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The military actually opposed PALs. They considered them to be an additional point of failure, and did everything in their power to prevent having them installed. Once you understand this, the decision to set all nuclear launch codes to 00000000 starts to make a little more sense.
> The political scientist Ken Waltz made this point quite forcefully (https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm): even if one or two nuclear bombs are exchanged, there is still every incentive for the parties to calm down.

This right here is very wise. Nuclear weapons really aren't inordinately scary. I wouldn't want to be hit by one, but I also wouldn't want to be hit by a blockbuster, a mortar, a bullet or a fist.

IMHO the real reason nukes have had so many decades of bad press is KGB agitprop from the Cold War.
Why? 6' is 1,828.8mm but France didn't have a uniform system of measures before the went metric.
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Nautil is clickbait. These articles are flimsy and not fact checked. Its like the National inquirer for Popular Science articles
HTTPS doesn't encrypt the SNI information so Comcast can still tell what sites you're visiting. They can also sniff all your DNS traffic even if it's going to Google's DNS server. DNSoTLS is not deployed anywhere except in testing at this point.
But they were in the police force, after things really started to break between Erdogan and Gulen (December 2013) Erdogan made many interventions to clean police force.
The point of an in-depth site like LWN is to communicate information to the readers. If the article and table layout make the information confusing and hard to access, that's not "fashion".
I have to agree. In about 1977 I was sailing my small sailboat about 20 miles offshore, and about 50 miles north of San Diego. A single large Orca jumped out of the water 4 times right next to my boat, getting higher that the top of my mast, and each time crashing into the water next to my boat, which rocked violently each time. I lay down in the bottom of the cockpit, and fell off the wind a bit so I could steer for several minutes without having to see where I was going.

The whole experience was unnerving.

In comparison, I once had an old grey whale lift its head out of the water within 3 or 4 feet of that boat and it just gazed at me and my friends for a short while before gently lowering itself and moving off. That boat was only 22 feet long and the grey whale seemed like it was being gentle about being near us.
I have the VIVE the webcam overlay is very basic.
The problem here is pretty much the constraints of VR vs AR.
Do you really see yourself sitting or standing for 2 hours with the headset on your head?
Again this is my personal opinion but I just don't see myself doing it, it disconnects me too much from the world around me, and every time i want to drink or take a bit i need to remove the headset or limit my snacks to small pigs in a blanket and drink from a straw.

AR solves this, it can enrich any activity and any display type, even the o natural walk in the park.
Make an AR version of sonic the hedgehog so people can run through coins and jump through hoops.
Heck give it a couple of years and Nike would probably come out with shoes with haptic feedback so you can turn any green field into a soccer stadium and play FIFA 2034 Ultimate Freedom Edition and even feel the "kick of the ball" as you kick through the pixels.

But as far VR goes from what I've seen so far "weeeeeeee I'm a fighter pilot" turns too quickly into "meh cosplaying as a fighter pilot is hard work....".
Don't get me wrong VR can be tons of fun but given the choice between a monitor spanning cockpit setup for racing/sim games and VR i would take the cockpit without even thinking about it for a second.

So for myself personally I put the VR with my Wii and take out mostly to check the "awesome new VR title" and for parties and friends and as far as gaming goes i prefer my natural habitat:
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20% commission for the service of not running your bitcoin miner in a terminal window, wow. I wish these guys luck!
An easy way to measure above +2 z-scores is to administer an IQ test at a much earlier age than usual.

Your graph shows that this study administered a SAT Math test at a much earlier age, not an IQ test.

The study itself says: "Before age 13, these participants scored within the top 0.01% for their age on either SAT mathematical reasoning ability (SAT-M 700) or SAT verbal reasoning ability."

I'm unconvinced that this shows either way if "IQ tests [don't] even have validity well outside 2 s.d"

(I agree with the evidence of gender variance in IQ though. An unpaywalled copy of the second article is at https://tip.duke.edu/about/research/intelligence_article.pdf an is interesting reading.)
Have you actually ever thrown up a SquareSpace site? I think even GeoCities WYSIWYG editor was more friendly (and capable).

SquareSpace maybe fine if you're limiting what you're trying to do to _exactly_ what's in the template, but figuring out how to work their system otherwise is hours of maddening, (poorly or) undocumented hell. I threw up http://www.pateshop.nyc/ for some friends and it took a full day.

It would have been faster if I'd just wrote the site myself. It's not even that great -- to get the nav/ux requested I had to compromise a lot to what SquareSpace could deliver.

I don't think someone unfamiliar with HTML and CSS would have been successful.
Yet the only one who sent US troops in war and partly responsible for the power vacuum which allowed ISIS to gain power is Clinton.

Clinton might be saying many crazy things but he is fundamentally a business man not religious or idealistic person.
LWN is one of the finest resources on Linux.

I cannot read the kernel source code as easily as the great articles on LWN that lovingly explicate the details. Sometimes even the articles are challenging for me but I learn something new every time I visit it.

If HN and the now nearly defunct Slashdot are popcorn, LWN is fine organically grown fruit and vegetables.

I am off to subscribe to LWN and urge you to do so if you find the kernel interesting

They also cover lots of non kernel topics. There was a fine article on the software modifications usef by VW to cheat the pollution testing, for instance.
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It's viable because it allows you to sell electricity that other people are paying for, in return for money that you get to keep.

This is harder for the company itself to do, because if they just hire people to go into libraries, universities etc. to install mining bots they might be criminally liable. "Uber for CPU cycles" seems like a less felonious enterprise than installing malware on public-use hardware.
So teenage gamers who live with their parents and don't pay for power.
Kids want to know most times that they are welcome in the herd/family. They need to feel reassured whenever there's upheaval, change in environments or other stresses in the lives of the adults who care for them. Kids have an uncanny ability to "know" that things are not going too well with Mom and Dad.

Paying attention and giving reassurance that your kid is still important is hardly a reward. It's their oxygen for their emotional development.
>The only exception is the cost of the hardware, but over the long term this is a relatively small factor compared to the cost of electricity and bandwidth.

My electricity rate is is 15.7 cents per kw-hour. During typical usage (MS Office, web browser, programming), my Intel 6-core desktop (without LCD monitor on) draws about 150 watts.

For back-of-the-napkin estimates, let's round the kwh cost up to 16 cents and the wattage to 300 watts (to cover scenario of some of cpu cores being 100% pegged). The electricity cost of 24x7 for one year would be ~$413.

What remains would be bandwidth costs -- if any. I like many others have Verizon FiOS and even if others have Comcast or ATT, there's no obvious residential bandwidth costs I can think of to calculate. Maybe... if the homeowner wants to upgrade the speed from 75GB@$99/month to 150@$199/month because the he wants to download the datasets faster. That extra $100 wouldn't have been spent for plain web browsing. So conceivably, that would be $1200 per year. What we don't know is how big the datasets are that must be downloaded. I assume the upload size would be minimal because the compute tasks appear to be variations on "y_output = computecombinationsmontecarlobruteforce(x_input)." The y_output answer would usually be order-of-magnitude(s) smaller than x_input.

Assuming there are no extra bandwidth costs, it would be hard for a company to buy computer hardware for less than a homeowner's $413/year electricity cost.

Perhaps suchflex's particular business model is financially wrong. However in general terms, it does seem possible to find a monetizing sweet spot of computing tasks that takes advantage of the idle and wasted resources of existing home computers. However, if the homeowner has to buy extra hardware that was only dedicated to suchflex, that's probably where the economics won't make as much sense.
> All of these "fast as C" claims about modern, high-level Python-like languages (be they statically typed and natively compiled) are missing the point. It is mostly the minimalistic and terse programming style that C encourages that makes C programs performant. You avoid allocations wherever possible, you write your own custom allocators and memory pools for frequently allocated objects, you avoid copying stuff as much as possible. You craft your own data structures suited for the problem at hand, rather than using the standard "one size fits all" ones. Compare that to the "new this, new that" style of programming that's prevalent today.

Exactly! I cannot agree more.

I have a small test program I port to different languages to test the length of the code and the speed of the program. Of course it only represents a single use case.

* C is first, of course.

* twice as slow, come Pascal, D and... Crystal!

* x3 to x5, come Nim, Go, C++ (and Unicon).

* x6 to x9, come Tcl, Perl, BASIC (and Awk).

* x15 to x30, come Little, Falcon, Ruby and Python.

* x60 to x90, come Pike, C#, Bash.

* x600 to x1000, come Perl6 and Julia.

This list looks byzantine, I know :-) The trends I can get out of it:

* the last 2 are languages with JIT compilation, and that's horrid for short programs.

* the "old" interpreted (or whatever you name it nowadays) languages (Tcl, Perl) are not so bad compared to compiled languages, and much faster than "modern" one (Ruby, Python). (Again, this is only valid for my specific use.)

* compiled languages should all end up in the same ballpark, shouldn't they? Well, they don't. The more they offer nice data structures, the more you use them. The more they have some kind of functional style (I mean the tendency to create new variables all the time instead of modifying existing ones) the more you allocate and create and copy loads of data. In the end, being readable and idiomatic in those languages means being lazy and inefficient, but what's the point of using those languages if don't use what they offer? C forces you to use proper data structures and not re-use existing ones. It comes naturally. What is unnatural in C is to copy again and again the data, it is simpler to modify the existing one and work on the right parts of it, not to pass the whole chunks every time you need one single bit. In more evolved languages, compilation won't save you by doing some hypothetical magic tricks, it cannot remove the heavy continuous data copying and moving you instructed your program to do. And that is what made the difference in speed between C on one side, and D, C++, Go on the other side.
What you are hinting reminds me of my e-sport days. At some point, when the game I liked was dying, European professionals moved on to other games. At first Koreans were still playing and would win all the remaining European competitions, later they moved on, too, and the remaining clubs all bought Chinese teams.
It's not only mining Bitcoins, but also earning money by running BOINC proejcts (worldcommunitygrid,...).

Then again, this could also be done without the additional comission by just running Gridcoin.
It is important to have good quality and well researched articles. LWN provides this for free software (so not just the kernel). As long as LWN continues their reporting in this way (high quality), I'll continue my subscription (more like a donation; don't need to get anything back for myself).

Well researched information is an important way to avoid incorrect assumptions to spread. Thereby hopefully avoiding bad decisions to be taken, as well as actions on problematic things (e.g. gmane).
In theory another species could eat plants and also attack mammals for fun all the time.

I think I know a species that does that.
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It is funny and everyone in Turkey laughs at them. By the way this is a private television not state tv. There is also no clean hands right now. However these all shouldn't make this coup attempt seem less serious.
My content team would not be able to deal with this.

But they know WordPress.
As a kernel developer, I really, really appreciate the work of Jon Corbet and the rest of the LWN team. LWN serves a vital function for the kernel community and churns out some very useful kernel articles, as well as being a decent source of news for many other open source happenings. I hope they find some extra revenue from somewhere!
As far as I know, whatsapp group was between soldiers planning coup. Other app was used by a larger audience and has longer history.
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Ask HN: Would you use an 'AirBnB'-type service for high speed (100M+) uploading?
Before I had Verizon FIOS' 100/100 speed I remember wanting to upload a large dataset to AWS S3, & couldn't find any public WiFi hotspots that offered fast upload speed. I've since moved & again find myself with relatively slow upload bandwidth (5M).

Sometimes I want to borrow someone's connection who has Verizon FIOS' 100/100 package (or higher) to get something like an initial backup done quicker than I could on my current connection. And I was wondering if someone were to build a thing like AirBnB, to connect those with high upload speed with people who could benefit from using it temporarily, if it would become a success.

What do you think?
I think you mean subjectively. "it's not in the format I'm accustomed to" is not objective in any way.
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It is also very easy to anthropomorphize human behavior.

With slightly less snark, altruism and other noble sentiments in humans are also likely due to genetics and learned behavior.
RAD's packer is nice for cases when compression time is not the most important aspect.

Seems like LZ4 is still unbeatable if you need as fast compression as possible. Think kernel memory page compression (to avoid swapping pages to disk) and compressing data destined to a high bandwidth sink. I'm just guessing, but probably LZ4 has also less power consumption.

If your output device can do over ~100 megabytes per second, LZ4 seems to win easily.

Optimal compression algorithm selection seems to depend on capacity and bandwidth constraints of output device.
DNS isn't widely encrypted yet? That's scary.

So does that mean if a rogue ISP wanted to, they could serve up Twitter.com on their internal network and return their fake DNS record instead assuming the user's cache expired?

Kinda like a man in the middle but at the DNS level... Only problem is pretty much every, if not all SSL cert company requires domain verification. So they couldn't probably easily fake the SSL part for Twitter.
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I missed your earlier edit. Apples to oranges much?

One, that's an incident from 83 years ago. While it was upheld, legally, at the time it's unlikely it would fly today in a political sense. Especially for 401(k) accounts.

Two, that was about hoarding. The gold in question was money not moving in the economy. The rationale for the two would be entirely different. You want to stop hoarding during severe economic times because moving money means jobs, manufacturing, etc. Sitting money does nothing. Money in a 401(k) is invested money. It's at least moving in the markets, or purchasing government bonds.

Three, see my other post. By the time shit gets so bad the fed needs to consider this option, things will be bad enough that those accounts would be worthless.

Four, forcibly moving money out of the markets like this would necessarily cause massive problems. Do you really think any government with half a brain would do this?

Five, this is literally the people's retirement savings. These accounts exist so social security doesn't have to be expanded. Removing them introduces a major burden on the nation as the population ages, now without their retirement savings.

Six, if you're really this fearful you need to live on a farm off the grid. There's no other way to be prepared for the apocalyptic future you see.
Yeah, if the worst thing that's happened to you under capitalism is being overcharged by Comcast, you're still having a pretty good day and should look for worse examples. All sorts of things from the US healthcare system to Philip "unacceptable face of capitalism" Green might count as worse.

Thankyou for acknowledging those facts. It's interesting that you choose to mention Denmark. My point was that suggesting applying even the tiniest bit of regulation to a near-monopoly market participant immediately brings out the comparison to Venezuela; it's just hyperbole in the opposite direction. I don't think people are arguing that the US should become more like Venezuela in order to reduce their broadband bills; more that it should learn from Denmark.

My experience of libertarianism is people arguing that any amount of abuse of power by private actors is fine, it's just that government is magic and any use of its power will immediately collapse into abuse. This rests on contorted definitions of "coercion" that don't include restriction of economic options or even anti-market actions by private actors.

"Free market" and "unlimited power for market actors" aren't quite the same thing.
> I even tried putting up a little animated gif, but despite the rave reviews it’s been sitting around for 2 years and has only gained 16 github stars. :(

If I'm working on so many projects that I need a special script just to navigate between them, there's no way I'll be able to really contribute to any one of them. Am I not seeing the obvious use case for gh?
But is this Trump? I would argue that the current escalation is inherent to how policy has been conducted particularly in the recent time with Russia, alienating it instead of continuing the fruitful period which started after the fall of the Soviet Union, but more generally how humankind has (not) dealt with the nuclear arsenal.

So, tensions are bound to raise, no matter who is in the White House or in the Kremlin, simply because the arsenal is there, we have done little to get rid of it, and we have allowed the military complex to hold us hostage to a campaign of terror (I am talking about State Terror) swiping the world specially after the September 11 attacks.

And regarding Trump rhetoric: the only thing that differentiates him to other politicians is that he is able to say one thing and the opposite in the same sentence. But all politicians, continuously, say something in one moment, and the opposite in another, or say something, and do the opposite, including important issues.

So, Clinton saying "I would not use nuclear weapons, ever", is not reassuring to anybody.
Your immediate self interest may not end up being your long term self interest (or it might, I don't profess to be an expert on your career)

As a hiring manager it's not in my interest to hire someone who is likely to leave in 6-12 months. If I have a team that is growing, then I am already spending a considerable portion of my time recruiting, I can't afford to have to rehire my whole team every single year.

I do want people who have personal drive and high standards - who won't put up with a toxic workplace. So if you've left 1 or 2 places after 6-12 months, then that could be a good sign, and I'll probably get you in for an interview and ask about it.

But if you never stay somewhere for more than a year, then I don't like my chances of being the place that breaks the pattern, and it's unlikely that I will bring you in for what is intended to be a permanent position.

While I can absolutely understand why someone might want to jump around every 6 months for better pay, don't expect me to sign up to be the next stop on that trip.
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I have no problem with GC, but I want to see reasonably complicated benchmarks that actually show that it's "fast as C". Because I don't believe that at all.
HN style is very functional and practical, but I wouldn't describe it as "readable without strain".

The poor text contrast in many places makes it borderline unreadable, text posts in particular.

My second complaint would be that line lengths are often too long to be easily readable.
> Opening the floodgates can be tremendously beneficial

Beneficial to who? Factory owners - yes, factory workers - no ...
> However, if you want to customise stuff yourself, things become really dreadful very quickly. Anyone saying otherwise, hasn't done so.

Before I understood hooks & filters as publish-subscribe? sure. Afterwards? No way.

Do you want to know what's dreadful? Having a content team that needs to build 10k pages of content in a Rails site.

Do you know what's not dreadful? Having a content team that needs to build 10k pages of content on WordPress.

The latter can be supported by just me. The former? I don't even know.
I didn't mean that they were not fond of Kurds, they believed the initiative/talks in 2010's were wrong and would throw country into chaos (ironically this can be seen as a self fulfillig prophecy because of their actions).
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I worked my way through college in the optical industry. People hate wearing glasses. Sure there are a few that do it for fashion, but most would rather never have to put them on.
+1 I think you have it right, the political/social frameworks of Singapore could 'make this happen.'

I worked in Singapore in April and I loved the place. I felt very safe walking around at night for exercise, and the whole place was well run. I have read some criticisms of the government but people there seem happy, seemed to be employed, etc. A nice place and I would love to go back there!
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But in any case, we don't want the company selling the $5000 handbags to be the one setting the industry standards.
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There is strong genetic factor for intelligence but it's not divided between races. Most human genetic variation happens between individuals.

There are large regional differences between intelligence, but they are explained with environmental factors:

1. parasite load and infectious diseases are strongly negatively corrected with intelligence. This applies between different countries and between states in United States.

2. Nutrition, prenatal nutrition is very important. Intelligence correlates with height. Most likely common cause for this correlation is nutrition.

3. Then comes other things like culture etc. Natural abilities can be enhanced with hard work and cultural incentives. In some cultures mathematically gifted may become lawyers. Edward Witten got degree in history and became a journalist. He published articles in The New Republic and The Nation and worked in George McGovern's presidential campaign. His physics and math carer came later.