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The "top" of society will eventually have no purpose or strength. That may be sooner than even they expect. Technology commoditizes a lot of expert skills quickly even today. Some with great success are finding their skill sets are no longer valid much like kings and princes did in the past.

Start viewing the future as post-human. This is a future where humans are no longer the agents driving economic forces -- any more than other primates are today. Humans conceivably could live alongside sustainably. Or they may go extinct. James Lovelock's most recent book "A Rough Ride to the Future" presents the option of non-biological life continuing on an earth with a climate that no longer supports human life. He does so in the most optimistic way I have heard described. Optimistic, because he previously considered climate change likely to kill all life on earth.

All of this assumes that we do not have a "Great Filter" looming ahead where machine intelligence is totally incompatible with any form of replicating life.
You can give it to your friends since all you have is a license to use the source-code under different conditions. It's the same source either way, just you have a special license. Your friends don't have that license and so presumably would be bound by the LGPL.
"as it is jeopardising his livelihood" -- So if a monkey hadn't taken a selfie, he'd be starving and homeless.
I'm not sure why there would be anything illegal about charging a card so early (in any jurisdiction I'm familiar with, at least) but it's certainly considered bad practice where I am and the related payment services would likely not be happy if they knew it was happening, not least due to the high risk of chargebacks.
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Thanks, I didn't know about microMIPS.
I read about and was surprised by the LWMx(Load Word Multiple) instruction which doesn't seem in the RISC spirit at all..
That's funny, I think that ARM with its v8 ISA (64bit registers) dropped a similar instruction which it had before.
Yikes! Thanks for sharing.

It's a bad sign for the crypto community that the market doesn't demand better terms. You can debate price forever but nobody should argue for misaligned incentives.

I'd prefer projects like this go one step further and destroy the bitcoin invested up-front. It doesn't make sense to do ex post (now in this case), but ex ante it signals a commitment to the new coin and a genuine bet on its future value.

Full disclosure: I hold some bitcoin, so other people destroying theirs might benefit me ever so slightly :)
After years of trying to force things in various languages and frameworks (like MVC ala Struts on top of WebForms), I've learned this simple thought: don't kick against the bricks; they don't care and you'll get hurt. If you're in Ruby, program idiomatic Ruby. If you're in Python, program idiomatic Python. If you're in PHP, get a new language.
Yep, time to bring out burqas in the Western world, don't you think?
Sure complimenting someones beauty scares the shit out of them .
Two separate things:

1) The Qt source code. Available under GPL, LGPL or commercial license

2) Some extra proprietary addons. Only available under the commercial license.
Wireshark doesn't use MySQL or any other SQL backend. I'm not sure what sort of dependency chain would trigger the installation of MySQL but it's unusual to say the least.
I think that art would remain the thing that humans alone can produce - good tasting food (the production can be automated, but not generating a recipe) - music - entertainment...

In my theoretical future, capitalism will still exist, and we'll still trade and buy things from one another, we just won't need to do so for our basic needs, only for our entertainment desires...
Zillabyte radically simplifies the process of setting up a web crawler. More and more data-minded developers and marketers are looking to create custom data sets from the open web and these kinds of components combined with ZBs infrastructure will make it much faster and easier to roll your own big data. One to watch.
I think there's an important difference between CQRS/ES and Datomic, namely that Datomic is actually "just" a persistent data structure (in both CS senses of the word).

In CQRS/ES you don't usually want to store the state as such, you just store all the logical events which lead to a certain state. While the Datomic approach is certainly valuable for certain scenarios if you want to query historical data, it's less so if you want to know why something looks the way it currently does (in terms of the domain).

(At least that's my understanding of Datomic, I may be mistaken.)
King of Kong was heavily edited to the point of being misleading.
Or maybe it was a sincere compliment? If Lori was a bodybuildier, maybe Day would have said "And I must say, she's also the strongest."

I'm also not sure how calling someone pretty objectifies them.
Good point. I had forgotten about the massive amount of debt most doctors find themselves in.
That is simply staggering. I can barely get through one pass of the deck in 37 seconds.

Was that with three-card flip or one-card?
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Almost certainly a packaging error where Wireshark depends on Qt and Qt includes all modules, including QtSql.
Digia is doing the same thing Nokia did, which was the same thing Trolltech did. The only difference is that, since the Nokia takeover, the open source version is also available under LGPL. This has not changed under Digia.
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Typically ecstasy is MDMA pressed in pill form together with an amphetamine, although as you noted MDMA is often changed out for some other 'research chemical' that is cheaper to source, and sometimes very dangerous.

Yet another obvious reason to legalize all recreational drugs...
People may not work less (I don't think people are working more), but both working condition and nature of work greatly improved. That is, work is more enjoyable now than in the past.

According to some economists, this is the primary reason why work hours has not declined as expected.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/07/the...
Depends on what that other co-worker is doing. If you are both aligning buttons on a windows form, sure. If the person being interrupted has 10 minutes of debugging state in her head, well, there goes over 1/2 hour of work (10 minutes to build that state, 10-15 minutes to recover from the interruption, another 10 to get back to where you were).
As a Microsoft employee, I assure you that the problem here is not that Microsoft criticism is unpopular on HN. That is just hilarious. I can't even think of a thing that's more popular to bash on HN than Microsoft.
i really hope this is sarcastic, but either way, it's still a perfect example of what is wrong with feminism
They've sacrificed their core of users who supplied all of the checkins and tips in order to try to kill Yelp. Problem was, only those loyal users were ever convinced that they were better than yelp.

Now that they've chosen the foursquare name, which is synonymous with checkins, for their Yelp clone, it seems like they haven't thought out...

1. If the checkin users leave because Swarm is stupid and eliminates everything fun (mayorships, badges, reading all the tips without going to another app, seeing who else is checked in besides your friends), who is going to keep supplying them with behavioral data? Not casual users, who won't open the app and show their location at all until they're looking for a recommendations. In terms of data, casual users are takers, while the check-in users are givers.

2. Foursquare super users (their community of people who applied for edit privileges on the venue data) are probably all avid check-in users. Without them, junk venues and spam may overwhelm.

3. How do they really expect to attract enough users who want to use the new foursquare now that the app is a completely different thing? What's their differentiator from Yelp? To me it just seems like it's Yelp but with shorter reviews. Everyone who didn't use foursquare before because they hated check-ins isn't going to even know they killed check-ins and will still stay away.

I think this whole plan might have had a chance if they'd left foursquare alone as their data generator, and launched a new app with a new name for their Yelp clone. At least then they'd have a new chance to introduce themselves and try to attract the mass audience they're going for.
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I particularly like the async style stuff because I can go read back through what is effectively an audit trail and figure out how something happened. It's a nice alternative to heavier-weight up-front design and documentation, especially for small teams.

Then, sometimes, you have cases like yesterday where CTO comes in at the end of the day, reads a chat log, and flips out because he thinks we're going to rewrite his garbage co^H^H^H^Hprecious baby. Some nuance can be lost just skimming over chat histories.
I suspect it will involve handing over a lot of money to lawyers to figure this one out.
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Sorry; wasn't trying to make that point at all. Instead, I was agreeing that I also was surprised with how much bandwidth Twitch takes up.
I see a darker future ahead:
From a totally cynical but rational and economic perspective I think human labour is cheaper than any machine workforce for many tasks. We reproduce and maintain ourselves, we just need some water and food. We are very flexible and can adapt to any task very quickly. No need to order spare parts made from expensive raw materials. Human labour is only expensive because we have civil rights and we tend to riot if we are treated badly. Take away these two factors and you have a cheap labour army that's getting bigger by itself.

We are also limited by the capacity and architecture of our brains. A.I can rely on Moore's law, or quantum computers to benefit steadily from better hardware. Therefore I conclude that the most successful agents in our economy will be of A.I. The enterprises behind them might still have a human executer, smiling all charmingly, but A.I. will be in control.
This is just a random thought, but it does occur to me that a lot of effort is expended in discouraging guys from objectifying women, but little to no effort is expended in doing sort of the opposite: encouraging women to objectify guys.

I've never really thought about it before, but maybe the most natural solution is to just level the playing field rather than trying to get a big group of people to stop doing something that they more or less naturally do. We're definitely seeing this happen with celebrities and big budget movies, for instance. Nobody's stopped objectifying women, but they have started objectifying men more than ever before, at least as far as I can tell. I've heard more about Chris Pratt being hot this week than I have about any female celebrity, for instance, including his female costar Zoe Saldana.
I deal with security and web site performance. If you can do for scraping what Akismet has done for spam on WP, then you have a great product.

Aside from e-shops, forums (VB, PHPBB, etc) also have a lot of scraping for forum meta-sites and cross-posting.
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one option that is common with small business owners is to approach an employee of the company about buying the business.

there are lots of ways to structure such a transaction. a common way is seller financing, where the seller receives a small down payment, in kind, on the purchase price. the balance due is then paid monthly (or quarterly) to the seller over some period of time (with or without interest, depending on the contract).

ether way, an attorney should be used to draft the contract and make sure all possible "gotchas" are covered (ex. the business goes bankrupt during the payment period). a lien on the buyer's home or other valuable asset is commonly used to protect the seller during the repayment period.
nothing about the actual efficiency of the system? aren't wireless chargers pretty inefficient to start with? I for one would love this to hit mainstream and be a norm for gadgets... also, how would this affect bats or dogs?
Let's move. Where should we go? - The last question is the bigger problem, than realising that we actually all should. So, where?
Sounds like scaremongering to me. Chinese powers/oligarchs act here quire rationally. Protecting and promoting their own industries has paid them well so far (e.g. movies, car manufacturing, e-commerce/web).

Will that hurt 'international trade'? Yes. Will this cause another Cold War? No.
One might want to add: There are not "native" controls under X11 (and I guess also Wayland). There Qt is as native as any other toolkit.
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You only pass 4 out of 5 of our own test :P.
It is not exactly smart thing to say, it may be slightly annoying too, but it is far from objectifying a female.
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Of course it is a legitimate concern, just as tainted food products from China are a legitimate concern, but they are not a big enough concern to warrant the absolutely massive economic risk the new Chinese leaders are taking.

Trade wars collapse nations, and this is how they begin. Tit-for-tat escalates quickly, and it is unfathomably reckless for a country that is dependent upon exports to ban products from the largest importer of its goods.
Or a move from Digia to prepare a sale - it's much easier to sell something like QT if you also include all the relevant developers in one nice package.

Or maybe it's a way to insulate Digia from losses resulting from QT operations, who knows?

I have to say I'm happy they'll review the installer though; ever since they started packing their own compiler, I got the feeling things became a bit more chaotic than they were.
Some of those general "entities" you speak of are composed of smaller entities. Trade (e.g. of labor) will occur between those smaller entities.

Where there exists scarcity and a differential in value, trade will occur. Now, of course, that says nothing about the people that have nothing of value to trade with. But I'd argue that everyone has something to trade, it just might be of very low relative value. Even in such a scenario they'll trade with their peers.

No matter what scenario of this dystopian future I play out in my head, I always find equilibrium. The key is not to attempt to fix it, but to have base rules that apply to all and will mean basic safety for all. You can't guarantee a peachy life for everyone. Most people just want to play meddling Deity with government money and violence, to suit their own personal ideals and prejudices. That is why I'm an anarcho-capitalist; because it makes everyone absolutely equal and everyone absolutely free to make their own way in life without intervention.
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I imagine you could solve this problem by working remotely with companies in the US or Bay Area.
Remote working engineers are paid for their performance on the "remote market". So you don't compete with engineers in SF but worldwide. Maybe you will have a different salary than a engineer in SF, but it doesn't matter if you live in Austin or in Auckland.
Protectionism is rational in the same way robbery is rational: only if you can get away with it. And in both cases, the odds are low.

"Protecting and promoting their own industries has paid them well..."

Protectionism has paid certain members of China's elite very well at the extreme expense of the firms that could actually produce the goods most efficiently.

Many of those would-be producers are Americans, and if you think the automotive industry, Hollywood, and SV haven't been howling for retaliatory sanctions for years, you would be very wrong. See e.g. the blacklisting of Huawei gear from US government IT systems.

Further protectionism strengthens their hand, and if they get their way, we have open breakdown in trade. That isn't "scaremongering." It is simple fact, confirmed by countless historical examples.

The new Chinese leaders are like a man standing on the edge of a cliff saying "Well, every step I've taken thus far in this direction has moved me closer to my goal. Why shall the next be any different?"
Until now revolution have pitched humans against other humans. And in most successful revolution, at one point, the police/army refuses to shoot on the protestors anymore. (or oust themselves the current head of state)

I don't necessary have a really bleak view of the future, but I wonder what would a revolution would looked like with a robotized police. You could hope that at one point someone on the loyalist side would press the robot kill switch.

But taking today's world as an example, I wonder what would Assad or Gaddafi would have done with an army of robots.
Zillabyte allows even fairly non-technical types like me to extract information from the largest repository in history -- the web. I'm a non-traditional user of the tool, but have found it's application for social science researchers to be one of adding an extra dimension to my information set. Thank you Zillabyte.
No mention of safety at all.

A system like this is going to have at least the energy density of sunlight and that transfers enough heat into your body you can feel it.

I'd be particularly concerned if the thing somehow shot a beam right at your eyes, which are the thing most vulnerable to damage from internally generated heat (i.e. microwaves)
Now, if only the Chinese started doing the same: http://io9.com/academic-fraud-in-china-is-getting-out-of-han...
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I know, that signature check really only applies if you are buying long lived certs as otherwise it'll be updated in your next renewal (which is the situation we're in).

Though, you're probably right that I should upgrade it sooner (see, the scanner is working and forcing people to upgrade - including myself).
> Presumably, even with a fully automated infrastructure, there would still be a human-run corporation at the top, otherwise why would they bother creating the system at all?

IMO you're looking at the system before it reaches an endgame.

Investing in automation is a rational decision to reduce costs & increase profits, so companies are going to make that choice. As automations continue to improve more and more jobs will be eliminated in order to continue increasing profits.

But as jobs are eliminated the people that used to do the jobs are still there - still wanting to earn money to feed and clothe their families. And as they don't have jobs, they don't have money, so corporate profits begin to suffer.

The system will eventually reach a tipping point. I just hope we end on the side of "we run the machines and distribute their output for the good of the people" rather than "we run the machines, keep their output, and give the people worthless scrip".

>If the automation is truly self-sustaining and self-contained, in essence, a complete AI economy in and of itself, then perhaps the "cost" comes in the burden of including humans at all?

Hopefully our robot overlords would see it as an opportunity, rather than a cost.
I was just trying this out on some different sites. www.amazon.com got 2/5. I tried www.whitehouse.gov and it didn't work. I went to check it and it appears their certs aren't set up properly on the CDN they are using (akamai.net). Embarrassing!
They're completely banned on the Autobahn and even on normal roads all ads have to be approved.
Hey Daniel: Looks pretty cool, and like something I'd want to listen to. Only thing is: I have no idea what the content will be like. It'd be good to have a summary of discussion before I dive into 70 minutes of listening.

I like listening to Keith, but the bit about discussing "strange thoughts" made me unsure of what the content would be like.
Oh wow, how fun. I learned something today; thanks!
Apparently not all of it, there are some non-free addons not available under a free license.
A decade or so ago, a friend of mine and I were living out of hotel rooms in Italy whilst we were waiting to rent a flat and find jobs. We were running low on funds and were struggling to find ways to entertain ourselves (and it was January and the weather was terrible - six inches or more of snow on the ground for several weeks). With nothing much else to do, and no wifi in the hotels, we took to a supremely healthy life of smoking Camels, drinking cheap beer, and playing Marble Blast Gold in our hotel room on my G4 iBook.

We finished the game pretty quickly and then became hopelessly obsessed with shaving fractions of seconds off our best times on the easier levels; we were both supremely competitive people (and averagely well coordinated, I guess) and this went on for two or maybe three weeks until we found somewhere to live, got Internet access, and had some meaningful form of employment. We hardly played it after that.

A few years later, I looked online and found some sites with high-scores; ours were, on certain levels (the ones we'd really cared about), by so far the best in the world it was pretty funny.
It just feels slightly overwhelming, because it's bloody massive. There's a huge amount of power packed in those interminable lists of methods and properties... So much power inevitably comes with a few quirks.
You mean he didn't just tell you to go read Beej's guide [0]?

Joking aside, I really enjoy reading Cloudflare's blog posts. I know they don't just pop into existence without some serious effort. Thanks for taking them seriously.

[0] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
plenty of opensource-but-with-enterprise-offerings do the exact same thing, with high levels of success (although I can't think of any examples of this off the top of my head)
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Especially enjoyed your thoughts on burnout. Sometimes I read articles like these about startups and startup founders and find it hard to relate, but burnout is something we all struggle with when we work on one thing for too long. I'm motivated to find my reasons for lack of enthusiasm and motivation of projects that used to thrill me. Look forward to future updates!
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> They use some native controls on X11

They are native controls on X11. Or, more accurately, X11 has no native controls. The closest is probably XAW, which is so awful it was dropped decades ago. There are QT themes that will use GTK for rendering, though.

(For reference, a screenshot of XAW: http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/halama/_13595_figure4289.gif The box with 'Athena Simple Widgets' is what is provided by X11.)
I'd only seen that before on my mobile. It's a much better experience on a desktop machine. Thanks so much! :-)
I agree, but sadly this is something that on-line course organizers rarely consider.
Why pay for this when there are OSS/Libre tools that do this for the proper cost of $0?
Supports multi-touch as well.
Twitter just dropped a huge hint that it will introduce shopping services
Oh boy.. can't wait till my 12 yrs old kid hears about this!
* So much for my "stop playing games all day long" ranting..