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The idea I had, before the end of the story, was that the aliens were electronic (robots with AI).

Perhaps their far back robot ancestors made by an ancient "meat" civilization, but them having forgotten all of that after millions of years...

>Meat is a term used to denote food, not a life form type.

Actually meat just means meat. It's not just a word for a food, it's a specific kind of organic "substance".
That's true, but they also are very selective and pay very little of the actual profits to the author. My project will help any author, even those with the standard publisher, but it's really aimed at finding the good writers from the flood of newly "published" authors on Amazon. There's so much noise due to the sheer number of self published authors it's really hard to find anything. It's like the Netflix problem, you spend all your spare time going through looking for something by the time you find it, you don't have free time anymore.
To be fair: reference counting is a garbage collector.
Sooo many upvotes for the Thundarr reference. That cartoon blew my mind as a kid.
At this level of evolution for the aliens it would be obivous that intelligence can come in different forms but the basic process is the same and mostly irrelevant.
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I second this. My grandfather died from colon cancer a few years ago. He refused to go see a doctor even when he knew something was very wrong. Hope you get the treatment you need.
and whitespace ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_langu... ) - and it was developed by Chris Morris ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_%28satirist%29 )
To be fair it did catch my attention as well, it´s just uncommon.
Nor France :)
Unikernel: yes, that's what the article mostly describes.

Microkernel: yes, though strictly speaking you'd use rump kernels for the servers in a microkernel OS. (that was actually the first use case back in 2007)

There are multiple example implementations for the hypercall interface ("rumpuser") at http://repo.rumpkernel.org/

You can find full details from http://book.rumpkernel.org/ (it's a bit out of date in describing what has been built using rump kernels, but the parts describing basic functionality are accurate).
Ooh, thanks for the tip - that was really good. http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Reading the comments, it's some sort specific and narrow IP-block.

Just tried it be remoting into my relatives' computer (in Moscow) and it works just fine.
What kind of size reduction do you see in file size for typical sites? Does gzipping mean you don't see much improvement?
OpenJDK should still be available from your distro's repositories.
A postmodern waste receptacle from Ikea, perhaps?
Personally, I wouldn't vote for a change. Less counting of rollovers is fine with me these days.
Sorry, but I'm still not letting you out of the box.
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The point is to satirize intelligent lifeforms less than 9 light-minutes from Sol, who think "alien" and immediately think "A bipedal humanoid with colorful skin and Buddhist-by-way-of-Native-American spiritual practices."
The original founder Erik Voorhees was American but has since sold the site for 126k BTC and now lives in Panama. A few months prior to selling the site US IP addresses were banned due to legal concerns.

The bigger legal issue, so far, besides the gambling and the one they actually got in trouble for was for selling unregistered securities to the investors. He got a 15k USD fine for that.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2014/33-9592.pdf
Frankly, this is better than what is normally submitted to HN for things like this. Usually it's a web page about someone talking about how deep links in apps mean better engagement, offer up a blog post of the top 10 reasons... on the company blog for a company that tries to sell this very service.
Oh No no no! That does sound like a "a defense of the theocratic monsters that run Iran"!

Remember that Iran has suppressed dissidents who question how the rich 1%, the banks and corporations run the country!

Those monsters in Tehran have preemptively attacked other states and destroyed their infrastructure! Iran has occupied territory and is killing civilians indiscriminately! Even bombing schools and hospitals!

Also they support various dictators in the World like Saudi Arabia in the ME. And they helped neo nazists take power in Ukraine. Oh god the evil. And I'm barely touching the surface.

The only thing they have going for them is that they accept homosexuals. Which we all know is the litmus test for a free and non-monstrous regime.
That would perhaps be even more interesting!
Maybe people aren't reasonable.
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its amazing how similar "microservices vs monolithic" is today

history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes
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Sweet.

I wish there was a HN for short stories.
I think you've missed the point. If your parents are intelligent and motivated, having a strong work ethic, and yet have still failed to make ends meet and establish a fulfilling life then the indications are that no matter how hard you work you can still fail. This can look at lot like "you will still fail".

So you say to your kids, work hard at school, et cetera, but what's the backing? "Didn't you work hard, Daddy?". "Well yes, but greedy bankers gambled and lost and caused a recession that made our company fail and we lost everything ...".

If a child's primary example contradicts a lesson then it's a lot harder to justify that lesson for them.
Among other things

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-...
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It's probable, but in real life people, most of them at least, stay reasonable. Why is it so different on the Internet?
Is it only because of the social rules that we are gentle IRL?
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Something being transparent and people being exploited is not contradictory.

If someone needs food because he is starving and you make him a (trasnparent) proposition to, say, have sex with you in exchange for food, he is still being exploited.
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No DOM/CommonJS module dependency.
Implements most of URLUtils and Node.JS URL interface.
Lacks URLUtils.searchParams, URL.slashes.
see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLUtils
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No, it is entertainment. It's not at all theft in any way, shape or form. You may not enjoy it, and that's fine. But other people do enjoy it.

Can be said for many other things too. Including things that are outright illegal, heinous and criminal. Slippery slope and all that.
Clock Frequency != Speed.

Otherwise we would still be using (very cheap) Pentiums IV.

In a way, it's a testament to human ingenuity that CPUs have kept improving they way they have when the brute force way of increasing performance was not as viable as before.
What are the limitations on free and open source software? Are GitHub or Linux repository operators obligated to stop downloads from Russian IPs? Or does Oracle have some special relationship with the USG?

BTW, I can envision a future headline from NYT Upshot like How the embargo on grains, apples, and Java led Russia to become a computer science powerhouse.
Immortal meat? Are you expecting me to believe there can be meat that lives forever, without refrigeration?
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Why don't you talk to joshkaufman about that "not providing any links" business, huh? But you don't, because you have a selective perception - what you do agree with does not need verification, apparently.

Here's a link for you:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/amazon-seeks-fifty-perce...

Now about "childish": calling things what they are is indeed the adult way. You've been childish. And in your last post, you've also been cynical ("At least have the decency…"). Both are very bad traits. Please grow up.
If Java isn't asking obtusively to update itself every week and every time trying to install that damn Ask Jeeves toolbar, that would actually be nice.

Oracle's Java is high maintenance considering how few applications I have on my desktop / browser that use it.

I wish I could charge Oracle for my time that I spend updating Java all the time. I bet the total human time spent on manually running that updater is obscene when multiplied by the millions of computers it is on.
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Maybe it's because it's not face to face. Think of how awful people are in traffic, and many of those same people would never say or act that way in a movie line or a meeting.
This is just a re-hash of "get out of the building." Good advice, but still, nothing new...
Additional, the beaglebone black is a nice board too ... but unfortunately there has been upwards of six months with no supply.

I did see an announcement of a feature-limited clone, but it's not appeared on my radar since.

If you still have your sights on a cubieboard, take a look at cubian ... a debianish distro.
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iOS has better usability on this, but Android's permissions are still far more detailed and fine grained. If Android adopted some of iOS user control features, which seems to be happening [1], it would be almost perfect.

I definitely agree that Android's user interface is a problem, and that transparency is hindered because of these changes. Nonetheless, a user can still know what an app can do to a degree of detail far exceeding other systems. Android's technical capability here exceeds other platforms, so let's hope they'll make it usable soon.

[1]: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/exclusive-android-l-lo...
I used to get these notices in Cuba when I worked there for a few months.
I think this looks great. However, even in his simple example comparing Roda and Sinatra the code ends with 7 'end's. I can imagine how deeply nested a non-simple app can be. In my experience, the deeper you get in your nesting - the more complicated the code is to read.
> Actually meat just means meat. It's not just a word for a food, it's a specific kind of organic "substance".

Unless it refers to food, you'd usually see the word "flesh" instead of "meat". Or, depending on how specific you were being "muscle tissue", or "fatty tissue".
>I don't see how the publishers are evil in that situation. //

[Some made up numbers!]

The paperback costs $10. The publisher removes virtually all the direct production costs of creating the book itself (but obv. not the author, editor, type-setting, marketing and such which remain the same or lower). The publisher puts up the price of books because, hey, why use technology to open access to arts and information when you can use it instead to increase the wealth gap.

Yes, as I indicated, there may be extra utility in ebooks and that enables them to increase the price. But, with no price increase they still make more profit.

Yes, it's just capitalism; it's evil.
The only limitations are the ones applied by the US government. You cannot download lots of things from Cuba, Iran, Syria and North Korea. And now Russia, but you can still buy Russian gas.

The irony is that most of this started when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, while she was championing free and open internet. But her own department "somehow" had different ideas.
What a long read. But an interesting story!
Great podcast certainly, and I found it much more enjoyable than the short film adaptation mentioned higher in this thread.

I also liked the story on The Truth about the beings who discovered the Voyager 1 record (http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2014/5/14_Voyager_F...). Although the 'aliens' in that story were far too human and contemporary to take seriously, it worked as a great examination of how our civilization would react to a similar discovery. Although, like many Truth episodes, the light improv style works only well enough for it to be enjoyable. I much prefer their scripted and adapted stories.
I think it's obvious that a startup's culture is heavily influenced by its founders, I think the more subtle point is that a culture is more affected by the things they do than the things they say, though if they say one thing and do another that clash can sadly cause huge amounts of damage. Being coherent, cohesive and clear are absolutely key to not messing people about at the early stages I think.
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Is the book any good though? Us Non-US users would be interested to know.
Agree, however haven't found any problems with it. Isn't the point of minimalist framework is to avoid feature creeps with each iteration? Realistically it's a simple CSS framework.
The entire source code and hardware must be disclosed. If the binary does not completely match the official binary, then the machine is not compliant.

It is more than just black box testing.
This in general is my issue with books about (learning) any subject; there are a lot of beginners books and web sites and there are a lot also of specialized books that go into details but there are few or no good intermediate books (to start the mastery after the basics). I find that the famous books that people always bring up are precisely in this category.
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The skepticism is very substantiated. Read John Baez' posts maybe? Or the Paper in question?
It may seems obvious, but it is extremely hard to accomplish. It is easy to convince yourself that you are so busy building other things (product, company culture, brand, marketing strategy, vision, etc.) and you forget to talk with the customers.

Being busy with day-to-day activities is a major reason why large companies fail to innovate.

Always good to get a reminder to talk with the customers.
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> The whole point of GC is to create a situation where you don't have to think about allocations!

I would say for most uses, that's true. For high performance code, it's not. You have to be aware of your allocations on the fast path whether you are using malloc, GC, or something else. Schemes used in C++ to reduce allocations with malloc (which is slow as dirt) also work in Go.

Let's get real here for a second. A maximum pause of 10ms is one-third of your frame budget at 33fps. If you reduce the garbage you're generating it won't even be that much. I don't see how that makes it a show stopper for games.

At the same time, I don't see how it's a great language for games either. Go is slow at calling into C, like 2000 cycles slow. And to do any kind of work with with the cpu vector units, you need to call into C. That seems to be a bigger issue than the GC in my opinion. Rust seems much better suited for games, and I would expect to see some triple A titles using the language once it's more mature.
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by assuming these alien beings would react exactly how human's would

This is a tangent, but Peter Watts's brilliant novel Blindsight deals with this issue (among many others). Describing how would unfortunately ruin a key plot point.

He uploaded the whole novel to his website: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm but in my view it's more than worth getting in paper: http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640 .
Interesting article, and while I never really believed sensationalist headline I don't doubt that there are huge caches (100's of millions) of stolen U/P's being privately stored and exploited. The value of such lists drastically decreases if they become public.

Also while the story and coverage might be bullcrap it's increasing the awareness of security online. After my parents saw the story on the news they phoned me up and I got them set up with LastPass, so now they can finally stop using the same 6 digit [a-z0-9] password everywhere.
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well, or the poo would be all over us....
I remember when OpenBSD decided to add it to their kernel.
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130401070038

Yes, I know, shhh.
Because it's close to impossible to build a functional bomb without testing it. And since they haven't tested one, everyone assumes that they don't have one. And if they do, why would they NOT test it,to show everyone that they are not bluffing? Basically, the theory is based on the assumption that if they had a bomb, they would have demonstrated it to the world.
I suspect, though I could be wrong, that the Chris Morris who worked on Whitespace at Durham is this guy - https://www.dur.ac.uk/cis/about/person/?id=4018 and is not the famous comedian, though I personally have never seen them in the same room at the same time.
That's a lot to read, but the gist of it seems to be that this guy doesn't care for Brian Krebs. Who is this anonymous writer? Does this person have some sort of credibility other than the four posts on this blog?

For what it's worth, one of the other four posts is a complaint about Ryan Block's customer service call with Comcast.
It's gotten worse than that for my VM. Every time the updater asks and I oblige, instead of updating, it just flat out crashes now.

It's hard to believe, but they have broken an updater.
Gosh : many of these are just as scary. Wouldn't it still be useful to have the screen taken, compare it with previous years, and see if anything changed? If you've got a change, then, you could start asking why?
This cannot come fast enough! Now if we can just figure out how to force xp and vista users to upgrade my life will get A LOT easier!
What about level of non ionizing radiation the cat is exposed to? Cats head is always in near field of antenna, seems a bit harsh to the cat.
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Yep, this is all a show for Black Hat, and with many more interesting topics to discuss, it's sad that this bullshit caught the attention of the media as the lead story. At RSA 2014, the lead topic was the role of government, its link with industry, and the ethics of omnipresent spying. All I've heard from BH as an outsider to that conference is "Well, there have been a lot of compromises over the years, and some Russian group gathered them all up to make it a big number."

A tl;dr for the article's tl;dr: This is not a big thing; the list is largely outdated; there's no new breach; if it were a big deal, than more than just some salesman at BH would be screaming about it.
I was going to comment on Blindsight.

It is a brilliant, brilliant piece of work. Certainly, the most 'alien' lifeform description I've ever seen. Even though he draws from his background a bit, so it still bears some superficial similarity to earth lifeforms.
wouldn't that break causality ? because light / information would still travel in 'C space'.
There is good research that indicates that the bottleneck in electronic bank theft is finding the endpoints that are irreversible (think ATMs). Doubling the amount of stolen credit cards wouldn't come anywhere close to doubling the amount of money stolen out of the system.

With Bitcoin, every marginal theft adds 100% to the total Bitcoin thefts.
This advice also applies to business development, fundraising, and generally closing deals. It's easy to stew and agonize over an email draft for days and even easier for the recipient to ignore or blow past your key message once you've sent it. Just pick up the damn phone and close the deal.
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Not sure where you got this from but it's completely incorrect.

There are zero plans from the Android team to support Go today.
Scalzi is arguing that the packaging is the important thing, not the contents, which is a funny thing for an author to argue. Because if the content is the important thing, then there is now a system that delivers the exact same thing more efficiently. We, as consumers, should definitely push to benefit from that efficiency with lower prices. To do otherwise would be irrational.

Aside from being a straw-man, Scalzi's just wrong. We pay less for a soda at the fountain than we do in a bottle. That's the comparison that should be made. When you buy Coca-Cola, you are buying more than just the raw ingredients processed. Otherwise you'd be buying Store Brand Cola.
I see MirageOS as an OCaml Machine, it doesn't let you develop applications within itself in the way that a Lisp Machine does but maybe that doesn't make sense for OCaml.
The credit card companies don't actually don't give up part of their 3%. Chargebacks are up to the merchant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargeback_fraud.
> Who is this anonymous writer?

Indeed. Who is "freshyill"? Sounds fishy to me.
you could well be right. infact, i'll go as far as saying you are right. i learned something today.
I struggle with this constantly. I was a Bourbon Neat[0] (grid via mixins) user for a while, but lately I've really enjoyed the PureCSS[1] grid which uses classes. Mixins feel more "correct" but classes are just so darn easy.

0 - http://neat.bourbon.io/

1 - http://purecss.io/
Current versions of Windows and OS X have a standard download folder. Following that convention makes a lot of sense for their target audience since it's what the other browsers do, in the default Explorer / Finder sidebar and avoids confusion with all of the things the average user saves to the desktop.
With programming it is a problem. My working memory is quite poor too, I am actually developing a framework with a debugger that helps to try to keep track of things so I do not have to remember n things for every thing I see in the system. Still has a long way to go but there is a demo too:

https://github.com/zubairq/coils

I think this type of debugger will be useful for people with good working memory too
But once the .row class is defined, you can do @extend .row in sass and it will do what you want...
But the browser landscape keeps changing?
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The gist is NOT that this guy doesn't care for Brian Krebs. The gist is that Brian Krebs, along with Hold Security, worked together to create a panic frenzy among the uneducated[0], business class by publishing stories and doing interviews with major media outlets all to try to sell a 120/year service that is the equivalent of querying Russian forums and ircs for people mentioning your site in credential sales.

It's a total sham and, personally, I've lost a little respect for Krebs.

edit:
[0] By uneducated, I meant only technologically, not anything else. Sorry if anyone was confused.
Someone did (Marty Lagina) and they attempted a number of things last year. This is the premise of a reality show on the History Channel called "The Curse of Oak Island."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Oak_Island
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3455408/
Amazon suggestions, browsing at the library, blogs, forums, and following my favorite authors websites.

I usually go in this order: recommendations from friends, reviews, browsing bookstores or libraries, and books sent by publishers or authors (I write a blog about books and ideas at http://jseliger.wordpress.com).

One question is how that initial seeding group happens; right now it tends to through Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and related means. But that gets towards complicated questions of how information and ideas propagate through a society, and I think we're going to be sorting that out for a long time.
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