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Subreddit sidebars tend to be chosen by moderators. Not saying they don't represent their communities, more that there is a limit to how much time they can invest into the task of bringing the community up to speed on this or that.

Factoring in the constraints of the sidebar makes it a somewhat less appealing option.
How about solar batteries with built-in "greencoin" cryptocurrency mining circuitry, that generate electricity instead of heat as a by-product? ;)
Am I the only one suspicious of his claim "It will not do to say that it’s enough for the planners to approximate the optimal plan...This route is blocked."? It seems to me that in all my experience, computational complexity even for approximations rarely matches up with practical computation required. Computational complexity is worst case, doesn't understand the concept of "good enough for our application" when it's not mathematically defined.

For example, what's the computational complexity of training a deep neural network? Probably something pretty horrendous, even if you say it only has to be approximate within a factor of the optimal weights, and you allow it to fail some percent of the time, etc, etc. You could probably write an article about how training neural networks in the lifetime of the universe is impossible even in theory, if you defined "training a neural network" by starting out with the problem of finding the optimal weights, and then relaxing the requirements. But that entirely misses the point that training a neural network is not fundamentally about finding the optimal weights, but finding some weights which are good enough, which is measured in terms of real world performance in comparison to the alternatives.

Likewise, it seems like the discovery of the mathematics of linear optimization was mixed too strongly with the real-world problem it was trying to solve. The question is whether it is computationally feasible to outperform market based economies using this technique, and that's the only question that's really make-or-break it for the math side of things.

(Of course I may have misunderstood something, feel free to correct me)
Thank you so much for posting this. Are there any good sources for this type of information? I'm specifically interested in psychological/neurological differences between cultures. A similar example is Crazy Like Us [1]. It's fascinating how culture seems to thwart a full comprehension of psychology.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Us-Globalization-American/d...
It's an arms race, and the users are the losers. Either they disable the ad blockers, and their browsing experience is filled with so much junk you can't find the content within it, or they enable the ad blockers and lose content.
IE SVG render support was very fast, thanks to their expertise with the older VML format. Chrome, Safari and Firefox were slower in SVG rendering (thousands of nodes), but had faster Canvas rendering.
This is exactly why public organizations should never be reliant on proprietary platforms. If those tools ran in Linux, the solution would be simple: burn some live CDs. Now anyone with a machine that has software more up to date than this SoftTest can handle just needs to reboot to a school-provided live CD. I don't think I'd have much of a problem doing that if I could prevent that bit of proprietary crap from mucking up my laptop. Sadly I don't think that option is readily available (or cost effective) for windows or mac.
Americans: Pay Your Taxes or Lose Your Passport
First, I'd bet that ISIS money is spent on a lot more than military - what about providing a cushy experience for previously recruited western radicals, so that they tell others back home how great it is? Can't find the link, but varieties in accommodations for recently recruited western radicals vs others is causing some internal strife. If you came over to ISIS from some nice first world place like London, only to find yourself in a very uncomfortable, foreign desert environment eating crap food, you probably wouldn't send message back that everything's great. That costs money.

Second, you assume the cost of propaganda is 0, which it is not. ISIS has gone so far as to publish a very high production value magazine [0] and high quality recruitment videos. You can bet that there are tons of people on message boards and other corners of the net that are on ISIS payroll out there trying to radicalize as many people as possible, offering a (twisted) sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. And people collecting and disseminating content on how best to make IEDs, kill people, etc. They undoubtedly have many social media managers.

In my first comment I was going to add another point which was that if we were able to completely wipe out ISIS that will not all of a sudden stop people from being radicalized, it will only stop those being radicalized by ISIS. ISIS happens to recruit better than most (due to their money), but there will always be people, often marginalized, who will fall prey to radicalization - and some who seek it out. Sayed seems like he was that kind of guy, ISIS or no.

Everyone's all up in arms about ISIS because we're being blanketed by news about them, which is not proportional to the threat they actually pose to us. Paris was a manifestation of longstanding troubles with european countries integrating muslim immigrants which likely created necessary conditions for radicalization by [insert crazy people]; San Bernardino was very likely a manifestation of mental health issues and cultural marginalization/domestic political climate. These issues are unlikely to go away when ISIS does - the latter we have an example of from just the week prior with the Planned Parenthood shooter.

[0] http://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamic-state-isis-isil-p...
P.S. With respect to "battles drawn out on big fields. That hasn't been relevant in a century"

Umm...Stalingrad? 1943?

Dude, I really think you need to read some more history, and I'm not saying that to be condescending. Your grasp of historic events seems to be a little hazy.

Also, for some reason both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. thought the Fulda Gap was quite important, right up to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Yes, for ground-based networks the capacity limitations are largely a question of expanding capacity at interchanges rather than any kind of actual network capacity.

If you are asking 'bout wireless....no, that isn't true.

For instance, TWC is quite profitable in my market with no cap and I've got a 100mbps in real-world usage most of the time.
That's not my experience.

I usually find then to be cheaper, in paperback, and sometimes with different exercise problems.
They really needed to spend a little more time justifying what sound like bizarrely strange technical decisions, rather just baldly stating them. There are no completely stupid technical decisions, but if you're doing something really weird and roundabout, you should at the very least give us a hint as to why you're doing that.

On most webpages, if you click a link, the browser automatically handles
loading a new page. On Medium, we speed this up a bit with JavaScript. We send
a request to “https://medium.com/@ritasustelo/advertising-is-not-for-geniuses-
5d1ffbc505ac?format=json,” download the article text, and render it in your
browser.

What the hell is wrong with just serving flat html files, rather than making the browser parse a JSON blob?

All posts are represented as a list of paragraphs. We give
each paragraph a unique name. The code to generate names is
a one-liner

Well, why do you do that? Does doing this make any sense at all?
,,Car innovation is continuing beyond the electric model and self-driving features -- Tesla needs to be up near the front on all of them.''
The author hasn't even read the Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan.

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-...
I would say being an early adopter is apart of it, but I don't think early adopters are always concerned about being 'techno hip'. Definitely saying you were one of the first fuels it. lol.

I mean just like the saying its a extremely reductionist view of a person, but it touches on something in all of us and something too much in in a lot of us.
A lot of good points you brought up!

At least on the business side: right now the only noteworthy product that seems to be innovating in the general discussion space is http://try.discourse.org/. I'm not following this field closely, so I'm probably missing out on at least 10 interesting possibilities.
I forgot that there are countries that, unlike Australia, actually don't have quota caps on internet plans. Honestly it's not the end of the world so long as you have ISPs offering reasonable quota-exempt content (Netflix + iiNet <3).

That said I do see that huge, gaping conflict of interest between cable providers and content distribution.
So according to his analysis, the things that keep Apple/Tesla in their market dominant position is (1) their brand communicates "quality" and (2) they have enough capital that they can make cheap quality products with a one-time investment.

If those are the key advantages, Tesla might be in trouble when Apple releases their own electric car. Apple already has the "quality" brand, and has much more capital.
New FCC rule: Bandwidth may only be marketed as the true sustainable rate over a month. So a 300 GB/mo plan can only be described as a 1 Megabit/s connection.

DSL will start looking good.
Too late; learned Clojure.
Would it really be so bad to give a death cult what it wants for itself? Oblivion? With our technology we could disrupt their lines of communication and means to recruit among the civilians. But you'll have to actively target them. As people. And you'll have to actively target their message. Their keywords, you could even target them by keywords.

This would however dragnet target the entire religion.
They did it for the ratings obviously. Anything to get more eyeballs watching their reports and advertisers paying them more money.
From the gizmodo article:

Valle was also charged with violating the CFAA for accessing a police database to look up information about people without a valid law enforcement purpose, in violation of NYPD policy.

Querying a government database for personal use is a serious offense. I hope the court would address it separately from lesser rules such as "don't use Facebook at work."
That's really sad to hear. I was hoping it was a more recent symptom, but something that has been ingrained much longer is ... much harder to get rid of.

If anyone from Mozilla is reading this, what can be done to fix it?
Caps or pay per bit should be OK but only if the price per bit falls over time. Provider cost per bit surely is dropping. But lacking competition they may try to pocket the difference.
It could very well be that in those 2 years the market has changed and they are putting out more money for talent. It's easier to get another job and get a part raise that way than staying at the same company and hoping for or trying to earn a raise.
All infrastructure and peripherals for PCs.
Barring anti-monopolist regulation or real competition, the only way to defeat these yoyos is to get serious about grassroots mesh networks that disintermediate them entirely.
Not true. Microsoft commits to a number of GPLed software, not the least of which being libGIT2.
The craziest thing about his work is that it looks like nonsense for a few strokes and then suddenly pop it turns into a mountain or river or something.

My understanding is he was self taught, and his technique is mostly his, it's fantastic that he decided to teach it to anybody willing to tune in.
Is there any serious indication a mesh-network can handle common network traffic and video?
I just want to be able to select default apps to open files.
RaceCapture: Race it. Share it. Prove it
People can complain all they want, I wasn't saying one doesn't have any right to complain, people are free to have their opinions and I was speaking my mind like everyone complaining is, I apologize for that, maybe I should have joined in on the fun in the echo chamber, probably would get more internet points for that.

The probability of complaining, that actually solves any given problem in that moment, hovers around zero. Especially after all the BS people have been saying they have been seeing with Mozilla for some time now (enough time over the years to see hundreds of c/c++ code samples, walkthroughs, and to read their build instructions[0]) … its quite banal at this point. Too many people have worked too hard to share their knowledge on the internet for me to be satisfied with complaining about something that we all have a capacity to do ourselves to some degree if were commenting on hacker news.

But that's just how I feel, everyone else is free to feel differently.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
middle out?
I tried to add 1 to the first byte of a file, 2 to the second, 3 to the third... and see how it effect the compression rate.

On a small text file that could normally be compressed by 71% the modified file only got 16%.
There was no compromise necessary. Pocket is possible as an extension, cf the work being done right now to integrate it as one. Why was it rushed out before? What was so pressing about it that it needed to be in "the next firefox version" and massively damage Mozilla's reputation, instead of waiting a few months and passing it without a fuss?
Just seems like a standard single page app architecture which most web developers seem to be moving to these days (Angular/Ember/React/Meteor/etc.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application
Intel Talks Thunderbolt 3
Sorry, are you interested in Tesla's founding story, or your opinion about it? Because, just like your recollection of the price-points of Apple products in the past, your opinion diverges from what Tesla says their goals are and were:

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

"Tesla's primary goal was to commercialize electric vehicles, starting with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then moving as rapidly as possible into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable compacts"

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-... (August 2, 2006)

Let's keep Hacker News grounded in reality, please.
Well, I don't want to give you the wrong idea. I'm not an authority here. (I'd be a little dumb commenting with this account if I were.) My activity was very minimal, to the point where I doubt law enforcement would find it worth their while even if they knew who I was and the extent of my "involvement". I'm replying because those more involved might not want to share their (more informed) experiences for obvious reasons.

In my experience, at the lower levels I think the vast majority of the community wouldn't have actually done anything. You don't have to do anything to sit behind a keyboard and "support" the idea of an informant getting knocked off or roughed up. How could they justify supporting that kind of violence? In my opinion, the place had kind of a revolutionary appeal. Like the darkmarkets were going to change everything. How could the system maintain these dangerous and harmful laws if we are here, operating in plain sight? I'm sure that would only be bolstered by the extreme convenience and safety the whole thing provided. Nobody really wanted to go back to the old way of buying and selling, for a lot of them online had been their only actual experiences in this area.

Further up the chain, some of those guys had serious amounts of money involved. Some had people under (or worse, over) who depended on access to this site. There was tremendous financial stake involved.

Further, I remember a lot of people felt that there were people in the community who would actually follow through with this sort of thing had there been enough actionable intelligence. I'd be surprised if there weren't. Or they could just hire a hitman. It seemed like a doable thing to have some big-deal drug dealer or one of his guys do something like this. This is literally just speculation though, as there was no public discussion that I ever saw involving anything resembling this. I'm pretty sure at least some of the people would have objected on the grounds that it might draw even more LE attention to the place.

I remember reading some discussion going on about one of the darknet sites that shut down and stole everyones money. A lot of people wanted the stolen coins tracked down so they could go after them and serve them justice. Some people thought it would actually happen. Others thought even if they were found, nobody would do anything. Who really knows.
The idea is that source code audit will not be the barrier of import. If the government request foreign company for source code audit they need to ask nicely, not with threat of banning import and sales of said product.
This is a pretty good and quick read from Dave at the eevblog: http://www.smitselectronics.com/assets/files/Library/PCB%20D...
Pocket is not monetized. The sponsored tiles happened to be, but the symptoms are not related to greed... which arguably is even scarier.
When US Forces decided to engage an ISIS convoy transporting Illegal oil - they first droppped leaflets warning ISIS of the incoming attack.

US forced then used weapons (mostly machine guns) to destroy Just 116 out of 300 trucks. But then US FORCES RAN OUT OF AMMO WHEN DESTROYING ISIS' ILLEGAL OIL TANKER CONVY and US military did Not bother to send drones or additional Air Support to destory the oil tankers which is the BIGGEST SOURCE OF REVENUE for ISIS.

--

> "So these trucks were -- they were just sitting there, not moving. So, you know, we dropped the leaflets. We did a low pass. We chased any of the -- you know, the truck drivers away, and we destroyed them. So, they weren't moving. They were all, as you saw on the video, they were all stationary. Nothing was driving anywhere. So it was a pretty straightforward, you know, attack." ...

"Just three quick clarifications on the trucks again. If -- sorry if I missed it, but why didn't you guys go back on the other trucks? There were 300, I think, to begin with, and then you hit 116. Why didn't you go back?" [0]

"So, on the other trucks, so -- frankly, the -- the -- the aircraft expended 24 500-pound bombs, and -- and all of their ammunition. So they -- they shot everything they had and then they had to go home." [0]

Why would US military do this? Well this week, we got this news about the Oil tankers [1]

Keep in mind all "ISIS propoganda" and news comes Exclusively out of a single group - SITE Intelligence group. It's worthwhile to look into the background of the founder & CEO of this group.

[0] http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Transcripts/Transcript-View...

[1] www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/02/us-mideast-crisis-russia-turkey-idUSKBN0TL19S20151202
It might work, but it will be another barrier of entry.
> A web ecosystem with ad blockers is more complicated for authors to run and maintain. A more complicated web favors big, centralized players and disfavors small, independent ones.

I'm not sure if this is the case. I concede that a team that owns both the blog and the tool has an advantage but many people use standard tools like WordPress or Jekyll. The teams behind those tools can solve those problems too. I believe there is some friction but hopefully it's not so bad.
Your esoteric book orders probably don't need 30 minute prime air delivery though. Like a cdn, they can just stock the frequently requested items at the edge nodes.
The derelict OS, continued lockdown of OSX, UI convergence, iPad Pro as a "laptop replacement", the OSX Store having an even worse developer experience than the iOS store, the OSX store letting a cert expire.

Oh, and the MacBook line is essentially stagnant as a product line. Basically Apple let's Intel redo the MacBook guts while its hardware teams are hard at work on improving their own architecture for the iPad Pro, which is very clearly a vision of computing that is more like iOS.
If they can make a passable XCode experience on the iPad Pro, it'll work. People write surface apps on surface devices.
My wife and I are planning to move next year. It might sound nuts, but we've scratched off a lot of potential places because of a lack of unlimited internet connectivity.

Municipal fiber is very important to us and it's resulting in us focusing on places we didn't consider before.
"Comcast 1 mbps with 100 mbps turbo"

"Comcast 1 mbps with 250 mbps turbo"
You're simply hand waiving away the problems. Even reprocessing creates waste that must be dealt with. Commercial fast/breeder reactors are always ten years away, and it has yet to be proven that they could even be economically viable.
It's a blog. The page text for a given url is always going to be the same! Why introduce all this overhead, and needlessly complicate something simple?
> Mozilla has really lost touch with its users

Most developers and the community are great. But the management level incl. their new CEO and their UI designers have little clue about their products and what their community is all about. Mr Eich was part of Netscape and Mozilla from the very beginning and created the Javascript language in a few days - he understood the community definitely better.

The transition from Gecko to Servo in their products will be critical for Mozilla. It will give them a competitive advantage.

FirefoxOS runs highend Android smartphone just as fast as Android 5x. So it definitely has a future, like WebOS is nowadays in every LG SmartTV, and Bada/Tizen is in every Samsung SmartTV (they use a 4 or 8 core ARM board with 2+GB RAM). And ChromeOS works fine on lower end notebooks.
I believe pj_mukh was referring to asymmetrical warfare in the style of Stalingrad being what is more common nowadays rather than before.

Regardless, we got a clear picture of the cost and lack of result of such a strategy from the last 15 years, so the idea that this time will be different has a very high burden of proof.
Apollo 11: The computers that put man on the moon
I once again ask - why not price internet like electricity. 5$ per TB. Pay what you consumed.
Isn't this why people were mad about the Comcast/Netflix deal though?
Customer Relationship Management with best quality software
An Engineering Approach to Gravitation – C. Mead [video]
> why do you think they pay for ads for people to install it? google makes money directly/indirectly from people using chrome, and they do it by collecting data from chrome.

Products don't need to explicitly produce revenue to be worth developing (and advertising). It's shocking to me how this incredibly basic concept is so far beyond the understanding of so many, particularly on HN. Chrome is a particularly easy case, given that, from its inception, it's pushed people towards Google searches. I've lost count of how many times people have pointed out that Android is a failure for Google because they don't make any money off of it (yes really), completely ignoring the fact that a world in which iOS controlled ~100% of the mobile market would be an uncomfortable position for Google (given that internet activity was moving so heavily towards mobile).
The problem here is, what if you want to use a new competitor to Netflix, perhaps one with more content and a snappier UI? But you can't because they didn't pay-off your ISP? (In addition to them paying their own ISP, and you paying your ISP. And then your ISP not doing its job because no kick-backs.)

I'm actually OK with the idea of caps, as long as there is competition so they are reasonably high caps. Some overselling / bursty-ness of consumer ISPs is reasonable IMHO, and communicating that with caps is reasonably simple.
Lol you are quoting marketing material at me now... When Tesla becomes a affordable car seller then ok they will no longer be a company that specializes in selling very expensive cars to a wealthy niche.

I looked up the price points, they are accurate... so fuck you and your condescending tone.