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It looks like nitrogen (the user, not the gas) has saved me the trouble of doing the math, but he (she?) has omitted an explanation of the physics so I'll leave one here. Sorry if you already know it, but if you already know it and didn't apply it that's your own damn fault :P

Google keyword: Faraday's Law of Induction

Kirchoff's Voltage Law (sum of voltages around a loop is zero) breaks when there's a changing magnetic field poking through the loop. The amount it breaks by is V=A*dB/dt where V is "extra" voltage, A is area of the loop, and dB/dt is change in magnetic field with time.

An EMP creates a shockwave of enormous dB/dt. Even loops with small A can induct enough voltage to fry sensitive electronics.

A CME has dB/dT of 5mT/min (linked article). Fridge magnets are ~5mT (wikipedia) so you could make a local field with similar dB/dt by walking very slowly towards your computer while carrying a fridge magnet. Of course, unlike fridge magnet vs computer, CMEs are damaging because A is massive (distribution infrastructure is a big loop) so even though dB/dt is tiny they can fry power lines.

That is, unless real-time distribution management notices voltages starting to go haywire and shuts them down because a CME isn't instantaneous and hard to anticipate like an EMP. Or circuit breakers do their job because voltage / km is relatively small. Or inductive loads (anything with a motor or transformer in the circuit) protect themselves from what essentially looks like just another voltage spike (they happen all the time because every time you shut off a poorly designed inductive load it kicks a high voltage back onto the line). Or TVS diodes do the same for sensitive electronics somehow connected without a transformer...

tl;dr a CME is not like an EMP. Same physics equation but with very different numbers.
Read the article. It wasn't "independent actions of one man" any more than Eichmann was singularly responsible for the Holocaust. He was the ring leader of an eager mob who systematically exterminated a people. Your answer feels full of apologetics, revisionism and denial.
With FASHIONCLEFT being public knowledge, I'm surprised there's any controversy about this:

https://www.eff.org/document/20150117-spiegel-technical-desc...
The title is misleading. You really DO need to work so much and probably even more. Two observations: 1.The competition about less and less jobs gets stronger 2.The people don't believe in unions anymore, which is the only way to negotiate for better working conditions and less hours. So this is a I versus You race to the bottom. This is going to be fun. :-)
Well, there is the fact that is US (and other) corporations that sell products in the US market, but are able to skirt US rules by offloading those costs to other countries without contributing much to the US wellbeing. It is not about being more deserving, is about taking advantage of 'loopholes' in the whole process. For example, in Europe, it is quite common for employers pay on top of the salary 20-40% extra in taxes and social security for a local employee. Even if they pay the same salary to an offshore person, and skirt those 20-40% of taxes, the company wins, the offshore person may win, but the company that uses the country it is doing business in isn't paying it's fair share.

Think of this differently. Imagine a company that offshores all costs (employees, manufacturing, etc) and just has a director/owner in the US. They also use creative accounting so their tax rate is very low. Lets ignore the costs of using the infrastructure as well. Now, this seems like an amazing deal for the owner + their non-us suppliers right? IS it fair for the citizens? What would the owner ask the gov. to do if the citizens then just decided to rob the owner blind? Or destroy the cargo ships as soon as they entered the US? Would he just say "well, tough luck" or they would fight tooth and nail to get the gov/police involved?

I'm fairly liberal, but more and more believe there has to be a balance of responsibilities between corporations and the citizens, because if not, there will be a point where something will change, and most likely by force (check European countries history in the last decade for example)
Allegedly it's mostly or at least originally Cisco's technology: https://insidersurveillance.com/cisco-huawei-and-semptian-a-... .
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> 2) Has a rapidly adaptive culture, able to implement changes at a fast pace despite its immense scale. That includes things like legalizing and decriminalizing drugs, which is now underway across numerous states, and marriage equality.

The US is able to implement seemingly big changes quickly, but they're not necessarily as big as you think them to be. "Marriage equality" (a name many disagree with, by the way) is not a massive change, for example. It's a tiny change that, while providing some benefit to some gay people, does not fundamentally change power structures. In fact, it strengthens an existing one: the cultural institution of marriage.

> 11) Where the murder rate for 99% of the population in cities is closer to 2/100k (and half that in rural areas), on par nicer urban parts of Europe.

If you exclude the places where murder happens most, of course you appear to have a low murder rate.

> 12) Where unarmed minorities are not regularly shot dead by the police.

Perhaps you have not paid attention to the news. Quite literally hundreds of black people have been shot by US police this year so far. People who, if their skin was a different colour, would not have been shot.

> 13) Where minorities have a greater opportunity for success than in nearly any other nation.

This statement would be amusing were it not so terrifying. Minorities in the US, once in the poverty trap, have virtually no chance of getting out of it. Even those outside it face significant obstacles in getting anywhere.

> See: the vast wealth and prosperity of Asians in America, they're the best off of any race of people here. In fact, American Asians are among the best off of any people anywhere on this planet.

Asians in America are a relatively privileged minority. Now look at how other ethnic groups fare. Not so rosy.

> 14) Where you have more opportunities than in any other nation, to make any kind of life for yourself that you want.

If you're rich.
In my experience this is an effect of adderall and Ritalin, I have never experienced that on modafinil which I find allows me to 'choose' to be task orientated, or even fall asleep if I want
I don't like the culture of killing things and saying that things are dead when they still have individuals extracting value from it. I also don't find particularly strong or appealing, the Tyranny of the Majority friendly Argumentum Ad Populum nor the Keynesian Beauty Contests as drivers for design language (actually for nothing in life and not only language design).

On the other hand, I do find interesting that the User Experience gets used on language and frameworks and tooling design.

While Smalltalk never really rocked it at UI and UX, it was good enough to inspire Steve Jobs to do the GUI of a system right (in terms of UX) on the mackintosh.

Regardless of comunity size, I still want to see what's the next thing that will create such degree of positive influence in these days and for the next decadeds.

Good luck
I think a big advantage to this kind of approach is the feedback you can get on your code - on-the-fly evaluation and type checking for example.

Here's my attempt: http://sediment.io
Really? You figured it out just by looking at the title and the domain?

I haven't been following any of this stuff, and I wasn't familiar with textfiles before. I clicked the link only by accident. I actually meant to click the submission above it, which was much more descriptive and immediately told me what the submission was about: "How Coursera Cracked the Chinese Market".

I know the title rule exists for a reason, but let's not kid ourselves: some titles are written by the author only with a specific context in mind, which is usually their own website or blog. Such titles aren't a good fit for HN.
I recently started to take adderall at 28 years of age. My doctor told me that they found out that at least 1/3 of the adderall will still be working the next day, and 1/3 of that the day after. And the 1/3 was the at least number. So he told me to take it intermittently and not every day. I do really like that stuff, although I have had 1 or 2 bad experiences, for the most part it makes me feel normal and relaxed.

Also, my doctor told me my diet will greatly affect how the adderall works in my body. And that really rang true to me. I usually eat pretty lean, so 10mg, or even 5mg is enough for an effective dose for me.

I tried to get provigil from the same doctor and he couldn't even believe I would ask for it, said it was too expensive to prescribe to someone like me.
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There are some compliance related situations where having unencrypted data on the wire can trigger audit issues, but that's an artificial circumstance and you're correct that an SSL proxy is almost always easier to impliment.
> as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes.

All countries have oppressive regimes. Some are just moreso than others, and some target different people than others.

This is utterly destructive thinking, anyway. If the only hope, the only spark for change, flees, then there can never be improvement.
Holy shit, clowindy was asking me questions related to this issue just last week.

This is a scary wake up.
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I don't think git's model is particularly special in any way - if it were, it wouldn't be possible to make (near) transparent proxies to the other DVCS's.

The fundamental concepts in all the DVCS's are almost indistinguishable; they're just packaged slightly differently.

It's tempting to seek a technological explanation for git's dominance; but all the obvious signs point to it simply being first-mover advantage. Where the other DVCS's do have technical advantages, they're rarely very significant for most people.
Iran has been murdering people through their terrorist proxies, such as Hezbollah, for decades. Their leaders can hardly stop talking about wanting to genocide the entire nation of Israel.

China invaded, annexed, and exterminated the culture of Tibet - a nation four times the size of France geographically. China is also desperate to take Taiwan - a nation that wants absolutely nothing to do with being owned by China - openly admitting they'd be willing to murder large numbers of people through war to annex it. China is building artificial islands in the South China Sea, while routinely threatening neighbors and trying to claim vast water borders that clearly don't belong to them.

China has also fought numerous wars with India and Vietnam, two of their largest neighbors. While having countless militaristic confrontations about land borders with basically all of their neighbors. That continues to this day with Japan, Vietnam, India, Philippines, Malaysia, etc.

It'd be as though the US took its military, stacked threatening pieces of it on the border with Canada, and started proclaiming ownership of large parts of their border territories.
Then the wasted infrastructure can turned into something useful
Very much agree. For example, the I395 in Northern VA uses up 6 lanes of space but only provides 2 lanes for HOV, and these lanes change direction. So, instead of having 3 additional lanes in each direction, we get 2 lanes that change direction depending on the rush. The extra dedicated flyovers and exits are hugely expensive and negatively impact the interconnection of roads to the interstate. What a waste.
It seems to be an idea that keeps coming up.

https://www.purdue.edu/uns/html4ever/2006/060112.Shim.comput...

http://www.razerzone.com/christine

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1059&st=1

And I guess now project Aria carries on this in a spiritual sense (since now this idea makes less and less sense for desktop computing).
It's important to remember that the target group is the poorest section of the population who have not previous had access to the internet. While it can sound noble and benevolent in theory it is a clear power move.

In essence what they are doing is aggressively trying to beat the concept and affordances of decentralised networks in penetrating the physical infrastructure, government policy, telecom bureaucracy, and public consciousness.

The third-world poor, as the most exploited class, is one of the last strongholds of meaningful resistance to capitalism. By actively subverting decentralised models and installing in their place, both conceptually and physically, a centralised and hierarchical vision of connectivity they secure the advancement of "surveillance capitalism" and further consolidate their power as transcending nation states.

The appropriation of the concept of internet as pushed by Google and Facebook has already penetrated very far.. according to a recent poll.. "65% of Nigerians, and 61% of Indonesians agree with the statement that "Facebook is the Internet" compared with only 5% in the US (http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-ide...).

The speed at which this transformation is happening means the critical public discourse around these issues is dangerously underdeveloped.
China is not ruled by law.
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> Whether these languages are useful day-to-day doesn't really matter

No. Usefulness does matter because, at the end of the day, programming languages are tools, and a useless programming language has no more value than a hammer that breaks if you hit it on anything.

It's nice that there are research languages out there that explore new ideas, but Smalltalk 80--the prototype for all modern Smalltalks--was designed and released to be useful day-to-day, and the Smalltalk distributions out there now--Pharo and Squeak--really look like they want to attract users.
Name one technology used in a fission device that doesn't have other, non-weapon application.
The Chinese worker loses because instead of participating in a functioning labor market (like the ones in US, most of Latin America, East/West Europe, etc) his only choice is slave-like factories. The US worker loses because he loses his job. "The consumer" is the same as the US worker, so under this scheme everyone loses, except a small cartel of US corporations and local elites in some developing countries.

The point is not to restrict the international labor market, but to free it from this artificial pipeline that is only possible because US corporations work together with local elites in countries like China to suppress their local labor markets.
It's worth noting that Canada is one of the highest gun ownership societies on earth. They're 11th in the world in number of guns per capita. They have nearly as high of a gun ownership rate, in terms of the percentage of the population that owns at least a single gun, as the US.
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I have to laugh because my son wrote an "OS" in Scratch. It consisted of a splash screen, log-in dialog, a menu to choose one or two little apps to run, and a BSOD.
I was shocked to see Gmail blocked, given how many business users were dependent on it. Previously they didn't censor websites critical to business and economy, but now they seem to be prioritizing control of speech over economic development.
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Same here. I have tried anything from 200mg to 25mg.

50mg daily every now and then works best for me.
Man, the stories I've heard since starting to work at a web hosting company. A ton of these places started in the 90s, and basically just installed Apache and Exim and built a webpage, then set everything to email someone who would set it all up manually.

A lot of them are still doing it.
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no prob I'm here for the discussion, not the karma
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See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093292

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101743
What have you built with Pharo? (Genuine question...)
The most interesting is the end:

> Microsoft announced last year that it was moving its German headquarters to Munich. This move is planned to take place in 2016. While Reiter (the city mayor) was involved in the deal that precipitated the move and describes himself as a "Microsoft fan," he says the criticism of LiMux is unrelated.
Same here. I tried armodafinil in addition. Although I was wide awake all day, those drugs didn't address the deeper brain-foggy feeling that I was having. They just masked a little sleepiness. After taking them for a few days, I looked back and the preceding days were all in a haze. When it was painfully obvious that Modafinil was negatively impacting my memory, I stopped taking it.

I've also dabbled in a bunch of the *phetamine ADHD drugs. They were more effective, but the effects taper off after a couple of months as your brain adjusts to work around the imbalance that the drugs create. They also had nasty side effects like raising my blood pressure and making my heart feel like it was racing when I was sitting in a chair doing nothing.

My experience with oxiracetam was just money down the drain. No effect I could notice whatsoever except maybe a little more sleepiness, which was definitely not the effect I was looking for.

I've been much more satisfied with my approach the last couple of years which is as you say:

Exercise - cardio on an exercise bike every day, strength training 4 or 5 days a week, yoga a couple of times a week.
Healthy Eating - low carb works for me. Carbs are my worst enemy in terms of staying clear-headed. Most of my meals are Keto Chow shakes supplemented with salads, fresh vegetables, and lean meats.
Mindfulness - I try to meditate every day, typically while I'm on my exercise bike or whenever I find quiet moments shortly after waking up or before going to sleep at night.

These three things have proven to be much cheaper than the drugs and way more effective. The downside is that they aren't as easy as popping pills.
The taxes attached to a local salary are hopefully paying for services that an offshore worker is not consuming.

Which is to say, determining what is fair is not a simple thing.
That's a horrible reason to hate a language. Every language has layers of complexity. In C++ or Java the complexity is in the compiler, the library and the runtime. In Smalltalk it just happens that the layers are available to everyone to inspect. You are free to inspect or ignore it, but the complexity never really goes away even if you don't see it.
The Krugman of 2003 was clearly a Keynesian; the Krugman that wrote today's column argues for higher debt during good times and so almost sounds like he's joined the Modern Monetary Theory camp.
Choice where I live: (1) Live in inner city with high taxes, high crime, poor schools, and nonfunctional govt, but have access to mass transit that doesn't go anywhere useful and takes an hour to get there. (2) Live in the burbs with lower taxes, good schools, low crime, and (sorta) functional govt but no mass transit. At least with choice #2 I can easily get wherever I typically need to within 30 minutes in my car.

Expanding mass transit isn't going to fix the reasons why people aren't interested in living in the cities hereabouts. It will just add to the subsidies already flowing in to prop them up.
I have spent a lot of time researching nootropics too. Modafinil provides alertness/wakefulness and that is already a lot to some people. You can then add a racetam, anxiolytic or whatever else is needed. Even l-theanine is known to smooth out some negative effects of modafinil. You can use all the cognitive enhancers under the sun, but they're not gonna do squat if you're yawning your head off.

And just for the record - I work out every day, take cold showers, medidate, my diet is impeccable (macro nutrient balanced) and all that combined still doesn't give me the same level as nootropics do.
Eh you didn't miss much. I logged in and there's nothing in the UI but two big buttons. I clicked on each one and nothing happens.
Given that most US websites are now over HTTPS, breaking PPTP won't actually give Chinese government much information to eavesdrop on. They may know that someone is accessing Google or Twitter, but they cannot know the actual keywords or tweets they are reading.

Note that Chinese government does not have backdoor access to those US websites, nor do they control a significant fraction of Internet infrastructure.
> 12) Where unarmed minorities are not regularly shot dead by the police

Well, that's nonsense.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-p...
I could have rolled my own solution but I forked this guy's repo (fork here: https://github.com/PendletonJones/remote_forms ) and updated it to work with Python3, I also stripped out some of the stuff in date related fields because the original guy was doing some weird stuff but it's a work in progress.

Edit: basically just creating a dict out of the various attributes and then passing to json.dumps()
Encryption is not enough. You need to disguise your VPN traffic to make it look like standard HTTPS sessions (since they don't block HTTPS).

In other words, steganography.
Spot on. I found that Vyvance (sp? basically long release Adderall) was great for helping me stay on task far longer than I normally could, but in no way helped me pick the right task to stay on. :-)

It's no magic bullet; I still need to self discipline to pick the right things to work on. FWIW, I pretty heavily rely on todo lists for this.
Totally agreed. I've been consulting in this area for the past year now and it's a very common problem. One of the most powerful things you can do with these metrics is pull them on a regular basis and write updates. For example, write about how the week went and send it to the team. Or write about how the month went and send it to investors. Even if no one reads the updates, the exercise of just looking at the data and explaining yourself can really help you focus on what matters.

Tools like BareMetrics and ProfitWell do a nice job pulling revenue data via Stripe. Out of the box, tools like Mixpanel and Amplitude do a good job pulling giving you product and engagement metrics. It's up to you, though, to send all of the data over to those packages correctly and learn how to understand and interpret their reports. Other data, like burn rate, is often calculated back-of-the-napkin.

I'm working on a tool called Growth Report and shipped an MVP a little over a month ago. Hit me up if you want to check it out. aacook@aacook.co.
For all the stories saying "I was forced to do 80-100 hour weeks for months", I wonder how often these employees say "I'll do it for one week because I want to support this team, but I'm sorry I have other obligations beyond that that limit me to working only a regular week with an occasional 2-3 hours overtime if needed". Maybe I'm biased but I have trouble envisioning an environment in which a manager would fire somebody for that.
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It's well established that shift work destroys you. Don't do it.
Copy it to an AWS EC2 Japan server, and copy it to China from Japan. I have transferred 1T data from Europe to China with this method.
Guys, there's:

* hackbases @ https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackbases

* Totalism/CHT Hackbase (Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain) @ http://totalism.org

This has been going for years.