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Who is your target audience?

These are people who you remind - quite well, I'll add - that commonplace things are more deadly than apocalypse planning.

And you remind them that they need water.

And you humorously recommend they download an XML dump of Wikipedia.

You recommend a Garmin Foretrex 401 Waterproof Hiking GPS, but while you recommend 'both a country road atlas and a more detailed map of your county or state' it's in a context where you likely mean road map, and not something where a hiking GPS would be that useful.

And you bring up gas masks in the context of local factories as well, with recommendations of masks to buy; why do you have the text unless you think it's useful?

Sure, the reader can search / ask around ... but then why have this essay in the first place?

Another thing that's missing is to train for emergency situations. The only times I found "train" or "practice" was in the context of weapons and fighting. But you also need to practice using the GPS in hiking situations, if only to learn what basic terms like "datum" mean and what the modes do, and practice making a fire (else why have the matches?), and replacing the tubes on your bike. It mentions 'dig out a latrine' using a shovel and a pickax .. now where do they go for learning how deep to dig, or even that there is such a thing as good latrine practices? (Me? I learned it from the Boy Scout manual.) It's better to practice setting up a tent instead of doing so the first time in a dark.

Sure, you can assume the reader just knows to do this .. but why don't those same people know they should 'sign up for a basic course or have someone truly competent take you to the range' to practice with a gun?

Go to back to an earlier theme of mine, one of the points is "Biking on public roads? Wear a helmet and bright-colored clothing, stay well clear of the doors of parked vehicles, move in a straight line instead of weaning in and out of the traffic, and watch for cars trying to make right turns."

Like most of the rest of the document, this is a very individualistic response. A community response would be to join cycle advocacy groups and fight for usable dedicated bike paths. These are even safer. Yes, helmets, etc. can be a short-term solution, but the long term solution should be to minimize the need for these expensive, personal solutions and reduce overall risk.

"Prepper culture", on the other hand, seems to avoid these sorts of community solutions to the same problem. This document also ignores them.
Thanks for the suggestion, much appreciated.
I just lose, I can't get my cursor to the white box without losing.

(Chromium, Ubuntu)
Except they are using MDADM and LVM on top of it so it can only detect corruption, it cannot self heal like BTRFS can when it's in it's own redundant configuration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/3qpezu/btrfs_and_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/402m8d/so_i_was_g...
I'm with you on RAII and unique_ptr but I've yet to find exceptions to be compelling enough. I find Rust's approach(Result<T,E>) much nicer.
This is not necessarily a fork. You can have a new blockchain & exchange it tokens for bitcoin using atomic swap protocol. To implicitly implement the two-way-peg would a fork be needed.
Ask HN: What determines the ratio between 409a and preferred stock valuations?
Well, there are certainly other ethical considerations than "most warm bodes".

You also have to preserve human rights, for example. You could argue that trialing a potentially deadly drug took away a basic one from these people.
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Back in 2009 when I was getting into bitcoin, it was widely described as a "stateless currency" and not just an alternative to Visa or credit cards. Having a background in economics, bitcoin looked to me like a truly revolutionary technology and if it was adopted en masse would change politics forever.

The problem however is that a nation's currency is arguably the primary source of it's sovereignty. Whomever controls the currency primarily used in a nation, controls the nation. So it's safe to say that no nation is going to let bitcoin or any other currency take hold for widespread commercial use in lieu of it's sovereign currency - that's a hallmark of a failed state.

In fact that's why when regulators declared bitcoin as a commodity it was such a big deal. The US doesn't really care because we haven't had commodity money since the 1970s, but the idea that if enough people decided that they wanted commodity money, they would arguably have a medium with which to do it with that wasn't tied to any state.

So as with every product, unless a massive number of people decide to stop using their home currency and start using bitcoin, then bitcoin will "fail."

Whether it pivots to some kind of credit system or not is largely immaterial because of the potential it had.

It's like if we created Artificial General Intelligence and it decided to just write movie reviews forever.
They push people to reblog instead, which results in more overall engagement. (Probably because it makes it much easier to stoke flamewars, but that doesn't show up in the metrics...)
This would mean a lot more if GitHub didn't own the URL, which means until the end of time references to the history of the project will be partially owned by GitHub. This was the important reason for them, and everyone, to escape SourceForge.

I mean, if you are honest about it: I can copy all my primary data off Facebook. I know how to do that. You know how to do that as well. But you know what I get when I do that? A copy. I will never escape Facebook without horribly devaluing my own content.

Is that the correct decision for friends-only stuff about me? Sure, as that content doesn't get publicly linked anyway. For my local political movement? Probably, because that content gets dated quickly and my consumers are effectively being advertised to.

Is it the correct decision for a project I expect to be relevant in 20 years? No. I find myself reading things from old mailing lists and issue trackers constantly. Open source projects that have been able to keep a coherent history of their project around long enough that hyperlinks to their issues and posts continue to work 10 or even 20 years later is super important.

GitHub is at the top of their game right now. But they honestly add way way way less value than either Sourceforge or Google Code did. Mostly they trick people into using git as if it was Subversion (git isn't really designed to ever have two people pushing to the same repository on a common basis) and then "solving" the problem they created (by providing an account manager). They don't even model git networks correctly and require the fork chain to be some silly explicit tree.

Something is going to come with a good issue tracker that scales to public projects and provides valuable code analysis, and all the really large projects are going to switch. Maybe GitHub will finally decide to solve these problems (though the quick response I saw to that "open letter" yesterday makes me doubtful), but then there will be more problems. Maybe in 20 years git will feel as dumb to people as Subversion, as I remember when Subversion was insanely awesome ;P.

If GitHub had a "bring your own domain" option, and preferably some kind of URL router mechanism (for someone migrating from a previous solution) it would look a lot less weird to do important things on GitHub, but otherwise, being able to make a copy of your data is a red herring... of course you can make a copy: no programmer would ever question that :/.
One thing I'd like to better understand about cMix is the practical implications for flow analysis attacks (watching who participates in each round and trying to correlate senders and receivers based on participation in the same rounds).

cMix seems to accept more likelihood of a worst-case adversary in order to maximize efficiency. For example, the paper says: "Another notable difference between cMix and most previous mixnets is that each mix node knows all senders. This difference does not weaken the adversarial model because the adversary is expected to know all participants of the mixing round, and in cMix the unlinkability between a sender and a receiver is still ensured, by even any one uncorrupted mix node. On the other hand, this can empower cMix nodes to perform other tasks such as end-to-end secure messaging without introducing a public-key infrastructure of the participants."

It's true that in theory mixnets are often modeled by assuming a perfect adversary who sees every message enter and exit the net and can perfectly match it to an ongoing participant over time. But I believe that they don't claim to offer perfect protection against such an adversary, and in practice benefit from mostly not having to. It seems like cMix makes it easy for a compromised Network Handler, or maybe any one compromised mix node(?), to serve as that perfect adversary.

So ... does the design of cMix make it more likely that, in practice, it will have to actually face a worst-case adversary that most mix networks don't have to face?
I read the title and thought of spamming zero dollar gift on Minecraft!
It is irrational to complain about censorship in a private location.
They were using an in-house thing; some blogs also have Disqus comments enabled but nobody really uses them, as far as I can tell. (Even when they did, they were outside the stream of native Tumblr replies, and didn't show up in users' dashboards.)
It's entirely possible that medicine would still be conservative, cautious, and regulated after becoming less conservative, cautious and/or regulated, depending on it's starting state. It's important to regularly assess whether a policy is too conservative or not conservative enough, as it's trivial to show that neither extreme is as useful as the middle ground.
Seems weird to do a Phase I trial in healthy volunteers for a monoclonal antibody targeted to Parkinson's.
There seem to be three things to tumblr:

1. porn (although it is no longer discoverable via tags because tag search no longer shows 18+ content)

2. radical feminists (e.g. TERFs and misandrists), "trans" folk (of the camgirl/"trap" variety), otherkin and furries [0]

3. everything else [1]

It's the second group that gives tumblr its reputation. The third group is evidently there but 1 and 2 are why we can't have nice things (unless you consider masturbation -- physical or intellectual -- "nice things").

[0]: including radfems who hate trans people; trans people who hate otherkin[2]; otherkin who hate furries[3]; and furries who hate everyone; but there are strange overlaps at the younger end of the spectrum

[1]: including serious feminists and sane trans people, basically perfectly ordinary people you can have a conversation with

[2]: if you haven't heard the term before: otherkin are basically people pretending to be something other than human (e.g. animals, or even dragons).

[3]: just don't ask. Serious furries make otherkin look sane.
When i started my project, I used Resque but almost immediately switched to Sidekiq a few months later. I understand it's almost impossible to run into thread safety issues with Resque, but if you're doing anything CPU intensive, Sidekiq really offers much higher performance. The maintainer also makes a living off Sidekiq, selling it to businesses and enterprises too so you can expect more frequent updates.
> The thing is, it's not much fun living as though you were poor - cutting coupons, spending time working out which vegetable gives you the most nutrition per Kg, scrimping and saving. So for every extra $£€ you make, you can give yourself a short-term dopamine hit at the expense of long-term planning.

This is true to some extent, but if I don't minimally optimize my spending it makes me guilty, not happy. I feel I would be giving the wrong signal if my money went to goods/services optimized for my cognitive biases rather than for actual utility (or estimated utility). The duty of voting responsibly with your money does not go away when you get richer, in fact it even tends to increase.

I also disagree with the notion that spending less means resisting the temptation to buy more things, or to settle for things that are worse than the best. It depends a lot on what you want. If you don't even think that you could be spending more, if you have a minimalist lifestyle and no expensive tastes, I find it can be quite natural and not at all frustrating to spend less than what you earn, even if you're not deliberately trying to save money.
The mattress has held up great. I've had no problems with the mattress itself other than it being too thin for me (which isn't really an issue for new buyers). As a 6'3" 200lb male, I can feel whatever is below the mattress and it's not the most pleasant thing.
Wait, did they keep the fact that they had over 13,000 BTC stolen for over a year and a half?
If you look at EEOC cases, most of them are from less prestigious industries. However, of all the elite professionals, tech workers seem the most immature. I think it's a combination of gender ratio and less developed soft skills.

Though my friends have horror stories from law, finance, and consulting too.

Link: http://www.eeoc.gov/search/search?access=p&entqr=0&output=xm...
Cool. Now I will spend the rest of my Friday and all weekend trying to get in the end. My wife will hate Victor (the dude) very soon.
Yep, I've been looking at the Google doc. Basically I think it's just a bad way of publishing things online.
Issues internal to a company are usually kept very confidential until they're able to be addressed in a managed press release/conference, and this is so respected that the state's monopoly on violence will come after you if you breach that confidentiality and trade on the result.

For a currency, the US Federal Reserve works the same way; there's only limited speculation (based on public data) until they make an announcement about monetary policy, and the discussions leading up to that announcement are also kept very secret to avoid disruption to the market.
Why is it in error? It's 6x6=36TB. Parity is still storing data. Who says the data storage total number has to be for only user data?

My ZFS pool is 12x4TB in RAIDZ2 and when I query zpool list I get:
name size alloc free
tank 43.5T 25.3T 18.2T

The size reported by ZFS itself is 43.5TiB which is close to the 48TB that 12x4TB is.
I am sure that is how the courts will look at it :)
If you hate the idea of ownership and lifetimes I want to stay the hell away from any codebase you work on.
It isn't about computational difficulty. Larger block sizes simply mean larger blockchains and more network use to transfer them around.

The verification of transactions in bitcoin is central to its protocol. Its the whole reason its novel and relevant. You would have to change the proof of work system from sha256 hashing to something else to make it anything but optimal for computation on specialized ASIC hardware. If you do that, now you have another cryptocurrency - litecoin, peercoin, etc.

And when you use a hashing algorithm meant to be hard for general computers (cpu or gpu) to do, and can manufacture hardware that does them much more efficiently, you end up where we are now where big miners and a handful of people represent most of bitcoins mining power.
The professionals, namely the crew of cargo ships, avoid having guns on board, even when their route takes then to pirate-infested waters. (They also avoid having girls on board.)
lol, I wish every game had such a good collision detection :(
That's the discussion. Technical hurdles appear to be solvable. The core concept should still be sound. It's the political structure around Bitcoin that appear to be killing it.

Fixing Bitcoin would be the best solution, but the politics and governance structure aren't letting this happen. Aside: As I age I'm understanding more and more how critical leadership is. All of the pieces are there for Bitcoin to succeed, but they aren't organized correctly.

The second option is the community choosing to change to a different client, so that by a grassroots movement, eventually the blockchain moved in the right direction. It would likely be a rough transition for uneducated people, companies, and software for businesses that use Bitcoin, but if it can't be official, it would have to be something done similarly to XT.

The last solution is to switch to another cryptocoin and blockchain entirely. I don't keep up with news, so hopefully some of the smaller coins have implemented fixes. This would set back blockchain-based cryptocurrency a few years, though. If the whole community abandoned Bitcoin and moved to Vertcoin or Dogecoin, companies that went out of their way to support Bitcoin might be reluctant to follow.
Beats me. The announcement about them disabling it was in late October (http://support.tumblr.com/post/131951272032/pardon-our-dust-...), and on Nov. 4 they confirmed they were coming back, eventually (http://support.tumblr.com/post/132577661107/david-wizardries...). There's been no movement since then as far as I can tell.

I think they want the reblog to be the primary form of engagement, but that's silly for a lot of things, because the entire original post shows up in the reblog by default. For a running community (just one example), that's pretty lousy: you don't want to clutter up your own blog just to say "That's really fast, congratulations! Keep it up!" to a dozen other people.
That's why I prefixed that with "technically". :)

From legal standpoint, device that spams IMSI catcher with registrations with random IMSIs is mostly same thing as the IMSI catcher itself, ie. device that requires it's own broadcast license to operate, as such device certainly does not meet legal (and technical) requirements for it to be an cellular phone.

On the other hand, generating random IMSI, burning that into ICC and thus producing unusable SIM is probably perfectly legal even when you put that inside normal GSM phone (from network standpoint it will behave mostly same as phone without any SIM). In practice SIMs with completely made-up IMSIs are even commercially available (idea there is that some phones will not fully boot without SIM).
Thanks for the suggestion! Will reach out to jcs. Reddit may not be optimal though I feel.
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Back when I was negotiating my first car purchase -- and had a fair amount of savings to play with -- I telephoned my father to talk through the buy/lease model I had constructed in Excel. My dad, highly numerate, a car enthusiast, and a pretty good financial optimizer, had one response:

Just buy a car you can afford.

What he meant was that I should negotiate the purchase price and then write a check. No games. If I felt uncomfortable paying a price, I needed a cheaper car, not a different strategy for buying it.

Good advice, I thought. I suspect it applies to travel, too.
It is when you look at it in aggregate. It's an insight that I think most of the general population misses - that when you start to deal with interests of thousands or millions of people, things start to get much more mathematical.

Consider the more zoomed-out equivalent of the train analogy: your hospital has 6 dying patients; one of them requires a serious procedure, the others need less complicated care. You don't have enough resources to help all of them - you can either spend everything on the single complicated procedure and save one patient, or distribute it to save the other 5. Which do you chose?

Now scale that up to the country-level.
But there's Bitcoin Classic now, right? Which is emphatically an attempt to fork Bitcoin (just an attempt to fork it even more aggressively than XT to the point where Core is the actual fork).

Would Classic have happened without XT? It seems to share some developers.
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Oh no, I got to the end. "Congratulations ! You win"
We've published our response https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/15/making-gitlab-better-for...
That's not what I meant. I said "and in conjunction with various other treatments", which was perhaps poor wording since by treatment I meant causing other mutations/etc. To my knowledge, no one has ever been able to take a normal cell, do X to it (where X is usually some combination of mutations), and see it becomes a cancer cell.
100% agree, and I'd add the fact the there are not enough trials for drugs that instead of curing illness do thing like slowing aging or improving mental performance or otherwise improving physical or mental performance for healthy people, simply because most people are retarded enough to think that it's not ok to risk lives for purposes like "improving IQ by 10%" or "increasing lifespan by 10%".

We should absolutely make drug trials easier and cheaper to do, and also make it easier to test drugs that seek to do other things than fixing illnesses. Not freak out because of some accidents and add even more regulation. And yeah, we probably need more regulation, but for things like production, use and sales (like state-imposed price ceilings would come to mind for drugs). But we definitely want LESS regulations for research and testing! Despite tragic incidents like this one.
Phase I is for safety. And it's hard to separate the effects of the drug from other health effects if the patients aren't healthy to begin with.
The functional approach is great in a language with typeclasses or modules. But it's not a good fit for RAII - how would a C++ constructor report an error using Result?
Is there a comparison between SINGA and Tensorflow?
> Treating lives as some fungible resource where the ends justify the means and whatever process results in the most living people at the end shouldn't be correct.

This is a fundamental problem in ethics -- and like many such problems, there is no "right" answer. There is no reason it shouldn't be that way, and no reason it should.
A collection of people is not a column in a spreadsheet or inventory. The most valuable thing in the world is a human life regardless of callous examples of how cheaply they can be had or taken. Just because you can measure two different systems using a blind metric like "most living people at the end" doesn't make it ethical. Ethics apply to individuals as much, if not more so, as groups.
Conservatism and cautiousness can be ways of doing harm.
That's the same as ordinary currencies. If enough people believe (for example) that the Venezulan Bolivar is unsound, or the government of that country is unsound, then the price of the Bolivar will fall. Even if that government isn't necessarily doing something bad like recklessly printing currency.
Yeah. And the same is actually true for teaching a college student who has ssh/web access to their university file server how to make a distributed git repository setup with real "pull requests" (where I tell you my URL and a branch) vs. teaching someone how to make an account on GitHub and use their web interface to make a repository and then use their pull request user interface to get data between forks. I know this as I teach lectures on git, and it is seriously two console commands on your server to set up a fully working git setup in the way git was designed to be used.

GitHub has managed to cause a culture around git that there exist problems that don't exist that they can solve, and then their solutions are one-off specific solutions that only work so well if you are willing to use all their other features and you get all your developers and users to use the service as well. You are correct that GitHub is every bit as much a walled garden as Facebook.
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This is an important point, but it's worth noting that the relationship between social beliefs and personal benefit exists in countless other domains: company stock price, religious groups, political movements, adoption of a particular FOSS library/stack/protocol, etc. There are few people who have no stake in social ecosystems that are fragile to shifts in perception, and therefore to subject to perverse incentives in managing that perception.