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There is a huge difference in the amount of bandwidth that can be moved via satellite compared to undersea fiberoptic cable (not to mention differences in latency).

If all cables were cut and we went back to satellite we'd essentially be back to UUCP for worldwide datacomms for the general public.

Speaking directly to communications satellites, they likely would not be immune to any conflict that affects underwater cables. US, Russia, and China all are rumored to have anti-satellite weapons and Russia has been steering satellites (spy or ASAT no one seems to know) around commercial telecom satellites
A developer’s thoughts on maintaining focus with the growth mindset
I don’t understand what “Amnesty” would mean in this context. We are used to governments offering amnesty, but that is specifically amnesty from prosecution, and a normal citizen does not otherwise have much interation with the state in their daily lives. According to the article, VW workers are being offered amnesty from being “fired or [facing] damage claims”. However, there are very many ways in which VW could make workers’ lives a living hell without firing them, since employees by definition interact with VW all day, every day. VW would have to enumerate every one of those bad things they could do and promise not do it, which is, of course, impossible. This feels like an empty promise.
Clinkle doesn't seem to have tarnished a16z, why would uBeam?
Hi, the reason PicoTorrent is 20MB installed is that we ship the PDB file in the installer. In the future, the PDB file will be optional. The actual executable is around 5,5MB. We ship the PDB file with the installer to help with issues now in the beginning - to print stack traces (with symbol names) if it crashes, etc.

The installer will receive a nice update with a user interface in the next version.

Thanks for the input! :)

Ninja Edit: I'll take a look at fixing whatever is making PicoTorrent not work in Sandboxie.
Oh give me a break. Company makes the money, company takes the responsibility. Not the employees.
>"wanted to be a pianist"

>"builds RC planes"

Like I said. People don't want to work.

You just changed the examples of not working to be more elitist.

Who tars the roof? Who wades through clogged sewer lines? Who mines the rare metals in your cellphone? Who farms the maggots for industrial fisheries? Who makes the textiles? Who slaughters the cattle? Proctologist? Who embalms our dead? Who does QA for your phone's RAM? Who cleans up the remains at violent crime scenes? Who solders together your alarm clock? Who tears out asbestos?
I buy ~20 drives/month (a drop in the bucket compared to you guys), but I find 6TB drives are fast, reliable, and cost the same per TB as the 4TB drives (so, taking the NAS/Pod cost into account, cheaper per online TB).

Are 4TB drives significantly cheaper for you? Or is there some other constraint at play against the 6TB?
Yes, of course, some social processes are made available by technology, but this is not inevitable course.

I would say that agriculture made possible the first known democracy and women rights are still subpar in many parts of the world despite the washing machines.
What are chlorite machines?
Some people say the "alcohol was safer than water" thing is a myth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9031856

Some people aren't convinced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7798470
The same argument applies for the following command.

wget https://example.com/script.sh | bash

If you trust the source, you might as well install it. Otherwise, we're basically arguing that everyone who has ever installed any non-distro software is an idiot.

Consuming http or the connection dying and script ending early and being left in a weird state is probably a more interesting argument than the trust issue.
Wish rumored to have rejected acquisition offers from Amazon and Alibaba
The only problem is the scoring system is highly biased towards track record of the grant applicant not the actual grant content. On top of this once you get the grant you can in practice spend the money doing whatever you want.

More fundamentally the peer review process can't actually accurately sort good proposals from outstanding proposals, but we only have the money to fund a fraction of the outstanding proposals. Under these conditions just being honest and moving to a system where all good proposals are put into a lottery and funded by chance would be better approach.
I think it is wise to set a very high bar, but having a moderate amount of experience picking morels, I can trivially tell when I have a real morel or a false one (there are several species of edible morels and several species of confounding mushrooms involved).
Didn't they switch to Kimograms? His grandpapi invented the unit, I believe.
I suppose we can always dream that Apple will adopt Servo for Safari. :)
I found it really easy to turn off styles, to show the real code. In firefox the View Menu, Page Style, No Style.

There are ways to assign this to a keypress or button as well.
It's a different threat model to your other examples though. The pizza guy, the driver, the lady down the street, unless they know you and have something against you, they would want to target you with no apparent motive in your examples. There is plenty of motive to hack random computers by just putting up a malicious website. And people try to do it all the time, and install malware with various degrees of stealth. It's not really an unknown or crazy threat.

The website threat model also allows the bad guy to target someone by IP, or some country, or only put the malicious code 1 in 1000 times, so it's not going to be widely noticed, etc.

Or it could be an HTTP (not -S) website and someone MitMs you (OK that is a pretty far-fetched attack vector for someone who MitMs you, I admit).

edit: although I agree with you that I've personally never encountered a case where this specific malicious trick happened
I doubt it, the ruling families are a-ok, and since they're absolutely worshiped, I doubt they give a damn...
I don't believe Cook was referring to Macs when he said "PCs".

He'd like to see iPad Pro cut into the Windows market. I don't think it'll happen without big improvements to iOS.

Meanwhile, the Mac will continue to do just fine. :-)
First time I saw a post about these guys I said that they're just using the actor pattern...now I hear that they use Scala...another point for actors!
Excellence in development and exellence in operations does not necessarily overlap.
IMHO the whole "devops" term is bogus since it's just the worst of both worlds.

You want experts at both ends of the spectrum, not a developer who can do some sysadmin tasks but not too well or a operational engineer who can write some code but not too well.
Acknowledge that there are different fields and you need experts in both. Forget about aiming for a hybrid - it doesn't work. You'll just get incompetents who are able to pose as being good at both sides.
Daphne Oram was another pioneer of electronic music and also passed through the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

http://daphneoram.org/

Her book, An Individual Note: Of Music, Sound and Electronics is available scanned to PDF.
Sure but even still, suppose an analyst saves all of Fidelity's clients 1M in two days worth of work. We can't dismiss that as silly because that savings is so small compared to 5 trillion AUM, right?
That means that you consistently had ~6MB/sec, or 50Mb/sec of upload bandwidth. That might be possible if you're on a really good 100Mb connection (or 1Gb connection), but that's not common in most of the world yet.

Also, could it be that the "re-upload" was able to detect your older copy of the files and reuse them? I can rsync terabytes in minutes over slow connections when the other side already has the files ...
That's a great way to think about it. Guess I could just call this "vanity metrics."
"I will argue that ME is simply a belief, the belief that one has an illness called ME..... .I will argue that this line here [overhead slide] represents not the line between low and high cortisol responses [but] the line between real and unreal illness."

Simon Wessely, Microbes, Mental Illness, the Media and ME: The Construction of Disease, 9th Eliot Slater Memorial Lecture, Institute of Psychiatry, April 1994.

Although he may have softened his stance in the past few years, this is fairly representative of Simon Wessely's views during the past 20-25 years.
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> it's impossible to (..) feel sick on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_%28drugs%29

How much it too much would depend on your body and tolerance, but I've seen plenty of people feel sick from smoking too much.
Here I tried saving a bookmark on FF 43 Beta : https://imgur.com/FqcpNIE

Where can I select the desired folder or create one ? If I import the Chrome exported bookmarks, all 900 of them are in one list.
My naive guess on this is that they had provisions in place to avoid being diluted, so they took advantage of that.
Aren't we supposed to avoid stock Apple options due to concerns about privacy? For example, isn't Safari proprietary, suggesting that we should choose an open-source browser? Are Apple apps actually good for privacy?
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Why do you think that's a thing that's happening?
I think standardized tests are vastly underrated.

One of the nice properties of sortition is it combines well with many other forms of selection. However, this seems to ruin the point:

>Gathering their 'votes' demonstrates that you're at least interested in the job, and the element of trust is still there (someone trusts you would do a good job, and not doing that would be a betrayal).

A big plus of sortition is it does not maximally select for the people most interested in political power. Having to be elected or self-selected in such a fashion would mar this.
Common sense.
Totally arbitrary. If you're simply copy and pasting commands you probably don't know what you're doing, OR you're just looking for the quick shortcut.

Either way, when I paste I usually put it through a scrapped terminal. Meaning I have to hit enter twice for any command to actually be executed.

If you're not checking your commands before you hit enter it's like getting in a car for the first time and bringing it to top speed hoping that it won't rattle apart and kill you.

To further this analogy, if I were to get a car from a dealership brand new it might have some issues but for the most part it's brand new and safe. If I'm buying a car from some shady lot behind a Waffle House, well then I should probably bring it to a mechanic to get inspected and such.

To detract from the analogy, dealerships are giving out different new cars while copy/pasting code from tutorials such as Linode are always giving the user the same content, they've been checked numerous times and hopefully the bullshit has been caught already.
I've noticed when copying stuff like this that the selected text looks different on iOS.

This is how it looks in this instance :

http://imgur.com/ddZ4ytL
Right, quite the opposite. In those states, drug arrests are down, prison population is dropping, tax dollars are being collected. It's looking like the right kind of policy from just about every perspective.
These details of emissions modes and engine control software configuration could easily explain the defeat.

What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain willfully ignorant of the fact that VW's diesel engines "passed" emissions without resorting to exotic tech like Mercedes' bluetec exhaust fluids. They knew there was some sort of magic in their engines that set them apart, but they either understood it was cheating, or they never asked any questions.
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My old univ caved in too. They retired the lisp/recursive introductory course for a python one centered on component/libraries IIUC.
I would assume not, given that https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html cites "According to Firefox Telemetry, 29% of TLS transactions use ninety-day certificates. That’s more than any other lifetime."
Can you file bug(s) with links to the crash report(s) in about:crashes?

Alternatively, you could email me your crash reports (email in profile) and I could file bug(s) for youe.
Prove it with travisci?
It's hard if you indent wrong.

Also: http://imgur.com/FnXXOXJ

Tell me the above picture is something people have problems understanding the structure of.
Twitter still bugs you to create an account to access their content. (Try to see someone's list of followers when you're not logged in, even when that information is public.) Compare with Wikimedia where you don't even need an account to edit content.

Further Twitter is still promoting a model where to talk to people you have to create an account on a centralized platform first. ("Want to get support from a company? Chat with them on Twitter. You need a Twitter account for that.") Compare with email where you can email from any provider to any provider.

Twitter might be more open than Facebook, but they're certainly not the champions of openness.
> "4,000,000 downloads and counting"

This gave me flashbacks to early Firefox download campaigns, and the excitement that surrounded each milestone download count. Seems like such a distant memory now.
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Westerners eat raw vegetables, Asians prefer them cooked (even fruits)...
I agree getting more content on twitter is an good option for montetization. It might even be the best one.

I brought up Google because time spent on a site doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot more ad revenue. What matters is serving up useful ads that provide value to the user and advertisers. Google is great at that - Twitter isn't because of many reasons you've stated.

So maybe twitter should be trying to improve their ad program to serve better ads. If they can't do that well (no way they could do it as well as Google) then perhaps increasing time users spend on Twitter is their best option.

I only wanted to point out that the solution is not self evident. Just because people are using a service to find content hosted elsewhere does not mean it can't make money. The problem might be that Twitter is bad at finding ads people want to see.
Sand absorbs a lot of energy. 3-feet of sand will absorb a lot of energy. The cables are already protected to absorb a lot of energy. A torpedo is only going to move at 200 MPH.
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Well it was part of their damages estimation, even though he wasn't charged with it.
Can't say I've ever felt sick from smoking too much, except for a time when the munchies took over and I ended up ordering delivery from two restaurants in one night.
That's interesting, and a really good answer. Thanks.
You're right, and that's how I've always put the potential industry into perspective internally, but it would be suicide for cannabis producers to compare themselves to tobacco producers (or by attempting to "disrupt" it). The perception of cannabis is that it's "juvenile". The perception of tobacco is that it will kill you.
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I'd agree with that.

It's not that there is no value in Twitter nor in the amount of data on things people like and talk about on the service, but more it's more difficult for new users to intuitively jump in and start than it is with facebook or snapchat (Twitter strikes me more as a platform to listen to lots of others than as a platform to have a broad audience unless you, the content producer, are bringing fame from elsewhere).
My father ended up on months-long rounds of antibiotics and started taking probiotics as a result. He also said it helped some similar digestive problems he's had for years.
I must point out that the "hello icon" is for all intents and purposes a hyperlink (it's not a frontend for more code).

If you're avoiding Firefox because of the crapware specter, you've been badly misinformed. Later versions are going to split out the Pocket nonsense into a separate plugin as well, so the browser goes back to being clean.
I think it wouldn't be Hacker News.

I'd also like someone who understands the issue well to let us know whether these mark downs have any tax implications to begin with. I think it might sometimes be the case that marking down such a holding would allow recognition of a tax loss but I don't think that is going on here.
How many users does GitHub have right now? 15.82M and counting
Some of the edible species have poisonous lookalikes, while some don't.

Here, beginners are advised to only pick extremely easily recognizable mushrooms like various Boletus (Tatti).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletaceae

The books have very thorough instructions on identification.
No, we have not already conceded TLS keys for sites in .COM to the USG.
I get the point, but as I mentioned it all comes down to how the system works.

Svven for example puts together people tweeting same links. Tweeting, not liking. Two tweets containing same link can have very different and often contradictory messages.

To give a practical example, some of you probably noticed PG's controversial tweet about unions (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/663456748494127104), and also the reply that took double the likes of that (https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/663495439069614080).
Because the reply contained the link to PG's tweet, in Svven you can see all sides of this story around the same link.
Not everything is a US/UK conspiracy. In the grand scheme of things Sweden and Russians relations is probably not at the top of their todo lists.

Why would the US want to do anything to Germany anyway? They are one of our strongest allies in the region and house some of our largest military bases outside of the US. The German politicians were publicly appalled at our spying but I feel thats only a show for the public. Business will go on as usual.
It looks like this is the reason:
“All Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due To Expired Security Certificate”
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/all-mac-store-apps-stopped-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554700
those columns are, btw,

company name price price price
paid 31 july 30 sept
Does your school really have a "three strikes and you're out" policy for plagiarism? It seems like that would almost encourage cheating, up to the point where someone gets their second strike.
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It would make for a good spearphishing attack. If you know the target's stack and can guess what sorts of issues they might run into, you can throw up a few pages detailing fixes for those issues. Give half-right answers on stack and link to your honeypot for "more in-depth discussion of the issue". Then sit back and wait for a dev to run your "fix" on one of their servers.
Your comment is a little hard to parse. We could live in a world where there are short proofs that an NP-Complete problem is unsolvable but those short proofs are hard to find (i.e. NP=co-NP but P!=NP) [1]. I think there are other consequences but that's an area I don't know that much about.

[1] http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/8087/consequence...
| hybrid consumer desktops, surely this should translate directly into their server processing products.

You mean their APUs? They're taking the worst of both worlds (AMD CPUs and integrated graphics) and selling them as a package. They're pointless, imo...
How's your blackberry ;)
Could be that you've never smoked enough to get there, could be you're just lucky. Certainly it's a lot harder to feel shit after smoking than drinking.
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Ask HN: How do I grow my startup
Hello,

My name is Jason Gray and I am CEO/Founder of Chrip. Chrip is a mobile first app that allows people to save their spare change to help them finance their next trip. I have a prototype built and on my landing page.

I am currently looking to build a team and even a cofounder. I recently left my job to turn my vision into a reality. If anyone is interested or if you have any advice on how to grow I will gladly appreciate it.

Website: www.chrip.co
Email: jason.chrip@gmail.com

Thank you!
There are no promotions between entry-level and lead dev? I don't know that I'd call it a reasonable career ladder if the second rung is 15 years away.
Funny you should mention that. I've got one on the bench from a failed u-boot upgrade (worked after first reboot, then never again). I have the right tools to fix it, I'm just wondering whether it's worth the time or effort. They're $40-50AUD here as they're not sold locally (?)
Given the importance of kimchi to most Koreans of either stripe, this might very well spell the end of the Kim dynasty.
Hrm. Good point. At some point I remember some SEO guru or other claiming that long-duration domain name registrations were good for SEO, but looking at it now, it seems as though that was a correlation !== causation, as MS, Goog, et al register their domain names for decades at a time, and also tend to have high search rankings.

As for the rest, chalk it up to my over-active imagination, compounded with that bad knowledge. SSL is an SEO boost (according to a random Googling), and if domain name expiration was a factor, it made sense to me that SSL expiry would factor too.

TLDR, I was a dumb.
Similarly in Safari on OS X if you force-quit or uncleanly shutdown your Mac it will restore private windows when you restart it...
>drug arrests are down

Serious question, because this point gets brought up often in this discussion: Did people expect drug arrests to go up or even stay the same? If you remove the ability of police to arrest someone for something, don't arrests then naturally go down?
Note to flaggers and downvoters: This comment is actually a comment on one of the state machines in the article.
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I went through my entire childhood without ever getting sick enough to need antibiotics. Then, I managed to catch strep in my early 20s, and went on a course of antibiotics to take care of it.

This is of course purely anecdotal, but the following year was pure hell from a digestive system standpoint, and looking back, I'm pretty sure it was tied to that course of antibiotics. Thankfully, things cleared up on their own, but I'd definitely be looking at probiotics if forced to go on antibiotics again for some reason.

Glad to see research on this topic.
The experience people have on each platform is almost completely a result of who they put in their network.
See London through the eyes of a self-driving car
Marketplace products take a lot of time and care to tweak before they can really be profitable. It's (relatively) easy to become profitable if you're bucking legal boundaries like Uber is, but Fiverr doesn't have any of those advantages.

The company providing the marketplace has to add enough value to both sides of the market to justify its existence as opposed to potential customers just using traditional methods of finding each other.

So they have to burn capital to learn those lessons. Trying out models takes time, and time is expensive. They were able to get a bunch of users using their brilliant pitch, but they weren't able to make it profitable. It doesn't make sense to give up on the company yet, as they still have a huge user base that they can test out new product strategies on.

The investors are betting $60M that they'll be able to find their way. I see no reason to get cynical about it.
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Im not on the side of VCs, but many are victims, not guilty, of this.

Usually, institutional investors(e.g. Fidelity) give money to VC funds that spend most of their time finding good and reasonable investments.

However, Fidelity and other institutional investors have been investing in late-stage deals, "cutting off" many VC funds and increasing valuation of companies.

http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/shadow-capital-ste...
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