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> the timescale isn't long enough evolutionary changes to take place.

Stabilizing population at a limited number would presumably be done indefinitely, not for a brief period and then removed. Therefore natural selection would have time to take effect. It obviously has not since the institution of the one child policy or the development of birth control, which were recent developments on an evolutionary timescale.

> only applies for an exponentially growing population, which must stop at some point, for clearly physical reasons like the Sun not providing enough energy.

This discussion keeps going back and forth between needing to implement population controls now, or sometime in the foreseeable future, versus the fact that the entire Hubble volume of the universe likely has some total carrying capacity. Saying that even something like a Dyson sphere surrounding the sun would only provide finite energy is not a valid reason for population controls here and now.

> prefers city life

Not really, but preferences aside, most living apart from civilization still benefit from a larger civilization to support their needs. Some may prefer to "live off the land" with no technology, but even those living the quiet life can still enjoy things like advanced medical care or a broader range of products and services delivered to them, if they so choose. Population doesn't remove any possibility of quiet walks in nature or ability to see a starry sky at night, though would perhaps make them a scarcer resources. They are, for example, still available to people now, despite a world population of over seven billion. The fact that in some distant future unbounded population growth would lead people to outnumber the number of atoms in the universe isn't a remotely relevant consideration towards whether implement population controls soon.
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There can be quite a large amount of innovation even in iterating on existing designs.

Boeing is using new materials, and the new high-bypass engines for the 787 and 747-8 are quite a technological achievement.

People also forget that Boeing like many other aerospace companies rely on government funding and military contracts.

Many of Boeing's commercial aircraft either started as military designs for long range bombers and cargo aircraft or were a sister project of one.

Airbus was pretty much a hail mary effort by Europe to revive their aerospace industry, the UK, France, Italy and Germany have dumped billions of tax payer money to get Airbus off the ground.
Airbus got preferential treatment in the EU market, and even it relies quite heavily on it's military wing for a large part of their profits.

As far as individual programs go the 787 like the 777 doesn't have military variants at this point, the "newest" Boeing aircraft with military versions is the 767 (there are plenty of 737 tankers and CIC/AW aircraft out there, and even 707's) and it does't look like they will ever receive one.

But it's also very hard to estimate the worth of a program, the 787 might not break even in the books, but the technology, experience, patents and intellectual property that came out of that program may very well be highly profitable.
If you want to build ports on a machine, you should add a large (several dozen GB at least) /usr/ports partition. Keep in mind that monsters like firefox and libreoffice have insane space requirements.

Diverting ports builds to /home is a hack that works around the wrong choice made during install (which will invariably happen when you first start out, that's ok -- be prepared to reinstall with better parameters once you learn more about what you need).
Genuine question: Did you write this book? If the answer is yes, then my next question is do you have it in an audio format? If the answer is yes then my third question is, can I get it at audible.com?
Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (1996) [pdf]
There is a link in the old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4242002
I just can't understand how it manages to make this image http://www.pics.rs/i/2cuoM look like this image http://www.pics.rs/i/IEz0N, especially the last line of letters.
lots in database land - Oracle Enterprise Manager, quest had one - forget the name - the makers of Toad, it was very pretty. Splunk is one for server log management. a quick google turned up https://www.paessler.com/router_monitoring for network monitoring. Maybe they're not as widespread because you have to pay for most of them :-)
Why do people still use Sourceforge?
I was with you up until this part:

> I trust wealthy individuals to invest that extra 10% into efforts that benefit society much more than I trust the government.

Those wealthy individuals can, in general, be trusted to do things that benefit themselves. Corruption be as it may, the government is still in the business of the greater good, however imperfect.
I recently started playing with tesseract.

Here's a dockerfile that will install it in a minimal alpine image.

https://github.com/wartron/docker-tesseract
>OSv applications run in a JVM

While this may be the most typical use for OSv, my understanding from their wiki[0] is that OSv can handle Ruby or Node, or Linux apps (most of the Linux ABI is supported).

[0]https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/wiki
How do we change this? It's so ingrained in American culture, I'm not sure we can.
Agreed. Open source ftw! I'd love to see this app.
Much of the technology in the NY subway hasn't been updated in over 100 years
Is there no such thing as "signed delivery" there? Almost every single thing I've ordered online where I live (South Africa), was delivered in-person. They would not leave the package until it's been signed for. If you're not there and there is no one else to sign for it, they will take it to the post-office for you to collect. And yes, this happens even with "free-delivery" online stores.

Heck, sometimes when import duties had to be paid upon delivery, they would stay upwards of 20+ minutes while I went to a nearby ATM. In those cases, they could just as easily have taken the package to the local post-office for collection.
I wonder if the same techniques could be used for compression as well.
No reason they wouldn't be? EdX already has a setup for doing proctored exams all over the world.
Will this work with React native?
I think there's a wide spectrum of bootcamps. Some are elite and some aren't.

It's important to recognize bootcamp grads for what they are: people who've been coding for 3-4 months max. Many folks expect them to be seasoned devs with 5 yrs experience but they truly are entry-level.

Most people, as I said, are missing motivation, structure, connections and auto-didactic skills to even get to the point of doing Hello World.

[Oh, and if you interviewed someone who'd been to a 4-week (?) bootcamp, that explains why they couldn't do much. Nothing great in life is accomplished by working for 4-weeks.]
Your education is obviously not free, somebody (still you) is paying for it, just not directly. I wonder how the actual cost differs?
Because they're natural and not man-made, they probably won't be used for a long time, because that would mean admitting that the government isn't all-powerful and all-knowing. The government never admits it made a mistake.
That won't happen, if anything SSL cert's are easier to get now than ever and with projects like letsencrypt.org it will become even easier.

Also many of the malicious adds do not come from malware networks they come from all major ad networks including Google's.

You have ads exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in Flash and browsers that not easy to detect, and with the amount of syndication in ad networks you can't effectively blacklist or revoke them.

One of the downsides to this whole "letsencrypt" movement and CA's from less "organized" countries being accepted by major browsers and clients is that you will have much more failures in security.

SSL was designed around high level of trust and that trust worthy SSL certificates will not be easy to come by, this is why they used to cost so much there was actual inspection and you would get fraud insurance for quite high amounts.
Today i won't be surprised if you could get a Google.com cert from some low tier CA in the Philippines which automates the process and it will be valid on large amount of devices.

We need a better verification system for SSL and actual policing of certificates including integrating it into DNS, if i ask for Google.com i should get a "cert" entry from the DNS server just as i get the A entry for it, and i don't understand why this isn't the case yet.
One more take for ad blockers actually improving the Web.
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The part I don't understand about all of this, is how this information becomes public when it's stored in Dropbox? My understanding is unless you create a sharing link for it, it will be privately stored in your Dropbox.
Er...

I'm not sure I see how having ad traffic travel over HTTPS is a problem here. Malware researchers deal with HTTPS all the time. It's not some sort of insurmountable barrier -- the content is all available to a browser, after all.
Open to all: "MIT proudly announces two new programs that offer learners around the world ..." - http://micromasters.mit.edu/
This network performance question, phrased in the way you did here, comes up a lot. I heard it a couple of times during q&a after talks at EuroBSDcon.

I wonder what answer you expect. A "yes"/"no" answer?

How could anyone answer this question in a meaningful way? How are people supposed to know what kind of performance you need, and for which application? How are people supposed to even judge whether the proposed reference point (Linux) performs well for you?

In the end, the best answer you'll get will always be "try it and see for yourself"...
Yes, I did write it. The audiobook is being produced right now and will be out before the end of the year.
Seems like managers do things that are not justifiable and get away with it, whereas brunt work is done by engineers. Managers can't be trusted then, because they can get away with it ? So who is to decide if the consequence to let someone go, block raise/bonus is not because of the need of the company but because of the greed of managers ?
Should I reveal my identity to these publishers? If yes then no deal from me.

Anonymous micro payments would be very welcomed though .

I do not think that we should give media more power to manipulate people individually (block content or speech, show differently biased content for different individuals etc).

Disclaimer: I do not use ad-blocking but I have noticed that ads have become more and more intrusive and aggressive and Internet is becoming more and more like TV where you could not read or watch something without constant interruption (the main purpose why people actually choose Internet over TV). This means that I am more and more willing to use some ad-blocking solution or I just do not visit places with intrusive advertising tactics.

So possibly the real solution is less and less aggressive ads and especially no ads after payment (no there is no excuse for that beside publisher greed).
Across the entire nation, the cost of administration doesn't need to exceed 1300/mo to be a worse option than cash benefits. It just needs to be greater than whatever waste recipients generate in aggregate. Manhattan low-income housing: 53,809 units, per your above claims, from one of the most expensive places to live in the entire country. 46.7 million Americans were below the poverty line in 2014:

https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/

The vast majority of the US is quite a bit cheaper than NYC. Further, we don't need to provide cash assistance to match an area's rent -- thus achieving the same "ship out the poor people" policy you seem to espouse above. If someone can spend their $500 monthly benefit on Manhattan rent, or spend that same benefit on NJ rent, many will choose the latter and thus avoid the waste you claim is inevitable.

And you've still cited no evidence which makes me think that the waste you're citing could exist on a national scale anywhere close to the administrative burden of an in-kind program.
seems strange to me that trading off expenses wasn't enough for them
Like many others, I use an ad blocker at least as much to protect privacy as to reduce annoyances and malware. ABP's criteria for "acceptable" say nothing about tracking, so while they're a step in the right direction, they're mostly irrelevant to me.

The obvious conflict of interest from making payments even optional for advertisers makes them clearly untrustworthy.
Ask HN: Previous Participants of NYC Startup Odyssey?
I've been accepted for NYC Startup Odyssey in a couple of weeks. I was just wondering if there was anyone with previous experiences with this event that could let me know how it was. Im a CSE student at the Ohio State University looking to find a job working with iOS.

Heres the website for the event: http://edge.uncubed.com/odyssey#spring_2015

Thanks!
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I guess the key reason why this works so well is because the lower resolution has been calculated from the higher resolution. So you have detailed information on how exactly the downscaling was calculated, which enables you to "cheat".

If you apply the same method to a completely different downscaling method, it probably wouldn't work out as nicely.

The ultimate test would be two different photographs taken at the same time - one with high and one with low resolution. Almost certainly this wouldn't work out as nicely. There is a huge difference between (a) having a low-res image due to physical effects, and (b) having a low-res image calculated by a known algorithm where all parameters are also known.
The Gaussian function is actually the distribution function of the normal distribution, and the normal distribution’s discrete equivalent is the binomial distribution whose coefficients (binomial coefficients) are the rows of Pascal's triangle.
If this is successful, perhaps they'd consider expanding this to a Bachelor's (MicroBachelors). It's a step in the right direction, at least. I've gone through a lot of the MIT OCW videos and notes, and by and large, the quality is very high. Promising.
So you're telling me there's no evidence that the NSA has committed call logs of every US Verizon subscriber to their own persistent storage for later inspection? No evidence that NSA intercepted inter-datacenter transfers of American companies, who were housing the personal data of Americans? No evidence that Americans have been swept up in overly-broad "one foreign end" wiretaps? All of the weakdh.org people are crazy? That well-documented room in the AT&T building in San Francisco was just a big misunderstanding?
The argument is that, in practice, it performs better for resampling images than the more correct sinc kernel from sampling and reconstruction theory.
Doing arithmetic in public is dangerous.
So what? Boeing isn't going anywhere. Why are these business people trying to figure out when and how Boeing is going to make a profit. At this point Boeing is basically a government institution. It doesn't need to run like a business so applying business principles to it makes no sense.
> The audiobook is being produced right now and will be out before the end of the year.

Thanks for the response. Duly noted and will check it out in the audio format.
Much of the traffic is sniffed off the wire because malware distributors are actively hiding from known bots and traffic cops.
Another important point is how many airlines have standardized their narrow-body fleets. Maintaining a single type/family is simpler and often cheaper than having trained crew, mechanics and parts available for multiple types of aircraft.

In the US, for example, Southwest and (mainline) Alaska are both pure-737 fleets. Virgin America, Frontier and Spirit are all A320-family, with JetBlue operating only A320 family and the E190. US Airways, prior to its merger with American, was moving toward an all-A320-family narrow-body fleet and was nearly there (only a few 757s were left, and US Airways was looking to replace them with a long-range variant of the A321 once it became available).

So a new narrow-body type -- whether it's COMAC's C919 or Bombardier's C-Series -- probably will never make it into those carriers' fleets, which in turn makes it that much harder to break into the market.

Added to that, the existing manufacturers (Airbus and Boeing) are established enough and have the resources to be able to offer significant discounts to an airline which commits to a large fleet overhaul. New entrants likely are not financially able to do that, putting them at more of a disadvantage in trying to place their first aircraft with the airlines.
As far as I understood, the letters at the bottom row are rebuilt from patterns found in other parts of the image - a few of them are false positives, see the original chart https://joyerickson.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/eye-chart.jp...
I suspect it's that you won't need most of them in a typical application.

The idea behind unikernels is that now that we have pervasive virtualization, most virtual machines are running only a single application anyway. So you have an instance type for memcached, one for postgres, one for Node, one for nginx, one for Redis, one for your JVM, etc. In many cases, these apps already include user-level scheduling and resource management, which often works at cross purposes with the OS. In other cases, they could run much faster if they implemented these specialized to their particular workload, and didn't need to run through an OS scheduler that also needs to support responsive desktop apps.
Not a library but gocr has always been useful for me
Well, hypervisors and OS kernels are largely mirrors of each other, and it doesn't make architecturally to have both. Some people, like the creator of this project, favor squeezing out the OS kernel. Other people, like the LXC people, prefer squeezing out hypervisors and letting OS kernels do it all. Both suck. All software sucks. Software is hell. Every moment is a living nightmare of pain.
It's voluntary. Perhaps you missed the part about the basic-income and right to a child.
You do realize the sentiment behind the second clause of your last sentence contradicts the assertion of the first one?
The lack of peer-reviewed research for Theranos is a valid criticism. The method and technology used in other labs likely is peer-reviewed at some level, so not disagreeing on that point.

What I am suggesting is that other labs do have variances in results, on certain lab tests. The OP did say that there was a 7% variation in Platelet results in successive days, using the Stanford lab.

Quest Diagnostics have had previous settlements with DoJ for "inaccurate and unreliable" lab test kits. [0]

[0] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/quest-diagnostics-pay-us-302-m...
> However, when a simple syntax derails your reading, it is a thing of concern.

Definitely agreed! It's rare that I've come across a set of code that is _so_ over-abstracted or dynamic that reading the code doesn't usually shed light on the issue I'm after, and usually it's a "dense" language (Scala, Lisps, etc.) that manages to achieve that.
"Not going anywhere" != "a good investment", and the second part is something "these business people" probably care a lot about.
Isn't this a violation of MS's EULA?
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Didn't try so far. Will think about it...
Just for anyone else who was curious, here's some more information on the Citadel:

http://goldeneye.wikia.com/wiki/Citadel

It wasn't really an intended secret. It sounds like to make it accessible, a player had to hack it in, and to make it playable, another player had to contribute clipping information.
tldr: "Ask for negative references" ... jfc
I was thinking the question would be: "What is the downside of working for you."
This is the cutest thing I've ever seen on HN.
Enterprise shell scripts
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I think the idea is that an image has a certain amount of self similarity. I.e. skin looks like skin. So the algorithm learns how skin is supposed to look like by looking at all the skin. So every wrinkle is improved by looking at every other wrinkle as opposed to just the pixles in an immediate vicinity.

Now replace "wrinkle" for "patch" and sprinkle some crazy stats and machine learning to get the idea to work.
Rainbow binary debt friendship bracelets. The commas are unnecessary. In fact the title seems to indicate rainbow friendship bracelets, binary friendship bracelets and debt friendship bracelets are all things, which is not the author's intent.
The reason this is a bad idea is because it restricts your ability to redesign a system. If you want to add another program, you can't do it by definition.

Though I suppose the solution in that scenario is "Take it out of the unikernel, then."

Still, if you rip out the fundamental abstractions of an OS, how would you run an application that relies on e.g. fork? Or any application that runs a shell command in any way?

My understanding is probably falling short. I should read up more on unikernels.
TravisCI was also having issues. I wonder whats going on
If you mean lossy, why not? Netflix could use this by reducing the information they send out to their users who recreate a lot of what was lost.

I don't think for loss-less though, because they are inferring what a pixel should to be, i.e. they cannot be 100% any bit is every set right, just the probability that it is.
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One of the things that amazed me, the last time I interviewed is the number of companies and recruiters who just stop communicating. Is it too much to ask to send a "no?" Shoot, tell me to go jump in the lake, tell me something, don't give me the silent treatment. I can understand if it is a small start-up, but I can believe that recruiters (head hunters) do this as well. I wouldn't be bothered so much if the communication was just email. But once it gets to phone calls or even face to face meetings, then give the person the common courtesy of some closure.
I think it can be read either way, so let's leave the author her commas.
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I believe this is already somewhat similar to say zip compression, which can reference other portions of the compressed file.
The author never makes the case for any particular conception of a deity. In fact, his indirect diatribe could just as easily be taken as an argument in favor of theological noncognitivism. He rejects "theistic personalism" (which is the overwhelmingly accepted understanding of God in Western societies and Abrahamic religions) in favor of "classical theism" - that God is pure form, immutable (does not change), impassible (cannot be acted on), existing outside of time, yet also omnipotent and omniscient. Whether or not this God intervenes in human affairs is not stated, so for all I know the author could be arguing a deist position. Yet he seems to accept the Catholic tradition, which would require one to prove a whole additional set of properties beyond an abstract deity, but nonetheless it implies that he does believe in an interventionist God. Actually, classical theism seems to imply this cyclic and self-referential belief of God being omniscient by the mere fact of his existence and that "miracles" and intervention are in fact the result of God being the sustainable cause of ordinary events by default.

Muddled, unfalsifiable, self-abetting sophistry, in my mind. But it's creative, I suppose.