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That is kind of the point. They have made billions, an unqualified success, and they have triumphed over all of their rivals of the day. The only problem is the one the Jean-Louis points out, they are running out of road.

I was at Sun in 1988 when they decided to "go enterprise" in a big way. The focused on killing DEC and all the other workstation vendors, and partnered with AT&T to make UNIX a real Enterprise OS, combining System V, and BSD 4.2 (aka SunOS) into Solaris. It made them many billions of dollars, heck it paid for most of my house! But that road did not lead to them being a force in the Linux/*BSD world, nor supplying computers for that word. That was lost to the other server manufacturers and Sun Microsystems ran out of road. Long before Sun was effectively dead, they could have moved into a new space. They did not. Now they exist only as assets in the Oracle ledger.

Jean-Louis points out that Intel could be headed this way. They say big things but they seem unable to face the reality that the microprocessor world is changing in fundamental ways that make it hard to have giant gross margins on a single chip.

Intel has done great things, its a wonderful company, and it will die if it cannot figure out how to compete with ARM.
It's basically the Sears-Haack body with some engines bolted on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears%E2%80%93Haack_body
There is a tremendously conservative impulse inherent in the way people look at the natural world. The basic assumption for near all discussions is that all change is bad, the exact present situation absent the touch of humanity is good, and that the natural state is good.

All of these positions should be challenged.

The natural world changes constantly, even absent humanity. The natural state of predator-prey relationships is not stasis, the natural state of bacterial evolution and disease is definitely not stasis, and neither is the natural population or experience of individuals of a species in any given geographical area.

Further, and more importantly, the natural world is a state of constant, terrible suffering. Everything that can suffer does. Things that would make you flinch if they happened to your pets happen to animals everywhere, constantly. Pain, death, disease. The ethical future is one in which all of that suffering is removed, and the entire natural world replaced in order to enable that removal. Where naturally evolved machines without capacity to suffer cause suffering they should be removed, replaced, or altered: plants, fungi, viruses, bacteria, other free-roaming cellular organisms. Where higher organisms suffer they should be placed into managed environments where they can be protected while living as they would in the natural world, and where that life involved inflicting pain, they can inflict it on machine simulations that cannot feel.

We should not be looking to let things remain the same, or create areas where the horrors of nature continue unmolested. That is a repulsive and unethical position: requiring countless living beings capable of pain and suffering to undergo terrible experiences just because it makes you feel good.

The sooner we live in a completely unnatural world, the better. But I think a culture that is fine with the mass farming of animals for food and materials is a culture that is unlikely to buy the concept of eliminating nature in order to eliminate suffering. As a species we still have a lot of growing up to do in order to reach a bare minimum state of ethics worthy of the name.
> drug laws focused on a group of well-known chemicals have simply pushed users towards new and increasingly dangerous forms of chemical stimulation.

This

I often get spams from these businesses selling "legal highs" or something like that.And of course you wouldnt even know what you'd be buying... they always have fancy names like "koyotte""mdmazing" or "Dragon kiss" ...
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I've been using something similar for a while: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-linker/jlma...

Pro tip: Add an 'npm' shortcut to your chrome address bar. Link it to http://ghub.io/%s and 'npm <packagename>' will take you directly to the repo.

You can also do this in the shell with 'npm repo <packagename>'
DPI would be more of an issue than screen size, I think. I've got 2 portrait (1200x1920) 24" monitors side by side, one in front of me and one to the right: 28" wide, 22" high, for a 35" diagonal. It looks like this: http://quadruple-a.com/2_portrait_monitors.jpg

I find this works well, and isn't too overpowering. A 35"x23" arrangement would surely be no problem in terms of overall size - but you would be squeezing 1.8x as many pixels into rather less than 1.8x the space. Not sure my favourite 6x13 xterm font would look so good any more...

(I also tried adding a 3rd identical monitor on the left (total 42" wide, 22" high, 47" diagonal), and this looked perfectly manageable. So I'd probably be able to handle a 50" monitor... maybe. 3 monitors all lined up was starting to look a bit intimidating. And in the end Linux wouldn't display anything on the 3rd monitor anyway, so what it would actually be like in practice, I couldn't say.)
If you have a mac or linux system, I would just learn whatever is already installed on the machine. For most systems this would be python 2.7.X. This will be a good version to learn the basics of python and most third party libraries will be compatible with it.
Renderers and other "old technologies" has nothing to do with SSL. Typically you insert a reverse proxy in between the client and server to handle SSL encryption on the fly - it is completely transparent to the server stack.
The universe is (most likely..) made of atoms, protons electrons etc. On the other hand is seeing is done by the seer.. So we define where stuff begins and ends, and if we disagree about it, well, that's just fine.
"Is my electricity company being unfair because they offer discounts during low usage hours?"

I agree with your point. Here though is how a typical person thinks from what I have found and observed.

1) It's ok to offer a discount off the "regular" price for any reason. That's always a positive.

2) It's almost never accepted to charge more than "normal" or you appear to be "ripping off" or taking advantage" or possibly "gouging".

This has to do a great deal with people's expectations as far as "what is typical and normal" not so much with economic rationality.

For example if you went to a restaurant that had very fairly priced food but they charged you for the napkins you'd probably think that was "messed up". You wouldn't even really care if the price of hamburgers was 20% less than a competitor. All you would think is "wow that's screwed up look they are charging me for napkins!".

Now part of this also comes from many people who comment who possibly never have run a business ever and are consumers. Not that people who run businesses don't have their own thoughts. To that point I think someone who is narcissistic would tend to have a harder time with this than someone who is not. (Speculation on my part). Because they only believe that they have a right to make money not someone else.

I personally think it makes sense to charge more during peak times and when they can. That ends up subsidizing times (in theory) when they can't make money. And keeps them in business.

I do some consulting on the side. For arguments sake I should be charging, (let's say) $3000 for "$x" amount of work. However I get clients that can't afford that so I charge them (let's say) $1000. To make up for it I now have to charge some clients $5000 (because they can afford that and agree) and so the $5k clients end up subsidizing the $1k clients. If everyone had to be charged the same exact price I wouldn't be able to offer consulting at all because there wouldn't be enough customers at a fixed rate like that.
I'm seeing ssl_session_tickets in the final configuration, but not above.
Ambiguity is one of the most fascinating things about natural language, because it leads to all kinds of misunderstandings, and so much of our knowledge of each other is constructed from how we speak to each other and what we say. Yet still, through all of the ambiguity, I suspect that we all understand each other much better than we believe or not much of value would have ever been created.

So much of how we talk to each other is about faith that we are understood. If you lose that faith, you start to question whether other people know who you are and what you mean. In reality, I don't think anyone can ever know, although some people may come close.

Formal language tries to eliminate ambiguity, because throughout history many people have realized what you have. There's nothing wrong with eliminating ambiguity, but it is important to recognize its purpose and place, and to get comfortable with informal language where it is needed. Artistry also lies in knowing what to leave undone, after all.
Is it still 25 years away from being available to commercial airlines, like the wikipedia article mentions? Can't wait! :)
HTTPS may be enough to hide from the trivial bulk collections, such as the infamous Folsom St. beam-splitter. If they are targeting and are willing to invest in the time/effort to MitM your HTTPS connections, they will probably find a way anyway (QUANTUM has a lot of options, etc).

Now, as you say, the "cooperating agreement" trick where they just strong-arm industry with a national security letter and personal threats against the CEO to force compliance is a much bigger problem, which really needs to be addressed. ASAP.

/of course, then there are the companies that are collaborators... sigh
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Isn't it the case that Intel Atom has been just that little bit too power hungry compared to Arm chips? They can't quite convince anyone to use them without large subsidies.

I know they've been making some headway in this regard, but the perception is still there that Atom is too heavyweight to stick in a phone.
Oh nice! I had no idea this problem was already solved. I'm using ghub.io in the background as well.

Also it seems that I learn a new `npm` CLI command every few days!
This makes me feel better about giving up my car a few years back and mostly walking everywhere.

Which is to say I don't think it's completely hopeless. I think there are things we can do.
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What a wonderful year-end gift to lovers of music, math and the Beatles. So thank you.
It could, in theory, be a problem if their HTML rendering software is generating a lot of absolute URLs that link back to the same host.
I didn't say that it wasn't, I'm well aware alcohol is a drug as is nicotine but I am referring to the topic of discussion which is psychedelics.

I thought this was Hacker News not reddit.
I would not doubt Cicero would have said that regarding Eleusian Mysteries. He was a politician during a time when the Caesar was worshipped as a god, and massive bureaucracies of priests evangelized his divinity as "Pontifex Maximus", highest priest of the Roman state religion. Like the Greeks, the Romans had similar initiation rituals and mysteries to inculcate the population into their mythologies espousing Caesar as god. To me, it sounds like Cicero is simply admiring the implementation of the Eleusian Mysteries, the result of which was a "cultivated", "refined", "happy" population -- all synonymous with an obedient population.

Regarding a citation of the Eleusian Mysteries ushering in the dark age, I don't have anything specific other than the fact that they were correlated in time. Since they were mysteries, the curators of which went to great lengths to guard their secrets, facts are hard to come by. Substitute Eleusis for Egyptian magic rituals, the Roman imperial cult, or other state religions, and I think you'll see similar patterns.

But I think it's useful to ask, why did these mystery religions use occulted knowledge? Why keep knowledge from groups of people, if not to keep them in the dark as a means of controlling them? Are these mysteries not akin to the noble lie which Plato discussed in The Republic?

Myths, combined with psychedelic drugs, which provide emotional catharsis and grandiose visions, are an effective way to /mystify/ people. Mysticism, by way of confusing, offers a means to control an individual by providing an opportunity to substitute or suggest the reality the hierophants want their initiates to believe.

This is the opposite of the scientific discovery, reason, and the challenging of traditional authority that marked The Enlightement.
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I believe that the future is in the smart technologies like internet of things, smart watches and smart cities/homes/cars, and I would love to work in this direction
I pray for your sense of humor, and look fondly towards seeing those horridly childish examples removed.

This is quite an elegant piece of software, and your readme is doing it little service.
First, please don't pretend that the "medical community" is a homogenous body that produces broad consensus on complex matters. There is and always has been a significant amount of debate amongst medical professionals on a variety of topics.

The topic of cholesterol provides many examples of this. For years, it was widely believed that raising the levels of HDL cholesterol would reduce the risk of heart disease. On that belief alone, many doctors regularly prescribed niacin to patients. Yet a few years ago, a study basically revealed that while niacin did raise HDL levels, it didn't reduce heart disease risk[1]. What's worse, more recent studies have revealed that niacin may have exposed patients to unacceptable risk[2].

To be clear: if you were ever diagnosed as having low HDL cholesterol, there's a good chance that your doctor would have recommended that you consider a treatment that not only would have been ineffective but exposed you to risk. All based on a widely-promoted hypothesis we now have ample evidence is flawed.

On the topic of obesity, there is growing evidence that obesity is not the cause of a significant number of the most expensive health problems thought of as being caused by or strongly associated with obesity. Take Type 2 diabetes. Recent studies[3] show that it's a very complex condition, and genetics likely plays a more significant role than thought. Somewhat disturbingly, a longitudinal study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that "An intensive lifestyle intervention focusing on weight loss did not reduce the rate of cardiovascular events in overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes." That calls into question the notion that even weight loss is a panacea for Type 2 diabetes.

You may not like my use of the word asinine, but if you're going to suggest that a magic pill for obesity "would deliver hundreds of billions of dollars worth of improved health outcomes in the US," you should at least have some evidence to back it up. To do that, however, you have the very high barrier of establishing that a) obesity in meaningful part causes the costly conditions promoted as being obesity-related and b) reduction of obesity would provide a significant enough benefit to eliminate a meaningful portion of the costs associated with these conditions. More and more research shows this is not the case.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/health/policy/27heart.html

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/taking-niacin-for-the-heart-may-...

[3] http://consumer.healthday.com/diabetes-information-10/misc-d...

[4] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1212914
> With linear algebra the library HMatrix is broken in more than one place, it also requires me to learn a lot of new types just to do simple matrix decomposition.

What was broken about HMatrix? What library has the best API to you? Algebra[0] from Node?

var algebra = require('algebra');

var M = algebra.MatrixSpace;
var R = algebra.Real;

// Create the space of 2x2 real matrices
var R2x2 = new M(R, 2);

// Create two invertible matrices:
//
// | 1 2 | | -1 0 |
// | 3 4 | and | 0 1 |
//
var m1 = new R2x2.Matrix([1, 2,
3, 4]);

var m2 = new R2x2.Matrix([-1, 0,
0, 1]);

// Multiply m1 by m2 at right side
// | 1 2 | * | -1 0 | = | -1 2 |
// | 3 4 | | 0 1 | | -3 4 |
m1.mul(m2);

console.log(m1.data); // [-1, 2, -3, 4]

// Check out m1 determinant, should be 2 = (-1) * 4 - (-3) * 2
console.log(m1.determinant.data); // 2

> Regular expression in haskell requires me to learn a completely new way to do them, I am not under the impression that regular expression is broken in any way in python or javascript that it requires new syntax.

What new syntax? I'm not sure what you mean by "learn a completely new way to do them".

Haskell (pcre-light[1]):

> import Text.Regex.PCRE.Light
> let numberRgx = compile "[0-9]+" []
> match numberRgx "the answer is 42" []
Just ["42"]

Node:

/[0-9]+/g.exec("the answer is 42")[0];

Haskell (regex-tdfa[2]):

> import Text.Regex.TDFA
> "the answer is 42" =~ "[0-9]+" :: String
"42"

Ahh, I think I see what you mean now. You want the familiar /regex/string syntax right? There used to be a QuasiQuoter (template haskell library) that allowed syntax like:

ghci> [$rx|[0-9]+|] "the answer is 42"
Just ["42"]

However it[3] seems to have bitrotted and everyone else is using the "needle" =~ "match" syntax.

EDIT: Found a useful website comparing language implementations, namely regex in perl vs Haskell:

http://langref.org/haskell+perl/pattern-matching

0: http://g14n.info/algebra/examples/quick-start

1: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcre-light

2: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa

3: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regexqq (bitrotted)
There is a union of people who "do stuff in front of a screen and keyboard" and they help negotiate laws in California which ensured that contract engineers are not paid for overtime, while writers are paid for overtime:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8748894
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The blunt reality is that us meatbags are utterly ill-suited in every way to exist anywhere other than Earth (or someplace very Earth-like), and it requires a staggering amount of resources to climb uphill against that fact. I'm happy that we went to the moon (a truly mind-blowing achievement), and I hope that a human someday walks on Mars; but in an age of robotics, manned space travel is no longer the optimal way to explore or conduct research. Even its utility as a PR stunt has rapidly diminishing returns.

The good news is that the ever-growing sophistication of mechanical devices gives our species incredible "virtual fingers" to probe and interact with the cosmos, whether for research, or industry (such as asteroid mining, and perhaps someday, long-term terraforming).

And of course, I hold out hope that our cyborg/android/AI great-grandchildren will someday roam the stars in a way that we primates can only dream of.
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I'm a young engineer who dropped out of school and moved to SF to pursue my startup. Although that didn't work out, I did find another promising startup that I'm really enjoying working at and am learning a lot from, although I'm getting paid a pretty low salary for a developer. After a year, my lease is now ending and I'm thinking about taking 9 months off to travel and take the last class needed to finish my degree before I get weighed down with even more stuff and responsibilities. I've wanted to do this my entire life, but I'm super nervous about leaving a job I actually enjoy, losing my connections, and the difficulty in resettling in SF. I've spent the last 3 years of my life working almost every waking moment and can barely imagine a life without work now. I'm a little worried I'll get bored if I'm not working. Has anyone done this early on in their career? Should I do something that really excites me or should I hang on to a job that I really enjoy?
Maybe there is a difference between an idea and a concept. I have an idea of a cloud. I have no strong concept of a cloud, and that would not matter unless faced with a problem that required a strong concept of a cloud in order to resolve the problem.

Is there a problem? Seems to me if there were an actual and important problem whose solution were dependent on "what a cloud is" then you would have no shortage of conceptualizations. What then matters is to what extent they are useful for resolving problems.

I believe this is quite normal and our conceptualizations of ideas change as the problems we face change. For instance, you can always ask what does Justice, the Idea, mean. People have developed concepts over time and applied them. The success leads to further problems, asking again what Justice means, and further concepts.
Recycling old batteries into solar cells
I don't think off-side rule languages get enough credit; python probably has the best syntax aesthetics of any language out there. I like how the author realized a bunch of interesting features (pattern matching) with this syntax.
I actually read about a terrifying drug made by cheap materials in Russia (easy to self create) named Crocodile... Skin gets eaten and it's very horrifying to see long term users, carefull not for the weak of heart :s http://goo.gl/wiAXNx
While I personally am confused about this part of Intel's strategy, I can't avoid the feeling that Intel (and Rockchip) know something I don't.

Maybe it's some kind of "white-label" conspiracy - Intel wanting to sell Atoms cheaply through a 3rd party so they don't need to dilute the Intel brand (and Wall-Street observed profit margin).

Maybe they are planning subsidies for the next 20 years (Intel was always playing the long game), and this is their way to avoid anti-trust, which would surely hit if they are actually successful.

They are at a huge disadvantage in the market, and they seem to have no technical advantage in mobile and tablets so far. But this does not seem like a desperate strategy - it seems the goal is different than "sell more now". It might just be red queen style "keep running in order to stay in place until we can figure out something else".

HP RISC cpus are gone. Alpha AXP is gone. AMD is mostly playing catch-up. IBM Power cpus are sort-of alive, but it is not an Intel competitor at this point. I hope Intel's dominance wanes and competition arrives again - but I'm not holding my breath.
They talk over and over about their engine, when there are plenty other hard problems they do not have solutions for. For instance light enough cryogenic fuel tanks don't exist. This was part of the reason the Venture Star / X-33 never met their weight budget.
The author of the linked article addresses Bachman's story, and offers some seemingly compelling reasons why he thinks Bachman was mistaken about some things.

I say "seemingly compelling" because much of this is over my head!
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I dearly wish that in all the MJ legalization that some company would start extracting the chemical pain reliever and the appetite stimulant. We reduced smoking at it would be nice to have these in other forms.
Yup, it's freaking hilarious. It's something like "Opium Wars 2: Revenge of the Chinese".
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it! What is `ubuntu-defaults-image` ?

I have asked on askubuntu a while ago, [1] and noone brought up this.

[1] Where do I start to create my own Ubuntu derivative? http://askubuntu.com/questions/483002/where-do-i-start-to-cr...
Teens still prefer print books
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