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Understanding how the electricity grid works is non-trivial, maybe I am mischaracterizing your suggestion that it is not.

Digital Ocean, a smaller provider, has 64gb memory 6 core intel cpu in a single server[1]. These are wired up into a cluster or clusters and probably plug in to a backbone provider like level3 or a big ISP. Small fish, last time i looked they have a half dozen or so regions with a few zones.

AWS tries to limit data centers to 100k servers, most being between 50-80k servers per data center.with a power capacity of 25-40megawatts[2].

So no, I don't think you could just get a few people to run servers in their house and offset that.

You also connect through an ISP. ISP can turn your connection off. Google is an ISP, runs popular DNS name servers, sells web donains, sells certificates, etc. so, they have a business at every level of the layer from hardware to application.

I guess I just take the positiom that we should know what percentage of power, routing and flow these guys control.

[1]https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-are-th...

[2]http://datacenterfrontier.com/inside-amazon-cloud-computing-...
Imagine how it would taste after the neo cons in the legislature has their say.
I think defining other people to be "profound[ly] misunderstanding what life is about" just because they do not believe the same as you when it comes to something so fundamental and personal as one's life is much closer to "the apex of egoism and arrogance and all that is wrong with the human mind".

We don't need room for new people with new ideas, room isn't the issue: as far as we know so far, the Universe is virtually infinite. When we come around to defeating death (it's bound to eventually happen) we'll start terraforming, doing generation-ships to reach even further, and the rate of growth of human knowledge will reach an even more unimaginably fast pace.
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How I Scammed Quikr and Paytm, and It Was the Easiest Thing Ever
Tcl's got a pretty bad rap. But you know what? It probably deserves it. Anyway, well done, it's nice to see things ported to JS since JS has overtaken both math and love as the universal language.
I believe education will find a natural middle-ground.

In many instances the benefit of having an in-person instructor has much to do with the social interaction/interpersonal support that they can give to a struggling/minimally motivated student. That said, motivated learners don't always need that kind of personal interaction and would benefit from self-guided learning opportunities. This is obvious, but is hard to manage well.

In the end, I believe students will learn along a fluid spectrum from 'one-on-one' to 'fully distributed online learning' - both of which will heavily lean on better tools.

There are tens of thousands of lessons, activities, individual interventions and curriculum modifications created every day by instructors in this country - but all of that knowledge and all those artifacts are effectively lost (as almost nothing gets distributed) and the same creative labor is repeated over and over.

So - we should be looking for better ways of mediating in-person instruction to both improve that kind of instruction and as an engine for the creation of universally accessible learning materials. Students who have the ability/proximity to a physical schools get the benefits of personal interaction, while students who cannot get to school (or are underserved by that school) can get the benefits of time shifted lessons/activities/etc. from anywhere in the world.
A better and simpler way is to not allow code into the main branch that causes tests to fail.
I ask myself and myself says Linode is the best of all I've tried, which is many. So thanks for your wonderful insights but mine are better for me.
I wonder... do we have the knowhow to build `logical_fallacy_bot` and deploy it to the general Internet yet?
I think it's less morbid soap opera and more propagandist soapbox. Aaron Swartz has been turned into a martyr for a cause. Ian Murdock, as well. We can expect any technologist suicide to be called a murder at the hands of the state from now on, and for conversation to be steered towards polemics against US policy at every conceivable opportunity, when their names are brought up.

I do believe the subjects (copyright law, police brutality, etc.) are worth discussing, but I also believe the politics around them make it difficult to discuss them rationally. People tend not to invoke Aaron Swartz to start conversations, so much as attempt to end them, or polarize them, or steer them into the same tedious and unproductive circles time and again.

I guess we're lucky there's no way to spin Marvin Minsky's death that way. If he'd gotten so much as a traffic ticket before the end, people would be implying his cerebral hemorrhage was caused by police batons.
This is another aspect of survivor bias.

How many of the superb startups that are led by white men would be obviously superb if they hadn't received funding? How many of their founders would have been put off even trying without the role models, with the levels of doubt and likely lack of support that many others are suffering.

Plus if it is wrong you should care, that doesn't mean that you are necessarily in position to help but you can at least try to avoid being part of the problem and you may at some stage be in a position where you can help.
It is, if you have to say this...
Good to see Tcl here. I use it in depth for AI algos.
Perhaps worse for people in the US than a potential drop in exports (we've had a negative balance of trade for a while, irrespective of dollar strength) is the effect on corporate earnings for US companies that make money abroad. A strong dollar wreaks havoc on their balance sheets (since they need to report their earnings in dollars) and can absolutely lead to falling share prices as well as domestic job cuts.
Nah honey, I'm good and Linode is the best.
great points. I see this program and wonder why we (in the US) go into such contortions away from teaching - math.

Just teach kids how to think in math and they will take to most CS topics like fish in water.
I am using PHP for my hobby project. It's "old" but obviously not abandoned and I think it's becoming a bit less ridiculed, but you still see the regular "Ew why PHP"-type remarks and other jokes about the language.

I don't use it because of familiarity or comfort (I'm actually quite uncomfortable with it because I know it's easy to fall into traps of horrible practices). The simple answer is that as a kid I loved PHP browser game and envisioned the project I wanted to make for 10 years as a PHP project. I've experimented with using different languages for it, but go back to PHP simply for the sake of nostalgia. I realize this is normally a horrible reason to pick a certain language for a project, but considering it's a pretty quirky long term passion project with no goal of monetization (or even full completion), I think it's reason enough.
#16 is gold. Using that on my next project.
I'd say this qualifies as a dangerous idea. Horrifying at first blush but it sticks in the brain. That the comments are almost universally negative tells you something.
Java bindings for Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet
Look, if you want to study web frameworks, tell your employer you want to work 4 days a week and spend a day studying for yourself.

How's the conversation going to go?

"Can I spend every Friday learning this new web framework? No, we don't use it, but I think you should be supporting me increasing my skill set. Yes I still expect to be paid."

Really?
CVE-2015-7521: Apache Hive authorization bug disclosure
At least now, yes. It was certainly an odd market before, somewhat segregated from other industries, but now technology is the driver behind all sorts of market moves - from lower prices to lower costs and higher profit margins to being part of almost every advantage one competitor gains over another.

I think people imagine "technology" is only Uber et al and can still be segregated into its own market, but some of the most interesting tech developments and software engineering are happening far from the Silicon Valley app-culture.
Exactly

It's so out of touch it's probably going to be featured in the next edition of TEDx

Also, do they expect people to be on Oculus 24/7?
The BDI is a summation of a lot of information into a single price point. Megaships, and the general push for more fuel efficiency in new ship builds do impact it to some extent, but not to the degree necessary to account for a major push down.

Megaships, in general, don't work for the general shipping case. They work well for oil and containers where clients are either purchasing a small segment of the ship and their goods fit in 40' containers or they're buying millions of barrels of oil and need to move it halfway around the world. These ships are also port/canal limited. Most of the megaships cannot traverse the Suez or Panama canals and get forced to take the long way around, which can increase shipping time, and many of them cannot use most ports in the world. The new megacontainer ships are extremely limited because existing ports need to spend a significant chunk of capital to increase their capacity. Oil tankers, on the other hand, can lighter off the coast and either use offshore booms to transfer to shore via undersea pipelines or offload onto smaller tankers who take it into port.

The biggest driver in shipping costs is fuel. Yes, shipping is efficient in a tonnes/gallon ratio sense, but it still ain't cheap to fill up the tank. As oil prices plummet, it reduces the costs of operating tankers which increases the profit margin for the operating company and allows them to reduce prices in order to gain business. The second biggest driver is business. Companies position their assets where business is and if a lot of people have put their ships near the business, the business can negotiate a lower rate which will push the BDI down in price.

Source: I've built systems designed to track the maritime shipping market and the impact on commodities.
"no child shall get ahead" Lol, an integration movement for intellectuals who goto college instead of highschool. Musn't let any intellectuals escape unmocked or unbullied, lest we end up with people questioning everything because then we'll have to bully them with our legal system and they might not be able to take that since they've never felt the full weight of american anti-intelectualism that you can only get from public schools.
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This is the second time I am seeing and since the time I saw it first, I have begun thinking that life is an analogy to whatever game you make it, whether that be candy crush, bejeweled, chess, hearts, poker, ... tetris, etc.

My own view on chess and life is that you shouldn't play it by planning 10 steps to hit just one target, but as one of 10 targets. Transform that concept to whatever game you wish.

These statements serve as analogies we use to communicate what life is like or how we understand it. For that reason, I feel the title should have been "How life is a Tetris game and opponentless."
Internet vitriol is "violence" now? Sigh.
Mind uploading.

It's definitely far off. But it seems to me this could be an amazing shortcut/hack to achieve a lot of other things here: once we have mind uploading, we've basically conquered death. We can also probably figure out, at that stage, how to run the minds faster or with extra memory or something, increasing the standard human intelligence.

This is also a way to achieve "superintelligence" via human-based intelligence, rather than through artificial intelligence.

That would be where I'd bet my money.
Correct. However, we could see who has a legal android botnet, and see how easy it is to take over.

Not to mention, if someone did have access to even 1million phones they could topple a cell network by spam sms amd calling to tie it up.

I think someone should look at it.
Contact the companies looking for COBOL coders. They're desperate, and will tell you exactly what you need to learn and probably pay for any training you need.

Sure they'd prefer someone with a decade or five of experience, but seriously: COBOL coders are literally dying off at this point. 17 years ago was the last great hurrah for hiring & training COBOL developers, averting the "Y2K crisis" before calendars ticked over to the year 2000; we've got kids born after that who are entering the software workforce now. About 5 years ago I had someone speak in my C++ class begging students to consider a career in "mainframe" technologies; there was virtually no interest shown, and methinks most of the students didn't even know what he was talking about.

But...the need remains. Those systems are so large & profitable they're not going anywhere, and employers must be quite willing to take on new coders willing to learn, directing & funding their education as needed. If you're interested, contact a hiring company directly and ask - even if you have 0 of 10 years required experience.
I have at times needed to keep projects "secret" because I knew that there would be a 95% chance that the idea would be shot down immediately in any meeting due to being infeasible, politically/personally tricky in some way, difficult to explain, and so on. So I have worked on these ideas sometimes at off hours, or while also making progress on other tasks. Thus far, these skunkworks have been very successful. There is an element to it in many things I do... I often prefer a bit of vagueness around what I am actually doing, since it gives me more freedom to consider solutions that might not be in line with what everybody would expect. Which sometimes makes me wonder if I am being a "cowboy coder" or something. Some of it is due to my skills of persuasion and communication—if I were better at that, maybe I wouldn't need secrecy. But I also just know that some good ideas will not fly in a group meeting before a prototype exists. Then my duty and passion for the product and company override my duty to clear everything with the whole team, I feel. It's not an easy question.
Your logical fallacy is: Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

That's what my experience indicates, anyway ;)
There used to be a company called IDX which sucked in many MIT grads into the world of MUMPS. GE bought them.. do you work for GE?
I changed "linode" to "aws" in your link, very interesting results came up in Google.
> Pedantically correct syntax parsing (list, script and expressions), to the extent possible in Javascript.

What does that mean? If it's possible to write x86 that runs linux in JavaScript, why is it not possible to write a parser?
How about starting with a sustainable moonbase.
That's a good point.

And yet, I'd still like to see some kind of reason to think that that's how the other billionaires behave.
Sending people to Mars, and then what?

Will it be a "simple" round trip? The real problem is what to when you're there. Is there a base station? I don't see that happen before 2025. Maybe on the moon, but not on Mars. Maybe a return trip to Mars by 2025 or 2030, but not staying there.
Oh, I don't know much about Erlang so I thought for sure that's what he meant. What was that supposed to mean, then?
There are a number of people who are perplexed. And that leads to a lot of speculation. There is also seems to be a strong survivor bias in economic reporting so everyone wants to be on record as both foretelling doom and not-doom, then depending on what happens they hope you'll remember they were "right".

Either way, there are interesting questions here which are unanswered. Like why do companies have so much money in their cash accounts? Generally, if a company is accumulating cash it isn't re-investing to grow. And while that might mean a planned acquisition of some other company the phenomena has gone on long enough that this seems less likely [1]. So why the cash hoard? For people it might be a 'rainy day' fund but does anyone believe that these companies will sit there, paying salaries, while selling few goods, waiting for the demand to return?

Or is it that the rent seeking transactions have become such a burden that it has been completely damping out new demand? One of the interesting thoughts is that if you go back and fix copyright and patents such that their terms expire in a more reasonable amount of time, or in the case of patents they are carefully scruitinized, then you take away this rent stream from big content and a number of license funded entities, that forces them to go out and make new content, or come up with new patented things, rather than just collect license fees. That creates new economic activity and that boosts GDP. It is a point of view that is gaining some adherents as a drag on economic growth.

Shipping as a leading indicator though has a couple of problems, both with isolating improvements in the industry (supermax ships) and shifts in modalities (air freight being acceptable for high margin goods like iphones) and generally the way consumption and manufacturing is changing (China's economic growth has zero impact on shipping if they pulling their bulk goods in over land and shipping locally).

Mostly though I suspect that there are lots of things that are unprecedented and so folks who are trying to plan are in a world of hurt in terms of confidence in their predictions. And like the reference to the movie in the article, it is always safer to predict doom and then report on "avoiding" it, than to mis-predict non-doom and to have it land at your feet. Hence more and more economists are saying "The world economy is toast!" rather than "I wonder if this is what it looks like at the leading edge of the switch away from a scarcity economy?" Sure, we could be approaching the singularity/jackpot what have you, but if you say that and the instead you get the biggest economic depression ever, well that is a worse outcome for the predictors.

[1] In an related note, having 10s of billions of dollars in cash means a company can do dozens of "10 - 50M" acquihire type deals, and that is driving some of the seed investing thinking I believe.
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I can't speak for other languages, but Toska is not a positive word. It means "boredom" or "homesickness". What's the criterion for inclusion anyway?
Try to seed your video: it waits 20 seconds (sorry, I'm tricking you counting 10 to 1 in 20 :D ) and if doesn't load the video... skip!
No. I'm bootstrapping a product startup, and the only thing I care about now is whether it works and whether people find _value_ in it. Its logo doesn't matter, the copy doesn't matter, glossy startuppy pictures don't matter. The only thing that matters now is whether it is materially useful - whether someone thinks that their life is easier because this tool exist in this world.

So when this site came up a long time ago in /new, I grabbed one of it and put it on - only because my product contains a Chrome Extension, and it needs a small 32x32 icon. And, it is a damn good logo too. I also sent an email asking permission to use it, and even offering to pay (peanuts) for exclusive access, and the founder was extremely courteous and reminded me that it doesn't matter what you start with, you can always change once you get traction.

So there you go. I love my generic logo.
This list is a bit... off. Speaking Dutch, I can say that:

- Borrel could be translated as drinks. Usually there will be small snacks as well, but that often goes together with drinks as well.

- Gezellig is not just cosiness. If that was it, there'd be an English word right?

- Gunnen is the only one, besides gezellig, that seems to really not exist. Gezellig is rather famous for it because it's difficult to translate. Gunnen on the other hand can easily be described with other words: "ik gun het je" ("I 'gun' it [to] you") would be "I'd like for you to have it" (e.g. the last piece of cake).

- I never heard of Janteloven or anything similar. Turns out it doesn't exist: http://www.woorden.org/woord/janteloven

- Queesting does not exist, either. I never heard of that.

- Lekker is tasty or nice depending on context. It has different meanings in different contexts, but that doesn't mean there is no translation. It doesn't mean all of the possible contextual translations at the same time.

- Uitwaaien is getting some fresh air.
I'm curious if you're familiar enough with other more modern languages and platforms to give an opinion on the relative efficiency of Delphi compared to some of the others? As someone who used to build lots of apps in MS Access (which is similar to Delphi but not as good), I find it takes far longer to build things with modern platforms, although you have much more capabilities.
Well, c'mon, space is hard, very hard. Extra-orbital space a lot harder. And interplanetary space almost unthinkably hard.

And that's without people. Now add humans to that equation. Not easy.

I mean, we could barely refrigerate food 100~150 years ago and now we are developing technology to build habitats on another planet? How cool is that?
Did we read the same article? What I got from it is that you can work on any project of your choosing, not a company project.

Here's a relevant quotation:
"To start we ask each person to add to a vertical list of project names on the left side of a whiteboard. These are projects the group can work on. It’s fine, and in fact common, for people to list their own pet projects."

Also, I see no reason why you can't use this system and, at the same time, have someone work on whatever they want, if that's what they feel like.
This form of criticism is along the lines of "The Gettysburg Address is just words anyone could write." The important part of creative work is not the potential but actually doing it. There's no such thing as "a design in my head."

Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming that the logos are cultural artifacts of high calibre. But that what they share with such works is actuality. Their creator can get better in ways that everyone who could but doesn't can't.
Network controllers with DMA would also be prime targets that could even be tailored for a specific victim's network. They can sit passively and monitor for interesting network traffic as well as sift through memory unimpeded. And when something needs exfiltrating, it can send out packets undetectable by the cpu.

Edit- oh, and dropping code into memory for the CPU to run is not unpossible either.
Very similar indeed although it looks like they're in the process of rebranding anyway?
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Interesting analysis -- although his numbers actually go off-track in a number of places. The flubs the math on the maximum power output (it's actually about 20% worse than he estimates) while making too strong a case against LED lighting (you can use reflective baffles to send the light at the appropriate shallow angles; there's no need to waste energy projecting lane-markings straight up. Also, an "intelligent" road which presumably has built-in car sensors needn't project lane markings indefinitely -- just a few hundred metres in front of whatever cars are present. During low-traffic periods this could save a lot of energy).

But all of that is beside the point. What's interesting is that in his analysis, he makes the same mistake that the solar roadways people make (and which I've just made here), of chasing technical details too far down the rabbit hole. That's just not necessary: a simple financial analysis leads to a much quicker and more certain refutation.

For any given amount of money invested, you can either build A.) a solar roadway, or B.) a conventional roadway plus a solar farm. If the LTV (lifetime value) of A is greater than the LTV of B, then A is a good idea. If it isn't, then it isn't. It took me about 5 minutes of high-level analysis to conclude that the LTV of solar roadways was orders of magnitude worse than the LTV of conventional roads + solar farms -- sufficiently so that no amount of technical fiddling would ever close the gap. That's pretty much the end of the story.