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Since several tangents have already been taken in comments to this story, when are fuel cells for electronics supposed to arrive? I could've sworn they were "just around the corner" about five years ago.

[goes off to do a HN search]

Okay, so they died: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8240994

I can only imagine this tech has turned to toxic waste as some patent firm has probably gobbled up the dregs only to lie in wait for the idea to resurface.
i'm currently trying to find the correct setup for server side swift development on my mac, and so far it involves a shared folder between my linux vm for compilation and xcode for file editing (i hate ubuntu client interface with a passion, so i only ssh into the vm via a terminal to type compile and run the binary).

what's your setup ?
And also on this bugzilla item, again questioning whether Mozilla is properly following procedure WRT letsencrypt https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204656
But ... the parent suggests a Pi wins on bandwidth.
What is the plausible reaction mechanism such that elimination of jobs automagically creates superior new jobs? If mere elimination of jobs automatically improves the economy, why aren't slums and industrial rust belts absolutely exploding with economic growth? Certainly warfare destroys jobs by physically annihilating workplaces, if job destruction magically created higher standards of living via better jobs, how come the people in literal war zones aren't better off than we are? Insert standard Feynman rant about cargo cult thinking.

I'd propose an alternative that increasing per capita energy use always creates more jobs. It seems realistic, that certain jobs inherently have a "must apply this many KWh to participate" floor. This coincidence is superior in that it has an actual plausible reaction mechanism. My pet theory might be totally wrong, but at least this hypothesis has a realistic mechanism for why it works.
As the article states, the town has existed for 400 years, and until the 1950s mining was done with tunnels, not open pits.
The reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a"vast genocide", the most sustained on record.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302

Well, it looks like there was, in fact, a vast genocide. In the north and also the south americas. Really sad...
The study did a good job breaking down the different IPv6 connectivity types, but didn't discuss different IPv4 connections. GP is comparing native IPv6 to IPv4 CGNAT, but the study seems to be comparing differing forms of IPv6 to native IPv4.
> They're saying it correlates with risky behavior.

Except that's not what they're saying. This is literally what they're saying: "You know, we can't say for certain; perhaps at that time dropping the landline was in effect risky behavior."

That doesn't really compute to me. My 80 year old grandparents have been cell phone only for about 5 years, because it's just as cheap as a landline and they can call from anywhere. Same with my 60 year old parents. It makes them feel safer to be able to call from the car in case their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. These are very conservative people. They own their house. They've had the same jobs for a decade+. They don't smoke. They drink moderately. The riskiest thing they do in any given day is drive to work. Granted, this is n=1, but I can name about half a dozen other households who are about the same in a very conservative rural area who have also dropped their land lines.
This one I saw. I did not count it as mozilla involvement. Nonetheless good to have it linked here to see the train of thought.
No, not everyone runs behind a NAT system. Ever been to a university where everyone gets an non-RFC1918 IPv4 address? That's how IPv6 is. When I worked at Microsoft, everyone had a routed address on their workstations, too.

As you just admitted, NAT breaks things. Double NAT and CGN breaks a lot more. What about people who have no choice or no say in whether or not their Internet is NAT'd? There are ISP's where customers don't get routed IPv4 addresses. They get RFC1918 addresses and lots of double NAT'ing occurs. It's a bad scene.
Could this be like the hypo spray in Star Trek? Assuming it can work in reverse.
If I understand it correctly, you used a counter-factual title 'TCL is dead' (note also the non-convention capitalization - it should be 'Tcl'), and assumed that a good number of people on HN would understand 1) it was satirical, 2) the need for counter-pessimists, 3) the context in which to understand the numbers shown, and 4) whatever 'popcon' means.

I - and I'll add that I've published papers on using Tcl for molecular graphics, in software which still has 10K+ users - don't have any of that understanding. I know Tcl is still active, if a minority language, and is a good fit for some niches. (One of which is regression testing, with the SQLite test suite being perhaps the most famous.)
The issue at hand matters far less than the issue that the issue at hand is part of :) which is the CA system itself.

You can try and move the corporatist agenda for a two tier security system where the mighty and powerful have all seeing eyes and the consumer is told that all their https communication is secure and private.
Hmmm, I wonder how many people will trust such a startup with this information?

Otherwise, if done well, it sounds very good, I have lots of friends who've taken some time to find an anti-depressant that worked for them.
The CDC isn't even saying that. As far as I can tell there is no linked study backing up the claims in the article. Just one guy saying "trust us, the correlation is there even when compensating for age and income". Statistics, please.
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Indeed. There is a rule that Type generates Identifier, which can generate an example like foo. Likewise, Var generates Identifier, which generates foo. But these generations are not purely grammar rules; Type can only generate foo if there exists a declaration in the semantic space. If we regard it as purely a grammar rule, then we have a straightforward ambiguity in a context-free language. It is context-free simply because the rules are all of the form one_sym -> zero_or_more_syms.

If C were parsed this way, nondeterministically, ultimately the ambiguity would be resolved by looking up the type info anyway. (The interesting possibility exists, though, that in some cases the type info could be inferred, based on how the declared identifier is used.)
I'm pretty surprised that the better quality of the actual sound of a call on a landline is seldom (at least here) given as a reason for keeping/preferring a landline.
>I think what the article misses is that the mine is pretty much the only reason the city has inhabitants.

Generally people are driven to the urban centers in the first place after their [sustainable] rural ways of life and systems of land management are dismantled in the name of "liberalization"/"privatization"/"modernization", leading to ecological deterioration, and ultimately resulting in complete desertification.

This process is taking place pretty much everywhere. Recently we've seen its bloody end-game in Syria: https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5225-over-grazi...

It's critical to understand that human society takes place within a biophysical-ecological context. Ignore that and our predictions about the future are bound to be wildly inaccurate. The same can also be said about our understanding of the past.
Humor mostly.

And enjoy your bliss while it last, my printer doesn't work anymore on Win10 because of reasons. I had to pray Siva for 2 hours before a hack solved the situation.

Side note: I find it utterly amusing that the 20MB android app from HP is smaller, faster, stronger, leaner at almost everything the Windows drivers+app (over 80MB if I recall correctly).
It used to take many people to plow a field. Then the steel plow was invented, and it only took 1 person. The work got done with only 1 person. Now if a robot can do it, that's only 1 additional job eliminated. It is certainly precedented. It used to take a professional to work an elevator. Then it became so easy that we didn't need an elevator man. The work got done without any person.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10593112

Other submissions - commentless:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595666

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590303 (deleted)
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Fewer laser elements means cheaper, but also means lower resolution. I agree that a combination of video and radar works well for current active driver aids in cars. LIDAR isn't necessary.
In 1986 or so I did a midnight upgrade of a Vax 11/780's hard drive. It took two people to move a 400MB drive from one Vax to another.

No idea how much those cost. I was happy we didn't drop it, because serious injury was quite possible.

I often wonder what happened to that Vax. For a couple of years, I was the only person using it. It was glorious.
Very well put. I think any long term rental resident in a large desirable urban area such L.A., New York, SF, etc. would agree. Its too easy to take the libertarian view when you aren't on the receiving end of that upward pressure that AirBnB puts on real long term residents of a city and their available selection of housing stock.
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Not only that, but a milk bottle that my mother saved from the late 60s we reused for keeping water in the fridge for the next 40 years. We reused that one thousands upon thousands of times.
It’s actually open source software that’s eating the world
It seems likely that there will be other effects. For example, an income that isn't tied to a job makes it easier for people to move to places with a lower cost of living. (Think about why so many retirees live in Florida.)
Oh so AWS's only bit of ipv6 support has regressed. Sigh.
I'd say it (rules based programming) is useful quite often and dramatically simplifies cognitive overhead for a lot of problems (UI is actually what comes to mind for me). It isn't used because of the initial sunk cost in learning how to do rules based programming well.
Relevant: Cognitive Biomimicry http://sumve.com/biomimetic-cognition/in_silico_cognitive_bi...
You can both be right. It's possible for automation to replace employment, or for people to have the wrong set of skills for what is required by employers.
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>So it was quite striking that in the few images I saw from the recent Climate Summit in Paris, there were people standing around tables scattered with plastic water bottles. Really?

I'm pretty sure the people there are politicians. So my cynical view is that most of which only care about the environment only because their constituency does.
I'm more in the "everything is a remix" camp, at least as far as software and design patents are concerned. If Apple didn't create the iPhone, someone else would have made something similar.
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You make really good points all around. The part we're not so sure about is if there's no place for LIDAR when discussing autonomous driving.

As you mentioned we'll have to see where economics takes over as cameras are much cheaper, but less accurate.

I'm curious if your camera-based solution is for outdoor or automotive use. If it is meant for outdoor use, how is performance with oncoming headlights, a low-horizon sun, or in snow?
That may be the ideal usage, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it used that way. If the phrase is about contradicting existing evidence, we should just say that instead.
I've always had mobile sound a lot better. This might vary by location or provider?
Reminds me of this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/in/set-7...

This is an attempt at encoding images in a tweet, by using Unicode.
First, thanks for the congrats :)

1. We didn't want to talk about ourselves before we had a product we believed in. So we kept quietly building and we didn't announce until (a) the performance was great, (b) we had the features designers needed to do their work day-to-day and (c) early alpha customers were visibly excited.

2. I think we might just have different points of view on this. Our approach has been to build towards a vision rather than test a hypothesis as quickly as possible.
This is a huge refactoring of an old project of mine -- the Nginx HTTP Push Module. I'm wondering if anyone here has used it.

Most importantly, I want feedback on the documentation. Did I overcomplicate things? Does it need more examples? Does it need more live code? Is it too long? Too short? Etc.
It was just a few years later that a 16Mhz i386 was as fast as this system.

Wouldn't that be more like 8 years later? 1986 for the 12MHz release (originally targeted at 16), add at least a year to get up in speed and out in people's hands. And didn't the VAX have a much faster disk system, and few i386's tape backup?

BTW, how reliable were your RM80s?
Europe has far more stagnant wealth than America does in fact.

Europe's dynasties do not tend to give away their wealth, instead they pass it down through families for generations. Most of Europe's largest companies and fortunes are controlled through family dynasties. American billionaires always dominate the list of most philanthropic.[1] It's also why Europe sees such a low rate of turn-over among their billionaires, and why such a high proportion of their billionaires are derived inherited wealth. [2]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2013/11/18/the-50-ph...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/cvTR3q1.png
Not just large metros, either. I live in a < 100,000 city and have seen the failover generators outside of the building at the base of several towers. I'd imagine they're not on every tower or even any tower in rural areas given the added expense.
True but what resolution do we need? The smallest object a car would need to stop for would be what, a cat or racoon? We don't need snowflake resolution.
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There is a mounting problem with OS sometimes, too. I don't remember all the occasions, but I am very careful with ejecting the disk (at the moment OS X forces me to shutdown to "eject"). Still, I'd understand if the last backup would be broken that way, but why the whole disk? A backup shouldn't be that brittle.
Don't telcos also do this? IIRC Verizon's voice service is over FTTx/VOIP
Is an operating business well described as stagnant wealth?
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A related idea:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/

(with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_tpq5ejFQ )
> No, not everyone runs behind a NAT system. Ever been to a university where everyone gets an non-RFC1918 IPv4 address? That's how IPv6 is. When I worked at Microsoft, everyone had a routed address on their workstations, too.

Every normal customer is, every normal business is. Old institutions do not count because they are in a privileged position nobody else on the web is.

> As you just admitted, NAT breaks things.

And we learned to deal with it for many, many years. For many of us, a NAT is considered a feature not a bug in fact.

When I run a server I already have to assume that clients are NATed and as such I design my system to work that way. IPV6 only is a non existing part of the internet and as such not really something to optimize for. I get absolutely nothing currently by enabling IPV6 on my server because I cannot depend on it.
This is an essay by John C. Wright who has written, among other things, regret that he didn't physically assault Terry Pratchett: "I sat and listened to pure evil being uttered in charming accents accentuated by droll witticism, and I did not stand up, and I did not strike the old man who uttered them across the mouth: and when he departed, everyone stood and gave him an ovation, even though he had done nothing in his life aside from entertain their idle afternoons." (http://www.scifiwright.com/2011/10/the-watchtowers-of-atlant... )
Haskell does this.
That's no longer true in California, unfortunately. It was a really nice feature for disconnected land lines, but the industry had the law changed.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/Telco/Consumer+Information/Change...
Actually on this point, Muad'dib was a mentat, and I think that's completely acoincidental with him being the Kwitsatz Haderach.
I really wish urbanists would stop blaming transportation infrastructure for poverty and racism.

The article itself mentions that this poverty is systemic to dozens of issues in the area (zoning rules, poor public transit, suburbs not having section 8 housing, loosing 10,000 jobs in three years, and many more).

Eliminating a freeway does nothing to address any of those issues.

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And everyone knows this. What "ReThink81" really wants is to take that public infrastructure land, sell it to developers for cheap so they can make a lot of profit off building luxury condos and luxury retail/commercial spaces.

It will be a happy accident when the rise in property values "just so happens" to displace a number of the existing poor residents.

See : http://rethink81.org/vision/vision-images
That's exactly how Haskell's IO monad works (albeit a little simplified)
You're right, I wanted to write signed integers.

I wonder what they mean with representation in the spec then?
I don't smoke and rarely drink, but we're also considering dropping our landline. Mainly because we rarely use it, few people ever call us on it, the phone itself is crap, and we don't care enough to replace it with a properly working phone.

A friend has dropped his landline ages ago, but he does enjoy drinking a good whisky, and he even smokes occasionally.
When you have an unregulated monopoly, usage-based billing is just one tool in their book for extracting more money from customers.

If internet service in the US were not effectively unregulated or not effectively a monopoly, usage-based billing would not be a problem.

Consider the lowly restaurant. Say a buffet restaurant comes out to $20 per diner. If you're not a top-10% eater, you could probably go to a menu-based restaurant and eat as much food as you would care to for just $10; or you could go to a $40-a-plate restaurant for food of a quality you simply don't get at either of the other choices.

In my scenario, unless the quantity itself is what you want (and, with data as well as with food, trust me—it's not), you get neither the cheapest product nor the best product when you buy the unlimited-quantity product.

If we had a working market for broadband in this country, you would find the same thing: the cheapest ISP will be cheaper than the unlimited ISP, and the unlimited ISP will not have the best quality of product available.
The issue at hand matters far less than the issue that the issue at hand is part of, which is the CA system itself.
With the CA system, you have a two tier threat model where the mighty and powerful can have all seeing eyes and the consumer is told that all their https communication is secure and private. Certificate Transparency and other proposals may help fix this, but the first thing to do is to acknowledge that there is a problem, and so far the major players have yet to acknowledge the fundamental problems of the current CA system. LetsEncrypt makes it worse by promoting the wider adoption of this flawed system. Certainly won't help keep us secure against the Chinese or anyone with big resource.

Update:
Stating that there is no solution without any knowledge of the existing solutions is itself part of the problem.
Let's start with this:
https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
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If you have any problems, open an issue on GitHub (jennschiffer/make8bitart) or tweet at @jennschiffer. She's about to have time to work on stuff soon hopefully.
My point exactly. "Extraordinary evidence" just seems made up. I only require more and/or better evidence to back up an extraordinary claim versus claims contradicting it.
One other issue, the KL processor had 72 bit wide floating point hardware, it was a fast number cruncher in its day (one reason the follow one Jupiter CPU failed, it only had 36 bit wide FP hardware). The Pi Zero is ARMv6 and therefore has IEEE double precision 64 bit floating point, but move to the Pi 2 ARMv7 and you lose double precision in hardware....
https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin ?
> the utility it offers the average user today is just a glorified photo album.

There are basically two kinds of Internet use that young people engage in -- hanging out with friends, and teaching themselves new skills.

The vast majority of young people though are mostly using the Internet to hang out with friends. The exception is apparently affluent white males, who have much higher rates of using the Internet to explore new ideas and teach themselves new skills. This is called the 'participation gap.' (It's perhaps also partly why, for example, there are more male entrepreneurs even though women do better in formal education.)

The important thing to note is that decisions about what to use the Internet for have a lot to do with who you are following in your social networks. E.g. this determines what new interests you're likely to discover, what opportunities are made available to you, etc.

source: http://www.amazon.com/Participatory-Culture-Networked-Era-Co...
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I was Usenet-infamous in 1993 (I ended up in the NET.LEGENDS file at age 14). It led to my first great job and my second (current) marriage.
Not a performance issue per-se, but more an ugly unintended consequence of IPv6 issues: peer-flooding in torrent transfers. I use libtorrent to distribute my data sets and i'm seeing all the usual trackers are being flooded (DoS-like) via the vast available, in this case phony, IPv6 address space[1]. The unstated contention by agents of content owners being that bit-torrent can never do anything but wrong. Selfishly focused on their own content they're statistically not utterly wrong, but they are using the design of IPv6 to poison the well for benevolent use.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/popular-torrents-being-sabotaged-by...
I agree with you (somewhat).

In other cases, Spain has won the rights over salvaged treasure from sunken Spanish ships, as the countries they plundered the gold from weren't countries at the time, but colonies of Spain (for example: Peru).

Sincerely, if this is in International waters, you would think there was a expiry date of shipwrecks and it's finders-keepers after, Oh, I dunno, a few hundred years or so.
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Here's the other side of the story: Not a sysadmin, but I'm an independent programmer with an online app. I've set up a Debian vps at OVH with IPv6 and it was unbearably slow. I used to believe it was OVH, but the reason seems to be that most things e.g. package managers wait for the request in IPv6 (or the one to the DNS) timeout before trying IPv4. An apt-get upgrade takes hours. I guess there's some kind of configuration to improve that, but when step 0 of setting up IPv6 starts with problems, I just stick to stacks that I can manage.
I wanted to see the Numa Numa Romanian guy's story.
One thing is missing from that list: how to test for ALPN support (or the lack thereof). The OpenSSL client just lists the next protocols supported, but no mention if that's NPN or ALPN.

This is one of those details that I believe are the real roadblocks to HTTP/2.0 support. Google is trying to drive adoption by deprecating old features like NPN from Chrome, but people setting their servers up with HTTP/2.0 don't even know about these details or how it affects them.
It's frustrating to see cities making the same mistakes over and over and over again, where is the shared knowledge in the public planning system?