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For me it was when I started buying hardware stuff second-hand. It made me realise that very few people actually need as much processing power as they say they do. I used to subscribe to PC-building communities where people would drop a couple of hundred pounds extra on an i7 for a gaming rig because they also did 'video editing'. If you actually produce videos and need to do transcoding / rendering on a deadline then fine - but I suspect the majority are simply editing their gaming captures together to upload to YouTube. Of course it's great to have hobbies and I'm not going to tell anyone how to spend their money, but personally I think that it's an unnecessary cost if you just want it to transcode game captures when you could leave a much cheaper i5 running overnight instead (or buy a Xeon).

My workstation (FPGA development, programming, and a little gaming every now and then) was an ex-business unit. My 2013 MacBook Air belonged to an ex-student wanting to upgrade (can't think why - I don't even remember the specs myself because it runs as smooth as butter and I've never had reason to check otherwise!). Same with my phone - I bought a friend's old iPhone 3GS years ago. This year I've finally had to retire it because it was no longer reliable and I need it to get into my house (another story). My audio setup consists of a pair of vintage bookshelf speakers a friend picked up from a car-boot sale for a tenner, and my amp was gifted to me years ago by an old teacher (one new transistor and it was good to go)!

The bottom line is that buying second-hand made me realise that the extra bit of performance isn't worth the significantly higher asking price. I no longer care about small aesthetic imperfections like scuffs and scratches provided it doesn't break functionality (like a scratch on a lens for example).

Figure out what you really need your equipment to do for you then do your research and pick up something used. Be satisfied when it gets you 90% of the way, and you'll start to wonder why you ever lusted after shiny new things! At least that worked for me.
That is false. Vietnam does not count as "many". As far as enforcement goes, Japan could be said to have stricter enforcement than the US, recently non-commercial infringers actually being arrested by the police and facing imprisonment (I'm not aware of anyone being actually imprisoned yet) for downloading files on Share or Winny.

But this is all red herring since the TPP does not set any goals for measuring actual ENFORCEMENT, it only imposes new IP laws outside of the democratic process, with zero transparency, all while claiming to be a "free trade treaty".

Let's make it clear: Copyright laws have nothing to do with free trade. Let's suppose for a moment the US Copyright law is anywhere near "balanced" (and Canada is a caribbean pirate cove, as xxAA groups and the USTR love to claim). That still has nothing to do with Free Trade. If the Obama administration really wants to use TPP to fix all of the world's evils as they see them, why not push signatories to accept LGBT marriage for instance?
Run Windows on a Macbook? They're pretty excellent for travelling. Just the other day I dumped half a Caipirinha over the keyboard and I booted right up afte two hours in the Cuban shade :)
I live in Canada. I just listened to one of the participants talk about the experience on the radio and I found it just incredible.

In her own words, "She could not feel her body from the neck down. After the long and gruel ordeal procedure, she began to get sensation back. Things like hot and cold water began to be discernible. She no longer needed to hold both railings when walking down stairs in her home, needing a cane to get the mail, etc ..."

She said that it gave her her life back. She said that in short time, she began to get bored with doing the regular, tired routine and actually got a part-time job.

I mean, all that sounds phenomenal.
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> All clock signals were derived from that single quartz. That meant that also the clocks driving the raster beam were derived from that single quartz.

Yes, and that VIC clock also drives the SID sound chip. So while the same code will play a song back "in tune" (relative pitch) on both a PAL and NTSC C64, it will be tuned lower (absolute pitch) on a PAL C64. Think of it like the concert pitch difference between A = 443 Hz (Germany -- common) and A = 430 Hz (Verdi tuning a.k.a. Schiller Institute -- uncommon).

To play the same absolute pitch on both a PAL and NTSC, code could use an alternate lookup table to map a note to different SID frequency register values for PAL or NTSC. In practice, I don't think this was done, but someone can correct me. What was, sometimes, done was skipping every 6th frame of a raster vblank music playback routine on an NTSC C64 (@ 60 Hz) to match the tempo (not pitch) of the same song played on a PAL C64 (@ 50 Hz).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10942752
So roughly what we know can be summarised as

- company has promising but not proven scalable means to extract lithium from drilling waste water.

- company gets all stock offer from Tesla which to all intents and purposes is "if tesla succeeds you get rich, if not you fail as well." Not clear what voting rights there were.

- company seems to have not responded one way or another.

And who can blame them - they work for the dream, and the best offer is to take a part of someone else's lottery ticket. Turns out it was a good bet but who knew.
You can program and build programs for Windows and OS X on Linux, Windows Phone I'm not entirely sure about.
Although its obviously speculative, I'm pretty sure the expert consensus is that Mars is significantly more promising for self-sufficient human colonization than the Moon.
One of my favorite explanations and counterpoints come from Neil deGrasse Tyson:

It took modern astrophysics to determine the origin of the chemical elements. We observe stars (and) we know what goes on in their center. They explode, laying bare their contents. And what we have discovered is that the elements of the periodic table -that which we are made of- derive from the actions of stars that have manufactured the elements, exploded (and) scattered their rich guts across the galaxy, contaminating or enriching gas clouds that then form a next generation of stars populated by planets and possibly life.

And so, when you look at the ingredients of the universe, the number one ingredient is hydrogen, next is helium, next is carbon- sorry- hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen. Those are the top ingredients in the universe. And you say well, okay, that’s kind of cool. Well, and you look at Earth- cause we like thinking of ourselves as special- we say Oh! we’re special! What are we made of?

Well what’s the number one molecule in the body? It’s water. But what’s water made of? H-2-O. Hydrogen and oxygen. Hm. Hydrogen and oxygen. In fact, if you rank the elements in the human body, with the exception of helium, which is chemically inert- useless to you for any reason other than just to inhale it and sound like Mickey Mouse. You can’t die from helium unless that’s all you breathe. So, number one in the human body is hydrogen. Matches the universe. Number two? Is oxygen. Matches the universe. Number 3? Carbon. Matches the universe. Number 4? Nitrogen. Matches the universe. And for each of us the fifth element- other- is the same in both places. Ok? Other.

So, we learned in the last 50 years that, of course, not only do we exist in this universe. It is the universe itself that exists within us. And had we been made of some rare isotope of bismuth, you’d argue and say hey, we’re something special.

From https://tiainkorea.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/a-fascinatingly-...

Also, this is the most interesting explanation to the Fermi paradox that I've seen: http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html
I'm no expert at all, but three things come to mind:

- Mars has a (thin) atmosphere, mostly made up of CO2 -> good for plant growth. The Moon has none.

- Mars has gravity closer to Earth than the Moon.

- Mars has lots of water, while the moon has possibly just a little?

EDIT: found http://www.mars-one.com/faq/mission-to-mars/why-mars-and-not..., which cites similar and more reasons (although Mars One seems to be pretty much a scam).
First of all, going to Mars is hard. It makes going to the moon look easy. Most missions to Mars have failed - in fact, with fifty years of trying, the USSR and Russia has never had a successful Mars mission. A round trip to the Moon is a week, a round trip to Mars is four years in space.

So if we could do humans on Mars, it would mean that we had learned far more than we used to know. It's like the difference between climbing a hill in your city, and climbing Mt Everest.
I think it's positive that they own up to it and actually apologize.

One would also think that most subscribers of this newsletter has a positive attitude towards the general concepts of privacy and security, so I'm also positive in thinking that a list of these disclosed addresses will never see the day of light (hoping I'm not too naive).
ME also controls the feature set available to the storage controller. I.E. whether or not it can support RAID 0, 1, 5 natively. Its features can be updated via BIOS firmware, which has to correspond to whats baked into the CPU. It can be bypassed using a special version of BIOS firmware in combination with a cpu with the right fuses blown. It almost takes an act of god to get all those things, even in their lab, when you're getting paid to test it.
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why are disappointed? if everyone had certificates, how much valuable would they be for employers? it's odd. just think about it for a minute.
Isn't the CC header essentially an instruction for the local MTA? So their local MTA might could have been relatively slowly working through the CC list (contacting each recipient mail server in turn). I'm not saying this is what actually happened.
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I believe the SSD is a pretty large aside, isn't it? GPUs have also vastly improved, I believe. It's just CPU that stagnate at the "good enough" level.
You can easily write good Windows applications on Linux and OS X; and Microsoft distributes standard virtualization images for free which you can fire up in a VM to test your Windows applications. In addition to those virtual machines, Wine implements much of the Win32 library and can be used to test your Windows applications with some minor limitations. For iOS you cannot run your build process on a remote machine without jumping high hoops, you cannot build without OS X at all, you cannot sign code for your own device without their IDE and a certificate from their website.
The article frequently makes it clear, I thought, that it was napping in social situations. In the workplace, in a meeting, at a conference, during a school lesson, out with your friends in a restaurant. That is surprising, unusual and often seen as being bad.
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turning it off required a special cpu with the right fuses blown, along with a special firmware version. it's baked into the cpu logic.
No. Unless Musk has a stupendous trick up his sleeve, this is a unavoidable problem with the whole enterprise. Hard as settling in the new world was, it was tremendously easier (even at the time) to settling on Mars. The best chance for a Mars colony would be an extractable resource that makes it economically sensible to support a non-self-sufficient outpost (i.e., try to become Edmonton, Canada). But there's nothing analogous to oil. The most promising natural resources in space are asteroids.
Musk is very clear that his plan is to establish a self sustaining colony, not another 'footprints' mission, and not a colony that needs to be sustained via continuous resupply.

Mars has several advantages, you can pretty much google this and get better arguments then I'm able to make here. But here are a few key points.

- Earth like day period, 39 minutes longer versus almost a month longer than earth.

- More stable day-night temperature

- More gravity

- A weak atmosphere (versus none), and the capability to retain a earth like atmosphere.

- Easy access to Water, and CO2. Important for growing plants and making rocket fuel amongst other things.
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> The bulk of your notes show simply that variance is high

There is a lot in there about bias also, that's what all the stuff about standardized tests not being on an interval scale is about. Gifted vs mainstream vs special ed students show wildly different rates of progress on standardized tests that's completely divorced from how much they're actually learning, which means that the scores of teachers are largely determined by which populations they're teaching.

> None of this implies VAM doesn't work.

High variance absolutely implies that VAM doesn't work. If you are firing good teachers at random then only morons would go into teaching, especially given the barrier to entry.

> the Mathematica evaluation suggests a 74% accuracy rate!

In this context, 74% accurate means 100% useless for the above reason.

> another solid scientific conclusion that cuts against non-conservative ideologies: teachers don't matter much at all.

I would say that most of the research using standardized tests to 'prove' that teachers matter is wrong, but that's not the same as proving that teachers don't matter. Any research purporting to 'prove' that teachers don't matter is going to be flawed for the same reason, because you can't reliably measure teacher quality by using tests meant to evaluate students.
VM implementations and garbage collectors.
They could, but do they have incentive to?

It's good for them to keep drivers who committed (e.g. those who took Uber's help in getting a new car) on edge. It's not that they have shortage of candidates, or that they actually care about them.
Did you block "ip-api.com"? Via hosts or some ad blocker?
The Martian atmosphere also makes aerobraking possible, meaning spacecraft arriving there need less delta-V. A Dragon2 can land in Mars, but not on the Moon because of this.
Changing keyboard layout isn't an option.

I tried a few times and gave up.
I see that it's confrimed, but find it a bit odd that they had originally said "prepended between 0 and 7,618 other email addresses to the body of the email.", as this way it would be just a lot of "To" headers.
Amazon has deployed HTTPS across all their sites a couple of weeks ago.
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You pretty much have to take your litter home. There's no such thing as a public trash can.
How is that done?
Are there keyboard layouts based on other languages? or even programming languages?
As someone who grew up in Palm Springs I can't believe there was a startup there. There is absolutely nothing going on there. Maybe it's changed in the last 10 years.
In the end, you just need to be able to find enough people who want to go (there are plenty) and who have the money to pay for the trip (Elon hopes to bring down the cost to such a level that someone selling their home on Earth could afford it in many cases - like $500,000 to move to Mars).
I like seeing someone willing to rethink base assumptions, and to follow that thinking all the way to a brand new layout. However, I'm surprised to see that, even in a layout intended for programming, parentheses and brackets are placed as inconveniently as they ever are. Programming might only be 25-40% of my typing, but it's the most painful/annoying usage of the keyboard that I have -- far out of proportion with the fraction of the day it occupies. I'd even learn two layouts if it meant that the programming layout would be much more comfortable.
Some are, some aren't. Busy exists in Shibuya (or other busy junctions) for instance will be clean-enough but not that clean. There's an insane amount of people passing through after all. Small stations even in central Tokyo -- yes, they will be this clean.
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Doesn't that argue for doing the moon first? If you say "yeah we've not climbed any hills yet, but we're totally gonna try Everest" that might not show much common sense.

And if the aim is to just try to do the hardest possible thing we can think of, why Mars and not, say Venus?

I think difficulty is a red herring. The other suggested reasons (atmosphere, gravity, water) seem much better reasons.
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I suspect that given the right conditions, some kind of proto-life appears easily.

But it takes a lot of time to get to "life" as we know it.

(Now the right conditions are probably not what you have on Earth today except in a couple of places)

Life on Earth is at least 4Bi y.o. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/life-on-earth-likely-start...
The Hyatt hotel in Switzerland did a similar thing a few weeks ago. They sent a mail shot to everyone using the CC function not BCC. I complained and their response was that they'd recalled the mail so 'that was that'. Of course a recall means nothing to the hordes of gmail addresses,etc. that the mail shot was sent to. It's a common problem and a big incentive to use throw away addresses.
Would be far less confusing if you'd just written "~12km" and "~11km". The meters add little to the point you're trying to make.
While I do agree with most things, there will be a need to upgrade something in the future.

When I bought my MacBook, 4GB of Ram were plenty but it is not anymore. Chrome takes to much ram and with 16GB, I don't have to worry about anything. Furthermore, apples new laptops are all dual core (until you buy the bigger one). This is also dealbreaker for me – quad cores are really awesome when using VMs. Sure a CPU cannot be updated on most laptops (and certainly not on apples but I can't blame really).

My point is that I'm afraid apples pro series has drifted into a state where their lifespan will shorten while the prices go up.

And apple's OS performs really good until you use third party applications that expect better performance then your sad 5-year-old MacBook.
I hated that original pull tab design as a kid. Those sharp edges were vicious.
Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi
He wants to go to Mars, so they have at least one rich client that want to pay for the (one way) trip. I'm not sure about the business plan after that, but he has a good track record, so I wouldn't bet against him.
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It's available at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/.
Then why does it autocomplete "Crooked Trump" but not "Crooked Hillary"?
That's one of the primary effects of having serious, permanent effects of death in a game, imho.

Perversely, it makes life / things / tasks less valuable. I used the example "there's only so much you'll do for one dwarf who might be killed by its own stupidity" vs "there's almost nothing a lot of people wouldn't do to acquire a for-the-rest-of-time legendary in WoW."
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More on Raspberry Pi port in case others are interested. Raspberry Pi port is interesting, because it allows us to run plan9 on native hardware (access keyboard, mouse, video and probably audio - haven't checked). It doesn't matter that there isn't much power in it, because plan9 is designed to be distributed. Once you have a terminal, you can set up a cpu server and file server to run under a linux hypervisor in the same network.

You can think of a cpu server as being similar to this scenario: you ssh to a fast box, and run an app on that remote machine. However, due to the elegance of the plan9 architecture, instead of having the app run in the terminal window or over a laborious x-windows protocol, it writes quickly over the network to the window that you invoked the command from.

Unlike the unix experience, cross-compiling is trivial in this environment. Hence, it's fine to run varying architectures in the same system. Setting up a Raspberry Pi terminal is easy and cheap.

Some might ask - why? My motive: I see it as a different approach to software development. Instead of bolting monolithic systems together, I'll be able to implement platforms as devices that are exposed over 9p. Consider how much easier it is to do init for multi-host applications. Convential unix approach is and ugly spaghetti of scripts+ssh. In this design, just mount the apps and script them from one host. The network becomes transparent: you just script against devices.
Here's a Drakes Equation visualizer I made. I know it doesn't address certain factors but it's fun to play with as a thought experiment. Even with some optimistic numbers there's not that much out there.

https://tristaaan.github.io/ngDrakesEquation/
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Right. SMTP header lines can't exceed 998 characters, but RFC2822 now allows multi-line headers[1], so there's no limit except one that might be imposed by an MTA (and that would generally only be imposed on sending, not receiving.)

1. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt §2.2.3
Page loads feel faster in Chrome for me, but yes, the dev tools are much cleaner. There are at least worth a second look if you can't find the bug in chrome.
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What about something like a TurtleBot[1] and ROS[2]?

[1] http://www.turtlebot.com

[2] http://www.ros.org
Aerobraking is a benefit but is the Dragon really unable to land on the moon? The moon has less gravity (about half) and the velocity difference should be much smaller for a lunar intercept than a Mars intercept.

Has anyone got numbers for this?
Couple of options: Raspberry Pi, or virtualisation.

9front say to avoid virtualbox, but it works. Here's a tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5XAhsHyqow
That's not so easy to do. To get a sense of what's required...

https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-business-clien...

Plus, even you disable it there's still room for exploits, previous versions of Intel AMT have had exploits. Check out the 'Known vulnerabilities and exploits' section of the Intel AMT Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...
> Typing ‘HE’ forced the hand to make a very unnatural sideways twisting motion from the wrist and then back again.

Really? On my keyboard, I can simultaneously place my index finger on the Colemak position of H and my pinky on Shift without any movement of my wrist. I'm on a full-size keyboard with a tenkey and I have smallish hands.

Personally, I've found that even on a qwerty keyboard the speed at which I type is usually not the bottleneck, especially when programming.
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I don't really get the whole wedge of the article. Giving developers a Siri Kit is them trying to make it easier for them? Apple has continually improved developers access to the different hardware and software on the iPhone.

Same thing for the improvement of app review times. It's great they did it.

I don't see the connection between that and "stagnating" iPhone sales.
If buying is expensive and rent is cheap, and you have no need for long-term settling down, you might as well keep renting.

You're young and able to save, which means you can afford to take a little risk with your long-term investments (and don't take goldbug paranoia too seriously--or for that matter, any investment advice from anonymous strangers on the internet. That does not count as "due diligence"!). Diversification is usually called for--keep enough liquid cash to live on for a while if you lose your job, some "safe" investments, and some higher-risk investments.