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We are very beta, the pricing will be simple since we will charge something for us and the remaining part is to cover the cloud provider costs (e.g.: 10 $ for a 1 GB digitalocean instance).
Url changed from http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/ebay-inva..., which points to http://phys.org/news/2015-10-invasive-blossoming.html which points to this.
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This isn't about the mechanics of cooking. It isn't really even about food. It's about social expectation, and the unreachable perfection of TV lifestyles, and family, and the end of passing down certain skills matrilinearly while they are not yet taught equally to kids. It's also about time and money.
The interesting part of Velocidade Controlada is the attitude/culture behind it: prevention rather than punishment. Compare this to the UK where the equivalent system is a hidden camera and a series fines with the intention on criminalizing the driver.

Now if only this kinds of enlightened thinking could be exteneded to driving and talking on cell phones, driving at 200 km/h on the main highways and excessive speed at cross-walks then the roads in Portugal could become much safer and fewer lives would the ruined.
Yep, eyes were bleeding when two weeks ago we were looking for active competitors in this market, looks like they got stuck in early '90.

The pricing will be online soon, thanks.
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I worked in a project that had to implement an ebook like ui like that. Not trivial. Why did that have to it in that site is a mystery.
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Not putting the price on the site is an error that may break this idea. You use a system of some kind to calculate the price... just have the site automatically calculate it before the buyer has to do much. I'm in your target area, and I love avocados, and I wouldn't order from this because of the issue.
The very clear issue is that not everybody can or wants to be pushed up the value chain and 'perishing' is not an option for large numbers of people in a society without that society itself perishing.
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Could you please clarify this one?

Your CPM went up by a factor of 3 to 4, yes?

But / and your traffic went down by 25%.

Are you saying that the number of unique visitors to your site went down by 25%, or are you speaking to the suggestions behind this article, and when you put the new ads on the site you also optimised the data you were sending and consequently were pushing 25% less volume of traffic onto the wire?
Maybe you won't.

IIRC local machines by default only caches stuff for a very short time which makes sense for personal computers.

On company networks however I'd expect sysadmins to run nodes to reduce upstream bandwidth usage.

Edit: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329262 the specific example is the exact opposite but I see no technical reason why you cannot do this the other way around.
What is wrong with acquiring nuclear weapons is that it increases the threat of nuclear war which nobody wants. This applies to both US and non-US states. Non-US states acquiring nuclear weapons is as bad as US acquiring new nuclear weapons.
> That is excellent news for road safety!

For that to be a certainty we need a lot more data than what is available today. This is very very early in the deployment of this kind of technology to make such blanket statements. It may be excellent news for road safety.
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Works fine for me.
You may not agree with it, but I don't think the disbelief is warranted. There may be other less pure motivations but there is a pretty simple moral case - proliferation will all lead to an increased likelihood of nuclear war

- because more states have them. Increasing risk proportionately (?).

- because more unstable/nefarious states have them, which are more likely to use them. This is of course somewhat debateable, but nevertheless plenty of people believe this and they're not flatearthists.

Taking an entitlement point of view just seems to be missing the point. It does however explain why these other states want them and resent the US/the West.
My pet peeve in discussions like this is that people insist on looking up or following recipes, slavishly, as if that's the key to making a good meal.

It's not. If you don't know how to cook, buy a cookbook, one that has the fundamentals in it, one that teaches you about meat and bread and vegetables and starch and sauces and fish and condiments. And once you've learned the basics of "frying meat" or "cooking pasta", you can easily start to combine what you've learned into meals, and you can more easily follow recipes for variations or ideas on how to spice it or prepare it or present it.
> What precisely is wrong with other states acquiring nuclear weapons, beyond the fact that it threatens US power?

Increases the risk of nuclear war?
> our credit score is simple... It’s measured from our assets, our income, and if we have bought on credit in the past and managed it well.

Having worked in mortgage lending for many years, I'd like to point out that this isn't true. Your score (generated by the big 3 bureaus) does not take income or assets into account, it's based on credit utilization, payment history, and similar factors reported by your existing creditors and public records (BKs, judgments). That's why more factors go into extending you credit (credit card, mortgage, auto loan), than your score alone.
Can you explain why the nuke option wouldn't work? It seems to me that most of Earth's protection against asteroids is them burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Let's assume that you did blow up an asteroid, and the constituent parts loosely reassembled. Wouldn't they they break apart again as soon as they started to experience the turbulent effects of the Earth's atmosphere? And once they did, the surface area to mass ratio of the asteroid matter would be an order of magnitude or higher, pretty much guaranteeing all of the mini-asteroid parts would burn up.

No doubt I'm wrong. I'm a programmer, not a physicist or an astronomer. So I'm seeking to get 'educated' more than I am to argue with you.
Microservices enforce the removal of shared state by virtue of the subsystems being physically separate. This is why they're enabling concurrency.

The same effect can be had without actually creating microservices. All that is needed is well defined and controlled interfaces.
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Hasn't most of the network stack been nothing but "software-defined"...? Or is "software-defined" the new buzzword for "virtual"?
Thanks for all the info! In a way though, that's my issue from a consumer perspective. There's some risk--because there's always risk whether company bankruptcy or whatever. And there's enough complexity in the transaction that my default inclination is just to pass rather than to enter into a deal that I don't completely understand all the subtleties of.
No they weren't far off but it's still funny how much their guess resembles the pictures linked in this thread.

Because they were still thinking in 80s terms. They were still thinking physical activities and active children outdoors while the reality was that those arcade machines from the 80s evolved into tiny pocket computers so kids are now engrossed in their palms instead of nature.

So their vision of 2015 was really just the 80s with some neat things tacked on. Just like these images, it's really just the 1900s with some magical tools.

Back to the future did try to guess how fashion would change, at least the people in the 1900s were smarter than that. Guessing the internet in the 1900s would be easier than guessing fashion yesterday.
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SSSD cache for as long as you need. If you don't have an auth server or network then you are in deeper trouble. (even AD can be n-tier active active)

AD/LDAP allows SSO for everything ssh, bash, gmail, AWS console, etc. Because its a centralised, when someone leaves, or their account is compromised then its one place to change it. Crucially its one source of truth across the entire estate, not just for "servers" or "desktops"

As for "massive configuration, maintenance and ugly design." Its really not. Also purity of design is not getting the job done. Your approach is ok if you only have a few servers and a handful of users.

The point of ansible/puppet/salt/$other playbooks is that 90% of the work is done for you. All you have to do is input your users, and roll out the SSSD conf (after testing) Even by hand openLDAP isn't that hard.

As for the rhetorical question about /etc/hosts you wouldn't because thats what nslcd/sssd/Program caches are for.
In a country where lobying for the wrong political opinions can land you in jail, it is actually rational to treat political opinions in the same way as potential criminal behavior from a credit scoring point of view. Particularly in a country where it also works the other way round, where having the right proximity with the party can be very lucrative.
Like someone on Twitter said this reads like some Douglas Adams novel.
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Probably for the simple fact that it's a VPN service...so they blocked it with the "porn filter".
So this is interesting to me because of the concept of futurism in general.

People in 1900 were thinking about the future, and what it would be like. They were seeing significant technological progress on that timescale, and wondering what would happen next.

In contrast, I would guess that most people living in 1800 wouldn't imagine the world of 1900 much different from their own, though we also saw dramatic changes in that time with the industrial revolution in full swing.

So futurism itself is a relatively new thing.
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Multiple people (now three!) have downvoted this, but the idea that everyone who talks about Google service closures is complaining about one specific service--Google Reader--is the "meme" that we should all be quite tired of, as it is trotted out like a broken record every single time anyone points out reservations about Google's track record: no matter the context, no matter how many services have been shut down or cut down since, no matter what announcements Google makes about limiting their policies, and no matter whether the person mentioned Google Reader or not... it is even used against people like myself, who had absolutely no specific interest in Google Reader in the first place :/.

It is nothing more than a knee-jerk way to dismiss a rather easily defended position (due to the large number of closures that have been documented, ones that are more extreme or would have been considered less likely than Google Reader) by stereotyping someone's argument down to not just a "strawman" (an argument that is easily defeated), but essentially a purposely broken and laughable version of their argument so as to purposely ill-inform other people (which I feel the need to separate from a "strawman", as the goal is not to defeat the argument but to belittle the opponent). It is frankly one of the more underhanded argumentation tactics that people seem to enjoy defending here.

The reality is that Reader is a non-issue for most people here, as it isn't something you likely built your business or infrastructure around (and to the ones who ended up indirectly relying on it, that is a stretch to blame them for), but when Google randomly shuts down, cuts down, or entirely reboots APIs and services--something they have done many times, at the extremely painful end with things like Checkout and Login, but also with things such as App Engine or Charts--the fact that people seem to seriously have just forgotten how recent these things have been is distressing, and is made all the worse by people who insist on perpetuating "you are just whining about Reader" lie :/.
On a related note, earlier this week Uber secretly threw a massive party in Las Vegas for its employees. I suspect Uber did this for political goodwill with the casinos, as a thank you letter for allowing Uber on the strip.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256259/Luxury-hotel...
Now that you used that particular example, I can finally see your point. Sorry. I'll try to find more correct wording.
A source from earlier this year:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/china-rates-its-own-citi...

And one from last year:

https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/plan...
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We aren't streaming 4K video regularly yet, and 8K is coming up. Each time we double the dimensions, we increase the pixel data four times. We also have higher frame rates and bit depths. This is only going to stabilize after we've reached some extreme resolution with lossless encoding - we're only just now getting there with audio data.
1) DNS does a form of this, but not only is it already quite difficult to manage even the paultry amount of data served, it's still subject to control by various forces. It seems any open system will remain this way

2) BitTorrent/ed2k?
And how does that apply to the web?
legitimately considering moving to Atom for this. I use sublime text (i like it) but there is no terminal support. I have checked every package out and nothing really beats just using a hotkey on iTerm. If this works well, I would be all over it.
There is no evidence that the credit score is affected by political opinions, the only quote “Sesame Credit, however, also uses other data to calculate the scores, such as a person’s hobbies, interaction with friends, shopping habits and lifestyle.” says nothing about political opinions, and I can verify there is no related thing on Sesame Credit's website (Chinese is my native language).

Also Sesame Credit is a private company, it is absolutely not equal to China.
If technology were employed (carefully) to enact more thorough and appropriate justice for all citizens, there may be less of the type of anger that leads to violent crimes and other social problems. The current justice system focuses too heavily on after-the-fact heavy-hitting crimes -- where an individual is harmed a great deal in a short period of time. But what about all the micro-crimes that many people commit over and over, hundreds or more times over the years? The justice system is, for the most part, completely oblivious in this respect. After all, how can you try a person for micro-crimes?

If instead, there were some God-like technology that watched for micro-crimes and compensated the victims in micro-payments (or something to that effect), it could really help to make reality more fair and just. Naturally the micro-payments would be funded by the perpetrators.

On another note, many mass murders are committed by people who have been essentially outcast from society in one way or another. If these people had someone to talk to about their problems or perceived social issues (real or otherwise), it could probably do some real good. An intelligent AI could serve this role. In fact, good AI friends might be sufficient alone to prevent many such murders.

Now, this is not to say that such a technology is anywhere near possible at this point in time. Nevertheless, I feel it is callous and completely inappropriate to look at things like mass murder without considering the sociological circumstances that lead to such events. The same type of thinking that makes people disregard murderers as non-humans is exactly the type of thinking that can lead someone to murder. There is a fine line to hypocrisy here.
What should we put as the price tag of 'increased liquidity,' just one of a few of the mantras that the middlemen of finance use to justify themselves?

http://www.tcf.org/blog/detail/graph-how-the-financial-secto...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8161601
Most of the damage from a future 'rogue' nuke may be done by our reaction to it. Like the modern Pearl Harbor's fallout around us.

Edit: spelling
https://github.com/mattdesl/svg-mesh-3d/blob/master/demo/ind... is at least.
From the Wikipedia article: "Although the custom had no basis in law and frequently resulted in prosecution..." and "Writing in 1901 on the subject of wife selling, James Bryce stated that there was "no trace at all in our [English] law of any such right."

(It also says that people did it despite it being illegal, but this doesn't seem very different from any subculture encouraging illegal behavior at any point in time, in that such subcultures always exist, and one can't extrapolate the attitudes within such a subculture to the entire society.)
Again, both Norvig and you are messing with ordering of events. If you list 4 events like this, assuming that ordering of boys and girls matters, then you should stick with that. So, if ordering mattered when children were born it should also matter when you are doing "checks". So you shouldn't formulate problem as "one of the children is boy", you should formulate problem as "first child is boy" (with ordering in place), which eliminates possibility 3. Otherwise you are "solving" problem by listing sample space of completely different problem.
Words of my mouth.

The change in imagination of technological future is jaw dropping. We are still picturing the world after 2100 and I think that will also be completely different from what will actually happen then. Like, we think the humans will achieve speeds of light and colonise on some other planet. But, who knows what is actually going to happen? after all our prediction are based on today.
One of the key elements of the NPT is that eventually Nuclear Weapon States will disarm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...
This is a perfectly rational decision, you just need to look at it from the value system making the decision. The Party's #1 goal is to remain in power. Pretty much everything they do is with that in mind. They also seem to assume that revolution is always knocking at the door. [1] Communism has had a long history of ideological coercion (it's pretty much a founding principle), so this sort of thing should come as no surprise. In fact, it's a lot more subtle than most. [2]

[1] This may not be so far-fetched. Several years ago a Party document was released documenting 100k or 200k protests, ranging from small to large. When the bullet train derailed 3 or 5 years ago, Weibo went wild within minutes and ultimately some provincial Party officials took the fall. And the example of Arab Spring has got to be pretty scary.

[2] I don't know if it is true anymore, but historically people were encouraged to rat out neighbors with ideological deficiencies. Not just in China, this is pretty much standard fare in totalitarian states.
If I recollect what I read, Siracusa and Gruber are saying Walter Issacson doesn't understand technology well enough to do justice to Jobs. They see possibilities missed in putting thoughtful questions about the technology side to Jobs and get answers from the man himself. Thrust of their criticism is not the characterisation of Jobs, but lack of knowledge of the technological canon that Jobs worked with. A better equipped author could have done more justice to Jobs life by avoiding those errors.

The discussion here was about the portrayal of Jobs himself in the book not the technical errors the biographer might have made, yeah, so I could have made that clearer.
Nice twist! I was very surprised :)
I once heard a great talk by Eytan Domany, a physicist who moved to biology. He had a look at Genome Wide Association studies, where you sequence a number of people with an illness and without the illness, and try to find genes that correlate with having the illness. The problem with these studies, he told us, was that quite often the number of genes they find correlating with having the illness is about the same order of magnitude as the number of participants in the study. But because many biologists are not so proficient at statistics, they don't see that this smells of overfitting their model to the data. He took a particularly popular such study and applied a standard technique to detect overfitting, cross validation, and indeed found that the correlation they reported was spurious.

If I remember correctly, even after he destroyed the study, people kept citing it...
Not so. 90s FPS games (such as Doom) use enemy sprites with views from multiple angles for each frame. Would be a good test project for this and would dovetail nicely with the existing Doom voxel project.
"I don't know the meaning of the symbols on the chalkboard. Whatever it is, I bet it's wrong."

Those symbols demonstrate empirical knowledge of the relationship between baryons, their masses, and their quantum numbers. It's not wrong in any sense, other than the underlying order wasn't yet understood.

cf The Baryon Octet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics)
I browsed through the comments on YouTube for this video, thinking that surely this video would be too niche for the harrowing YouTube-stupidity to infect.

Oh boy, was I wrong. Don't do it!; you'll wish they'd have invented something even more potent a decade before the interview...

A wonderful interview though.
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I've no direct experience of this, but this is my take as well. Can anyone explain why two people doing 50 hour weeks at half the salary wouldn't be better for everyone (the employees, their colleagues, the firms that employ them, their clients, society)?
> proliferation will all lead to an increased likelihood of nuclear war

Again, the unstated implication is that the US has a moral right to shepherd the rest of the world to the correct moral conclusion to this situation. The rest of the world is just too damn ignorant to figure out how to not murder everyone with nukes, so the US has to have the hard job of controlling the nuclear stockpiles of the world. It's tough having that moral high ground, but someone's got to do it.

The US has committed crimes of war with nuclear weapons against civilians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...

The fact of the matter is that knowledge cannot be suppressed. The ability to create and operate nuclear weapons is not something that is going to be a controlled secrete for very long - if it is at all. The current policy of the US asserting its power over the rest of the world is only going to ensure that when this knowledge is common, it will most certainly be used to ensure the end of the US power.
Something the size of a dinosaur killer is going to cause a devastating shockwave at the surface, even if you manage to break it into small parts. Plus, breaking it into many small parts of known trajectory, with a very small standard deviation in size, is going to be a much more difficult problem than nudging one big part. Once the no-doubt irregularly-shaped chunks start interacting and banging into each other, all bets about impact sites are going to be off. You'd much rather miss the planet entirely instead of running the risk of a larger-than-average chunk hitting New York or Beijing.

On top of that, nudging it out of a collision trajectory is going to require a lot less energy than disintegrating it, particularly if you can arrange to do the nudge a long way off. What's easier, pushing a runaway shopping cart so it doesn't bang into your car, or tearing the cart into parts small enough that they don't do any damage when they hit?

Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Seveneves has some discussion of this (on a much larger scale, granted).
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