Hacker News: wodencafe

New comment by wodencafe in "China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verification for Online Commenting"

wodencafe — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:02:33 +0000

I find it very interesting that your comment was down-voted.

New comment by wodencafe in "Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms"

wodencafe — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:41:21 +0000

I had never heard of this until now, thanks!

Now the tougher question, what can we do about it?

New comment by wodencafe in "Ad blocking is under attack"

wodencafe — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:36:46 +0000

This is crazy, how can a link be a violation of the DMCA?

New comment by wodencafe in "Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved"

wodencafe — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:31:39 +0000

Come on, don't downvote him just because you disagree with his opinion.

That is only discouraging people from expressing their opinions.

New comment by wodencafe in "Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8"

wodencafe — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:05:45 +0000

Wow thanks man! This can be useful in a variety of circumstances!

New comment by wodencafe in "U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned"

wodencafe — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:53:37 +0000

From TFA:

The cancellation means there are just two new nuclear units being built in the country — both in Georgia — while more than a dozen older nuclear plants are being retired in the face of low natural gas prices.

So what is going to happen when gas prices skyrocket?

New comment by wodencafe in "Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids"

wodencafe — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:50:42 +0000

I don't think they accept bitcoins at the Venezuelan black market

New comment by wodencafe in "Risks of Artificial Intelligence"

wodencafe — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:05:33 +0000

I would continue this discussion, but I've gotten a ton of downvotes for both of my comments, so it seems people would rather not have this discussion continue :(

EDIT: Thank you whoever took pity and upvoted my previous comments. Everything I say is in good humor, I'm not trying to detract from the conversation about AI.

New comment by wodencafe in "Risks of Artificial Intelligence"

wodencafe — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:17:26 +0000

A fair question, but Terminator™ is germane to the subject matter.

New comment by wodencafe in "Risks of Artificial Intelligence"

wodencafe — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:06:41 +0000

The public doesn't take this stuff seriously enough.

Did we not learn the lesson about rogue AI from Terminator™?

New comment by wodencafe in "Pancreatic cancer from a different perspective"

wodencafe — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:07:42 +0000

The anxiety is killing me without being in medical school. Cancer is the worst.

New comment by wodencafe in "The largest Git repo"

wodencafe — Wed, 24 May 2017 18:31:01 +0000

So THIS is why they developed GVFS.

New comment by wodencafe in "Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulated by government"

wodencafe — Sat, 20 May 2017 14:22:24 +0000

What could they possibly be thinking?

Nobody wants this, except the gov't.

New comment by wodencafe in "Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet"

wodencafe — Fri, 19 May 2017 12:15:54 +0000

The Great Firewall of China, of course.

New comment by wodencafe in "Swift is like Kotlin"

wodencafe — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:06:51 +0000

What about Brainfuck?

New comment by wodencafe in "Wrapping up Java 9 new Features"

wodencafe — Fri, 12 May 2017 13:58:08 +0000

Don't let Eclipse give you a bad impression of OSGi.

There are now some very cool things that make starting a new OSGi project a lot easier:

* Declarative Services, for simplifying Component definitions (No more editing XML)

* bnd / bndtools for building your OSGified jar (No more manually editing the Manifest)

New comment by wodencafe in "The Turds Who Voted to Sell Out Your Online Privacy Get Their Faces Plastered"

wodencafe — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:06:18 +0000

Selling out your constituents isn't a part of conservative or liberal philosophy, just corrupt politicians.

And the Republican party have become the moderate party, there is no truly conservative party anymore.

New comment by wodencafe in "Wrapping up Java 9 new Features"

wodencafe — Thu, 04 May 2017 23:54:36 +0000

Ok, but do you think JPMS is a better alternative?

New comment by wodencafe in "Wrapping up Java 9 new Features"

wodencafe — Thu, 04 May 2017 17:36:59 +0000

I second this. Java needs default parameter values.

New comment by wodencafe in "Wrapping up Java 9 new Features"

wodencafe — Thu, 04 May 2017 15:47:35 +0000

They are going to use it to represent lambda parameters.

Please see: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/302 - Lambda Leftovers