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>I am better off grabbing the west side highway or the FDR rather than going through the grid and hitting traffic lights and gridlock constantly

And that's just Manhattan. There's also the BQE in Brooklyn and Queens, which doubly undermines the original point.
If you just use them for SMS, latency won't be an issue.
I had to whitelist your domain in NoScript. And also Cloudflare.com... Why are you using your competitors CDN service to serve some javascript on your site? All I saw was a blank page without the assets served from cloudflare's CDN. What kind of CDN are you?
I read all three volumnes and think it's great.

In a sense it's all irrelevant today. How many of your colleagues mentioned O() in any of the past five standups? Add a load balancer and scale up by adding instances, that's today. Don't even profile, much less understand.

However, if you're the kind of person who thinks hard about abstract matters and would like to encourage that side of yourself, then you might want to read that. You'll probably find it hard, particularly if you're a "ruby programmer" or "java programmer" rather than a "programmer", because Knuth is rather the opposite.

Interestingly, I have found that some parts of the book offer much more useful information than others. All offer the same thorough, intellectual approach, but while much of what volumes 1/3 say is useful for a modern programmer (but not for a modern <language> programmer), what I learned in volume 2 hasn't been of much use to me. Today's languages and libraries offer both math and data structures. But in practice, for whatever reasons, they seem to have liberated me effectively from caring about seminumerical algorithms, while I still think about data structures every week.

Knuth writes about making things fast with drum memory. I don't have drum memory, but making my data structures fast within the real-world constraints remains a topic, and somehow it's the same topic. Knuth also writes forty pages about floating point, but when I use floating point I don't worry about that part in the same way. The libraries do what I need and their internal problems rarely or never leak up to me. (Well, at work we do occasionally share "14.000000000002%" of revenue... but it's not a problem. Insignificant.)
I sleep with all windows open even in -20 C. You get really refreshed, you sleep much deeper and you learn to ignore all street noise.
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You're mistaken, this problem has already been solved as 10 seconds of Google-Fu have revealed.
This is about a deal between two parties, both parties agreed during the tranfer of the goods, the conditions were known. Complaining after the sale is stupid. You had the chance to walk away from the deal because you didn't like it's conditions, nobody was forced. Interfering with this process reduces freedom. All I see a big market opportunity for hackable, open-platform tractors.
Although there is no such thing as complete objectivity in news reporting, the BBC news department tends to try to give all political parties an equally hard time, with the possible exception of extreme right parties like UKIP, who they are a little harder on.
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business is a really good read
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Being without smartphone and no talking is the easiest part. At least for me, an ADHD IT nerd who checks his phone all day long, and very, very talkative personality.

It was the best 10 days of my life, it felt quite liberating. And now my phone stays in my pocket most of the day, I talk a bit less, and I have no stress at my job at all, as I just do what I can and the rest is for tomorrow and after.

Any milder way wouldn't have the same effect, you cannot train discipline by giving in to your mind all the time.
Like the idea of employee NPS
Yes, and only a small percentage of users knew about it then too.
This might seem reasonable. But... this way, capable people will not benefit from markets of scale like they could if they were allowed to tinker with their purchased goods.

> All I see a big market opportunity for hackable, open-platform tractors.

Sadly, there is no big market opportunity for hackable, open-platform tractors.
is this a joke?

Piping random shit off the web straight into a shell. Sounds like worst advise. I'm sure the maintainers of this site really know their stuff when it comes to security.

A malicious attacker will love breaking this site and find out who uses which versions.
I'm curious why freedom-to-tinker is not considered free-expression in the USA, clear and simple. I mean we pride ourselves on it.

As long as the item is purchased (owned) and it is for personal use and warranties are clearly voided, what business is it otherwise to the manufacturer after they make the sale.

Of course they can get around this by never actually selling the tractor and only leasing it to farmers, then the farmers are screwed because they don't own it - until Chinese clones show up.
Yes. The BBC isn't pro-govt but it isn't neutral either. IMO
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Though AFAIK Australian and Malaysian taxpayers are picking up the search cost? Whereas Malaysia Airline's insurers are picking up the cost of the plane & family/crew compensation...
Why sit around six months out of date? Packages stop getting updated. With current that's not an issue.
Oh, I just mean that the reason I travel alone is so that I have complete freedom to spend all day in a place like that.
Same here. The actual product looks interesting, however.
Somewhat related, there's an interesting theory that the Germany industry only advanced so fast in the 19th century because German publishers deliberately ignored that new-fangled copyright thing, thus allowing information to spread fast and cheap, while the obedience of copyright stifled progress in Great Britain:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-l...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897256
Very good thing.

It was an annoying conflict of interest.
"Complaining after the sale is stupid." I'm really tired of this argument. Just because the sale wasn't made under duress doesn't mean that we should never complain about the sale afterwards. By that logic, you shouldn't be complaining about the comments here, since no one is forcing you to read HN.
all the more reasons why there should be a structure to not let our representatives make all the decisions for us. I'm sure we all had times when our representative is not actually representing our interests.

think tank mode:
what if the current system is restructured in a way so that we will let them take decisions for us. But when we don't agree with his/her view point we can readily bypass it if the majority wants a different thing, like may be diagree button near to a decision and proposed alternative, which everyone can vote on or propose another alternative(only one alternative can be picked by a person). Its democratic, practical and doable right now. The alternative with which highest number of people agree is a clear win. This can be applied in all countries and any form of govt.

Its way better than any alternatives we currently have, like having to spend big time and effort on making petitions, or rally for cause, etc. Now a days even peaceful gathering gets violet due to govt mishandling the situation.
I find the article a little off...

The generative design it is showing has nothing to do with AI, it is just pretty advanced math, maybe with some heuristic, maybe not completely deterministic, but I would have an hard time calling it AI.

Other than this, I enjoy the read.
What "disadvantage" are you referring to? The one that forces companies to give back in the same manner that allows them to use the work of others for free? Yeah, that is so shitty.
You can't buy a hackable, open-platform tractor. What are you doing while waiting for this very hypothical tractor ? You stop working ?
> The hunt for MH370 no longer makes headlines

Irony.
As well as that, there are numerous side benefits. As TFA says, we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the floor of the oceans. The amount of knowledge that will be gained for the public domain from this effort will be massive.

Take CERN for instance - even if the benefits of verifying the Higgs Boson are beyond you, you can't argue that its providing the incubating environment for technologies such as the World Wide Web, and development of other engineering know-how, is in and of itself a bad thing!
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Ah, the great Intel tradition of incorporating HCF into the instruction set ;) F00F again.
Might be. But it does not matter that much. A sheikhdom is something else than your regular dictatorship. As long as you stay away from critizising the ruler directly, you can talk about pretty much everything (depends on country of course). Dubai/VAE, for example, feels like an "ok" free country to me, even if it is an absolute monarchy.
There is a paste of the article text (and comments, as of half an hour ago) on http://pastebin.com/0epgegWH
Given that the team who originally built EC2 are based in Cape Town, it seems crazy that there is zero AWS presence in Africa.
If it's 60 degrees then it isn't freezing now, but it could have been lower overnight.
Grokster & Napster responded to DMCA takedowns promptly did they?
There are better and more reliable technical means. It's simply mindblowing how in XXI century a plane can be lost with all these radars, satellites and transceivers around. There are many technical solutions using already existing technologies for tracking planes, it looks more like organizational and political problem.
Oh, you mean the language Apple created to make their fucking painful app development process easier?
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iAds have never been "unrestricted." In fact the restrictions are quite strong, both on the content of the advertisement and any data collection [1].

If web ads had followed these guidelines, maybe content blockers would not be so compelling.

[1] PDF: https://developer.apple.com/iad/content-guidelines/iAd_Conte...
I don't know what the story is in Malaysia, but where I live any huge payouts by insurance companies ultimately get borne by the consumer (almost equivalent to taxpayer) in the form of increased premiums and levies. It's not tax for sure, but it is effectively an additional set of charges that many people have to pay.
it will not matter economies of scale as the tinkerer cannot redistribute it. The tinkering is done in product already sold, like after market car parts. The tinkerer can tinker with as many tractors as he wish, even for money, but those modification is done with consent of owner on something that he already owns. If i brick something in process i should be able to replace it with factory stuff, like in case with if the said tractor's axil gets broken
Excellent point. To that end it appears that 101 is much heavier on "move goods and services" than 280. (which makes sense because it is a much more direct route up and down the peninsula, whereas 280 is a much more pleasant drive.
"tractors equipped with cutting edge technology, as agricultural equipment makers increasingly incorporate elements of data analytics, GPS and remote sensing in a race to make farming more precise."[1]

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a48ad98c-36c7-11e3-aaf1-00144feab7...
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I think it's absolutely ridiculous that SoundCloud gets into the ring to compete with Spotify, Apple Music et al. SoundCloud shines for small musicians, independents, for actually building a community around music. The other players don't do this. I blame VC money. Let's see if they can partner with the big labels and avoid watering down what makes them unique.
There is (was?) also Gnokii [1] for old Nokia phones, which I've used successfully. I even managed to port a small part of it to Arduino to send a message automatically (code [2] and write-up [3]), but these days there are shields with much better interfaces than the Nokia FBus (e.g. using the SIM900 chip [4]).

1: http://www.gnokii.org/
2: https://github.com/giech/arduino_nokia_6310i
3: https://ilias.giechaskiel.com/posts/arduino_sms/index.html
4: http://www.simcom.ee/modules/gsm-gprs/sim900/
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> JohnDeere, CASE, New Holland etc dominate the industry

Look out, here comes China/Korea. Surely this policy of restricted software editing is intended to do one of two things:

1. force customers into dealerships for updates/repairs

2. stop a Chinese tractor appearing in the US market using the same or almost same but modified software that John Deere developed.

If it's the 1st then farmers will choose an alternative machine for future purchases, the tractor market in Europe at least has 20 brands jostling for market share.

If the 2nd argument is true, surely a license that allows users to modify and repair all the while restricting modified or original source from being distributed with the sale of a product, including resales, would solve this issue.
I looked into this, but I quickly realised I never use my Thermostat.

My heating is controlled by a time-switch that directly enables the boiler in the morning and at night, and as far as I know this is how most people I know operate.

We do have thermostats but they are largely ignored boxes that sit in the hallway and/or landing.

Is this just something to do with living in a cold country? I would have thought a nest equivalent that directly operates the boiler would have been a better device ...
I'm not sure at all! My calculation came out very wrong, and a quick sanity check should have told me it's implausible that it's in the trillions.

Anyway, 4862 times is still a substantial complexity reduction.

Thanks for the correction.
Exactly how I feel about it.
I am pretty critical and have a knack for spotting hypocrisy, which there was enough to find of, at least in the center where I was (Bavaria, Germany, they are so attached to rules there, no amount of Vipassana can take that away).

One anecdote: Mr. Goenka ends every day with 'May all beings be happy.' Imagine my surprise when the server said we could not pet the stray cats that were walking around, to prevent them from coming back all the time, because they didn't want to take care of them.

Some of these contradictions started to annoy me, and almost made me leave, until I realized on day 5 that this is all part of the meditation, more or less. I wasn't there for them, I was there for my own development, and so I had to accept the reality as it is, stop comparing and focus on the experience. All externalities are not relevant, and the ability to not let your mood be influenced by things outside your control is exactly what is developed there. So every contradiction or irritation became a challenge, to strengthen my discipline.

I had an interesting conversation on the last day with a Buddhist. He also didn't like the 'one true way' part of it. He became a Buddhist mainly because his teacher told him honestly that his way was just one of many that one can follow.

And although Mr Goenka says it's the one true way, he also continuously says that you should not take his (or anyone else's) words for granted, but that you should experience and decide for yourself, and that whatever you do, decide on a path to follow and stay with it, because if you start a new path all the time, you will never reach the end of the road.
Assuming the market allows this. Ie demand may favor ownership so much that companies can't lease and remain competitive.
Sounds like you have a water-pipe central heating system. You probably have thermostatic valves on each radiator, which control the flow to each radiator.

That's why the main thermostat doesn't do much.
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Yeah - And that mystery is why its so important to find this plane in particular - all we really have now is wild mass guessing
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Which is fine, really, as long as you don't use words "purchase", "buy" and "ownership". Call a lease a lease.

In this scenario, one of two things would happen:

* either there is a genuine need for buying/owning fixable hackable tractors, in which case there will be a market and companies will appear that sell those,

* or there is really no need, and leasing works just fine for tractor users, and it's only us couch-commentators who think we desperately need to repair tractors.

The key point/problem here is that we have a (deliberate) naming confusion: "ownership" should not come with rights restrictions. The same confusion was deliberately introduced with DVDs/BluRays, for example, not to mention computer software. The law should step in and force everyone to truthfully describe what they're selling: a product, a license to do certain things, or a lease.
Do you feel the same when you hear "Alcohol, Algebra, Alchemy, Algorithm, Albuquerque ...etc" or you're just turned off by "Aljazeera"?
Exactly. It shouldn't even be legal to use such EULA.
More importantly their 4096 bit certificate is signed by a 2048 bit intermediary certificate, so there is no additional security over 2048 bits.
Thanks to you and everyone for contribution. Seeing people care about this little project reminds me why I decided to do programming for a living.

As for the PRs, apparently I've slept through all the action =) I'll get back to them as soon as I can.
Also compared with putting satellite trackers on all planes it may be cheaper. Apparently there are about 20,000 commercial jets and I saw one quote if would cost $120k/plane. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11325824/AirAsi...)

Then again sat phones seem to cost $300 and up on Amazon so you'd think they could make something cheaper than $120k.
No accounting for taste but you have got a peculiar sense of humour if that makes you laugh. Give me Professor Stanley Unwin any day.
I can't stand people who say Buddhism is not a religion.

It is definitely a religion. But I'd like to add the remark that the earlier writings in particular (those attributed to the Buddha and those of early Zen masters) focus mostly on meditation practice and ethics and are quite agnostic about other (e.g. existential) questions.
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Yep exactly! It's pretty much standard here. So I guess the Nest is targeting people with electric heating only? Sounds like taking a "quick win" while ignoring a potentially larger market!
On the contrary. If you look at the projected search area, it's a huge swath of deep ocean. A plane is very small. Once it breaks up against the waves it's really, really small. The debris sinks into silt at the bottom of a deep ocean. Currents spread them out. Even if we knew where it went down, finding it is a difficult problem.

On top of that, we don't have radar tracking over the oceans. Transcievers don't communicate all the time while in flight. There are long periods of time where you are outside any national radar system. Compounded, it's entirely reasonable to lose a plane.

There are 15-20 planes that have never been found since the 1980s.
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So are you surprised or not? :)
Hi

I'm curious, how are you solving the issues inherent in multitenant CDNs like yours (e.g. performance).

Cheers
Actually, it was "to promote science and the useful arts". Not all creative works.
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It is well established that agreeing to some conditions doesn't necessarily make those conditions legally binding. There are many circumstances under which they are not.

Interfering with this process reduces freedom.

Interfering with freedom is necessary, almost everywhere. The very fact that two people can come to an agreement that they would expect to be enforced is a massive interference in freedom. To say nothing of that fact that you seem to be happy to interfere in someone's freedom to tinker with things, but not happy to interfere in the freedom to restrict that freedom. Do you want this "freedom" of yours or not?
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That isn't the case. Firstly, you need to take a look at the browser stats for the site that you are working on. It may be that in your case you have a very high percentage of old IE users, and so for you, flexbox isn't an option. Even then though, you may be surprised.

If you use flexbox as an enhancement, to get really good alignment of UI elements for example, then you can often take advantage of it to make the experience really great in newer browsers while not locking out old ones.

I would suggest taking a look at Zoe M. Gillenwater's talk. She works for Booking.com. Are they locking out old IE users? Of course not. So she demonstrates how to enhance responsiveness with flexbox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_98SE8WUvLk
also this is why language matters and it should mean what it actually means rather than whatever TOS wants it to be. Not 1984 double meaning
I don't know what do you mean by "planned obsolescence" in context of Apple products. I constantly see people using few years old iPhone 4S or 7 years old MacBooks. If by "obscolescence" you mean the fact that they release new and better product every year then that's nothing that I would hold against them.
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That sounds like a really perverse use case to me. Why would you want one function to have two completely different behaviours depending on what it was called with? If you want two different behaviours, write two different functions.
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But... but... another person on the team increases your valuation! /s
It is also worth remembering that flexbox was never designed for complete layouts. It's designed for one-dimensional layout. UI elements such as forms fields, navigation, sets of "card" etc. You run into a whole bunch of issues if you see it as the holy grail for layout, because you are using the tool for something it wasn't designed for.
Buddhism can not be accurately understood by simply looking at the whole of Buddhism and its teachings. Buddhism was created in a society where Hinduism was the norm, and it is the changes (the “diff”, if you will) which Buddhism introduced which are the interesting bits. What we may see as strange and religious will make more sense if you compare it to what Hinduism had and what the change which Buddhism introduced was trying to accomplish.

It would be interesting to “rebase” Buddhism on western culture, but I can’t think of anything which would fit this description.
> The distinction corresponds to major distinctions known to be wired in to human brains: single vs plural, and number vs name.

I think we get away with those in natural languages because humans are willing to be fuzzy about that. E.g. whether an organization is singular or plural differs based on context and dialect. Whereas the only distinctions it makes sense to use in programming languages are those that we can make precise.