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This touches on the rest of my half baked idea which I didn't write out. My original post isn't intended to be inflammatory, I'm genuinely interested. If somebody comes to you and says:

"Your code will, in the literal sense of the word 'literally', save people's lives."

How do you pass that opportunity up?

On the flip side, when have tools of power ever been given up voluntarily? [ I don't know how to say this. I mean this stuff is all a Pandora's Box. Once it's here, it's here. ]

It's kind of like land mines. When you put them down you may have a very noble and legitimate goal to save the lives of your troops. In 20 years, the mines are still lying around for anyone to find. But does that necessarily invalidate the immediate needs of the time? It would be tempting to simply think "In 20 years we'll have the land mine problem solved, let's try to save our lives today".

I really think I could argue it both ways.

[Update: Maybe a better way to express my thought(and stay on topic) is relating to security vulnerabilities. You don't just pass around exploits to people. Some of the people are genuinely interested, but others will do harm.

People who take the time to learn and solve problems themselves have a greater respect for the tools they've built. People who inherit things don't necessarily respect them the same way.

Seattle PD is trying to solve a tough problem, and I would trust them. I don't necessarily trust them in 15 years though, when all these tools just kind of "exist"]
Ah. Thanks, Jeff
> Dealing with other people is probably the biggest part of most people's cognitive burden, though.

That's a scary thought. I haven't tried to measure my own cognition, but I doubt that modeling other human's behavior amounts to even 10% of my waking, thoughtful time.

When I read this part of your comment, it struck me that this might be very different for a typical person. What if they're spending 99% of their time doing this? How could they have any intelligent thought at all?

Perhaps they use this to substitute for intelligent thought... it would explain how pervasive groupthink is in all areas of life.

I will have to study this.

> nd it's likely that the ability to make complex inferences when on one's own (solving a mathematical problem, writing a novel, or whatever) derives from the experience of communicating complex ideas through language.

This isn't true for me. I will not dismiss that it's true for others. But it also implies that they would have very limited minds... not only can they not contemplate ideas for which there is no useful language yet, they'd also be limited by whether they can imagine explaining it to others well enough that those people could understand it too.

They'd be virtually as stupid as they imagine everyone else to be.

Thank you. You've given me much to think about, and few do that.
> I could see AirBnB reselling someone else's insurance perhaps.

If AirBnB and Uber want to "go legit," this would be a good way to do it: bargain with insurers for a discounted group rate, then require their "contractors" (i.e. employees) to be properly insured. They could even do the research on homeowner's insurance themselves, and make it nearly painless for employees to make sure they're obeying the law.
So if I have booths built at my nightclub that make it easier for dealers to sell smack without others being able to see...

If you advertised it as "NoMoreNicksLeft's House of Smack Dealing, totally anonymous drug-dealing booths, reasonable rates, guaranteed privacy and security for all your drug-dealing needs"... then I think you can see where the issue is.

And the issue with Silk Road is largely that it was explicitly designed to cater to, and advertised as catering to, illegal activity.
Tried to find the Darwin equivalent, without success. (Besides looking at the file, but where's the fun in that?)
The abstract rings true to me. In high-school I had a fetish for heavy rewording, formatting of notes. The more I formatted it (indentation, color coding, consistent abbreviations) the more I learned indirect relationships in the content.

Out of my hat, I tend to think that digital tools aren't good for learning, for they are too symbolic. I believe native interactions stimulate the brain more and feed more data to process that is useful for newcomers.
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This article also mentions somebody's reaction to Princess Kaguya as looking "unfinished" - I saw the the same comment elsewhere (on HN maybe?)

I am really taken aback by this - the watercolor/ink style may be a little bit unusual these days, but it's not as though animation has never been done in this style before, nor that artwork of this style is completely alien. There is a ton of this stuff.

Nor is this film extremely minimalist, and minimalism been done before too.

I'm starting to feel that the overly-detailed, extremely complicated CG animation and action scenes in most movies are having an adverse affect on our expectations, so we are becoming less able to appreciate something simple.

I could tie this back to software - so much of what we deal with evolves over time to be rather complicated, with a million features, and we beg for more.

Geez, things can be simple. It's not "unfinished" to be simple.
The idea that a static world implies monotonically increasing confidence in your beliefs is really shaky, logically. Hill-climbing in a landscape of belief-fitness could easily arrive at a local maximum. To further improve your beliefs you might need to become less certain.

Apart from that, how can something (confidence) increase in a static world? PG has clearly tossed this essay off without serious thought or discussion. A waste of time.
Any halfway decent programmer I've ever met or heard of loves programming. They'd do it even if it didn't happen to be hyper-lucrative. We just got lucky; we're passionate about something that the owning class happens to currently consider fashionable. Enjoy it while it lasts and try not to pretend it makes you better than anyone else.
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What is your opinion on the Blackberry Classic?

Do you think that it will help Blackberry get more revenue?
Or will it just be another flop?

And what do you think of the review by Crackberry.com?

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-classic-review
> If you're sufficiently expert in a field, any weird idea or apparently irrelevant question that occurs to you is ipso facto worth exploring.

My proudest creations all came from these weird ideas. Now I listen to them very carefully and nurture them. They're starting to cohere and turn from random ideas into an ideology. It will be fun to make that real.
Consider that you don't see "Anyone can be a physician" campaigns. Then again, physicians are unionised, if you consider the AMA a union. Why is it that unions are anathema in the programmer community when you can see that they work nicely for other professions?
The article ignores the risk of avoiding technical debt, YNGNI, where the `it` you're not gonna' need is the implementation of some set of future-proof architectural features. Or as Knuth put it:

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

The problem of making something worth maintaining has priority...and the software upon which it depends is often a second or third order priority. Facebook was built on PHP. That using PHP created technical debt was a nice problem to have on the way to the bank. None of which is to say that writing bad software is ok. It is to say that bad software includes software that wastes time trying to anticipate and solve the wrong problems at the wrong time for the sake of an ideal rather than current business needs.
AMPRNet: computer networks over amateur radio
Well, with LedgerSMB (http://www.ledgersmb.org), we forked from an absolutely horrid codebase. The author has been described by Matt Trout as "The guy Matt's Scripting Archive would have fired for bad coding." I mean the codebase was a total mess. Total, total, total mess.

After 6 years of refactoring we now have a framework in place to start on the financial logic. It shouldn't take us more than 6 years to get the rest rewritten.

One of the hidden costs of bad code is that it is contagious. After staring at bad code, it is very hard to write very good code. So it takes several revisions to go from bad code to good code, to get the patterns right, etc.
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I posted the cost part of the comment because I was pondering structural incentives and in that context, found out that particular drug had a foundation partner. I wasn't necessarily trying to weigh in on the good or the bad of it.

Short of gene therapy, addressing the defective protein is pretty much going to be done with drugs, so I don't find it particularly telling that they are putting resources there. CFF does seem to be involved in clinical care (but I'm not informed enough to figure out how much of that is self promotion and how much is substantive).

Anyway, the main point I had intended was that the price isn't just a function of what the company wants it to be, the buyers have to be willing to pay it (which sounds gross when talking about health care, but national health systems and insurance companies do worry some about whether treatments are worth what they cost).
A bit more information:

http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/wapr/tcpip/amprnet.html

"Back 1969, Norman Abramson launched Aloha Project at University of Hawaii. Motivated by the poor telephone lines in the Hawaiian Islands, funded by ARPA to investigate how to build a packet switched network based on fixed site radio links. At the University of Hawaii it was not really an option to use the PSTN or any form of cabling between Hawaii’s many islands. It opted instead to connect the seven colleges spread across four islands by the use of amateur radio. Norm performed a number of experiments around 1970 to develop methods to arbitrate access to a shared radio channel by network nodes. This system operated on UHF frequencies at 9600 baud. Abramson later developed a satellite version of ALOHAnet called PACNET."
The purpose of an analogy is to educate a concept using an approximation of another concept the person will understand. If the person in charge of risk management doesn't understand how risk accumulates in a codebase, they're far more likely to understand the model of technical debt than options calling.
So your point is that Putin only represses the oligarchs that dared to "bite the hand that fed"? OK, Khodorkovsky has spent 10 years in prison, been stripped of his billions and forced to leave the country upon release.

But Navalny and Kasparov are not, and have never been, oligarchs; however they are either in prison or in exile (I'm sure Kasparov would be prosecuted right now, but he chose to leave Russia in 2013).
Which is also the point of using a whole SWAT team to arrest a hacker.
It's a good paper, but what it hints at (but doesn't really come out and say) is that in separating concerns, functional programming actually eliminates concerns from the programmer. This isn't really just a question of the language -- you can do FP in any language.

But by thinking about programming differently, we can eliminate concerns entirely. This is what garbage collection does, and it is what FP does.
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I think you misunderstood me: sony did not worry about north korea's sensibility, as you seemed to imply it should have done, because north korea has never manifested any interest in it.
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There's no such thing as a 'crime in the philosophical sense.' If you're asking whether dealing drugs as a business should be illegal, that's irrelevant to the question of whether or not it is.

In the practical sense, federal and state statutes clearly consider dealing in certain substances to be a crime. Asking for a citation for that is absurd as you only need consult the source of your outrage with America's drug laws, as referenced in the grandparent comment, for evidence that such laws exist. That Ulbricht did so from a website for bitcoins doesn't make it any less of a crime than if he'd done it from a streetcorner, or a dark booth in a nightclub, regardless of whether or not makes him more sympathetic to the Hacker News crowd.

But, if you want to read the actual indictment against Ulbricht, here it is: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/February14/Ros...
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Maybe because "STEM" isn't a thing that exists.

"Oh, we're looking to hire a virologist. Or a algebreic geometer. Mechanical engineer maybe. Something like that."
Nowadays the economic incentives are the other way around. It used to be that pharmaceutical companies did everything in-house, from early discovery to clinical testing, and Central Research did discovery and lead optimization. That system provided stability for the employees.

Compare that to the pharmco carousel that you can see in action today in Boston and San Diego. The major players are IP brokers that buy startups with promising compounds (good if you are a lawyer or in marketing), but the science is done by university startups which are either bought out or fail, and the number of very capable people on postdocs (because they are between startups) is plain staggering. Try putting your kids through college doing that.

Is anyone surprised that I'm very suspicious of anyone preaching the startup gospel? They are inevitably venture capitalists or marketeers, or fresh out of college and still very green.
Your own server has much bigger chances to be banned than popular site. Because banning Facebook, Google, or ever Github will cause outrage amongst people who never heard about you.
I work with making technology teams deliver faster. It's nothing as complex and tricky as what Paul's doing, but I also get to see lots of teams and make correlations between people and performance.

One of the things I've noticed is that over a long period of time, the more arrogant and certain team members are, the less likely they are to deliver. Folks that are always learning have a tendency to kick ass. Not so much with folks who think they've already arrived. I read in an article on HN a few weeks back that Google calls this "intellectual humility" and looks for it as a hiring trait.
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Wow this is awesome thank you so much! I am barely getting into front-end development but this article is truly inspiring. I will definitely mirror your methodology when attempting to truly grasp the back-end side and I think it will be a great experience. I am firm believer that being able to teach others, is a vital part to truly understanding the material and your thought process along the way.
Yeah... That is probably be the case. But as someone who hadn't slept more than a few hours at a time due to my cold I was pretty sure I was losing my mind. If/when I go to the cold aisle this year I'll check and see if the packages are still there.
What are you whining about? What DO, Linode, etc. Have to do with anything????

OpenNTPd is extremely easy to configure. The problem is that it's not the default choice while, apparently, it should be. Same goes with almost all OBSD-derivates (OpenSMTPd, OpenSSHd, OpenNTPd, etc.).

Here is the first guide at google: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenNTPD

Feel free to ask, if you feel that there's something exotic that needs to be done before getting OpenNTPd to work.
The idea that a static world implies monotonically increasing confidence in your beliefs is really shaky, logically. Hill-climbing in a landscape of belief-fitness could easily arrive at a local maximum.

Exactly, and it's common to see that in many fields. People are persuaded by things that were bad ideas when they were new, and aren't swayed by new evidence to the contrary.

To further improve your beliefs you might need to become less certain.

Isn't that sort of the point of the essay?

Apart from that, how can something (confidence) increase in a static world?

I don't understand. Didn't your previous point argue exactly how hill-climbing could happen, and isn't that a (bad) example of confidence changing?

Or are you really arguing over the semantics changing beliefs in a static world? I hope you aren't; otherwise, like you said: A waste of time.
To me what makes functional programming matter and what differentiates it from OOP today is less its essential properties than the simple fact that it pushes you to think in terms of functions that process collections of objects rather than functions that act on a single one. This may look like a simple statement yet the implications are huge.

Now it doesn't reflect a property of FP as such, it only highlights one of the biggest shortcomings of OOP along mutability that we are slowly awakening to as a community.
The article mentions that silicon valley hasn't had a net increase in jobs since 1998 and links to this article:

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531726/technol...

"According to Chris Benner, a regional economist at the University of California, Davis, there has been no net increase in jobs in Silicon Valley since 1998; digital technologies inevitably mean you can generate billions of dollars from a low employment base."
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I tried to read the Paxos paper and gave up. The Raft paper I probably could've understood, but I found it easier to understand by looking at an implementation and a less formal description of it. I don't think it's about what you know (plenty of papers have few prerequisites and are conceptually quite simple).
But then driving for hire is not the same as car sharing.
"The portable version is outdated and in need of a maintainer." - http://www.openntpd.org/

The most recent version for OpenBSD is 4.6 while the "portable" one is 3.9 .
I disagree that Ghibli films are not as pretty as Pixar or Disney. In my (arguably subjective) eyes Ghibli animation seems much more aesthetically pleasing and "warmer-feeling" than CGI. And on a second notice, although I have huge respect for the artists that are involved in the production of Pixar films, it deeply saddens me to see that traditional animation seems like a second-class citizen in modern-day Hollywood. It's been years since I've last watched a high-profile traditionally animated film from western studios. And it's not just the style, I think that thematically and character-wise Pixar et al. films feel so generic when compared to eg. Nausicaa or Spirited Away or even Whisper of the Heart. And it's not only studio Ghibli, it always seemed to me that Japanese animators try to innovate a bit more thematically than their western counterparts. See for example the movies of Sathoshi Kon (like Paprika, or Millenium Actress). They have such a unique adult-oriented perspective on animated storytelling that is unlike anything Pixar has put out.
Here's what happens when you do that:

http://alt.org/nethack/player-all.php?player=WowDeath

Full article here: http://taeb-nethack.blogspot.com/2009/03/predicting-and-cont...
A more precise description of their strategy would be: "go after big enough not-fully-claimed markets on native-preferring countries".

Airbnb has great execution, but they didn't specifically go after Germany early on, so Rocket popped up a clone and on China as well. Almost got bought from Airbnb at some point but greed prevailed and deal fell through.

Same with Groupon and probably others I can't recall.
> Some of the secrecy was to make Churchill look good.

Surely the secrecy was critical to the ongoing success (if the Germans suspected they could improve their opsec if not completely change their systems)? Given that how do you instruct the general while leaking the absolute minimum about your knowledge?

Now a side effect may have been to make Churchill look good but for the duration of the war confidence in leadership would have been a generally good thing. I don't know how much Churchill played up his abilities after the war but to be honest it doesn't really worry me.
It is currently only in limited release (art-house-y theaters in cities like LA/NYC, etc, presumably to get early buzz and early Oscar consideration).

The real "wide" release for this movie is Christmas Day (Dec 25th). It shouldn't be hard to find a showing after that.
Sure (as I tried to point out) but that doesn't mean that (a) every manager in the company understands it or (b) people in other types of business/industry understand it. Claiming that the concept exists is pretty useless if the appropriate language isn't used to describe it. For example, telling my Dad that he really needs to abate his ingestion of sodium chloride is not going to be as effective as telling him to cut down on salt.
The OpenBSD 5.6 release notes http://www.openbsd.org/plus56.html show changes, so the non-portable version is being updated. You will see changes in previous releases.
And what good does that do us? With a decentralized network those who want to censor can't, so they can be ignored, even as they call for "some kind of censorship" (you can see then who they are, too).
This is definitely a waste of time but my point is that you don't need to have a changing (dynamic) fitness landscape for monotonicity to be insufficient in the long term - you could get stuck at a local maximum _even_ in a static world.

The second point is that drawing a line between the "world" and your beliefs about it is a pretty dopey dualistic way of thinking. But hey, Graham doesn't care that there might be real knowledge and valid experience of these matters in the accumulated history of philosophy or psychology, he just shoots from the hip with some flaky positivistic analogy with computation... Ridiculous.
Quite enjoyed the film but I think it's best scene (when they realise how to speed up the machine analysis and manage to decipher the latest transmission) is immediately followed by its worst (melodramatic revelation that one of the characters relatives was about to die).
Appreciate your kind words.

Have you set up your UUID and HASH according to the post? You'll actually need to run the app through mitmproxy yourself to get your unique credentials. Then, just drop those into the variables at the top of the script.

I just added some error handling to the script to make this a bit more obvious!
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777231
I hear many startup people talk about "domain expertise"

I wish someone would write about that.

What is an expert?

What is a domain?

How do I become a domain expert?

Am I an expert at something I take for granted?

I love Paul Graham's essays but there's a lot of implied logic and jargon. Maybe he should have a few non-startup, non-business people proof read them too?
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Another great mitm proxy is Charles Proxy http://www.charlesproxy.com/.

It has a really nice UI for looking at JSON responses such as the Kayak. Sometimes a collapsible tree is invaluable in looking through a response.

The easy filtering and formatting is primarily why I like it so much. Here is how it handles SSL for various ways http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/using-charles/ssl-...

Here is a screen shot of my iPhone Kayak app request for comparison http://imgur.com/gvKB6fr
What is your point? I'm saying that I simply pay attention in lectures; I don't use note taking or use my laptop. My laptop battery wouldn't last a whole lecture, anyway.
It's usually pretty obvious who wants to censor what information and why.