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I like the expression, I believe attributed to Alan Kay (but I could remember incorrectly), saying "when we think we know what we're doing, we don't know what we're doing".

By no means am I per se opposed to exploring gene editing technology, but the gleeful enthusiasm for use of this nascent technology seems to be neglecting due diligence to make sure that we "above all do no harm".

The history of medicine is chock full of instances where researchers and clinicians alike jump on it with both feet, only to be dismayed when eventually finding out about risks not initially known or adequately appreciated.

I'm no expert in genomics (though a good friend of mine is), but it's easily apparent that we know very little about the implications of discoveries made every day. At the least, a note of caution before plowing ahead, and modifying things we know little about makes sense.

No doubt I have much to learn on these subjects, but I don't think I'm alone in that. The issue for the field may best be summarized by the idea of "premature optimization", painting ourselves into a corner from which no easily extricated.

Sure gene editing is a very enticing prospect. I'd call it a fantastic research tool, and in that respect let's use it to the hilt. But applying it to real clinical situations before having much more knowledge about the risks (and you know it's inevitable there will be "side-effects") seems to me to be foolish, and maybe even embodies a measure of hubris.
Wrong, "Software patents" aren't recognized in most parts of Europe.
So basically, people are less healthy in suburbs (well, perhaps American ones, because they're larger in size and spread further away from city centres) than in towns because they have to drive everywhere in the former? It makes sense, but...

Wouldn't it mean it'd be even healthier to live in the middle of nowhere (read, as rural of a place as possible) and then simply not drive or take the bus? It wouldn't be time efficient, but hey, if you want to be really healthy, what's a 20 mile hike to the shops and back, uphill both ways?
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This is also a good reminder why running services as root is not recommended. If he had used a separate non-root account for Redis, the damage would have been limited to that single user account. That's not a very good situation either, but at least the attacker would not have been able to modify init scripts and replace system files.
Exactly! It is often that the coders are the ones pushing to do thing more correctly, but mnagemnt wants the latest feature out.
> They can afford to take one year of to travel the world or just work on their own projects.

Can they?

> Why am I dealing with this crappy weather when I can move to somewhere where I'm paid 2-3x more and it's summer all year?

Because you don't risk bankruptcy by having a health issue, if you're single it's not a sausage fest, more laid back work (in SF it seems you're bound to stay longer times at the office), greater tourism choices (a short trip away) and probably still cheaper than rent in SF even if we're talking London
Never used TimeMachine.

I use SuperDuper to simply image my entire box to a disk every so often.
I think what people tend to forget is that there is almost zero worker protection in the United States.

Most Europeans prefer a stable life with some luxuries instead of a lottery type life where you may get fired at any point.

A lot of people in Europe who say we should be like Silicon Valley only see the money these companies make but not what it took to get there and the toll it takes on the work force.
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I don't think enough users care enough about privacy for there to be a massive market there. If not why didn't more people switch to DuckDuckGo or Diaspora?
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Europe is less capitalistic, is less versed into risk, and is clearly not entrusting so much money to an IT company like google.

It's hard explaining to people what exactly google does for so much money. Europe is more "feet on the ground" when it comes to business in general. What does google sells by the way ? Ads, android (which is mostly open), internet services... it's hard to really tell. In europe, technologies and research will often rather belong to the public sector than the private sector.

The silicon valley is a typically american thing because US business laws and the culture allow it. In europe it just won't. The only way you can really thrive as a programmer in europe, is by doing open source, and Torvalds is a good example of that, so by a loose definition it's only accessible to people who spent a lot of time in universities. There are no other way you are going to do business and getting money typing code in europe. It just won't happen.
And what I'm saying is that it can't do that, UNLESS it also contains provisions requiring each country party to the agreement to pass corollary domestic laws mirroring provisions in the TPP. The treaty itself cannot establish domestic laws.
> Your government commits various forms of violence in your name, as all governments do

That's why we have separate systems to keep the violence in check. Granted, it may not always work that well in practice, but it is important to the system that there are checks and balances in place. The question here regarded the moral system where someone can unilaterally decide someone else deserves to be murdered, and what makes people voluntarily choose this system.
China clearly believes so.
This is a very good point. European businesses basically have to 'sell internationally' right off the bat, whereas those in larger countries like the US and China can become successful in the domestic market before having to do business abroad. Hence a business from somewhere like the US will already have a large audience by the time it opens in European or Asian countries, whereas a European one doesn't get the same privilege.
I have always felt like distributed locks are a flimsy design but will take a good look at this implementation.
All of them, arguably. Google "the traitorous eight".
Show HN: Sails-hook-pagify a SailsJS hook module for pagination
Hi guys,

published my first NPM module: sails-hook-pagify

Link: https://github.com/colintoh/sails-hook-pagify

For the past few production nodejs app, my team realised that there was a common feature needed from the server by the mobile clients: Infinite list loading.

For that to work, the required API's needs to be paginated. For example, `GET /users?page=1`, `GET /users?page=2`, ... etc.

In Sails JS, there is `paginate` method but it lacks metadata like total number of pages, presence of next/prev page .. etc.

Hence, sails-hook-pagify was refactored out from the completed projects and into a installable hook that we can re-use for many other future projects.

Hope the module is useful for you too. Appreciate any comments on it. Cheers!
This is great news!
Well, I agree with the author but not with the way he presents it;

I think the message should be something like "for important data don't rely on a single backup mechanism".

This has nothing to do with Time Machine specifically, any (backup)software can fail at some point...
ohthehugemanate might be an unAmerican, for whom there is no Fifth in the first place.
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I don't think these big platforms will ever be dislodged exactly, just made irrelevant. Photo sharing used to be difficult enough that it could act as the basis for an entire product category. Now it has been commoditized sufficiently that it can be just added to any product with relative ease. Maybe one day it will be possible to add Google style search technology to any product with ease. At that point the opportunity is to have specialist search as an add-on to other products.
The most innocuous stereotype I can think of, is the 'typical' French stereotype of a man in beret and a black and white striped jumper cycling around with a baguette, an onion garland necklace, smoking gauloisies. Some stereotypes bear no relation to the estimated mean.
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I'd shorten the list to one significant difference that's somehow avoided - Europe consists of different countries, with different cultures, interests and languages. That's one of the beautiful things in Europe, but let's not pretend it doesn't exist. Forget laws, they can be written, changing culture, interests and financial situations is huge. There is no country called "Europe".

But to do business through all European union, there's way more added issues at the beginning then compared to Silicon Valley vs. US (similar culture, values, interests, language) or eastern countries (China, Korea, Russia and their markets).
I am glad to hear you are well enough to be unsure.

Just to nitpick, but it is being a silent carrier (heterozygous) that provides the resistance to cholera - until very recently few suffers of cf lived long enough to die of anything else.
Yep, you'd be even healthier! :)

But you wouldn't get to reap all those sweet sweet housing, infrastructure, and gas subsidies of living in the burbs.
Software developers are well paid and can easily find a new job if fired. All those laws are made for unqualified and therefore easy to replace workers.

And the taxes in US are lower.
Spot on – looks like you're intimately familiar with the Finnish school system yourself. Are you Finnish?
I'm surprised to see that Ulbricht thought government issued id was the viable solution to the spam/troll/infiltrator problem on the dark web. I would have expected more experiments with reputation based systems and blockchain based identity (such as namecoin). But identity is hard, I get that. Probably the hardest problem these sites face. (Just for curiosity's sake, does anyone with a bit more insight know if collecting passports is a common occurrence in other dark markets?)
I agree that whole argument seemed quite artificial. I took it as a way to complain about other researchers who apparently had assumed that all stereotypes are somehow false, whatever false means. I'm sure they didn't mean it must hold for each individual in the group to be accurate.
Finnish (mother tongue), English (almost pass of as a native speaker), Swedish (get by), German (basics), Japanese (basics). The last two I'm rapidly forgetting, though.
Quite a few do; but I have to look up from my book to see that.
I think one thing the EU could really do to help startups here would be to offer almost free services and/or grants to localize their websites/apps into all the EU languages much more quickly and less expensively.
It's a matter of convenience.

A quick search tells me that normal human walking speed is around 5 km/h. Asking Google to convert the distance, 20 miles is around 32 km. That means it would take over 6 hours in your example to walk to the shops; almost everyone would prefer to take the car or a bus instead of wasting 6 hours in each direction.

Now suppose the person lives in a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood. Suppose also the shop she wants to walk to is 1 km from her house. The time used would be a bit more than 10 minutes, short enough that there's no real need to get a car or public transport.

There's also the matter of public transport itself. There isn't a bus stop in front of each building. Depending on where you live, you might walk 5-10 minutes to take the bus, then walk 5-10 minutes from the bus to your destination. That's also short enough to be tolerable, so you get people who don't even have a car, or who have a car but use it mostly for longer trips (or for when it's raining, which explains why the transit gets so bad even with a few drops of rain).
I have noticed the relationship to the basic hype cycle as well. As the average volume of blockchain transactions increased price stability has also increased. One can only wonder what will happen to the price of Bitcoin once all coins have been issued while the number of blockchain transactions continues to increase.
Very important point right here.

The spirit of Silicon Valley generally goes along the lines of "all or nothing".

Europe generally sees more value in a sane and balanced life style, where physical/mental health, family, stability, etc. play an important role and living itself is more important than what you will have achieved at the end of your life (in terms of money or material things).
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Except no one actually thinks that stereotype is true or still relevant. And I am certain at least some aspects of that stereotype were rooted in french fashion of the era.
First you fix and raise awareness about the biggest cause of problems. It takes a long time. Then you do it again with the remaining biggest cause of problems. Etc.

There are tools and methods to address the "first world problems" of application logic vulnerabilities too. Maybe in another 20 years those are at the forefront.
It is Spanish cultural patrimony in the same way Rosseta Stone is British patrimony. Legally it is owned by Spain.
After understanding how much this attack was used, I modified the blog post in order to prevent script kiddies from using it without a few changes, but still it caused a lot more harm than I expected. Before Redis 3.2 I'll add security features to prevent this from happening, while adding them in a form that should prevent also people from getting annoyed by the security features. It's an hard mix to get right.
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I'm convinced that time machine over a network is a bad idea. Seems convenient, but if there's network flakiness, TM will decide that the backup is bad and force you to create a new one. And the first step in that process is to delete the existing backup.

I had that happen once, when the drive I was backing up was in the process of failing. It got about 5gb into the new backup before it was totally dead. Even a somewhat flakey full backup is better than 5Gb of a 2Tb drive.
> Why am I dealing with this crappy weather when I can move to somewhere where I'm paid 2-3x more and it's summer all year?

Actually, London's weather isn't half bad compared to other places in Europe. At least there is no freezing cold, no real heat waves and less rain than in Paris, especially in the summer.

The problem is xenophobia. Hate of Europe is getting ever more vitriolic and irrational.
Surely it's OK for a backup drive to fail occasionally. Your working drive might fail occasionally too but it's extremely unlikely that both of them fail within a day or so of each other. That's the situation that would lead to loss of data.

That's for a pure backup. For a history of previous versions, of course you'd want more reliability if you only have one copy of that history.
Popping antirez quote on the lunacy of running this "publicly accessible":

> "From time to time I get security reports about Redis. It’s good to get reports, but it’s odd ... in a software which is designed (as we explain in our security page here http://redis.io/topics/security) to be totally insecure if exposed to the outside world."

Regardless of the readme, the Lessons Learned should include both "know the security posture of the services you run" and "don't run anything publicly facing unless you are forced to, and only then if hardened well".
Germany has 80 million people, the German-speaking market is 100 million people. The smaller countries are mostly used to everything being in English (Slovenia, Finland), so they don't care. France is 50 million people as well. If your business idea doesn't bootstrap with that market size, it won't work with a factor 6 more either.

Also recently, international payment can be considered a solved problem with iban/bic, PayPal and credit cards.

Which means you can get by just as well with English, French or German only, and some point down the line you add i18n for one or two other languages first, and then whatever there might be a demand for.

On the other side of the coin, next-day national shipping for 3,50€ to 5€ is the norm around here. Go try that in NA.
Has it? Aren't you making the mistake of comparing the status quo with a copy of it sans Microsoft? Let's say European laws prevented a Microsoft from appearing; computers would still be here, and companies and organizations using them would still need an OS to use them, so there probably would be an increase investment in alternatives.

Would the world be worse off? Maybe in some ways, but I doubt it'd be significantly so.
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Your feedback would be appreciate.

The app is published as an alpha-version on Google store, so you would need to join the testers group. In any case, you can use it as a web app, however you misroute on some of the functionalities, such as sharing and photo taking.
I think the concern here is that the backup drive could have silently failed at some point in the past, corrupting the backups, and then the primary would fail too, leaving you without any backups whatsoever.
For your information, another similar case (Fragata Mercedes) was ruled in favor of Spain by a US Federal Court: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/54441...
I'm saying:

1. it's better to understand who and what you're dealing with, especially when it's a mortal adversary whom you might have to fight to the death;

2. the older I get, the less judgmental I get about other people personally, because I really do believe everybody does the best they know how --- and that's true even though very often I don't accept (and might be more than willing to fight against) what they regard as "the best"; and

3. I'm mindful of the words of a very wise, first-century Middle Eastern sage [1] who urged us to love our enemies [2].

[1] http://www.questioningchristian.com/2004/11/benjamin_frankl.... (self-cite).

[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:43-...
This should have been run as a non privileged user, on private IPs, a local socket or localhost along with a long and strong password, so only authenticated connections would be able to be able to use it.

Since none of these memory store solutions (memcached, redis, etc.) should be able to be connected to on public addresses it would be a nice feature to only allow them to listen on private internal IP space or sockets by default and fail to run if anything else is used.

This would help reduce everyone's attack surface by default and help prevent misconfiguration by the user or 3rd party integration software.
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TrueConf Server Federation Offers Free Calls Between the Servers for All Users
In conjunction with the TrueConf Server 4.3.5 release, TrueConf has announced the new Federation feature – a single address space for all TrueConf video conferencing products. Federation allows you to make calls, hold conferences and exchange messages between different TrueConf servers, including TrueConf Online users.

Federation guarantees that an organization implementing TrueConf Server will not become isolated from other companies, and staff subscribed to the server will be able to communicate easily and directly without installing and configuring any additional software.

The primary feature of Federation is the ability to group local server users with a cloud-based TrueConf Online service, which creates a hybrid video conferencing system. According to studies conducted by TrueConf, this model is gaining popularity, with about 20 per cent of customers in the CIS willing to use the hybrid model for their video conferencing solution.

In order to configure the Federation feature, all you need is to allow access to the server from the Internet by registering it with the Internet domain of the organization. You can limit Federation and block unwanted calls from the external servers. The model is based on creating "blacklists” and "whitelists” of TrueConf servers. When the corresponding list is created, the connection will be allowed only to the users or servers in the whitelist, or to all server users who are not in the blacklist.

It is worth noting that by combining Federation with TrueConf Directory (a product which creates a shared Address Book between different servers), users will not only be able to make calls to users from other servers, but also get full access to the shared Address Book. They can search contacts and view the user status of others on the shared network.
Does anyone know if this is basically the same sort of Algorithm used in say the age of Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games?
I've actually had this conversation here in Japan.

It was pointed out to me that Western signs are incredibly drab compared to those written with Chinese characters. The primary reasoning as explained to me was that the Chinese characters tend to be incorporated as a main part of the design, while Latin characters tend to be used in a more practical nature and supplemented with other design features. Very subjective of course, but an opinion I find myself agreeing to.

For the record, Chinese characters (Japanese kanji) are considered ideographic. Pictographic implies that the meaning of the symbol can be derived from the design itself, which isn't true for the vast majority of Chinese characters. Only a small subset are actually pictographic in nature.
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You can use arbitrary address space in a non-routed subnet. But it could refuse non RFC 1918 addresses unless overridden.
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I've tried running the thing, but it seems the AI gets stuck on the birthday selection screen. Even so, awesome project!
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I wonder what would be of current Colombia without the Spanish people that conquered it.
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You sorely need a legend to go with that map. What are circles (when you click you learn they are cities, but I should be able to know that before I click) what does size of circle mean? What does the color mean?

There is also something that looks like clouds. What are they? Also pollution? Are they on the same color scale as the circles?
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* Was it a submission of a link, or just text?
Why would you risk bankruptcy? Every company in Valley typically offers great health insurance. London rents are more expensive than San Fran in particular areas and buying property has become nearly impossible at any reasonable price.
> dctoedt specifically asserts that there were people who thought the US would roll over and cower if attacked once

For the record, that overstates what I said, which I hope was a bit more nuanced than that.

Certainly the Japanese militarists, as a whole, decided to roll the dice that the outcome would not be "An enraged U.S. will counterattack us until our way of life is destroyed." It doesn't necessarily follow that there were those among them who thought, "The US will roll over and cower if we can just take out their battleships at Pearl Harbor."

(Of course, some Japanese militarists had an overly-exalted regard for Japanese military virtue and prowess. So it does seem likely that there were indeed some militarists, especially junior officers, who held the latter view, and yes, that view proved fatally naïve.)
Right, but only on a single core and only over a small sliding window. Real data flow machines made it explicit rather than a fragile optimisation and scaled it up.
While at university I attended a "learn Scheme" summer course and it was taught by implementing your own Scheme interpreter (in Scheme). It is not that hard to implement a programming language, but making it perform well might be a completely different ballpark.
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