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   by api 11y ago

   So "one Uber funding" is now a unit of economic measurement?
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   by api 11y ago

   I studied EC a lot, and this is actually one of the strongest success areas for evolutionary algorithms. In general evolutionary computing does far better with real-world, analog, and physical systems than it does with brittle software syst
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   by api 11y ago

   I'm sure there's a market in the zombie community for an oven capable of creating the conditions you describe. This could be a major public health concern among the undead.
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   by api 11y ago

   Tangent but... that photo... Ben Horowitz next to Dr. Dre and... what dimensional vortex did we go through since the 1990s?
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   by api 11y ago

   I propose we replace systemd with this.
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   by api 11y ago

   It's rapidly becoming a two tier world with two types of programmers: those who are well trained in coding within known environments, and those who are like the folks in The Matrix films who ate the red pill-- they know what's re
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   by api 11y ago

   A thousand times yes. I've met tons of good programmers, even CS/CE Ph.Ds for whom networks and anything wire-releated is black magic beyond mortal understanding. Not only does it prevent them from dealing with or writing such sys
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   by api 11y ago

   Try this: http://geekslop.com/2015/catching-pedophiles-running-secret-... "... First, the pedo site saw magnitudes more traffic than the counterfeiting or drugs websites – in the order of 100 times more traffic th
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   by api 11y ago

   I'm curious about the difficulties you're referring to. If you're referring to secure key distribution, check out Hashicorp's Vault project. Other than that, I can't think of any show-stoppers to deploying SSL acros
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    by api 11y ago

    Criminals are numerically the most common Tor users. But the difference is that what's "criminal" depends on your place of residence. In America Tor is mostly used (other than as a curiosity) for drugs and child porn. The for
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    by api 11y ago

    This is pretty awesome! Plus I see from the pictures of the co-founders that it comes with beard.
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    by api 11y ago

    That can be solved by using a cloud service with global POPs, spinning up nodes everywhere, and using a common core config built with Chef, Puppet, or Docker. Amazon, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, Joyent/Triton, and probably a half doz
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    by api 11y ago

    Good point about total coverage. Apple probably does not want any gaps in their lineup that might be filled by Microsoft or Google or any other vendor. I would just by a small form factor ultraportable laptop, but yeah -- it's about br
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    by api 11y ago

    Setting up HTTPS is not hard. Getting a certificate is not hard.
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    by api 11y ago

    What problem does CloudFlare really solve except for DDOS?
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    by api 11y ago

    Not excited at all. Mobile OSes are crippled by design, especially iOS, so why would I spend this much when I can just get a real computer with a very similar form factor? Mobile OSes are fundamentally designed for quick, limited interactio
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    by api 11y ago

    I think a big reason for worse-is-better is that simple "crappy" solutions very often have better evolvability characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvability "Elegant and beautiful" sys
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    by api 11y ago

    "Let society figure out how to remunerate artists without coercion." It already has. It's called Spotify, Apple Music, etc. If you remove copyright from the equation, this is what will happen: These services will continue to
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    by api 11y ago

    I don't believe people should go to jail unless they are profiting massively from copyright violation -- e.g. someone selling a bootleg subscription streaming service and pocketing the money. I also agree that the concept of copyright
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    by api 11y ago

    "The budgets would probably be lower," This is another way of saying the salaries would be lower and there would be no benefits or permanent career path in the arts. The arts would become a hobby that people do before they get a &
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    by api 11y ago

    This is the dead horse I keep beating in these threads. If there were no copyright, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. would all be doing this to artists for massive profit and with their brands front and center. People would actually ask questi
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    by api 11y ago

    I think it might be down-isn -- HN hug of death. It's a pretty heavy web app.
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    by api 11y ago

    If it were possible to predict the future on the basis of the past, everyone would always make money in the stock market.
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    by api 11y ago

    Personally I think the first "white collar" casualty of automation will be law. 90+% of law involves things like contract law and analysis of legal documents. All of that can be replaced by natural language processing, machine lea
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    by api 11y ago

    The past doesn't necessarily predict the future. I really suspect that it might end up being different this time. My working hypothesis is that software-defined Turing-complete automation is qualitatively different from special-case
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    by api 11y ago

    The excess of positive language prior to betrayal point definitely matches my personal experience.
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    by api 11y ago

    I've been in favor of this for a long time, but I do have a more nuanced opinion in that I'm not sure if it's "time" yet. IMHO we're getting there, and when the (very likely) big wave of automation hits it will
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    by api 11y ago

    Automation is a minor factor so far compared with outsourcing.
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    by api 11y ago

    I'm there.