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Well, let's just say I disagree with you. There are no logical issues with my original comment about how a lot of these "the sky is falling" articles are nonsense supported nonsense often in support of underlying political motives. Can't say that's never happened before.

On the attack aspect. Look, HN is characterized by some really dumb back and forth discussions full of senseless nit-picking. I call these "programmer arguments" because it is often impossible to argue with some programmers because they are really good about arguing endlessly about utterly irrelevant minutiae. Like the comments in this thread that got into the idea that there's an argument to be made about drivers being more careful when they see bikers not wearing helmets. And the nonsense back and forth continues.

So yeah, I have grown quite intolerant to nonsense over the last five years or so. I've been really busy and have not read HN in a while. I just came back and see a bunch of the same thing and this intolerant cargo cult.

HN is at it's best when the discussions are contained to technology, startups, software or hardware development and related topics. There's a lot of expertise and value here when it comes to these topics.

The minute HN discussions deviate from that world it all derails. I have this vision -right or wrong- of a bunch of real-life ignorant 22 year olds brainwashed by their college professors desperately trying to play adult with their comments here. I'd be funny if it wasn't so stupid. They have little life experience yet have categorical opinions about everything and are incredibly intolerant of anything outside this cargo cult mentality.

Progress isn't made by those who swim with the current. You have to be willing to swim hard against it if you want to change the world, or at least your little corner of it. Going against the flow is not easy, as evidenced here. It would be called bullying in the real world. Or at least bigoted intolerant behavior.

Here's the good part: Despite what is said or done here, reality is as it is. And this they will eventually learn the hard way on the street, not here. I remember having a conversation about taxation with a 22 year old engineer who worked for me at one of my companies 15 years ago. He had swallowed-up the liberal coolaid whole. Nothing I could say could convince him he was wrong. Ten years later he called me up one day to thank me for what he learned from me (mostly in terms of engineering). He also mentioned he now understood the issues I used to point out regarding taxation. Why? Because he launched his own business and got the experience of now having to hold that cat by the tail.

HN is broken. Keep it to science, tech and startups and all is well. Everything else derails into nonsense kiddie bickering almost instantly.
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Shouldn't the government's claim that the server was owned by Ulbright effectively concede the point?
Right. At least that's how we use it in China. Probably also in a few other East Asian places.
Is it bad form to quote myself? it seems likely that drugs have been a factor in the increased speed of distance runners. Sadly, the testing procedures for athletics are notably worse that for cycling

But there is more to Kenyan domination than just doping. For example, there are plenty of countries with a history of distance running which are known to have weak anti-doping policies, and yet they aren't competitive anymore.
Are there any reliable reports about size of LoL? All I've seen is Riot-made infographics without any backing. On the other hand http://steamcharts.com/app/570 seems trustworthy.
And that's why FDCPA litigation is decreasing and TCPA litigation is growing. Path of least resistance. Though, you have to admit, practices and law governing UDAAP isn't as clear as the FDCPA examples you bring here.
What could "NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC)" (from [1]) actually do? They write on their public web page:

https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/ncsc.shtml

"The NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC) addresses the strategic needs of NSA/CSS and the national security community by harnessing the power of U.S. commercial technology."
Perhaps. It'd be interesting to see if coffee oil worked though!
There may occasional bugs, but I don't know of any cases when Gmail actually lost emails. According to this talk [0], the bug referred to by that article caused some users' emails to be temporarily inaccessible, but all the emails were eventually recovered.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM#t=1734
Oh, please. Think about what you just said. Could it be that they got infected because they did not use proper procedure while wearing or removing the protective suits? Or is the explanation that despite protective suits they contracted the virus?

Let's see. If it's number one, well, it has nothing to do with the time it takes for the virus to kill the patient.

And, guess what? If it is number two it also has nothing to do with the time it takes for the virus to kill a patient. They are probably using the wrong suits. Or maybe they e
Were damaged . Or maybe they were reused or not sanitized or...

Once a patient is identified and quarantined properly and all safety procedures are followed the time that the virus needs to kill the patient is utterly irrelevant as it pertains to spreading the disease. That should hold for all normal circumstances.
if I join the dots myself, I see a clear benefit to the U.S. government and the NSA in monopolies like this.

A couple of years back, this would have been tin foil hat territory. But not today.
Thanks for the mention, Bill! We're working hard to make a difference.
I always thought story-myths like Star Wars and The Karate Kid fulfilled the role of fairytales and parables for the comparatively young culture of United States. I'm only half-kidding. I bet Yoda has a few choice quotes related to exactly this subject?
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It's true that record breaking has switch mostly from the track to the Marathon - probably because of financial reasons. But speeds haven't really slowed down (like they have in cycling).

Cycling has a biological passport which (at worst) limits how much a doper can improve their blood chemistry. Athletics doesn't have that, and doing point checks isn't as effective as looking at changes.
Nope - I'm actually trying to figure out if that is one of my friends and I just don't know it. I can certainly see why you'd think that, though. They must just really love the idea I guess!
The track should be downhill?
Are there any books that teach this leading/questioning approach that you particularly like/recommend? Non-pop books are fine.
I'll be sure to set (hack, reprogram?) my future self-driving car to dispense liberal spraying of washer fluid after finally weaving around and getting in front of the asshat going 54mph in the left most lane on 101.
You were grinding away at it for a long time, what was the final straw that made you decide to pivot?
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Same worst-case scenario when humans drive daily, but wrong less often.
It is a cliche, but the plural of anecdote is not data. I never had any problems with Dropbox, but had Office on OneDrive corrupt files. OneNote has also rendered some notes unreadable.

The bottom line is that errors happen. You should prepare for that and make backups.

Also, Dropbox are still among the very best when it comes to syncing. Many useful synchronization features are implemented by Dropbox, but not the competition. E.g., features that most competitors do not have:

- Modifying a large file on Dropbox will only resync modified chunks.

- DropBox avoids re-uploads, both when uploading identical files and moving files around:

http://macography.net/2013/05/speed-test-dropbox-google-driv...

- Dropbox does LAN sync. If a machine has to download a large file and another machine on the network has the same file, chunks are provided peer to peer. This makes using large files on multiple machines or in a team much faster.

- Dropbox does streaming sync. A machine can already download chunks when another machine is still uploading:

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/07/introducing-streaming-sync-...

Sure, OneDrive and Google Drive do have many useful functions that Dropbox does not have, such as including complete office suites. But for the original task, file syncing, Dropbox is still pretty much unbeaten.
Yes, it looks like it's fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wEURyjB3Lc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH7TiA58UzQ

;-)
I don't know, but I think Ulbricht would need to concede that explictly. I don't feel like digging through all the filings to try and figure out his counsel's strategy at this hour, though.
Marathon races are traditionally about winning, not about records, and times aren't really comparable across courses.

The Marathon record doesn't even require the course to be flat (there are limits on the elevation difference for it to be recognised as a record).

Drafting isn't massively effective in running. A Marathon in 2 hours is 21 km/h, and in cycling you wouldn't really bother drafting at that speed.
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That may well have been true a year ago, but it is not true as of a few weeks ago [1], and hasn't been true since around Spring of this year.

[1] http://youtu.be/zW0Pqfb8ij0?t=3m50s
What will it take for old people to stop writing in weird degree units so the rest of us don't have to convert it?
I disagree. A local tape NAS is also not a good backup, (god forbid) your house can burn down. A remote service like Backblaze is also not a good backup, they could go bankrupt or a software error could corrupt all your backups.

A good backup policy uses a mixture of onsite and offsite, and Dropbox can be a (convenient) part of that. E.g., I store (non-sensitive) files in Dropbox, which gives me a certain period of undelete possibilities. My Dropbox folder is backed up on a local time machine backup. Critical parts of my Dropbox are also backed up using tarsnap, etc.

A good backup policy diversifies, and Dropbox can be part of that.
I thought it wouldn't sell at all, but it sold quite well, made a good profit, and became a huge buzzword overnight. Yeah I think it was a success.
I strongly disagree; Hofstadter is far more ready to admit that consciousness is a real phenomenon, causally relevant phenomenon, not an illusion, e.g. "who shoves whom around".

Whereas this guy is buying wholesale into the idea that the brain literally "doesn’t in fact have this property [of self-awareness]", which is so beyond non-sensical it's barely worth responding to. Who is it that experiences the illusion of consciousness? Turtles [illusions] all the way down?

This statement in particular is just utterly laughable horseshit: "In neuroscience, attention is a process of enhancing some signals at the expense of others. It’s a way of focusing resources. Attention: a real, mechanistic phenomenon that can be programmed into a computer chip. Awareness: a cartoonish reconstruction of attention that is as physically inaccurate as the brain’s internal model of color." - really? Go show me the math and computer simulation of neuroscience's understanding of the real, mechanistic phenomenon of attention, the way humans and other sentient beings experience it, programmed into a computer. Let's see some code.
I am jealous of your energy.

One tip for quick and one time easy money, in similar vein to exploiting dupe bugs (especially when it comes to people dismissing it as impossible :) - sport betting odds arbitrage. Made ~35% in one month. At the end of it, I was banned almost everywhere, which is why it's an one time affair (unless you start to use fake identities - I didn't).
This appearing on hacker news is just a bad joke.
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You say that as though you think there isn't a significant economic benefit to having a more efficient transportation network

You're assuming that having more roads makes it more efficient, but that's not necessarily true. If having less urban roads convinces more people to use mass transit, for example, it might be more efficient.
Please read "What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5? [0]" when considering this service.

Though prices may differ, I wouldn't be surprised if the end result would be more or less the same.

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[0]: https://medium.com/@sachagreif/in-the-past-couple-years-star...
I know we like nice round numbers like "2 hours" but anything remotely close to 2 hours is an insane, all-out pace as any runner knows.

I doubt most cities have people who could run a half marathon at that pace. The best half-marathons are still around 59 minutes, now you want to double that with no performance penalty.

It is going to take an incredibly genetically gifted person with a lifetime of training to do it. Basically the Usain Bolt of marathons.

What I like is that in the half-marathon, women are only 5 minutes behind men. I am more interested when the first woman will run a one hour half-marathon.
I don't have access to powershell on linux but I think the syntax would be

(ls).Count

(where ls is an alias for http://ss64.com/ps/get-childitem.html which returns .net FileInfo objects, it can also return info for registry paths)

and

ps | ?{ $_.Name -eq 'tobekilled' } | %{ $_.Kill() }

(ps an alias for http://ss64.com/ps/get-process.html returns .net Process objects)

or the equivalent of pkill

Stop-Process -Name 'tobekilled'
It's pretty important to distinguish between consciousness and a sense of identity or self. Self is pretty clearly is a constructed, somewhat illusory concept. Consciousness is not.

You can turn off a light bulb. That doesn't mean the light isn't real.
I'd never rule out the (huge) role genetics play. But the culture and environment have a role too.

You don't see many Kenyans dominating in cross country skiing or in road cycling which are both endurance sports where similar physical attributes are useful. Sports culture has a huge role.

OTOH, there have been projects to see how Kenyans do in those sports. The small Nike-supported cross country skiing project wasn't very successful[1], but the cycling project is showing some promise[2]. Genetics has a huge role.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Boit

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/29...
It would be great to hear some of the compositions. Did I miss where there were posted?
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Really just read the docs, they are very thorough. Most important thing to understand IMO is settings/tasks, their scoping, and runtime evaluation.

You can check out this [1] template I made for play apps with multi-module config in SBT which could be relevant.

[1] https://github.com/orrsella/play-template
I agree. They are quite incomprehensible. I looked at the Ruby version https://github.com/cognitect-labs/transducers-ruby because I'm better at Ruby than at JS and Ruby is usually more readable than JS. No way to understand it. I had to dig into the documentation and learn how it works instead of figuring it out from the way it looks.

The less efficient equivalent is
(1..100).select {|n| n.even?}.map {|n| n * 2}.take(5) which is self evident to anybody with a couple of days of Ruby on his back.

I think tranducers are a good idea with still the wrong syntax.
Probably the Ruby way to transducers would be along these lines.

(1..100).transduce.select {|n| n.even?}.map {|n| n * 2}.take(5).run

like we build SQL queries with AREL. Maybe this will never work but a possible implementation is adding transduce to a bunch of classes (in this case: Range), having transduce return an object (a Transduceable?) augmented with transducing equivalents of some methods, letting those methods pick sensible defaults for the composition operation and initial value based on the type of the object on the left. Maybe adding transduce to Enumerable is enough to get all the most important classes covered. Probably we need a further method call to actually run the transducing operation we built, that's why the final .run

This is probably not as general as the transducer ruby gem even if we enhance it by passing the reducer and the initial value as arguments as in transduce(reducer: :push, initial_value: []) but it should cover most of the use cases and anybody would be able to read it. This makes the difference when having to urgently fix bugs in the code somebody else wrote two years before and then left the company.
> That being said Yahoo! Answers also rarely has good content

I would go even further and say it is the spiritual successor to YouTube comments before they were G-plussed.
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"My life is about science" - but you refuse to post a link to any science.

That, and weirdly aggressive tone, is why you're being downvoted.

Just asking but do you honestly not know that?
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Even a single letter frequency histogram is already a very powerful discriminator to detect language. Although I suppose scoring maximum likelihood on bi- or trigrams works better for very small (sub-sentence) bits of text.
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Geez! Have you noticed the downvote parade? Have I said something mildly offensive to the sensibilities of the Critical Mass militia?
It was a few years ago, so things may have changed. I was out in the suburbs a bit, staying with a friend (who worked and therefore couldn't give me lifts everywhere). The wasteland looked like it was eventually going to be more suburb, but wasn't actually a building site.

I did find it weird that there were these patches of the city where just nothing was built. British cities are incredibly compact - if it's not built on or being built on then it's a manicured public park, usually fenced. But Aussie cities have odd areas that are just empty, too... must be the relative age of the cities that causes this.
> In Germany starting a GmbH in Germany requires a $25k Euro capital

Since 2008 you can start a derivative called Unternehmergesellschaft which waives the minimum capital. You need to keep 25% of yearly earnings, but it can be rebranded later as GmbH if you raise 25,000 euro capital in said savings. It says right there in the article you've linked:

> Um die deutsche GmbH im internationalen Wettbewerb zu stärken und Neugründungen von Unternehmen zu erleichtern,ist seit dem 1. November 2008 die Gründung von Unternehmergesellschaften (UG) möglich, deren Mindeststammkapital nur mehr 1 € betragen muss. Die UG muss – solange das Stammkapital unter 25.000 € liegt – 25 % des Jahresüberschusses (Gewinn) in eine Rücklage einstellen.

Here's an alternative in English for others who might be interested but might not understand German: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdfs/Vol09No09/PDF_Vol_09_No...

And while it might technically cost less than a thousand dollars to incorporate in Delaware, in practice I'd need much more than that - especially if we consider costs of obtaining visa and housing, traveling and living expenses. It's difficult to get money for all of that, especially if you start from nothing. On the other hand I can travel to another country within the EU with favorable regulations (low taxes, low cost of starting a business) without the need for a visa.
I downloaded http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.2/psty.py, started it with "python psty.py -a" and did "mount http://localhost:50937/ /dir" successfully.

Unfortunately only "ls /dir/file" works but neither "cat /dir/file" nor "cp /dir/file ." although "file" was marked with "chmod a+r". I get the message "Cross-origin request denied (check if psty is running)". What do I wrong?
I have trouble understanding the purpose of consciousness. Some argue that it improves survival because an animal that has a certain type of mental model of the world will perform better. So, evolution has produced a brain which "tricks" the animal by constructing what amounts to an elaborate 3-D video game for that animal to play so the animal will make good "decisions."

Of course, this argumentation presupposes that a "decision" means something. These same scientists typically argue that behavior is essentially deterministic, assuming one could model the brain completely.

But if that's the case, wouldn't it be more efficient not to construct this elaborate video game and instead have the system operate based on a set of complex rules, sort of how one would build an expert system or neural network?

It seems to me possible that consciousness is bound up with "free will." Perhaps animals evolved consciousness because it enabled them to harness some sort of property of the universe that improved decisionmaking precisely because it could improve on the results of a rule-based expert system. This would rely on some concept of non-determinism.

Obviously I can't explain a mechanism for the above, which is a key reason a scientist would reject it.

Still, I find existing explanations for the evolution of consciousness lacking. Also, determinism is drastically at odds with our experience of life, though that doesn't necessarily prove anything.
For some people? You need to be reborn with the right physiology and anatomy.

Seriously. Some people are not made to run 2 hour marathons, or acquired some insuries or problems which makes reaching this goal either futile or even counterproductive, depending on why you are setting this goal.
Okay, wow that's pretty impressive, actually.

How did you make this exactly?

The analysis (for myself) seems quite accurate, although I have to try a few different queries (for which I don't have time right now) to determine to what extent it's suffering from the "horoscope effect" (some classifications are quite general and nice to read about oneself, making it more acceptable as accurate).
My connection is shaped at 128 kbps at the moment - am grateful that this loads really quickly. Awesome stuff. HN itself is really low bandwidth too.
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Cities have relatively fixed populations. The problem is not allowing everyone to drive their own car: that's stupid. The problem is how to persuade more people to catch the bus/train. Building roads doesn't make anyone's life any easier or better because it just persuades people to drive instead of catching public transport. Less roads actually helps because public transport gets better.

Your analogy is broken because building more servers doesn't "get more users". You have to service a fixed number of users in the most efficient manner possible. Providing a car lane for each of them is not efficient.
I think it's important to recognize the difference between allowing someone to do something and striving to get someone to not do something, even if it's allowed.
I came pretty close to choking (whilst home alone) as a young kid when I thought it'd be a great idea to try to swallow a peach pip.

I like to think I'm not that dumb now, but as a kid I did some really idiotic things that seriously jeopardized my safety. I'm willing to believe I'm not alone there.