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When Asia or the Japanese , manage to create an ROBOT with AI that can :-

* Cook

* Clean the house

* Wash the dish's

* Wash the clothes

* Simple gardening

* Service its master

Natural Born females can be replaced over night

I'm waiting to order my Asia Cat girl Waifu robot

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How to fix Marriage in the west+EU+JP

* Fault divorce, not no fault

* One LAW for everyone with the SAME punishment for ALL.

* REMOVE Duluth Model from LAW+Courts+Police

* REMOVE PUSSY PASS

* False rape and False Sexual Assault to be convicted

* Ban Abortion

* Remove Child support

* Remove Vagmony (Alimony)

* Remove forced 50% of other person's assets

* False rape/assault claim register database

* Kid goes to the BEST person , Not automatically to the mother

* DNA test at all birth of kids

I doubt it will never happen

since women will actually be EQUAL & ACCOUNTABLE
and the stress and strain of rotating about its own axis, especially if the optical pressure is not perfectly central, it could speed up to high speeds.
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Julia also feels a bit like Dylan, another Lisp offspring with Algol-like syntax.
>That most conspiracy theories are eventually shown to be false doesn't really seem to bother them.

Which "conspiracy theories" are eventually shown to be false?

The ones concerning aliens and lizard overloads or illuminati?

Because there are plenty corporate, political, and economic conspiracies going on all the time, including tons of "conspiracy to commit fraud/murder/etc" at smaller and larger scales, as acknowledged by courts of justice every single day.
Of course if you are the person signing off on a piece of code, then your work is code review.

But other wise, unless some one is doing 'rm -rf /', there is no real reason to go criticize some one's work on a company wide visible text wall.
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I am making an assumption here as you have not stated so explicitly. May be you are less challenged at your job and hence the thought to go get a degree, as getting a degree has probably always been at the back of your mind.

You are already learning higher math and advanced CS topics, so better to design your own curriculum and go for a more difficult domain, if you are not in one.

Instead of a degree, do side projects related to the curriculum you design, get it added to your portfolio, if possible keep publishing the stuff you learn and it will be a better ROI.

Also leaving job and just going to school may not be so much fun in other aspects as well (no income, working on subjects that you may not enjoy learning); for the no income part if you go do it part time, it can be insane hard work.
Dutch for airplane is "vliegtuig", composed of "vlieg(en)" to fly, and "tuig" rig, gear which is reasonably a synecdoche for "machine".

Interesting...

I'm constantly frustrated by the diffuse ignorance of etymology, knowing where words - used to represent and describe - come from provides a surprisingly pleasant depth to everyday life.
The thing that unsettles me is that the diagnosis is all self reported. If I'm already going in to see a doctor because I think my mind isn't right, how can I trust that I am answering the questions correctly with respect to how they are intending them. You're trusting me to answer your questions when I don't feel confident in my ability to answer them and in a couple of hours you've handed down a diagnosis which basically amounts to 'here take these drugs and we'll see you again in a month' Good luck navigating the side effects as well as the problems you originally came in here with by yourself.
> Coke does taste differently

It's usually cut down with things like chalk and aspirin when sold to final customers across Europe.

Oh, you meant the other Coke. Nevermind :D
Culturally speaking, I've noticed that older people tend to be much more trusting. I expect part of this is an expectation of mutual respect between parties -- effectively "why would they lie?". A lack of knowledge of the technology and an unwillingness to "be a burden" by asking someone more knowledgeable probably factor in too.

See also "why older people tend to get scammed more often than younger people"... certainly for the family members I've helped, all three of the above were factors to some degree.
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If you've got Google wifi points in my opinion you're simply inviting them to spy on you anyway.
This is the most accurate explanation. In other words, it's a mic like any other. The 'disabled' in this context means nothing. Just wait till Google gets served with a warrant. Suddenly, those mics won't be disabled anymore.
I think what you're doing is comparing medical vs layman usage. A doctor will tell his patient they have a "broken arm" due to past experiences in speaking with patients using medical terms. e.g, fracture or distal radius fracture in the case of a broken wrist.

When it comes to mental disorders, it can be very difficult to accurately classify the severity. It reminds me of how doctors prescribe blood pressure medication; it's guess work. e.g, They will prescribe what they think will work and have you come back later to see if it's working properly. In my mom's case, the first prescription made things worse.

Depression can be rooted in chemical imbalances, diet, sudden loss of a job or family member, etc,. It's not like taking a walk will solve everyone's depression. In most cases, it's much more complex than that. That's why there's psychologist and psychiatrist. In some cases cognitive therapy works, some a good diet + workout routine works, and other cases medication is required. There are different levels of depression and they are properly classified by professionals. The word "depression" is like a doctor telling you that you're arm/wrist is broken. e.g, Bipolar Disorder is a type of depression that's treated with medication.

It's a terribly complex thing we're talking about and telling professionals how to define their own vernacular is pretty foolish. It would be like my mom telling me that engineers should drop the phrase "eventually consistent" and just say "consistent". :)
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These are very academic definition/logic.

Reality is more nuanced. You don't, for example, really know how much profit you'll make from taking more or less investment. It comes down to strategic foresight and belief.. IE not the most reliable guess. IE, a lot depends on the personality and goals of the CEO.

In practical terms, the macro amount of money investors are trying to put in can play a much bigger role than comparing unknown futures. If investors are having trouble investing all the money they want to, the proposition gets more pleasant for the recipient. Less equity, and (more importantly irl, if not formally financial logic) better terms, less loss of control, more choice of investors.

The "fiduciary duty" that obligates companies to make money is also over somewhat academic. IRL, this doesn't really cover strategic decisions. It covers stealing, nepotism, bed-feathering and other blatant shareholder abuse. You could never prosecute a CEO for passing on investment irl.

TLDR: academics formalize these decisions in a clean, whiteboard model of the world. In the whiteboard rule, where the complexity of reality doesn't exist, choices don't really exist either. The CEO just evaluates the npv of taking investment, providing free lunch or launching a new product and the decision is made.
Well.... I have no idea! But I think that there's a big difference between thought transfer and creating physical interactions between brains or between a brain and a machine (for example I think it's well known that if you zap brains with big pulses of magnetism then there are observed impacts) or between a machine or another brain and a part of a brain. I think that actually it would be more like transferring a skin irritation rather than a thought. But lets go with the movie plot...

Also, maybe there are more profound ways of doing the interfacing! If we really want to get Dr. Evil about it, could you use transplant technology to conjoin people and then integrate their brains to invade and manipulate their minds? I wonder what the psychology of a mind made from two minds would be like (ok, I'm guessing that the torture , shock, fear and anguish of the process would mean that the resulting singular personality would be singularly crazy, but leave that aside...) could you make a "greater" or usefully different mind through this process?

Hell - why stop with two?! Why not run a program where you deliberately create seed minds by exposing children to different kinds of experiences and then integrating them to create novel kinds of thinkers!

To earn full Crazy Nazi badges you could then go on to bring animal minds into the equation - what happens if you add a chimp or a wolf into a shared brain structure?

Ok - just to be clear, anyone who does this should be executed, but I think that the idea could make a pretty decent Netflix mini series :)
There have been suggestions that nitrogen could be used as a means of execution:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

[NB Personally, I'm not in favour of executing anyone, but if you must do it why not do it so that it doesn't cause any suffering?]
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Yelling "Conspiracy" at everything is quickly becoming the new "Think of the children"

It is in no way close to conspiracy to question if Google or any other company supported by Targeted Ads where they need massive amounts of Human Intelligence to perfect their ad targeting, would want to spy on their consumers
Ask HN: Should Bank Apps Use Facebook Graph API to Monitor Their Users?
I've noticed many bank mobile apps in my country use Facebook Graph API to track the users without their consent. Should it be considered a privacy violation?
“No one will bat an eyelid if you take a day off work.”

You forgot to mention that you WON’T get paid if you take a single day off work, something that makes Sweden unique in the modern world?

Sweden is a great place to work in many ways, but there are severe problems for people moving here to work if they are accustomed to other EU countries.
I've found it almost impossible to remove a specific feed or ideology from my YT recommendations. As an example I once watched Yanis Varoufakis speak at the Oxford Union. He has appeared on panels with Slavoj Zizek who is a person I personally can't stomach. Almost immediately after the Yanis video I had YT recommend me to watch a panel with Zizek and Varoufakis discuss in 2016. I didn't watch it - but since then I get Zizek constantly recommended in my feed.
Note I don't use google for searches and my YT is running pretty much isolated in Chrome while I use Firefox/Tor for all other browsing. So google doesn't know me and YT knows me only via my handle that is otherwise not connected to anything (outside YT).

I have countless examples like this. YT keeps pushing me down a specific ideological path without any action on my part. Sometimes it's great but in those cases where it's not it's not just bad but outright dangerous. I don't think YT has the effect on my since I'm way past a point (age) where my behavior can easily be formed. But I can see how this sends somebody over the cliff who is still figuring out who they are.

People like rockstar2016 (aka the MAGA killer) or the woman who went into Youtube HQ and starting shooting the place up were probably a good examples of how social media can radicalize those that are the most vulnerable.

EDIT: “All but one of 30 Flat Earthers interviewed said they hadn't considered the Earth to be flat until watching videos promoting the theory on YouTube” https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/18/researchers-blame-youtub...
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I found several. See https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/tree/master/examples for some.
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Show HN: Ideas to Solve Sibyl Attack Problem for an Identity Proof System
It strikes me as daft to pick on only that. Why's it special? Greed?

Why not be upfront with investors and tell them keeping the company viable, developing new products, finding better processes, treating staff acceptably, or maintaining the environment are not primary goals?

So why fixate on profit or shareholder value? Once you act as though it is a prime directive, you necessarily relegate the others. There are going to be a lot of times in the life of a company where growth, longevity, research or a dozen other things should take priority for a time.

By not doing so, and continuing to push the continually increasing dividend, you weaken the company. Weaker and ripe for takeover, or lacking the next generation of products that might give 20 more years of profit. Maybe by showing so much greed in your pricing that your customers give up and go elsewhere.

A long lived, vibrant, profitable company is more than just a growing dividend and share price, it's a constant balancing act of all of the above. Profit is indirectly maximised as a result of that balance.

I found a long, but very interesting discussion of the topic: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...

One part is especially worth quoting, from John Kay (a British economist and commentator):

"...and the more shareholder value became a guide to action, the worse the outcome. On the board of the Halifax Building Society, I voted in 1995 for its conversion to a “plc”. We would allow the company to pursue the goal of maximising its value untrammelled by outmoded concepts of mutuality: in barely a decade, almost every last penny of that value was destroyed."

Longevity would have been a better priority in that moment, no?
The longterm path is to relicense with https://commonsclause.com/ and prevent AWS from selling the software as a platform.
Again this bullshit:

“When we came out with this new license, there were many different views,” he acknowledged. “Some people condemned that. But after the initial noise calmed down — and especially after some other companies came out with a similar concept — the community now understands that the original concept of open source has to be fixed because it isn’t suitable anymore to the modern era where cloud companies use their monopoly power to adopt any successful open source project without contributing anything to it.”

Okay, so here's the thing, at FOSDEM this year there were multiple events around this issue, and I haven't seen a single person defend the stance of Redis and others. Also the original concept of open source is doing fine, thanks. The problem is a couple of overvalued, VC-backed companies that found out they don't have a business model that is compatible with the promises they made to their investor.
Author here. Hey, Hacker News! I'm developing an identity proof system based on the idea of six degrees of separation. I'm writing a series of posts, which I'll then transform into whitepaper.

In this post I brainstorm ideas to solve the sibyl attack problem. I believe bringing together location-proof service (FOAM - https://foam.space/), staking and face recognition algorithms can solve the problem.

Will be happy to hear your thoughts and critique!

Previous posts on HN - https://airtable.com/shrNQ0VClgqBiHmkL
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> Google spends a lot of effort on ensuring privacy.

HAHAHAHAHHAHA, you can not be serious

Next to Facebook, google is the most personally intrusive company there is in the world today
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Man, who has time for something like that?
I've already tested this 6 years ago with a friend.
We had this idea that it could be possible by putting our skulls close together. We've tried a variety of techniques from thinking about a specific number from 1-10, one of us visualizing the answer as hard as he could, the other one waiting passively for the answer to 'occur to him'. After making sth like 100 tries and writing down our answers - the results were negative, same as for pure chance.
Then we've realized that maybe abstract information cannot be sent this way so we agreed on just two messages - very happy vs really sad, where we would imagine extreme emotions. Obtained the same negative results.
That's a great reply, I think the internet would be a better place if people (myself included) asked themselves this very question before posting a comment online.
Debian host, Ubuntu 18.10 and Win10 Pro guest VMs using VFIO passthrough for a USB controller and GPU. I use the Ubuntu VM as my daily machine, with an RDP session across to the Win10 VM when needed (I work remotely and my day-job is heavily MS focussed). I run a fullscreen RDP session taking up a full virtual desktop, so I effectively just flick between the two OSs with a keyboard or mouse shortcut. On the rare occasions that I require GPU acceleration under Windows I have a second GPU passed to that VM plugged into a second input on my monitor, and a script to remap the USB controller. Basically dual-booting but without shutting down either :)
> updates are dual-signed using both the SHA-1 and SHA-2 hash algorithms

> Due to weaknesses ... and ... industry standards Microsoft will only sign Windows updates using the more secure SHA-2 algorithm exclusively.

This seems like a half step to me. I assume the used both as a transitional process: use both until all consumers of the signed content support the better, then drop the older standard. I wonder why they've not done the same and replaced SHA-1 with a more recent algorithm, so they can easily deprecate SHA-2 if/when needed at a later date?

All the code and processes already support multiple hashes/signatures so that wouldn't be a problem. Or is the next accepted standard not yet fully decided yet? Or do they think SHA-2 will last long enough that SHA-3 (assuming that is the generally accepted next step) will be supplanted at least once before SHA-2 needs deprecating so there is no point implementing that now?
If I was ever diagnosed with cancer, I would fully expect to fight a hard battle which I might win or I might lose. Obviously the odds will be different depending on the type and stage of the cancer, but I don't believe for one second that individual choices will always have zero impact on the outcome.

I wouldn't want anyone preparing me to die. If I die so be it but I agree that paternalistic is the appropriate word here.

(As a side note, why don't we talk about things like a person's battle with heart disease? Poor cardiovascular health can be improved. It is hard but it can be done. Sounds like a battle to me.)
This is weird. I just came back from a gun rights rally in AZ, and haven't seen a single person defend the stance for gun control.
I hope you all know that Nest fire alarm aka Nest Protect v2 features microphone for automatic sound (health) checks.
I guess Spotify aren't really a startup anymore!
Thanks for the article. Developing a wide range of highly competitive nano-materials is a serious issue today. There are many good nanomaterials companies but Modern Synthesis Technology company http://mstnano.com/products/graphene/ is one of the best I've worked with. They are known for our reliability, exceptional quality, time and cost efficiency. And they provide international supply of the most up-to-date nanomaterials and cooperate with the leading companies on the global market.
Why would Google acquire a startup that barely raised 15M in 2 rounds? There seems to be more to this story. Perhaps the alooma team is extremely talented? Any ideas?
wow. didn't knew about this website at all..
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I hope they put effort into making sure the user experience for those who don't install the update in time is reasonable.

When I did dads old laptop out of the attic and boot it up, I don't want to be faced with the inability to install new updates. At least make an error message that points to a help article saying how to resolve the issue.
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> Weird, your source says the opposite.

No, it doesn't. Your quote truncates a sentence that supports GP's point.
Where air masses, that are travelling at different velocities, meet you get shearing. Shearing causes turbulence. So even if we could create two jet streams moving in two different directions the turbulence in the zone where you transfer between the two would probably be too severe to actually fly through it.
Depends on the country.

Those that happen to enjoy IT unions can get some help there.

However don't expect the work environment to actually improve afterwards, unless the bad pieces are gone by then, as winning is only half the battle.
There is a thing in my GitHub (in profile) that you could work on. It's possibly not up your alley as it's probably not monetizable. You've implied that matters to you, but not explicitly stated it. So I'm tossing that out there.
When implementing a radar display, the central pixel has no radar data mapped to it, so usually people just pick something. It was almost no effort to have the pixel flash, reading its next value from a bit string every time it went round. It's so slow, seriously, no one will ever notice.

It spells out a message in morse. No, I'm not going to tell you what it it.
I might not be understanding this right... But can't they dual sign with both SHA1 and SHA2 with no loss of functionality?

New clients would use (and require) the SHA2 hash. Old clients could still use the SHA1 hash, but with the risk of a faked update, but that's probably still better than no update.
I go to sleep hoping that humanity one day resolves death.

That is a goal I would be very happy devoting my entire life towards.
> You are cherry-picking memory hogs like "Chrome, Slack or Atom"...

Huge amount of RAM usage is subjective term. For me, Chrome, Slack and Atom are memory hogs. While I do not find the RAM usage of Calibre optimal, I think its RAM usage is reasonable with that feature set for me. Eclipse is also using ~1.1GB of RAM, but it's not a memory hog from my perspective, because I get what I give as productivity and features that I actually use and benefit.

>... ignoring bookworm and other more reasonable applications.

No, I'm not. Above, here [0], I said that Bookworm is a nice application, but my needs are different. Also, I compared Atom with another functionally-similar text application and said that similar applications (like BBEdit) use ~60MB, but Atom uses 660MB out of the box.

Similarly, since Bookworm doesn't provide the features that I need, installing it would be moot, since it'll sit unused on my disk, actually wasting disk space from my point of view. However, this doesn't make Bookworm a bad application. If it provides the functionality one needs, then I'm happy for them. Also its user interface is elegant and minimal, this another plus for Bookworm.

> Also, I had to drop Calibre due to the large number of Python 2 and imagemagik dependencies that have a maintenance cost when it comes to pulling updated packages & so on.

I don't know your OS and setup, and can't comment on that. However, major distros are doing the required maintenance, so many people are just installing it on their systems.

> Making Calibre modular would have helped greatly but the author never cared.

I don't know internal architecture of Calibre, so I can't say anything about this issue. However modularity has its own set of benefits and problems.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19197443