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If a lot of people suddenly decide to consume less (as they have since 2008), then they save more. The money they put into the bank is, ideally, productively invested; that investment creates new demand, and then there's no such thing as a demand shortage.

In that model, you would be right. However, that's not what we actually see. Foregone consumption is not automatically channelled to productive investment. If you own a company, you have no reason to invest in increased production capacity if no one will buy your increased output. And why is no one buying that increased output? It's partly an issue of distribution; the wealthy have a lower marginal propensity to consume.

A lot of people and companies actually are sitting on big piles of cash (or other short-term, low-risk investments that don't do much to increase productive capacity). This is part of the reason why interest rates are so low.
I'd like to see a study comparing the happiness of close-knit, tribal, polygamous communities with close-knit, tribal, monogamous communities.

Just to nit-pick - I'm not sure how that study would help you in making your decisions. After all, you are not living in a close-knit tribal community, but in a vast and complex global community. What works in the context of life fifty thousand years ago may very well be disastrous in today's radically different world.

So, what you really need is a study comparing the happiness levels of polygamists and monogamists in today's society, controlling for factors like how deliberate the choice is (as pointed out in the parent comment, some polygamists are so because they can't get a long-term relationship, rather than by choice). I.e. the study referred to in this article - but done properly.

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Which would be an equivalent of pg posting his essay to HN, and then people accusing HNers of cultishness because of that essay.

Hmm... actually, that happens every now and then and is exactly as fair as the accusations against lukeprog and LessWrong.

Also, MIRI was created years after LessWrong.
This is one of the most racist articles I've read in a long time.

But it's the US enemy, so I guess it's okay to write:

"The population at large is, statistically speaking, not very bright. Many are deranged from overuse of alcohol or drugs."

You could easily replace the word "Russian" with the N-word and post this article on some white power blog.
An important skill for entrepreneurs is studying their own unhappiness
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I was thinking about this conflict ( I'm neither Israelian nor Palestinian ) and my personal opinion is that if you have more advanced military forces than your opponent you definitely should take responsibility for all casualties ( civilians and military ).

I think terrorism is the worst thing that takes lives on our planet right now, but I'm not sure the way to fight with it is killing so many people.

I'm keen on covert ops, intelligence, special operations, etc. But when you do massive bombarding of a city with thousands of innocent people I think you are going the wrong way.
Some feedback:

What I'm missing in PC builders at shops is the ability to filter say the motherboard by the features. How do I know if the H61 is better than the G41?

Once I selected an i3 why are you showing me AMD motherboards?

do I even need a graphics card for a motherboard? Would be nice to know that for the cheap computer I want to make for my mother I can use the onboard VGA.
It's not that easy to disconnect yourself from humanity as you make it up to be. Covering your running costs without a steady job is hard and takes planning. Also I don't believe you can get a "house" for 20k anywhere. Maybe a cabin in a forest with no electricity and running water but that doesn't count.

That said, there are tons of people living like that. And claim to be happy with their lives. So either they are lying or your assertion that "everybody works like this" is wrong and some people just doesn't want to be around other people.
If someone who does real business on ThemeForest is threatening you with a DMCA, then they are putting themselves at a huge liability if they file a false claim against you.

Unfortunately, more than likely it's some nobody on the store, trying to get you kicked off. Nothing to lose, everything to gain? I'm sorry you've been wrongly targeted, hopefully it's a misunderstanding and not a shake down.

ThemeForest should let you make your case, then put it back up. If I understand DMCA correctly, if you asset the content is in fact yours, they can safely put it up and keep the safe harbor.
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Do you really, genuinely, believe the problem lies just on one side of this conflict? I'm sure you're smarter than that.
This explains what's going on, I think: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5069752/ios-4-2-webfont-t...
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Really? What makes you believe that the incident a few days ago didn't happen for the exact same reasons?

We do not even know who shot the plane down, but what we do know is that the captain who shot down the Iranian plane received medals and was promoted after the incident.
I see a possible conspiracy theory
wouldn't pilots be usually made aware if they were being escorted for any reason?
Then wouldn't all other airlines come public with this fact?
it is premature baby
Most open source projects do not need a foundation or company patenting things related to the work and acting as a guardian. Why does NuPIC?

The blog post (which is not a legally binding contract in any way) also has this little gem:

"It should be noted that Numenta/Grok holds patents that do not pertain to the algorithms released in NuPIC. We do not view these patents as covered under the GPL, and we reserve the right to use these patents in the normal course of our business."

Assuming this were a legally binding document--which it's not--who would decide which of Numenta's patents are assigned by the GPLv3 and which are not?

I'm happy you are trying to open-source such a cool piece of tech. But this is the patent policy of a company hedging its bets, not a company that's giving something to the world. It leaves Numenta legally in charge of the NuPIC community, instead of letting it evolve, because it's the only entity that can write a GPLv3 on future patents.

At least I can download and play with the GPLv3 version. The old license was so onerous that I didn't want to see the code, lest I open myself to patent liability 10 years down the line for using something kinda sorta like NuPIC.

But I wouldn't build a business on software with this kind of patent policy, and the commercial licenses Numenta sells make me think you'd rather I didn't.
There's nothing illegal about the occupation per se, although it is clearly a bad situation for the local population.

As far as the current conflict is concerned, Israel is one of the more moral armies around. It is fighting against Hamas, which houses weapon stores among densely-populated civilian areas and builds tunnels under civilian areas to launch terror attacks, leaving Israel no choice but to fight among urban populations. As if that were not enough - Hamas tells its own people to ignore Israel's warnings to leave town, because they know that civilians are their best defence. As opposed to occupying, using human shields is actually a crime under international law. See http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter32_..., for instance.
Yeah, but I remember in 1995 and afterwards where Java products popped up and applets appeared in every webpage, and it was truly slow, particularly for paupers still languishing with small amounts of RAM. Anyone remember JBuilder?

Things have probably changed significantly from then, but I do remember it being slow. Compared to today's generation who get frustrated when a webpage doesn't appear within about 3 seconds, they would lose their mind if they were transported back to 1995 (with the general speed of everything being slower).
And yet you're happy to get all the karma from it (as you said on Roi Carthy's FB wall).
A great article, and one worth sharing with colleagues who make their work their entire life.
What are you talking about? Six-figure salaries would never be taxed as corporate income in the first place. Compensation up to a million is a straight-up deduction, no questions asked. You don't need to be a tax-exempt entity to avoid corporate income tax on them.
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Can you provide a tl;dr for your comment? It is unnecessarily long and your point is not clear.
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The problem here is most hardware seems to require blobs so instead of building software for old hardware that you can't buy new anymore why not just build an entirely new piece of hardware?

People wanting to use this will most likely have to buy hardware for that purpose might as well build it from the ground up.

I would certainly buy it and judging by the hype the WRT1900AC got before ending in complete failure a lot of people would be willing to buy the hardware for that end.
Several of the fallacies remind me of the ESP example from "Queer Uses for Probability Theory" [1][2]. Arguments often involve trusting that the proponent is not lying or misleading us, especially when there is a need for experts to interpret complicated data. You might have two initial hypotheses:

* H is false
* H is true

When some actor A introduces new evidence in support of H, there are additional hypotheses that must be introduced:

* H is false, and A is lying
* H is true, and A is telling the truth
* H is true, and A is lying
* H is false, and A is telling the truth

Any evidence that A introduces in support of H equally supports the first two new hypotheses, while any evidence that A introduces refuting H supports the last two. The result is that, depending on your priors on H and on A's trustworthiness, A's evidence might never be able to convince you that H is true. This means that logical fallacies such as the genetic fallacy are not applicable when there is expertise involved.

If we were all experts or had unlimited time and access to the same information as an argument's proponents, then the genetic fallacy would be hugely useful. With real-world constraints on time and information, it's almost always impossible to evaluate an argument separately from its proponent's commitment to truth.

[1] http://omega.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PDF/cc5d.pdf
[2] Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7929203
There is a section "definitions" at the end of the book, which I found helpful. All the words such as "premise" and "sound" are defined there. (Perhaps it would have been better to put it at the beginning of the book.)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/19/world/europe/m...
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I had no idea Paul Graham had made any statements about Israel until this post mentioned it, and I follow HN and Y Combinator daily. So at least to me, it appears PG has kept his views pretty separate from Y Combinator's business.

That said, I just gained a lot more respect for Paul Graham.
As interpol_p says tuples are available. It is also quite possible to return a function or other closure so a generator function is definitely possible.

The return type does have to be defined though so there isn't a way to have a variable return type. I suppose you could return something of "Any" type but would you really want to?
it is like, if you have standup comedian talent , people around you will notice invariably and force you to enter into the arena, similarly if you possess entrepreneurship skill obviously including your family can support you... there you take the first step...otherwise enjoy the world of piece...
OK, if that's the case, it's not good - but how many people did it kill? The Israelis can argue as long as they like that Hamas' actions are the cause, but there's absolutely no doubt that it's Israeli bombs and bullets doing the killing. Even when a "fighter" is targeted, the Israelis may sincerely regret killing 2-3 civilians bystanders as well - but they're undoubtedly innocent civilians killed by Israel all the same.
There was also the proposal to fix the capacity to c=512 among all output sizes and thus reach a security level of 256bit throughout all instances (given the output size is large enough to support the guarantee). Unfortunately this proposal didn't make it to the draft.
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Beta 3 might be half baked. The array semantics are fixed and it crashes far far less. For the first two betas quarter baked was definitely a fair description.
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completely agree,we are facing the similar problem. But Azure provide a minimum viable lab before you take next step towards ML in your company or product stack.
Which was only 7 years after the discovery of the phenomenon of nuclear fission.
Typical mistake. Service price is never based on the costs of development but on a value it creates. You might have extremely expensive IT solution that creates no value to anybody and is worth $0. You might have email-based manually operated business that provides service worth thousands USD.

Postmates creates value both for you and the delivery guy. After all - you used their service for some reason and paid for it right? You get the quality service, delivery guy gets the demand for his services.

Alternatively the delivery guy could develop an app for himself only, put it on the appstore and wait for you to download it. But he would never earn anything this way.
Jake Vanderplas, Olivier Grisel: Exploring Machine Learning with Scikit-learn - PyCon 2014 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjAB45qsx_c
Here is a good resource to learn: http://ios-blog.co.uk/swift-tutorials/
> No-one knows exactly what happened next, or even what was in the other 61 containers,

WHAT?

I imagined every container to have tracking and identification numbers so the owners could know roughly where it is at all times; and so that various government agencies could prevent import of things not allowed in their countries. A quote a bit later on kind of supports that.

> She says the ship's manifest - a detailed list of everything in the containers - shows a whole range of Lego items, not all sea-themed. After all this time "it's the same old things that keep coming in with the tide", particularly after a bad storm.

I'm surprised about how many containers are lost.

> About 120m containers carried on world's oceans in 2013

> 2011 survey by World Shipping Council estimated an average of 675 containers lost at sea each year between 2008-10

> 2014 survey says average annual loss between 2011-13 was approximately 2,683 containers

2,500 containers out of 120m is a small number, but still. How would you design a pinger suitable for shipping containers so that they could be located after being dropped overboard?

EDIT I should have said that this pinger thing is just a thought experiment. Obviously most containers are no lost, and most of the ones that are are not toxic / valuable enough to bother with. (But thanks to the posters below)
This was discussed not so long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826768

CoDel is currently the best solution, its in the Linux kernel for people to play with.
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Too bad they don't start with a router that supports the current 802.11ac standard.
The WNDR3800 is already obsolete.
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Interesting discussion going on here.

We know the Display Port version of Packed Pixels won't suit everybody but the KickStarter is just that, to kick start things. We are working on a HDMI version but this is more complicated (not just on the technical front) and so is unlikely to form part of the KickStarter.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

Oh, and it really is great for gaming!
When I was in the Navy, I knew a guy who had moved half-way around the world between postings. Virtually all of his "household goods" were in a container... that was lost overboard in a storm.

It had happened to him years before I knew him, and he was still having to deal with the paperwork. :(
I tend to agree with you.

"You should be sympathetic to our decision to kill civilians because it's the only way to favorably engage the terrorists!"

seems exactly on-par (morally speaking) with

"You should be sympathetic to our decision to get civilians killed because it's the only way to favorably engage the oppressive occupation!"

It's a prisoner's dilemma through and through. The only way I can see to break the symmetry is to note that one side stands to lose less by appeasing the other.
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Could the trivium be used to successfully teach programming languages?
DFEOJM says the site is up if it is physically contactable -- in this case the site is contactable, and it responds with "this site is down" (but as HTTP/200 because the page still has some content rather than being an server error)
The internet and mobile computing has been an equivalently momentous innovation but it's impact has generally been more indirect and immediate. Future historians will be able to look back and see the impact, but while immersed in it and at some midpoint along the phase change it's much less obvious and noticeable.
I like this idea.

Any links as to how to build your own DNS resolver? I already have some things on my own "cloud", this would be one thing more :)
I second that recommendation. The book can be found for cheap, plus there's even a kindle version if you prefer that format:

http://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Charles-Murray/dp/0976000806/
This application needs userid for many other additional functionality and so has to track who the user is. That has always been the reason why logins are needed in applications. If you just doing a onetime request like a google search then no login is needed. Even a simple blog requires login to track your comments. Thats the way the web goes. Thats until someone comes up with a solution like single-sign-on.
Have Microsoft given their official blessing to the multi-platform ports of .NET then? If not, .NET and associated languages are in the same position as Swift, surely?

Plenty of people write software for Windows using .NET, which happens to be the main fashionable system to use on Windows, and isn't typically popular on Mac OSX. But this does not make .NET rubbish - it just happens to be designed for Windows and isn't natively available on Mac OSX from Apple. Does this make .NET and associated languages "bad" or "not worth learning"?

Just because Mono is available on other platforms thanks to the huge effort from the community does not necessarily mean it would be a good choice to use for a cross-platform product, as the real journey and path of the platform is still in the hands of Microsoft. This is the same as Java used to be. But it didn't stop people writing plenty of software in Java, thanks to the main platforms supported by the Java VM. Did this make Java "not worth learning"?

I suppose Apple doesn't really need to care about making a language for other platforms. From the perspective of developers on Apple platforms, the need for a cross-platform language/system would seem redundant. As other posters have mentioned, the niche Objective-C language has found plenty of developers, and that's typically available on Apple devices (unless you count GNUstep). Does this make Objective-C "not worth learning"?

And remember that just because Swift is on one platform doesn't mean you CAN'T do cool things with it. It just means that you can only do them on one platform. That is in Apple's best interests. Does it really need to be available on every platform to be usable?

For example, they don't serve pizza at my local Chinese takeaway. This doesn't stop the food there from being great. And it doesn't make pizza less delicious when I buy it from elsewhere. But I'd be foolish to complain about the lack of pizza from the Chinese takeaway and refuse to eat the lovely Chinese food they serve there. Chinese food and pizza are both delicious, and they're only available from different places, but that doesn't diminish their taste.

I suppose the witty solution to the problem you face is to just learn C or C++ and do cross-platform stuff with that.
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> Software performance of SHA-3 is unfortunately not very good. The other finalists like BLAKE (or its faster successor BLAKE2), or Skein, are much more viable software contenders (and make excellent tree hashes), and no-one's particularly rushing towards SHA-3 anyway as except for the length-extension attack common to all Damgård-Merkle hashes, the SHA-2 functions seem okay for now

The main reason for the choice of Keccak was not speed but diversity to the SHA2 family. Which is consistent with the motivation to start with the contest in the first place: It was feared that SHA2 would fall soon after the cryptanalytical advances against MD5 and SHA1 were published. As such Bruce Schneier, being one of the authors of Skein, did welcome the decision for Keccak:

> It's a fine choice. I'm glad that SHA-3 is nothing like the SHA-2 family; something completely different is good. - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/keccak_is_sha...

A few days earlier he wished the outcome to be "no award" with pretty much the same argument you gave: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/sha-3_will_be...

> I am not entirely satisfied with the SHAKE XOF functions, as they didn't specify SHAKE512(M,d) = KECCAK[1024](M || 1111, d) but instead the weaker SHAKE256 and SHAKE128. Those functions won't have a problem now, but I don't think they hold up to post-quantum well enough for use with, say, Merkle signatures.

As I have written above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8062952 ) even a security of 256bit is astronomically high. What attacks do you have in mind that will more than half the strength of the hash function? And in any way, you do have SHA3-512 for exactly this high capacity requirements. The choice of the SHAKE values was part of a compromise to allow implementations to use the smaller capacity that SHA3-512 did not offer in case you need larger output sizes.
> The corporation isn't something that arises from the natural order of the universe. It's an arangement designed by the government.

I sort of disagree. The effects of governments are secondary, akin to trimming a hedge. Corporations look exactly like what happens when you have people getting more and more powerful and people who they rule also rule another people. I don't think it's a coincidence that corporations look a lot like feudal societies.
Its relatively punishing also to be poor and follow your passion. Then the opposing end is also punishing to be I've heard. And then some where in the middle there are people who envy with either end of spectrum and they think they would be happy with the end they see while telling them self that they cannot be happy before getting the benefits of being at the point in the spectrum they envy, while not realizing that they are in a nice point in the spectrum of trade offs. People want what they don't have and ignore the trade offs the others had to pay for it.
> How many friends do you sleep in the same room with, wake up to, go to work with, and have fun with? None, right? The thing is, that situation was the norm for most of humanity.

I do not like the idea of sleeping in the same room as other people on a regular basis and in general being around them most of the time. I need some privacy or else I get cranky.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
Well, I've gone with Percona to power an ecommerce site I'm responsible for. Definitely faster than a vanilla MySQL installation. So they use XtraDB on top of InnoDB for greater performance, and so far, it's been going good.