*bing* *bing* *bing* It's not newsworthy!

A californian, theoretical physicist, and London PR agent walk into a science museum. The californian asks the theoretical physicist a vague philosophical question and the PR agent publishes it. "Win your own trip to London my friends and this too could be you!"

The punchline? Slashdotters think stephen should stfu. Imagine winning a trip to London, getting to meet stephen hawking, and you decide to have some camp-fire-bullshit talk while touring a museum and all he does is say, "sorry, I'm just a theoretical physicist and am thoroughly incapable of making small talk", or worse, starring you down with no response.

The OP mentioned Arduino. The front page provides an arduino sample and further down demonstrates uploading the firmware. This works with the beefier platforms. See also http://embd.kidoman.io/

But if you're talking about something running with 256kb of ram, then Go's current runtime isn't suitable. I've seen new runtime implementations for working with such systems though I don't recall the name of the project or links but there's nothing inherently preventative of Go for use on such systems given an appropriate runtime.

There's so many

• stackoverflow https://github.com/bosun-monit...
• ex-googlers https://github.com/cockroachdb...
• like bittorrent sync https://github.com/syncthing/s...
• drone.io CI https://github.com/drone/drone
• raft protocol implement https://github.com/goraft/raft which is used in a number of other projects such as the underlying projects in CoreOS (also written in Go)

and the list goes on and on with startups (http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html) and big names (https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox https://github.com/facebookgo) alike. Just google for more or explore github.

looks more like a skewed protruded hexagon.

paints such an interesting, far-from-the-truth picture of reality. Hackers being some personable people that point out flaws in current solutions to complex technological problems along with possible solutions instead of the OCD code warriors they likely tend to be for the sake of coding itself. People actively seek out flaws for the sake of flaws themselves, not some happenstance that they exist except in the most trivial issues.

> Believing that constituent voices will override telecom campaign donations and lobbyists is adorable isn't it? I must get my adorable feelings from my 3 year old.

oh right, can't mod when i've commented, bleh. I'd Mod AC up anyway if i could.

you got voted -1 (which im adjusting now) but this is a valid point people! government should be the last refuge of the people when shit goes wrong, and in so many areas, this shit is wrong.

this would be one of those times id actually go and vote if moving forward required consensus of the locals.

Many might think "hey i can avoid those pigs and break the law!" but if I could know how many and the concentration in an area, that might tell me there's something serious going down somewhere I'm heading that I should avoid.

.. b/c no one ever said "whoops, maybe I should've .. uuuh .. fuck" in human history.

I think you hit the core issue but missed the point. Motivation, ambition, those are things you can work with. You may perhaps pay off the ambitious man, but the AI in question may want nothing at all. A cold killer and nothing more.

I don't think musk is far off, but the problem sure is and he's aware of that at some level with his out-there analogy.

Indeed it is, smart-tanks roaming the UK streets looking for gamers would certainly headline most anywhere.

How can I make sure I don't miss their important response?!