ah, this is the philosophical distinction between every possible thing, and every conceivable thing.

The set of possible number names may be very large or infinite, but it is assembled from a small set of symbols like "one", "two" "seventeen" "million", "and", "times" and "three" "to the power of", etc.

A number called "door" is conceivable (like superman) but it is not a possible under the rules of maths (or physics in superman's case) because "door" is not in that set of symbols.

The set of the possible is a subset of the conceivable. Both sets might be infinite.
You can't just redefine "theft" as "deprive of potential earnings/subsidies", watering down definitions is helping no one. I agree that the depriving is what is happening here by copying but this is what shouls be called out then, not a made-up theft.
Easy. Urbanization is super high but because of various policies which benefit property owners, these people get to keep their property values super high and ever increasing.

As a result, everyone crowds to the same places and the housing supply (and associated infrastructure) is strained.

From what I've seen it's a repeating pattern in the developed world. I've seen New Zealanders, of all people, complaining about NZ being overcrowded (it has one of the lowest population densities in the world, especially considering its climate and abundant natural resources).

TL;DR: Rich property owners block/delay construction to get high rents or sell their properties at a very high prices. Average people suffer. Rich people point average people to immigrants and "overcrowding".
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The password was changing everyday where I worked, with the daily password available on an intranet page, but then a few months ago a bunch of higher-ups were present in the office for a few days and wanted Wi-Fi access without having to type a new password each day, so the password rotation has been deactivated since
This is especially laughable as a claim when you look at European countries with high immigration and at best very weak economic growth. How do they explain that?
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Whilst a great response, I think the practical implication of being able to ensure you never divide by zero did not shine through :)
Ask HN: Build server to use in 2018?
I’ve got a “twelve factor app” which is built and run via docker-compose, with client code served as a static bundle. I’ve got deployment to a new server down to running a single command, but currently the server itself builds the containers and then runs them, which is not ideal for reproducibility.

I’m looking to add a build server into the mix. It needs to integrate with GitHub, build code, setup/tear down environments, deploy builds to environments, run acceptance tests and then make itself available for human QA. Ideally I want to be able to automatically spin up a new environment for any arbitrary commit, so that eg we can do QA at time of PR.

I’ve never setup a build server / CI system, but I’ve used Jenkins in the past as an intern. That was a while ago though, and since this stack is very modern, I’m wondering if there is a better alternative in 2018, more suited to this architecture (especially the heavy reliance on docker).

I’ve been reading about drone.ci and it looks like the top contender so far. Does anyone have experience with Drone, recommend any other systems (including Jenkins), or have any general advice to offer?
Land is nothing. Infrastructure is what matters.
HELP: Wordpress page is bruteforced every day
My Wordpress page is bruteforced about 180 times a day. Enclosed a screenshot. Is this normal? Do you have similar attack numbers? The site is relatively small, has about 30 users daily and 50 page views per day.

https://ibb.co/nHyhtz
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Is that more of a targeted attack?
There are some positive aspects to rising global inequality. Massive wealth, concentrated in a few hands, does not really make the rest of us poorer. They are not competing for the same goods and services as we are. It only really hurts the rest of the population if they go on a frivolous consumption spree - building monuments to themselves or otherwise burning resources.

What it does potentially enable, however, is grand projects that can push humanity forward as a whole. Elon Musk with SpaceX is maybe one example. But I would imagine the very wealthy would have a big interest in effectively researching longevity, revolutionizing healthcare, faster travel, maybe even building a 'comfortable' space station in a Lagrangian point which would involve also building a Lunar base.
Once these advancements are available to the super-rich, it will not be long until they are available to the rest of us - according to history, anyway.

I do not have the research, but from anecdotal observations, wealth created by building legitimate businesses tends to be spent more carefully and responsibly than wealth acquired through political connections, natural resources, granted monopolies etc.
What are 3D printed guns and should we be worried?
There is also immutable hash-tables available: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/hashtables.html

(Just to be clear: there is of course also mutable hash tables available).
My point was anyone can make their own definition of pretty much any word, and still, we have a functioning legal system. Very different from what you've read in my comment.
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Why would I trust my company's wi-fi?
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It's not the gross population that's the problem, it the rate of growth in population and the infrastructure that's required to support it.

The basic problem is that if infrastructure last 50 years, you have to replace 2% of it every year. Now, for every 1% of population growth, you also have to (on average) also build 1% more infrastructure, so you need to build 3% in total, or 50% more than if you had no population growth. But you only have 1% more revenue to build it with, so inevitably only a fraction of what you need gets built, hence the problems. And the higher the population growth, the worse the problems.
It's just a PIN; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
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One thing I noticed about Australia is that compared to the USA, population density falls off rapidly as you leave the CBD of one of the major cities. If you go ten miles out from a major US city, you will still likely be in a relatively dense suburban town, if not a neighboring city. When I went to Queensland a few years back, I stayed in Taigum -- 16 km north of Brisbane's CBD -- and it was already boonieville. Had I gone much further out, I would have been "out in the bush" as the locals say. So if everybody stays close to one of the city centers, and immigrants come -- and, looking for work and public infrastructure, they are likely to stick to urban areas as well -- you can see where there might be a population problem. The government may well choose to incentivize more development in the bush and encourage more people to move away from the CBDs, but that's likely to attract backlash from environmentalists and nature conservationists.
> The only thing that's hard to come by cheaply is the battery.

Dead laptop and power tool battery packs usually have at least some useable 18650 cells in them. A friend has built more than one battery pack for electric scooter out of harvested cells.

You do have to know what you're doing when working with unprotected cells though.
You need that kind of minimum wage because everything is super expensive in Sydney for example. Even bus rides.
You have a workshop that could theoretically build a boat, but since crossing the lake is not your job, you don't do it.

You feel good about being able to build a boat. What you do not know is, that if you ever need to cross that lake, you don't have the time to build the boat. And you'd find that you need a special boat, so you have to go back to the rusty boat collection and reverse-engineer it anyway. And there are many other things to organize such that you don't even have the time or money to build your boat.
Apple has also user data..as for Facebook and Google..you just don't know it
Goverment should have points added/deducted for moving to crowded less crowded cities. *

Adelaide/Hobart +10
Melbourne/Sydney -10
etc.

This might mean companies that need immigrants have to set up offices in Adelaide and Hobart. Fair enough.

* I'm assuming you read the article re: points scheme
> They wouldn't be able to immediately route any TLD anywhere they'd like

It seems to me that this can only be true if it's also impossible for the legitimate owner to change this. If it can be changed, then the 51% attacker can change it.

The actual DNS contains names with hugely long cache lifetimes and very little practical agility, and it also contains "fast flux" names whose RRs change constantly. If this experiment is only interested in the former it should highlight that, as a shortcoming.
so on £80m profit, they paid £1.7m tax, only 2%.

God, if I was a corporation too, instead I pay 40% taxes on my salary.
I can see it now (maybe someone vouched for it). If it was flagged and marked dead, you wouldn’t be able to see it while logged in unless you toggle “showdead” to true in your HN user preferences.

(I recommend toggling this. Often flagged comments are quite interesting.)
[1] - in 2:19 as well? It looks like there are bounces and multiple sources...
Big fan of your layout & color-scheme.

Can I ask what you used to make that pixelated avatar of yourself?
To clarify, there is actually a significant drought occurring at present.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-07-29/the-big-dry-see-...
I thought I had heard about them doing exactly this, but haven't seen anything about it in a while.
Also fairly critically; a mathematician can go from assuming that one exists as a concept to multiple ordinals of infinity with about 20 minutes of scribbling.

The fact that 64 bit is a modern standard doesn't exclude the fact that R cannot under any circumstance handle the vast and overwhelming majority of known numbers.

I feel sorry for the poor souls who turn out to need it, though. R sucks like that.
Good guess, but no. The names I mentioned don't appear here [0] as townlands, baronies or civil parishes.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townlands_of_County_...
As nice as that sounds, at what point do we consider it immoral for for-profit megaprojects to come before little things, like ensuring people don't go hungry, have adequate healthcare, or have enough savings that they can weather minor problems?

We have commercial megaprojects like SpaceX, but the cost of this is the society around it a) can't afford to run meaningful not-for-profit space projects, and b) can't afford to keep the baseline level of support for its citizens high enough for them to not spend more time worrying about how to allocate their meager resources than they can doing things which actually advance society.

Is that a fair tradeoff?
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Re-read your comment.

You said nasty things about Chinese companies because a US citizen stole IP from GE. And then you wonder why a Chinese-born US would be wary of working with you.
Re: gofmt - python has black now. It's excellent.

Pylint solves the undefined variable issue, but it is annoying as hell and always requires configuration. I wish there was a linter for python that didn't care about 80 character limit and was careful not to drown important errors with unimportant stylistic tics.
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I made it through the first few pages and the author seems to treat calories from all sources the same. I wonder what his take on the theory that calories from some sources (e.g. saturated and monounsaturated fats) are generally not translated to fat in your body whereas calories from other sources (glucose, fructose) generally are.

For example, a tbsp of coconut oil contains 117 calories while the same volume of sugar contains 48. Yet anyone following a ketogenic diet would argue in favor of calories from the coconut oil over sugar any day.

Another great nutrition book for the analytically-minded among us (not actually a prescriptive "diet" despite the title): Perfect Health Diet http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/
> It's their culture, they don't believe in attribution nor fair trade, they're used to growing up in a red ocean. That's the way they are.

While I too find their blatant copying annoying and reprobate, you have to consider how they must view the West and its interference–to put it mildly–in their relatively-recent past.

Literally bombarding nations that don't want to trade with you?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
The reason Apple is so big is that they were clever enough not to create an anti-competitive monopoly. Ironically the way they did this was by creating a walled garden that doesn't actually allow for any competition.

They produce their own hardware, running their own OSes with their own app stores, their own web browsers and their own entertainment platform. Instead Google and Microsoft were struck down repeatedly for trying to create similar lock-ins but on arbitrary hardware or arbitrary OSes.

Another deciding factor is that Apple increasingly focuses on a specific segment of the market, becoming a lifestyle brand more than a tech company. This has allowed them to create a perception of ubiquity without actually having to control the majority of the market (internationally, anyway) yet still making loads of money because the segment they focus on is so willing to part with money (not just for $1000 iPhones but also $70 cables and $20 apps).

Google and Microsoft needed anti-competitive contracts to gain a majority share of devices (Android smartphones for Google, the IBM-compatible PC desktop for Microsoft) because those devices were running other companies' hardware. Similar strategies are still being used to wall-in the web (with Google's AMP and Facebook's Instant Articles).

Apple creates lock-in by brute force: you have an iDevice, so you're using iServices because it's convenient and you'll migrate over all your other tech to iDevices too because the synergy is compelling and there's simply no other option (good luck trying to use iMessage with your Android friends, or consuming iTunes content on your Microsoft tablet).

Even with Android and Windows, Google and Microsoft don't have that luxury: you may be using a Google phone but that doesn't mean you're using a Google laptop (simply because ChromeOS is not always feasible), or you may be using a Microsoft laptop but Microsoft phones are simply no longer a thing.

Microsoft's answer is similar to part of Apple's strategy: focus on a specific market segment. Their segment of choice is enterprise users, but also developers (a segment which conveniently Apple has lately been neglecting).

Google's answer is to lock you in by hoarding all your data and providing value based on being able to harvest all that data.

Facebook seems to be copying Google's approach, except they don't even distract themselves with smartphones or laptops and go straight for all your friends and family by owning your communication (both indirect via your Facebook feed and direct via WhatsApp).

That said, I believe "privacy violations as a business model" is a consequence of the US startup scene's heavily anti-privacy legal context. It will be interesting to see how these companies adapt as privacy regulations like the GDPR show their teeth and international laws begin to follow. Data ownership and privacy as rights aren't exactly compatible with how these companies need to operate in order to function.
> The host sites put forward a defence saying they did not know these videos were filmed illegally.

They should just adapt a law that would require such sites to verify documents proving that the video was taken legally. This is just a loophole in Korean law.
This really needs a 'ConvertTo-Markdown' to match 'ConvertFrom'. In the same way we have ConvertTo-Json, ConvertTo-Html, ConvertTo-Csv, etc.

That would allow your powershell script's object to be shown as pretty markdown tables.
Could you link the § you are referring to? I don't think this qualifies for § 303b StGB. (IANAL)
To be fair, "SV culture" != "SV location".
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I'm a big fan of The Bridge. Though it doesn't have much storytelling, it is a fun puzzler.
That's a good question. The number of iOS devices sold is stagnating. Mac numbers (in units sold) are falling precipitously (-14%).

Revenue has grown because they were able to raise prices and because they sold more services. I think the room for price increases is limited.

So it's all down to services now. I think there is room for growth given their high income customer base, but it will change their business model in ways that will spark many debates on here.
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The fact that this level of work is given away for free with the intent of making the world a better place makes my heart dance.

I am so optimistic for the future of humanity.
That's why it's in text-air-quotes "puzzling" as in "it might appear puzzling but it's not really"
> Australia has all the resources and land in the world to support much, much more people.

But not the water, and a large part of what makes living in Australia appealing is that it is comparatively uncrowded, even in the cities. It leads to a relaxed feeling when compared to large US, Asian or European cities.

Should citizens be asked to give up one of the major positives of living in Australia in the name of 'growth' ?
Depends where you are. Perth is pretty massive in terms of land area, with a low population - It's larger than London with about a quarter of the population.