skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defining value is the same problem as creating a set of ranked preferences on reachable world states (rather than candidates). You agree with this in your third sentence - a ranked preference implies a utility function exists and vice versa (provided the set of states is countable).

Arrow's Theorem says that you can't construct a set of ranked preferences from individual utility functions in a reasonable way. Throwing in extra assumptions (like cardinal preferences) allows you to do so. But if you scroll up, you'll see that Retra was arguing against a price-based (i.e. cardinal) construction.

I claim that if Retra ever actually bothers to write down his definition of value to society it will be unreasonable. But given his unwillingness so far, I think he's just using "value to society" as a meaningless feel-good phrase to justify whatever policy he likes.

The easiest way to prove me wrong would be to actually clearly state your definition of "value to society". Strangely, no one is willing to do that.
RMS would very likely respond to this by frequently changing the plugin interface and updating only the blessed plugins. Linux is not entirely dissimilar in how it does device drivers.
There is also a case for making highly optimized C performance easier to attain, without needing to resort to unsafe code. You can do this by providing more invariants to the compiler via a better type system, which gives it more room to optimize. It may never get to the performance of hand-optimized stuff, but for that there is unsafe code blocks.
Not necessarily, if this card ever gets popular enough that it's worth the trouble in a first place, cracker can simply presume that at least some of the leaked passwords are created with it. He can then just go though the passwords one by one, decipher the last segment (this can be done very quickly), substitute it with the encrypted email domain (the email is also in the leaked DB) and check if the login works. If vulnerable passwords are in the DB they will all be found, and fairly fast, too. Once the cracker gets access to you email account all your bases are belong to him, he can then get even into the sites where you didn't use the password card at all, simply by using the forgotten pass link.
Shouldn't it be "A free letter to RMS" =)

I have a feeling Dr. Stallman remembers EGCS, xemacs and much more. What's the old BSD saying "Shut up and hack!" ... amusing s/eliza/M-x doctor/ may also remember the tcl wars also.
This may sound like a reductio at absurdum, but if that innovation threaten your ability to survive, you will be very reluctant to research it, won't you? Gcc has been the very foundation of gnu, it's the cornerstone of the whole ecosystem: you cannot run Linux (or hurd) without compiling it first. Imagine you'd be commissioned to the fabrication of a virus immune to all known forms of treatments for the purpose of using it to hotpatch cancerous cells. Obviously this tech could have much more dangerous applications, and without a way to disable it, noone would stand a chance. In that scenario, wouldn't you try to reduce this virus' immunity to the minimum needed for its planned usage?
"We don’t even want people like you in our subdivisions".
It happens even now. I see in our Boston suburb, whites usually abandon apartment communities that increasingly host foreign workers. And that's not because of violence. I really don't find it bizarre and it's perfectly natural. We find ourselves more comfortable among people of our own kind. If that's not acceptable then nationalism too shouldn't be because that's another kind of discrimination and at a different level.
Doesn't the kindle have some limited lending capabilities? In any case it's pretty simple to strip the DRM from ebooks.
The easiest way to show you can define something is to write down the definition. It's odd that you are unwilling to define a term so central to your original thesis.

(Also you clearly don't understand Arrow's theorem at all.)
An attacker might setup a malicious site to collect passwords. They could also modify the server to record passwords when the user logs in.
> In the world RMS wants, Apple would not have the right to develop Swift and make it proprietary.

I am glad that you are more clear about this position of his than he is himself. Personally, I would never have guessed it.
For single precision single argument functions you can exhaustively test to obtain data about the accuracy of the results.
I don't think it's conceptual. It's a technical detail. If they had been implemented differently, this would have made little difference to the programmer using Scala.

Again, Objects aren't Java interfaces, so I guess the whole discussion is moot :)
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Thanks. I think you might be right about the paypal thing. I've been reading up on some articles. The general consensus seems to be that if you know the person, it's probably OK to give away bank details (ie, landlord). However, the people I'm talking with are random strangers off the internet, so their intentions are more difficult to figure out.

I'm leaning towards paypal now. I think I can offset the risk of chargeback by writing some built in locking and then releasing it after x days. Would that be okay?

Maybe I'm just being too pessimistic.
> What ever could go wrong playing with nature? :-)

No offense (seriously), but this argument is the biggest load of bullshit.

Do you think there are any major food sources that just developed, as is, naturally? Pretty much every vegetable, fruit, grain, or pulse - has been selectively developed by humans, many over the course of thousands of years. The bananas we eat can't even reproduce without our direct intervention. Animals, too, both livestock and pets - that dachshund wasn't running wild in the forest before we tamed it.

We've been playing with nature as long as we've been able to do so. Genetic engineering is just a better set of tools for it. Somehow, though, people have convinced themselves that the selective breeding process is safer than direct genetic manipulation. Because, of course, breeding crops based on taste or visual appeal makes for safer and better development of crops - why pick the specific traits you want when you can just fumble about for generations without a clear idea of what you're gonna get?

Should we be careful? Sure, in this as in all things we do; but the fact that the technology is new isn't the reason why.
It does have an infomercial vibe to it, but the groupthink on HN is strong and easy to exploit.
While I assume one could, I'm not sure it would be easy to implement web search in Ethereum?

First of all, you would need a way for a contract to be able to access webpages to get information about links. I the contract could pay people to give it the content of a webpage? I'm not sure how it would verify it for non https websites, without getting copies from multiple users, which would cause problems if the webpage was not static.

Second of all, the memory to store what pages link to what pages would, I think, be expensive for contract storage. Maybe if it used swarm?

I guess it would use swarm.

Still, the contract would have to have a short running time (in order to be relatively inexpensive). Maybe if instead of the contract producing the results, it would have others create the results, and then verify them in some way, and reward those that created the results?

I don't know.

I don't really know my stuff, but it seems to me that implementing a decentralized search engine with Ethereum would be fairly difficult.
According to Amazon, there are at least two "The Three Body Problem"s (ha!), one by Cixin Liu and one by Catherine Shaw. Which one do you recommend?
>people of our own kind

We're all humans? Aren't we all our own kind? There is no need to make further segregation.
There's minikanren which is a library that's implemented in many different languages.

Have a look at Clojure's core.logic for an example.
They could always hire other programmers to do that. And there's real value in having that option, or getting software from a community that works like that, most famously the Linux distro scene.
I didn't mean to argue about the virtue of the actual landing page (it doesn't 'sell' the language, but I'm fine with that), only of tying your complaint to a GitHub page rather than the actual landing page. (Was it maybe an errant cut-and-paste?)
Whenever I hear about Microsoft, I just think irrelevant.
Am I bad?
Sometimes I think I might have missed out on something, but in 30+ years of programming I've never done any real development on it (unless you count java), and I often go months without encountering it (except for remote desktop occasionally).

I think it was good to have competition Apple/Linux/Google, but it doesn't seem like they've kept up.
> If you have that, there is nothing to crack.

Alice is a system administrator of xyz.com. She has access to the password that Bob uses on xyz.com. By reverse engineering Bob's password on xyz.com, Alice can then attack Bob's account on pqr.com.
The utopia he desired circa ... 1988 or so was one where all programmers were paid to do their thing by the government, and all software was his type of free.
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Yes it does. I'm SOL. On my SGS3 with both Chrome and FF I get:

Error: Rendering to floating-point textures is required but not supported.

And on my Ubuntu 14.10 laptop with X1400 I get:

Uncaught Error: link error: error: Too many vertex shader texture samplers
re: great Wikipedia entries, I also enjoy the thoroughness of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
Any reason you want to do this in WP and not using a javascript solution like Google Analytics?

Backend page view tracking is not compatible with most forms of response caching.
They're not equal from the viewpoint of the FSF, and since this is an issue about FSF Gnu EMACS using such output from the FSF GCC, that mostly political detail is highly relevant.
I'm not a lawyer, but from what I understand - you can't simply re-license the existing code, because the copyright does not belong to you. You could add your own GPL-licensed improvements to the code though, in which case consumers would need to abide by the terms of the GPL (because they're consuming both the original BSD-licensed code and your GPL-licensed code).
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Idris and its siblings is quite futuristic. Prolog (and other logic programming like kanren) was even weirder than that, it felt timeless; out of the map. Seeing demos of embedded interpreters for inverted evaluation was unbelievable.
There's ethic, and there is practicalities. RMS stands by the former, while many engineers think mostly about the later. I wouldn't say that thinking ethically is a bad thing, but it may hamper things, because it usually deals very poorly with a situation already unethical in nature.

There are more than 7 billions people on Earth, but barely enough resources to content everyone. Pushing resource extractions will damage the ecosystem, but not doing so will provoke millions of deaths. Preserving nature is a laudable goal IMHO, wouldn't you agree?
That quote was referring to racist homeowners who were planning to leave when Asian Americans moved in:

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"The same issue affected Asian-Americans. When progressive suburban developer Joseph Eichler’s company sold a home in 1954 to an Asian-American family in Palo Alto, word spread through the neighborhood and five homeowners approached the company demanding immediate refunds.

'Get out,' Eichler’s business partner, Jim San Jule, told the white homeowners. 'We don’t even want people like you in our subdivisions.'"

---

Segregation is an insidious evil that can exacerbate problems such as violence and poverty for generations after legal controls or social pressures disappear. See: the entire city of Chicago and the issues it has faced.

"Seperate but equal" was abandoned by SCOTUS decades ago. Maybe it's time for you to catch up.
Chilling Effects is still listed on DuckDuckGo. They didn't remove themselves from there.
> Look at OS X, why does it use such an ancient version of Bash? Why is apple so afraid of the GPLv3? It's not just an oversight. The GPLv3 provides strong patent protection for its users and Apple uses patents as a weapon. An example of this powerful weapon was Apple's conspiracy to suppress wages by threatening companies who poached Apple employees with patent suits.

The Linux kernel developers also oppose the GPLv3. Are they enemies as well?
To me he resembles Kim Dotcom.
Creatine (monohydrate) is another very beneficial supplement for most people. It has well-studied mental benefits if you don't get a lot of dietary creatine (mainly red meat). Tip: it'll dissolve nicely in your hot coffee.
While I agree there is no reason to segregate along artificial "racial" lines, with seven billion people its not the same as living in a "tight knit" village. Sometimes foes arise and you need to segregate to that extent. Also in the workforce you need to segregate on ability ; in education among age/development/ability lines.
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I've always enjoyed the #startups channel on freenode, but I hate IRC and would love to have another venue to connect to fellow HNers.
Reminds me of the MtGox guy who rolled his own ssh server in PHP. Wonder if it was used in production?
In addition you have the reverse now happening where parents seek out Asian neighborhoods for the better schools and a sharp focus on education.
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On a Galaxy S5, it works glitchily in Chrome and not at all in Firefox.
A tip if you already use lifecycle programs: Set up your marketing automation tool to automatically unsubscribe your recipients from the program, if they are not opening the first 2-3 emails (thereby showing a lack of interest in the specific program). This allows you to keep a higher percentage of email permissions, which you can use for less frequent communication.

Otherwise a large part of the uninterested segment will end up revoking their email permission, i.e. Unsubscribing from your permission base entirely.
Don't forget alcohol! Watching people climb up on a pedestal and try and tell me that alcohol is somehow not a drug makes my blood boil every damn time I hear it. I think it's hard to correct these people's thinking because our society drills the very phrase "drugs AND alcohol" into children's brains from a very early age including in the DARE programs in our schools. Somehow everyone is okay with casual abuse of alcohol because they don't think of it as a drug. "What else can you take into your body that fucks you up like alcohol does, but is not a drug?" is the retort I've been using in recent years.
Sanity check: Wasn't this posted on HN before?

Regardless. It's awesome that a browser with WebGL can achieve that kind of speed and behavioral complexity. Is ray tracing the reflections part of OpenGL? Or is that a separate library?
Yep, the extent of any programming we did with it was writing a bunch of facts about family relationships and then asking questions about relationships. Basic stuff. It was interesting, but hardly ground breaking.
Well, true enough, it is pretty much MacGyver on Mars.

But I found it riveting. A neighbor gifted me a copy and forced my first book all-nighter in quite awhile.

Part of its variance in reader appeal may have to do with reader empathy, or perhaps susceptibility having one's mind rooted by an author. On first pass, I simply could not read page by sequential page. I had to skip ahead to make sure he made it through the crisis of the moment, then I'd go back to read how he did it. Too stressful to not find the answer by looking in the back of the book.

I think this happened for me because Weir's portrayal of the engineering and science underlying the plot was so realistic and accurate. I could (and in fact, was forced to) imagine myself in Watney's predicament - WTF would I do? And Weir dragged me into the story that way.

I recommend it. If it's not to your taste, pass it on. It's likely we all know someone who would enjoy it.

(Edit for spelling)
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A presentation from Wes McKinney, the author of Pandas, given at Data Day Austin.
> I don't think GCC is under any threat of being abandoned any time soon.

Look harder. clang+llvm have a superior (because more modern) design with easy plugins and complete openness while the gcc toolchain carries with it the state of the art of the 90s. It was a remarkable product back then but in the 21st century, it's showing its age.

And I'm not even talking about the license aspects here, which also matter quite a bit (clang+LLVM have a license that is much more in line with real world needs than gcc does).

gcc is on a clear path to obscurity and obsolescence.
I don't quite get the supposed-earnings math on the "$200-an-email" example. Sure, you get cash up front - but at the cost of one month's fees (the prepay discount).

Whether that's a win would seem to depend on other variables never discussed, for example what your cost of cash is from other sources, and whether the year-prepay has other benefits (like preventing mid-year lapses due to payment problems or customer second thoughts).
It's simple: We kill the recruiters.
> It doesn't make sense for everybody to have it on their keyboards just to serve low-level developers.

It did in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_request
I still have to enable it in chrome://flags as of the last official GNU/Linux release. It is enabled by default in Windows releases in my experience.
How low can Bitcoin go?
Well, let's be honest, there are groups/divisions of people. Although the biggest divisions are, imo, related to wealth, not race.
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I dunno...me and my cousin call it "farm logic"...nothing more than a version of TANSTAAFL. My guess is that the side effects of these controlled substances will be shown in the long run to be net negative on health and life quality, just like alchohol, meth, sugar, and anything else that throws the body out of equilibrium for short-term gain. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
This is an old one from Reddit and is still not an interesting idea.
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I remember trying to run this on my phone previously and it not working. I also remember it causing my cup fan to fire up when I played with it on my laptop. The fact that the iPhone 6 runs this so well is pretty dang cool.
There is already a startup slack group which is active: startupfoundation.slack.com
First time in the last three years that I bothered reading an article on Techcrunch.
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If the end goal is to turn a long, comprehensible password like "correcthorsebatterystaple" into something not remotely subject to a dictionary attack, then merely shifting your fingers over on the keyboard by one key is much more convenient: "vpttrvyjptdrnsyyrtudys[;r". Sure, it suffers from the same short-comings as mentioned above (it's still a substitution cipher), but it's much more convenient than going to the card for each individual letter. "vottrvyjptdrnsyyrtudys[;r" is as quick to type as correcthorsebatterystaple but much™ more™ secure™.
<= NOT a graphics programmer, in this era anyway. Back in my graphics days getting Phong shading working on a 286 was amazing to me.

So, does that Flex system BASICALLY imply that in another few decades the individual granularity of those particles will become so small and so numerous that we'll basically be modeling liquids and solids at the molecular level? It seems to me that it's only a lateral step then to mimic the fluid like effects of explosive forces being applied to solids.
Given that the reason people need to keep them alive is to stay in the FREE tier without the downside - it seems that they would not then turn around and PAY for that to happen.
They all voted for Obama but god forbid their neighbors look like him.
because frameworks with bigger userbases survive, and keep getting developed. persuading people to move from angular to competitors is a survival tactic. if the next evolution is ignored while a lesser one gets all the press (derby/meteor?) the latter wins out.

i have a suspicion all the angular hate is to take away from its momentum so other neglected frameworks get deserved attention.
His position makes complete sense then, because proprietary software developers you just incorporate Clang and ignore GCC. It might just be the case free software advocates and those who release under the GPL do not want to trade ethics for market share.

That is a better situation than GCC being the only show in the house and every company trying to find a way to break the GPL around GCC so they can reuse it without releasing source.
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There's a huge demand for housing of any kind in the Bay Area, so it doesn't surprise me that areas like East Palo Alto and the Bayview are going to face a lot of demographic upheaval, unless new housing units are brought online in other areas.

There doesn't seem to be any appetite whatsoever for filling in more of the San Francisco Bay to create land, and there are restrictions and conservation easements on most of the land stretching from 280 to the Coastside.

One possible area to expand into would be Coyote Valley, south of San Jose, which was a growth target during the first dot.com bubble in 1999, around a Cisco campus. If Caltrain could put in a station there, along with express lines, that may open up a middle-class area to new housing opportunities.
It is MIT based, which is GPL compatible, so yeah, you can make GPL only changes in your own Clang fork and if anyone uses your changes in their own Clang fork regardless of what all the other code is licensed under they are now beholden to the GPL.

Which is why I really don't get the doom and gloom around GCC here. Architecturally LLVM makes huge sense. If you are a free software advocate it makes all the sense in the world as well to continue developing GCC until such a time where the technical merits of LLVM are too great to ignore.

And then you just release GNULVM as a fork of LLVM under the GPL and continue on your merry way. Merge in all the good stuff from GCC and upstream patches from LLVM into your working tree and get the best of both worlds, because as long as new contributions are GPL you are not enabling the deprivation of user freedoms.
A better title might be, How Low Should Bitcoin Go?
Maybe Mozilla blacklisted the extension: Qualcomm drivers are apparently quite awful.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2013/09/26/dolphin-emulator-and...
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We canceled cable when my first kid was born. Best thing I ever did. It's such a time suck. Even if you think you don't watch that much, you probably still do... And that's time you could be spending something useful. Now I wonder how anyone who watches TV every day actually gets anything done.
Is ability innate or informed by environment?

If you segregate individuals into sub-standard education, you end up with people who's ability doesn't match their potential.
Why is it "not very nice" to GPL a fork of a BSD-licensed project?

If an author believes in their permissive license, they shouldn't complain about how their code is used.

Edit: fixed a typo.