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I used to be an optimist as well.

But the last 10 years have slowly but surely made me wonder if we're really as stupid as it seems that we are.

Just some samples: A couple of days ago there was an article about Duerte here on HN, the newly minted presidente of the Philippines. Whose primary solution to everything seems to be a well placed bullet, oh, and never mind a couple of rapes, as long as he's the first one in line.

In the UK, we have a bit of a situation at the moment, with lines being drawn at the level of 'we reserve the right to kick out your citizens' or to use them as bargaining chips. Northern Ireland and Scotland may break away from the UK, or they end up leaving the EU. Either way, that's bad news for a very large number of people. As an immediate result of that violence against people of other races (even the ones that have been in the UK for many generations) or from different nationalities is up to levels unprecedented for many many years (decades).

In NL, Belgium, France and Hungary we have nationalist movements that would all love to destabilize the EU further for personal gain and never mind the consequences. Power hungry 'strong men' (and some women) are in vogue all over, and people lap it up, using their words as covert signals to engage in violence and open hostility.

Then there was a coup in Turkey, and the displacement of very large numbers of people in Syria with all the associated misery (and death toll).

Note that none of this is about 'terrorism', I fully agree that statistically it is - for now, and let's hope it stays that way - insignificant.
Well, I think the development was that Treppenwitz originally was just a Germanisation of l'esprit d'escalier. However Hertslet's book "Der Treppenwitz der Weltgeschichte" (The Treppenwitz of world history) mentioned on the Wikipedia page became a well known phrase and caused a shift in meaning, although the usage in the title of the book itself was still basically the original one.
I'm currently reading through 'The Machinery of Life' by David Goodsell, and I'm really enjoying the intuitive explanations it has of the basic workings of cells. It's not a textbook by any means, but it provides a gentle intro to thinking about biological systems and seems like a great starting point.
I agree with the others that suggest overuse injuries. Try resting more between workouts (yup, that means sitting on the couch even though you're not tired).

As for biking, a proper bike fit is crucial. Did you pay someone $200 to set up your position on the bike? If not, it's probably wrong. (Even if you did do a fitting, it could still be wrong. The fit changes as your develop or lose strength, flexibility, etc.)

Biking is a great exercise because you can collect so much data while you ride. Power is especially useful, so you can objectively judge how hard you worked out and how much recovery time you need.

Cycling generally makes your IT band tight. Foam roll it after your workout. I also spend a lot of time stretching out my hamstrings, because they are very tight from sitting at a desk all day and directly affect one's posture on the bike. (Standing desk is helpful for keeping your hamstrings long, if you can actually be productive while standing.)
The 50% in your analysis stems entirely from the fact that you're using ridiculously small integers. At any tax rate greater than $2, the first person would save money by making the change. You say $3, but it could be $2.01. At exactly $2 they would have no preference between enacting the change or not.

Of course, you omitted that the same must be true for cap and trade. The person who can save CO2 at a cost of $2 would have no preference between enacting the change or not if they were only to be paid $2. You'd need to pay them more. Like, $2.01 or $3 if we're only using integers. Exactly like the tax.
They also had a share of Advantis, which evolved into IBM Global Network. They sold off their share to IBM some time in 1996 or 1997 just as the Internet shifted from crazy to insane.

IBM, in turn, sold off IBM Global Network and much of their web hosting business to AT&T in 2000.

edit: I forgot that Kodak also had a role in the formation of IBM's Global Services business...ISSC (an acronym which I can't remember the expansion of other than the I was IBM) started as the bundling up of Kodak's I/T services organization, eventually selling completely to IBM.
(I didn't downvote you, but this might be why someone did...)

Eh, BGP on local networks is common enough that it was novel maybe a decade ago. It's perfect for running on servers to announce /32 addresses upstream to ToR switches. OSPF is actually more heavyweight & complex since you have to carry link state, do neighbor elections, etc. Ref: NANOG talk in 2003: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog29/presentations/miller....

You don't even need an AS from your RIR for BGP to be useful on internal networks, just pick one (or more) of the private ASNs and roll with it.

Current best practice for internal networks (on the SP side at least) is to use OSPF to bootstrap BGP by enabling IP reachability for p2p & loopback addresses. After that customer / service routes are carried by BGP, not by OSPF. This is because BGP doesn't spam link state and has better policy knobs. You get a double win because OSPF converges faster with fewer routes and if you have redundant links your BGP sessions won't flap because the loopback addresses stay reachable. Ref: NANOG talk in 2011: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog53/presentations/Sunday/...

CPU/RAM overhead is insignificant with a bgpd like BIRD or Quagga. They work for internet-scale routing (currently over 610,000 prefixes) with trivial load. An Atom C-series with a few GB of RAM can deal with internet BGP routing updates (CPU becomes significant for packet forwarding, not so much maintaining routing tables).

I'll take a boring 10-year-old routing setup using iBGP on cluster of route reflectors running BIRD with servers numbered out of a /24 per rack routed by a ToR l3switch with each service using BGP to announce a /32 over new and exciting L2 overlay networks any day. Troubleshooting is easier without having to work through different layers of encapsulation, dealing with MTU, trusting a novel control plane for whatever overlay network your using, etc.
This works as long as you're willing to stretch an L2 network to reach all the hosts of your container platform. That doesn't really scale.

Using a real routing protocol also immediately gives you access to traffic control, shaping, monitoring and redundancy tools, hardware support and knowledge that network administrators have been applying for years.
Doesn't AWS require a working credit card to start using the free tier?
I said "liberal democracy" which has a specific meaning and identifies specific countries
http://cool2watch.com/index.php/2016/07/16/inside-hacker-doj...
The pride in building products is making them fit for purpose, useful and appropriate. You don't understand what that means for any given product by sitting in a workshop. You have to get people to use your product in order to understand how they use it.

The most beautiful things are iterated on endlessly. The first attempt is always crap.
Do you base your economic decisions on what will happen in 3-4 billion years?
But it's never happened - let's hope it never does
The creation of the golden rice was because people did not have access to carrots, mangoes, and vitamin A rich herbs. It was not a matter of efficiency; it was about the lack of access to other nutrients. Rice is already commonly farm-able in regions which had vitamin A deficiencies in poorer demographics, so it was a great crop to be enriched.

Just because some other foodstuffs can do what golden rice was intended to do doesn't mean that it was a failure. This article is highly opinionated, and not particularly well thought-out in terms of the reasoning behind golden rice.
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I'm in NL, so I don't see what good that would do.
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What problems does HTTPS introduce (besides a potential for a false sense of security)? "Better solutions" (excluding the anonymity aspect) such as GPG signatures still require that you trust the key fingerprint used to sign the hash. That's not necessarily any more trustworthy than an HTTPS certificate, especially for someone who hasn't downloaded the ISO before.

"Would the author have written this piece if all distros ticked all the three HTTPS boxes?"

Most likely, as three of the criteria listed have nothing to do with HTTPS ("Checksum available", "GPG signature available", and "Verification instructions clear and easy to find").
This Fortune post is a bad-blog-rewrite of a nearly-fact-free Mashable blog entry. Not a very good choice!
Bitcoin Alternative Dash Has Recorded 4000+ Masternodes Through Incentives
It's a good thing this thread stuck with ISIS and terrorism in general, and not rape stats by hewho'snamecan'tbespoken, in the nordics, because that would really derail the topic, which is I guess quelling local extremism in youth by uh, what would you call this strategy? Hmm. Submission and apology?
Ten years ago, "the mobile web" might have been a reference to WAP. Nine years ago, when the iPhone arrived, mobile web was Edge: where you could get it and when you could afford it.

Companies like RIM and Nokia had smartphones. The people running them were smart. Their engineering was good. It had to be because wireless access to the internet wasn't ubiquitous. Suddenly the companies faced the first mover disadvantage.

It's difficult to imagine how revolutionary the technology of Kodachrome was. It utterly disrupted consumer photography and photojournalism and professional photography. The fact that Kodak was experimenting with digital photography in the 1970's shows how out front they were and they were right to treat it as a technology that wouldn't be viable for more than two decades...and one that nobody has figured out how to monitize except via the sale of hardware.

There's probably no plausible alternate universe where Kodak managed to produce sustainable profit from processing and storing digital images or selling media or anything related to their core business. Digital photography moved image production out of retail channels. I could text an image to ten of my relatives without a trip to Walgreens for one hour processing, and $0.08 3x5 prints in an hour available in the mid 1990's was a pretty amazing innovation versus the four or five days and significantly higher prices that were typical in the 70's and 80's.

Kodak wasn't a company standing still. It just didn't have a good way to make money from digital imagery: HP had them beat in the printer ink as liquid gold market and the camera manufacturers weren't going anywhere: optics are still bounded by the physics of optics.

Circling back, I think it wasn't so much people sitting around and thinking "we're Kodak" as it was the fact that Kodak wasn't Nokia and hence didn't have a history of selling off it's mainline business and moving into a new industry. Not that as a publicly traded company in the US that would have ever really been a viable option. Quarter by quarter, Kodak was obligated to maximize stockholder value for the short rather than long term.

Companies become obsolescent. Consider Sun.
It's not a coincidence. I'm saying that both calculations - the math we're using to understand that Casimir effect, and the math we use to 'find' the sum equals -1/12, are making the same simplification that 'misses the point' of what's 'actually happening'. In some sense that's hard to put one's finger on.
I imagine the refurbishment of a used Falcon 9 1st stage will involve a wee bit more than just a bit of spit and polish.

It'll be examining the rocket engines for faults, replacement of degraded parts, examining the whole structure for defects, and replacement of any other parts if required - however, that will still be cheaper than completely building a 1st stage from scratch.

Here's hoping the re-use will be a successful one!
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Ooh thanks that's sounds great I'll have to give it a look!
Better HF radio propagation.
It didn't augment the horse, but it sure augmented the jobs of the courier and chauffeur.
Yeah, for some reason, I don't think Fortune would be the company to break news of this magnitude, especially in light of this [1].

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/75219082879835340...
Pardon my ignorance, but for me these look different, of course, but i have no idea which one looks best.
Have you tried a retina display? I find that the higher DPI panel reduces my eye strain.
How is this any different from `eval`, except that lisp's syntax is particularly well suited to being `eval`'d by virtue of being so easy to parse?
I have an explanation for why they entertained such lunacy: they are kids and don't make a full philosophical evaluation of their state in life. That certainly fits in this case.

Moreover, it's not like the Muslim parents wanted their children to go wage Jihad on the west. Once again, we see in this case the radicalization happens outside the mosque amongst splinter groups, so asking that "Muslim culture" have a cultural shift is the wrong place to ask for change given that the kids didn't want to follow "the old guys" in the mosque anyway.

Not that influences from the Mosque wouldn't help, and I don't know if these Mosque leaders helped or hurt but my impression from the story is that they were rebelled against too.
Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
tldr it's not about macros it's about homoiconicity;
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Many of the examples tend to be about very hard to grasp concepts in the first place, specifically emotions. Maybe those ideas are so close to the line between important and unimportant that it's no great gain or loss if a few slip over the line one way or the other.
The end of the Cold War probably wasn't all that good for people in the National Security segment of the remote imaging business, either.
If the ship is completely controlled by remote, and the goods on board are essentially immobile (are they going to be able to get cars off the ship on the high-seas), what can a pirate do? They can hop a lift to the nearest port.

Also, being 'remote' doesn't have to mean 'unprotected'.
‘Pokemon Go’ Invades America’s Military Sites
Can someone explain this to an encryption dummy? The 'customer' the CEO is talking about, who chose to not encrypt traffic from cloudfare back to the origin is the PirateBay? So airtel could be sniffing all the unencrypted packets going from cloudfare to other cloudfare customers if the content is stored in cloudfare's india data centers?
This is the essence of that tale, and the quintessential definition of "Enterprise Blindness."

“They were convinced that no one would ever want to look at their pictures on a television set,” he said. “Print had been with us for over 100 years, no one was complaining about prints, they were very inexpensive, and so why would anyone want to look at their picture on a television set?”

You are a hugely successful business, and all of your numbers are great, so this indication that some time "far off" into the future you will have an issue? Well you can worry about that when you get there. And senior management will continue to manage "to the numbers." That means sales guys are making their quota, margins are hitting their targets, Etc. And in Kodak's case, when they lost a customer they had no visibility into it, that customer simply stopped buying film and prints. They didn't buy them more cheaply from some competitor (that would have shown up in their market surveys) instead they just vanished.

What was more, their competitors were living off the amateur market. The amateurs who wouldn't buy the professional grade film, and so their competitors died or quietly exited the business while Kodak's core business remained "strong". There was no price pressure on film or processing.

As a result it was easy not to see the fundamental cancer growing in the middle of the film business, and when demand for film started falling off a cliff the company was already half dead. The "fix" would have been to reduce the company size to a point where it didn't have the capacity to meet all of the current film demand, because by the time the company had shrunk that far demand would have shrunk to meet it.

This is all obvious looking backwards, and to some other peoples points the executives all retired and got pensions and payouts. As an institution, the company failed. There was no process for re-creating the company from the ashes of the dying product line.
> Uganda/Tanzania are filthy filthy countries.

I have grown up in Dar es salaam, Tanzania and have travelled a lot in the East African countries and I am quite surprised by that statement.

I am guessing it had more to do with the areas you went to/lived in. There are definitely filthy places and slum areas but there is also the good parts of town with good roads in Dar / Arusha and other cities. In that sense, even San Francisco and other cities that I have lived in in the US have filthy areas. Of course, it's more pronounced in these African countries but I wouldn't associate these countries with filthiness.

If it's the villages and small towns you were referring to, I think these are more or less similar in the way they are all across the area.

On a side note, I have recently been visiting Kenya more often (my dad works in Nairobi) and I would recommend anyone planning a trip to this side of the continent to consider Kenya + Tanzania trip(Masai mara + Serengeti, Ngorongoro). Especially if you're a nature and wildlife lover. It will change your life.
Eval executes the code, while read only parses it. (incidentally, in lisp, to get same effect as eval in JS/Perl/whatever, you pass the string into read-from-string and then the result from that into actual eval)
In order to be effectively condescending, you'll need at least a 9th grade level of knowledge on the topic. That you were able to mix up two very different theorists (possibly 3 if you were thinking of Rousseau) implies you're not actually very familiar with any of them.

I'm assigning you this, have it done by Friday: http://www.cresskillboe.k12.nj.us/cresskill/Schools/Cresskil...
Decide that you are going to fix your problems with weight training. Start ridiculously light, so there's no chance you will make it worse. Train every day at first, increase the weight by a tiny amount each workout. I would suggest one arm overhead press for your upper body, leg press or split squat for lower, preferably at home with your own weights. It's a pain to drive to a gym to do a 5 minute workout.

Buy 6 0.625 lb washers, 2 2.5 lb plates, 2 5 lb plates, 4 10 lb plates, 2 25 pound plates to start. You should be able to combine those to get any weight from 0.625 lbs up to 100 lbs in 0.625 lb increments. Keep a training log, I use google docs on my phone. Each workout add to the top of the file. Copy and paste the last workout and change the weights.

At first add weight to your working set in small increments. Gradually increase the increments up to 5 lbs for legs, 2.5 for arms. When it gets too heavy, reduce the jumps back down.

Do 3 sets of 15 for each exercise for your work sets. Divide the working weight by 4 and warmup by adding weight in those increments. For example 12 lbs / 4 = 3 lbs. Do an unweighted set, then 3 lbs, then 6, 9, 12. When the weight gets heavy, switch to 3 times per week.

You have to be in charge of fixing your problems. Not the doctor or physical therapist. It takes discipline and commitment. Training will not always feel good. You have to figure out when you're having acceptable rehab pain, and when you're damaging yourself. Obviously work through the former, and stop immediately with the latter. You will mess up and have to start over. Probably several times. But you can fix these problems. I'm available to help if you need it.
I think the main benefit comes from being able to build tools to transform, refactor, etc. your code in very little effort.
The project is nice, but I'm gonna have to stick with Vault as I like the flexibility of storage backends and not locked into AWS for enterprise-y apps that can't go to AWS.
Since you were obtuse in describing the "large groups situation" are you talking about fat kids? or fat adults? or nerds? Did you steal my cake? Or are you trying to talk about race? Or age? Dude, wtf are you talking about?

Are you talking about being a minority? English. Speak it.
I think he meant that 2 things having the same colour, but different spectrum, can have different effects on your vision (and body?). The example that most easily comes to my mind is a LED screen representing a yellow colour, versus a lemon under the sun.

Shame he didn't elaborate, it seemed to be an interesting topic.
Have you tried Pilates? I was getting aches and pains, had a bad shoulder from tennis for years, getting hip pain when I hiked and so on, just assumed I was getting old.

I've taken up reformer pilates and I'm the best I've been in years, maybe stronger than I've ever been (done about 30 sessions so far), shoulders better, pains are gone. It relies on strengthening your core muscles - and all the little muscles that don't get any work when you're sitting around. It may be a lack of strength in these that is causing your pains. My recovery time has increased to, yesterday I went for a 3 hour hike, thought I'd be sore today, but no! I've wound the clock back 20 years.

If you do decide to do some though, look around for someone who knows what they're doing - preferably a diploma and some years experience.

I go 2x1 hour sessions a week, and thats all you need, just whatever other exercise you want each day apart from that, eventually you'll be doing pilates 3 or 4 times a week on your own should you choose.

It has been magic for me, I recommend it to everyone.

Edit: oh and sitting on the couch is probably the worse thing you can do, all those little muscles will lose strength and aches and pains will not go away.
"The C/C++ standards require that two pointers to the same inline function are equal, even across translation unit boundaries."

Sigh. I presume this is because you can pass inline functions to callbacks, and the 6 people in the world who do

if (a == &f::foo)
{do something}

want it to work no matter what?

One solution, of course, is to privatize the function you call, but still hand any code paths that escape pointers and take the address the "other" version (which is i presume what you meant)
are you suggesting there is no variability between people with regard to intelligence or ability to learn? if all other human traits show variability (height, strength etc) what makes intelligence special?
Well, a US passport isn't all sunshine and roses either. The only country I know that taxes its citizens living abroad.
Great thanks! I think my friend studying biochem may have this to lend. He didn't seem entirely sure that it was the best out there though, would you disagree?
The magic number here seems to be about 4-6. I wonder if its some sort of optimization. The pool is small enough enough to maximize purchasing deals, lobbying power, vertical integration, etc. But the pool is big enough for individuals to avoid anti-trust regulation. Single companies can easily spurn public opinion (such as Comcast with regional monopolies). But a group of companies could operate in a way to avoid that. I wonder if the recent populist movements will turn their ire from immigration to big companies. Or if the companies will manage to walk to line and avoid appearing "too big."
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Heat pumps / reverse cycle air conditioners are very popular in Australia, but the temperature here is fairly moderate, even in Tasmania where I live there are few places where it's below zero for more than the over night period. Heat pumps don't work so well sub zero.