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The difference is that servers don't self organize, they are static. People on the other hand make things happen. Relatively few small changes have outsized impacts because our current status quo is so optimized for the existing ruleset.
> States are just a collection of individuals.

No. States actually have rights, not just individuals. There's a difference between a federation and a unitary state, and federation was considered a good idea. (Short summary: any power can become a tyranny, so keep other powers around to counter the national government.)

> Laws are made by human beings, not land.

Nobody ever said that laws were made by land. But laws are made by states, not just by individuals.

> It's contradictory to vote for senators by using "1 person 1 vote" who then do not proportionally represent the population.

Only if you hold the mistaken idea that senators represent people rather than states. They don't, and they shouldn't.
Ah, I never could get that to work with zandronum :/
If your data isn't in a free format that you can open and work with on your own then you don't own it.
When people talk about Northern California they generally include the SF Bay Area.
Try an overlay of the fema regions to this map...
Exactly. Websites are hosted all over the world by businesses with no revenue in the EU. Search engines are pretty much universal, and a central source to enforce.

Furthermore, the original article may have good reasons to remain, and be searchable as part of other topics, but simply shouldn't be a result for that person's name.
Capitalism is essentially a system where wealth is deployed to generate income, which in turn, increases wealth, which again generates more income. Without checks and limits, the end result of this is, almost by definition, wealth concentration.
Not necessarily. It only implies that the two sides have largely different values. What is worth but perception, yada yada
Move the whole team to Romania, no need work across timezones.
If state laws that ban municipalities from going against state policies on fracking, affordable housing, marriage, lgbt discrimination, and the like, are anything to go by, states are no better stewards of this kind of power.
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Reminds me of Joel Garreau's Nine Nations of North America (1981) about which he commented 3 decades later:

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-bor...

It also ignores state boundaries, but includes Canada and parts of Mexico and the Caribbean.
Just to chime in:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is...

"The most important part of the whole case was having the song in the public domain."
Not only it is a rewrite, but the opinion is not substantiated by the article, which says this that despite "hundreds of falls over the years by walkers in the country’s various national parks – many resulting in broken bones – Ms Wall’s was the first in which the Service had been sued for negligence and breach of duty."
One petabyte in 1RU (one rack unit)
"The idea of the plugin is to prevent users without technical background from changing the page HTML. For example. many eCommerce customers change the price of the product using dev tools and send a screenshoot."

Yeah, good luck with that.
It seems with graphics and especially with games, there are two uses of "8-bit graphics"

- One, like this, refers to 256 color (or less) graphics

- The other, refers to graphics made using the constraints of real world common 8-bit computers (in the US, the Apple ][ or C64, in Europe, the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, etc) or 8-bit consoles, such as the NES and Sega Master System.

There are a lot of games which try to emulate these styles, and there are very few true accurate 8-bit (or 16-bit in the case of SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, Amiga, ST) games. I always appreciated the constraints of having small amounts of memory and so few colors to play with when I was messing around with my Amstrad CPC as a kid.
The Russia that exists today is not the same Russia that existed when the naval base was built. It's a different country with the same name.
Being a free format helps. But it isn't necessary. The main thing is that you can access the data reliably even if the original software or servers disappear (may require you to make your own periodic backups).
It's gonna be basically impossible to build a metro-corridor from Albuquerque to Denver. Well I mean, basically impossible unless you're cool with removing several entire mountain ranges.
TLDR: the VP is awesome and loves VR and is working on integrating it throughout Google properties, expect some release at I/O.

Unfortunately the revolution seems slow to arrive. Since the official release of Rift --the grand moment we were all waiting for-- VR buzz seems to be going in the wrong direction. Yes it's early, but where's the flood of devs rushing to exploit this new tech? It's miniscule compared to mobile, e.g. when iOS and iPad were released.

I was hoping this article would hit on that main point, but it was only glossed over.
When there's a vacation or something I recommend trying out mods for it.

TerraFirmaCraft is a total overhaul mod that is 'more realistic' (not fully, but more so) and teaches a general outline of how to progress from the stone age to the ages of metals (different packs also exist that add other mods to extend that up through, say, the (steam) Industrial Age).

If automation and distributed systems are a topic you want to cover the automation you setup in something like FTB's recently released Infinity Skyblock pack/map (there are numerous letsplays and streamers doing that now) is pretty fun, if extremely time consuming. I would not play this without a dedicated server (it is VERY nice to leave chunks loaded overnight...).
I believe there's a two year minimum to get that capital gains exception, so you'd have to flip every two years.
Yes, I have been in Sevastopol.

However, using blunt military force is not a way to present a territorial claim since 1945, among civilized countries. Especially after signing an agreement guaranteeing territorial integrity in exchange for nuclear weapons (Ukraine had produced and deployed most of Soviet ICBMs while it was a part of the USSR).

Whatever legitimacy Russia might have had over Sevastopol and Crimea, now lost forever. I, Russian citizen, can't go in Crimea anymore, because it amounts to visiting the occupied territory.

Some cite Israel of doing the same. Well, Israel gained Golan Heights / West Bank in response to all-out full destruction war against her (and is still being pressed quite hard by international community for it). Ukraine didn't attack Russia in any way.
Deluxe Paint II enhanced had a demo of two images in one with palette shifting that shipped with it.

It really is a phenomenal program. I had to do some pixel-art drawing c.a. 2000 and found nothing remotely as good; fortunately I still had a machine that would boot to dos and my copy of DPII.
Is this different, do you think, than equally-proprietary physical construction kits like Lego or K'nex?
I'll speak of DC since I know it best.

Pre-tax average is in the 80k to 90k USD range for DC, though obviously double that if you're thinking about a couple. DC transit is fairly good in-city, going to the suburbs its branches rather than a grid system so the train lines will essentially take you from home to work and that's it.

Walkability depends on where you live. In the suburbs of DC (virginia/maryland), there's quite a few walkable neighborhoods but they're small and separated from the next walkable neighborhood by about 3-5 miles.
Even if you think it's 100% hype, which I disagree with but whatever, if you've lived in the world for any amount of time I don't see why you'd find it puzzling.
Central planning, not so much. Not that it can't be, but we are replete with examples of it failing disastrously.

Wasn't the Interstate Highway system a boon to the US economy? Wouldn't infrastrucure projects between the meta-urban regions fall into much the same pattern?
There was some post about using a CUDA program with your GPU to brute force zip passwords, but can't find anything with a quick google search.

Try this though

http://www.crark.net/
Centralized planning worked for the Insterstate Highway System [1], which was considered successful.

If you parse responsibility down to the states, they're only going to build within their own self-interests, which is not very well aligned with inter-state travel. You'll get a hodgepodge of corridors, if the states even build at all.

For example, Kansas won't build a track from KC to Colorado's border. Instead, they'll route the track south through Wichita and other cities within their border. Or it will turn out like California's project [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2014/04/california-h...
Intel 3D Xpoint (Optane brand) non-volatile memory technology, claimed 1000 times faster, 1000 times durability, and 10 times denser than SSD.

One terabyte in 1.5mm thick device, 15TB capacity in the usual 2.5 inch SSD form-factor.

Byte-addressable, unlike block-based SSD. Optane could nicely complement burst-buffer implementations in HPC.
It is amazing how terribly managed our military resources are. I cannot even fathom where to begin to fix it.
Nice. Looks like APPLE II assembly code there at the top? ACIA! "asynchronous communication interface adapter (== serial card)". Brings a tear to me eye.
Another example of how constraints drive creativity, interesting ideas and algorithms.

It's always interesting to me where this appears - you see a ton of it from Carmack in "Masters of Doom" and it's happening again with current hardware in VR.

There's probably something to be said for purposefully setting up constraints that otherwise wouldn't need to exist in order come up with something interesting - and learn more faster.
You're asking why Joe Schmoe's cows from a local field taste better than those of a factory feedlot standing shoulder-to-shoulder in their own muck?
It's tough for me to see the substance behind the hype with VR in general.

If we're supposed to see VR as a revolution similar to mobile, can someone make that argument for me? All I see are some cool video games.
One of my neatest hardware acquisitions back in the day was a MIPS Magnum R4000 workstation - running NT 4.0.

It was great, stable, and ran Windows and DOS apps in emulation (sort of like DEC's FX!32 for NT/Alpha).

Per Microsoft: "On RISC-based computers, Windows NT provides a 486 emulator that runs applications designed for 286, 386, or higher processors."
The problem is that government doesn't have low hanging fruits any more. There are enough highways. Building more doesn't yeld that much GDP and you don't need that many workers.
Senators are not supposed to be directly elected. Nor are income taxes supposed to be constitutional. Fortunately, we gave up banning the production and sale of alcohol as a bad job, but these other two perverse amendments from a hundred years ago have yet to be repealed.
Probably had laser eye surgery. Doesn't seem like he uses glasses.
When you buy the Thinkpad, you are paying for Windows.
The idea of a corporate for-profit proprietary video game being the centerpiece of a generation's learning is horrifying and dystopian to me.

Wait...are you referring to Roblox or Minecraft?
Not having an opinion about a matter is explicit support for the status quo.
Why not use approval voting? Why not use mixed-member proportional districts drawn with a shortest-splitline algorithm?
RSS doesn't really have a method for 3rd parties to rank content, does it?

The thing about HN is voting and comments, both of which require manual moderation to be effective.
The country that can't produce baby formula or pet food without plastic and or poison in it you mean.
yeah the difference is one of volume

10,000 individual users being inadvertently exposed to 1 piece of upsetting material could potentially mean 1 moderator then has to review 10,000 pieces of upsetting material

also, the deluge

mailroom syndrome, it just keeps coming

honestly, computer vision is the only way to do this sort of moderation with any semblance of success and unfortunately i feel all of this human debris is just considered collateral damage until we get it functioning
It is. But also a lot of people really want a pill. They don't pay to go to the doctor to hear "Your knees will stop hurting if you lose 100 pounds"
Actually leveraging the power of palletized graphics has been a lost art for well over a decade. Mark Ferrari is the only person I know of that I can call a master of that art.

When I was working on PlayStation 2 games, it was frustrating that all of the artists I worked with were creating textures that would ultimately end up palletized, but none of them had any concept of the techniques presented here even then. These days GPUs are getting powerful enough that I occasionally see kids reinventing these techniques using tricky shaders from first principles without knowing that they used to be the only way to get things done.

In the HN circles you have a chance to be familiar with Ferrari's work through [1][2]

[1] http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890267

But, in gaming circles, you might be more familiar with his work in Loom, Secret of Monkey Isle and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
He mentions Deluxe Paint II; I was fortunate among my PC owning friends to have that rather than PC Paintbrush. It was one of those rare tools that was so well made for its purpose as to make it hard to describe what was so good about it. Plus it shipped with several tutorials and a very complete manual.
It's not like this was inevitable, had the UN peacekeepers simply setup adequate sanitation, they wouldn't have polluted and infected so many Haitians.
You might want to take a look at the OpenVMS project. If "Open" means open source, I would expect to see Cutler's designs and code in the repository.
Say goodbye to CSRF?
I really like the Nix package manager, however is there an upside to using Nix to build a Docker image over just writing a regular Dockerfile? Is this an odd use case? Maybe it just for demo purposes? Is there a benefit I'm overlooking?
I used AbiWord years ago, and do recall it being pretty lean.

I get sort of the same feeling, these days, from Apple's Pages, though I'm not sure whether that's true. (Looking at the copy of it I have sitting around, the application bundle is 418MB, with 344MB of that being taken up by the Resources (icons, UI elements, translation strings) and SharedSupport (themes, templates) folders, leaving the app itself sitting at ~75MB. Not too bad, I suppose.)

One thing I think more people should consider, though, is how much of what they use a word processor for that could really just be accomplished using a rich text editor such as WordPad or TextEdit. Now those are light programs!

(And honestly, limiting yourself to unstructured rich text for the composition stage of a document is probably for the best. It keeps you on task, for one thing. But beyond that, anyone who has only used word-processors is missing out on the extremely natural workflow of separately doing your composition (in a rich text editor) and your document layout (in a desktop publishing program, like Publisher or InDesign) and then taking the finalized rich text and linking it to a text-region-chain on the layout document. It's so much easier to make your document look good when your text isn't changing any more.
I think of Yankee as 'puritanical English' whereas Wisconsin and Minnesota are mostly 'German and Northern European protestants.'

Growing up in Milwaukee, I didn't know anyone who drank tea, outside of occasional yum cha (dim sum) in Chicago. We drank beer instead.
You can get a free hobbyist license for OpenVMS, but I don't know if you get source (possibly) and it certainly isn't shareable/reuseable.
Quick before anyone else thinks of this! Realistically information technology has the potential to be a force multiplier and good developers seem to be in sufficiently short supply that there is room for the Romanians and the Americans.
Well, how come the teams that are already fully in Romania not out-competing Silicon Valley?
I would have no problems with people advertising (truthfully) that a given GMO is FLOS. I have not a lot of knowledge in this area, does such a thing exist? I know government does some breeding work (UIUC had the famed morrow plots), but I haven't heard much about research of GMOs and release into the wild.

Based on what the average person cares about FLOS software, I am not holding my breath.
US of A, we all would be better off if this concept would die.

Split up into smaller, independent nations, don't terrorize the world with your armsdealing presidents wanting to achieve "democrazy".

Don't spy on its citizens as well as the rest of mankind.

Don't poison our food via tradedeals negociated in secret with global consorts.

Don't murder our leaders, only wanting to be free from you.

Please die.
If you'll boy or girl is interested in Minecraft, and you want to teach them programming, then I strongly suggest ScriptCraft - a Minecraft server mod that allows scripting in JavaScript.

https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/master/doc...
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I hope it supports TextMate...
Pam-unshare: a PAM module that switches into a PID namespace
I don't get why people go wild about this. Imagine I sue you for hate speech against me... does the Chancellor get to decide to throw the case out? No. You let it go to court. The judge looks at the case and judges, according to, ya know, the law? Who are you to deny me that case?

If the law is sound, and it is, the case will get thrown out. But it'll be done by a judge, not by a politician a priori.

It's a very simple separations of power story for me.

Further, the comedian will be protected under free speech laws. Case closed?
i feel like this topic is a logic minefield

seemingly least of all the question of under what criteria does censorship become moderation?
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I'm not sure what kind of new tools we need ?

All the tools to create personal websites existed more than 20 years ago. They haven't disappeared.

If anything they're probably cheaper, easier to find and to configure now, and also, more diverse, slicker, have more features, etc... And as pointed out by others, distributed social networks have existed for probably about ten years now.

And yes, the fact that the author chose to publish this pompous trite on medium is laughable.
ELI5 If space is just empty nothing vacuum - how does it expand?
you mean the Javascript expression editor, or just the API docs? The Expression editor uses an old dump of the Mozilla docs (scraped). At that time I've been really surprised how little documentation for JS and others exists for offline usage or simple integration in an app. It got actually worse over time. However, here the link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gbaumgart/xide/master/widg... (2 MB). The API docs are done with jsDoc-3 and "ink-docstrap"
Of course there are.

A better question might have been "are males in charge of HR everywhere?".

Because if they were, there might be a legit argument for -- oh wait just a damn minute -- I'm not even going to step into that minefield.

::washes hands::
Yes, that book remains errily relevant to this day of NAFTA and TPP.

Oddly enough reading Garreau alao taught me to appreciate how much effect the 1970s oil embargo had on the American psyche: people lived in genuine fear that the sky is falling and they will all freeze to death without heating oil. Highly recommended read if you have time.
True. But there are 50 of them in the United States. While moving to a state with more sensible laws is obviously less liquid than spending your money elsewhere, it's nevertheless a marketplace with 50 participants and they do learn from each others' experiments. Generally, the more decisions that are handed further down the hierarchy the better. If some matters are locked up at the state level, that might be a shame, but we should at least be happy they are not stuck at the federal level.
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I like how the only "midwest" city they list is Minneapolis, which isn't even the capital of Minnesota. Secondly, no cities in North or South Dakota? Some of the most thriving economies are in the Dakotas and have been for the last decade or more.

It just confirms how myopic people who live on the East Coast are about our "flyover" country.
if only they had a normal capacity HDD ...
It sounds like perhaps the default mental map needs to be updated before it's possible to improve the physical map.
I have not heard this from him, I am looking into it now :)

I am not really following a specific food religion, but mashing together various things I have experienced or have thought about.
I think you can do a lot on the free tier, my son only recently started spending a little to unlock some of the upgrades.

Personally I'd rather see subscriptions fund a server that's always up. I've researched running my own Minecraft server for the local kids, but it's really not worth it.
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I don't really feel competent to judge all of this, but my feeling is that that Unix crowd respects Dave for his competence... they just disagree fundamentally in his design choices. I think this is fair - there is more than one way to skin a cat.
One alternative is foss cocos2dx
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inter-state travel is aligned with the self-interest of states that want to have robust economic interactions. Kansas won't built a line to Colorado's border on their own, but the two states might jointly connect KC, Wichita, and Denver, and Colorado Springs if they thought those connections would be mutually beneficial.

At the city/county level, Denver doesn't have its own mass transit system -- it cooperates with several surrounding counties to make up the "Regional Transportation District" which runs buses and light rail. This sort of regional organization doesn't somehow disappear when you make it multi-state instead of multi-city.
> decentralize power back to the states and have groups of states work out arrangements among themselves to enhance their shared cross-border economies.

What does that even mean? The Constitution guarantees free flow of goods and services between all 50 states. We don't need trade agreements between groups of states for anything, it doesn't get any freer than it currently is.
I would concede that yes, the process of creating wealth does increase the overall size of the pie, but it does not increase the size of this pie proportionally for all involved.

That increase in pie, is the aggregate effect on the outstanding wealth. So, it could follow any such distribution that in the ends provides a net win. For example, automating some job will not increase the level of wealth of those who have now become jobless. It will undoubtedly increase the wealth of those who are now benefited by this automation, and in the end it will be a net win for the economy. However, those who were negatively affected see no benefit from this increase in the pie.

I believe that wealth is sometimes increased through tactics and strategies that negatively affect the wealth of other through mechanisms such as slavery, indentured servitude, extremely low wages and other situations that take advantage of the less advantaged (usually in 3rd world countries).

So yeah, the size of the pie increases, but those bigger slices are not appearing on everyone's plates, and often times people are ending up without any pie on their plate.
Note the J in JSOC, discard the existing branches of the military and build integrated units around desired tactical capabilities.

I guess you'd still have room for a Navy doing it that way, but you get the idea.
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