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> we need to invest in the intellectual property that artists make, not the artists themselves

At first approximation, this sounds like a worse scenario for the artist.

> Why should we do that? Because it works and its a foundational element of a market economy.

Modern finance has already created a model where music artists are beholden to financiers and middlemen. How and why do you expect this to turn out differently?
But how about auto-related work for one of them (or Tesla) versus Ford?
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I took note of a post Katrina suggestion to bring aid to New Orleans by opening a large federal office there (whoever was making the suggestion pointed out that DC had plenty of federal spending and the difference showed).
Absolutely. GCP has been fantastic.
Yet, they generally have instructions on how to generate a CSR and import a certificate for IIS (along with other software).

example:

https://knowledge.rapidssl.com/support/ssl-certificate-suppo...
Here's an example I posted on twitter, from Boulder, Colorado:

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_27278888/boulder-...

That seems like a pretty absurd historical designation. It's just creating a burden for the people who bought it. It's a far cry from bulldozing a beautiful old brick building to put in a McDonalds.

Edit:

> The empirical evidence suggests you cannot be too strict about historic preservation. The tougher cities are about it, the better they seem to do.

If you go a bit beyond the US, you could look at Europe and... I'm not sure that's true. Rome has a ton of old stuff that's been reasonably well preserved. Berlin has been torn apart and reinvented. Berlin is doing way better than Rome in terms of startups.

Granted, there are a ton of other factors in play, but if it were just about having a lot of historical stuff, Italy would be the startup capital of the world.

I think I get what he's talking about... you want architecture and places that feel 'real', not some homogeneous office park. On the other hand... most of Silicon Valley is very new, and not very exciting, and it did "ok".
I just checked out some of the previous HN posts about matrix.org - I´d love something like it to become widely used... in the same way that I'm hoping for a Mozilla Persona, diaspora, etc. to become succesful.

Is that ever going to happen though? With all this money going to centralised products?
Sitting in a class is only a small part of the learning that goes on. Most of my learning came from doing the homework, and getting help from my peers, TAs and the professor. None of that was available if I wasn't a paying student. Nobody was going to grade my homework, figure out where I went wrong, and coach me. Nobody was going to guide me in what was important and what wasn't.

> you can learn these things easily

Such people are unicorns. I've never encountered one.

> the thing you are paying for is the signal.

Not what I paid for. I've never worn my class ring, for example. I doubt I could even find my diploma, let alone adorn my office with it. I'm no a unicorn, either, I know a lot of engineers like me, who simply love engineering and thoroughly enjoyed the classes they took, especially the hard ones.

If they were only in it for the degree, they would have done as little as possible. There are students like that. But there are plenty of others.
Why return? I bet you can find a lot of volunteers for a one way mission, especially if you offer to follow them with supply trains every year or so.
pfsense was forked a year or two ago, their 2.3 is just to keep up with the new kid on the block opnsense. And guess what, they have an API ;)
https://opnsense.org/
I don't see any value in that comparison.

Goldman Sachs, as part of a certain class of institutions, plays a systemic role in the economy and as such, Goldman Sachs, its affiliates and the activities under discussion are subject to innumerable pages of regulations enforced by several different regulators. There is no equivalent regulation for Microsoft's firmware update announcements.

> I think criminal prosecution should be reserved for the most outrageous and clear-cut misrepresentations.

Is this the same standard you apply to any type of criminal prosecution?
The obvious solution is to get more CMU grads to learn to ski. Then the weather becomes a positive. Problem solved.

Oh, shoot. SF is only about 4 hours from Tahoe. Damn. Pittsburgh's ski resorts (har har) are like bad zits owned by a prick named Robert Nutting in comparison. Now my idea will backfire and everyone will rush west even faster. This city planning stuff is harder than it looks.

All kidding aside, even with the weather, Pittsburgh has a lot of advantages going for it. CMU might be the major research institution in the region, but the other schools will benefit the startup scene as well. Not just in terms of direct research, but in feeding other students towards CMU for grad work, having a more educated local populace in general amongst the younger demographics, etc. Time will tell how those factors play out.
I wonder who does the 'graphic depictions' for NASA. Must be quite fun.
Fwiw, I agree the banks and credit agency share the vast majority of the blame. I'd agree that share is likely around 90%.

I'm sorry that wasn't clearer. I was just discussing the art of self deception depends heavily on a kernel or two of truth to hang itself.
Take a look at any of the three bash clients listed here[1].

[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/wiki/Links#bash
hmm sponsors not "only give money"... they usually expect something in return - which is understandable.

To me this is a deal-breaker. Cisco did so many bad things in the past in terms of privacy that the only good news is that now I know to stay away from LetsEncrypt.
It's not "just another network drive". It's mounted specially by the OS. Sure, if you mount the drive like a normal network drive then the protections might be lost (but maybe not; it's plausible that the protection takes the form of an xattr that prevents modification, so mounting it using any mechanism that respects xattrs might preserve the same protection. I'm not at home right now or I'd check up on that). But you don't normally mount your Time Machine backup volume as a normal network volume, and the malware shouldn't be able to do it either (since it doesn't know the password).

I'm not familiar with the button in AirPort Utility that you mentioned. I assume you're talking about a Time Capsule? I don't have one of those, I use a Synology NAS as my Time Machine destination, so I'm not familiar with the button in question. That said, presumably triggering that functionality requires having the base station password, and if you want to speculate about the software actually causing AirPort Utility to launch and manipulating its UI in order to try and literally press the button, that kind of functionality would require the user to grant Universal Access permission to the rogue software (the Accessibility permission in the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane).

In any case, if you're talking about theoretical attacks where the software figures out how to actively mount a network drive that isn't already mounted in order to wreck it, then you may as well speculate about it figuring out how to delete data from your Amazon S3 bucket (or whatever other cloud provider you use as an Arq destination).
Poundland? Sex lubricant? The marketing just writes itself...
"Miles driven" is a completely useless statistic for a self-driving car. The majority of distance driving is straight forward, even in a city. Decision points, such as stoplights, may not account for much distance, but are far more relevant. This article is primarily a breakdown of a completely irrelevant number.

People paying attention to "1.5 million miles" or "47 million miles" are falling to marketing ploys based on showing people big numbers. Chris Urmson at Google is largely an outright liar on his car's safety, Tesla at least seems to admit it's not capable of replacing a human.
While not a perfect fit, Austin seems like a good enough match for this.
If you prefer the spoken version, here is the actual talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfdtgW6_oI
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Spheres would cause a major issue - the laser would need to strike the centre of the circular visible surface.

Otherwise you'd end up with the light bouncing of at angles other than pi, which would direct the probe to the side.

A flat mirror coupled with crazy fast gyros (also powered by the laser) might be stable enough that the mirror holds directed toward the earth.
I was going to attend this event (mainly because of pg's participation), but regrettably had to miss it (family claimed the Saturday). Thanks for the write-up.

The video of PG's keynote is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfdtgW6_oI
More things should be described as "propagating through spacetime"
> Where is the actual evidence that strict historical preservation actually matters?

In all the historic places you visit and that, in some parts of the world, add up to a significant amount GDP thanks to tourism or related activities. There are some intangible values as well as they help shape the history and evolve a community around specific places (think West Village, Manhattan for example).

I know it can be frustrating and that sometimes is poorly implemented but historic preservation of places eventually pays off. Maybe not all of the landmarked buildings will pay off, but sure some of them will(not unlike startups in that regard).

And what is not culturally important today might be a century form now, or viceversa. You are applying survivor bias. Think of all the historic places no longer with us because they were not deemed culturally relevant or properly protected in first place.
>Not as long as the weather remains the way it is, anyways.

Really? I like a lot about the California climate (and terrain) but this seems a level of geographical determinism that wasn't true until pretty recently. And arguably, even today, is influenced mostly by a fairly specific class of mobile/social/web companies.

For example, there's a huge amount of pharma/genomics and other forms of tech in the Boston area (and most of the big SV companies are adding or have added offices there as well). And Boston isn't exactly known for its weather--not that I actually mind it all that much most of the time.

By that logic, the desert southwest should be booming in tech. The weather is admittedly not to everyone's taste but a lot of people like it.
Fuck yeah.

Um, I mean, yes. Yes, I am interested.
What would be a business use-case? For example, we heavily use Slack for ops notifications (PagerDuty, Datadog, Opbeat), is the hope that companies will adopt Facebook messenger like companies adopt Slack?

Thanks for the insight.
By splitting them into multiple deploys it makes it easier to identify bad commits when an error starts. We can usually correlate the start of an error with a specific deploy, and instead of digging through 50 commits to find the cause we only have to look at a few.
They want to support charity, but not too much.
There's no reporting option for 'abusive/fraudulent'. And reporting ads doesn't result in a reduction in the number of fake download adverts that I see. Blocking all ads does. I choose the latter.
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The article pretty clearly states 2FA was enabled for the Namecheap account in question. In fact, that is sort of the whole point of the article.
My client should be right up your alley: https://github.com/veeti/manuale
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I have had decent luck the few times I've just dumped the xml config from one pfSense box and loaded it on another.

But yes, I eagerly await the API in 3.0
Does anyone else find the Tesla design to be its worst feature? I want to want one. Really, I do. But when I look at them (this update included) it just looks like a Lexus from 2005 or something. Not that I have something against the Lexus owners out there - it's just that the look doesn't seem to represent what's inside.

I wish it weren't true, but I think design is going to keep me burning fossil fuels for a while now. Am I the only one?
Could you elaborate on how Cisco being a sponsor affects your trust in Let's Encrypt? It's in the nature of the CA system that it's only as strong as its weakest link, and there are dozens if not hundreds of CAs of questionable trust.

This seems like a conceptual misunderstanding of how TLS works. Let's Encrypt does not have access to your private key and does not have the ability to decrypt your traffic. They put a stamp on your certificate saying "Yep, this key belongs to this domain" - that's it.
> Parts of the surrounding area are intensely radioactive to this day. Fukishima is nothing like that.

Outside of the capped reactor building itself, nothing around Chernobyl is "intensely radioactive".
It'd all be worth it if only you could get a chunk of that insurance payout!
Ask HN: Is there a command line domain register?
I've used godaddy, dreamhost, etc. etc. I hate their UI. Is there a 100% command line domain registrar where I can set DNS and zone and everything right from terminal. And if not, isn't that a great idea?
Too crowded and pricey currently. It was but I think it's losing luster because of those reasons.
C++ exception handling is implemented using SEH (so is CLR's IIRC, and Chakra's). SEH is implemented by the OS and is available to non-C++ code too (including C).
Don't worry; global warming will change the weather in the next twenty years.

... not to mention the coastline. In terms of longer-term capital investment, Pittsburgh has some high-ground advantages. ;)
For me it isn't a question as to whether or not this specific man poses a threat and is worthy of death, it is an issue of how he is being judged to be a threat, and judged worthy of death.

The drone powered war is a system in which an organization on the other end of a robot is acting as judge, jury, and executioner, with no way to appeal for recourse or even open a dialog, and this organization also has a history of extreme inaccuracy (which they try to hide under the guise of national security).

I see drone usage as just as reprehensible as the terrorism attacks carried out in Paris and Brussels, in that in both cases innocent civilians are dying and afraid of dying.
You might be, anecdotal evidence but I've taken mine to quite a few car shows. Overwhelmingly the feedback has said that their design is something people like as opposed to something crazy like the i3.
sounds like seattle :)
> So yeah, when the entire industry comes to the government and says "unless you bail us out right now our entire industry will collapse, but you're definitely going to save us because we're too big to fail," then yes, it means it's their fault. The public may have been complicit, but it's not the public's job to keep the financial industry healthy when the profits from that industry are kept privately.

The point is that complicity provides the avenue to allow people to tell themselves a story of how the banks weren't the largest part of the problem.
Agreed. That ship has sailed.
Interesting video. You might find this account of a debate (that happened the same year as that BBC doc) interesting as well. Roger participated in it. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/22/national...
Last I saw they were working on it, there was just a lot of questions about how to validate that control was properly at parent domain level and not just at the subdomain. They wanted to get whatever was needed fleshed out and part of the ACME protocol before doing anything so that it wouldn't just be some hack they added for let's encrypt on top of ACME.
Why would you learn C++ in 2016?
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Yeah, but the story as I've heard it is that the Beatles only became successful after signing with that label, and completely changing their style, adopting those stupid bowl cuts, and playing really simplistic formulaic music, all because the label convinced them to. After they achieved a lot of commercial success with this, they started going in the more artistic direction they really wanted to, because they had the money, popularity, and leverage with their label they needed to do so. That's how they went from pop crap like "I want to hold your hand" to "While my guitar gently weeps".
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Man, i really love wit.ai, one of the coolest projects i've worked with. Unfortunately, these days i'm becoming jaded to X as a Service. Things like hosting or databases as a service are quantifiable, i have an idea of how much effort it takes me to migrate away... but AI? Especially the cool AI flavored NLP that wit.ai offers - it's just too hard to migrate away from for me.

With that said, i understand how hard doing this in a home baked way could be. I think i just won't be happy until we have repositories of standardized ai training sets or baked results (forgive any pseudo terms). It just feels like these days, using awesome AI services means cementing yourself into the service, and making their service stronger as you increase their datasets and training.

As much as i really do love wit.ai, i just don't want to use these types of services unless my backs against a wall.
I was referring to Pittsburgh's coin-flip weather. Edited OP for clarity.

Yes, it really is that bad.
Denver/Boulder fits most of that bill and already has a startup culture, sorta.

Kansas City is nice too, and Google fiber being available is a huge plus.

Obviously I'm biased since I've lived in both places.
It seems you're misunderstanding what I meant with $RANDOM_CA_RESELLER. There are tons of random hosters who resell SSL certificates (sometimes as a white-label product), and many of them have terrible documentation. RapidSSL, one of the biggest CAs, is certainly not what I had in mind there.

You're also missing my point that a documentation issue doesn't mean a service deserves the "beta" label.
Good question - teams should do what’s best for them based on their resources and scope of feature flagging needs. Though open source libraries exist, they're per language (Ruby, Python). We offer support for all major languages + iOS. As well, we have environment support and access control levels to use feature flags effectively throughout development. You can read more here: http://blog.launchdarkly.com/enterprise-requirements-for-man...
I'm from Europe but lived in Pittsburgh and graduated in CMU (software engineering). Really enjoyed the city and the people I've met there. CMU is really a place where you can discuss engineering breakthroughs while having breakfast or a coffee.

It is true that the coffee houses there tend to have their own personality and become really good places to study.

But still left the city and just returned to Europe. I've left because the poverty rate in the city was high at that time (2010) and was too easy to either get mugged on the street or get yourself inadvertently involved in some violent event.

Still, Pittsburgh is a special place in my heart and I still keep contact with friends there. Was happy to read this article, really happy to see the city getting better.
There were rumors that we were going to see a 100kWH battery with this refresh but looks like that will be for another time.
Even if this is possible, it'll probably be prohibitively expensive to do constant resupplies when you won't know for years if previous trips have worked. A manned mission or a resupply mission would also be orders of magnitude beyond the masses they're talking about, which strains credibility even further.
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I went to Pittsburgh a couple years ago, the downtown is just slightly better than Buffalo, not fully a ghost town but pretty close.

Buffalo is worse because someone made the wise decision to move UB out to the suburb, which essentially rendered the already lost town to a ghost city.

Put young people into the center of town helped to sustain it, however a city's future is more decided by the overall economy development, both Pittsburgh and Buffalo are just _lost_ in recent decades on that part.
I've been working on a project that will be an attempt to provide both musicians and users much better alternative than they got, with radical freedom and also a new kind of economic ecosystem. I don't wanna pitch this idea to VCs, so have a crazy idea about how I'll grow it all around the world. I've been coding for a while and if you're crazy enough, let me know. My e-mail is azer@roadbeats.com.
https://medium.com/@benjiwheeler/how-product-hunt-really-wor...
discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875
argues that knowing people on the inside is the best approach (sadly)
I think that everything you just said categorizes VoltDB already, though. They're not advertising themselves as a general purpose database. You'll know if you have a use case for it.
This is perhaps the first essay I read from pg and thought "You're hopping aboard this bandwagon now?". Even he admits to following the lead of the NY Times Food section. Having attended grad school in Pgh from 1999-2004, it was clear back then the city was on it's way back. Now with Apple, Google, and Uber, the question isn't how to make Pgh a startup hub, it's how much it will be.
It would be good if these risks were objectively valued, for example by insuring the plant against meltdown costs.

Total economic loss estimates for the Fukushima meltdown are 250-500 bn USD[1]. And if the wind had been slightly different those numbers would be a lot higher, as Tokyo real estate would be affected.

And that insurance should also cover human error, terrorism, natural disasters. Won't be cheap is my guess.

Which brings us to the biggest myth of all, that nuclear power is cheap when you don't externalise so many costs.

[1] http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-heal...
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The president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame responded: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/rock-hall-preside...

Makes Steve seem like a bit of a jerk, imho.
I'm gonna go with Tony Hoare here and say if I could pick just one it'd be NULL pointers.

(Braces though? Really?!?)
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yeah but Joe Rogan says...
Not quite. It really depends on the shape of the orbit and density of the debris. It could be months, but it could also be decades to de-orbit naturally. Also, the bigger problem is that the amount of debris is growing faster than the decay rate [1] so the problem is getting worse over time.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debri...