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It will only serve to legitimize bitcoin if anything causing a possible increase in price and won't directly affect the price through the sale.
Yong, on the other hand, is just defending his own preconceptions.

When I take into account that the author of the submitted article is science writer on evolution topics Brian Switek and not general science writer Ed Yong, I wonder what defending of preconceptions is going on in your comment.

AFTER EDIT: After I first posted this, I looked up how the first attested use of stone tools by early hominins compares in time with the hypothesized change in facial features discussed in the article, and I see there is some dispute about the very earliest regular use of stone tools, but that definitely precedes the emergence of Homo sapiens by far, and may go back to the time of some of the later australopithecines. Using stone tools as weapons (even just picking up and throwing rocks) was surely a game-changer in fights.
Damnit, we need a better culture surrounding publishing on the web, and specifically around maintaining links. All of the interesting hyperlinks there are dead.
I really admire Elon Musk--a lot. His insight that Tesla’s real competition isn't the Fords, Chryslers, etc., but rather it’s the momentum behind gasoline cars. And, if that momentum is the actual competition, then that momentum/competition can be broken by open sourcing Tesla’s technology… I think that his specific move on patents (as it relates to the auto industry) is an excellent example of having the perfect balance of having customer obsession and being competition aware.
I didn't know of an #https-everywhere channel. It doesn't seem to be on Freenode. Is it really an active channel or just there in the screenshot for the demo?
The question was "Why do only cater to the former?" not whether or not it makes sense to do so. In fact the very question strongly implies that it doesn't make sense.

Non disabled persons using older browsers are used to things "just working" for them, so they have a lot of energy to expend being pissed off when things don't work.

Disabled persons are confronted with lots of things not "just working" for them, so the energy of being pissed off gets more spread out.

In the general case, this causes a positive feedback loop where minor issues for people without major problems get fixed, while more significant issues for people with even worse problems don't get fixed.
From my days in pharma, I remember they are used extensively for testing anti-nausea medicines because they are some of the few animals that actually experience the symptoms nausea (many mammals vomit, but nausea is actually more rare).
Really puzzles me why they would delay it? To sell more copies of Windows 9?
The price of bitcoins has already dropped 10% since the news.
But the UI abstraction is the hardest part of JS, which is why so many people are moving away from Backbone, it doesn't help you with it at all.
From ICANN's perspective though, doesn't that mean that the owner of the domain is the registrar?

While most registrars would be perfectly fine, I worry about the one that is willing to take the domain for themselves (for a domain not worth going to court over).

While not exactly what happened, I remember the case of the @N twitter account be stolen (https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...), and wonder if having your actual information on the registration would help or hurt a situation like that.
You're welcome, and good luck.

It took about a month from diagnosis to beginning medication- my psychiatrist wanted to look into my previous hospital stay, have conversations with my therapist: there was definitely an unspoken worry about my past alcohol abuse.
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Will they announce the winning bidders?

Those coins will then be linked to the winners' identities permanently in the block chain. Talk about painting a target on oneself.
Usually it means either cash or a cashier's check. Sometimes wire-transfer is also accepted. For lower-value items (police auctions of bikes and the like) people normally pay actual cash. For higher-value items (e.g. home foreclosure sales), people more often bring a cashier's check or wire the amount (depends on the jurisdiction).
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http://ciar.org/ttk/public/vs/call/test-function-call-overhead.pl
http://ciar.org/ttk/public/vs/call/test-function-call-overhead.py
Street value of approx: $17,330,000 USD

I'd wager it will sell for much less, likely 3/4 of that street price.
Article is dumb.

Early humans had rocks, they did not need fists.

And reinforced skull is good in any case, when living in wilderness.
But then how is anyone supposed to feel smug and unthreatened if they can't laugh at and disqualify her argument over some irrelevent bullshit?
Definitely more to love in this scan. I still kind of like Tim's instructor better though.
I've read Burke. ADG is excellent, though it would be even better if it had more concrete examples. It's also very much aimed at physicists (assuming advanced undergraduate knowledge of mechanics, E&M, etc.) and has less emphasis on mathematical rigor than most differential geometry texts.

I actually helped Burke out with a follow-up to ADG called Div, Grad, Curl are Dead, which looked very promising with lots of examples, but tragically he died from injuries sustained in a car accident before it could be polished for publication.
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I'd imagine a business or bank will make the purchase, and they likely don't care about the anonymity aspects.
I think it is more of a dig on academic operating systems research, which some say hasn't made any major breakthroughs since the 1980's, possibly because we have been stuck on the same architecture for so long.

IMO, the focus on Windows vs UNIX/Linux or HP vs MS is really missing the point though. If you build a computer as they are suggesting, using non-volatile memory without a deep memory hierarchy, and with an optical interconnect that enables low-latency memory access across a datacenter, then that changes a huge number of the assumptions that led to the operating systems we have now. In order to really take advantage of such a machine, you really need to invent new operating systems. You can hack Linux to run on it, which is what they said they are doing, but you will lose some of the benefits of the hardware because the architecture assumptions are baked into the fundamental design of existing OSes. File systems are one example that is easy to think about. Virtual memory. But consider anything that an OS does and how this new architecture changes it. Consider loading executables to start a process, for example. If there is no difference between memory and disk, then you don't even need to load executables into memory. All files would be memory-mapped in some huge global address space. Programs could jump from memory in one machine to a whole different machine (VM migration? HA?). It really changes everything. We would need new R&D, some of it very fundamental, in order to understand and build systems to take full advantage of such technology. That's all HP is saying in this announcement.
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Maybe it would be too much work to rewrite the specific logic that prevents HN 'manipulation' for reddit? Although I suppose much of the behavior and target audience is similar...
> So stockpiles of stuff are readily available, thus the question transforms from "Is it ethical to have this stuff?" into "Is it ethical for researchers to have access to this stuff?"

How do you figure? People, organizations, and states do unethical things all the time. How does the fact that some governments are doing something put the question of "Is it ethical" off the table?

After all, we know that some researchers already have access too, that's what the OP is about. So by your reasoning, does that mean the question of "is it ethical for researchers to have access" is off the table too, since some already do?
I love this part:

The USMS will not transfer bitcoins to an obscene public address, a public address apparently in a country restricted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a public address apparently associated with terrorism, other criminal activities, or otherwise hostile to the United States.

So, be sure to pre-calculate your auction-winning vanity-address to be some simple transformation of your obscene/anti-American message, rather than the message itself!
It's an interesting attempt. The problem I'm seeing is that it seems to do nothing about non-practicing entities, or to prevent the sort of thing Microsoft et al have done with Rockstar, essentially paying to license a bunch of questionable patents with the foreseeable effect of giving the non-practicing entity enough cash to create a menace for their competitors.

What could be an interesting solution is to prevent people who want the protection of the mutual license from licensing patents from anyone else under any other terms. So if you want the protection of the license and a patent troll approaches you, your only choice is to either vanquish the troll or buy the patent outright and immunize everyone.

That should mean no more Rockstars at least, and should make life more difficult for trolls because they couldn't license patents anymore, only sell them outright.
I used to agree with Rust approach, assuming the compiler does dataflow analysis to minimize needless refcounting.

Now that the refcounting is also moved to a library, I am not sure.

Or are those types known to the compiler and the respective optimizations applied?
Nothing to say about the article just the fucking font its printed in?
There is so much potential in applying version control to legal and legislative documents. Imagine being able to git blame a bill in Congress.
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coinmarketcap.com indicates that about $36m in btc have been moved around in the last 24h
This reminded me of an idea somebody else had of publishing everybody's votes in a federal or state election to the web. Everybody would get a unique, secret key right after voting with your voting choices. The machine would publish that key and the vote, but not your identity. You would then be able to, in the privacy of your own home, confirm that your vote has not been altered, while keeping your vote secret unless you choose to make your secret key public.

If you can prove you voted a certain way, that's a big problem in itself.
Yes -- the issue was the code was strongly associated with named US persons in the US. If the code appeared outside the uS, it would have been difficult or impossible for any entity complying with US law to make use of that code, and there might have been serious repercussions on the named US people (PRZ, specifically).

The source code itself got posted anonymously before this point (I believe on cypherpunks@toad.com list), but officially exporting it like this was still helpful.

The goals were: staying out of jail but ALSO potentially making money through commercial versions, support, etc. There have been at least 3 incarnations of PGP as a commercial company.
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Frankly, I have nothing but respect for the authors of that paper after reading that comment. Even if they're wrong, which they admit they might be, at least they're working hard to evaluate their hypothesis, and their opponents are a bunch of journalists and internet commenters using terms like "their article is just 'bro science'." Despite the critics' lack of respect, the authors response is polite and informative.
I think the reason we don't do something like that is that an adversary (say, an unethical employer) could require you to provide your secret key to check that you voted a certain way.
They write that it is, at the top of the page.
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Memristors are new technology considering that you can't buy a computer that uses memristors yet.
That's a good list on SO from Johann Strathaus. Thanks for the link. It's unfortunate that after being open for 5 years, having hundreds of up-votes, and 30 answers with several good responses, the question was recently closed on StackOverflow as being off-topic.
It bothers me that they're selling off his assets when, last I heard at least (and please correct me if I'm wrong), he hadn't even gone to trial yet.

As these assets would otherwise be used to fund his legal defense, and he is, as I understand it, only 'allegedly' guilty, he's being unfairly deprived of a lawful defense.

Beyond that, y'know, there is the possibility that they'll find him innocent, and I don't even know what happens then.
IIRC Fred Wilson completely devalued Hulu (like 0 value) stating "it has no rights to any of it's content". Can't find the source at the moment. Anyone know?
It's dropped about 10% since the news.
aIRChat doesn't categorize channels by server (I'm open to ideas of having it do so), for the sake of simply using Foundation's vertical tabs. #https-everywhere is the developer discussion channel on OFTC.
Such duels are often heavily ritualized, they aren't necessarily lacking in rules. The victor doesn't want to kill the opponent, they want to prove their social standing. For example wolves have a submissive signal they can show, that stops a fight in the middle, avoiding serious injury or death. If every such duel ended in a death, the population would quickly shrink.
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Thanks, my bad. Just annoyed that anyone thinks this about cashing out, rather than actual problems at Twitter right now.

I'm not hating; I hope Twitter figures itself out. We need a strong #2 in this space.
In [Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics](http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...), the same authors mention that a computational approach to calculus revealed errors in their own understanding of classical mechanics equations (such as Lagrange's equations), and they introduced new notation to address the problem. It appears that Functional Differential Geometry picks up that idea and runs with it.
One on one unarmed combat quickly goes to the ground, yes.

But in serious group fights, willingness to go to the ground fast is willingness to get killed by someone else's feet.

And as soon as you assume a level of technology that includes pointy sticks, retaining mobility becomes VERY important.
Ah, I should be more clear, my emphasis in part is on pandemic, as in problems of scale. E.g. forget about extreme efforts like flying a pregnant woman from the U.K. to Sweden because the former was out of beds to provide external oxygenation of the blood. The very basics could become rather hard if enough people are hit at any given point in time.

I wasn't aware cytokine storms had moved past the hypothesis stage, but per Wikipedia it sounds like it. Still, treatment of them at scale....

And the other thing is how do you define treatment? Besides Tamiflu and the other neuraminidase inhibitor currently marketed, who's efficacy is very questionable, treatment isn't as I normally define it, it's entirely supportive, including of course zapping secondary bacterial infections.

The 1918 pandemic aspirin poisoning hypothesis is interesting, but I think highly speculative, given all the places zapped that had limited if any aspirin availability, or so I assume for all those Pacific islands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_pandemic_influenza#Devast...
As a trained boxer I just hope I never get in a fight because at the speeds/power I can punch with my wrists will just shatter. Even with huge padded boxing gloves and wrist wraps it takes a month off training before my wrists stop hurting.
"the people that would meet there could go on to do great things together"

+1

I don't think you have to look much further than comments by sama and pg about building YC into an institution that lasts 100 years. It's the network that creates sustaining value. I have no insider knowledge, but this event seems like a great way to expand and grow that network.

Love to see it. Love to see YC continuing to do and try new things.
For those that wonder why: Imagine organized crime saying things like, "You will prove to us that you voted this way, or we will burn down your house".
Yes. Burying now.
Ahh, yes. Your edit makes much more sense.
And about a decade before that we had Chatzilla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatZilla
Standard Operating Procedure. They're not treating this any differently than any other auction. For instance this truck requires a $2070 deposit to bid: http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=41QSCI142190...
How is this an abuse of union power? He made an agreement with a union and then broke the agreement on his own volition.

It's no different than signing a noncompete agreement in exchange for a job, and then violating it.
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Javascript is inherently single threaded. It goes back to it's roots. It would extremely difficult to make it multithreaded. Apps developed in Javascript are heavily asynchronous and avoid blocking for too long because of this limitation. In some ways this is good.

In the right situation, for example in node.js, this discourages anyone from doing anything that would block the single thread handling requests for very long and makes it easier to handle the C10K problem in a much more interesting way (where traditional servers create a thread per request or queue them to handle one by one from a pool, where node does it all from a single thread). In other ways this can be bad it causes (in the case of Node developers) developers to not do a lot of the heavy lifting in Javascript itself and to hand off to native code that can do long hard things that may block on real threads (database queries, persistence backends, file IO).

The thing is that some code is easier to write with threads in mind. If I know there are 4 processes on a system, I can make 4 threads and use effectively use all for processors (potentially) at the same time. This is not really possible with Javascript. This makes heavy apps on a device like the Firefox phone (which is all about Javascript only) that want to could really benefit from using multiple cores impossible to take advantage of them (unless the user uses webworkers).

There are also just an epic amount of legacy with apps that are inherently built around the concepts provided by threads. Javascript is basically becoming the bytecode of the web. Things like ASM.js and emscripten are pushing it this way. But it's not really easy to port all code and fit on a model where threads are not allowed.

Conceptually web workers are more like processes than threads. It's a shitty work around in Javascript since we can't easily have threads without breaking the way Javascript works (which would break the web potentially). That means we have to write code into different processes where everything is isolated. On top of that, you can't share memory and you have to message and marshal data between webworkers. This is awkward and impossible to target from something like emscripten making it near impossible to port something expecting threads exist (theoretically if you have a C app that didn't use threads but different processes, you fit better but this almost never heard of). Most operating systems provide threads (pthreads most often except on Windows).

My solution is to make a scheduler that is used by my fork of emscpriten. All functions use return on call semantics and a "scheduler" in Javascript will decide which function should be called next from a list of virtual thread "stacks" (arrays) or if it should yield to the browser (setTimeout). The "scheduler" is single threaded itself so it's not really "threads" but does make it possible to emulate them for porting from native code.
You're aware that it's possible to make money on an invention without patenting it. First to market advantage, a foothold in the market, continuing brand recognition as the go-to source for that product, a head start on the next round of innovation, increased sales across the industry as the product becomes more valuable to customers, increased sales of complementary products and services, etc.
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I hope Bamberg's books are better than his teaching... (I was a math concentrator..)
> If you want vouchers, you need to fund every child equally...including the fact they may live in the wrong neighborhood. You don't get to say "Too bad, kid, you live in Compton. No one can get you to a good school on time unless we gave you more than every other kid."

I'm not sure if your didn't understand that bit or what the issue is. I'm fine with vouchers as long as they actually cover what is currently provided.

And you are assuming they all live in major cities [hint: 20% of the population is rural/small town america].

Look, your plan requires:
1) Preventing poor kids from eating lunch [because they have no money]
2) Preventing poor kids from having sufficient transportation to get to school in all areas of this country, not just major cities.
2b) You want kids to walk unescorted in terrible, unsafe [your words, not mine] neighborhoods to make it to "better schools".

In reality, my objection is the fact you won't pay for the above which you conveniently and consistently ignore. Instead, you claim you are trying to "help them" while simultaneously starving them and increasing the economic burden on their family to get all students to a good school.

The reality is you cannot magically cut spending and rely on the free market to fix things. If you want services to remain roughly the same, you have to spend roughly the same amount of money regardless of if it is the government spending it in the form of public education or vouchers.

Personally, I think vouchers that provide the same level of service as currently exists in an apples-to-apples way is perfectly fine. The problem is, people like you pretend these services are somehow a complete waste of money servicing an imaginary need. They aren't an imaginary need.

I know poor people who live in a rural area that literally have to cross a lake that is more than a mile across to get to a school that teaches K-12 because it is the only school in the area for about 50 miles in any direction. You pretend such people are imaginary and do not exist to come to your "solution".
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Did you not read the part of how there was no vote?

"The threat can be traced back to a contract drawn up by the AFM two years ago. That contract—which Wintory says wasn't voted on by AFM members—was universally rejected by game makers."

If there was a vote, sure, I could see it being reasonable. Without a vote? Nope.

To address your edit:

Noncompetes are just as vile. "Hey, if you want to stay unemployed you don't have to sign this...just sayin'"

Its the same principle. Its an abuse of power.