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Sure, I expect to see news about Auto-Semi testing sometime this year.

Energy use from Human QoL stuff would be very very low in a semi compare to the energy use for pulling.

For instance, the tractor and trailer, unladen weighs 25,000 to 40,000 lbs, with a total road weight of 50-100k lbs. [1] A whole passenger car with amenities can weigh less than 3000 pounds. Call 1/5th of that QoL stuff, for 600lbs. Changes in automobile weight matter much more because automobiles stop and go much more often.

So the human QoL stuff probably doesn't weigh more 1% of the road weight. But the kicker is, it doesn't even matter too much if the QoL stuff weighs 10%, because energy use scales mostly by air resistance, not weight. [2]

Most of the QoL energy waste is found in idling semis at truck stops or in traffic, so this could definitely be reduced by Auto-Semis [3]

The eventual savings from Auto-Semis will be in reduced wages, and possibly in reduced fuel usage - but the reduced fuel consumption would come from driving slower, as you don't have to pay a driver for their time, and an Auto Semi can drive all night.

I'm sure logistic companies would love to save this much money, but the capital expenditure required will be huge. Some research from passenger self driving cars would be pertinent, and probably most sensor devices, but they would be put to slightly different uses - you want a longer range view in a truck for braking distance and crash avoidance.

The reason I put the estimate so far out is liability and regulation and the cap ex mentioned above. Some classes of load will probably never be pulled by auto-semi: dangerous, time Sensitive, some luxury goods.

Auto Semis could also do some interesting things like draft (tailgate) safely and form a "train" of trucks. You could have drone drivers set up who monitor 3 or 4 trucks and take over if needed.

1. http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threa...

2. http://www.theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/AERO... - Page 5, PDF

3. http://fleetowner.com/fuel_economy/fuel-economy-0701
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The book is excellent as well

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/...
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I'm working on software to facilitate international commerce.

Amazon getting into international freight logistics is big news.
China is the place where the marginal cost of mining is lowest. It's the only place in the world where a command economy has hybridized with crony capitalism to offer you as much electricity as you want at below-market prices; if the otherwise idle hydropower station that was built 300 miles from any center of population or industry under the last five-year plan can't give you all the juice you can use, you can get more from your choice of local coal-fired power plants at six cents per kilowatt-hour (after a small consideration to the provincial party chief).

The other major reason that Bitcoin mining is big in China is that it's far and away the biggest source of capital looking to escape government controls. You put in yuan at one end, turning it into ASICs and electricity, and you take bitcoin out at the other end. Say what you want about bitcoin, but it's a whole lot easier than your yuan deposits at the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China to get across the border.

Some day these things will change. But for now, Bitcoin is stuck with Chinese miners.
I guess I'm cynical but I'm worried that Goldman's takeaway here is to make the financial products, transactions, and their position more complex/opaque in the future.
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Depending on whether the flights were stressful or a nice step away from home turf, that might be considered a feature, not a bug. It was a nice bit of job security, in any case.

I also hesitate to say that the site in question deserved to pay for the tickets, since AWK is reasonably easy to learn, even in the case of 4- or 5-digit-SLOC applications.

But if AWK was the most capable system available, that's saying a bit... :p
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> mining power is majority controlled by a very small group of people

what can change to make this better? Because it seems the root of the problem is that some small group of people managed to amass a large amount of hardware.
I work for Chef (where Julian works) and all of the requests in "Dear GitHub" certainly apply for getting my job done as well.
Is this because of hot swaps? I would be pretty disappointed by a 50% usable for RAID6. But I don't include the hotswap(s) in this equation.
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There is no IOMMU in USB. You've got it backwards: the IOMMU in PC's is on the host side of the USB controller, not the device side.

There's an easy way to tell. Does the bus carry memory addresses? Then it supports DMA. Does it just send messages? No DMA to protect against.

The USB controller on a PC does support DMA. The OS device driver allocates buffers and passes them to the controller to fill. If it's properly programmed, it will only store data into those buffers. An IOMMU is there to prevent malicious kernel privileged code from bouncing through peripherals that support DMA to compromise other privileged code.

Messages on the USB bus side have no addresses in them and there is no DMA involved.
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Can someone explain to me why intel is implementing these features? Surely no consumer wants them, so I don't see how it gives them an edge over amd. plus they're leagues ahead of amd already. The only explanation I can think of is that supporters of DRM are somehow subsidizing intel's development efforts.
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Funny how a simple "what if AD user management looked different" discussion can lead fairly quickly to 700 lines of Powershell that makes ten people's jobs somewhat easier.

I can't exactly say I'm proud of this, but I was somewhat surprised by how relatively easy it was to pull a basic GUI together...
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Whilst i have no stake in the claim (other than my .001 btc), and have not spent any, i m getting conflicting conclusions from different posts/sources. Since I do not follow any of the people, it's hard to know what is reliable or not.

This might simply mean that bitcoin is too immature and isn't quite ready for the mainstream.
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What was the story behind this anyway? I am having a hard time determining whether this was actually serious or were trying to parody feminist activism.
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Last time I looked WinSCP used PuTTY components or a fork. Would appreciate additional verification of this, though.
Curious about this and also how to implement flat orgs.
I'm sure a udev rule would be sufficient to whitelist only the trusted hardware. However, nothing can stop a malicious one to spoof serial numbers or other characteristics of a trusted hardware.
In general, it's a bad idea to form opinions of people from a news story about them -- sometimes accurate news doesn't make for a good story. The CFAR folks are... what's the opposite of cocksure? Epistemically cautious?

Here's an illustrative example. The New York Times article says this:

"[...] Afterward, participants are required to fill out an elaborate self-report, in which they’re asked to assess their own personality traits and behaviors. (A friend or family member is given a similar questionnaire to confirm the accuracy of the applicant’s self-assessment.)"

What the article doesn't mention is that the reason they're giving such a questionnaire to a friend or family-member is to cut down on self-report bias in their one-year longitudinal study of whether or not they're getting real results [1]. People can trick themselves into thinking that their lives have changed for the better after spending time and money on it, and the ask-a-friend thing is an attempt by the CFAR people to avoid getting a rosy-tinted picture of their own efforts.

They could get away with being a lot less honest.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/n2g/results_of_a_oneyear_longitudina...
Ditto. Maybe 98%. I think that's a big part of the disconnect I'm seeing here in the comments. Those of us that live in private repos are likely pretty happy with how things currently work especially since we're the ones paying to use the service. If it wasn't working well for our teams, we'd find somewhere else to spend our money. That being said, we're certainly the minority when it comes to users on the platform.
This is great news. Over 30,000 people die annually due to motor vehicles in the United States alone [0] and the number would be far greater without the steady improvements to vehicular safety over the years.

To reduce that number to as close to 0 as is possible absolutely should be a top priority for our nation as a whole.

The technology is there, much of the infrastructure is there, and the rest is on the way.

Autonomous cars promise to revolutionize the way humans use cities in a positive way. Here in NYC where automobile traffic is quite a bit more abundant than anyone could particularly desire I yearn for the day when we can reclaim all that parking space for green and pedestrian use.

I anticipate the lack of diesel fumes, the reduction in engine and siren noise, and the ready availability of autonomous vehicles to take me to my destination, probably with a quick action to my smart watch, phone, etc.

Autonomous electric vehicles can stay in use for extremely long durations of time thus reducing the overall numbers of cars on the roads at any given time. To reduce emissions will reduce incidences of asthmatic and respiratory illnesses in urban centers.

To park themselves outside of major urban areas during non peak hours allows for repairs, and the reclamation of space I mentioned.

To run with electric engines means far fewer maintenance costs in general due to much fewer moving parts than traditional combustion engines.

To coordinate flows of traffic ensures traffic moves more efficiently, and the loud sirens and flashing lights of emergency vehicles can be a thing of the past.

And of course there are the wonderful cartoons from thw New Yorker in which a police man is at the window of a civilians car

"Does your car know why my car pulled it over?"

If this is done right it will be one of the greatest achievements of our modern era and will truly usher us into a new world of clean air, reclaimed public spaces, silenter cities, and tremendous mobility.

What an exciting time to be alive!
Why not just let the community decide on these issues?

And by community I mean "Users, miners, wallets, and exchanges".
That status is gone, whatever it was.
Yes, all languages, though in Rust and Python they are explicit rather than implicit at the definition site. And note that although Rust makes them explicit for technical reasons (allowing you to control the manner in which the receiver is taken), their explicitness in Python is only because Guido wanted people to understand that methods require a receiver parameter in order to operate, a misunderstanding which appears to be the root of your confusion.
There should really be some way to punish the individuals responsible, even just a fine comparable to the bonuses they made, rather than just having their employer pay compensation while those responsible continue to get richer.
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You do what you want to do. Ask yourself what you want to do, and why you want to do it.
And here I am trying to build meaningful apps on my own :/
Yeah, you're right. But I'd already blown my budget and then I hear "oh you should have used 6x3TB or 6x4TB in RAIDZ2". ...it's a 4 bay NAS, for home use.
Because if the govt. gave the underprivileged all the money, they wouldn't have any incentive to work hard.
Oh, I don't think that trying to prepare for historically plausible contingencies is crazy - quite the opposite - but it's definitely easy to approach it in a haphazard, disorganized, or wasteful way.

The Bay Area culture definitely has a distinct aura of invincibility to it, though; we have many young folks, including immigrants with no familial safety nets and a messy legal status, living paycheck to paycheck while working in a very volatile industry on exorbitant salaries. And all that next door to an active seismic fault =)

Elsewhere, especially in rural America, the prepper culture seems a lot stronger, perhaps owing to the echoes of the Cold War. It always shocked me that the movement is virtually non-existent in Europe (where I grew up); if you look at their history, they certainly have more to worry about.
In my research on phones from the Unrevoked project (admittedly, 4+ years ago), this was the case: the baseband and the CPU shared the same memory. The baseband memory was carved out from the CPU such that the CPU could not access it, but the microcontrollers serving the baseband had CPU access, as I recall from the Qualcomm boot documentation: the chain of trust from CPU boot was established by the baseband processor, not the other way around.

I would imagine that things have changed a little bit, but the baseband back then, and I imagine still now, is considered to be the ultimately trusted element of the system. I'd be surprised to hear that they've changed so much that the baseband doesn't still have full control over its host system.
The FreeBSD 9 base makes it really hard to mount ext4 drives (no FUSE until 10), the security patching regime relies on upgrading the whole rootfs (see the SSH client vuln today) and I'm in unfamiliar territory on a BSD having used Linux for the last decade.
That's not being cynical. When a fine is less than your profits for breaking the law you are into a sound business model.

Suppose that when you caught a thief the sentence were to return 60% of whatever he has stolen, nothing else. The result is quite obvious. Even if it where 100%, it will still be a good business as you will get away with all the money when you are not caught.

Lloyd said it quite clear "We are pleased to have reached an agreement in principle to resolve these matters,". Of course they are pleased! We are not.
Oh dear god, I totally didn't triage a completely fucked and hung HyperV today. And then see disk corruption immediately afterward.

That's uh, scary. Why even bother with ZFS when you're running under HyperV? pfft.
How about children's warm, openhearted instinctivity?)

Also scientific psychology (opposite of popular meme jogging) tells us that pure rationality is a myth - fictional concept of the mind. We are driven and motivated by hardwired, non-verbal heuristics , such as looks, status, health and beauty, which could be defined, at least for living beings, as youth + health/good genes markers (lack of any age or sickness related deformities).

Is there any estimation what percent of GDP and personal wealth has been spent amually on booze, hookers and status items? Including all the money spent to impress potential mates?)

The more appropriate meme instead of "rationality" would be "understanding" (and Joy instead of happiness) - I do, more or less, understand "how it works", so I could enjoy it occasionally, not too often to become a mere numb consumer. Read about Dorian Gray also.)
So a quick google search turned up this:

"Overall, Goldman Sachs received a $12.9 billion payout from the government's bailout of AIG, which was at one time the world's largest insurance company." [1]

Now, these might be related, but [not] identical - or indeed not connected - but on the face of it it seems rather outrageous... perhaps someone who's a bit more up on the details can comment?

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2010...
"private property"

Private property as you understand it did not precede law/rules, ancients would have not have any concept of private property as you understand it in the modern sense.
I picked a terrible example which doesn't demonstrate what I intended to.

Any USB link requires the host to maintain some persistent state in data structures mirroring what it thinks the state of the device is. There's no "DMA" in the sense that the device has direct access to the host - but that doesn't preclude something as mundane as a buffer overflow, use-after-free and so on.

"DMA", with appropriate IOMMU, is just fancy shared memory communication. You're just as likely to mess that up as a serial link. It's happened. A lot.
Not really. A big enough ship combined with a clear day and a set of binoculars works pretty well. As for the big wave, repeat the experiment enough times to filter out the noise.
I'm sure the designers of PNG were aware that slower entropy coders that gave better compression ratios existed. But there's a reason they didn't choose them: bzip2 is 5x slower than DEFLATE even on the lowest setting. Scanline filtering, on the other hand, is fast, amenable to SIMD, and even parallelizable if the image is properly encoded. It's also easy: the only thing I don't remember off the top of my head is the order ties are broken in the Paeth filter.

bzip2 is an especially poor choice in 2016 given that it's inferior to LZMA in both speed and quality.
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I like the syntax from the front end, but the details for back end seem a bit light on. I can't see much in the examples around persistence of data on the server side. Is this covered/planned?
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But not all the profits are gained illegally (a priori). Of course you want the punishment to fit the crime, so you qualify how much money they made off of the crime itself and charge an order of magnitude more than that.

Convict them of 4 similar crimes and you wipe out a year's profit! I don't think GS takes a 25% drop in profits lightly.

Now in this case it sounds like they caused a lot of damage for what they did.
Right I was talking about RAID10, the only RAID that is sensible to use these days...

Even with ZFS as I understand it, you should just set up your storage pool then mirror it and be done....boom 50%
Memory encryption makes cold-boot attacks unfeasible. I doubt someone could decap a processor fast enough in order to mount a cold-boot attack on the keying material stored inside of it. I see this as a natural step in the evolution of Trusted Computing, so Intel's interest in such technology doesn't surprise me.
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I really don't like the title since it's very link baity and suggestive that this would likely be a flame war topic on HN, but that said, her story and expecially the content after her story about restorative justice is very good and worth a read.
Wikipedia lists YUI started in 2005, so several months before JQuery. And ExtJS afaik started with prototype.js support and later added JQuery.
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You can set f.lux to start dimming 10 hours before you wake up by selecting 'working late' from the dropdown menu in preferences and by setting the time in '7:00 is when I wake up'. I think the option has been there since 2014. Very useful currently when the sun sets before 4 p.m. :)
Wow. Very interesting. I was surprised how many of those killed are elderly. I wonder if it is because they are more likely to be involved in an "accident"* or as likely to be involved but less likely to survive.

* I use the word accident in quotes because of stories like these: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...
Yeah I ended up going with mirrored vdevs for the ability to expand to 6TB drives later... then I was told (in IRC) that a single bit-flip would cause a complete pool failure.
I stand corrected; I see that now. The HN submission is in error, then.
Surely no consumer wants them

In real life almost everyone use services with DRM and proprietary software some of which contain "secret sauce" that developers want to remain secret. People that use such services and software already voted for technologies like this to be developed.
I mean, we gave them loans, not free money, right? The American people profited in a literal sense on the bailout.
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Regardless of your prejudices and perhaps negative experiences with holacracy, I would highly recommend the book, 'Reinventing Organisations', that Zappos' employees were encouraged to read. You can download it here: http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/pay-what-feels-right...

It is a fascinating read and will help you think about how to structure your organisation regardless of what structure you deem fit. The most interesting insight, which I can see most of the commenters here are probably not aware of (as I wasn't), is that in Teal organisations (such as ones who implement holacracy), it is recognised that different structures and behaviours are applicable depending on the situation. For example in a war an army better have some hierarchy or they will get wiped out but in a modern company the hierarchy is not as necessary if at all. Anyways, even if you never touch a holacratic model, go read the book. Guaranteed to be at least a rewarding thought experiment.
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There appears to be a need for some a different class of repository for larger open source software.

Similar to the way twitter provides verified accounts maybe
GitHub should consider a tagging these popular repositories to allow for more advanced control over the collaboration project.

When I first read the letter I was a little bit disappointed, one thing I've enjoyed (to an limited extent) is the low barrier of entry to pull requests. The spring boot team especially are extremely patient and understanding when it comes to pull requests.

Hopefully there's enough community will in this to encourage GitHub to make the change, if it does really come down it not being worth the money it would be a disappointing sign.
Apparently this gets weird pretty fast as you try to navigate various legal systems; CC0 is taking a stab at simplifying this, but even that would be potentially problematic on SO.

Tim just posted an answer that touches on this: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273015/cc0-public-do...
And then tells the employees to implement the consultants model. While the management continues in old ways and refuses to totally let go. Now the team is supposed to be "self organizing" but actually the management uses the tools intended for teams self-organization, learning and communications as precision vehicles in employee evaluation. Which completely erodes the 1. requirement for succesfull 'agile' - trust. Also, goodbye honest communication.
Yes. I don't know why content producers don't get this.

I really want to legally buy/rent my media, but so much content just isn't available on iTunes in Austria.

And even when it is, it's a pain in the ass. We bought a few films for our kids to watch, but when I copied them to my old computer I couldn't play them because of the DRM. So I look for a way to strip the DRM from the files I legally bought so I can play them, which turns out to be surprisingly hard, and I just give up and torrent the film.
I suspect at a certain level of (intelligence + arrogance), the more sophisticated models one requires to even be able to buy in to a system or philosophy that engages one in growthful introspection.

For most people, traditional self-help methods, time with friends & family, or religious prescriptions work wonders. For a certain type of mind, though, I suspect it helps to have a more intricate (more scientific?) springboard from which to explore the intricacies of yourself and how to arrange the pieces together in a positive, productive way.
Plenty of private projects use a separate, public Github repository for community reporting of issues, and public tracking of those issues.