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I read Thiel’s book and he claims that the rise of human level computing intelligence is a problem for the 22nd century. Does anyone know why he thinks that it is so far off?
So I think your take on it is Break Nothing and Move Slow, that's how you would make that choice given what
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As a Toronto resident I would say that the city could use some better planning and zoning. A bunch of high density like Liberty Village, Eglinton west and Flemington Park are served by buses and streetcars (streetcars!) whereas large segments of subway go through low density suburbia-like areas, and zoning laws make it hard to build anything there.
Let me make user I understand this. Because in the course of a long conversation I made statements you disagreed with without equivocating enough for your tastes, you thought the appropriate response was to be childish?

Deliberately childish behavior engaged in to be manipulative makes it easy to conclude someone lacks integrity.

Is it your intent to be dismissed as lacking integrity?
Yes, if my involevment was limited to just creating a closure and passing it to the library that is secure, vetted and tested, then sure. With project like HN, I think all of this would be written from scratch, but if e.g. Django had this feature built in, I would be much more comfortable with it.
No Nobel for the Father of the LED
This rampant clumsiness is fairly typical for IBM code samples--doing things manually that should use a popular library, or choosing obscure or IBM-invented libraries for common things. For example, the Java example should really use Jetty or CXF for JAX-RS rather than mucking about with HTTP client calls directly...
Anti-aging
Norway's New Banknotes Are Works of Art
I was surprised D.C. ranks so low [1]

I've been to most of the big cities in the U.S. and despite having some problems the D.C. (the city proper) system is easily the 2nd best public transport. It's no NYC, but it's not bad. By wider extension, the links into the Maryland and Virginia systems are also pretty good. Looking at the map it's not even clear to me why it's ranked below LA or SF. It provides lots of coverage and covers a vast area.

Then I realized they were measuring time as part of their ranking and yeah, I guess I can see that. The D.C. metro area is larger than all of L.A. county and it can take forever to get around it.

1 - BTW, the map for D.C. is here https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/ctswebrequest.jlb2j0ip/page.ht...
The New York night life cannot be beaten in the US for many reasons.

The sheer volume of people also means that people have a good chance of having good ties to NYC even when never having lived there. Love the weather out here in the Bay Area, but there is a part of me that will always miss NYC and the whole tri-state area (well, minus Long Island anyhow ;) ) - hell, the whole east coast in general.
Unless it's changed DRASTICALLY in the last couple years, yes it's a shit show.

I would frequently walk home from Fremont to Ravenna because it was 2 AM and there was no way to get home aside from getting in a cab (and good luck competing with the million other people trying to get a cab that time of night), or waiting maybe an hour for a bus to maybe come by when it was supposed to. At least in SF there was no illusion of public transportation to get me anywhere very far after midnight.

As to why it's a "shit show" as compared to other cities, Metro is constantly in limbo and notoriously unreliable. Didn't they just cut a bunch of routes because of budget shortfalls? http://metro.kingcounty.gov/am/future/service-cuts.html

EDIT: The whole reason OBA is/was even remotely popular is because of how notoriously unreliable buses are in Seattle.
You submitted this a couple hours ago. Deleting then resubmitting is against HN rules.
> Borrow someone else's phone to make a call. Carry some amount of cash on you.

Okay, so if you were to have your way, the only thing that I'm seeing as anything within a reasonable neighborhood of an answer to "how do I replace my phone?" is to always carry cash on you and always be with someone who has a working phone and either lets you borrow it or can drive (or otherwise cover your transportation costs) to the nearest phone store. That actually seems like an answer. A horrible, horrible answer, but an answer. We're making progress!

> You can if there is a computer you can use there or on the way. Most companies allow you to pick up in store.

Most companies also don't let you replace your cell phone--or make any significant changes to your account, for that matter--without showing ID. Without your phone, you have no ID. Hence, you're fucked.

> Tap to pay NFC tag?

"Damn, where did my tag go? Oh, well, I'll just have to buy anoth--oh, wait..."

> Pebble vibrates when you move more than 50 feet from your phone?

0_o I...what? What are you trying to say here?
Meh.

There was a reason he got so much vitriol: he's a terrible and manipulative person who is using political methods to push an anti-POSIX agenda. He's a Weev-level troll for an audience too stupid to realize the damage he's doing. He over-exaggerates a joke on IRC into a perceived attempt/threat on his life, and uses that as a springboard to insult Linus Torvalds for doing far more benign things than he regularly commits, whilst playing the victim card to the fullest.

I'll join the author in thanking lennart. Thank you for holding the Linux ecosystem back by politically forcing your bad monolithic software on us. Thank you for showing that not only Microsoft can implement "embrace/extend/extinguish" to ruin Linux. Thank you for showing the world how to use an open source company like red hat to muscle your changes into other distributions. Thank you for reinventing JACK's wheel. Thank you for introducing a new paper cut for every one Mark Shuttleworth endeavored to fix. Thank you for saying that people that disagree with you must obviously "hate the disabled" because they don't agree with your decisions.

And most importantly, thank you for showing how gullible and vulnerable the open source movement is. Not even Microsoft hurt Linux as much as you have, and this is with SCO vs. IBM in mind.

The next time I see him, I plan on telling him this verbatim.
Sorry, any public transport system that relies on buses as the backbone will be a "shit show". Buses are uncomfortable, slow, unreliable, get stuck in traffic, etc etc. "Bus rapid transit", dedicated lanes and so on ease the pain a bit, but at the end of day, they just can't compete with any service that has fully dedicated right of way.
Seriously, epic.

I hope this stays at the top for 3 days.
The methodology is described here: http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportde.... They calculated the number of jobs that a random worker (assuming everyone lives in the centroid of the Census block he resides in) can get to by transit at every 10 minute threshold, multiplied by an exponential penalty with time constant 12.5 minutes. The metropolitan areas are ranked by this score. This basically says how many jobs that you can catch the bus to, given that you reside somewhere in the metro area.

This analysis is more sophisticated than WalkScore’s Transit Score; this analysis uses OpenTripPlanner to simulate trips rather than just counting the number of bus lines near a given location.

There are many related questions that are not directly answered by this report, but I think on the top of everyone’s mind is: How many apartments can you afford in commute distance from a random job? I’m guessing San Francisco would no longer rank near the top anymore. To determine whether the transit system is good enough for car-free living, one would also want a score that takes into account trips to other destinations such as bars and grocery stores.
Not year-on-year it's not.
Shanghai is more of a business & financial center than Beijing. Beijing is more government focused. Also Hong Kong is a bigger financial/trade center than both these cities.
Didn't know. Thanks for heads up!
Has anyone compared the voice recognition accuracy of these three solutions?
The trains are only one part of the puzzle. Where I live in Brooklyn I can walk 15 minutes to two different subway lines (DR!), but I can also bike entirely, take the ferry to two different stops that then either travel on a third subway line or let me bike share the remaining 15 blocks, drive to work in an emergency via 2 different bridges or a tunnel, or take the local car service either entirely on the same route (or Uber taxi) or half way to a fourth subway line. Amazingly all of these combinations result in the same 35 minute door to desk commute. The redundancy in the face of bad weather or emergencies is what really pays off in the end when you must get to work. If you live on a far away train line you do have public transportation, but way fewer options if something happens to take out the train (failure, snow, flooding, etc.)
Impressive editor. What js framework(s) / js libraries did you use to build it?
I am personally torn which basically tells me that Thiel is neither right nor wrong but just carves out a useful perspective.

I read his book and I found several points extremely inspiring while other things I find lack introspection.

What important thing is no-one currently building still comes down to some sort of luck but at the same time I find it an inspiring way to think about problems.

However we can't all solve the things no one is building and we certainly won't all be successful if we tried so personally

I am happy that someone actually wants to create a restaurant even if it's shitty despite the fact that it doesn't return great profits and isn't anything close to the value of a Google.

Just like I am happy that someone build a little app for my phone or make an ebook even though it isn't going to do 10X.

The reality is that there isn't and never will be perfect competition just as there will never be perfect monopoly not even a state legislated one cause time changes the underlying premise for these things.

I do agree that we are too many people stepping on each others toes. Too many suppliers of the fundamentally same things. But given time that will change.
It's the exact opposite in fact.

The original article is about trolls making up lies and victims having little recourse.

The lie in this case is "Zoe traded sex for press coverage". Kain explains how there is no basis for this claim whatsoever ("the initial concerns were quickly proven to be all smoke and no fire") and then goes on to explain how, despite being based on nothing, this managed to blow up anyhow by everyone making allegations that are nearly impossible to make fact, yet are taken as fact by many others.

This kind of thing is exactly what the original article is talking about, only that in the GamerGate case it's happening in both directions.

As for the DMCA thing: The video was down. While i haven't even watched it, as it's probably full of bullshit, you can go to the video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5CXOafuTXM ), click "... More > Statistics > Daily" and see the view count drop to zero in august for a few days. This outage may have had several reasons, but due to the original uploader linking to what seems to be a DMCA takedown notice on his tumblr ( http://archive.today/UqAwg ) it appears that she did send that. And that is all Kain said.

Given these two facts, and how they do belong into the greater discussion, i am curious how you'd expect him to express that differently.
Which would make it a far better choice than the local currency.
Anyone know of a better way to get proper JSON out of something emitted to the console? The "store as global variable" + copy($_) is ridiculous.
Nixon took the US off the gold standard, fiat currency controlled by central banks is the real new experiment.
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Because I'm also one of the kooks from comp.lang.c where C is the One True Language.

But seriously, TXR is built on its own Lisp: an infrastructure which provides the managed environment and data representations which also support the TXR Lisp dialect.

This is no different from any Lisp implementation based on a C kernel, like CLISP, GNU Emacs, ...

If you do it from scratch, you lose a lot: you don't have a mature, optimized dynamic language implementation. But, by the same token, you can experiment in ways that you normally wouldn't. You get to dictate things like, oh, what is a cons cell. I have lazy conses that look like ordinary conses: they satisfy consp, and work with car, cdr, rplaca and rplacd. You can invent new evaluation rules. I came up with a way to have Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 in a single dialect, seamlessly, with the conveniences of both. I have Python-like array access. I made traditional Lisp list operations work with vectors and strings: you can mapcar through a string and so on. Sequences and hashes are functions. For instance orf is a combinator that combines functions analogously to the Lisp or operator. If hash1 and hash2 are hash tables, you can do something like [orf hash1 hash2 func] to create a function which takes one one-argument that will look that argument in hash1; then if that returns nil, it will try hash2, and if that returns nil, it will pass the key to func and return whatever that returns. Or ["abc" 1] returns the character #\b. [mapcar "abc" '(2 0 1)] yields "cab": the numeric indices are mapped through "abc", as if it were a index to character function. Fun things like this are good reasons to experiment with your dialect.

I believe TXR is a great companion if you're a Lisper working in ... one of those other environments.

Ah, one more thing. Well, two, or maybe three. Part of why I used C was to create a project whose tidy, clean internals stand in stark contrast to some of popular written-in-C scripting languages. You know, to sock it to them! See, there is a hidden agenda: the call of "I can do this better". If you use C, then a more direct comparison is possible. Secondly, people widely understand C. Give them a cleanly written project in C, and maybe they will hack on it, and from there understand something about Lisp too. C means low dependencies from the point of view of packaging: easy porting with just basic shell environment with make and a C compiler. Cross-compiling for ARM or whatever is a piece of cake. Easy work for package maintainers, ...
Agreed. If you've not used DI after 15 years as a "professional" developer, and you are also happy to "boast" about this fact on the Internet, then it means you are very likely an utter shit developer.
One doesn't exclude the other. It's perfectly reasonable to claim that the world mostly move in incremental steps while there are some who take quantum leaps. In fact that seems fairly reasonable to be the case. PayPal was in many ways a quantum leap but only really after they merged with Elon. So even Thiel wasn't the only one building what no one else where.
It happens, but your scenario is rare.

It's all about recoverability and risk over return. Most of the time a 5-figure debt will be worth the effort. When you start getting into $5k or less debts, it's sort of a crapshoot. The original owner of the debt will often sell it for pennies on the dollar, at which point a collector will do their best to get as much as they can out of people without a civil case, because civil cases are expensive and there's no real guarantee of return (people with no money, people on the verge of bankruptcy, etc).

The general advice is not to negotiate at all with creditors. Once something's gone into collections, you will see no benefit to resolving the debt other than mitigating your risk of a law suit. And even at that point, the first phase is a mediation option wherein you'd again be able to throw out a number, do a payment plan, etc.
We plan to add more information to our docs soon about the service, including a description of each of the traits, and possibly reference some of the many data sources used.

Meanwhile, you can do a search on "IBM System U" (the project's not-so-internal code name.) This particular slideshare.net prez has some great info on the methodology, validation tests and references: http://slidesha.re/1ri0vPV
A lot of people don't like passing a phone around because in many cases the recipient, either out of force of habit or just snooping around, will keep scrolling through the rest of their photos.
Manhattan project, over half a million people working in cooperation to meet one end goal. The Apollo program, over half a million people working in cooperation to meet one end goal. How many people do Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle employ? Combined?

A single individual with a computer can be more productive than 100 individuals from any of those past projects. We walk around with more computer power in our pockets than the entire computer power that got mankind to walk on the moon.

But that is not the point.

The point is that a mooonshot is only a moonshot relative to its time.

In other words, we would need to imagine what a project, that could be accomplished with half-a-million (or more) people working in cooperation toward a single end goal, would look like today.

I can guarantee you that would look something along the lines of a partial terraforming of Mars.

Hacker news complains about the lack of innovation and invention, and yet continues to support a tech-world with a "solo founder" mentality, one man sitting alone in a room coding an app ... You'll never get a moonshot civilization pushing that attitude.
Or, what are the chances that things get bad enough that people begin to request payments for goods or services in bitcoin?

This would solve the problem of shortage of physical us dollars.... Or in the case that you have the ability to request bitcoin can you simply request virtual us dollars just as easily? ( are there restrictions against this? )
Dictated? No. Profoundly influenced? Yes, yes I do.

I think that I'm more than capable of detecting most forms of propaganda, but I hold no illusions as to my ability to judge _everything_ that comes my way in a fully informed manner.

I can look back and see cases where too little information, bad information, or even just a misunderstanding lead me to believe in things that just weren't true. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
I'm probably the one that's wrong here but I thought because it was considered property and not currency you only had to pay taxes when it was used. In fact your IRS linked PDF seems to agree with me.
Even so, there are weaker links in the security chain: Carriers (mobile equivalent of ISP's)

Your carrier has access to every URL you visit (http or https) and the entire packets sent to/from them (if http), regardless of the password on your phone.

Those Carriers have been MORE THAN eager to bend over backwards & give up the farm to the feds. Just check Verizon, AT&T's history with NSA/FBI/etc.

So, YES, the article is golden, Schneir is golden, but the fact that weaker links exists should still install vigilance & outrage amongst civil libertarians / freedom lovers.

And, even if there are weaker links in the chain, we should still applaud & support strengthening any/all links, while still vigilant/aware of where the weakest link remains.
It would be fun to see this XORed with real estate/rental heat maps.
I'd argue it's orthogonal.

>And of course, junk traffic breeds more junk traffic. Even if the first generation of a shady subreddit might make this up with quality in other parts of your site, it will invariably attract generation 2 and later which will create a mini-eternal September.

You can argue both ways, the quality increase will attract more quality users.
Name collision - http://monkey-project.com/

Edit: They actually use the original Monkey HTTP server.
I'd suggest a better bank, or better retailers.

I was traveling across the country last month and bought some expensive sunglasses and my card was declined. (My cab purchases and other legit looking travel items worked just fine). I immediately on my phone got a text asking if this purchase was legit, replied with '1' for yes, and my card was accepted after trying again few seconds later.

I've headed this off before by calling the 24x7 number on the back of the card before I leave the country or go on vacation across the USA and tell them to flag my account that I will be traveling. This usually takes about 5 minutes.
Really? It seems just the opposite with mine :)
once again bitcoin proves its primary utility is crime
10% for even just 1 million people is significant...

Wait, let's look at a map of US cancer rates:
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/state.htm

Hmm, yep that's plenty of data and a wide enough gap to support regional differences.

Yet, there are reasons you don't hear state X has higher incidents of cancer.

Edit: Sorry for the flippant response, but no shit sample size matters.
This was expected. Snapchat continues to grow and at a certain point like any fast growing vertical the need for making revenue must happen. It will be interesting to see if they take a model similar to instagram or Facebook when they begin to add in advertising features.
Didn't realize that there's an Emacs StackExchange in beta.

http://emacs.stackexchange.com

I use Sublime a lot more these days. It would be nice to see a StackExchange for that too.
High quality photos means a big data hit, for those that don't have unlimited data. It also puts your photos in the cloud, which may not be desirable.
Ask HN: How to change the username on Hackernews
I remember around 2 years before when i had created my account on Hackernews and i just choose a random crazy name , i didn't realise that i would get an urge to change my username. So just wondering if there is any way of changing the username on Hackernews
They cut some low-hanging fruit (and route 47) because of a budget shortfall, yes. But if you read the same link you posted, you'll see that the remainder of the cuts have been dropped. Seattle is even holding a vote in November to buy service for expansion.

As for being notoriously unreliable, I suppose we'll have to chalk it up to different circumstances. I've regularly commuted from Lake City and the CD to the Eastside for years, even during off-peak hours when there aren't any one-seat expresses, and have been late maybe twice. Metro's collection of buses seems to work great for me.
This is why when I want to implement a negative connectivity check I always make a deal with admins to have a will-never-exist.whatever.com or similar record with known and documented behaviour.

Yes, that's because I've been caught out before :)
This may be moot since I never got an application response, but the full-stack description in OP doesn't include Android.
...except for Microsoft advertising materials.
Being right is overrated. We still learn a ton when brilliant people get things wrong.
The biggest problem the tech behind this has always suffered ,is being able to convince DRAM manufacturers to manufacture using their technology.

This doesn't seem to have changed.
Python Puzzlers
Because everyone else does?
You might enjoy the book "Why the West Rules -- For Now" (http://www.amazon.com/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/0312611...)

One of the main premises is that the impact of societies on other societies ("ruling" in the vernacular of the book, as this impact has often been military and brutal in the time scale the book covers) has a lot to do with the kind of social organization they are able to use. There's amplifiers to this of course -- you can either mobilize a huge number of people to build a pyramid, or mobilize a huge number of people to invent cranes and bulldozers and let a few people build the pyramid. But the bottom line, according to Morris, is that this kind of social goal-oriented organization is a key metric of a society's impact.