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Elon Musk: we must put a million people on Mars to ensure humanity has a future
Tagged pointers - hiding a few bytes in a pointer address.
Cassandra in particular doesn't compete with RDS as much as DynamoDB and, respectfully, setting up failover and monitoring and autosnapshotting isn't actually that difficult. I'm a big fan of outsourcing that stuff--the new system I'm building uses AWS Lambda, for example--but when using a managed solution requires compromising on features or tying yourself into knots to make things work, hosting your own is doable, especially in the age of devops. Automation is your friend!
This is just a slightly edited version of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796040
Regarding the fourth amendment, the assets must be discovered pursuant to a legitimate search (either a legitimate search incident to arrest or traffic stop or a search pursuant to a warrant). Regarding the other amendments: civil asset forfeiture does not involve the government taking away your legitimate property to punish you for a crime. It involves seizing property that is more likely than not the proceeds or instrumentality of criminal activity. It has its roots in admiralty law and the seizure of contraband from ships, which was not considered a deprivation of property subject to due process at the time of the founding: http://www.forbes.com/2011/06/08/property-civil-forfeiture.h....
Which is the whole point, really: it doesn't facilitate the actual "writing" so much as the "thinking," at which stage you're still developing ideas and seeing how they fit together.

Several generations of writers (and other artists) have found great results cutting their work up and rearranging it to find deeper insights into the work they might still produce: Burroughs, Bowie, and others!

Anxious for the day I can give this thing a spin.
An airplane has a better chance of gliding out of harms way as well whereas a helicopter jut drops.
Git-prompt-path – Detailed Git status in your prompt
You'd also have no hope of a future Supreme Court reading into the Constitution protection against surveillance as violating of some "right to privacy" that appears nowhere in the text of the Constitution.
I don't use any of them because I don't live in an urban area, but my understanding is that apps like GrubHub can handle the payment process.
> if you’re on Chrome or Microsoft Edge, the DLL is dropped in the Downloads folder without even asking

What fucked up joke is this?!
>We know that this is not permitted if we are attributing negative qualities to a group of people. Why is it then permissible to generalize when we are praising the same groups?

Actually both should be permissible, as both can be true in the statistical and cultural sense.

We're not unique snowflakes as we like to believe. Our culture shapes us in many ways, nicely in some ways, badly in others, and it does the same to others sharing it.

There's a reason why stereotypes exist, beside bigotry and arbitrariness.
The Supreme Court cannot proactively take on an issue. Hacking around stuff like jurisdiction and standing is how obviously unconstitutional practices like what the NSA and various other agencies do are able to persist so long.
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> pharma-grade cocaine, heroin being sold without prescription

what do you honestly think our society would look like if this were the case ? Have you seen what cocaine does to people ? Have you seen how it causes people to lose their impulse control and go crazy ? What about driving ? We have a bad enough problem on our roads right now with alcohol, what do you think the morning commute will be like with people high or nodding off from opiates ?

I'm certainly against our drug "war" just like most people, particularly with its draconian punishments, but be careful what you ask for.
Custom crypto? That will work out well for them.
I would be interested in your reasoning for why it would fail. All major arms makers have a demonstration biometric activated weapon, and there is a lot of pressure in the US on private gun ownership. I see these forces coming together to force biometrics as a requirement for owning a new gun.
The legal system has not narrowly interpreted the Bill of Rights. For example, the First Amendment has been construed to preclude lots of restrictions on conduct that is not literally "speech." Everything from contraception to abortion to gay marriage has become a "right" even though nobody can point to the specific amendment that guarantees it.

In the case of civil asset forfeiture, central to the Supreme Court's upholding of those laws was the fact that laws providing for civil forfeiture of contraband property were passed by the First Congress.
Huh, I can't see anything uncivil in the post you linked to. Copypasted the wrong one?
I think the bigger joke is that you can hijack DLLs, and the UAC prompt and signed code verification don't say a word about it.
The English language (or is it the American language?) is not static. Words change meaning all the time.

Naturally, but in a technical discussion about the technicalities of trading technology, we must agree on the meaning, whatever that happens to be.
Until your boss or client thinks it's a good idea. :)
Whether or not drone delivery becomes a mainstream part of the equation--I suspect it won't but that's beside the point--it's certainly in Amazon's interests to research and encourage innovation in the logistics business. Mind you, there's already a lot of innovation happening in supply chain systems but economical 1 hr to 1 day consumer delivery hasn't had any real breakthroughs.

Now that may be because people aren't willing to shoulder the cost for most mainstream use cases. But in that case, it's worth experimenting to see if costs can be driven down or use cases can be expanded in various ways.
Admittedly, I've glossed over the market aspects for this thread.

To gauge the size, we used a standard report from the pizza industry that a seed stage VC friend helped me find, which gave us:

- $36.7B U.S. pizza sales in 2012

- 75-77% of 18-44 year olds are pizza customers

- 410 million pizzas picked up or delivered per year

In Cincinnati, we think it's not the size of the city, but that the population is distributed in pockets that are too far apart from each other (i.e., to be simultaneously served by one pizza truck quickly).

Our consumer validation showed that what most people value in delivery is: speed (~50%), cost (~30%), and quality (~20%).

We would like to work on food tech in the future, and mostly likely in the bay, but the three of us weren't ready to leave Cincinnati yet :).
The cost to drill a well is not sunk when they haven't drilled the well yet.

Well some companies are in fact drilling wells at a loss, but only because they have to pay bills while they pray for oil prices return and potentially survive this supposed rough patch. However, that says more about their debt situation than it does the cost of horizontal drilling.

Bottom line is that some companies are in fact making a profit drilling horizontal shale wells @ $35 barrel.
What are the practical implications and applications of this?
Angular is actually way more widespread than React but nice snarky comment regardless
Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean the optimum road system will have every road having every possible exit.

Downtown streets are traditionally built that way because they are two dimensional. This tunnel exists in the 3rd dimension.
This is a crazy sentiment. I was just considering checking out Terraform, and I'm really glad to have read the previous commenter's experience.
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Do people really "submit to AngelList" and expect anything to happen?
A Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup (2013)
We're very far from hitting any theoretical limits. We're just hitting speed limits for silicon. Meanwhile, we already know several substrates that outperform silicon by orders of magnitude. Here are a few off top of my head:

graphene http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175727-ibm-builds-graphen...

spintronics: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428883/a-spintronics-br...

photonics: http://www.gizmag.com/photonic-quantum-computer-chip/38928/

memristors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

There's no theoretical breakthrough needed to use these technologies, it's simply a matter of moving them from the lab to mass production. So far there has been little incentive as companies are still squeezing out the last bits of juice from silicon, but as we start hitting the limits it's only a matter of time until these technologies get phased in.
I would just like to bring up the fact that the accounts TimJYoung and crimsonalucard were both created 1891 days ago and are both intently arguing in favor of copyright protections. I don't really have good arguments against them (although my gut feeling is to disagree), and I'm not really trying to make a point, just found it suspicious.

Honestly, I'm not sure what the answer is with copying. But I have a strong belief that everybody should be able to enjoy all information and media, whether or not they have a relatively limitless supply of cash to blow.
> artificially restrict access to only those that agree to the terms

But that's not possible. Technical locks can be overridden rather easily. The reality is that selling digital copies of anything is not a solid business model and it can only be kept in place by bullies with a monopoly on violence.
"Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence" http://www.amazon.com/Better-Never-Have-Been-Existence/dp/01...

Haven't read it, but the author taught a class I attended and it was great fun.
The biggest source of confusion is with the surname/given-name ordering. Chinese folks put their surname first and their given name last.

E.g. Wei Zhang in the story should be Zhang Wei - his surname is Zhang.

I won't be surprised if he goes by Wei Zhang because that's how his name appears on official documents.
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I'm not talking about commerce and making money, I'm talking about using bittorrent to share books, music and movies.
Money needs to be spent in order to extract the reserves. They don't have all that oil sitting around in a tank somewhere, it has to be pumped out of the ground.
Specifically, the seismologist estimates are a 10% probability each decade that the Alaskan Way viaduct will collapse in an earthquake.

It's already a big heavy mass of concrete and steel, and was reinforced after the last earthquake, it's hard to imagine reinforcing it more.
How do you line up data to copy into the DSP for the purpose of programming it? Is it a memcpy operation? How do you know where to copy to?
This was my reason for giving it a try, and having no time to cook a decent meal. The biggest hurdle in my opinion is the taste. They describe is as being as plain as they could make it and boy is it plain. This may be just me but it was too plain, on the verge of off-putting. I have to supplement every batch with some sort of flavor additive.
Which, to be fair, is all register buys you also: the compiler isn't supposed to allow you to take the address of a register variable (although the Plan 9 compiler didn't enforce the rule).
Right, the fact that all the bodies are acting on the other is what makes me feel the analogy is not kosher. The funnels are going to start moving around based on their mutual attraction, and I could see the marble being ejected to infinity, for example. It's less clear to me (but possible) that it could enter a stable orbit.
Patent trolls doing ads screaming against the bill tells me it will actually be pretty effective.
32c3 "payment hack": Outdated payment protocols expose customers and merchants
The argument being made is really Levitt's marketing myopia argument which at least used to appear in pretty much every Marketing 101 course. [1] The argument is that you should define yourself as a transportation company rather than a railroad (or an energy company instead of an oil company).

The problem with this argument is that it doesn't always apply very well. Yes, Kodak had distribution channels for photographs. But very little about the company gave it any particular advantage for digital photography from a technology perspective.

Somewhat ironically, Fujifilm--notwithstanding some recent success in relatively niche camera products--has largely weathered the post-film era by applying its technology to medical products and the like.

[1] http://academy.clevelandclinic.org/Portals/40/LHC%20Myopia.p...
1. 24 is not too late. I didn't get much done in my 20s.
2. With all due respect to the girlfriend of 8 years, you are probably better off breaking up now. Marrying the high school sweetheart has a low probability of success.
3. Get a job. I would suggest starting to take classes at a community college to see what interests you.
4. Make sure that you get exercise and sunlight.
5. If you have the time, volunteer. Cook or serve at a soup kitchen, tutor, it hardly matters. You will be doing something useful for people who are worse off.
Naukratis: ancient Egypt’s version of Hong Kong unearthed by British team
Similar copies are actually distributed in file sharing networks. That's what the art project is pointing to.
Do you think you're ready for a beta tester?
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MS Word, right click word -> synonyms
Typical result of developers overestimating users. If a browser developer sees that some file suddenly downloaded automatically, he would notice it instantly and delete it if it's something fishy. But a lot of typical users wouldn't notice (the kind that never closes download bar in chrome anyway) and would never clean up their downloads folder. Damn, a lot of them would even run it to find out what it is.
In the 1960's, liberal Supreme Courts created lots of new rights for criminals and the accused. In the 1970's and 1980's, crime skyrocketed. It went up so much that even though by the 1990's the incarceration rate had quadrupled, the rise in incarceration did not even catch up with the rise in crime until 1998. On the back of that rise in crime, there was a corresponding hardening of the justice system. The war on drugs, elimination of parole, etc.

Crime has dropped dramatically since the peak in the mid-1990's. But that massive build-up of the justice system has persisted, and today the incarceration rate dramatically exceeds the crime rate. As the people who forget that New York City in the 1990's used to be Gotham City, and now only remember it as Disney Land, the political slur of "soft on crime" is going to lose some of its bite. We are seeing Obama talk about criminal justice reforms that say Bill Clinton in the 1990's never would have been able to talk about. I remember growing up in the 1990's, and all the advertisements and school assemblies about drugs--a prevailing attitude that can only be described as "hysterical." Remember Clinton having to say "I smoked but never inhaled?" Today, we're seeing legalization of marijuana all over the country. We're seeing a generation of future voters that will grow up hearing about Ferguson and Freddie Gray instead of how people high on crack cocaine are going around raping women in the inner city. That's going to change what kind of police conduct voters are willing to tolerate.
Payment systems are old and have – unlike card protocols – seen little scrutiny so far. This talk enumerates design and implementation flaws in payment processing systems, which can defraud consumers and merchants.

Like most embedded devices, payment system elements are potentially vulnerable to a range of attacks. This has not changed in years. What did change, though, is the exposure of these vulnerabilities: Serial interfaces are now exposed via ethernet; proprietary backend protocols are reachable over the Internet TCP, and flaws in real time operating systems are widely known.

This talk provides an overview of design issues and implementation vulnerabilities in current payment processing systems, including un-authenticated protocols and insecure hardware implementations, which enable fraud vectors against merchants who operate payment terminals and consumers who use them.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7368.htm...
"I wish I could code for the iPhone with TurboC, the thing just worked, no loading time, if I hit a button it do what I wanted instantly."

That was the past. This is the future. Always improving...
Safari does the same thing. I think FF is the only browser that still defaults to asking you what you want to do when you click on a download link.
Then... they are right?
> Supply and demand influence value. Thus whether I charge a billion dollars or zero dollars for the oxygen you breath, you'll still want it as much as you did before regardless of the value.

The demand for air is much, much smaller than the supply, so by your logic it should have very little value. Yet it has a huge value and no cost. Now you see why I'm saying that market forces influence only the cost and not the value?
(I'm a number theorist, and this is very close to my research area.) The Gross-Zagier formula (along with work of Kolyvagin) from the 1980s proved the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture when "r_an <= 1"; this conjecture is an amazing link between analysis and arithmetic, and also one of the Clay Problems. This number "r_an" is the order of vanishing of a certain "generating function" that counts the number of solution to y^2 = x^3 + Ax + B modulo all prime numbers. For about 30 years now, people have been completely stumped at coming up with even a wishy-washy conjectural half guess* as to what to do when r_an is 2 or larger. In number theory a standard approach is to replace the integers Z = {... -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...} with a polynomial ring F_p[X] over finite field, and try to solve analogous problems (this is called working "over a functional field"). The paper that this article is about has come up with exactly what to do in case r_an is 2 or larger in the function field setting. So far they haven't figured out how to do anything over the rational numbers yet. Sometimes solving a problem over function fields provides incredible and valuable insight into how to solve the analogous problem over the rational numbers, and sometimes it doesn't (e.g., the function field analogue of Fermant's Last Theorem and the ABC conjecture are both basically trivial to deal with, whereas the same problem over the rational numbers is ridiculously hard).
Oil, even at current prices, is significantly more expensive than natural gas and coal for generating electricity. Apart from remote communities oil isn't really used to generate electricity. Oil is valuable because of gasoline. Solar/Wind/Nuclear are competing in a completely different market.

The real threat to the medium/long term value of oil is a good battery.
Xcode is extremely I/O bound. When it's not compiling, it's indexing. An SSD helps it a lot. (Which isn't to say Xcode doesn't have its problems, including speed. Just that it can be improved with better hardware.)
It's certainly an interesting problem. Suppose that an program that needs administrative permissions depends on lib.dll. Should lib.dll have to be bundled with the application and signed with the same key? Why not statically link at that point then?

Since the libraries the application might pull in might not even be available before runtime would you prompt for each load? Maybe prompt for each load that isn't in a system directory -- implying that there isn't prior trust?

You could embed the key the library developer signed the library with but then we have a key revocation problem and updating the library might require updating the application and business critical applications might hold entire departments back from getting security fixes.

I don't think this is really a problem with DLLs or the signature process, but that the old installer tries to load any library in the executable directory.
To anyone who wants to see these flares: https://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx
Yahoo has been trading well below its book value for a while. If you believe that the company is about to destroy a lot of money by spending it on unprofitable R&D then it makes sense to value it at less than its current assets. (Obviously current management will spend on R&D because they believe it will ultimately produce more value than it costs, but maybe the market disagrees).
This comment is straight fear mongering and should not be taken seriously.

> Analyse what evil AI would constitute

No. There is no such thing as evil AI. Thats implying an AI can be good or evil, which is an absurd starting point. Then to claim someone would build an AI to offensively attack and fight evil AI bots?

I can't down vote, so take this comment as a replacement:
Get the fuck out of here.
You need to explain git rerere to be able to save you from rebase trouble.
Solar, wind, and nuclear don't provide a threat to fuel used for transportation, which is a major percentage of how it's used.
Please take note of this folks. Simply trusting "transport security" isn't enough. Please do not seriously run an open access point because you think it's just as safe as the OP.
Amazing. If you know of a comic (or graphic-heavy article) or a video that can explain to a complete astronomy-noob what parallax is and how it enables one measure the diameter of planetary orbits, please put the link below. (I can only learn science with visual illustrations, and can't mentally process equations.) Thanks!
Yes, and package delivery autonomous car can be made very small -- just big enough to carry the package. In fact, a ground-based autonomous delivery vehicle doesn't have to look anything like a car. Imaging an autonomous Segway-like 2-wheel cart. Segway is 4.5 times more efficient that Toyota Prius and 11 times more efficient than average American passenger vehicle.[1] Something like that would allow delivering packages very cheaply.

[1] http://www.segway.com/downloads/pdfs/energy_efficient_segway...
It is the NSIS' fault for auto-loading existing dll in the same working directory if presents. And UAC only does its job: To run a command with elevated privilege (so does sudo). UAC does not really care the executed code.
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Huel was a good experience for me. I don't think it's possible to replace food completely. Having good lasagna or whatever is your favorite meal at least one time per week is needed to avoid frustration. I found it quite useful when I don't have time to cook or I want to eat lightly for dinner.

I don't know the taste of Soylent because they don't deliver yet in UK but Huel has a small taste of vanilla and it's quite nice.

http://huel.com
My first thought exactly.
You have only one job, and that's to do what the client wants. It doesn't matter what language that is in. And you're free to leave whenever you want.
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I feel like I am missing something here. Is this a program that actually exists or something that they are currently working on and will be available at some later date? I don't see any way to try it out. Its a compelling idea though.
It was also previously submitted (without discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660727

Perhaps change the URL to the directory, so people can see the Readme and image scans, without needing to come here to the comments?

I'm glad it's getting attention now!
No not at all. You have to have standing, and you have to bring your case. The exact opposite of the supreme court.
It's not a joke. NIPS 2017 is in November, and the dates are driven by the submission deadlines.