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There's also the Falcon framework that claims to be faster and is meant for REST APIs.

http://falconframework.org/
The problem is not that Thiel financed Hogan the problem is that Hogan needed the money to do so that's where us justice system seems as fucked as anywhere else in the world.
Clickbait headline. The actual graphic says:

"Two independent commissions started by the White House concluded that mass surveillance does not stop terrorist attacks"

Mass surveillance is not the "only" thing NSA does.
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That's a really good question. I guess code specifically wouldn't be copyrighted after that time and wouldn't have any value in its physical format. I'm also not sure how hard it is to track property ownership over 1000 years, or if it applies between governments. Ancient artifacts whose ownership is in question could be legislated to not transfer ownership to the discoverer; that's not really burdensome. There's also laws regarding abandoned property. If e.g. Stallman was buried with printouts of emacs and a tomb robber steals the copy, the entire chain of transactions is tainted from that point on.

But as painful as it would be to lose it, if you had verifiable proof that the documents the code is printed on were legally yours, you shouldn't be obligated by outside parties to handle them in any particular way.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750003
As temporal said, I was referring to the companies who inflate costs.
XMPP is a zombie protocol. Yes, it has clients that have better implementation of instant messaging and presence than any other, but it falls apart with real time communication such as voice and video (lol jingle) and there is no practical way of iteroperating with the PSTN. Further, federation of plain text and basic presence worked, but rarely anything more. Connecting with federated users makes no sense to end users, first they have to know it is possible, then they have to figure out how it works and then they learn most features don't work. Even if that wasn't awful enough, it was all dropped by the providers and no longer works.
All commercial platforms are moving away from the protocol, and SIP is now the standard. Problem is that it isn't a great chat protocol for end devices (no standard concept for buddy lists being stored on a server or mobile clients, but many proprietary extensions work well).
As for slack, it is a group chat with slick interface, other than the bizarre account/domain design. It has no encryption of data at rest, and I really wouldn't use it for confidential data. If you are going to use a proprietary closed source solution, at least consider using Cisco Spark.
Now Matrix, it is almost too good to be true, grass roots open standards, federation that makes sense, encryption by design and doesn't lock users into yet another captive island (YACI?). It is also built with the concepts of accounts/SSO, true federation, real time communications in mind. I dream of the day we can kill the PSTN, but with something even more open... Sadly none of the commercial players today are interested. Any one company that thinks they will do it on their own has fallen for their own delusions. Microsoft Skype, Whatsapp and a hapless Google Hangouts... What a mess.
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Very. The standard terminal product they offer is around 2K per month. You can buy just the data (as many third parties do) but that'll also cost a pretty penny. It's a great data source, but definitely not cheap.
i am totally in agreement that they will largely evolve in paralell. i just think the market op is much higher for mil tech now.

Most technologies are funded and developed in research stage for military applications, internet being one example. your example was (and i assume you mean far future) a super hard problem. terminator was a fully intelligent super being.

i am talking about the development of the class that boston dynamics is/has built. they can run around in open environments and could do recon, supply and very basic defensive or offensive maneuvering.

i think (and could be wrong) the granular dexterity to fold a shirt is super hard. also, training would be non trivial.

i think robots and augmentation will be mil -> commercial -> consumet. and this is happening. soon all 3 will evolve in parallel and converge on apecific applications
Plugging into the switch where the networks come together is free, but you must build, buy or lease connectivity to the folks you're peering with.
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Falcon is great for making API's! I've used it on a few production sites. The main downside is the lack of middlewares for common tasks (e.g. jwt decoding) but you gain in other areas such as being able to use class inheritance to abstract out utility stuff in an elegant way.
Computers weren't practical once either.

Of course companies are investing in it--it's going to make some money/ Everything is the next best thing. Maybe you're too young to have seen many NBTs. Will it ever be essential? Certainly not in the short term; have to keep people from puking first. Until they solve for those types of problems it'll never become mainstream.

The NBT that will have more impact right now is various forms of "AI", and companies are investing heavily in that as well.
> I strapped my 90 year old granddad in, and he was immediately having a blast flipping burgers in job simulator

I think this is what's being undervalued about VR -- the increased proportion of people for whom it "works" vs a 2D monitor.

My opinion has gradually shifted towards the reason some people don't read books, or comics, or watch TV, or play current games having to do with different susceptibility / willpower to suspend disbelief / engage immersion.

Someone who doesn't enjoy a fictional book the way I do isn't reading a different book; I think they just aren't seeing the book with the same realness that makes it exciting to me. Aka the "we're just looking at a rectangle with some colors on it" response to computers.

I feel like VR is the first step in awhile that can really lower the bar in terms of "must be this susceptible to suspending disbelief to ride" (post-graphics fidelity, which probably had its biggest objective jump with the first 3d cards).
> Also there is a not much difference between painting located in some container, and museum in prohibitively expensive New York.

Indeed.

"At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, 24 of 1,221 works by Pablo Picasso in the institution’s permanent collection can currently be seen by visitors. Just one of California conceptual artist Ed Ruscha’s 145 pieces is on view. Surrealist Joan Miró? Nine out of 156 works.
... The vast majority of art belonging to the world’s top art institutions (and in many countries, their taxpayers) is at any time hidden from public view in temperature-controlled, darkened, and meticulously organised storage facilities. Overall percentages paint an even more dramatic picture: the Tate shows about 20% of its permanent collection. The Louvre shows 8%, the Guggenheim a lowly 3%..."

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150123-7-masterpieces-you...
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The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
The passport already contains a photo to ensure that only the legitimate owner uses it.
yes and no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law

> By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually grant letters patent for monopolies to favoured persons (or people who were prepared to pay for them).[14] [...]

> This power was used to raise money for the Crown, and was widely abused, as the Crown granted patents in respect of all sorts of common goods (salt, for example).
It's pretty difficult to respect the position of the super rich in this scenario.

At best, they are avoiding taxes with the art. At worst, they are laundering money or hiding treasures plundered from places like Iraq behind a curtain of shell companies and noxious Swiss regulations.
New people come along all the time. I was also confused by the guidelines. Possibly they need to be in a more prominent place.
I remember using a crappy joystick in the DOS racing game Screamer. The acceleration/steering was mapped to the unit square, but my joystick had a circular hole in the base, limiting movement. It made it impossible to turn around, since you couldn't accelerate and give max steering at the same time.

I fixed the joystick with a metal file.

https://youtu.be/Ka56PLmXCqI?t=28
Parent was referring to the fact that VDSL/VDSL2 is more sensitive to loop attenuation that ADSLx. Yes, you can get 100MB symmetric over a copper pair, but only for 300M or so.

Hence VDSLx is usually rolled out only as part of an FTTC deployment, where the ISP needs to roll out new fibre (rather than copper) to the caninet/junction box, and in most cases install DSLAM units in those cabinets also.
3D movies do cause problems in many people, which is why there is a market for these: http://www.amazon.com/Hank-Greens-2D-Glasses-Turns-movies/dp...
You might want to look up fans for paintball helmets. From memory, most of them run off battery, but you could probably have them to use 5v USB. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=paintball+fan

Biggest advantage being that they're specifically designed to move air down through a set of goggles.
But it sure stops dissent. Let's do a study of the "chilling effects" of surveillance society.

(Own up, dear reader, that you minimally reviewed your network behavior after Snowden.)
My wife gets numerous calls and I deflect them in a devious way. After she answers and discovers it's an unwanted caller, she gives me the phone. I demand to know who is calling and why, and then tell them they have called my 8 year old daughter's phone, and if they won't stop harassing her I will call the FBI. Gets her number removed from their call list every time.
I get simulation sickness even from games I play on a 1080p screen from an arm's length away. I couldn't stand a 3D-glass for more than 15 minutes and therefore I'm too afraid to even try the VR headsets more than ten seconds (It gets really bad when it starts with a splitting headache and nausea combined).

However, I feel like I'm in the minority on this. No one around me seems to have any trouble watching movies in 3D, for a start.

I guess, just as some people aren't fit to operate a vehicle (problem in eyesight or other reasons) there are some who aren't fit to use VR and I really doubt they (we) amount to the mentioned 50%.
But interop doesn’t fix the issue of federation.

If I want to chat with person X, I either have to use the same client as them, or I can’t do it.

I can’t write my own, better client, either.

That’s the big issue.
People experience dizziness, headaches and nausea in the 3d movies.

> how comes existing FPS games have no such issues?

People can get very seasick. FPS gamers are self selected group. People who feel nausea stop playing. I often get fever like nausea if I play too long. Not too bad though.
We deploy a heavily used REST API that at the top level, is using Flask to capture/proxy/marshal the request and response. We decided to use it over Django simply because we did not need a large set of the Django features.
Honestly, I don't understand why, either. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what the differences are between the 1997 edition and the 2007 edition, despite having read both. Perhaps if I were actually an ISLISP programmer, something would've jumped out at me, or if I had read them with the intent of doing comparison (which I may do, now that I think of it).

ISLISP's biggest weakness, in my opinion, is that it lacks a standard module system. Perhaps if they decide to do a 2017 update, modules will make it in there ;)
Luckily this project also has the option to pull in data from free sources like FRED[0] and Yahoo! Finance[1] making it quite useable without a Bloomberg subscription

[0]: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com
It's worse than that, lots of art at good publicly owned institutions aren't easily available in high resolution. There aren't any really great central repositories for high resolution scans that are free to use.

I know in Moscow there is an interesting museum called the Pushkin museum which mostly consists of replicas of the worlds famous art. It was actually kinda enjoyable having for instance all the renaissance sculptures of note in one place
If you are on Android or iOS, it’s not always connected – and you can’t actually run things in background all the time anymore either.
I think the future is just going to be characterized by massive, constant, widespread destruction of video cameras in public.
It would be nice if you could offer this service to all of your posters, equally.
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And the firmware hacking levels of Stockfighter will be out soon. Apparently they're just waiting for the beta testers to beat the last two levels.
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Off the top of my head...

Problem: Your clothes don't smell 'fresh' when coming out of the dryer.

Solution: Dryer sheets (Bounce, detergents with perfume)

Problem: Your teeth aren't white enough.

Solution: Whiteners, toothpaste, mouthwash

Problem: You're not thin/good-looking enough.

Solution: Diet supplements, make-up, shampoo w/ conditioner, etc
> What field is this describing? Scientific papers?

Most likely yes. The author works in a scientific institute and has number of publications.
Traditional raised bed gardens don't hold water well and require artificial watering almost every day due to how they drain - At least in my experience.

Hugels hold water and slowly allow plants to wick the moisture when it is needed. They really start working well at year 2-3.
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How does one know when one has gotten everything out?
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WhatsApp came to Europe at a time when there was a strong need to replace badly overpriced SMS. In the US most telco's offered subscriptions with free, unlimited SMS and WhatsApp didn't provide any immediate benefit. Facebook Messenger came later, but had the ability to send messages without contact information, giving people in the US a reason to adopt it.

By now, most people in Europe also have Messenger, but still mainly use WhatsApp (slightly generalising). I think that primarily comes down to WhatsApp being a much better messenging app. It's quick, reliable, easy to use, power-efficient, small, well-integrated into the OS, secure, and most importantly: media sharing just works.
Indeed. Nearly all phone-number-as-identity services fail at allowing multiple clients (Whatsapp and Signal have at least something, but not perfect either), which is probably the biggest issue I have with newer messengers.

And it makes changing my phone number more annoying, for IMHO no good reason. Allow people to configure their phone number for discovery if they want, but don't make it the primary identifier.
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How can you afford to rent a van if you can't afford to buy a beer in a bar twice a year?
Yeah, one of them that I built is hollow inside due to using lots of sticks and branches instead of logs, I assume it will settle in time and shrink considerably.
This is a short-term effect, and you have the fitness function backwards.

The portion of the population that takes action to avoid living in squalor is unfit because they fail to reproduce well enough for replacement. Meanwhile, the portion of the population that fails to avoid squalor is breeding in a most exponential way. That portion was historically kept in check by death, but now has been unleashed.

So one type of person is on the way to extinction, and another type is growing without bound. Currently this means the the total population (both groups together) is shrinking, but that will change.
Skype, not MSN.

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2013/05/larry-page-implies-m...
Port knocking is all you need. We have had 0 attempts since starting to use it.
this parallels the copyright laws many of us just hate that it is frightening.

the best solution that honors private property rights is to make part of the requirement of long term storage sites like this is to present high resolution scans of the artwork that would be freely available.

Some bemoan all this art being locked up out of private view, yet many government managed museums and the like are just as bad if not worse as I doubt an investor would let their collections suffer from neglect.
Well, you cannot reduce motherhood to the simple fact that a birth has taken place. That is why it would be pretty offensive to characterize a mother as such.

A woman that has given birth almost certainly has also taken care of the child(ren) for many years, which shows, at least, the ability to:

- master a high responsibility job

- take on a huge workload

- constantly juggle multiple tasks at once

- typically work overtime

- keeping team morale up despite competing needs

- setting goals for the further development of each team member, and keeping a steady eye on the progress that is being made

Sounds like a management job, does it not?

Not to mention the extreme commitment towards everything that accompanies the pregnancy and delivery itself, including, amongst others:

- pain and nausea

- heavy reconfiguration of the body

- strech marks and/or genital wounds

- risk of losing the child

- risk of having a ill or impaired child

- risk of dying

- risk of losing the man and being on your own with all the aforementioned tasks

Yes, a woman with decent kids can most certainly be proud of herself.
Skype shows advertisement in the chat window, most likely targeted.
Okay, I'll bite... what would this all-rush mixtape look (sound) like? I'm curious. :P

And I would describe Arcan et. al. as a whole as curiously interesting. The only thing I know of like it is PicoGUI, a 2000-era display manager that could go as low as 1bpp on a ~20MHz 68k running uClinux (specifically this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/albums/721576270325...), while also being able to handle 24bpp and even some bits of OpenGL. It was abandoned in 2003, and the author did a writeup of the worst of the design fails (some were... notable) at http://picogui.org/papers/ghost-of-picogui-past.html.

While I would firmly categorize PGUI as a subset of your work, I thought I'd mention it because I think it tried to reach similar goals to what you've done, and you may potentially find the source code vaguely interesting to scavenge through on a rainy day (although it might take eg a Debian 4 VM to build cleanly without fuss). http://svn.navi.cx/picogui/trunk/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgui/files/picogui/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgui/files/OldFiles/ (hidden directory I found?)

I have no idea if this will be interesting, I figured I'd mention it just in case.
In essence, it's the same argument as "everyone should use encryption, even if it's barely non-trivial for state-level actors to break."

You're not defending against the attacker who is targeting you with this. You're defending against the attacker who is targeting "anyone who is trivially accessible."
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I don't understand why this is seen as acceptable, yet port knocking is derided every time it's brought up.

Since installing fwknopd more than a year ago, we have had not a single attempt at sshd. Not one. We had a lot before, and it was annoying as hell.
What happens if we burn all the fossil fuels?
OK. Everybody use "Al" from now on.
If you corrected for economic class, you'd certainly still see the same thing -- a culture of literacy improves lifetime earnings.

At least anecdotally, I grew up rather poor (single mother household, working as greenhouse manager, 4 kids), but we had a strong culture of literacy in my household.

Knowing how to read difficult material, and by extension self-teach, was a big part of my ability to move into tech.
If you don't mind, it would interest me too.
well when the state of Georgia deregulated natural gas sales that is effectively what happened. A management company became the owners of the gas lines, responsible for maintenance and expansion. That fee appears on every gas bill
Really? Cat-v and many other sites that are fans of plan 9, as I said, seemingly refuse to believe that's happened in the UNIX world has any merit, claiming that it is either a) overly complicated, or b) useless. So I'll attempt to refute most of cat-v right now. You know, sometimes things are unnecessarily complicated (I'm looking at you, systemd), but there are REASONS for things like python and ruby.

Pthreads or and forks are necessary to build CSP-concurrency, and are in fact simpler and more unix-y than them (I'm NOT saying they're better, but they are closer to the unix spirit in many ways. You did read ALL of Lisp: The Good News, The Bad News, And How To Win Big, right?).

Bash and ZSH kind of suck, but none of the other shells are really any better, because the really problem is the f*king INSANE standard, which codifies the absolutely insane behaviors that shells are supposed to have. RC is better than most, being from plan 9, but it still has plenty of warts.

GCC and Clang may not be perfect, but they generate better code than 8c ever did, and have world-class teams working on them.

automake is TERRIBLE, but you really do need something more complex than Makefiles sometimes, so scons is probably your best option. See above about Python.

GUIs exist for a reason, and while glib sucks, you can't replace it with libc. There are other libraries, though.

Emacs is more powerful than ACME, and you can't just ask people to learn a new interface because you hate VI.

UTF-32 (UTF-16 DOES suck NOW, it didn't always) has different trade-offs from UTF-8, and is a legitimate choice sometimes.

I shouldn't have to explain why you can't just replace SQL with hierarchical databases, or non-relational databases. Maybe you can sometimes, but not in the general case, and not with good performance.

Just because you use OpenBSD doesn't mean that everybody should.

Solaris and FreeBSD have some technical advantages as well (e.x. jails). SVG, PDF, and EPUB cannot be replaced by postscript. I mean, come on, you say you want security, and then you advocate an image standard that's TURING COMPLETE, effectively giving any image the capability to crash your computer, or inject code, if there's a flaw in your postscript implementation.

I used to think that cat-v was somewhat satire, but it really didn't seem that way, once I'd read what people were saying on it. And that is really sad, IMHO.
Ahh OK, so you want something pretty close to an annuity then. I wonder if Wealthfront or Betterment or something would have a plan that helps you invest while you work and then buys an annuity for you when you retire...
Some[1] have argued that unicode is better in 2.7 than 3.X. Async looks very useful, though, so I'll add that to the list including the subTest context manager.

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/
Perhaps they are worried about investing billions and several man-decades into tech that is producing $0 of revenue.