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This for me is good news. I love reading printed books. If it's a novel, then I enjoy being able to relax, away from an electronic screen, and go into another world for a time. I also love the feel and smell of books, and the cover art work. And browsing a book store to find my next read is, for me, much more of a pleasure than browsing Amazon. Also, there's something nice about a well filled bookshelf, and nosing through someone else's gives you a great sense of who that person is.
With the exception of showers and possibly safe routes these problems are addressed by experience. Cycling is not something it takes years to be an expert at or gain fitness in. Biking to work once or twice a week for a month and you'll no longer be going 10 mph and you know what to look for in a route and you'll notice more route options as you get a chance to explore.

Experience can even over come the shower issue. As your fitness level increases you won't have to exert yourself so much and you can also figure out creative to freshen up to an acceptable smell level (i.e. a "sinker")
The biggest issue I have with ebooks (and I read a LOT on my Kindle) is in digging through all the self-published crap to find actual novels published by reputable publishing companies.

This is a huge turn-off, so much so that despite liking the Kindle hardware and OS, I'm ready to switch to something else (and possibly back to paper books).

The Kindle Unlimited subscription service is actually a huge frustration to me -- it devalues authors' work, and so unsurprisingly, only crappy books are available. On top of that, it's undermining the marketplace in such a way that it's even harder for authors/publishers to make a dime, and we wind up with even fewer good books.

Amazon has (and only very recently) acquired a spot on my shitlist for crimes against literature.
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My observation would be that relationships are not Google strong suit. They don't really do customers or enterprise. Support has been lacking for a long time. They are not even that good at managing their brand considering their popularity. Maybe they will get their way eventually, but I think people are going to be disappointing in a decade or so. It's supposedly the technology capital of the world and deserves a greater outcome then what a few companies can push through a dysfunctional process.
Yeah, it makes me feel like a curmudgeon, or like a job-protectionist, but I think it's a shame that so much of the "learn to code" movement is focused on training for professional software jobs, rather than on learning how programming works so that it can be used as a base tool, more akin to writing or arithmetic. Teaching all these professional techniques up front seems to me like training people for statistics or accounting jobs before they've taken middle school math.
Apart from the cp, which is very rare as an end user of /b/, I find it entertaining. There's a lot of crap to wade through, but some of the humorous content really is quite funny. 4chan seems to have contributors that really get the chaotic-feeling, disjoint sense of humor - whereas Reddit seems overwhelmed with puns and catchphrases (OK /b/'s obsession with "rolling" (looking at last digits of post number) is just as lame). I enjoy the "deviant" stuff, too, if only to marvel at the strange things people get up (and perhaps off) to. And why not, if it's an interesting experience? The raids are sometimes amazing examples of performance art (and fit the sense of humour rather well).

As another user pointed out, viewing "best of" is probably a more efficient approach, and let's you avoid some of the crap. But there's something enjoyable about being there, in the moment something is happening.
A fair point; I try and take it a different way (as opposed to their having leverage over me), if my conscience is clear in terms of having done GOOD WORK and not wasted any time by procrastinating, they have _less_ leverage from my point of view, since I know I've been delivering 100% and can come from a position of strength.

In terms of motivating myself by negatives instead of positives, that's something I've put literally decades in trying to adjust and something I'm not sure I'll ever break myself of. It's too useful in other areas (looking critically at my own code, looking critically at problem spaces, being unbiased in introspection) that as with the OPs point of not truly internalizing something despite agreeing logically that "X should be this way", I'm not sure I could truly internalize looking at things in a positive light.
Yes, but that's rather the point. Any system where IP owners can enforce their policies is very likely to not obey the first-sale doctrine or any other IP case-law. It won't be a digital tool for leveraging the IP rights we have; it'll be someone's store. (Probably either Amazon's or Apple's, realistically.)

The only version of this tool that actually does what it's for is the one that's really hard to get off the ground and that would be reviled by every provider that touches it. But, unlike Bitcoin vs. fiat currency, this sort of a system would actually be flowing with the grain of the law—to the point that, in the end, if it survived, it would likely because governments mandated its use (or built their own versions of it, either-or) in order to more easily prove corporate IP asset ownership, calculate net worth for tax purposes, streamline the patent and trademark offices, etc.
I have used ngx_lua in the past for some intelligent query rewriting and was very pleased with the experience. It is definitely great having the power of real programming language at hand and not being constrained by yet another configuration file syntax. On the other hand lua just feels very small and the temptation to fit more of the application logic into web server is low (although apparently not for others as lapis shows ;)).

I guess nginScript is mainly an outreach thing. Apparently nginx developers have decided that all those UI developers are just more comfortable writing JS than anything else. What indeed raises some red flags is that it is a subset of the language running on custom VM. So it is in fact a JS dialect which will still require some amount of learning to use it effectively (no free javascript lunch here).
I haven't used it in the last 8 months, so its quite possible this stack rewrite leads to reasonable performance.

However, I'm not going to try it on a production website to see.
>Yeah, there are Syrian refugees dying trying to get to safety, so complaints about a story on vox are little more than aside to the real suffering in the world.

Only my argument was quite different, and applies to the Syrian refugees too: if one is to focus on suffering (to provoke outrage, affect change etc), they better focus on its really bad characterstics.

The equivalent to the film story would be someone writing that the free sandwitches on rescue ships weren't up to par.
I believe that the author scratches the surface and never develops in a deeper reasoning about what we should expect from this century, what are the short and long term consequences and how they will affect global geopolitics and the current equilibrium.

The article only makes a flat "rise and fall" analysis, and even when presented with the opportunity to explore more interesting arguments (US vs India/China both from a military and economical standpoint, economical repercussions of a weaker army, geo-political consequences in Europe, etc), the author never chooses to do so.
Most people don't want their daily commute to be a workout.
I'm just another chronic procrastinator and from what I've experienced there is no single "cure". Here's where I stand in trying to solve my own procrastination problems:

- Removed myself from things that enable procrastination; I installed software (Coldturkey) that blocks websites and programs on my computer(games), and I won't be able to change the configuration of Coldturkey for another couple weeks.

- I have a calendar next to my work area, I get a red X on days that I do a reasonable amount of work; I got this from Jerry Seinfeld's method of getting better at something, "Don't break the chain!" of red X's.

- I often ask myself "what sort of person do you want to be? Do you want to be remembered as someone that did a half-assed job most of the time? Or do you want to be remembered as someone that killed it any chance he got?"; that sometimes gives me a little push to get stuff done.

- I am always behind in my mind.

- I've been working on making a habit of following through to the end anything that I am tasked with; I have unfinished stuff but there is less than there used to be.

This is just what I've come up with for myself. It's just come down to not trusting myself, so I try to make it so I don't have to.
> competition buying a bunch of VW cars to take them apart would be an invitation for VW to sue them for willful patent infringement and the accompanying treble damages.

As someone noted above, every auto manufacturer is buying the competitor's cars, tearing them down, figuring out they work, rebuilding them, and benchmarking.

The last point is key - you can run your internal tests against their vehicles and see how you compare in your tests.

You can also get a feel for how many molds/stamps/etc that your competitor has in their factory by looking at the mold IDs. You can figure out how tight their weld tolerances are by X-Ray'ing the welds. There is a wealth of information inside a competitor's product that goes beyond the IP.
That's very true. For anyone with an existing Common Lisp stack who wants to use CL macros to write JS, Parenscript is great.

I wanted to write JS macros in JS, hence eslisp.
I have a hard time seeing how IPv6 solves this problem. If we allocate them all individually, we have a world-shattering routing table problem. If we allocate them in gargantuan blocks, we have the same problem we have now with IPv4 -- we can't reallocate because routing becomes an impossible task. What am I missing? We're certainly not going to get the allocation right by doing it all at the beginning.
Said a biased anti Apple article. If a media blitz by a huge company ever created a market, then where's the Zune or Windows Phone? What makes Apple successful is that they make stuff people want to buy. Not on the opinions of some techno journalist. What stunt will Apple pull next, act to maintain high profit margins?
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I could be completely wrong about the scope of this project, but that sounds more like something a Stanford computer science intern could bang out pretty quickly as a school project and less like an idea for a separate company.
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I live in Mountain View and work in Redwood City. I don't have a car. It's not a big deal. For all the innovation in SV, it always surprises me how close-minded the area is when it comes to transportation options beyond the car.
IIRC it's OlaCab, in India.
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Military supremacy means being able to effectively project power around the world. The article states that this capability is declining.
> The invention happens in subcultures, mostly in the UK and US.

Really? Or is it just invention of genres that go and influence pop music? Which is better explained by the fact that most pop music is indeed produced by the UK and US.

While I can think of many musical (sub)genres that were invented in the UK or US, I know them because they got quite popular (in or around the hit charts).

But there's also others, the ones I know are from my personal tastes over the years. Isn't electro from Germany and the Netherlands (The Hague)? Or Suomisaundi, a bouncy subgenre of psy-trance from Finland. Israel being a big influence on certain styles of goa-trance. "Lounge music" (there may be a better term) got big from Yonderboi (Hungary), and then Balkan beats appeared. And "filterhouse" came from France (Cassius, Daft Punk). And I'm not too familiar with the genre but I'm sure that Scandinavia has quite a few subgenres of metal on their name?

(disclaimer: I probably got the "proper" names of the subgenres wrong to some people)
Having lived in Ireland for 4 years, I can say that the physical environment was a mixed bag. Yes, it's beautifully green everywhere, but at the cost of tons of rain and cold, clammy days.

Or maybe you were referring to the political climate?
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i am fairly certain RIRs do not allow this, though i know it was common practice for major hosting providers to buy up dinky/unprofitable companies which had larger legacy allocations purely for their address space.
What population dominates biking depends where you are. I share my mixed train/bike commute mostly with middle-aged commuters, but that's just the demographic of where I live (Boston North Shore).
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We just need to wait for all that stuff to become obsolete.
>Having browsed for 7 years now

Most people I've talked to had their first exposure to 4chan (well, just /b/ really -- it takes some time to discover that there's more to 4chan) at an age of around 16, so I'm going to guess you're about 23 years old now. Am I right?
That is misleading at best.

First, as of July, Amazon started paying by pages read, not by "books of which at least 10% was read". Authors/publishers now no longer even get statements saying how many borrows your book got; rather, they list page reads. Payout right now is about half a cent per page, for fairly small pages, with some potential bonuses on top of that.

Second, that's where the money is now for independent authors, much more than in sales.

Based on figures I've seen, in a mix of public and confidential, I'd guess that independent authors are getting paid, just for borrows, about as much as conventionally published authors do for $1 billion of annual book sales, give or take a factor of 2.
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Curious that it spikes at the weekends: approx 15% more ipv6 at weekends than during the week.
The danger is that you come back and find you haven't found the "twice the hard worker" energy that you had hoped, at which point the "take leave" solution stops seeming like a realistic option. I do think taking leave, as you suggest – or even just working on something different for awhile – usually works wonders, but it only makes the hole feel deeper if it doesn't.
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You make an excellent point. With the prevalence of DRM and ownership, someday you might not be able to read your book, either due to old unsupported device or a format, or even the company going bankrupt. Even if neither of this happens, at some point the standards will change. If you don't use the "cloud" and risk the lockout, you will probably need to backup you information. The hardware changes, physical books don't. This is a worry for some.
Doesn't matter one bit. Why do people trot out this hilariously wrong argument every time IPv4 comes up?

ARIN was burning 2 /8s per month before they ran out.

Let me repeat that: 2 /8s PER MONTH.

There is no clawback scheme that can make any amount of difference. At best we buy ourselves 1-2 years. In reality, taking back all the large unused blocks would buy us months.

Furthermore almost all of those large blocks were handed out before the RIRs existed and are owned so there is no legal mechanism to take them back even if it could make a difference.
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Eh not saying 4chan is the perfect community, but many online communities are just as, if not more, "actively harassing". There are other sections outside of /b/
Ah, good point. Happy to change it, but we need it to fit within 80 chars!

Re moderated titles: we always try to use language from the article itself, not to make up our own. We manage to do that nearly every time.

Edit: is it better now?
> This is not about replacing cars with bikes, but making biking a viable alternative...

That isn't the rhetoric from bikers in my neighbourhood. They actively campaign for the dismantlement of motorvehicle-related infrastructure. Whether it is turning car lanes into bike lanes, reducing available parking in new constructions, or new road taxes, their avowed goal seems to be to make driving more painful.
Oh wow, I read the article and completely missed that. They were talking about the TV show "Silicon Valley" just a few sentences before mentioning her, and I assumed that they were describing a fictional startup with her playing the founder.
Yes, that's the solution. Whoever announces a block the loudest gets to use it.

You may also want to look into concepts such as water rights. Nothing stops you from draining all the water out of the Colorado river upstream. Except the things that do...
Question, why would identity theft protection be issued to the victims of this colossal hack if it was indeed conducted by the Chinese?
> I think I know the answer, but they should start to pay.

Probably not a good idea considering the drama and mod abuse that's happened in the past...
Not sure how they generated that stress-level map, but it seems to be an unreasonably simplistic approximation. For example, there is a dedicated bike path along the 101 from the region marked "North Bayshore" all the way past the top-left corner of the map. That entire stretch is less stressful than any place south of El Camino. By extension, most of northern Palo Alto should be dark green instead of yellow and pale green. There's also a dedicated bike trail from very close to the San Antonio Caltrain station all the way to Google, but that path is not evident from the map.

I'm mainly saying that the situation is actually much better than depicted for most of Palo Alto. By contrast, the situation is worse than depicted everywhere south of El Camino except very close to bike crossings.

I'm speaking from personal experience here. I've biked from Crescent Park to Google every day for over a year. I also don't own a car and bike throughout Palo Alto most weekends with no stress.

EDIT:
There is a second stress map in the full plan (Figure 5) that shows "average" stress as opposed to "total" stress and represents much more accurately, in my opinion and apparently the opinion of the plan's authors, the true stress associated with riding to Google from each point in the South Bay. In that map you can clearly see the positive effects of the trail to Palo Alto (green blob at top left) and the trail through central Mountain View (green blob center right), as well as the negative effect of El Camino and the 101 (red blobs across those roads).
If you think people will dump nginx for Node (which has totally different use cases) then I'm not sure how qualified the business estimation is...
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Nice pictures, but I just don't get it.

Sure, it's very easy for me to understand monads mathematically, what kind of structure are they. I don't need any pictures for that, the definition suffices for me.

But that doesn't tell me what are they good for. We invent things for a reason, and I don't see the reason. Now I know the reason, it's been told to me many times (some way to wrap I/O while preserving functional purity), but I just don't see how that works.

I would love to find a resource that would explain these things for me in a way I'd understand them.
US nukes was a response at the time late 1940s early 1950s to the reality that adversaries had armies in the millions..

As the US Air and Navy became more powerful in projecting power our nuke weapons became somewhat ineffective..which explains why we signed SALT I and SALT II treaties to reduce nukes..

But even today those with millions of soldiers in armies still lack the air power and naval power to project that powerful army...
"The legend of “in-memory” seems to have been born from stories out of Facebook. "

As a general statement, that's not correct. In my field of chemical information, that 'legend' started in the mid-1990s. Quoting from http://www.daylight.com/dayhtml/doc/theory/theory.finger.htm... :

> Computer memories are roughly 10E5 times faster than disks. If one can read the bitmaps of a structural key or fingerprint into memory and search it there, the speed of the screen itself increases a corresponding amount. About the time fingerprints were developed, computer memory prices reached a point where the fingerprints from a relatively large database all could be loaded into memory. ...

> The evolution of the above-described screening techniques has now reached the point where the SMILES and fingerprints of all chemicals known in the world (roughly 10-15 million structures) can fit in the memory of a large workstation-class computer; it doesn't even take a "mainframe" computer, much less a supercomputer. An ordinary database of tens or hundreds of thousands of molecules can easily fit into the memory of today's run-of-the-mill workstations. Speed increases are correspondingly dramatic: an ordinary workstation can screen 100,000 to 1,000,000 structures per second using in-memory folded fingerprints.

You can all see this in the literature of that era. In the late 1980s, computer searches of ~15M structures took 5 minutes on cluster hardware. For the previous 20 years, everything was on disk because there simply wasn't enough RAM.

But chemical information has a doubling time of about 18 years. 1990 was around the transition point where it was finally possible to put everything into memory. And a system designed around in-memory random access lookup really was 100K faster than the software designs of the previous 20 years, which either did random seeks on a hard disk or full linear scans.

The company that first did this made a lot of money. The literature shortly afterwards shows a bunch of other companies explaining that they would be out with an in-memory version "within a year" - while they tried to redesign their systems to catch up.
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I'm surprised they have the computers right next to it... and people standing there. I wonder how they mitigate the possibility of unintentional (error driven) movement?
>I think the worst explanation for procrastination I've come across is that it's caused by not truly enjoying the activity that is being procrastinated upon.

I actually believe in this, though it's a somewhat far-fetched conjecture. There is some talk in psychology about "will power" being a scarce resource, though professionals are unsure why. But maybe human brains aren't made for keeping a thought for long. The need to procrastinate then would be like a homeostatic response from the brain saying "these neurons have been firing for too long, shut them off". But whereas diligent people leave for a cup of coffee and some fresh air, the procrastinator keeps the idea at the back of his head and goes check HN.

As for "forgiving youself", it could be something as little as acknowledging that I did indeed spend 40 minutes wikidiving by my own will, and not because of a little demon residing in my head. Low belief in free-will and self-efficacy spoil one's mood.
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The 1950's through 1980's were a long four decades of wars since WW2. Any advantage going into the cold war shouldn't of carried through to the 90's. And we had little insight into soviet technology in the 80's, so who's to say the technology wasn't on par. Western culture, I think, means that technology is moved from military to public applications faster and was easier to see.
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