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> The concept of natural rights started with philosophers, not politicians.

No, it started largely with politicians who were also philosophers (whether you look at the ancient roots with Cicero and Seneca or people like Locke who were instrumental in crafting the modern view of natural rights.) But, in any case, it is irrelevant to the bit you quote and respond to, which is about people citing particular provisions of the US Constitution as definitive expressions of natural rights, not about the mere concept of natural rights.
In other news, the main character will be renamed Duke Nukem.
Seems that they have an automatic captioning feature for videos/audio on the site
Oh my... Some people are actually going to let Facebook listen in on everything. Wow. Not in a million years in my house.
They're jealous that MIT has two AI labs.
Discord is in this weird situation where they've been massively successful at some specific things that people aren't willing to spend money on, and not, as best as I can tell, anywhere else.

They're absolutely the community chat tool of choice these days - just about every subreddit you go to, every fandom you could ever think of, has a discord community. It's incredibly easy to put one together.

But things like Nitro seem to have minimal adoption. The game store isn't particularly compelling. They've got some partnerships with games where they offer Discord up as the actual in-game voice communication, but I haven't seen much adoption of that, and I don't know if it actually results in revenue for them, either.

It's not unique - we've seen plenty of major tech companies in similar spots - but they've basically all pivoted to advertisements as a way to make money, something that Discord has categorically said they don't want to do. I don't know what they could do to really turn things around here.
Ok. I guess that is a valid reason.
“Hallelujah”... damn, not AGAIN
So you have a blackbody source, and a target.

Initially it's in a steady state where the target is colder.

You increase the number of photons hitting the target. The target gets hotter. All good so far.

But we have to look at how you increased that number. You need to either move the source and target closer together, or you have to use lenses to simulate the same thing.

You can keep hitting the target with photons from more and more directions, but no system of mirrors or lenses can increase the apparent brightness of the source.

As you approach the point where the source fills the entire sky, the target will approach the same temperature.

And then you can't increase the number of photons any more. Not without using a hotter source.
i legitimately thought the dog sending too many texts was funny and the project was cool. i was serious in disagreeing with our species coming so far.
I personally have been running Gitea for over a year, painless to use and each iteration gets better. I've reported a few bugs that get fixed pretty quickly with good response from the team. Definitely recommend anyone looking for a self-hosted git solution to consider it over gogs.
I agree with the sentiment that ads are such a savage application, but...

* I'm confused by why you bring up tax-payer funded education... do you think these employees don't pay taxes?

* What is your definition of "valuable"?
They can also bend those restrictions to non-US companies wanting to do business within the US. Just because the US embargoes/sanctions the sell of Iranian oil, or the sell of any nation's oil to North Korea, doesn't mean that it is illegal for other nation's companies to do so (unless their gov't also has similar restrictions). Here comes the but... the US then makes it illegal for those companies to do business within the US just because they were friendly to people the US doesn't like.
Ultimate Online was what got me into programming. I used to play on Novus Opiate share and when it died I found out about the emulators so I ended up teaching myself how to program to make things for UO and ended up helping build a shard with like ~300 players. It only lasted like 2 years and then the guy didn’t wanna host it anymore and it died. I miss those days :( when games were fun...
For the entire time that I've been (PC) gaming, that is starting in the early 2000s, people have been using Teamspeak/Mumble/Ventrilo and recently entirely transitioned to Discord. Everybody either had their own VoIP server or hopped on a friend's. I've never seen Skype used consistently. The assumption being that Skype has just too much overhead. Which is comical when you think about what Discord is.

But maybe that's just an EU tropism.
When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I hadn't heard of that service before, very interesting, thanks for pointing it out.
It’s almost like a bunch of people in the 60s dropped acid and decided it’d be a great idea to connect every person on the planet to every other person on the plant. Oh wait...

Kidding aside, this brings back memories of Clifford Stoll’s book, “Silicon Snake Oil.” I’d love to read it again. I know, he’s been panned for making really wrong predictions (“no one’s gonna use a credit card over the internet”), but I’d love to read it again standing on the other side of the internet experiment. I feel like for all the stuff he got wrong, he got a lot right when it comes to there being more to being human than the internet has ever been able to deliver.
I mitigated this by storing username in the gpg file itself using the 'user:' tag, while having the file named jdoe or something similar instead of a login name.
I am not sure where you're getting these things. Unlike C++, Java can and does inline virtual calls. Also, it boxes nearly all values?
Ask HN: Anyone in Taipei?
Does anyone know of any interesting technical meetups in Taipei?

I've met some really great people from HackerNews meetups in London and Tokyo. I'm sure some are in Taiwan/Taipei too!

I've found it hard to find "hackers" or even "makers" to exchanges ideas. Most of the meetups here are often too "sales" or interesting ones might be only in Chinese.

Please reach me by email if interested! I'm sure we can start something!
While "banning by ip" will work for discouraging most users, a VPN service or a Proxy service (Socks, ssh, etc)
would make it irrelevant if someone wants to use a service like slack, facebook or google...It just inconveniences those
who do want to use it bad enough. To me, it's a "band-aid of compliance" to whatever agency has requested them to do a ban on certain countries IPs.
Discussed 3 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700328
Nice. That's some response time.
Are you referring to CSAIL and the MIT-IBM Lab? Or is there another one I don't know about.
This is disgusting.

What I said was about the separation of the union, which is exactly the same case as brexit. I never even mentioned slavery. YOU DID.
If only there was some kind of iron that the body isn’t forced to absorb... oh wait there is. The non-heme iron in plants
The LGPL is fine for libraries - but that limits where it can be used.

I think the LGPL becomes something just like the GPL for scripting languages because there is no "linking" for many languages.

For example an npm package for nodejs can't be made into a "library" - all the source is "compiled" together at runtime.
It's great that ext4 supports huge directories efficiently, but many other file systems don't. And accessing over NFS may bog down. So if you're writing portable code, better to use a deep structure.

More at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5019371/storing-accessin...
Linux would not have been successful were it not for the licensing. Copyleft licenses are appealing to a lot of developers. People who are willing to donate lots of time writing free software don't want to feel they're being taken advantage of. Programmers are the life-blood of an open source project, I think developer preference is a huge factor.

A BSD might have caught on in the same way eventually but it would have taken longer.
What is the difference between a “tip” and a “donation”?
They are essentially the exact same except discord has voice servers and no real premium limits
I worked mostly tiny engineering companies and only for two large companies. Though my dad worked for defense contractors and government his whole career.

The comment about size is spot on. Two things going on.

Management at scale means trying to get 10,000 monkey's pointed mostly in the same direction[1]. There are huge governance issues with that. Private public does not matter[2]. Large organizations without these controls will eventually lose coherence and flame out.

However that mass has a quality of it it's own is in play. 10,000 monkeys can manage extremely large 'streams' of effort and punch way above the weight of the sum of all monkeys. In spite of the lack of efficiency.

[1] If you wonder why management isn't interested in your shiny new idea and wants you to to get back to work, that's why.

[2] If anything your local government is more interested in your complaints than say the cable company.
I used to be into this stuff in college--we were obsessed with the idea of generating very large or else very large numbers of odd numbers, such as weird numbers or untouchable numbers. I was into HPC and writing programs that run on clusters, and this gave me some good practice.

We eventually realized that no one really cared about the numbers we felt confident we could find--now Mersenne primes, though, people really care about those, but they're extraordinarily difficult to find. Always a cool day to see a new one.
I'd subtract a few points for taking so long. Lawyers have gawked on this for hours to find holes, rendering the sincerity mute. 5/10

It's Slack, so actually 2/10.
It’s presented as an absolute logical argument of the form “you can’t use a lens to make anything hotter than the average surface of the moon.”
I always say CalTech has the smartest undergrads in the US. My friends there and the curriculum blow my mind
Likely a simulation... Even though there isn't any empirical evidence of this fact... But you still believe? Is athiesm just another form of religion these days?
Here's a thought experiment to consider. Imagine creating a lens to focus the blackbody radiation from a stack of bricks onto a single brick, and heating up the brick.

Now focus the light back onto just a small region of the brick pile, and heating up that region, which in turn heats the rest of the bricks by conduction.

This in turn increases the amount of heat collected from the pile, ad infinitum or until the brick pile melts.

Short of letting the brick pile melt itself, imagine tapping into the excess heat and using it to power an electric motor for a useful purpose.
Does this mean the Polizei actively work on recovering stolen devices and money for public cases?

That’s more of an impactful effort than the “We’ll see if it turns up” guarantee of American police, which basically means S.O.L.
Clifford Stoll, I suppose, had a certain amount of skepticism, seeing as he was the person to help track down and prosecute the first recorded case of computer hacking. A large part of the Cuckoo's Egg was about how there simply weren't systems for dealing with hacking--he'd go to the police, and they'd be like, "Cool..." and do nothing.
Hmm, I read a book a few months ago where the author spent a lot of time discussing the intellectual background for Silicon Valley and why he thought these guys ruined journalism and probably lot of other stuff. It was called “World Without Mind” I believe.
Seconded. I like controlling things myself and hosting them myself. Nobody (um, but AWS, our ISP, our DNS registrar, ARIN, oh and heck tons of others) can shut me down now.
I would venture it's the huge amount of monthly active users. 200M users at just $1 a year (or month) is a lot of money compared to the $150M they just picked up in debt.
Right. That’s what I am saying. Using the original setup of the problem, you cannot use a device to store energy.
If fake reviews count as “marketing” then absolutely I do.
More than half of Google's results come from Google's mobile-first indexing
The problem is that some of the radiation from the moon is not blackbody radiation.
I'd read somewhere that the downfall of fascism is always on the battlefield. Fascism simultaneously requires that a large population believe they are a persecuted group in danger of extinction (else there's no reason to subjugate one's individual will & liberty to a strong leader) and that they are superior to those who oppose them (else their cause is futile and they ought to ally themselves with the superior force). The distortions in reality needed to justify these contradictory beliefs filter up into the leaders' decision-making itself, such that they eventually make stupid decisions like bombing Pearl Harbor or opening a second front in the European war.
It is kind of interesting, given that Princeton's not really at the top in AI (but it would be difficult to be, because they're so tiny--departments like Berkeley have a huge number of AI faculty).

But, at the same time, Google already has connections with Princeton, both through these individual profs and through the NY Tech campus (they shared an office with Google before moving to Roosevelt Island).

It is kind of interesting in the trend of professors being more connected with industry and spending time actually working at tech companies. It's both interesting from the perspective of engagement (profs can work on real problems) and frightening from the prospective of independence--the companies will inevitably sway which problems profs work on, and of course their students won't enjoy their advisors' attention being scattered elsewhere.
You might want to add some basic instructions somewhere too. I had to dig through the source to figure out what some of the keyboard and tool tricks are. Perhaps they are standard in Illustrator or some other tool, but double clicking, shift-clicking, option/alt-clicking, nudging etc... I only figured out by poking around the .js.
I've used bazel pretty extensively and I have to say it's not fully baked unless you're using it the way Google does internally (vendor all dependencies) and you're using a language Google does internally.

Additionally, it wants to take over your entire build process end to end. Get used to prefixing every shell command with `bazel run` or `bazel build` because everything goes into a little sandbox and bazel likes to be in the middle of everything.

These tradeoffs make sense at Google scale (the goal of bazel is to have very repeatable builds), but in my opinion it's a huge drag with not much benefit for smaller shops (to be clear, "Oh you only have 200 developers?" Still a small shop by these standards)
Matrix E2E encryption is opt-in per room while its support is in beta, with the intent to have on by default when it's out. https://www.uhoreg.ca/blog/20170910-2110
Sure it is, just not in real-time. The lense fails because there is no storage mechanism.
Is there an equivalent Gitea player in the Continuous Integration/Test Runner space?

Single binary, SQLite backed, low resource consumption, simple to run, simple to use.
Well a lot of people are beginning to care if their cows are feed generically modified corn (ie grain fed) vs grass fed. And it’s not so much the gmo but the cows who are fed gmo corn are also loaded up with antibiotics because the pesticide laced grain makes them sick withthout it. And people don’t like eating antibiotic laden beef.

I also think you are blurring the lines between breeding and gmo (ie turning genes on and off) which as a practical matter, what we are talking about is turning off genes in crops, so farmers can you drown their crops and pesticides.
Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
Excellent article, I learned a few things.
>some faced racism or xenophobia.

"Anti-racism" and "anti-xenophobia" are just as "authoritarian" as the current Chinese system but you can't even express this viewpoint without being censored by multinational corporations like Google and Apple and Goldman Sachs who - of course - have a very vested interest in open borders, globalism, and "free markets."

Even an old school leftist like Noam Chomsky has pointed this out. Global capitalism has always been against ethno-centrism, nationalism, and protectionism.

Growing up in the 1990s, it's hilarious to look back at those AT&T commercials who would use outright "racism" and "token" Africans to promote their "global brands" - but that has now become the mainstream of the American Democratic party - the same ones who now hate Donald Trump, who spent his entire career promoting that same brand of "global capitalism."

It's a version of so-called "white supremacy." The multi-national corporations like Google, AT&T and Goldman Sachs are perfectly aware that they can easily overpower, say, Nigerians or even Ukranians - but are terrified of Poles or so-called "white" working-class communities in West Virginia. You see this especially in the neo-con imperialism of the American Democratic party propaganda against Russia, who never tire of attacking Putin. Even though Democrats hate Trump and everything he (supposedly) stands for, you'll notice that even a partisan Democratic site like this one is eager to jump to attack China - in keeping with the current administration's trade wars.

"Authoritarianism" is just a smear word at this point - if it actually had a meaning, it could refer to the current Democratic party and their control of imperialist centers like the US State Department and the "progressive" factions of the USA's Department of Defense.

I'm 45 years old, a "white" American, and even I am shocked at the lack of introspection of my so-called "progressive" peers in the California tech industry. There's nothing in China that is more "authoritian" than Apple Inc. or Google Inc., except China is a little bit more honest about what they are doing.

America - especially California and the Los Angeles/San Francisco/San Jose culture (which has replaced the old "Eastern Establishment" as the center of imperialist power) - has such a comical and overinflated opinion of their own "moralism" it's ripe for some sort of South Park parody, like when the tech executives sniff their own farts.

Not a popular opinion here, but it's my opinion, and I'm very familiar with the audience. There are a lot of people like me, but we're typically a lot more reticient to express our opinions, due to fears of censorship.
This apology seems very generic and sterile to me. People are boycotting their product so they apologized.

They should have communicated with their users to begin with before taking such harsh actions.
Democracy isn't very new... Unless Plato is considered new...
Imagine you have 8 companies, each with one open position and different job requirements, and 7 coders who each apply to all 8 open positions and who each have different expertise. Every company extends an offer to the candidate who is best for them. No company hires more than 1/7th of the applicants, and every company hires only the best, yet at the same time there are not enough coders to go around.

Of course at the same time, the companies getting flooded with more applicants than they can hope to process are not the same companies struggling to fill positions, and the coders struggling through interviews are not applying to the jobs that will take anyone with a pulse.
Fellow people? Sure.

A company collecting charitable donations? No, that deserves immediate scrutiny. Your business model is beyond sketchy. You're approaching this with an affronted "but we're all nerds here!"

It doesn't matter if you're a nerd working for a crook, a crook claiming to be a nerd, or just a crooked nerd. But the business model has a smell and if you don't recognize it then you're merely complicit.
Unrelated, but the GitHub logo in the corner covers a significant portion of the content for me on mobile. This isn’t too annoying because I can go into reader mode, but I thought I might mention it in the hopes that it gets fixed.
>We did not block any user based on their nationality or ethnicity.

Okay, so how did you block them?

>As is standard in the enterprise software industry, Slack uses location information principally derived from IP addresses to implement these required blocks.

So, you blocked users based on their nationality.

>We do not collect, use, or possess any information about the nationality or ethnicity of our users.

you clearly possess enough information about the nationality of your users to block them based on it, which was your intent. You backpedaled when people who were not the target nationality began to complain.
The point is, you can never get to the point where you are dumping more photons in to make it hotter, because there are not more photons.

There is a limit to how small you can focus a lens. Once the object you are focusing is in sharp focus, it will start to go out of focus again if you go past that point. So you can’t just arbitrarily increase the photon density further.

If you make your lens bigger to gather more photons, then the focused image just grows by a corresponding amount.

Optics (and thermodynamics) tell us that we can not generate a higher flux of photons into a target area, than left the equivalent area at the source. Assuming that both the source and target are black body radiators, that says the target can’t get hotter than the source.
Yeah I totally had kubevirt on the brain when writing this
Last Christmas, I used an RPi to build a dial-up WiFi modem for my Grandma, who lives in a rural area where dial-up is the only Internet option, but still wants to download books onto her Kindle (requires WiFi, but not fast speeds).

Was fairly straightforward--required just a USB dial-up modem, WiFi card, switch with some lights, a case, and a little Python programming. Oddly enough, the hardest part of the whole setup was "reverse engineering" what the proprietary Netscape dial-up app was doing with her password before sending it out--turned out it was lowercasing it! Facepalmed real hard there. After figuring that out, everything worked in Linux beautifully.
They didn't. They started on CryEngine, then moved to Amazon lumberyard (which is a fork) for licensing reasons.
Another thing to keep in mind is the Scandinavian countries are resource rich with comparatively low populations - Norway has oil, Sweden has timber and iron ore, Finland has timber, etc. These helps build excess in their budget
Fedora 29 HTPC Setup Guide
I was in London last month but that doesn't make me British.
I think mostly for small groups. For groups of friends Skype was usable, for guilds it was terrible.

There was a period when I went back to a WoW expansion that everyone was trying to go everyone onto Skype for pickup groups which was a horrible experience.
No, they blocked users based on location. I'm currently located in California, and this has nothing to do with my nationality.
How we built the Figma design team
How much money would you want to quit Facebook for a year? Most people say $1000
You buy your insurance package ahead of time. Competition in the free market will cause ins providers to provide the best, most comprehensive plans.
Maybe... but my mental sharpness increased as soon as I started exercising and watching my diet. I was stress free before and after 45 lbs of weight loss. Maybe it has more to do with eating meat, fewer carbs, or the exercise, rather than weight. My impression of mental sharpness is in terms of programming, and also how many typos I make, and how much energy I have to shape sentences when posting comments.

I wouldn guess the main reason is that I'm sleeping better, breathing properly at night.

Edit: I'd say sleep is definitely one bit of causation behind the correlation right there, but I don't know how big it is.