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This is incorrect. The US is attempting to extradite Dotcom from New Zealand for violating US law outside of US jurisdiction.

I don't like the guy, but let's not lie about it.
> I deeply believed that organisms share the same basic set of genes

They do. What you're responding to says there's no one gene shared by all organisms. The genetic intersection of any two organisms is large; the genetic intersection over all organisms is empty.
The fact that we can't reliably land planes automatically even though we can use beacons and we have fixed targets with tons of observable data is one of my main sources of skepticism about driverless cars.
There are lots of successful 1-person online businesses, but they are not software businesses per se. HN has a huge bias towards apps/software, we only hear from coders/technical people. When it comes to Saas apps, there aren't many examples run by solo entrepreneurs.

The vast majority of successful 1-person businesses are run by non-technical people and are more content-driven then software driven.
It's not NIMBY unless you count not tolerating shoddy construction as NIMBY: "Several more plants may run into difficulty when virtually complete because of questions of the quality of construction."

It's not a marketing problem. It's that the plants are too complex to be properly built and operated.
Can you link to an implementation?

Admittedly, I don't really understand the distinction of a "smart contract". I am only describing the function of the system that there was some confusion over.
LOL! I would have had no idea. I'm scared of Google Translate now.
I don't think this is going to be mainstream very soon because these multi rotors can only fly for a few minutes.

Right now batteries are way too heavy. And combustion engines can't alter speed that quick.
In case you were wondering, the author is a NYC local.
illegal != unethical.

To play devil's advocate, doesn't a state possess a greater obligation to it's own people than to those outside of it?

You (perhaps naïvely) expect your government to protect you from foreign threats. You don't expect (and probably don't want) your government to protect everyone, everywhere.
That is true, but in this case I think Let's Encrypt and also parent to your comment mean different domains as in e.g. one certificate to cover all three of example.com, example.net and example.org.
If the copywrite owners take no umbrage to the use of their code in proprietary software then the company shouldn't be able to sue.

This will probably not be the case if the code is licensed under GPL because the devs are probably going to want to enforce their OSS principles.

You can say the FSF wants to provide a more "convenient" way to handle it but I don't think that "I'll take care of that for you" is a good argument.

It's very much reminiscent Leon the Professional
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I really recommend anyone getting started with a Lisp to just start with Racket. It's easily the most complete out of the box as well as the most user-friendly to get started with.

I've come to love Clojure as well, but it is ... idiosyncratic as a Lisp and not very user-friendly when it comes to mistakes, and I think it's good to get a grasp on the basics in a Scheme-based dialect.

I can't honestly recommend Common Lisp at all. Where Clojure is idiosyncratic, at least there's a driving logic behind it. CL is a product of design by committee in the worst way, and even many of the basics are needlessly confusing to a beginner.
This is clickbait.

The kernel binary is unecrypted. So potentially you can disassemble it. But this isn't huge news. The windows kernel binary is unencrypted, so are most closed source software binaries.

Furthermore Apple releases the Darwin/XNU kernel sources as OSS so you even have the source already if you wanted.

Shipping an unecrypted binary isn't really considered a security threat. The amount of time and effort involved in tracing those thousands of jump/call instructions can be automated, but looking for memory issues really can't as you have to have intimate knowledge of how all the assembly is interacting with each other, and a very good understand of the platform its executing on.

RE'ing a full user land program is considered a herculean task. RE'ing an OS binary would be herculean even for a large team of skilled reverse engineers.
Definitely. First a disclaimer: I've held off on creating a dedicated post for this until the code is stable (as in not crashing) enough for other people to play with the demo. That will hopefully happen tomorrow, or possibly Friday. At that point I'll be posting here on HN as well as several subreddits. Until then, I'd request it not be posted on social media, so I can maximize the impact of the potential exposure.

+ Golix is the name of the protocol: https://github.com/Muterra/doc-golix

+ Hypergolix is the background service I've written to implement it, which is backed by a PaaS on AWS: https://www.hypergolix.com

+ This is a demo of Hypergolix: https://github.com/Muterra/py_hypergolix_demos/tree/master/e...

Cheers, and thanks for the feedback!
I wonder whether reading a ton helps; I have the suspicion that it does. Alan Kay sounds extremely sharp for his age, as does Don Knuth, and pretty much most intellectuals.

But I still would want to know what's the best activity to keep the mind sharp. Chess grandmasters show a decline at about 35 if I recall correctly. I suspect that programming ability will also show a steep decline, but I wonder how big.

I'll keep an eye on Torvalds and Carmack because I don't think they'll give up programming as they get older.
The lifespan of a electrolytic capacitor is strongly influenced by temperature[0]. A 10C increase in temperature can lead to a 50% reduction in lifetime, so its highly likely that the power supply that caps failed was slightly hotter during operation than the others.

[0]: http://www.kemet.com/Lists/ProductCatalog/Attachments/96/F33...
The boundaries of the app sandbox remain unaffected afaik. This might be more interesting to Jailbreak developers.
As someone who uses the CC3200, is your firmware a replacement for the SimpleLink stack?
Would a date not suffice?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11955462
This is pretty interesting! Do you know if it supports SSL on the ESP8266?
One piece that should be be included is the time horizons of these investors - I.e. Hedge funds with <3yr holding periods (probably less than that) at one end of the spectrum and sovereign wealth funds and endowments at the other with essentially 20+ year time horizons...
> If you use your headphones with more than one device you get your chosen quality level on all of those devices.

What if you buy speakers? Now you need a different DAC for them. If you have a good DAC in source device you have no problem to begin with.

Having said that I'll retract my previous statement in the instance that the system is able to stream lossless digital audio to the headphones. In that case putting the DAC in the headphones could be used to actually deliver high quality wireless audio.

Past that, wired will "always" sound better than wireless with lossy compression (ie bluetooth).

Past that, the best DACs and headphone amps will be component. The worst ones are likely to be powered by whatever tiny battery powers the wireless headphones.

I'm just pointing out, this isn't about quality - if you want quality, you'll be using wired headphones. Lossless wireless is a nice idea that would justify DACs and amps in the cans, it just probably won't improve sound quality, just cost and troubles.

A decade or so ago Roland tried to convince the pro audio world that it needed "digital speakers." It was a dumb idea then, it's still a dumb idea, and that's what I hear when I hear "digital headphones."
gitlab is gearing up to be the one-stop-shop from development to production. i really like that. unifying the toolset developers and ops have to understand is really a boon for everybody involved.

merge restriction as a feature may sound silly, but in my experience, when driving organizations toward CI/CD, especially with "mature" organizations, having the computer say no instead of a human is a major facilitator in adoption of good practices. now we just need to protect tests in tree. (currently, i tend to favor tests as a git submodule, so we can prevent chronic offenders from altering/commenting tests that should pass)

plus U2F integration, so now i won't hear anymore how "terribly slow" it is to have to whip out a phone to grab a TOTP code...
Can you point to a word, or collection of words in the title that you think suggests malice? Or, is it the whole title that makes the suggestion?

As I am reading the title, no malice is suggested. It seems to just be a plain statement of fact.
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> the term historically existed (AIUI) to denote regions that the researcher found to have phenotypic relevance

That's Mendelian genetics. Geneticists focused on DNA as a physical molecule rather than a conceptual unit of inheritance use the same word to refer to a region of DNA that produces a protein.

They're both important concepts, but they're not the same concept.
This is the “growth hack” that got my whole company started
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Ooh, that is good to know. I should fix that. Thanks for the heads up.
Imagine if we created an organism that could live in the vacuum of space as comfortable as being on the surface of a planet. It would revolutionize our ideas of space exploration and colonization.

Also, I imagine there's some skepticism here. If they lived in a vacuum that means there was nothing else they could live off and they truly are eating electricity. We also live in the age of "viral scholarship" where a lot of shoddy science gets paraded around for status seeking universities and researchers. Remember how skeptics of the FTL claim from those Italians were shot down on these forums and reddit? Skeptics shouldn't be automatically punished. If anything, we need skepticism more than ever.
I absolutely couldn't set up my chromecast without getting help from the appropriate subreddit. It was the app (supplied by Google) that was at fault.
Ha! I'm a year late. Thanks for sharing.
The fine and jail time apply to the person operating the jammer. By the way, these "dozens of sites" are all too happy to turn over purchase records to law enforcement if asked.

As for "it's a very difficult thing to police", a jammer is a transmitter, one that's powerful enough to drown out the signals it's designed to jam. Turning one on is like turning on a giant flashing billboard saying "ARREST ME" over your head; it's easy to follow the jamming signal back to the source with the right equipment, which, of course, the FCC and similar agencies have plenty of.

Want some examples?

"FCC Proposes $29K Fine For Employer That Jammed Employee Cell Phones"
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-29k-fine-employer-...

"Florida Man Gets $48K Fine From FCC For Using Cell Phone Jammer"
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/161146/20160526/florida-ma...

"FCC Fines Operator of GPS Jammer That Affected Newark Airport GBAS"
http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3676

"Man arrested for allegedly using cell phone jammer on train"
http://www.cnet.com/news/man-arrested-for-allegedly-using-ce...
It might be worth adding something about traditional private equity investors given the difference in the methods that may be used to create returns and the way this [mis]aligns with the startup model.
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Arguably, the production of a protein is nearly the smallest element of the observable characteristic of an organism produced by the interaction of its genotype with the environment, and thus sort of the fundamental unit of phenotype, so, from that perspective, they are exactly the same thing.
I'm very skeptical of their claims of better safety that regular helicopters. Thanks to "autorotation" a helicopter can safely land in most situations even with complete power failure. The claims of safety of this craft seems to derive from single rotor failure resilience and ease of use, which doesn't impress me much.
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Didn't Elon Musk help start Solar City?
I'm just trying to solve my own problem, as a dev I code for hours without standing up. I use my phone for 1 min max each time so I don't need a reminder there.
I have nothing to base this on, I always thought we could do that. The airlines just don't, because (most) passengers won't get on a plane if they don't get to hear that Air Force baritone come over the intercom and say "This is your captain speaking...". I didn't think it was a matter of tech but of psychology.
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It's hard to fly a train into a building.

(That doesn't excuse the TSA's security theater, obviously.)
If you don't like the default color scheme try Gandalf. It's a little more subdued and "normal".
"I'll keep an eye on Torvalds and Carmack because I don't think they'll give up programming as they get older."

Torvalds is just a lad. Good heavens.

Seriously, does he not mainly manage the project and use his encyclopedic knowledge of the kernel and its functions to keep the garden clean? Or is he still bashing out pages of gnarly C?? My point being that as people attain experience and knowledge of a certain area other more integrative tasks might be a better use of their (hopefully more expensive) time.

PS: Pushing 60. My eyesight now requires correction for close work but most other functions seem to be ok.
lol that's true. I just wanted something to block your screen, you either stand up or click to dismiss, at least I know it's already 30 mins!
Yes but UAVs are built to an overall lower standard of reliability and safety precisely because there are no people on board.
They are not the same thing from any useful perspective. You can remove a (protein-coding) gene, or replace it, without altering the phenotype at all. You can make changes outside protein-coding regions and get large phenotypic changes.
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even if that is the definition of manned it still doesn't make sense. because the "U" in UAV stands for Unmanned not Unpiloted. However "Manned space flight" would still apply even if the astronaut was just ballast right?

A trip to mars would be completely automated but you still wouldn't call it unmanned if a scientist was on board that did nothing but scientist stuff.
Please eventually provide the answer, because I'm curious!
Its the Jesse Ventura[1] effect writ larger. I think some folks should start looking at the 1998 MN gubernatorial election. Polling before the election suggested he would lose, but that didn't happen.

1) not a supporter - people who sue widows are pretty much on my not nice list
In terms of the potential for economic damage, a full-fledged bioweapon attack is not all that much more effective than a low-sophistication attack (or several, staged at the same time).

So while it is useful to understand the way subway systems may disperse particles, this kind of research does not reduce the risk of economic damage from low-sophistication attacks targeted at the subway system.

It is difficult to obtain Anthrax or similar chemical agents, and the number of people needed to pull off a successful attack is fairly large. Machine guns or simple explosives (like those used in the Boston Marathon attack), however, are 100x more likely to succeed and cause the intended economic damage, so long as they either create a fear of traveling by subway or lead to security checkpoints that drastically reduce the subway's throughput.

The key takeaway, in my opinion, is that nobody with access to the NYC subway really wishes to harm it or do terrorism.
> but I will feel a hint of aggravation when CNN reports on "Manned UAVs"

Well, yeah, "manned UAVs" would just be wrong -- drone passengers are passengers, not crew, and "manned" refers to having a human crew.

(Though I suppose a long-endurance drone with human maintenance crew might be properly considered "manned" despite being unpiloted. But, then, an Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle could have the same natural initialism as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...)
You still pay for an ops team, just with a different skillset.
The sea floor is quite large. The building you are sat in doesn't leave much opportunity to whatever used to roam across the land it is built on.

I think you are being oversensitive.
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What of fuel cell vehicles or series hybrids? You'd still have electric motors, but with a more potent power source.
Can you replicate to a slave outside of RDS and then perform a replica promotion during scheduled maintenance?
That's rare. What happened? Why?

(I don't mean to be terse, I just don't know how to ask that with more words...)
Indeed, and that term has been applied to Apple for at least eight years, although I think it might be even older: http://daringfireball.net/2008/01/macworld_expo_prelude
I can't wait to see an original version of smalltalk running on this!
The way Norvig tells it, language lends itself perfectly well to smoothing and even Chomsky's favourite absurd phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is assigned a (very small but non-zero) probability in some statistical models of English.

Truth is you can't do much with statistical models of language without some sort of way to account for what's missing from your data, which is always most of language. On the other hand, anything you might do is never going to be enough when that's the case: that you're missing the majority of language from your training data.
Thanks. This is what I was trying to convey. Next time I will be more direct.
> extracting a parisomonious mathematical model from a neural net is nontrivial

Has this ever been done? It strikes me as impossible.

> Of course, were the model really 100% accurate, then converting it to a the most parsimonious perfectly accurate model would be simple a matter of reduction

There are entire sub-fields of physics focused on reduced order models and phenomenalogical prediction. It is not 'simply a matter of reduction', it is non-trivial and the resulting models are almost always highly imperfect.
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Alternatively, they just decided to encrypt everything, maybe in case there was some sort of user data in the kernel cache. Now that they have a better idea of things, they can be selective.
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Just to bring up one possibly helpful analogy:

Suppose we have a good model of atoms -- how much of this will be a good way to think about living systems? (Or should we come up with better and more useful architectural ideas that are a better fit to the scales we are trying to deal with -- hint: in biology, they are not like atomic physics or even much of chemistry ...)

A point here is that trying to make atomic physics better will only help a little if at all. So trying to make early languages "much better" likely misses most if not all of the real progress that is needed on an Internet or larger scale.

(I personally think that much enterprise software even today needs architectural ideas and languages that are different in kind than the languages of the 60s and 70s (meaning most of the languages used today).
If you're generating that many subdomains (and you control the subdomains), it's probably worth investing in a traditional wildcard cert.

Though, it would be nice if the likes of dyndns names were given exception, since they are effectively second level tld's.
the reason people ask this is because in america there are some cities that have outlawed gardens and types of plants you can plant in your front yard, it is insane. So the question is not that ridiculous but i am sure it seems ridiculous to new zealanders just like it laws banning gardens are ridiculous but they do exist
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Lots of people have grandpas and grandmas who believe smart meters to be the devil's work.
Unfortunately, we have things like this in the mix...

libraryDependencies += "com.lihaoyi" %% "scalatags" % "0.4.3"

libraryDependencies += "com.lihaoyi" %%% "scalatags" % "0.4.3"
Are you suggesting that the only reason we didn't get outraged sooner at the spy agencies is because we didn't have evidence?
> Has this ever been done?

Probably not.

> It strikes me as impossible.

"Impossible" is probably, in principle, not quite right, but when I said "nontrivial", I really did mean "almost certainly impractical in virtually all real cases".

> There are entire sub-fields of physics focused on reduced order models and phenomenalogical prediction. It is not 'simply a matter of reduction', it is non-trivial and the resulting models are almost always highly imperfect.

"Simply" there meant that it was just reduction, not that reduction is necessarily simple. The point was that in real-world cases, reduction to an equivalent model isn't the only problem.
> No respiration.
> revolutionary.

Well your red blood cells, some retina and renal cells, and most cancerous cells also either thrive (or at least do much better) on fermentation aka non-respiration..
Well to start with people running small capacity strategies tend to be just as secretive as running a large capacity strategy. Strategy capacity is something that professionals talk about and doesn't get as much play when talking to a retail audience.

As for the approach, its not any different than finding a high capacity strategy. It requires some piece of information or insight that other market participants don't have. Consider a scalping strategy that trades a few different futures contracts. If on average we trade 200 times per day with an expected profit of $5 per trade with are making $5,000 per week with our strategy. If we say we spend $5,000 per month on the tech to run our business (a risk system, market data, compute time, etc...) we are making $15,000 of profit each month.

If we are a large hedge fund or prop operation the $15,000 per month (assuming the same costs) may or may not be worth running. As a trader say I am making $250K base plus some percentage of my P&L I would definitely need to be running more than that strategy to justify my job. Depending on how much attention it requires it might not be worth the company running it. If I have two other strategies that each make $100,000 per month for the business am I better of in investing in those strategies or one that makes a lot less money? The answer could be yes (like maybe I could add a hundred more instruments to trade) but just like any other business the investment will be evaluated versus the expected returns of my other options.
I believe his original, public statement on this was to show how confident he was in Tesla as a company. Because outsiders were knocking him left and right and commenting on his unimpressive share holdings at the time.