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That's true. However most people are just completely beside the point, because they are not capable of making real changes happen, and don't really care. Don't put in the effort. For 99% of San Franciscans, climate change activism's purpose is meeting a boy/girlfriend and/or getting votes, not actually doing anything about the climate. So we should really, really, really make sure people get force-fed some basic economics, and stop all this obnoxious efforts that cannot succeed. Right now pretty much all efforts to "fight climate change" are not Nash equilibria. As such, they can only fail (except, of course, when it comes to delivering boy/girlfriends/votes).

It is blatantly obvious what we need. We need an economically sound reason to fight climate change (e.g. "solar is cheaper", but can only work if next point is addressed), and we need improved energy storage facilities, at the very least matching oil. There are so many things that could work it's hard to choose where to focus, but looking at actual efforts in these spaces, the effort spent there is dismal. E.g. improve the fisher-tropsch process to produce oil from sunlight + water + co2. Build denser batteries. Improve supercapacitors. Build a viable flywheel battery.

But the 999th convention in some clubhouse preaching to the choir about "the need for urgent action", and laws that just make everyone's situation worse while encouraging outsourcing ... that we do not need.

Also, given that they do cost resources and cause problems, it would be better not to have anything done at all, when it comes to laws and treaties and preaching. Most of these efforts run afoul of the broken window fallacy : as long as you can't deal with the problem as a whole in a way that doesn't depend on government intervention, or only depends on world-wide inescapable government intervention, anything you do damages some subset of society in some way. So it is NOT a positive.

As long as some people don't care about climate, or some governments (ie. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, ...) resist, any effort to fight climate change through treaties and laws is useless and counter-productive.

The problem, of course, is that all the real problems are hard. Finding a Nash-equilibrium given all the parameters is not something anybody has been able to do so far (though, if not for the energy storage problem, solar could be a very good answer). So here's what people should do : they should, first, learn economics, physics, chemistry, ..., second, find a way to make this happen.

I'm very hopeful for massive solar installations, but that is pretty much the only effort I see to have any hope of success at this point. Contribute to that. Buy some solar city stock, at the very fucking least.
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Two women fighting != a man kicking a women in the head

I think you are assuming too much when you assume a bystander won't attack a man attacking a women in public.
I'm sure Shazam and SoundHound just throw away all that useful metadata too...
Yes, I still have two Cybikos in my desk drawer. Dead batteries but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get them working. I bought one for myself and one for my soon-to-be wife back in university in early 2002. We had a couple classes together and the ability to chat wirelessly was awesome. It wasn't nearly as cool as the Danger gizmo but you didn't pay monthly for it either. I had a ton of homebrew apps for it and some of them were actually really good. Nobody knew what the thing was and most professors thought it was a calculator with a stylus (which was really the antenna).

Edit: I remember using it at graduation, too. My wife was in the audience and I was so engrossed in our Cybiko chat that I took a wrong turn on the stage and ended up getting into the procession line twice. That was embarrassing. Glad I didn't try to use the thing while driving :-)
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As with everything, there are tradeoffs - For instance this from a few years ago:

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2012/11/attacking...

Which allows bpf-jit to be part of a larger privilege escalation scheme. (To properly use this attack you need to gain control of an applicaion first, then you can maybe use this attack, and if successful you own the box).

I haven't kept up with this at all, so I don't know if it has been fixed (or even is fixable) but it is interesting.
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This is a fiction. Here's what actually happens to slavers:

The first slave rulers are vicious conquerors who enslaved people. Over time, their offspring grow more and more dependent on a larger and larger population of slaves (they don't get decadent or intellectual, it's just their economy is based on slaves and needs to expand), then suddenly there are enough slaves that the masters really can't handle them all or even keep them ground down enough to prevent rebellion. Then the slaves rebel and are murdered and the slaveholders become more concerned with security and warlike things, anything to keep the next crop of slaves under control. There's no transformation from 'benevolent slaveholders' to 'decadent slaveholders' it's just that the initially minor pressure of being beaten to death by your own slaves gradually increases as you get more and more slaves.

Eventually the society is destroyed by a more mercantile society with a higher standard of living.

None of this is going to happen with robots. The robots will not rise up to destroy us. The people who we cast aside in favor of robots (I say we because I'm an optimist and hope, naturally, to be a ruler rather than ruled) ultimately may rise up, especially if they have no social mobility or outlet for peaceful revolution and are saddled with generational 'base income' debt.
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I would read with great interest a blog post about your experiences. I have no practical need, but I thought this tour of BPF was fascinating, and it left me hungry for more.
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Good, because Helium was a terrible parasite.
Having spent 3 years from 2008-2011 biking by the Danger building every day on my way to work in Palo Alto (until one day it unceremoniously changed to Microsoft), but only being vaguely aware of the Sidekick this was quite interesting.
> It could also help individual people to cope with social anxieties by being "busy".

I can't even tell you how incredibly "busy" I was during recess in high school. Also during free hours and any kind of down time... so much to do!
I said this when such a thread came up the last time: If you can (easily) switch jobs without moving it might make sense to buy. If you can't, however, renting is the safer option as you can move if/when there is a problem with the job. Domiciles can be rather illiquid at times, which sucks when you need to move for work.

It's a separate question if it's worthwhile to buy at all, as that's dependent on geography, present and future market trends, lifestyle choices, ...
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Jane Doe gets married and changes her name Jane Smith. She no longer wishes to log into your system as janedoe and would prefer to login as janesmith. Certainly one could make the argument that you should just tell her that the name can't be changed and she'll have to just live with it. Depending on your business, that may or not be acceptable.
If this really does work like you describe, it's exactly what I've wanted from Facebook for the last few years. Thank you!
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Monitorama hosted a great talk by Pete Cheslock about the Vasa warship project. Available on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/95284690
Back when Gruber tried to do something like that in his @daringfireball Twitter feed, it was so incredibly annoying to have the links fail on all my mobile devices that I set up a Python script to convert the links and re-post them under a @darlingfireball account...

He recently posted about that not making sense anymore due to Twitter's URL shortener, but I don't have the link handy offhand.
Agreed, the author is using "disruption" to mean "compete with". Microsoft did not really disrupt IBM, it just changed the competitive landscape.

The Innovator's Dilemma has a much more nuanced view of disruption: an inferior product that ends up beating the entrenched player because of a side-benefit. It's pretty relevant if you want to take on eBay, LinkedIn, or Google: you're not going to build a better search engine than Google, but you can build one that respects privacy, runs without ads, etc. if that's what users really care about.
It does concern me, and I agree that the commission has a problem of democratic accountability.

I'm not sure that having directly elected commissioners would have prevented the mess in Ukraine, which is mainly caused by the complex motivations of varied and unpredictable actors. States bordering Russia have joined the EU/EEA before without problems.
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Older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7680223
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This, this, this, this, exactly. It's part of why twitter is so much more enjoyable than facebook -- it's a simple, understandable stream of everything.

My experience is very similar to yours -- even with "most recent" (which is really "bias by recency a bit higher in the selection algorithm," as near as I can tell), I miss all sorts of things I really care about, (while still being bombarded with stuff I don't care about).

I am not, in general, a fan of machine-selection of relevant items. Even for a human to intelligently edit my fb feed would be a challenging job, and until machines begin to approach the intelligence of humans, they will do it poorly.
Unfortunately group chats don't work with their Jabber implementation, so you'll still need to visit the site for those.
I have unfortunately also been having some very bad experiences with books from PACKT Publishing recently. In the beginning the books were of high quality but somehow things have slipped as of late.
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"In fact, even in RDBMS’s developers should be using a natural key as their primary key instead of an auto-incremented ID. This will lead to better performance when the natural key is the most commonly used identifier, but is often not considered out of a habit."

Primary/unique keys are indexed. Creating an index of strings instead of integers is surely going to result in a huge index and slow performance?
I wonder how that lawyer ratio has changed over the years with members of U.S. Congress. I'm guessing not a whole lot. Is it me or is the trial lawyer lobby the most powerful in Washington, D.C.?
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The internet doesn't help them getting bored out of their minds in class and giving up on school. School needs to let students go at the pace they're capable of, or why are they even there?
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Every android phone I've owned has required me to check a box hidden in the settings before I could install from outwith the Play store. My current phone gives me an additional pop-up warning that this is a security risk which I have to agree to before it will enable side-loading.

Ultimately you can't completely protect users from their own stupidity. You have to make the security vs usability tradeoff somewhere. I appreciate that my phone allows me to manually install applications - it is in fact one of the reasons I chose it.
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What is painful for me about this is that while we might sensibilize a handful of (A) talented hackers here and there that (B) are in good shape to do anything about it, there are legions of lobbists and bureaucrats with big budgets daily working to expand the State, some of those legions are tax minions who's "added value" is bite yours
I second what you've said, as I've had the same experiences in dealing with it myself. Adderall is not crack, but other people may abuse it as such. People without the disorder.
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I'm sorry I misread that as "blood rushing to my face" which is obviously wrong. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it was small cut and not a gash (we really would need pictures to know for sure but this story is VERY light on any evidence, I'm going further out on that limb and assume the picture was not included because it wasn't a bad cut and didn't make the story seem as bad). Two women fighting can scratch each other's face and I still wouldn't get involved. When I wrote that I was imagining more of a "stabbing" and not a cut on her face. Regardless I stand by my TL;DR of: A phone and purse are not worth the victims or a potential rescuers life (both immediate and long term). This would have been avoided if Kristen had simply handed over her phone and purse.
I second this, it really is a fantastic physical puzzle game.
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It's interesting in that they know this idea is so divisive and unpopular that they have to prevent the possibility for people to directly respond to it.

This isn't about preventing some racist trolls from saying a few sarcastic "Thanks Obama" comments and to make a few jokes about black people. That happens in any long comment thread that's even closely related to race - and those comments are always down voted and criticized.

What's more interesting to me now is that the "Comments are now closed" box is itself missing. So they're so insecure that they can't even let people know that they're being censored.

Some frank discussions of slavery and race and all associated factors of American history are warranted. I can praise them for speaking about this issue (even if I disagree with many of their ideas and conclusions) but I have to be critical of The Atlantic for not allowing this discussion.
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Events as well. That's all I use Facebook these days, along with chat.
It's possible to rent the entire area and have all the machines set to free play (that was how I first encountered Dragon's Lair; I believe it was a school social event). Probably expensive, though.
>> incompatible license...

You can always just continue to use the same version of the library you always used.
Crossing the Chasm also talks about this: it's very, very difficult to beat an established company at their own game. You're more likely to do so by attacking a niche they are not interested in, or are weak in, and growing from there.
I wrote a series of didactic posts actually deriving and implementing some of these algorithms, with long-term plans to get the heftier ones like SVM and boosting.

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> In 20 years, we’ll talk about Bitcoin like we talk about the Web today

So in 20 years U.S. government will act as if bitcoin belongs to them, NSA will have access to your wallet and it's gonna be full of bugs and exploits?
Ah, now I understand. As mentioned in another comment, military pilots wear helmets with visors specially designed to deal with bright lights.

Life-flight helicopters, or hospital choppers transferring kids getting transplants, likely don't have such equipment.
Even with security risk, this is a bit of a golden egg for automated selenium testing!
Lots of blame to go around here, a few sackings but no one got sued. $1.2 billion dollars worth of software that probably still doesn't work as required.

http://www.zdnet.com/au/ibm-should-have-been-disqualified-fr...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/states-health-pay...
I am sad that the keyboards have disappeared from smartphones :(
I think Glass will be a success eventually - just not how most of us intended it to be. I used Glass for a month before returning it, but am regretting it slightly. As it stands right now, it's still a beta device with tons of software and hardware issues which somewhat limit its usefulness even for the most basic things like making a phone call. Though this article is true for the most part, I think it's missing the major downside of Glass.

Glass is only useful for certain tasks mainly where our hands are not free and we're away from our computers. For most of us, Glass is pretty much useless throughout the day. As a developer, there is nothing Glass can do while coding that a second monitor couldn't do better. When I joined the explorer program, I thought I would constantly be using Glass. I found Glass most useful while driving (responding to texts and hangout messages but NOT for directions* ) and I intended to use it while cooking.

But since driving with Glass is a grey area and I didn't want a hassle with the police, that pretty much limited my use of glass to cooking or occasionally hiking as long as you don't mind getting the unit all sweaty.

I don't think Glass belongs in public at all (restaurants, bars, etc). It serves no function besides being creepy, though it does occasionally help nerdy people meet woman as it's a great ice breaker (seriously).

* None of these reviews ever mention that the Glass display is only active for a second or two when directions is activated. This is surely to save on batteries. But it's simply no where near as useful as a normal GPS which is always on.
My feed in twitter (using tweet deck) always has missing tweets that were algorithmically filtered. It's only when I use the mobile app or web feed that I actually get all tweets.
Thank you. Now I see why it wasn't such an issue for the Egyptian pilots (see other comment). I can see why a military pilot would have such equipment, whereas a chopper transferring a kid to another hospital for a transplant probably wouldn't.
> I would call it duck typing

Ha, that's a fairly apt comparison.

> It's not clear that we need a theory of consciousness at
> all, how is something as ill-defined as consciousness even
> viable in a mathematical context?

That's not clear to me either, but there are some convincing arguments in favour of treating it at least logically if not quantitatively (like IIT does). I recommend the work of David Chalmers in this context because it's mathematically sound and written from the perspective of a dualist. Definitely worthwhile...
I want to be clear, because I understand that in my post it isn't clear. For the total of the entire event, she only had the knife out for maybe two minutes of it tops. The rest she was just following me around. And when she would get close enough, press into me, pushing me/threaten me.

I, being in an orthopedic boot, was unable to move at anything more than a quick hobble.
Typically people who don't own a gun don't have any training with guns. These same people also think that people who do have guns don't have any training as well.

In fact, most people who own guns are well trained. I can also assure you that even under stress you can hit a human sized target from 15 feet very easily.

Most of the state laws about even brandishing a fire arm have to do with inescapable life threatening harm, meaning you can't just run away. In the blogger's case she couldn't run due to an injury, but based on her description she would have had time to properly use a gun in defense and it would have been legal for her to do so in my state of MA.

I was trained by a former police detective and told in a knife situation, if you couldn't escape, draw your weapon, yell stop or I will shoot, then shoot if they're within 15 feet and move toward you at all.

>Even if it worked, there would be the question of ethics

Ethics? Someone threatens to kill you, has a deadly weapon, and is coming at you and you think there's still an ethical issue? Sure, they're crazy and sure, you could choose to let them kill you because you pity them, but I doubt that makes you ethically superior.
Hmm this is interesting. I could see the value in other developing countries like Nicaragua where there are no street signs anywhere. Directions are "100 meters from the chicken shop, take a left"
That was indeed a typo. Thanks!
Half a billion Euros for a system that doesn't work - that's a bargain. Here in the UK our systems that don't work cost a lot more than that - £10 billion and counting:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-s...
> HCF was always a mythical instruction. Try http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set.... for bunch more.

The 65c02 had, in fact, a BRA instruction. It was equivalent to BNR and was called "BRanch Always".
I don't know about you guys, but I want arcades back in full swing. Not only for nostalgic reasons, but because it was damn great. It also forced people to hang out together and forge friendships. I wonder if time is ripe for it to come back or if it will ever be?
I couldn't believe it when it was the next big thing and I can't believe it now when people say this seriously.

RSS is some horrible mix of protocol (for developers) and tool (for users). It's like telling someone to SMTP the information to you.

Even today I often struggle trying to get a podocast into my phone because I can't find the (correct) RSS feed on a podcast's website. RSS is a fine way for computers to talk to each other. People talk to each other in tweets, emails, posts, HN comments.. sometimes in words.
I am glad that twitter, github and stackoverflow allowed me to change my username. You could call it 'display name'.
I wish hn would allow it.
There was a lot of original content at Helium. If anything, they were guilty of paraphrasing Wikipedia a little too often, but they did have actual writers creating actual original content.

Here's a funny story about a Helium writer who generated 500 original articles -- all of them reviews of children's picture books.

http://www.destinyland.org/helium/how-i-reviewed-300-bad-mov...
i) They can claim what they want, and even if there is no way it would hold up in court, can still discourage people from using what they do have the right to use.

Does anyone know where we can lookup all the legal cases the Met has been involved in? I am wondering if they have ever actually tried to enforce these policies.
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You're ubinator. Unfortunately, you come home one day to find Mr. Binator in bed with some 20-something blond hussie.

The divorce paperworks sails through. Do you still want to be ubinator, reminded of that bastard every time you have to log in, or would you prefer to go back to umaidenname?

We both know where HR would stand on that one :V
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