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Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
> The reasoning for such extremely strict geographic restrictions, I am unsure of

I think it's twofold:

1. There are some hyperlocal elections, such as for school districts. Only your local polling station will have the correct ballots for those elections, and if you vote at the wrong polling location you could vote in an election you shouldn't.

2. Minimization of voter fraud using analog technology: if you're assigned a particular polling station, that station and no other will be given your name on a list to check off. You can't go to two polling locations and vote twice, because no other station will have your name. Human error makes it impractical to give each station a complete list and then cross-check to find people who voted twice: too many false positives.
VS Ramachandran's Phantoms in Brain (p.224): "A second example of a genuine anomaly is multiple personality dis­ order or MPD, which in my view may turn out to be just as important for medicine as continental drift was for geology. To this day MPD con­tinues to be ignored by the medical community even though it provides a valuable testing ground for the claims of mind-body medicine. In this syndrome-immortalized by Robert Louis Stevenson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-a person can assume two or more distinct personalities, each of which is completely unaware, or only dimly aware, of the others. Again, there have been occasional reports in the clinical literature that one personality can be diabetic while the other is not, or that various vital signs and hormone profiles can be different in the two personalities. There is even a claim that one personality can be allergic to a substance while the other is not and that one might be myopic-or nearsighted­ whereas the other has 20/20 vision."
When – event-based recombinant state machines with a temporal model
They don't work if you can't see them.
Prototypes are not expected to scale; I think OP means things that most would automate.
Also awkward is that this ISP is competing on content.

> Last week, HBO went dark for the first time ever after a carriage dispute with Dish. Critics of the merger, include the DOJ, alleged that AT&T may have intentionally failed to come to an agreement with Dish, in an effort to steal Dish's Pay-TV subscribers.
That's fascinating, thanks for sharing, had never heard about the whole can test.
And this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46055595?
Well I'm sure you'll be happy that Fargo North Dakota adopted approval voting last night by a massive majority.
Imagine the vast quantities of money that would be spent on advertising, on both sides of every single bill.
The scoop:

* Ads are everywhere, not just online; physical ads are harder to filter off.

* Ads work (mostly) on unconscious level.

* Conscious resistance takes effort, and has a limited effect.

> advertising should be considered a public issue as it constrains our ability to solve social and environmental problems.

BTW I can't help but compare this to the recent outrage about social networks and games engineered to produce unconscious impulses to want more, and suggestions to regulate them, the way gambling and liquor are regulated.

I wonder how much of the unconscious-affecting stuff may get regulated. Perfumes affect the sense of scent which is ancient and bypasses consciousness well. Spices, salt, sugar — they all affect the unconscious sense of taste. Certain kinds of attire produce unconsciously recognized images of strength, authority, sexuality, etc. To say nothing of facial expressions. If followed down properly, this rabbit hole of a logic leads pretty deep.
Disagree, there's something categorically different about 'AI' - technology that can analyze and generate digital data from dense data - and a programming language.
Borderline unethical.
I think we need to move on somewhat from voting for people, to voting for specific actions as much as is feasible.

You could even require specific items in a manifesto be implemented (at pain of losing office and opening up a new election).

So if it says in a manifesto +£n billion will be spent in 2019 on education and the independent audit officer find that it wasn't then an election is called and the PM + education minister are barred from re-election.

If referenda can be streamlined (eg by sampling) then manifestos would have a list of referenda and they would then legally be required.

Democracy seems flawed; maybe it's still the least flawed system though.

(This is not a great comment: I'm mixing lack of accountability/honour of representatives with poor decision making and poor ability at forward planning by the ignorant.)
You don't need to read the bills, you just need somebody to check if there are any mines in them. You can find some who share your political views.
for me vs code was easy, effective and efficient step from vs pro with notepadpp to something more like emacsvim. i do full time dev unity for dotnet core and dotnetcore for last month.
Show HN: Quicklog.io makes reading your logs faster, easier, more precise
I've been working on this side-project for a while and finally got around to launching it on ProductHunt[0]. Please give some feedback on the product itself or its landing page[1] or better yet use the free plan.

It basically invents a log level higher than INFO and shows you just those logs from all your sources. You can filter by Zipkin trace/span ids or by any number of application-defined 'key:value' tags (e.g. user:1234). You can even just use the key:value tags from all your services and see relevant logs even if you haven't implemented distributed tracing. Provides Java, JavaScript, Go client libraries and a REST API.

[0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/quicklog-io
[1] https://quicklog.io
One thing in Texas’s favor is its early voting setup. Early voting was available from October 20th to last Friday, including weekends, typically from 7am to 7pm.
Its actually APT (apt-get) which made Linux a workable platform because before that we had to manually hunt for package updates (such as RPMs). That was horrific. It is the sole reason I ever went to try (and switch to) Debian, coming from RPM-based distributions.
I'm another cancer survivor. My understanding is that you don't take this treatment with the goal of surviving extra 10 month. You take in in the hope to be cured, because they say there is a chance, however slim. So the rational choice for me would be: take the treatment, and if in a couple of months it proves ineffective, take euthanasia (if it's legally possible, which is the case where I live - though probably there are still some unfortunate legal caveats),
Just hanging around longer would serve no purpose except increasing the pain for my family. (That's my personal view only, not intended as a template for anybody else)
The Just Mayo guys paid people to buy cases of their products at supermarkets to juice sales https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-star...
> they simply don't have the time to leave work/school and go to a polling place, or won't get paid for it if they do [1]. More mail-in ballots could potentially alleviate this, but a lot of people prefer to vote in person.

That's already solved. People can vote early in-person or mail-in ballots.
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Did they ban church spires and church bells ringing on Sunday. They are advertising also.
This is why Basic Attention Token is going to be such a game changer in my opinion. It's the first new idea I've heard about advertising in a really long while. People should at least be paid for their attention. We pay now by losing our privacy and being manipulated, and receive no benefits. All the benefits go to the puppeteers behind the scenes.
> But I do have a feeling that in order to get something truly novel and interesting it's going to have to "evolve" in an "environment" and the challenge will be in identifying whether a particular instance of primordial soup is on its way to developing more complex structures.

I thought that way for a long time too which is why I chased the cellular automata ideas and eventually implemented many varieties. But nowadays, I think its all mostly torched by magnitudes.

The closest chance we have is not relying on the magnitudes. Instead of trying to evolve a universe, or variety of entities - we need to focus on a single entity.

I thought AI had a flawed premise, like you mention: attempting to develop single individual is directly antithetical to how life normally develops. None the less, my mind is changed since my automata dabblings. Single individual engineering is the only method that has the slimmest chance in hell.
You might find the following papers interesting.

[1] O. Kiselyov, K. Kameyama, Rethinking Prolog. http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/rethinking.pdf

[2] E. Barrett, C. F. Bolz, L. Tratt, Unipycation: A Case Study in Cross-Language Tracing.
https://soft-dev.org/pubs/pdf/barrett_bolz_tratt__unipycatio...
Why Microsoft or Google Should Acquire Stack Exchange
Oh wow I didn't know that you could devaluate criticism with pulse width modulated updates. Thank you anonymous shillbilly
I don't think skepticism is sufficient unless it actually results in wide-scale action, though. The point of this article is that it _does work_, no matter how skeptical you are.

Which is completely unsurprising. Consider a human as a biological computer. We have bugs, glitches, buffer overflows.

Eventually someone will work out that if you show a human a certain series of images, they'll do something in response.

(This might be a limiting example and a bit absurd, but reduce it a bit and I think my point is clear).

Even if everyone is maximally skeptical, the industry still works.

Whether people are affected by it or not, we shouldn't have to tolerate vulgar nonsense on our streets, in our buses, trains, movies, etc.
So, it seems like one could just as easily use this evidence to say, "any gender differential in income greater than 11%, is likely due to discrimination against women". I don't doubt there are many fields where the differential is more than that...
That is true, but only for some definitions of free and will. I don't accept definitions of 'free' that exclude inputs from my personal mental state. If my mental state doesn't determine the choice, then the choice isn't mine.

Note that there could be random elements in my mental makeup. i.e. my mental state might include input from an RNG, but it's still part of me and as long as it's not the only input into any of my choices, we can still talk about responsibility.

See my comment about No Country for old Men on choosing to use randomness.
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also https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expen...
Are you saying no fractured bone pain is physically based?

That seems overly radical. Then again, I suppose all pain is in the mind at some level.
Show HN: Empirical Eye – Bringing AI to the Physical World
Hey Hacker News,

Our company has just released a sensor+computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps). Internally there is also an IMU sensor, and the ability to attach others via GPIO pins.

The Eye is meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel machine learning applications (and one day: control those machines!).

The goal with this device is to bring ML/AI to the physical world. We've made our own "visual quality control" software with the device.

We're doing a device giveaway to developers for feedback and troubleshooting, which will help us refine it. We'd love to send some out to the HN crowd (quantities limited to about 75), and get your feedback and see what you build!

We want to make life easier for running ML experiments and developing new applications. The primary motivation has been the field of robotics, but we see it as a flexible module that can be attached to any number of devices or machines, so feel free to be creative :)

We're looking to do another production run in a month or so, with a cleaner industrial design that'll look a bit more professional. Upon delivery you'll get the device's software API. It's a Linux OS not that different from a Raspberry Pi OS, and we have basic data collection + streaming scripts written in Python for your convenience.

If you're interested, definitely check out the site and sign up for a free device. Let us know what you want to develop, and ideally a quick one-liner describing your background experience.

www.empiricalautomation.com

Happy to answer any questions, cheers :)
At a previous job, we were trying to get always-on internet for a pre-IoT energy management product. This was when the fastest wireless you could get was Sprint's 1xRTT and most of the nation was stuck at even slower speeds, if you could get internet at all. We would purchase "Unlimited" dialup internet, then nail the connection up.

It was never going to scale. We charged our customers less than we were paying for the phone line, let alone the ISP service. If the ISPs discovered we were consuming their lines and not paying enough for them, we would have been thrown off.

Still, it was enough to get the company to a sale. All they needed to do was hang on until the tech caught up with them. Today, you could build the same product in a weekend...
Let's all meet back at this comment next year and see if IBM took the title from them.
They aren't hidden, they are just at the end of the article. To me this seems like fairly honest reporting, as opposed to ommitting this info entirely.
What is wrong with composting toilets?
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This is a nicely written article, however it's worth noting that the performance/reliability/availability differences across CDNs at a particular moment in time are pretty much non existent. These providers share the same backbone networks, same IX PoPs etc and thereby have little diversification benefit.
See https://blog.edgemesh.com/understanding-diversification-netw... )

Where multi-CDN really shines is helping with regional specific solutions (e.g. China , India, Brazil, Argentina etc). It's probably worth nothing that the team at Streamroot helps do this client side and their p2p style option helps localize traffic as well. The former is certainly the way to go and the latter really helps add network level diversification. Of course - I'm biased as we offer similar lower level solutions.
I’m sure many of us believe in following and enforcing laws (even flawed laws like 150yr copyright), but are still made uneasy by this development. I think the source of that discomfort is - what happens if your service is cut in error. Do you trust ATT to have a fair, easy appeals process?

Competition in the form of space internet can’t come soon enough, not to enable pirates, but to ensure normal people have reasonable service levels and alternatives to unfair decisions.
But remember, it would impinge AT&T's corporate "free speech" to have their service be a dumb pipe like any other utility. Corporations should always be free to do whatever at the expense of flesh and blood humans.
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Pen and paper is hardly done in the US except provisionally. All my votes were cast on a touchscreen with a printed paper recipes that I could look at and confirm of my choice. The paper ballot is kept by the board of elections.

Whose to stop bad actors from manipulating electronic votes? Whose to say your vote was even tallied? It is far easier to manipulate elections electronically. If Russian operatives are able to penetrate election systems in the behemoth of the US, do you feel confident that they are leaving your Estonian system in their immediate sphere of influence alone? It would potentially take one engineer and one computer to manipulate an electronic election. It would take a team of people, equipment, trucks, incinerators, fake ballots, whatever to do the same manipulation to millions of physical paper ballots stored in secure facilities.
'Single-use' is Collins' word of the year for 2018
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I can't point to a source but I remember reading somewhere that the effect is significantly weakened if you tell patients it's just a placebo, although it doesn't vanish.
I would say a voter isn't ignorant if he can tell me why I believe what I believe in such a way that I can say that is correct.

You need to understand the positions, then you can disagree with them.
Possibly projecting here, but I think adverts work, but by giving people a push towards something they already wanted/thought, more taking advantage of our lack of impulse control and a tendency to lean towards confirmation bias, I don't think they change minds or brainwash people like it's sometimes implied.
Assuming anyone can afford these therapies.
nothing that doesn’t scale is expected to scale by people who know they don’t scale.

so yep, prototypes are things that people do that don’t scale.
"200 trillion rotavirus cells," at least in other sources, is written as a direct quotation from Gates.
One "hack" is too simply not listen to people who say it won't scale.

I wanted to grow a service business, and everyone will tell you that service businesses don't scale for any number of reason. I grew my consulting business by identifying stuff my customers really needed, was teachable, and had great margins. Once my customers saw the value, I switched from hand to mouth survival waiting for invoices to get paid to working for upfront payments. With cash in hand, I could hire people to so the work as fast as I got the business. Maybe my business wasn't infinitely scalable, but it grew way bigger in a short period of time than anyone expected :)
and I bet those "over a dozen" people are also their highest in terms of bandwidth use.

Smart pirates use vpns anyways.
The NIH study I linked to tested the bacterial load after 6 months of composting in almost 100 toilets. They found 64.2% of them had dangerous levels of coliform bacteria.

Jenkins study, on the other hand, does not even attempt to measure the bacterial levels of his toilets - he simply claims thermophilic composting of human waste creates safe humus. The NIH study shows that thermophilic composting is not the mechanism that breaks down bacteria in these toilets; bacterial load is lowered through desiccation, drying out.

So - Jenkins does not understand how the composting works in his own product, he has not actually tested the bacterial load, and he is financially benefiting from people thinking his product is safe.

You're welcome to think the NIH study is falsified; but I would bet my money on Jenkins being wrong here.

Here's his study on the safety of his product: https://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/humanure_sanitation_p...
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> Many don't because elitists in politics constantly tell them they're too stupid or ignorant to know what's good for them

If the cause of someone not voting is politicians saying they are too stupid to vote, maybe they really shouldn't vote.
Yup. That's been my experience. The DBA used to handle all these tasks and as of I don't know a 5 years ago, it's been segmented into data engineering. I think in this case it's a good thing. I always considered that a non-administrative tasks.
It is hilarious and idiotic to see all these modern luddite think that somehow electronic X (in this case, voting) won't work or can't be secure.

And yes, paper voting has to be the best solution ever. /s
Facebook IS_INTERNAL_BUILD true in production builds of Flipper tools?
ITT: People attacking ads while likely working for the most pernicious advertising companies in history.

If you really think Google or Facebook or Twitter et al's missions are to connect people or organize information you are deluded. Their missions are to be the most effective marketers ever.
> Honestly, I don’t think voting by app is inherently a “horrifically bad idea”

Yes, it is. There are many ways such a system can go wrong. If its not this defective implementation, it'll be some other company's defective implementation. If not that, it'll be a targeted attack against the underlying platform.

Another big thing you have to think about is... Who will be choosing the system? Its going to be some bureaucrats with a vested interest in supporting one particular vendor, who use their power to silence any critics of said vendor's solution. Whenever electronic voting comes up, we always end up with this situation.
One thing that rarely gets mentioned in relation to ads is the value of priming (the article almost touches on it with evaluative conditioning but misses the mark). Advertisements don't just influence your brand choices, they can hack your brain and change your experiences. Ads can prime you to actually increase your enjoyment of using a certain product more than you would without ads, they can increase the value of that thing for its users.

Think about how this sort of thing works without ads. Everyone has things like comfort foods, favorite shirts or socks or what-have-you, maybe a favorite comfy chair, favorite music, etc. Stuff that has become associated with certain ways of feeling through experiences. Foods that remind you of the comfort of home, for example, that sort of thing. Ads can tap into the same associative system and boost their perceived value in a similar way. And just as with all of the "organic" associations they become deeper over time. When you become primed to, say, enjoy coke just a little bit more than some discount supermarket cola then you build up the anticipation of drinking coke, and when you drink it you deepen the association of drinking coke with all of the positive experiences you've imbued into that moment (feelings of refreshment, maybe family amity, maybe it's associated with the holidays, maybe it feels like you're giving yourself a treat, etc, etc.)

People don't like to talk about this stuff because it's somewhat disturbing and a bit manipulative on the part of brands but it's absolutely real. Think of all of the history of ceremony, ritual, and artifacts that has developed around religions over the centuries, a lot of that stuff is based on precisely the same associative pathways that brands make use of. This is why so many branded products don't just have simple, no nonsense, nondescript packaging and instead have very distinctive or even iconic forms and distinctive labels. It's powerful stuff.