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The idea that people are uninformed is a toxic attitude to this whole issue. Threads like these are full of 'sheeple' statements. Counter points or arguments are aggressively down voted and anyone who doesn't share the exact point of view of a poster is tacitley insulted as being uninformed.

A conversation requires both parties to be willing to listen, and it also requires some perception that ideas and concepts are actually up for debate.

That's not going to happen so long as people who claim to think this is important refuse to try and understand any of the broader dynamics of it.
I had an HP200LX (still have actually) and it was fabulously useful - a full CGA DOS computer that ran on 2 AA batteries for 40 hours and fitted in your pocket.

It had XIP (Execute-in-Place) applications built into the ROM which ran instantly, including Lotus 1-2-3.

I kept all my finances on the (built-in) Pocket Quicken and organised my Calendar, Address Books, Writing, you name it. Even printing was a doddle - I just pointed its Infra-Red port at the Office Laser Printer and it printed quite happily.

I used it as an e-reader, turning it on its side like a book, before e-readers even existed.

It was so fabulously useful I find it hard to believe that they weren't more widely used!
Because even fraternities' lawyers are not idiots, and they know that nothing good would come of that, even if it could be proven that Jackie's telling the story to a reporter was tortious (which it might not even be).
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I think this is most interesting not so much as a Snowden interview or John Oliver clip, but a highlighting of the delta between the mainstream and people who have a particular interest in this topic. It's easy to forget just how big that delta is.
http://xkcd.com/1508/
http://agrowisata.livejournal.com/637.html
This comes up every now and again. Some people seem to like living this way. They're usually young men, although this article mentions a family (but gives no details). It certainly requires shearing off all commitments that might require you to have stuff.

While being very far from "minimalist", I've moved house and helped a few people move over the past year, and every time there is a large chunk of stuff which has to be thrown away. Sometimes it's old tat, sometimes it's genuinely useful and once valuable but consumes too much space (sofas are a particular problem, but furniture and kitchen goods are often victims of this). I don't like throwing things away which have pleasant associations or are still useful, and this leads me to avoid acquiring them in the first place.

(That reminds me, must finish buying a shed for my outdoor junk...)

There's an entire infrastructure of capitalism set up for us to buy things. There isn't really a comparable one for taking them away and getting money back. Partly because owning a thing de-standardises it; it acquires a history and potentially hidden problems.
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a space shuttle is just an overblown selfie stick.
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Communication: this is where john oliver is amazing. Rather than talk about all the complexities of the secret NSA programs. He simplified the entire scandal into "NSA can see your dick pics. Stop them now".

This episode is a big lesson in communication for startups.
i did that yesterday by hand with 3 find-replace-all regexes. it isn't that big a deal :-)

(that said, not all uses of require can be translated to import statements)
^ This. There might be a very harsh wake-up to energy realities for the ignorant subset of the treehuggers, but nuclear can and hopefully will keep us going energy-wise.

I am MUCH more scared of a nuclear war breaking out over diminishing oil resources than I am about peaceful nuclear energy. That would be mankind's biggest and worst irony.

IMHO, it is bordering on insane to not consider peaceful nuclear energy as someone who is keen on saving the planet.

Sure, conserving, saving, making everything more efficient is fine and laudable. But one still has to support the energy needs of some 7e9 people.
Well, the predictions about floppy disks was actually true at one point. They were just called USB keys.
Are the central banks destroying capitalism with negative interest rates?
Now the chips are down (BBC, 1978)
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random website on the internet controlling UI of my client application? where do I _not_ sign up?
Elon Musk wants to bring the Internet in space
This BBC documentary is a complete insight into the production of microchips and the labor revolution they started.

I watched it yesterday and I appreciated the perspective of what now is "the computing revolution" from a very prudent point of view, analyzing if this could really be something big or not. In hindsight, it has been obvious, but in 1978 it was unclear whether their applications would be.

If anybody wants a higher res video, here's a BBC link, which can be watched from the UK of with a VPN-like service, e.g. 'Hola': http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01z4rrj/horizon-197719...
But surely you must see that this is just a choice which happens to lie favorably for the argument but is otherwise arbitrary.

You could write a language which expressed manipulations of the electrical fluctuations in the same way that DNA is a programming language which expresses manipulations of ambient signaling protein levels to operate our cellular computers.

Or, taken another way, GLSL is a language which shares a lot of similarity with "functional" languages (despite its C like syntax)---and it certainly doesn't run on an x86 architecture!
Ask HN: How long do SE's on average stay at a startup before moving on?
I had heard a while back that the typical turnaround time for a Bay Area based Software Engineer in a startup averages 6-9 months. I feel like, according to anecdotal evidence, this has been somewhat accurate for myself and other people I have worked with -- why stick around when you can hop over to the next company and get a 5-15 percent pay raise? I realized, though, that I didn't have any hard data to back this up. Googling around seems to only come up with results in percentage of attrition rates, but with no timeframes associated with that data. Are there any studies out there that address this topic?
Another part is that most stuff people own is effectively worthless. I think a lot of people don't really take into account the full cost of stuff including time and cognitive overhead.
This is said a lot and technically valid in a sense, but I think over-pedantic.

Some monads, IO, ST, State, do support mutation in the internal language. Then their implementation, their representation in the meta language, Haskell, can be "pure or whatever who cares".

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/30l46z/haskell_for_all_algebraic_side_effects/cptlduv
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Bond – An extensible framework for working with schematized data (microsoft.github.io)
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866694
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I was amused that they introduce it as a "[b]ackwards-[c]ompatible [b]yte-[c]ode interpreter". Not sure whether that's what the GP meant.
Yes, exactly this. Different tools are good for different abstraction levels. Nobody expects people to write applications entirely in assembly anymore, because we have higher levels of abstraction, but that doesn't mean assembly is good for nothing. Assembly is a great and necessary abstraction level. Similarly, technologies in other abstraction levels are useful too.

Too often I see people conflating "X is good" for "X is good for everything" when that is so rarely, if ever, true.
Not that I'm going to claim the "default state of human cognition" is either sequential or "functional"... but I'll add anecdote to Peaker's anecdote and state that the way you're describing your mental processes feels very alien to me as well.
Perhaps you're looking for this https://microsoft.github.io/bond/why_bond.html

It sounds intriguing but I'm not very experienced with thrift to know how well it compares in real use-cases.
To put this all into perspective, it looks like somebody got fired at the Rolling Stone over a negative review of a Hootie & the Blowfish album: http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-09/entertainment/ca-1313...

It should also not be forgotten that the UVA rape hoax story was covered uncritically by all mainstream media and not just in the US, even though it smelled like a hoax from day one. Same with the 'mattress girl'. Nobody will be fired for this at the Guardian, at the NYT, at ... Critical journalism is dead.
"150% faster" implies the speed is 2.5 times, not 1.5.
> It isn't possible to implement this by just overloading `()` without introducing dramatic new language features.

Yes, that's understood, and I suggested one possible approach multiple times already.

Even if there wouldn't be an easy solution ... would this requirement be important enough to wreck the whole language?

I don't believe it. It's not like the situation is "we did X here and caused issue Y over there" ... the issues are all over the place,and the cost/benefit ratio is completely off.

> is entirely wrong

It's tongue-in-cheek, I think we all know what's going on behind the scenes. Another example is x[3] = 42 vs. x[3]. x[] does completely different things here, and it would be an issue if people wanted to use the same method, but thankfully, no one is proposing that.

> No Rust dev is proud that there's no overloading... that sentence doesn't even make sense, as every operator can be overloaded, including the () call syntax.

I referred to method overloading.
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something.js cracked me up..
While this might be true for maybe population size or territory, the govermental structure is completely different. ..also there are huge cultural differences (language; diff. social path dependencies etc.)

I don't think the similarities justify comparing US states to European countries.
Mutation is just how you cut up time.

If I pick up a coin and place is 6 inches to the left I've mentally cut the world into three epochs, the prior, the mutation, and the posterior. Thus I feel I mutated it.

If I drop a ball, I can do the same trick and cut the world into the before and after of my releasing the ball, but for the duration of it falling I think of physics just happening. This is smooth, continuous, and not a set of discrete mutations.

The math backs this up as well in the sense that integration is exactly what lets us convert the world of mutation into the world of constant physics (FRP from the "continuous time denotational semantics" perspective of Conal Elliott not the usual way the term is abused).

So to claim that "everyday objects" are beholden to mutation or immutability I think is a game of confusing the map with the terrain.
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I think that it's because we don't yet have appropriate mental models to think about systems of such complexity.
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The show is on in the UK tonight; from what I remember previously, the videos are opened up for the UK from that point. Not the worst thing in the world, restricting YouTube videos until they've had a chance to show the full episode in said country. It's not like this is just a clip - it's a whole segment of the show.
Yes, though the number is a little misleading. I believe the core functionality of Bond is all in Haskell, and everything else is just client libraries for other languages.
So for example what would you do if you decided you want to go for a hike one day? You don't own any hiking boots, only a pair of shoes. Does that mean lot of activities aren't possible for you because you want to own as little as possible?
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Come on...give the ICANN (or the next governing body) 20 more years to fix this and we should make it. Internet is only 25 years old and new gTLDs are celebrating their first year of anniversary.
what is it ? something like protobuffers?
How much bitcoin and other currencies do they need to hold? If it can safely and reliably without holding much money, I imagine that it could still be worthwhile.

VCs and founders take chances all the time that a large and loyal group of users will eventually lead to an enormous revenue stream. No one really knew that search leads to a fantastically profitable ad platform. If an exchange is really good for a long time and transactions fly through at volume and cost per transaction unseen up to now, there are all sorts of possibilities.

I don't really understand bitcoin, so I could easily be totally wrong. That said, my understanding is that one of the big (or maybe biggest) advantages of bitcoin as a technology (regardless of the money supply set up and such) is efficiency, the kind of efficiency advantages that the web or bittorrent has over other communication technologies. If it potentially that eficant, it's good that transaction costs and rates are confusingly low, that lets volume be high. Let other companies build other parts of the ecosystem and let them have the advantage of near-zero transaction costs.

Basically, if bitcoin is going someplace, being a trusted exchange may very well pay off. I imagine that beyond a certain point of proven reliability and transaction volume, VCs will be willing to take some of the action off a promising horse.
>No, it is not. When you get older you will learn that women are people, just like you, and sometimes people just want to talk. Don't worry. Just talk to her like she was your sister or mother. After a while, it will become natural.

Of course I assume it isn't your sister or mother, or someone you can't date for whatever reason (you're married, she's married, seeing someone, homosexual, and so forth).

The fact is if you're in such a situation, there's always this question hanging over it. You (the two of you) can turn it to friendship if that's what you're after, but there's always this possibility, and you might as well acknowledge it and not question whether the situation allows it to become something else.

I don't think I've ever been misunderstood in such situations.

Anyway, the point is it's quite clear when you're being courted for a job. You might expect it to be slightly different when the proposer is not the usual one (if a girl asks you out, is it different? Yes.) Maybe slightly fewer of the trivial coding type questions.
I was looking at Meteor a year ago and didn't think it was production-ready enough to recommend our company to build its next platform on[1]. What is the story now?

[1] Also it didn't support postgres.
Ayn Rand??? That idea is at least a couple of centuries older than Rand...
You may want to give Funderbeam (http://funderbeam.com) a shot -- We have data on 30k+ investors of various kinds. With their portfolio investments, target geographies, and funding sizes. More filters on the way.
They're called "critical fluctuations" in physics and occur before a qualitative change in organization.
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There is something very appealing about owning a small number of material possessions and living a "minimalist" lifestyle. But I'm well aware of the messy contradictions surrounding such an issue. Living minimally is a choice you can make when you live in relatively rich country. It's not a choice for many millions of others around the world who make do with little because of their circumstances. What's more, our economies (certainly "Western" economies) are geared to the production and consumption of goods, if not for our own populations then for export to other countries for them to consume. So can only a small number of us choose to live minimally as long as everyone else decides not to? How else are we going to buy the expensive laptop essential to our minimalist life? (Am I being too cynical?)

And does minimal living always equate to sustainable living? If you're jetting all over the world in a plane, is that environmentally friendly? Wouldn't the locals prefer you spend some of your tourist money on their goods and services so they too can live a comfortable life? Many environmentalists believe the huge amount of resources needed to rear and feed animals is unsustainable. Giving up meat or reducing our consumption could be considered sustainable, but it's not what people would consider as part of a minimal lifestyle.

And finally, is it really a choice between a consumer/material lifestyle and a minimal lifestyle? Or more realistically, a choice between excessive material consumption (e.g. 70 shirts as stated in the article) or just a more modest material lifestyle?
samm-mbp ~/Desktop % youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=XEVlyP4_11M
[youtube] XEVlyP4_11M: Downloading webpage
[youtube] XEVlyP4_11M: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: XEVlyP4_11M: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
The problem is that you are being needlessly pedantic. Please stop...
And before Haskell became this trend thing with own web sites and all, SPJ distributed ghc on his MS web site. Usually you had to wait for the Windows binary quite a bit, FreeBSD came first.

He also hosted a "how I make working under Windows NT barely acceptable" document under (research.)microsoft.com.
I'm sure this must have been mentioned before, but one of the biggest issues with a usable network connection of any type is latency. Given that the satellites will be in space, hundreds of kms away, and there has to be a return journey, how is the latency issue going to be addressed?

Mentioned in this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8944944 The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet (businessweek.com)

Here's the actual discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8945672

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And now that I've searched, that's pretty much the only discussion. Although there may be more, here are the others I've looked at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8599177 Elon Musk confirms plans to provide global Internet from 100s of satellites (rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8624500 Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Launch Micro-Satellites (thenextweb.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893525 Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch ViaSat-2 high speed Internet satellite (utsandiego.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8903135 Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8903450 SpaceX to build 10B global satellite Internet (geekwire.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8903658 Elon Musk spills details on SpaceX's $10B space Internet venture (engadget.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904304 Elon Musk wants to spend $10B building the Internet in space (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904435 Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905059 Elon Musk wants to spend $10B building the Internet in space (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905277 Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905474 Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905562 Elon musk is going to build Internet for space (thenextweb.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907045 Elon Musk is trying to bring the Internet to space (cnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908019 Elon Musk wants to build a new Internet from space (venturebeat.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917258 I Told Elon Musk We Should Have Space Internet, Musk Announces It a Month Later (adamslists.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922038 Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan a Space Internet (businessweek.com)
How reproducible is the empirical research this book bases its claims on? If it's about par for the course in social psych, take a peek at the Many Labs projects.... many of these clever, thought-provoking experiments have turned out to be clever, thought-provoking false positives.
As it turns out people don't tend to talk about which cellphone plan they use, unless actively asked.

And you are totally right that people will be asking around if they are unhappy, but how could they know they should be unhappy with their current plan if they don't know yours is so much better?
You were not impressed by Snowden because frankly I believe Snowden was not prepared for John Oliver's style of sarcastic comedic interviewing.

John is correct on the fact that the average person does not take this seriously or is completely ignorant on the subject. Edward Snowden believes the topic of mass surveillance is a very serious one, as he should. John is acting like the normal person namely an immature moron that does not take this topic seriously at all...

Both are brilliant and John's commentary is a sad wakeup call to the intelligence of the average person in this country.

The fact that "Dick Pics" is the best way to get the public to understand the massive problem that is mass surveillance is both true and very very sad.
yup and also like Apache Thrift.
I'd like to see references to your claims re usable area for solar energy? A pity I'm Hellbanned. :-)

If there is a high energy price when solar energy becomes cheaper and more efficient, then houses will be plastered with them and there will be solar roofs above roads and so on. That should be all that is needed. (In most populated countries, not e.g. Scandinavia.)

With emerging solar cells, the per capita energy need should be covered by ten-thirty square meters per person, including transports. It is not a real problem.

A hand waving example:

Assume the present worst case, a built up city with a population density of 25K/km^2. If houses/roads cover 50% of that city with solar cells, then there would be 20 m^2 of solar cells per capita. (Personal transports would be less energy intensive in such a city, but e.g. food transports to the city would use more energy.)

[Edit: This ignores e.g. server farms and industrial needs. Use wind or nuclear for that.]

About nuclear energy:

We don't know what will happen in nuclear power developments (General Fusion, Tri Alpha or others?), but we do know that it will work better and probably have safe ways of burning present nuclear waste. I wouldn't use "highly problematic". It seems the largest problems are regulatory, at least in the Western world.
> edge case

A large chunk of those edge cases are people with disabilities.

I have colleagues with a variety of learning disabilities. They strongly reject the label "disability".

"Dan, when someone gives me a document that I can't understand, and I tell them that I can't understand it, they often say 'well, of course you dont understand it, you are learnig disabled'. So what they're doing is transferring the blame for the lack of understanding from them to me. It's somehow my problem that I don't understand this document. But here's the thing: it's not my job to understand that document. I don't get paid to understand that document. It is their job to provide information in a meaningful accessible way, and they've failed. In this country they might even have a legal duty to make the information accessible. Or they might be paid from public funds to make the information accessible. I'm not disabled unless you chose to disable me."

This strong challenge echoes what some people with physical disabilities say: "my wheelchair is not the problem. You putting a step in front of your shop is the problem; you holding meetings in inaccessible buildings is the problem."

This kind of styling makes things slower, harder to use, more expensive to build and maintain. Just worse overall. The web would be a better place if people stopped doing it.