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The government most definitively does NOT work for us.

Elections are a fig-leaf to give a semblance of legitimacy -- the politicians approved by the democratic process are little more than glorified PR spokespeople, whose nominal power is largely illusory; undermined and diverted by innumerable tricks motivated by callow mendacity and the insurmountable complexity of the parasitic institutions that they front: The vast majority of governmental power is unseen, unscrutinised, unelected and largely unaccountable. In most forms, government is a highly-evolved form of the protection scams run by organized criminals, and whilst hard-working and well-meaning public servants certainly do exist, my personal experience is that cynicism and greed rules the day as one approaches the more elevated levels of seniority.

So when I say that we are beat, I mean it. We are never EVER going to change this system. These guys may be corrupt as hell; evil in a "unwitting", petty, careless and banal sort of way, but there is nothing that the rest of us can do about it. We have to acknowledge that they have won the game, and that we are beaten. Our purpose in life is now to shine and polish their boots and egos in equal measure: To make sure that their coffers are full and that their jobs are secure; that their mistresses and personal vices remain secret, and that their ability to moralise, preach and generally look down on the plebeian masses remains unimpeded; to grow their ability to exercise arbitrary personal power, and to make them more secure in their roost.

This is not a conspiracy theory, because there is no explicit conspiracy to be seen, just the unrelenting grind of universally flawed human nature.
Stock N9 doesn't even run Meego (proper). It runs Harmattan, a transitional system which is more Maemo than Meego underneath. Nokia planned to evolve it into Meego proper, but never did since it soon sunk into the oblivion of WP. Some parts of Meego (not Harmattan) were forked by the community as Mer, and some other parts (namely Meego Handset) as Nemo. Sailfish is built on Mer and parts of Nemo, adding its own UI on top. All this (including historic evolution of Moblin and Maemo to Meego) can be pretty confusing for those who didn't follow these developments. See also this chart: https://github.com/kumadasu/tizen-history
One question. I know that its nearly impossible to reverse a good hash or to create a doc that will knowingly return the same hash. So PREDICTING a collision (finding a doc that will collide with a given doc) is very very very difficult. But Due to the size of the output and input space we know for a fact that collisions do exist (right?) So if a very large number of documents are timestamped using this, their hashes WILL collide right? I mean there is a POSSIBILITY that you may find proof for a doc that wasn't actually stored here, right?

(Just wondering. Not throwing criticism. I actually LOVE this idea!)
> Yet they keep voting,

Voter turn out rates show many people just don't bother to vote.
well if it's easier for you
No, it is true. To describe a currency as 'debt-free' means that it is not created through the process of creating new debt. The way modern currencies like the dollar are emitted is through the generation of new debt (government bonds are government debt, and banks create new currency when they 'loan' money). The negative consequences of not paying what you borrow (forclosure, etc.) are ultimately what backs debt-based currencies. Graeber argues (and I agree) that it is therefore the threat of violence from the state what gives value to currency in the modern era.

Bitcoin is fundamentally different because new currency is created through mining. Yes, you could create a secondary market on top of Bitcoin that handles loans, but not new Bitcoins, therefore it is debt- free currency. When Nixon decided to decouple the dollar from gold in the seventies, what he did was effectively to move from a debt-free currency to a debt based currency. The move had huge implications in shaping the world until today, because it meant that the US became free to print dollars endlessly. The external market for dollars was solid because of the world reserve status, enforced through the US military. In this way the US could print away AND keep internal inflation very low in relation to the amount of circulating currency.

Breaking this cycle, which is what feeds the US empire, is why I think Bitcoin will in the end provide a great service to mankind.
Here I wanted to cite the (moderately) well-known result that defect rate is proportional to lines of code, independent of language, but I can't actually find where it comes from.

Help?
I don't know, I seen to have a free compiler on my Apple laptop.

And a handheld mobile OS with unprecedented capabilities people would be dreaming of just a decade ago -- that I can code for by spending like $100, including the ability to release my apps to half a billion with credit cards at the ready.

Perhaps if you're young enough to only remember the "everything must be FOSS" times, and not the times we paid $100-$300 for a proprietary compiler this seems very restrictive.
You see, I live in Russia. Historically, up until recently, the telecom was a very unregulated industry. Government just didn't care enough. So do you know what am I paying for a 100Mbps connection and unlimited traffic? $10/mo. Do you know what I'm paying for an unlimited 3G and calls? ~$10/mo. And this has been the case for many years. No monopoly here. Monopolies only emerge when governments and companies start making sweet love to each other.
There is no shortage of genuine and detailed proposals for societies without government. People tend to mock and dismiss them immediately without any real consideration, generally with the argument that it's impossible to have anything else or that it's not perfect, but it's the best we can do. And this fits The Matrix metaphor perfectly: the state very deliberately and explicitly seeks to make people dependent on the states and to convince people of the necessity of having a state.
All property rights, as implemented by our laws, are just as much of a fiction. You just feel that one is more necessary or better then another.

I'm not sure why you feel I would disagree with that, or why would that contradict my position. I'm not a believer in natural laws.
Yes, the Ordinary Language School extended Wittgenstein's early work.
> No, it's not technically native code, nor is it exactly assembly or bytecode. It an IR that browsers can JIT very easily. Which is basically the same thing.

So BF is "basically" native code too, since it can be JITted very easily? In fact, it's much easier to JIT BF than asm.js, so according to your definition it is even more "native" than asm.js.

The way you are using "native" takes away all of its meaning.

> Everything is an IR. Python is an IR for the thoughts in my head. It's turtles all the way down.

It's really not.

Yes, every executable representation is a representation (though we don't usually call representations "intermediate" if they are designed to be executed directly).

But the hand-wavy idea that because two things are both representations they are "basically the same thing" is so far from true that it is the opposite of insight. The truth is that the differences between representations is one of the deepest concepts in compilers and VMs.

For example, the entire difference between asm.js and PNaCl mostly boils down to the differences between their two different representations (a modified LLVM bitcode vs. a JavaScript subset). If these two things are "basically the same" then asm.js and PNaCl are "basically the same" too.
The alternative is a data structure which has N-1 empty, yet allocated, slots (N is the number of possible types.) instead you can have one field indicating the type of the variable and then your code can switch which field it accedes based off that indication. Total size is one int plus size of largest type represented.
The problem is you wend up with Jolla simply running a whole load of non-native apps that fail to use the OS to the best of its ability, it can really ruin the perception of an OS if all these swipe gestures etc work in some apps, but not others.
> I'd see taxes more like calling in a debt. It costs money to live here, you have to pay for that.

And what if I were to write a little poem here, charge you $100 for it, and show up at your house with guns if you fail to pay?
check:
(> x y z 0)
vs:
if( x > y && y > z && z > 0)

Now the next question is: where do I need that for? Just let it soak in for a while: it is surprising how your solutions change if your tool works differently.

I've been busy with Scala for some time now, but the OO aspect also dominates the FP part. And that OO part is huge: traditional classes, case classes, traits (which are occasionally used standalone) static functionality not in the class but factored out in an object, structural typing just to name some.

There are many aspects I like of Scala, but simplicity is not among them. In teams you will have to have strong communication if you do not want to limit yourself to a subset of the language ("no fp" for instance)
But that's kinda centralizing it. What if twitter shuts down? What if twitter's DB is compromised? With bitcoins, it kinda makes all this impossible (cryptographically) and making it super decentralized
User installable applications for pre-smartphones were pretty much exclusively in J2ME...
Your point #2 is not logically obvious. Could you explain why you feel it's true?
TL;DR: Renault has a clause in the contract that allows them to remotely stop their EV from charging

This is an interesting issue but the article overstates the case. "... [electric cars] collect reams of data on how you use them, and send this data off to the manufacturer without your knowledge". Without your knowledge? Really?

EVs are very new technology and none of them have shown to be profitable without government support. Buyers have choices and making the trade-offs between vendors clear is always worthwhile, but this piece is not helping the debate.
Interpreters typically use polymorphic locations to hold values for the interpreted language. Technically almost any type of polymorphism is enough, but the fewer indirections you can get away with, the faster you can make a simple interpreter. So that would usually mean a sum type in a functional programming language with algebraic data types, or a simple object in an OO language, or a tagged union in C and Pascal.

But for better performance, approaches like tagged pointers (often used in Lisp implementations) are useful, as it eliminates a level of indirection for most integer operations. If you can afford to use 64 bits for your values, you might consider using doubles everywhere, with invalid exponents for stuffing a shortened pointer inside the float (I believe luajit uses, or used to use, this technique; it would probably be a good match for JS as well, as JS doesn't have integers).
Tor browser (package tor-browser-2.3.25-15_en-US, latest bundle) does have Javascript disabled by default.
Please check options-content->enable Javascript.
If I am mistaken I am delighted to hear otherwise.
They have been installing LED street lights in the UK for a while now. The LED supplier approaches a council, the council agrees to pay the supplier the difference between their normal and new lighting bill for X years. The supplier gives them the relatively expensive LED lamps (which talk to each other wirelessly) and management system. The council installs them. Supplier makes money from the price difference.
The horrifying thing is a huge number of people do believe that without government there wouldn't be roads. Every libertarian or anarchist FAQ you find will have a response to the "but who will build the roads" question. Government has done an excellent job of convincing the vast majority of people of its indispensability.
The Church-Turing thesis can be proved in finite time, and it was. The Universal Dovetailer can be written in finite time, and it was. What takes infinite time is computing everything -- which makes sense because everything is infinite.
You are overestimating the power that the standards board has over what browser vendors choose to include in their software. What you are asking of them is not really in their power. Besides, if VMs can make the W3C irrelevant, then they will do so regardless of W3C's approval of any particular standard.

For what it's worth, we're already very close to the point where "a language creator can sit down and create a new language and UI framework universally for browsers".
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I recovered once that way, but it is definitely an unrecoverably bricked device for my parents and even for my brother.

An app that bricks even <1% of the devices just doesn't belong in the app store where it gets exposure to lots of non technical users.

Why doesn't CyanogenMod replace or repair bricked devices, when their software caused that problem in the first place?

Why should Google or the device manufacturer pay for it?
Selling their own phone in more countries would be a good start. Even in the countries where they do sell the phone, they often only sell it via their web store, so user's who don't research phones beyond walking into a phone shop don't know it exists.
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NIST standardized timestamping methods are themselves full of patents

hu?

And I believe Jury would accept only those + a certified authority which would want to be testify in front of Jury.

I think you've missed my point. I'm saying that the problem isn't the TIME of the prior art, it is proving to a civilian jury that prior art relates to a patent.
The remote disabling sounds bad, but from an economic perspective renting batteries could be good for consumers and manufacturers at the same time.

A lot of this battery stuff is very new at the moment. You look at, say, a Panasonic NCR18650 [1] and it's very affordable, but it loses 20% of its capacity after just 300 charge cycles. It depends on temprature, charge rate, depth of discharge and so on, so designers can trade off longevity for upfront cost. There are alternative battery chemistries that last longer - some manufacturers claim more than 10,000 charge cycles [2] but how do you test a manufacturer's claims that a battery will last 30 years without waiting until the technology is 30 years old? Or maybe the future is batteries getting swapped at change stations, Tesla style, so you'll end up with a different battery every day.

We consumers aren't equipped to evaluate the longevity claims of the manufacturers, so why should we take on the risk when that 30-year battery might break after 3 years? On the other hand if we pay by the month or by the mile, if it needs replacement after 3 years that's the manufacturer's problem.

In other words, renting gives the manufacturer an incentive not to cut corners, and to make sure their products are long-lasting and low maintenance, because the longer the product lasts the better the profit. Sure beats the printer ink economic model, where the manufacturers have an incentive to make cheap products that don't last long because selling more replacements means more profit.

[1] http://industrial.panasonic.com/www-data/pdf2/ACA4000/ACA400...
[2] http://www.altairnano.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/60Ah-Da...
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Why would you say that something inefficient is not bad? To me, "inefficient" and "bad" are pretty close to synonymous, at least in a context where input energy is limited and costly.
most obvious benefit at the moment is anonymity. Another good benefit is that is P2P - that means no mid party can intercept your transaction and prevent it from happening.
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That's ok. I think it's funny too.

It was a quick purchase of a couple of bitcoins to see what the fuss was about. They've just sat in my wallet for a period of time.

They're better than the banking industry already (I've worked in it and can attest to how bad it is) but then again so is Jimmy Saville...
Of course. However, sometimes no prove is possible. This limitation of formal logic was proved by Gödel. Here, I believe mind emulation might be possible, but I believe I cannot know for sure unless my own mind is emulated -- in which case I will have private knowledge but no way to prove it to you. How can I prove that I'm conscious? You can see how this problem extends to simulated realities (or computational realities).
Bitcoin is not privately issued legal tender.

Article fails right there in its premises.

The rest is intellectual masturbation.
RegEx probably has most use in data validation, which has nothing to do with internet.
Most languages don't have reliable enough tail call elimination to implement CPS without trampoline techniques to get rid of the excess stack frames, which in turn has a fairly hefty performance impact unless you're using it for something high-level like async callbacks.
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Very rudimentary understanding of Cancer so if someone from a field is here please do comment: can this technique also be used for destroying Cancerous cells?
I noticed the shift from the parent's "software" to your "content." The distinction is critical. Most web pages are content, i.e. what's worthwhile in them is their media (text, images, video, etc.), and not their code. What draws us to HN is its content, and we appreciate its minimalist aesthetic, i.e. if it it used WebGL or something it could only be made worse.

As a content delivery platform, the web is unparalleled, ridiculously good. I have paid for content (for example, NSFWCorp), and will do so again in the future.

But as a software delivery platform, the web is unproven if we are to be kind, and crap if we are to be honest. Web software is fragile, limited, and subject to the whims of the site maintainers, who may modify it without warning, or even remove it entirely (e.g. Google Reader). I have spent hundreds of dollars on native productivity software, games, etc. but I have yet to spend a dime on a website for its JavaScript.

That may change in the future, but I doubt it: any program that's a sufficiently good web app can be rewritten as a desktop app with more capabilities. Ultimately the web may be the go-to place for trivial or gimmicky software, but the most powerful apps will be peers to the browser.
And they're horrible. They just put them in down my road and it's like prison searchlights compared to the old lighting.

To add insult to injury they put CCTV cameras on every alternate lamp as well.
Because many people don't feel like it changes anything for themselves. People everyday vote with their money and their decisions in life and reap the results. They feel that what they do changes life around them. Voting had never affected themselves and most people are always angry at something that government does or doesn't do and can't do anything about it seriously. They all see crazy activists and how it's hard for them to gain anything from the system. That's why people don't vote.
The only thing that matters is who pays when someone bricks his device with that software.

And those users are surely not expecting that they are going to pay themselves, since they installed the software from the official Google Play store.

What CM does (doesn't matter if intentionally or not) is externalizing the cost for support to Google and the device manufacturers, since they themselves are not willing to replace or repair devices that have been bricked by their own software.
I always wondered if there would ever be a post antibiotic mechanism to kill bacteria/viruses, along the lines of nanobots perhaps. Nice to see progress is being made in this regard...the human race may be depending on it!
>Their products have always been overpriced

I found quite the opposite. Nothing quite beats their prices.

Here's an easy example: when the iPad came out at $499, the first competing touch tablets come out at $749 (and of course were crap compared to it too). It took competitors years to reach and go below iPad level prices.

You also have to know what you're getting and compare like for like. You cannot compare a machine on the medium or lower end of the market with one on the upper end. Hi-end offerings from Dell, Sony etc, are the same (or usually more) expensive as Apple's offering, when you match features. And you still don't get them all.

Was trying to get a PC laptop to match a Retina MPB the other day. I added the configuration options to match it and got it as far as $1700 for the PC laptop on the vendor website. It also had a VGA port as standard, that the MBP doesn't have. Seems like a bargain compared to the MBP I targeted that's $2599, right?

Only the PC didn't have hidpi screen, had half the memory (8 vs 16GB), had a 750 HD and not a 512 SSD.

Those differences easily match or surpass the $900 difference.

What it also didn't have that isn't easily measured, but matters a lot?

-- it wasn't as light (I carry my laptop a lot).
-- it wasn't as battery effiecient (I use my laptop outside a lot).

Heck, I'd pay the $900 even just for the twice as much battery life. When you add the with SSD vs HD, hidpi vs plain monitor and weight, it's a no-brainer.

And there's other, minor stuff that adds up: it didn't have as a solid construction, it didn't have a magsafe-like power connector (tripping on a wire means the laptop goes down -- and I've had that happen in the past), it didn't have a multitouch-glass trackpad, it didn't have an illuminated keyboard, it's thicker, etc etc.

Oh, and it didn't come with OS X (and for free!). I had to make do with the crappy Windows 8. Just that would be worth more than the $900 difference to me.
They actually are easier once you learn the (simple) novelties. Simplicity makes the learning process shorter.
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I get what you're saying. However without a government you are simply relying on people to be good and fair to each other. I don't know how long it's been since you last checked the people state of affairs, but no matter how bad you think politicians are or greedy government is, the majority of people out there wouldn't pay taxes to fund education, roads, hospitals, law enforcement etc unless forced to do so.
Why do you assume that the person whose money the government "steals" would have made any of that money in the absence of government? How would they buy and sell goods or services without legal tender mandated by a government, enforce contracts arising therefrom without a legal system that is a part of government, that your borders would be secure without a military and police force (or service) paid for by government, that you'd move yourself, goods, services, and information without transport and communications infrastructure funded by government?

We may assume that in the absence of government, we'd have the same economic station as we do, forgetting that that wealth we do have is the result of the whole economic system we have now, including the government, imperfect as it may be. Without government, you'd get to keep all of your income (all the income that the marauding bandit with a bigger gun than you lets you keep) but it would be far, far lower than the amount of wealth you now possess.

You could argue that you don't need a "government" for any of these things, that communities could come together and provide them without the "government" stepping in. Of course any administrative mechanisms the community puts in place to manage these will very quickly begin to look very like the "government" we despise.
Yes you could, however, this isn't only about the trustworthiness of your claim. More importantly it's about the trustworthiness of the longevity of the data.

Twitter can remove a single post or turn off their servers and your prove is gone. That's not so easy for a BitCoin transaction. Once it's added to the blockchain it's there for as long as anyone is running a bitcoin node.